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f4f3 ([personal profile] f4f3) wrote2006-01-12 09:25 am

Strong Words Spoken Slurredly

While looking for a definition of "Nippy Sweety" as used to describe a lovely woman who could surprise you with her tartness (that's tartness, not tartiness or tartarness) just as a boiled sweet can make your mouth pucker, I came across this page of Scottish words from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A139033

It doesn't have clabber, or even stoor, but I liked it anyway.

[identity profile] itchyfidget.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
My understanding of "nippy sweetie" was that the woman (and I didn't think it had to be a woman) didn't actually have to be all that lovely.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
Well the women I was calling it certainly is :-)

[identity profile] rparvaaz.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
I rilly rilly like you. :)

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Aw shucks...

[identity profile] rparvaaz.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
That's a nice site, and I didn't know at least 20% of those. Am also amused by the fact that J's term for me is Scottish. :)

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
Now what would that be? Wifey or Bidey In?

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Also used by my Texan friend of his Scottish wife.

[identity profile] deililly.livejournal.com 2006-01-12 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
*amused*

Aw they missed blethered! Glasgoweigian and Weegee? That's an original way of spelling them...:P

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-01-14 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate weegee. Nearest I've ever come to a fight in a pub was over that.... (Well, actually it was a bit more complicated than that, but, well, he was a bit of a pain...)