babby baby
bairn child
bampot idiot
bangsty mad
barry wonderful
bass bastard
baws balls
beamer blushing face
belter something very good
ben through
bevvy alcoholic drink; to drink alcohol
bint woman
boak vomit
boggin’ disgusting
bonnie pretty
bowfin’ disgusting and/or stinking
breenge to shove or barge
bumfled up bundled up (in clothes)
by the way actually (used for emphasis)
cannae can’t
cauld cold
chap to knock
chebs breasts
chib knife
coorie cuddle
coup to tip or overturn
da dad
daftie idiot
deek to look or peek
diddy silly idiot
dinnae don’t
dowfie stupid
dug dog
eejit idiot
evils a hostile look
fanny female genitalia (vulgar)
feart scared
fleein’ drunk
flit to move house
gies give us/me
ginger sweet fizzy drink
girn to cry, whine or both
glaikit stupid
gob mouth
gobby loud-mouthed
gobshite rubbish
gonnae going to
greet to cry
gub mouth
hairy young woman of loose morals
havenae haven’t
heehaw nothing
heid head
hen affectionate term for a girl or woman
hisself himself
hud to hold
hyter to stumble
isnae isn’t
jagged jabbed
jakied inebriated
jobbie poo
keek to peep
laddie boy
laird landowner
lassie girl
lug ear
manky dirty or unsavoury
maw mother
minger dirty or disgusting person
minging dirty or disgusting
(the) morn tomorrow
-nae (e.g. isnae) -n’t (e.g. isn’t)
naw no
neb nose
ned lout
no not
numptie idiot
photy photo
piece sandwich
pish piss
podging overeating
polis police
pooch pocket
radge wildly angry
raging angry
rammie a fight
rare good
Rotty Rottweiler
runch to crunch
sakeless harmless
scheme a housing estate (often council housing)
schemie an inhabitant of a council housing estate
scliters dirty wetness
scooby clue
shite shit
shoogly unsteady or rocking (e.g. a table on an uneven surface)
shoosh be quiet
skelp to smack
slavers long strings of saliva hanging from the mouth
sleekit underhand
stane stone
swadging relaxing
swally swallow
swalt swollen
syping seeping
telt told
teuchter country bumpkin or Highlander
thingmae thing
trauchle to trudge or trail
wammling wriggling
wasnae wasn’t
wean child (pronounced ‘wane’)
wee little
whoogie thing
widnae wouldn’t
wifie older woman
windae window
windae-licker a person with a learning disability
wisnae wasn’t
wouldnae wouldn’t
ya beauty! excellent!
ya dancer! excellent!
ya you
ye you
yous you (plural)
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Published by Inkubator Books
Copyright © 2019 by Jane Renshaw
WATCH OVER ME is a work of fiction. People, places, events, and situations are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.
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