Sayings

[mistral]

Yes, I'm sure Fizzog was just another word for face! Was this a particularly Scottish expression? Having a Yorkshire father, a Dundee mother and growing up in Fife, it's hard to know where some of the expressions originated from!

One favourite of my mother when we couldn't stop laughing was to say "you'll be laughing in the other side of your face when I'm finished with you" which naturally just resulted in even more hilarity!! Seem to remember coming out with the same old things when my own children came along...........

[ASGROOMBRIDGE]

One of my favourites was when we were caught climbing a tree or anything else come to that "dinna come crying to me if ye faw and break yer neck cause yell be deed"

A favourite of my Auntie Jennie I would never have dared climb at home as I would have been given a clip around the ear by my grandmother.

Audrey

[DavidWW]

Betty: 'Ma new coat fits me like a glove'

Mum: 'Tae bad it didnae fit ye like a coat'

I don't know if this was a saying, or just my Mother's quirkly sense of the absurd.

Frances

An absolute classic that would have greatly delighted one of my Scottish comic heros, - Chic Murray [search here on TS and/or via Google !!].

David

[Davie]

Anitther wan that springs tae mind.
"A'll take ma haun aff yer face"

Huvnie quite figuerd that wan oot masel, but ah think Billy Connolly had a go at it.
Davie

[Merlot]

Fizzog - another word for face.

I grew up in Easterhoose and this was used there.



Merlot

[joette]

A favourite reply from my Dad when he thought you were being a bit gullible and/or had no reason to be listening to the converation was
"Who did/said that"
"The man that ate the wally dumpling"
He also thought it was hilarious for years to tell us
"There's a man at the door for you with a big head"
"Who,who"-the first time he asked.
"Humpty Dumpty"
Humpty became the name in our house of any unknown caller.

[mistral]

Can't believe I was actually thinking about this in bed last night.........came up with two more before I finally got to sleep!!!

My Gran would say "that bairn looks gey peely-wally" if it was a bit pale.

And does anyone remember "She looks like Granny Mutchy" being used as a rather unkind description of someone who was dressed in an old-fasioned way? Brings back memories of teenage years and catty remarks!!!

[Andrew C.]

Ahh getting back to my original post!! My mother may have said Looks like Mrs Mutch looking for Saltcoates. My 18 mths old daughter was dressed in a faux fur coat and matching hat and she did look like an auld grannie, (sweet at the same time).

fizzog was an expression used in lanarkshire in the seventies when I was growing up.

This weegie thing is an expression which has came on to the scene since I moved to England I have only heard it being used in the last three years or so. Does it refer to neddish Glasgow folk?

[mistral]

Vague memories of my mother saying that old women used to wear some sort of headgear called a "mutch" hence the expression. Sadly, she died in August so can't ask her about it, but it seems to make sense?

And, although I used to live in Edinburgh years ago I had never heard "weegie" either but was recently enlightened by my son and daughter who both now live there - just an expression for a Glaswegian, don't think it's always used in a derogatory way!

[Russell]

Hi All

A 'Mutch' was the type of bonnet that the women wore when they were working the fields. An adult version of the bonnets young children used to wear in the old photgraphs.
By WWII a lot of the field workers just wore a headscarf.

Russell