A hantle new Edinburgh wurds?

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This is sumthing I hae been ettlin tae pit up for wee while, but jist no got roun tae. It's jist a wee hanlte o wurds that I hear yung Edinburgh fowk no sae deifferent frae amsel uisin, but I haenna came across in Scots screivin as yet. I hae taen maist o thaim frae ma brithir an his freind - maistlins lawer meiddle cless fowk that dinna read Lallans, dinna ken or care about etymologies an wad think "ilka" wis sum kind o muckle Swaddish deer. No, in ithir wurds, whit we aften think o as Scots speakers, but the kind o fowk that gies new, naitural wurds tae the ilka-day vernacular o yung Scots fowk.

I dinna ken hou wide-spread uise o thir wurds is - I hae cried thaim Edinburgh wurds acuase I hae heard thaim here, an haenna came across thaim in ithir airts. Gin I'm wrang, an they'r aw common wurds in Buchan, say, please set me richt. Sum o thaim haes obvious ruits, ithirs is a meistery tae me - again, please comment gin ye can shed onie licht on thaim.



[Fantin] adjective - gey hungersome. "I'm fantin, gonane gie's a chip?"

[Massi] adjective - naething ava tae dae wi African tribes, it means "gey muckle" (taen frae Inglis "massive", nae dout).


[Radge] noun, adjective - Muckle the same as Inglis "rage", but also "he's a radge" (he is a very angry fellow), an also "that wis radge" {that was crazy). Can also be "radgie."

[Scadge] noun - a wee "skoosh" o anithir bodie's juice or (deoderant!)

[Spadge] noun - tantrum or outbrak o rage, but ainlie e'er uissit in "he chucked a spdage." Totally obscure tae me...





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Aw the best
Dunc

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