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Ramshaet

Heard da older ones using this one,usually after drinking something then turning up there face and saying its ramshaet!

at least i think so if my memory serves me well?

 

Foo dui you say yun? Is hit rams-haet or ram-shaet? Is 'ram' sed da sam as a he-yowe? Or duis hit rhyme wi, eg: 'caam' (calm), 'dwaam'? 'An duis 'haet' rhyme wi wirds laek 'baet' (Eng. beat) an 'paet'?

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^^ Raamse?? It may well be pronounced different in different places. Describes the taste of run milk, "off" beer etc.

 

Foo duis du pronounce it? Duis it rhyme wi 'shamse' - dat is, da wye at a aald body showes whin dae'r naethin i dir mooth? In idder wirds, duis it hae da sam vowel soond as 'manse' an 'transe' an saeklaek?

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Aboot 'skyilderin' Jakobsen gies twa different wirds:

 

1. skilter (sed 'skyilter') meanin 'dispersion' - 'dae'r a skilter i da sheep' the sheep are scattered (Unst). Dis seems ta be sib ta 'scail' meanin 'scattered'.

 

2. skilter (sed 'skyilter) - a shrill laugh. 'Dae'r a skyilter among da boys' wi a verb 'to laugh loudly.'

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^^ Raamse?? It may well be pronounced different in different places. Describes the taste of run milk, "off" beer etc.

 

Foo duis du pronounce it? Duis it rhyme wi 'shamse' - dat is, da wye at a aald body showes whin dae'r naethin i dir mooth? In idder wirds, duis it hae da sam vowel soond as 'manse' an 'transe' an saeklaek?

 

Yea, dat wid be im.

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Aam no read da heel oh dis treed so dir mibee twartree oh dis eens been meenshint afore, dis ir au wirds it we wid ose in ivery day spikeen,

 

mittle: break/injure 'Boy if du whumbles frae yun ruif du'll mittle dysell'

 

hookers: haunches 'dey wir nae shairs so i hed tae sit on me hookers'

 

proag : poke 'i gied tae da doctor an he proagit i me lugs' or 'Proag i'da fire and see if du can git im tae tak up'

 

stap: smithereens mibee, no exactly sure? ' i gie me peerie bridder a lenn oh me blinkie an he's laid im i stap'

 

beauk : to gag 'da fysh wis dat soor it med me beauk' (no sure aboot da spelleen, someen can pit me right )

 

which reminds me oh

 

bauk : perch 'da hens wir au apo da bauk fur da nite' or 'da peerie lass hed dat mony sweeties sho turned bauk high'

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Aam no read da heel oh dis treed so dir mibee twartree oh dis eens been meenshint afore, dis ir au wirds it we wid ose in ivery day spikeen,

 

mittle: break/injure 'Boy if du whumbles frae yun ruif du'll mittle dysell'

 

hookers: haunches 'dey wir nae shairs so i hed tae sit on me hookers'

 

proag : poke 'i gied tae da doctor an he proagit i me lugs' or 'Proag i'da fire and see if du can git im tae tak up'

 

stap: smithereens mibee, no exactly sure? ' i gie me peerie bridder a lenn oh me blinkie an he's laid im i stap'

 

beauk : to gag 'da fysh wis dat soor it med me beauk' (no sure aboot da spelleen, someen can pit me right )

 

which reminds me oh

 

bauk : perch 'da hens wir au apo da bauk fur da nite' or 'da peerie lass hed dat mony sweeties sho turned bauk high'

 

Whaaraboots is du fae, Skerpa? Somewye Nort, bi da leuks o it.

 

Da onnly ene o yun enes at I'm no wint wi is 'mittle'. I wid say 'mirackle' wi yun meanin.

 

I wid spell da ene at means ta be seek 'byock', if dat's ony uise.

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Here’s what the Concise Scots Dictionary has to say re 'mittle':

 

mittle &c vt do bodily harm to, mutilate 19-,

now Ags Per. [only Sc; eModEng mutile (once),

F mutiler]

 

I widda ösed mirackle ida past, bit nooadays I hae tae knap in oarder tae be understood.

 

 

Movin’ on, I winder if da wird ‘dwaam’ comes fae da Dutch; I doot he mibbe does.

 

I fan dis wird ida Concise Oxford English Dictionary:

 

dwaal

â–  noun South African informal a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state.

 

ORIGIN

from Afrikaans

 

 

...an seein' as dis treed is aboot wird o da day, an bringin' it back apö an even keel:

 

wale - select, single out

 

wale oot da gimmers

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Dwaam is widespread in Scots - originally 'dwalm'. Da SND (Scottish National Dictionary) says dis:

 

[O.Sc. has dwalm, dwawm, etc., n. and v., from c.1500. Orig. deriv. of the ablaut series dwel-, dwal-, dwol-, as in O.E. dwe̢lian, to go astray, O.Teut. *dwaljan, O.E. dwolma, confusion. Cf. O.H.Ger. twalm, giddiness, O.Sax. dwalm, delusion.]

 

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/

 

So hit leuks laek hit's a coamon Germanic wird at baith Dutch an Aald English is heired, redder as hit comin intae Scots fae da Dutch.

 

Wale is, of coorse, weel-kent in Scots tui.

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