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Glaswegian |
English |
Example
and
Translation |
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Nae, Naw |
No |
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Nae bother |
No problem |
Aye nae bother love Ah'll
put the rubbish oot as soon as Ah can.
No chance! Me lower myself to doing woman's work!
Never! |
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Naebody or Naebdy |
Nobody |
Diz naebody love me?
I am a loathsome piece of
crap! |
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Nane |
None |
Ah'll huv nane o' yer cheek
sonny. |
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Napper |
Head |
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|
Nat King Cole |
Sex |
Any chance o' ma Nat King
Cole the night?
Aye - nae chance. |
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Naw, Nae |
No |
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Neane |
None |
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Neb |
Nose or nosey person. |
Yer jist a wee neb so ye ur. |
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Ned |
A thug / Scottish version of
chav (see Ned Speak) |
Wee Ned is a proper wee ned
so he is. |
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Neebur |
Neighbour |
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Neep |
Turnip |
Will we hae haggis, neeps
and tatties fur Burns' night?
I had a stupid thought there for a moment but
managed to shake it off - let's go for a Chinese
Meal as we always do on Burns' night. |
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Nick |
To steal / Prison |
Nick nicked my Nikes. |
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Nineteen-canteen |
Some indeterminate time in
the past. |
Yer mither's still going
strong. Aye, she wiz born in nineteen canteen but
can still run a marathon. She says it's her wee
daily glass of stout thit keeps her fit. |
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Nip (eg Nip doon) |
Go |
Ah'll nip doon tae the pub fur
a wee hauf. |
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Nippin |
Nagging |
Will ye stoap nippin ma
lughole fur a minute.
Yes, yes - I will take the rubbish out . . .
sometime. |
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Nippy sweetie |
An irritable sharp-tongued
person (usually female). |
Yons a right wee nippy
sweetie! Oh - so ye've met ma wife then? |
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Nolly Naully Nollie |
Forth and Clyde Canal |
Ye cannae jail me fur
kicking yer dug intae the Nollie - Ah'm ony ten.
Ha ha Mister - I kicked your dumb dog into the Forth
and Clyde Canal and because of my age you are unable
to seek retribution through the legal system. |
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No' |
Not |
Ah've told ye a hunner time
already so Ah'm no' tellin' ye again. |
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Noggin |
Fight |
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Noo |
Now (Also The Noo) |
Whit ur ye daein' the noo?
Ah'm no daein' nothin
neither Ah um. |
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Nookie |
Sex |
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Nooks
and Crannies |
Crevices and
cracks and secret places (the sort of place where
you would hide your Playboy magazines - if you were
that type of person) |
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No-user or Nae-user |
A
person who is lazy or likely to get into trouble. |
Dinae pal aboot
wae Joe - he's a right nae-user. |
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Nowt |
Nothing |
Ah'm huvin' nowt tae dae
way Joe - he's a right nae-user. |
|
Noqwat |
A brickie or laborour who
works more than 20 minute in any hour. |
Yon
big Polish noqwat is spoiling the joab fur us.
Damn - by actually doing some work that lad from
Poland is making us look lazy. |
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Nudey |
Nude
|
Ah hid ma nudey mags in a
great wee nook and cranie.
I have placed my stash of Playboys in a place where
my father and all my brothers also know very well. |
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Nugget |
A piece of faeces or someone
who isn't too clever |
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Nugwatt |
* An evil person / Bully * |
A big nugwat chucked me in
the nollie. That evil
wee girl Jean threw me in the canal. |
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Nuhin' |
The Glaswegian equivalent
of nothing. Usually said in a long drawn out droll
manner. |
Whit ur ye daein' Bobby?
Ach nuhin' maw.
Well gonnae stoap it - it's really getting oan ma
tits. |
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Numptiejobby |
Person of dubious intelligence
and/or character. |
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Numpty |
Idiot |
Numpty Dumpty
Numpty
Dumpty sat oan a wall,
Numpty Dumpty hud a great fall.
It wisnae accident him being so high.
The
stupid wee eejit wis trying to fly.
[Copyright Stuart Macfarlane] |
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Numpty-heided |
Derogatory term. |
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Nyaff |
Scruff / Irritating person.
(For some reason all nyaffs seem to be small for the
expression is usually 'wee nyaff') |
Thit wee nyaff keeps oan
biting ma bum Sorry -
there is no legal translation of this phrase. |
