from Woodlands Primary and St Marks Primary Schools
from Woodlands Primary School
They chose (in May 2013) the following (how many are new to you?):
- Clappy (or in some areas, Clabbie) doo - a large black mussel - but used to describe metaphorically 'someone with a big mouth'
- Balshie - wet and windy weather
- Fankle - a badly-coiled rope
- Timmerman - a ship's carpenter
- Foonert - freezing cold
- Kelpie - a spirit that lives in sea lochs or rivers
- Dreich - wet and miserable weather
- Auld wives an' pike-staves – the Scots version of 'raining cats and dogs'
from St. Marks Primary School
P5 chose these words in May 2013:
Relating to Water and the Sea:
dreich, drookit, burn, smirr, watter, wellies, snell, chucky stanes, dook, dookers, dreep, kelpie, selkie, smokie, skiddle, slever, dubs, brig, drap, soaking, haar, winkle, boggin, cleek-anchor, clink, coble, cowdle, creel, firth, godsend, guddle, gutter, lum, Clyde Puffer, scaff, snigger, tarry breeks, wherry, wrath and waith, blue men of the minch
Other words:
stank, besom, bletherin, simmit, sleekit, crabbit, braw, ca' canny, chookie, disnae, ocht, oot, oxter, oose, fitba, wuman, roastin, jelli-jars, widnae, pokey-hat, wheesht, cannae, widye, whit e daeing, gid, ken, manky, minging, mawkit, bonnie, beelin, aye, ginger, chippy, cauld.