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Glaswegian |
English |
Example
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Translation |
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Pad aboot |
walk around |
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Paddy's Market |
An open air market in the
Briggait area of Glasgow's city centre. Paddy's
Market has seen generations of families running
stalls underneath the railway arches, selling
anything from stolen sannnies to dodgy viagra. The
market closed in May 2009. |
Paddy's Market Glasgow
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Paddy Wagon |
Police riot van |
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Pal |
Friend |
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Pan |
Break |
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Pan breid or Pan loaf |
A loaf with a crusty
covering / Dead |
Ah've jist goat a text
message - ma faither is pan bread.
Oh my God - I've just found out that my father is
either dead or has been turned into a crusty bread. |
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Paps |
Breasts, from Gaelic as in the
Paps of Jura |
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Paradise |
Celtic Park - where Scottish
Football team Celtic play. |
Celtic Park Glasgow
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Paralytic |
Stone cold drunk. |
Ah wiz paralytic and all Ah
hud was twelve pints o heavy and a few vodies. |
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Parkie or Perkie |
Park-Keeper. This reflects
back to those days of yore when we actually had park
keepers. |
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Pat and Mick,The |
On the 'Sick' (off work) |
Ah'm oan the Pat and Mick
the day. I was out
drinking all night and now can't be arsed going to
work. |
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Patter |
Humorous chat / funny stories |
Ah jist love listening tae
all his patter aboot the days o' heavy drinking and
wild wumen. Aye - fur a priest he's no' a bad lad. |
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Paukit |
Very small |
Bridget the Midget
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Peallagan |
Young heather, used on the
Islay for weaving door mats. |
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Pearl diver |
Fiver, Five pounds |
Scottish five pound note
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Peely Wally |
A sickly shade of white |
Yer looking awfy peely
wally the day Robert. Aye - I wiz up tae midnight
drinking beer and whisky - and you know staying up
late alwiz makes me a wee bit wabbit. |
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Pee-the-Bed |
A viscous type of Scottish
dandelion which, should you have the misfortune to
touch, will make you wet the bed for months
afterwards. |
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Pefter-efter |
To desire something so
badly that you will do anything to get it. |
Ah really pefter-efter a
dod o' Gorgonzola cheese so Ah dae.
I have just gone out of my mind. |
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Peg |
To have sexual intercourse |
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Pelter |
Panic. To give pelters is
to humiliate someone. |
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Pelting |
Raining heavily. |
It's fair pelting down
theday. Gosh is it
summer already!! |
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Pennie |
Apron |
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Perr |
Pair (That's a rerr perr o
jeans.) |
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Pettit lip |
Quivering lip that show
person is sulking.
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Ye neednae put oan thon
pettet lip yer getting nae mair chips.
No matter how much you sulk
there's no more food for you.
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Peevers or Peever |
A kids street game -
otherwise known as hopscotch. Hopscotch: A
children's game in which players toss a small object
into the numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles
outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through
the spaces to retrieve the object.
Try doing that on your Xbox! |
Hopscotch - Peever
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Picts |
The Picts were a
confederation of tribes living in what was later to
become eastern and northern Scotland from before the
Roman conquest of Britain until the 10th century.
They lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde
rivers, and spoke the extinct Pictish language,
thought to have been related to the Brythonic
languages spoken by the Britons to the south.
Many place names in
Scotland are derived from those Pictish times:
Pitlochry Pitmedden, Pittodrie etc |
Picts Rule
The Picts ruled for hundreds o’ years,
But sae soon they were forgotten,
A lot o’ people don’t give a damn,
But Ah think it’s blinkin’ rotten.
Yet they’re never quite oot ma mind,
And never oot ma soul,
For a think o’ them when e’er I go,
Tae Pitlochry, Pitcur or Pit-on-Mair-Coal.
[From No' Rabbie Burns by Stuart McLean]
Fairytale House in
Pitlochry
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Piece |
Sandwich |
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Piece poke |
Traditionally
this was the bag that contained your 'lunch' - the
term has now been modernised to 'piece tupperwear' |
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Piper |
A person who has no musical
talent and no friends. |
A typical Scottish Piper
with bagpipes and snake
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Pish |
To urinated / Something that's
not good |
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Pish Pundit |
Bookmaker |
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Pished |
Drunk |
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Pit |
Put |
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Pit |
A big hole in the ground
that 'workers' risked their lives in to obtain coal.
In 1984 Abbadon Thatcher decided to close all pits
so that the workers could concentrate on being
miserable. |
Where dae ye pit a pit in
Pitlochry?
A Pictish conundrum. |
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Plaid |
Blanket A plaid or full
plaid is a pleated cloth worn with the modern kilt,
made from the same tartan and worn cast over the
shoulder and fastened at the front.
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Plank |
To hide something |
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Playpiece |
Snack that children take to
school - in Scotland this consists of a healthy
selection of crisps, deep-fried Mars Bars, chocolate
coated haggis, soggy chips left over from the
previous night's dinner and a large can of Irn-Bru. |
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Plook or Pluke |
Facial spot / Acne |
Squeezing a pluke makes it
angrier . . .
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Pluck |
Parts of a sheep that are
used in haggis; sheep heart, liver and lungs.
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Dinner . . .
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Plug |
To stab someone |
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Plunged |
Stabbed |
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Plunk |
To stay off school - play
truant. |
Are you plunking it this
efternoon?
Naw -
Ah've git a double period o' Science.
Ah didnae
know you liked science.
Ah don't
but Maggie Smith's in ma science class and Ah fancy
her something rotten. |
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Poaket Money |
Weekly allowance a child is
given |
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Pochle |
To obtain something by
cheating or fiddling. |
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Poke |
Paper bag |
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Pokey hat |
Ice Cream Cone |
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Pollis |
Police |
But what's this I see,
ochone for me
It's a vision to make your blood freeze.
It's the pollis afloat in a dirty big boat
And they're shouting: "Time, gentlemen, please!"
Extract from "Campbeltown Loch" by Andy Stewart. |
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Porridge |
A stint in prison. |
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Porridge |
A punishment of a breakfast
meal. |
He's doing porridge but he
says the worst bit is havin' tae eat porridge fur
breakfast. |
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Prick |
Someone not liked |
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Puff |
Hash |
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Puggled |
Out of breath / Exhausted |
Exhausted Girl - after a
whole 3 minutes work.
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Puggy |
Fruit machine / pinball |
Pinball
Girl
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Puke |
Vomit / Be sick |
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Pump |
Fart. |
Right - who jist pumped?
It wisnae
me - honest. |
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Punter |
Although the term for a
gambler it is used in Glasgow as a term for just
about anyone. Particularly used when referring to
someone you consider to be of low standing.
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Yon wee punter over there
looks like the back end o' a bus.
Shugie, Ah wish you wouldnae
talk about ma maw like that. |
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Punt-up or Puntie-up |
To help someone climb over
something - either by pushing them by the bum or
letting them use your clasped hands as a step. |
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Pure |
Very, pure dead good |
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Pushion |
Poison |
Ae man's meat is anither
man's pushion.
Warning: May contain nuts.
[From A Midge in Your Hand is Worth Two Up the Kilt]
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Puss |
Face - Usually only used in
the expression 'Shut your puss' meaning shutup. |
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