Girzie Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Mam wis always wint ta say whin shu wis vexed "Hit wid brakk da hert o a hurlborro". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girzie Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Also "Gying ta Birriesness!" as in Go to hell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasmie Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 On a more serious note "Aa we ivver got fae Scotland wis dear meal an' greedy Ministers" "lat be for lat be" concerned shetlander 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Da gaw ey hings be da livir. Dir a middin ä ivree toon's end. Üt hit laek a glutton, an spewed hit laek a baest. Da rüf is drappin shüt. Eerin laek a grice athin a grind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DePooperit Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 'Laek somene strampin apon a grice' (Bagpipes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Ony chance o explanations fir yun eens Ghostrider? 1st, 4th an mebbe 5th wid dae me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DePooperit Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Da gaw ey hings be da livir. Dir a middin ä ivree toon's end. Üt hit laek a glutton, an spewed hit laek a baest. Da rüf is drappin shüt. Eerin laek a grice athin a grind. Whit means du bi 'eerin'? An whit's da context o 'da gaw ey hings be da livir? Da gist o some o dis aald sayins is no fairly obvious tae wis young enes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 'Da gaw ey hings be da livir' can probably have more than one similar meaning, depending on exactly where used. One is simply a warning that nothing is 100% good, there's bound to be a flaw or drawback with everything somewhere, derived I've always understood from the fact that back in the day a liver was a prized highly nutritious feed, but even it came with a small sac of bitter bile attached. Another being, "Keep alert for the smaller possibly innocent looking or hidden things that can spoil a great deal of good unless handled with respect". Derived, again, I've always understood from the fact the gall bladder is attached to the liver, and when you're killing animals for meat, you have to be careful not to allow it to leak in any way as it's contents are so strong very, very little getting on to the meat will make it too bitter tasted to eat. 'Da rüf is drappin shüt' is a warning, that someone unknown/unwelcome is eavedropping/overhearing what's being said. From the days of strae roofed houses and fireplaces in the middle of floor and the with the lum just a hole in the roof. Many of those old houses were built with the back wall dug in to the face of a slope so it was easy to get on to the roof, and people, mostly the "toon's boys", did so, and listened best they could to the conversation inside, no doubt to spread gossip and make trouble relating to what was being said in private. The insides of such roofs were soot covered from when the lum didn't vent well, and reek was trapped indoors, and a sure sign someone was on the roof was when bits of soot began to fall as a result of being dislodged by the roof flexing as the person's weight passed over it. 'Eerin' is a long high pitched screech/squeal, usually of no more than one or two notes, like a grice is liable to do when it gets excited or wound up. The grice is smart enough to know the better food is accessible through the gate, so that's where he'd make the biggest fuss, especially if he saw people around and he was hungry. 'Eerin laek a grice athin a grind' is a phrase I've mostly heard used to describe a peerie bairn that is having the mother of all tantrums and has reached the stage of just howling steadily and nothing will please them, they just have to have at it until they exhaust themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted March 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 ^Cheers fir yun. Anidder couple: "foo as a troot" "Blissit wan!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 As glyed as a Turbot. As hearse is a cock. Da dae is lentened a cock stride a New'er-dae. (Auld New'er-dae dat wid be I doot....). He'll fin his breeks ta be a burden til im som mornin' - Usually applied to a man who's taken a much younger wife and started to raise a young family late in life. Dey can jüist set dem doon upoa da sam eryse is dey raise up aff ö - Appiled to someone who has undertaken a project over-enthustically and/or ill-preparedly and/or without adequate patience/planning/forethought, and is in a situation of having expended a significant amount of energy/time/expense for no purpose, as it's apparent the whole thing is impractical/impossible or needs to be begun over with a Plan "B". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pronto Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Owerheard infamous cunjo man "BOON" exclaim to his life partner "Big Red" as he got on da soothend bus ee day... Boon - "Wife!! Hall yun gret lump o sassermit caed 3RSE aboard dis bus!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pronto Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Muhahahalook how i outsmart the forumme so cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 ^^ Yup, an I can juist heer im sayin it tüh.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Ghostrider will remember this famous expression, often stated by the beer purveyor at the Mucky Duck: "Dat Pillie, dat pillie"This was a statement which the said purveyor of intoxicating beverages interjected into any conversation of a sexual nature.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Maybe not an expression, but fitting nevertheless.A slightly overweight Scalloway man was told by a woman one day:"If ony wife hed a belly laek yun upö her, shö'd be pregnant"He quickly relpied:"Hit wis, an shö is" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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