21 incredibly Scottish words the rest of the world doesn't understand

What's the difference between a brick and your trousers? The answer may depend on where you were born.

As the British Library note, whether you call a bread roll a cob or a batch may depend on where in the UK you are from.

Different regions of Britain have developed their own extremely distinct words and phrasing - no more so than in Scotland. And a list of some strange words that mean rather different things in Scotland is attracting rather a lot of attention on Reddit.

Inspired by that, here are some words that mean entirely different things in Scotland:

Dialect: Meaning

bahookie

• behind (buttocks)

bairn

• child

bampot (Glaswegian)

• headcase

bawbee

• an old penny

chuckie

• pebble

clype

• telltale

cock-a-leekie

• chicken and leek soup

donnert

• stunned

fankle

• (twisted) mess

gowk

• fool (e.g. ‘Hunty gowk’ refers to April Fool's Day)

haver

• talk nonsense

ilka

• every

Jings!

• Gosh!

keek

• look

lug

• ear

oxter

• armpit

peely-wally

• pale

scunner

• nuisance (‘fair scunnered’ = quite vexed)

Teuchter

• Highlander (often pejorative)

Wheesht!

• Quiet!

yett

• barred iron gate

Source: University of Stirling

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