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A dictionary for the dialects in Trainspotting
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affie -- afternoon
bairn -- child, baby
bams -- jerks
barry -- great, terrific
baws -- balls
beamer -- red-faced, embarrassed
bevvy -- drink
birl -- turn
biscuit-ersed -- self-pitying
bog -- men's room
bollocks -- testicles
bools -- marbles
box -- can be 'head' as in 'ootay yir box' or 'asshole' as in 'he stuck it up
his/her box'
brar -- brother
brassic -- broke
broat -- brought
bucking -- fucking
bung -- to lend someone money, to tip
buftie -- homosexual male
burd -- bird, female friend
caird -- card
catboy -- "my man"
chibbed -- knifed, stabbed
chippy -- joiner, carpenter, or chip-shop (fast food outlet)
choc-box -- asshole
coffin-dodger -- senior citizen
collies -- drugs
copped -- obtained (often female company)
cowpin -- shagging, fucking
crack -- banter
cunt -- all-purpose term for someone else, either friendly or unfriendly
cuntchy -- 'you cunt that you are'
daft -- idiotic, stupid
deek -- look
dippit -- stupid
dosh -- money
doss -- real, as in "a doss cunt"
draftpacks -- nutters, low-lifes, or a container for alcohol
DS -- drug squad
durex -- condom
eywis -- always
fitba -- football, soccer
foostie -- rancid, poxy
gadge -- guy
gaff -- apartment
gear -- works or clothes, or stolen goods
gig -- the scene, or a concert
giro -- government unemployment benifit check
giro-drops -- bogus addresses for those checks
greet -- cry
gunge -- messy fluids
gypo -- pleb or scruff
Hearts, Hibs -- football teams
hirays, hireys -- money
hotchin -- abundant, packed full of
jellies, jelly tots -- tranquilizers in capsules, often injected
intravenously
Joe Baxi -- cab
joiner -- carpenter
jungle cat -- "the man" on the prowl scoping for companionship
k.b.ing -- being rejected, given the elbow, turned away
keks -- underpants
ken, kent -- know, known
knob -- penis
labdick -- cop
likesay -- you know
loupin -- stinking
lurve -- love
mantovani -- chicks
minge -- as mantovani
muckers -- mates, buddies
nash -- hurry
nembies -- Nembutals
NME -- New Music Express
nippy -- trunculent, aggressive
nondy -- stupid
ootay -- out of
pagger -- fight
para -- paranoid
patter -- style
peeve -- drink (alcohol)
pips -- dialing tone on the telephone
pish -- piss
pished -- drunk
plukey-faced -- soft
plukes -- spots
poppy -- money
poxy -- scabby, festering
puff -- "on one's puff" is "on one's own," but also short for poof or
homosexual
punter -- better or, more generally, fellow
rabbiting -- talking incessantly
radge -- crazy
rat-arsed -- drunk
ride -- screw
saps -- soft persons
scoobies -- stops, shuts up, stumps
scouser -- native of Liberpool
scran -- food
shag -- screw
shan -- crap
shoatie -- watch
shunky -- toilet
skag -- heroin
skaggy-bawed -- too high on heroin to screw
skint -- broke
slag -- insult or slut, bastard
snaffles -- grabs up
smarmy -- creepy, cruisy
spawny -- lucky
specky -- bespectacled
sprog -- child
spunk -- semen
square-go -- fist fight with no knives or barstools
steamboats -- drunk
stroppy -- ugly
Subbuteo -- table soccer game
swedge -- fight, brawl
tattie -- potato
thrush -- minor sexually transmitted disease
tidy -- nice
trainspotting -- keeping obsessive notes on the arrival and departure of
trains
Tron -- area in Central Edinburgh
voddy -- vodka
wanker -- masturbator
waster -- bum
Weedjie -- native of Glasgow
whinge -- complain
wido-o -- term of insult
yin -- one
yonks --years
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