SCOTTISH WORD for TODAY January 19, 2016 SLANG Wazzok On t.v. this evening a certain U.S. wanna-be President was referred to by someone in the British Parliament as a wazzok. It apparently has its roots in Northern England and means an idiot or daft person: Was fairly rare in Yorkshire before Capstick's popularisation of it in 1981. “You great useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzock.” (Tony Capstick, 1981) Equivalent of the use of wazzok In parts of Scotland would be the following: Glaikit – stupid. Ye’re a glaikit wee soul, so ye are. Kin ye no pick up efter yersel’? Skinny Malinky Langlegs!* --- A lang dreep o’ watter (a long drip of water) --- A tall thin person. Gaun yer dinger ---Going off the deep end...(or going postal). Gie it laldy---Give it its worth. Puggled---He’s fair puggled, so he is. ppl. adj. Scots (Lallans) and Scottish vernacular. knackered, done for, finished, defeated, frustrated, under the weather v. Puggle. (Of recent slang origin, may correspond with the Eng. military slang "puggled", very drunk, believed to be from Hindustani "pagal", mad, furious, but may derive from buggered, and possibly influenced by Scots Pauchle, puzzled) ---------------------------------- (A tad vulgar, though anything goes nowadays!) Lanark contributor, John Duncan, used to get a kick out of this: *Skinny Malinky lang legs big banana feet, went tae the pictures but couldnae find a seat; when the picture started Skinny Malinky farted, Skinny Malinky lang legs big banana feet. Maisie

Thanks again, Maisie, for your 'word for today'. I've lived out of Scotland for over forty years now and many of these words are new to me - or long forgotten. Many are there, just lurking in my memory or just so much part of me that I don't really think of them as being Scottish, just the appropriate word for a situation as, often, there isn't an exact English equivalent e.g. glaikit or, my favourite, peely wally (to feel under the weather/ off colour). Jose Sent from my iPad > On 20 Jan 2016, at 08:21, Maisie Egger via <lanark@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > SCOTTISH WORD for TODAY > January 19, 2016 > > SLANG > > Wazzok > > On t.v. this evening a certain U.S. wanna-be President was referred to by someone in the British Parliament as a wazzok. It apparently has its roots in Northern England and means an idiot or daft person: > > Was fairly rare in Yorkshire before Capstick's popularisation of it in 1981. > “You great useless spawny-eyed parrot-faced wazzock.” > (Tony Capstick, 1981) > > Equivalent of the use of wazzok In parts of Scotland would be the following: > > > Glaikit – stupid. Ye’re a glaikit wee soul, so ye are. Kin ye no pick up efter yersel’? > > > > Skinny Malinky Langlegs!* --- A lang dreep o’ watter (a long drip of water) --- A tall thin person. > > > > Gaun yer dinger ---Going off the deep end...(or going postal). > > > > Gie it laldy---Give it its worth. > > > Puggled---He’s fair puggled, so he is. > > ppl. adj. Scots (Lallans) and Scottish vernacular. knackered, done for, finished, defeated, frustrated, under the weather > v. Puggle. > (Of recent slang origin, may correspond with the Eng. military slang "puggled", very drunk, believed to be from Hindustani "pagal", mad, furious, but may derive from buggered, and possibly influenced by Scots Pauchle, puzzled) > > ---------------------------------- > > (A tad vulgar, though anything goes nowadays!) > > Lanark contributor, John Duncan, used to get a kick out of this: > > *Skinny Malinky lang legs big banana feet, went tae the pictures but couldnae find a seat; when the picture started Skinny Malinky farted, Skinny Malinky lang legs big banana feet. > > > Maisie > > ------------------------------- > > WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. > > You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message