bunker - table top / kitchen counter ("Make sure yeez clean aw along the bunker when yer finished!").buftie - Homosexual ("Aye, ah'm a fuckin' buftie! So?").Bucky - short for "Buckfast", a tonic wine popular in the West of Scotland.braw - good looking, beautiful really nice.brammer - term of endearment ("Aw, he's a wee brammer, so he is.").The box - television set ("Whit's oan the box the night?").boggin' - smelly, dirty ("That's boggin'!").bobee, bawbee - one half-penny in auld money.bob - a shilling, or 12 old pennies pre-decimilisation 5 new pence.boak - dry heave/expression of disgust ("Pure gie'in' me the boak!").
batter - to beat up ("I'll batter ye! 'mon then, ya dick!").Also, rarely, a peculiar term of endearment ("Awright Ted, ya wee bastart.") barry - excellent / fantastic ("That's pure barry!").Barras - a market, started by Margaret McIver, joined for the initial use of wheel barrows/"barras" to sell things from, at the Barrowland in the east end of Glasgow.Also, an affectionate term for a younger person ( A wee barra.) Also, penis ("Away you 'n' chew mah banger(!)") banana boat - used in an expression of disbelief when told a tall story or blatant untruth ("Dae ye think Ah came up the Clyde on a banana boat(?)").baltic - freezing cold ("Christ man, put the heating oan, it's baltic in here!").bairn - baby ( jist a wee bairn!) or small child (Eastern Scottish dialect).baccy - tobacco ("Can you lend me some baccy?").("We went doon tae Largs for fish an' chips, and but.") and but - suffix indicating that the speaker has now finished talking.( So the boss says tae me that Ah was lazy, an' Ah wiz like, "Naw, Ah am'nae!") Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A It's worth noting that Scotland has 3 languages (English/Scots/ Scottish Gaelic) and a collection of different dialects.
This is a glossary of Scots, Scots English dialect and jargon with their meanings and, where appropriate, an example of their use.