empty - the residents who live in the house are not present and people take advantage by having a party in the "empty" house.
You can say “aye” (yes) or “nae” (no).
Alright, hen (Scottish word for girl) or pal (Scottish word for friend)?
Sugg - Slovenly / fat or lazy, easy-going and particularly used to describe a woman or a child. Example: Ye rank amon' the lazy sugs.
Numpty was included in the 2005 Supplement to the Dictionary of the Scots Language with the following definition: “a stupid person, an idiot”.
Then you've got words like caiket and mocket, both meaning dirty, and hacket, meaning ugly. Another favorite (or favourite, as the Scots would say) and most-used pieces of slang is mingin' – a word with many uses, none of which are very complimentary.
Boke. Meaning: Sick. Example: Stop that! It's gonnae make me boke!
Bonnie. Female | A quintessential Scottish name that will never go out of fashion, Bonnie is the Scots word for beautiful, pretty, stunning and attractive. Bonnies tend to have an inimitable personality.
Scottish drinking slang varies from place to place, with the North-east of Scotland providing plenty of Doric terms for those “awa' wi' it” or “stoatin' aboot”. Other popular terms from the area include “half-cut”, “bleezin”, to be “pie-eyed” or even to be “sloshed”.
Roaster means an "obnoxious, annoying, or otherwise objectionable person; an idiot", according to its definition. Sprag is not dissimilar - meaning a person with an "arrogant, swaggering manner; a boaster, a braggart". There is also bowfing, which means foul-smelling - and fantoosh, meaning fancy, showy or flashy.
In the Dictionary of the Scots Language gawsie is used to describe people and their features in a positive way: “Of persons: plump, fresh-complexioned and jovial-looking; handsome, of stately or imposing appearance, portly”.
' General impressions suggest that 'aye' means 'yes' in Scotland, a chunk of Northern England, and presumably Northern Ireland. But beyond that, the picture of where the word is spoken, and even where it was spoken in the past, gets fuzzy. Aye (usually spelled 'ay') was clearly Shakespeare's preferred affirmative.
The first written example of the modern 'dingie' comes from The Dictionary of Playground Slang by Chris Lewis (2003) and he defines it as follows: “to stand some up or ignore them…. Used as 'He pure dingied me, by the way…' Circa 1980s-current (Scot)”.
Och Aye - Scottish Slang of Agreement - Oh Yes (Design Day 134) Greeting Card.
Dowie, as the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) remind us, means: “Sad, melancholy, dreary, dismal; dull, dispirited; used both of persons and of places, weather, etc. Sad, melancholy, dreary, dismal; dull, dispirited; used both of persons and of places, weather…”.
gallus - gallous, bold, cheeky, or flashy.
Dinnae teach yer Granny tae suck eggs
This phrase means that you shouldn't try to teach someone something that they already have a lot of knowledge about.
Ill-willie, which comes from the Scots dialect of Middle English was formed by the ingenious method of adding an -ie to the existing ill-will. It should not be confused with the word from the Older Scots language, evil-willy, which means “malevolent, wishing harm or evil to others.”
The word "Bonnie" means a beautiful and good-humoured person normally referring to ladies i.e "Shes a bonnie lass!".