'My other half'

thehappybutterfly

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Never heard the term gadgie and I'm in NEast Scotland too.

Really? Thinl mink, chav etc.

You've used 'mink' surely?

Torry_Quine

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

Really? Thinl mink, chav etc.

You've used 'mink' surely?

Mink or minkie definately.

csh_2

My local dialect is very similar to dundonian. Think it's cos historically my town was a shipping town, it's not now but does seem to have a distinctive dialect in the area. I watched a programme about dialects at uni in Stirling and I was the only one that understood the part with the dundonian poets speaking in their natural tongue!
Gadgies are an Edinburgh term, we don't use that we have neds & schemies!

persa

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Mink or minkie definately.

Never head of that term. We used to call them bams when we were younger though.

thehappybutterfly

jackieb wrote: »

Here it's mostly minks. Gadgies not quite as bad as a mink.

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Never heard the term gadgie and I'm in NEast Scotland too.

Weird. When I googled gadgie it seems to be unique to NE England. Hmmm, I hear it a lot here. I'll ask my NE England friend. I'm slowly teaching her Scottish words so she can repay the favour.

She does use 'twining' quite a bit....... that's not a word I'd ever heard before. Apart from the teabags of course.

PolishBigSpender

Oh so true!
I'm a whole person in a loving relationship with another whole person!

I also can't stand "crimbo", "DS", "DD" and other variations of such nature. do you really refer to your kids/husbands etc. as "dear" at all times??

jackieb

persa wrote: »

Never head of that term. We used to call them bams when we were younger though.

Here, a bam is just a daft person - a fool.

See, this is why there's no wrong or right. :cool:

Torry_Quine

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

Weird. When I googled gadgie it seems to be unique to NE England. Hmmm, I hear it a lot here. I'll ask my NE England friend. I'm slowly teaching her Scottish words so she can repay the favour.

She does use 'twining' quite a bit....... that's not a word I'd ever heard before. Apart from the teabags of course.

That's another new one to me too.

persa wrote: »

Never head of that term. We used to call them bams when we were younger though.

Or bampots! :rotfl:

thehappybutterfly

Ah, schemies! I remember that.

We sometimes use jakey here as well. Not sure what it means really. I think it means a Glaswegian and/or drug addict. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

jackieb

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

Weird. When I googled gadgie it seems to be unique to NE England. Hmmm, I hear it a lot here. I'll ask my NE England friend. I'm slowly teaching her Scottish words so she can repay the favour.

She does use 'twining' quite a bit....... that's not a word I'd ever heard before. Apart from the teabags of course.

Never heard of twining before. And a gadgie is just a man who you don't know - it's not really derogatory.