Paphos Life

Doric refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland.

How well can you guess these words? in English.

1. aabudy - everybody- Miyagi
2. ah-hin - everything - Miyagi
3. baaldie-heidit - bald - trevnhil
4. bile - BOIL
5. black affronted - Embarrassed - jagwheels
6. bleezin - drunk - Miyagi
7. bosie - hug/cuddle - Miyagi
8. briks - trousers - Varky
9. cappie - ICE CREAM CONE
10. chuntie - toilet/chamber pot - surreyboy
11. claes - clothes - jagwheels
12.cloot - cloth - surreyboy/jen
13. clype - tell tales - jagwheels
14. crannie - p̶e̶t̶y̶r̶ ̶b̶a̶e̶l̶i̶s̶h̶ - little finger - jagwheels
̶15. dicht - wash - jagwheels
16. dookers - swimming trunks - June
17. dreich - Miserable day - jagwheels
18. drookit - wet through/drenched - trevnhil & jagwheels
19. dubby - MUDDY
20. far - where - Miyagi
21. feart - frightened - trevnhil
22. ganzie - jumper/cardigan - Varky
23. ging - GO
24. glaikit - Looking stupid - jagwheels
25. gype - Foolish person - surreyboy/jen

3 Bald head
4 Sick
6 Angry
12 Hit
18 Wet through
21 Frightened

nae bad Trev.

50% correct

3,18 & 21 correct

Got them all bar one (dookers, as in swimmers?)
But then I do have a head start coming from Aiberdeen!

tut! tut! It should be "heid" start

What do you mean by "swimmers".....people who swim?

22 jumper/cardigan

memory man wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:52 pm tut! tut! It should be "heid" start

What do you mean by "swimmers".....people who swim?

Aye. Tak a dook in the Dee.

Rang!

It's nae the uncer am lookin' fur!

Fit aboot swimming trunks?

I lived in Aberdeen for a number of years and recognise all the words but there is 2-3 that I can't remember what they mean. I guess it's an age thing....

memory man wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:11 pm Rang!

It's nae the uncer am lookin' fur!

Fit is it en? Must be yir toonser spik, am jist a puir aul Ellon quine.

Fit like June.

Yer rite

TLR wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:24 pm

memory man wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:11 pm Rang!

It's nae the uncer am lookin' fur!

Fit is it en? Must be yir toonser spik, am jist a puir aul Ellon quine.

https://glosbe.com/sco/en/dookers

Ah weel wisnae a wrang. ye pit on yer dookers tae tak a dook.
Foo's yer doos onywey, MM?

aye peckin, aye peckin quine.

2 - Behind
6 - Angry
11 - Clothes
18 - Drenched
24 - Looking stupid
25 - Painful

With a language like that MM no wonder you moved to a Greek speaking country

8 - trousers

14 granny

It's all bonkers to me!

Worryingly, there's a group of us heading up to Oban in a couple of months for a long weekend.... If they start speaking to me like that I'm reverting straight to Greek. That should be a bit of a giggle

Oban is on the west coast of Scotland and they speak Gaelic.

You could get some tuition from MaggieB.

Yeah, we stuck to the west side because the east side of our coastline is always bloody freezing
But we intend to see a lot more of Scotland in the future. The scenery looks absolutely stunning. So we shall see how our first little trip by coach goes....

The price for 4 days (3 nights) including half board, evening entertainment with 4 drinks vouchers on the Saturday evening and an excursion plus all our travel thrown in is £91pp. My mum has a twin room to herself at no additional supplement too!

I think I can muddle through the language mire for that. There's even a distillery to visit within walking distance from our hotel