Glesca phrases
& patter |
Glesca
folk don't like to pronounce their "t's" and our dialect is full of
humour and some wonderful put downs..........
|
|
Glesca's pure ded brull-yant
|
Glasgow is a great City
|
|
awra best folk cum frae brigton
|
All the best people are born in Bridgeton
|
|
Hows it gon ?
|
how are you keeping?
|
|
Hullaw ther, hows it gon
|
Hello, how are you keeping?
|
|
geeza brek ......gonny geeza brek
|
Please give me some peace, leave me a lone, go away
etc
|
|
c'mon get aff
|
A bus driver asking you to get off his bus
|
|
Ah get aff at the next stoap
|
The next bus stop is where I alight
|
|
erra perra chairs ower ther
|
There is a pair of chairs over there
|
|
They're a perra warmers
|
Pointing out two odd people
|
|
Whit a glaiket looking burd
|
An ugly woman
|
|
Gonny 'no dae that
|
please don't do that
|
|
gonny geeza a haun
|
please help me
|
|
This disnae wurk
|
the item concerned does not work
|
|
where's the lavvy
|
could you tell me where the toilet is?
|
|
nae borra
|
no bother at all
|
|
whit a minging night
|
the weather's atrocious tonight
|
|
its stoatin aff the grun
|
Its raining very heavy, so heavy its bouncing off
the street
|
Gie it laldy, belt it oot
|
sing loudly
|
|
She's ah stoater
|
that girl is gorgeous
|
|
Ahm gon hame, Ahm joe the toff
|
Say this when you are going home, leaving company
|
|
Ahm no comin hame tae ra morra
|
I'll be home tomorrow
|
|
Ah'm scunnert wi him
|
I am fed up with him
|
|
gie him a hauf an ah'll hiv wan tae
|
Two whiskys please 
|
|
Ahm dying fur a pint
|
I am very thirsty and would like a Pint of beer
|
|
An wan fur yersell !!
|
A phrase barman like to hear 'give yourself a drink'
|
|
Mah heids burstin'
|
I have an aching sore head....normally due to
hangover
|
|
Kin ah go oot tae play
|
Normally a childs plea to his mother 'can I go out
to play'
|
|
Hiv ye eny pokes
|
could I have a paper bag
|
|
a pokey hat
|
an ice cream cone for children
|
|
I'll skelp yer erse if ah get any mer lip
|
A mother telling her child to behave ...or else
|
|
Teddy bears, the Gers, boys in blue
|
Glasgow Rangers FC
|
|
A bluenose
|
A Rangers supporter
|
|
The bhoys, the celts, timalloys
|
Glasgow Celtic FC
|
|
eejit, bampot, plonker, diddy etc
|
a person you think is an idiot
|
|
Ah slid and landed oan ma jaxie
|
A phrase explaining that you fell and landed on your bum
|
Och his heids up his a***
|
he is talking rubbish
|
|
whit ah guff
|
what is that smell!
|
|
Away 'n bile yer heid
|
stop talking nonsense
|
|
Ur ye talking tae me ur chewin a brick
|
you are talking nonsense
|
|
Whits that fur?
|
If looking at an object we are asking "what does it
do"
If you were hit or stared at, You would be enquiring.."Why?"
|
|
Get yer hauns aff
|
Unhandle me!
|
|
Lee-me-alane
|
Leave me alone
|
|
|
|
