Dialect words and usage

[Doorstop]

Different usage up this neck of the whasname our Bridge :

besom
(biz·um) Dialect, chiefly Scot -adj.
1. obstreperous girl or woman; female upstart (as in “Dinnae pou’ yer brither’s hair, ya wee besom“)
2. woman of low moral standing; a hussy (”Thon yin’s a right mucky besom“).

[Autolycus]

Have we had "stooshie" " besom" "clatty" and ina fankle ?

Besom is a broom, especially one fashioned from twigs, according to my Chambers. I know the word from West Country usage where it is not only a broom but one who rides one. Father used regularly to announce his departure to summon Grannie to the dinner table thus: "I'll just go an' call the old bizzum."

There's a belief in Scots folklore that the halucinogenic properties of broom 'encouraged' young women to fashion the wood into a primitive dildo which transmitted the chemicals via the thin skin in those parts.

[Alan L]

On the subject of "roll and sausage" and the likes, I always call it a "roll on sausage".

I don't know if this is peculiar to Lanarkshire, Coatbridge or just my family. If winds the girlfriend up something awful when I use such a phrase though, so I'll continue to do so.

[nuttytigger]

I say a roll on sausage etc

[Doorstop]

"Roll on whatever" here too .. won't have it any other way.

[Josef]

It's just a homophone, surely.

It's roll 'n' sausage. Writing it as roll on sausage is just snackbar illiteracy, the equivalent of the greengrocer's "Potato's, Apple's", etc.

Fish on chips, anyone?

[Doorstop]

I had always thought of it much more of the 'roll on x' as opposed to the abbreviated version .. I may well be being misled due to my abhorrence of text speak 'on nat'.

[BrigitDoon]

My hairdresser used the expression "tatty boggles" the other day and she meant "tatty bye". Not heard that before.

[Josef]

My hairdresser used the expression "tatty boggles" the other day and she meant "tatty bye". Not heard that before.

A Tattie bogle's a scarecrow. What were you wearing?

[John]

I used to go to a private drinking club in London named Tatty Bogles. Apparently it was the nickname given to Scots in the army. I guess the suggestion being that Scots were dressed like scarecrows.

[BrigitDoon]

I know the expression tattie bogle as a scarecrow and I don't think the blouse and skirt would have qualified me.

I can't remember what the context was now.

[Bridie]

Was Tatty Bogle not one of Worzel's relatives who came to visit him and join in on one of his jolly pranks or is that just in my head??



footnote
In the process of carrying out my extensive enquiries for this post I have read that they are hoping to bring back Worzel Gummidge and are looking at David Walliams or Bobby Davro for the lead.
FF's SAKE leave well alone and STOP bringing things back !!!!

[Bridie]

meanwhile back on thread
Mollicate
"I'm gonne mollicate you!"

What's the meaning of ..to mollicate ?

[munroman]

meanwhile back on thread
Mollicate
"I'm gonne mollicate you!"

What's the meaning of ..to mollicate ?

I always understood it to be give you a right 'doing', battering, inflict injury upon you!

[kirkyguy]

bizzum = slang for troublesome. mollicate=a combo of murder and anialate. Bread, sore haun =is just patter for holding something heavy. Dookit is a kind of combined version of dovecot and doohut. Drookit is a combo of drowned and soaked. Maukit present tense of manky or combo of mucky and clatty. Clatty mmm ? Perhaps clinging and dirty. Mx