So, Doric is the dialect of the north east of Scotland. I'm certainly not 'broad Aberdonian' however, I do drop in a wee doric word here and there! So here are a selection of my most used doric words.
- Aye aye - hi
- black affronted - embarrased
- bleezin - drunk
- blootered - drunk
- bosie - hug
- briks - trousers
- ca - pull
- canny - savy/steady
- cappie - ice cream cone
- cat sookins - wet and limp hair
- chaap - hit
- chav - work hard/struggle
- cloot - cloth
- clype - someone who tells tales or to tell tales
- coorse - nasty
- cowk - retch
- cowpe - turn over/turn upside down/dump
- crabbit - grumpy
- daftie - daft person
- doo - pigeon
- dight - wipe
- ding - fall heavily (snow or rain)
- dock - bum
- dookers - swim suit
- dottled - confused
- dowp - bum
- dreich - cold, wet and dull weather
- drookit - soaked
- dubby - muddy
- fair tricket - delighted
- feil -foolish person
- fly cup or fly - a break for a cup of tea
- fooshty - musty/stale/dirty
- glaikit - vacant/silly
- greet - cry
- gype - silly person
- gypit - silly
- hoast - cough
- loon - boy
- loup - jump
- lug - ear
- mochit - dirty
- neep - turnip/silly person
- puckle - few
- puddock - frog
- quine - girl
- scunnert - fed up
- sheen - shoes
- sharn - shit
- skitter - diarrhea
- smit - infect
- teuchter - someone brought up in a rural area
- toonser - someone brought up in a city area
- vratch - nusciance
- wee - small
- wifie - woman
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