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How about starting a quiz on old Dundee words.You have to explain the meaning.If someone gets the right answer they can add a new word for others to guess. I will start it off
1 Cheeser

2 doupie

3 hurl

4 tenner

5 tangly

Go on have a go!

OK, Ian. Morgan primary pupils were punished for using such language, so here goes!
Cheeser - an embarrassed look on the face.
Doupie - cigarette end, picked up off the street and stored behind the ear for an illicit puff.
Hurl - "Gie's a hurl." a chanc to take the weight off the feet, on a bicycle or "cartie".
Tenner - something I never had as a child - £10
Tangly - No idea, but it sounds like something my mum would have said about my hair.

No idea how many I got right, but . . .
Stoor
This is my favourite. Miss Cowie, my P7 teacher belted me for using this word in a homework sentence!

Stoor. Dust Cloosie? Scaffie?

Eric, you have to give the meanings of Ian's words and then add your own.
Ian, slight problem. How do we know we've got the right answer ?

Was a cheeser not the flat surface on a conker?
Pinner
Stoorie
Piler

Ok cheeser Ken is right Flat sided conker
Doupie Thelma is right Cigarette end . I think comes from doup - bab's bottom. My grannie used to say I'll skelp your doup! Maybe also why Americans say Butt end
Hurl - almost right Thelma. Maybe I should have qualified it. My auntie used to say If ye dae taht ye'll get a hurl to West Green= meaning a trip to the lunatic asylum
Tenner _ sorry Thelma you got the English version - a tenner was aconker that had smashed 9 others
Tangly - was again conker term. If the strings got tied up and you could say " tangly tangly one two three" before they untangled ypou got three free hits at the other guy's conker

Eric Do you mean Closie - narrow passage in tenement leading to stairs
Scaffie - dustman - means scavenger
Pinner - piece of metal usually sqare used for game where you try to hit the other person's pinner
Piler - not sure but think it was a four-wheeled cartier

My next one ---- keeker

Keeker was a black eye.
Piler, yes it was a cairtie.
Next, 'oot the shooin'
Warslin' on

Chaps.

Kate. Are you addressing us lads or is chaps your quiz word? The only thing I can think of is windshave or chillblanes

Chaps - domino call. Can't play!

Shugie!

Plettie
Cassie
Bum's rush
Shuftie

My mum would be fair afronted by this thread. Dad would have loved it, but disapproved .

oot the shooin' - the worse for wear (often with alcohol involved)
ple'ie (correct pronunciation of plettie - with glo'al stop) - a platform outside a tenement flat, often leading to communal lavvie

new word - cundie

From the French conduit, the grating allow water to drain off the road.
Wastlin' on - struggling on.
Bum's rush - short shrift.
Shuftie - quick look at.


Cleesh cundie cleesh?
Stannie hard bangie?

I remember these from pinner Ken
Cleesh... if your pinner landed on a draincover you shouted this and got an extra go
Stannnie - if your opponent got near your pinner and you shouted this before he said nae stannie hard bangies then he hadto stand upright and not look down when he threw his pinner at yours

Well done Ian!