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Is amazingly diverse and ever changing. There was an article in a local online paper concerning words that your gran would use that would now be laughable. Well never mind my gran, I used them too and thought how sad it is that they’re being lost. I know language grows and changes but some of the older words are far more colourful.
What words are you sorry to see being lost? What do you think some of the phrases below mean?

Collybucky
Chum
Shan
Rank
Skelpit Lug
Haud yer wheesht
Reeking
Radge
Skelped
Take my hand off your face

'Scuth' - a strict demand for the cat to remove himself from my favourite fireside chair. :-D

I wish some words *would* get lost.
Stunning
Super instead of 'very'
Bless.....
My bad
Kate 'wows'
Camilla looked 'divine'

I don’t know the word but I know the feeling Dermot as I have two of them.

Whippersnapper.
Thingamajig.
Gobbledegook.
Geek.

I agree Island words like stunning and super need to disappear.

Scrote- My neighbours son is a wee scrote. He swears at his mother and manages to hit the glass in my front door and my living room window with his football. I’m in a first floor cottage flat and the two windows are on opposite sides of the flat.

and 'influencer' - whatever that means!

No idea of the spelling but my Dad and my husband both used "Amshee" to mean move or go away. Usually used to make the cats or dog get off the sofa.

and "Woke". What was everyone before then - Asleep?

My dad used that 'Emshee' - he also taught it to me, when we were in Saudi.
It's Arabic. One of it's meanings is, indeed, 'go away'.

Thanks Maggie. I've learnt something new :-) I'd sort of assumed the word might be Indian. Didn't think of Arabic.

Tawny - that's not fair - those are Scottish dialect/slang! ;-)
As a 'sooth-moother' (okay I've lived in Scotland), here are my guesses:

Collybucky - pick -a- back/piggy back
Chum - pal?
Shan -no idea
Rank - disgusting
Skelpit Lug - Skelpit - slap, Lug - ear
Haud yer wheesht - be quiet
Reeking - smelly
Radge - angry?
Skelped - slapped
Take my hand off your face - should that be 'take my hand to your face' - ie slap you.

Very good guesses Maggie.

Chum- Normally used when girls don’t want to go somewhere themselves like the toilets or the nurses office at school. Effectively asking a friend to come with.

Shan-Depends on the context either a shan (bad) day at work. Or bullying someone who can’t stand up for themselves/making fun of someone who thinks you’re a friend would be described as shan (cruel/mean)

Radge-Someone who insists on behaving in an embarrassing manner.

It really is take my hand off your face and yes it refers to giving someone a slap usually a child.

Tawny - your previous post - 'scrote' - I love using that word as much as possible :-D :-D :-D

There are some 800 languages spoken within the 10-mile radius of New York City, which is more than 10 percent of the world’s estimated 7,099 languages.

Reeking also means smoky -- as in "reeking lum" - smoking chimney.

Edinburgh was famously affectionately known as Auld Reekie - partly because of all the smoke from chimneys, and partly because of the smell from lack of sanitation, in the 17th (and earlier) , 18th and early 19th centuries.

It was still pretty smoky in the first half of the 20th century. I remember the blackened buildings , now all cleaned up.

My Scottish friend still uses chum, meaning to escort, say to the shops. And shan, for something bad. And messages, for shopping.

Here in the north of England we say mard, or mardy, for someone sulking or whining.
Friend calls the local antisocial people scrotes, I believe it's a shortened version of another word..........

I try to use the local language when I can, even though it is slightly different from the language local to where I lived further north.

Does anyone know when baggin time is?

Betwixt & Between.

It used to be 5pm for me :-D