Doric Phrase Week 2021

Flat oot like a dukes fit!

Mark Macdonald

Fit’s adee?

Betty Ellice

Dinna fash yersel

Gail Nixon

The belly keeps the back up.

Joyce Gibb

Fa yaas ee? Gwa ti yir ain gitind!

Tom Park

Ers a lot o killin in a kyard. Haud yer wheesht ye daft gype. Tie yer pints afore ye fa.

Anne Groat

Doric words n phrases at I like are aften t dee wi the wither. Single adjectives like  ‘dreich’ n ‘mochty’ are gey descriptive, and ere’s ‘smore’ as in ‘smore drift.’  Een o ma favourites, though, is ‘dingin doon’ as in ‘e rain wis dinging doon’ – saying it oot loud ye can jist aboot feel e rain draps on yer face n see em stotten aff e grun, mair so fan it’s aboot bullits o sna. 

Hinry Hepbrin

Hello. This is one my grandmother used to use and my very elderly mother still uses. Very rarely understood. “Nae a smad i waar” meaning not a mark on it, used in respect of clothing or possessions. Regards, V. Petersen

Ne’er cast a clout ’til May be oot.

Claire Macdonald 

Like a gollach amun traicle

Peter Cromar, Fochabers 

“A’the mair fir ither folk…” Granny, when you turned up your nose at something on your plate, especially if it could go back in the pot.

David Stewart 

It’s a blin smore the day . Said on a thick  foggy day on Buckie fishing boats long ago.

Colin Cowie

Fae Morayshire an at the table – ‘Pit Aist yer haun, haud Wast a scone’.

Richard Bennett

Ma faither wis the meenister o Rathen West Kirk during the Waar (WW2). Fan he cam ti Buchan fae the sooth, the Session Clark geed him the character o his parishioners, een o thiam being pit doon as “naethin bit a coorse bleederin vratch.” 

Ma faither hid some gweed tales o the Hame Guard an aa.  Een o the platoon hid sairved in the Great War. At trainin eftir the Kirk on Sunday the English trainin officer said, “Now Geordie show the men how to take up a firing position.”  Geordie replied, “ Man, div ee think A’m gwine ti blaad ma gweed Sunday duddies bi liggin doon in amang at weet girse.”  Ma faiter said the officer wis fair stammigastert!

Haud gyaan wi the gweed wark,

Gavin McEwen 

Am gaun tae pinch a fyow wirds fae The Hash o’ Benngoak. The wirds say sic a lot – gie apt. Spot on!!

 “Sharny-taes the baillie, he’s a sturdy chiel,
It’s roon aboot the kittly nouks he gars the barra reel.”

 Jake Strachan.