Glesca phrases
& patter |
Glesca
folk don't like to pronounce their "t's" and our dialect is full of
humour and some wonderful put downs..........
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Glesca's pure ded brull-yant
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Glasgow is a great City
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awra best folk cum frae brigton
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All the best people are born in Bridgeton
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Hows it gon ?
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how are you keeping?
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Hullaw ther, hows it gon
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Hello, how are you keeping?
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geeza brek ......gonny geeza brek
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Please give me some peace, leave me a lone, go away
etc
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c'mon get aff
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A bus driver asking you to get off his bus
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Ah get aff at the next stoap
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The next bus stop is where I alight
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erra perra chairs ower ther
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There is a pair of chairs over there
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They're a perra warmers
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Pointing out two odd people
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Whit a glaiket looking burd
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An ugly woman
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Gonny 'no dae that
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please don't do that
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gonny geeza a haun
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please help me
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This disnae wurk
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the item concerned does not work
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where's the lavvy
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could you tell me where the toilet is?
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nae borra
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no bother at all
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whit a minging night
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the weather's atrocious tonight
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its stoatin aff the grun
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Its raining very heavy, so heavy its bouncing off
the street
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Gie it laldy, belt it oot
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sing loudly
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She's ah stoater
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that girl is gorgeous
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Ahm gon hame, Ahm joe the toff
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Say this when you are going home, leaving company
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Ahm no comin hame tae ra morra
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I'll be home tomorrow
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Ah'm scunnert wi him
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I am fed up with him
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gie him a hauf an ah'll hiv wan tae
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Two whiskys please 
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Ahm dying fur a pint
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I am very thirsty and would like a Pint of beer
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An wan fur yersell !!
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A phrase barman like to hear 'give yourself a drink'
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Mah heids burstin'
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I have an aching sore head....normally due to
hangover
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Kin ah go oot tae play
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Normally a childs plea to his mother 'can I go out
to play'
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Hiv ye eny pokes
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could I have a paper bag
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a pokey hat
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an ice cream cone for children
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I'll skelp yer erse if ah get any mer lip
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A mother telling her child to behave ...or else
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Teddy bears, the Gers, boys in blue
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Glasgow Rangers FC
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A bluenose
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A Rangers supporter
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The bhoys, the celts, timalloys
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Glasgow Celtic FC
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eejit, bampot, plonker, diddy etc
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a person you think is an idiot
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Ah slid and landed oan ma jaxie
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A phrase explaining that you fell and landed on your bum
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Och his heids up his a***
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he is talking rubbish
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whit ah guff
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what is that smell!
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Away 'n bile yer heid
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stop talking nonsense
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Ur ye talking tae me ur chewin a brick
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you are talking nonsense
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Whits that fur?
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If looking at an object we are asking "what does it
do"
If you were hit or stared at, You would be enquiring.."Why?"
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Get yer hauns aff
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Unhandle me!
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Lee-me-alane
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Leave me alone
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"We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns"
The
Rev. John Thomson
was the minister in the early 19th century of Duddington Kirk from
1805-1840, a church set at the foot of Arthur's Seat not far from the centre
of Edinburgh. The story goes that he was so highly regarded in the parish
that even those not members of the Church of Scotland would say, 'We're all
Jock Tamson's bairns'. Walter Scott was an elder of the church, and Thomson
was a close friend of the painters Turner and Raeburn, and this may well
have helped popularise the expression. Its also reputed that the
minister called the members of his congregation "ma bairns" |
