Word |
Meaning |
| Aboot | About |
| Aff | Off |
| Ah | I |
| Ahmur | I am |
| Ahmurny | I am not |
| Ain | Own |
| Alang | Along |
| Alane | Alone |
| Alwiz | Always |
| An'all | And all |
| Arnae | Aren't |
| Aroon' | Around |
| Auld | Old |
| Aw / Awe | All |
| Awe / Aw | All |
| Awfy | Awful |
| Awright | All right |
| Aye | Yes |
| Baccy | Tobaco |
| Backie | Help a friend climb a wall or to carry a passenger on a bicycle |
| Bahookie | Bum / Bottom |
| Baltic | Really cold |
| Bampot | Derogatory term / Person of an unstable nature |
| Bamstick | Akin to a bampot, perhaps a litle more complex |
| Banjo | Hit someone |
| Banjoed | Getting hit, Punched |
| Banter | Talk (usually describe interesting talk) |
| Bar L | Barlinnie jail |
| Barney | Fight |
| Barras | The barrows market |
| Barrbru, Babru | Irn Bru |
| Bass, Ya | Bastard, word originally used by the Gorbals gangs from the 1960s |
| Bawbag | Ballbag, term of endearment. |
| Baws | Balls |
| Bead Rattler | Catholic |
| Bedraggled | In deplorable condition |
| Bealin / Beelin | Angry |
| Beelin / Bealin' | Angry |
| Belly | Stomach |
| Beezer | Something good |
| Beltar, or Beltur | Super duper. |
| Belter | Something that is good / good looking |
| Besom / Bizzum | Obstreperous / Annoying person |
| Bevvie / Bevvy | Achoholic beverage |
| Bevvy / Bevvie | Achoholic beverage |
| Bidyin | Rent-free cohabiter |
| Big Hoose | Prison |
| Big Man | A general term used in greeting to a male friend. |
| Bile | Boil |
| Bingo Bus | Police Van |
| Bint | Derogatory term for girlfriend |
| Birl | Spin your body round. |
| Bizzum / Besom | Obstreperous / Annoying person |
| Black Affronted | Very Embarrassed |
| Black Maria | The large black police bus that takes neds to court from police offices |
| Black necks | Dirty Person |
| Blaw | Blow |
| Blazin | Drunk |
| Bleach or bleached | to hit or repeatedly hit with blunt instrument i.e a bottle |
| Blether | Gossip / chat |
| Blootered | Drunk |
| Blotto | Drunk |
| Blow | Hash |
| Boabie | Penis |
| Boak | Vomit |
| Boak (eg "It wud gae yeh ra boak - so it wud") | Sick |
| Boatle a' soup. | Buckfast wine |
| Boattle | Bottle |
| Boax | Box |
| Bog | Toilet |
| Boggin | Filthy, Dirty |
| Bolt | Run, Flee |
| Bonce | Head |
| Bonnie | Pretty |
| Bookie | Bookmaker |
| Boozers | Pub |
| Bottle Merchant | Coward |
| Boufin’ | Indescribably Smelly |
| Brass Monkey | Junkie |
| Braw | Good / pleasant |
| Brekk | Break |
| Bucket | Bucket-bong, water implement used to smoke hash. |
| Buckfast Commando | intoxicated, aggressive yet fearless individual |
| Buckfast Triangle | Airdrie, Bellshill, Coatbridge |
| Buckfast Valley | Lower Clyde valley, Lanarkshire |
| Bucky | Buckfast Tonic Wine |
| Budgies | Wearing your socks over your tracksuit trousers |
| Bufter | Homosexual |
| Bufty | Homosexual |
| Bum | A person who can't fight |
| Bump/ Bumped | Steal, Stolen |
| Bunty | Someone who gets bullied |
| Burds | Females |
| Buroo | Social Security |
| Buzzin | Stoned, drunk |
| Byraway | Used instead of a full stop at the end of every sentence byraway |
| Cafefy | Careful |
| Calley | Can of Carlsberg Special Brew |
| Canae | Can't |
| Cargo | Carry Out - essentials from off licence |
| Cargo Shop | Off Sales |
| Cauld | Cold |
| Caulder | Colder |
| Chanty Rastler | Plumber |
| Charred | Drunk |
| Cheeba | Dope, Hash |
| Cheeky water | Alcohol |
| Cheers | Often used in place of the words like “hello,” “goodbye,” and “thank you” |
| Chib | Knife, any weapon carried by a thug |
| Chibbed | Being like hit or cut with a weapon |
| Chippie | Chip shop |
| Chong | Hash |
| Claes | Clothes |
| Claim | Claim |
| Claimed | |
| Clatty | Dirty / Rude |
| Clockwork Orange | The Glasgow Underground Train System | <
| Close | Communal entrance to a tenement building |
| Clout | Hit (usually on head) |
| Cludgie | Toilet |
| Clype | To grass (tell tales) on someone |
| C'mon | Come on |
| Connle | Candle |
| Coo | Cow |
| Corpy | Glasgow Corporation (Glasgow City Council) |
| Couldnae | Couldn't |
| Coupon | Face |
| Couthie | Amiable person |
| Crabbit | Ill tempered / grumpy |
| Cradle Snatcher | Taking a (much) younger partner |
| Cratur | Creature |
| Cumbie | Gang name |
| Da | Father |
| Dae | Do |
| Daein' | Doing |
| Daeing | Doing |
| Daftie | Daft person, Idiot |
| Dain't | Don't |
| Dancer, ya | Really good |
| Dancin, The | Disco or nightclub |
| Dauds | Bits |
| Deed | Dead |
| Deid | Dead |
| Diddies | Womens breasts |
| Diddy | Idiot or fool |
| Dingy | To ignore; or clatty - dirty. |
| Disnae | Doesn't |
| Diz | Does |
| Dizn't | Doesn't |
| Dizzy | The act of being stood up |
| Doacter | Doctor |
| Dobber | Penis |
| Doin, Doing | A beating |
| Doon | Down |
| Dosser | Down and Out |
| Dreich | Drab / Wet weather |
| Drookit | Soaked through |
| Droont | Drowned |
| Drum, The | Drumchapel, area of Glasgow |
| Duck's Arse | A hairstyle (consisting of greased hair piled high on top and swept back at the sides to form a ridge or seam at the back) |
| Duds | Trousers |
| Dug | Dog |
| Dug Van | Small Police ' Wagon ' |
| Dunted | A wee bit drunk |
| Edgie | Keep a look out |
| Eejit | Idiot / simpleton |
| Eff and Blind | Swear |
| Efter | After |
| Efternin | Afternoon |
| Electric Soup | Cheap strong wine. e.g El Dorado or Buckfast |
| Emdy | Anybody |
| Er the Polis | There's the police |
| Erra | There's eg. Erra ten bob Ah owe ye. |
| Erse | Backside |
| Every fart's end | Every last detail |
| Eye ball | Meet someone face to face |
| Fae | From |
| Faither | Father |
| Fancy Bit | A mistress |
| Fancy Wumman | A mistress |
| Fankle | In a knot / confused |
| Fanny-Struck | In love |
| Faw | Fall |
| Feart | Scared / Frightened |
| Fearty | Coward |
| Feegie | Ferguslie Park area |
| Fella | Man / Boyfriend |
| Ferr (eg Ferr enough) | Fair |
| Filth, The | The police |
| Fit | Good looking or sexy. (Usually used to describe a girl) |
| Fitba | Football |
| Fleeing | Mad wth Ecstacy |
| Fleeto | Gang name |
| Fling | Throw |
| Flooer | Flower |
| Flutter | A bet (on the horses) |
| Foalian | Following |
| Foot | Meddle |
| Fossill Park | Possilpark |
| Frae | From |
| Frichted | Frightened |
| Fuck wit | Idiot |
| Fud | Vagina |
| Ful eh it | Drunk |
| Fur | For |
| Gallus | Self-confident, daring, cheeky. / Stylish |
| Gawk | Stare (in a stupid way) |
| Gaun / Gawn | Gone / Going |
| Gawn / Gaun | Gone / Going |
| Geeing | Hurrying someone up |
| Geeza | May I please have? |
| Geezeabrek | Give me a break (chance) |
| Gemme | Game / Up for it |
| Get lifted | To be arrested by the police |
| Gibbering | Talking nonsense |
| Gie | Give |
| Gies | Give me |
| Ginger Boatles | Lemonade or irn Bru bottles |
| Girn | Moan |
| Glaikit | Stupid / silly |
| Glesca | Glasgow |
| Glesca Kiss / Glasgow Kiss | A headbut |
| Glasgow Kiss / Glesca Kiss | A headbut |
| Gleasga | Glasgow |
| G'night | Goodnight |
| Gonny / gonnae | Going to / Will you |
| Gonnae / gonny | Going to / Will you |
| Greet | Cry / weep |
| Greetin' face | Someone who is moaning |
| Greetin' | Crying |
| Gret | Cried |
| Groggy | Light headed / faint |
| Grot | Derogatory term for girl/boy friend |
| Guid | Good |
| Hackit | Ugly |
| Hairy | Deregatory term for girl |
| Half shut knife | Looking depressed, annoyed or tired. |
| Halfwye | Half Way |
| Ham Shank | Wank |
| Hame | Home |
| Hampden Roar | Score |
| Haun | Hand |
| Haud / Hawd | Hold |
| Haw | Hey |
| Hawd / Haud | Hold |
| Hawd On | Hold on |
| Hawfwit | A simple person, A moron. |
| Healthy | Good looking |
| Heavy Bongoed | Drunk, Intoxicated |
| Heavy Scran | Good food. |
| Hee Haw | Nothing, eg.you're getting hee haw |
| Heehaw | Nothing at all |
| Heid | Head |
| Heidache | Headache |
| Heider | To head a ball or a Glasgow kiss |
| Heidy | Header, the ball |
| Hen | Something all girls get called, substitute for sweetheart', 'doll' etc. |
| Here you | To demand someones attention |
| Hid | Had |
| Hingoot | Whore, woman of ill-repute |
| Hings | Hangs |
| Hoachie | Unusually lucky |
| Hoachin | Full of, bursting at the seems |
| Hoarses | Horses |
| Hoat | Hot |
| Hon, Hawn | Hand |
| Honkin | Smelling |
| Honner | (Hander) - people that step in for you in a fight. |
| Hoose | House |
| Horti | A form given to motorist by the Police (HORT1) |
| Hotty | A weirdo |
| How? | Used instead of why |
| Huckled | Arrested by the Police |
| Hud | Had |
| Huey (eg “Shouting on Huey”) | Projectile vomit |
| Humpin’ | Procreating up a back close |
| Hun | Rangers supporter / Protestant |
| Hunner | Hundred |
| Huv | Have |
| Huz | Has |
| Huznae | Hasn't |
| In't | Is not |
| In't Ah | Am I not |
| Intae | Into |
| Isnae | Isn't |
| Jaggey Bunnet | A Hat |
| Jaggy | Supporter of Partick Thistle Football Club |
| Jaiket | Jacket |
| Jake | Cheap Cider |
| Jake, jakie | A tramp |
| Jars | Womens breasts |
| Jay | A Joint (Hash) |
| Jeely | Jam |
| Jen up | Honest |
| Jesusjonny | For goodness sake (exclamation) |
| Jigging (The) | The dancing / Dance (eg Ur ye goin' tae the jigging?) |
| Jile | Prison |
| Jimmy Riddle | Piddle, Piss, Pee |
| Jist | Just |
| Joab | Job |
| Joaby | Excretement/Shit |
| Joby Jabber | Homosexual |
| Johnny Bags | Condoms |
| Jubilee | Iced carton drink |
| Juke of Montrose | A Dose |
| KB'd | To get knocked back |
| Keech | Excrement |
| Keek | Look / Spy on |
| Keeching | Shitting |
| Keep the heid | Don't got annoyed or frightened |
| Keepy uppy | To keep the ball in the air |
| Ken | To know |
| Kerry oot | A Carry Out |
| Kerpet | Carpet |
| Keys | Call a truce |
| Kinna ? | Can I ? |
| Laddie | Boy |
| Laldie | A beating / Give it your best shot |
| Lang | Long |
| Lassie | Girl |
| Lavvie / Lavvy | Toilet |
| Lavvy / Lavvie | Toilet |
| Lecky | Electricity |
| Lend of (a) | To take advantage of / Make a fool of |
| Links | Sausages |
| Loast | Lost |
| Loupin | Throbing with pain |
| Loupin' | Throbbing |
| Lum | Chimney |
| Ma | Mother / My |
| Mackie | Hit with a stick |
| Mad wae it | Drunk or drugged |
| Mair | More |
| Maist | Most |
| Malky | To headbut or slash someone |
| Manky | Dirty |
| Manky Matress | Horrible, dirty people |
| Margarine Fanny | A girl who has sex with anyone who asks |
| Maself | Myself |
| Mate | Friend |
| Mauchit | Dirty / filthy |
| Maw | Mum |
| Max'd | Modified Car |
| Meat Wagon | Police Van |
| Melt | Face |
| Menchy | Writing on a wall |
| Messages | Groceries |
| Mibbe | Maybe |
| Midden | Garbage bins |
| Midgie | Bin |
| Midgie Raker | A person who rakes through bins. |
| Mince | Nonsense, talking mince |
| Mincy Heid | Crazy person |
| Minger | Smelly Ugly person |
| Mingin | Ugly, disgusting |
| Mingin’ | Unclean |
| Missis | Mrs |
| Mither | Mother |
| Moan, C'moan | Come on |
| Moarnin' | Morning |
| Mob, The | Police |
| Mockit, Mocket | Filthy, dirty |
| Monday Book | Child Benefit book, usually cashed at the post office on a Monday. |
| Mooch | To ask for something (repeatedly) |
| Moolurd | To be completely pished. |
| Motur | Motor, Car |
| Mucca, Mucker | Friend |
| Munter | A real skinking burd (girl) |
| Munter Hunter | Man who seeks ugly ladies |
| Muppet | Stupid, thick |
| Mutted, Mut'it | Very very drunk |
| Nae bother | No problem |
| Nae, Naw | No |
| Naebody | Nobody |
| Nane | None |
| Napper | Head |
| Nat King Cole | Sex |
| Naw, Nae | No |
| Ned | A thug / Scottish version of chav |
| Nick | To steal / Prison |
| Nip (eg Nip doon) | Go |
| Nolly,Naully | Forth and Clyde Canal |
| Noo | Now |
| Nookie | Sex |
| Nowt | Nothing |
| Nugget | A piece of faeces or someone who isn't too clever |
| Numptiejobby | Person of dubious intelligence and/or character. |
| Numpty | Idiot |
| Numpty-heided | Derogatory term. |
| Nyaff (eg Ya wee nyaff.) | Scruff / Irritating person. |
| O' | Off |
| Oan | On /Own |
| Offies | Off-sales |
| Offy | Awfully |
| On the panel | To be off sick from work??? |
| Oor | Our |
| 'oor | Hour |
| Oor bit | The area where we live |
| Oose | Dustball |
| Oot | Out |
| Oooside | Outside |
| Our bit | The area where we live |
| Ower | Over |
| Pad aboot | walk around |
| Paddy Wagon | Police riot van |
| Pal | Friend |
| Paps | Breasts, from Gaelic as in the Paps of Jura |
| Paradise | Celtic Park |
| Pat and Mick,The | On the 'Sick' (off work) |
| Patter | Humorous chat / funny stories |
| Pearl diver | Fiver, Five pounds |
| Peg | To have sexual intercourse |
| Pennie | Apron |
| Perr | Pair (That's a rerr perr o jeans.) |
| Piece | Sandwich |
| Pish | To urinated / Something that's not good |
| Pish Pundit | Bookmaker |
| Pished | Drunk |
| Pit | Put |
| Plank | To hide something |
| Plook | Facial spot / Acne |
| Plug | To stab someone |
| Plunged | Stabbed |
| Poaket Money | Weekly allowance a child is given |
| Poke | Paper bag |
| Pokey hat | Ice Cream Cone |
| Polis | Police |
| Prick | Someone not liked |
| Puff | Hash |
| Puggy | Fruit machine/pinball |
| Puke | Vomit |
| Pure | Very, pure dead good |
| Rammie | Square go, Fight. |
| Randan (eg Go on the randan) | Drinking binge |
| Rank, Rank Rotten | Smells or tastes bad |
| Rat | That |
| Reekin | Stinkin |
| Rerr | Rare / very good |
| Riddy | Being embarrised, going red in the face |
| Rigoot | Outfit |
| Rinoo | Right now |
| Rocket | Daft Person |
| Rockies | Rockport boots |
| Roon | Round |
| Roond | Round |
| Rubber | Really drunk or full of drugs |
| Rubbery Gub | Big Mouth |
| Sae | So |
| Sannie | Sandwich |
| Sannies | Sand shoe, Trainers |
| Saunter | Walk in an unhurried manner |
| Scadge | Tramp / Tobacco and hash crumbs for building a joint |
| Scaff | Scruffy, scavenger |
| Scants | Underpants |
| Scheme | Housing Estate |
| Schemebo | Someone from the housing schemes |
| Schemey | Person from housing estate (scheme) of an undesirable nature |
| Scoff | Eat |
| Scoobies | Police |
| Scooby | Clue, ryhming slang (Scooby Doo) |
| Scooter | Gay person |
| Scran | Food |
| Scratchcer | Bed |
| Screws | Police |
| Scud | Cider / Naked |
| Scud book | Porno magazine |
| Scum | Police |
| Scunner | An annoying person / To sicken |
| Scunnered | Feel annoyed / Fed-up / a strong dislike |
| Scuntted | To Hit (someone) |
| Seen | Used instead of saw |
| Shitebag | Coward / General derogatory term |
| Shoot the craw | Leave in a hurry |
| Shoot the Craw | Travel fast in the other direction |
| Shouldnae | Shouldn't |
| Sid, The | C.I.D, criminal investigation division or undercover police |
| Single End | One room tenement flat |
| Single fish | Pish |
| Skank | Pure stinkin |
| Skelp | To Slap, Hit |
| Skins | Rizla cigarette papers for rolling joints. |
| Skint | To have no money |
| Skite | Slip |
| Skiver | One who avoids tasks or work in general |
| Skunk | Type of cannabis |
| Skunner | Annoying person |
| Skunnered | Annoyed / Fed up |
| Slabber | To drool over something |
| Slapper | Woman of ill repute |
| Slash | To piss |
| Slasha Hat | Ned's skip Cap |
| Slaverin' (at the mouth) | Dripping from the mouth |
| Slever | To talk nonsense |
| Smidgeon | A small piece |
| Snaster | Treat such as a cake |
| Snaw | Snow |
| Sneck | To kiss someone |
| Snib,The | Prison |
| Snibbed | Grounded by parents! (Kept In) |
| Snog | Heavy kissing |
| Soap dodger | Dirty person |
| Sodjer | Soldier |
| Somedae | Some day |
| Sooky | Blow Job |
| Sowel (eg wee sowel) | Soul |
| Spam Valley | Area of cheap housing eg Duntocher - owners live on spam so they can pay the mortgage |
| Spent | Worn out |
| Sponny | Unbelievably lucky |
| Square go | An even fight / fight without weapons |
| Stane | Stone |
| Stank | Drain |
| Stank monster | Ugly person |
| Stappit Fu | Full right up |
| Staund, Staun | Stand |
| Stauner | Erection |
| Steaky | Knife |
| Steamboats | Drunk |
| Steamin | Drunk |
| Stoaner | An erection |
| Stoap | Stop |
| Stoap | Stop |
| Stoat | Bounce |
| Stoated | Pissed out yer nut |
| Stoater | A Sound Person, a person who's "okay" |
| Stoater (eg “She’s a wee stoater – so she is”) | Very pretty girl |
| Stoating (eg That's a stoating car ye've goat.) | Very good |
| Stoatter (eg “Whit a stoatter - that joke wus”) | Clever play on words |
| Stoaturs (eg Yon burds ur a right pair of stoaturs.) | Very good / Very pretty girls |
| Stoavin to Stoavin | to be extremely drunk |
| Stocky | Big built (person) |
| Stooky | Plaster cast ie. for broken limb |
| Stoor | Dust |
| Stoshus | Very drunk |
| Stramash | Argument or fight |
| Swadger | Sweets |
| Swallied | Swollowed |
| Swagger | A motion of moving arms |
| Swamp Donkey | Unattractive Woman |
| Swankin | Joking |
| Swatch | Look |
| Tackety Boot | A heavy boot with studs. |
| Tadger | Penis |
| Tae | To |
| Taenight | Tonight |
| Tagz | Writing on walls |
| Tally | Count money / Italian |
| Tally Van | Ice cream Van ( Tally = Italian) |
| Tan | To smash a window / To drink your booze very quickly |
| Tanner | Sixpence (in old money) |
| Tap | Top, Football top, t-shirt / A loan of money |
| Tarrier | A catholic, usually of irish descent |
| Taxed | Reserved |
| Teetered (eg He teetered along the road) | Moved carefully |
| Telt | Told |
| Ten Club | Ned Girl |
| Ten Bob | Ten shillings in ‘old’ money |
| Teuchter | Anyone outside Glasgow who does not have a Glasgow accent. |
| The boak (eg You gae me ra boak) | Sick or feeling sick |
| The day | Today |
| The gether | Together |
| The morra / morro | Tomorrow |
| The morro / morra | Tomorrow |
| Therr | There |
| Therr's | There is |
| Thir | There |
| Thruppence | A three pence piece (Old Money) |
| Thur | There /Their |
| Tick | Credit (usually from the local shop) |
| Tim | Celtic fan / Catholic |
| Tink | Poor person |
| Tinnies | Tin Cans |
| Toaty | Very small |
| Toffs | Rich people |
| Toley | Jobby |
| Tonic | Buckfast Wine |
| Tool | Idiot,(you're a tool) |
| Toon | Town or City Center |
| Toutin | Smoking |
| Trackies | Tracksuit bottoms |
| Tramcaur | Tramcar |
| Trippen | Having a laugh |
| Troopettes | A group of female friends |
| Troops, The |