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the GLESGA GLOSSARY.
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glesga phrases
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Word |
Meaning |
Sent in by |
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Arse Bandit |
To be Gay |
Scott Kelly |
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Arse piece |
An insult said to someone annoying you |
Nicola |
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Arse wipe |
General insult |
Lynne and David B |
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Aye |
Yes |
Jamie Haggart |
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Backie |
Help a friend climb a wall or to carry a passenger on a bicycle |
Chris Stewart |
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Bahookie |
BUM |
Russell |
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Baltic |
Really cold |
David |
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Bampot |
Person of an unstable nature |
stuart.mcalpine |
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Bamstick |
Akin to a bampot, perhaps a liitle more complex |
donnie mcdonald |
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Banjo sandwich |
fried egg piece with a runny yolk |
Big G |
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Banjoed |
Getting hit, Punched |
Barry Strang |
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Bar L |
Barlinnie jail |
Stacey-Jayne |
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Barras |
The barrows market |
TAYLOR |
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Barrbru, Babru |
Irn Bru |
Kevin Dallas |
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Barry White |
Shite |
Alan Delisle |
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Bass, or Ya Bass |
Forever, like Tongs Forever. From some 60s gangs Italian background |
Iain |
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Bass, Ya |
Bastard, word originally used by the gorbals gangs from the 1960s |
Rory Hughes |
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Baw herr |
Ball Hair |
Sandra |
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Bawbag |
Ballbag, term of endearment. |
Ashley |
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Baws |
Balls |
Big Chris |
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Bead Rattler |
Catholic |
Bubbs |
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Beelin |
Angry |
Fi, Lynne and Belic |
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Beezer |
something good |
Big Bob |
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Bell tinky |
Give it your all |
Alan Davis |
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Beltar, or Beltur |
Super duper. |
Tam |
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Belter |
Something that is good |
Barry Strang |
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Berry's, The |
Fuckin brilliant |
P Mc Govern |
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Big Hoose |
Prison |
Karen Lee |
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Bin |
Horrible disgusting person |
Laura Grant |
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Bingo Bus |
Police Van |
E Johns |
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Bint |
cow, bitch |
vonney |
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Black Maria |
The large black police bus that takes neds to court from police offices |
Austin |
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Black necks |
Dirty Person |
TAYLOR |
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Blawin fur tugs |
Knackered |
Gordon Cook |
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Blazin |
Drunk |
Paddy O |
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Bleach or bleached |
to hit or repeatedly hit with blunt instrument i.e a bottle |
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Blootered |
Drunk |
Ralph, Sarah |
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Blow |
Hash |
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Boabie |
Penis |
Scott McCue |
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Boak |
Vomit |
Rebecca |
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Boatle a' soup. |
Buckfast wine |
Alan Davis |
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Boattle |
Bottle |
David Green |
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Bob Hope |
Rhyming slang for Dope. |
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Boggin |
Filthy, Dirty |
William Mavers |
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Bolt |
Run, Flee |
David Green |
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Bonce |
Head |
Mark Atherton |
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Boost |
Going somewhere |
the+d.p.g |
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Boozers |
Pub |
TAYLOR |
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Bottle Merchant |
coward |
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Boudo |
Money |
Barry Strang |
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Boufin |
Stinking |
Helen, |
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Brass Monkey |
Junkie |
Big Rab |
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Brief |
Car |
Kevin Simmons |
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Bucket |
Bucket-bong, water implement used to smoke hash. |
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Buckfast Commando |
intoxicated, aggressive yet fearless individual |
Dessie |
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Buckfast Triangle |
Airdrie, Bellshill, Coatbridge |
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Buckfast Valley |
Lower Clyde valley, Lanarkshire |
C Hamilton |
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Bucky |
Buckfast Tonic Wine |
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Budgies |
Wearing your socks over your tracksuit trousers |
Danielle+Mc&email |
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Bufter |
Homosexual |
Marty L |
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Bufty |
Homosexual |
Kevin Dallas |
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Bum |
A person who can't fight |
The big Man |
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Bump/ Bumped |
Steal, Stolen |
Rory Hughes |
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Bunty |
someone who gets bullied |
Barry Strang |
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Burds |
Females |
TAYLOR |
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Buroo |
Social Security |
Neil Baxter |
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Buzzin |
Stoned, drunk |
Rory Hughes |
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byraway |
used instead of a full stop at the end of every sentence byraway |
Andrew & Marie |
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Calley |
Can of Carlsberg Special Brew |
Big Yin |
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Cargo |
Carry Out - essentials from off licence |
Skelph & Anne-Marie, Gazz |
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Cargo Shop |
Off Sales |
James Crosbie |
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Charred |
Drunk |
Chris B |
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Chavvy |
A word neds used to call non-neds, but is now used to describe neds.Or people from out of town. |
Andy T, Rory Hughes |
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Cheeba |
Dope, Hash |
the+d.p.g |
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Cheeky water |
Alcohol |
Barry S |
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Cheers |
Thanks |
David Green |
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Chib |
Knife, any weapon carried by a ned or adapted for such use eg. pool cue used in a bar fight becomes a 'chib'. |
Paul Smith, Austin Ellis |
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Chibbed |
Being like cut witha sharp object |
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Chippie |
Chip shop |
TAYLOR |
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Chong |
Hash |
Jamie Haggart |
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Choringchock |
stealing many |
S Maclean |
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Claimed |
To say that something you've found is yours or that you are going to fight someone |
Chris Stewart |
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Clatty |
Dirty |
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clint easterhoose |
a show af from easterhouse |
Barry Strang |
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Clockwork Orange |
The Glasgow Underground Train System |
BrianR |
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close |
Communal entrance to a tennemant building |
leanne and shona |
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cludgie |
toilet |
Gardiners |
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Connle |
Candle |
Michael+Mabon |
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coo |
milk,ie. two sugar and coo or cow |
Black Douglas |
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Cooncil Joose |
water |
Paul and Alan. |
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Copper crack |
Someone with a dirty arse |
John Mc |
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Copper crack |
somebody with a shitty bum |
Jame B |
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Corpy |
Glasgow Corporation (Glasgow City Council) |
Colleen |
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Couldnae |
Couldn't |
TAYLOR |
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Council telly |
Normal tv channels only i.e. not Sky, Cable etc |
Calum |
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Coupon |
Face |
Mark Atherton |
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creashie |
rather overweight usually applied to ladies |
R Stewart |
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Cumbie |
Gang name |
Rory Hughes |
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Dae |
Do |
Ned |
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Daftie |
Daft person, Idiot |
Karen |
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Dancer |
Fantastic |
A. D'Arcy |
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Dancer, ya |
Really good |
Jambo |
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Dancin, The |
Disco or nightclub |
angie babes |
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Diddie Ride |
Using womens breasts to simulate intercourse |
Mick |
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Diddies |
Womens breasts |
Mick |
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Diddy |
Idiot or fool |
Louise |
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Dile You |
Slash you |
Boaby |
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Dime Bar |
A person of limited intelligence |
S Fordyce |
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Dingy |
To ignore; or clatty - dirty. |
Joe Prior |
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Dobber |
Penis |
Scott McCue |
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Doin, Doing |
A beating |
TheQuigleys |
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Donner |
A walk |
Davie R |
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Drum, The |
Drumchapel, area of Glasgow |
S Fordyce |
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Duds |
trousers |
Steve P |
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Dug |
Dog |
Louise |
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Dug Van |
Small Police ' Wagon ' |
David Green |
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Dull yin |
Something good, a cracker |
Magnet |
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Dunted |
A wee bit drunk |
P Mc Govern |
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Eat the breed |
a glutton |
R Stewart |
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Edge, Edgie |
Keep a look out ( Keep the edge). |
Yur Auld Man |
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Edgy |
Keeping a lookout. |
Colin Mc |
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Eejit |
Daft person |
TAYLOR |
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Electric Soup |
Cheap strong wine. e.g El Dorado or Buckfast |
Ronnie McKenna |
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Emdy |
Anybody |
Austin |
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Er the Polis |
There's the police |
David Green |
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Erra |
There's eg. Erra gas lighters. 4 furra poun. |
W Dougan |
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Erse |
Backside |
Karen Lee |
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Eye ball |
Meet a person |
Dave |
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Fae |
From |
Monty McMonty |
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fagit |
Fag Dealer |
jamie slevin |
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Fandan |
You Spazzy, idiot. |
Tam |
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Fanny Batter |
vaginal fluids |
Lynne and Gordongord |
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Fanny Bawz |
A person who isn't too clever |
Scott Kelly |
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Fannybaws |
A Person |
John Cuthbert |
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Fanny-Struck |
In love |
Matthew |
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Fartsack |
Bed |
Fiona McKechnie |
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Feegie |
Ferguslie Park area |
Kelvin Craig |
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Filth, The |
The police |
Malky |
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Fleeing |
Mad wth Ecstacy |
Boaby |
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Fleeto |
Gang name |
Rory Hughes |
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Foalian |
Following |
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Fossill Park |
Possilpark |
Paddy |
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Frankie Vaughn's |
Ryhming slang for hawns (hands) |
Mick |
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Fuck wit |
Idiot |
Derek and Christie |
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Fud |
Fanny |
Funmuncher |
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Fud |
Vagina |
Sinead+Kenny |
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fu-git, fuggy |
Fuckin Nugget |
Alan dude kerr |
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Fugly |
Fuckin ugly |
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Ful eh it |
Drunk |
David Green |