Scottish expressions

[BeaverDiva]

My other half is Scottish and I'm getting used to the various strange terms they use for things (bucket = bin, bunker = kitchen counter etc). He recently referred to people who steal off washing-lines as "snowdroppers", which is something I've never heard of. Is this another Scottish expression, something other people use too or does he sometimes just make these things up??? xx

[Quizmonster]

Click http://www.urbandicti....php?term=snowdropper for information...perhaps more than you actually want! Seems it may also be an Australian usage rather than just a Scottish one.

[Dris]

Im scottish and have never heard of it.
I dont use bucket for bin
Use bunker though !

[Handbaglady]

I see what you mean Quizmonster.

[karenmac60]

I'm Scottish and I've never heard of snowdropper or bunker - use bucket for bin sometimes though.

[boxtops]

OH's family is Scottish (as was previous OH) and I have never heard of any of these expressions. Perhaps they are local to where your OH comes from.
When I first went to live in Scotland I was really confused by local words - what I called bacon was ham, all the bread was different names, and so on. Forty years on I am well used to it now, but it still amazes me how broad OH becomes again when in the bosom of his family, or on the phone to them!

[Borrheid]

My English husband and I still argue after 18 years over turnip and swede!

[boxtops]

Boorheid, so do we - now: a swede is orange and a turnip is white.... :-)

[boxtops]

ooops sorry, Borrheid, fingers slipped!

[Borrheid]

Husband is travelling back to Kent from Glasgow today worried about only having Scottish notes in his wallet! Is there no end to it? And Boxtops.... I'm watching those fingers slipping....! Hee hee! :)

[boxtops]

I hope he's on the plane into Manston borrheid, we need to keep that flight path open when we have to go and see MIL, we are only half an hour away from Manston ourselves.

[MarkRae]

Bucket is a very common Scottish expression for bin - in Glasgow, bin men are known as bucket men...

[Borrheid]

Sorry Boxtops hes driving! But I agree we need to use Manston, even better if they had a Glasgow flight too. I work in Glasgow 2-3 times a month and I'm getting fed up with trains, though I do like the HST!

[yinyang]

I've lived in Glasgow for 37 years,so has my husband ; and neither of us have ever heard of bin men being called ' bucket men '.

[MarkRae]

Not only in Glasgow, but pretty much all over Scotland:
http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/16551

[yinyang]

Sorry, Mark - obviously one mention of it from a person in Edinburgh is irrefutable proof that this is what bin men are called all over Scotland. I stand corrected.

[karenmac60]

Yeah I was thinking that too. Mark - for all I may occasionally use the term bucket for bin myself, I have never once in my life heard the expression Bucketmen for binmen. My mum and grandmother were both born and raised in Glasgow and both used many terms I was unfamiliar with and I only live about 15 miles from Glasgow - but bucketmen? it's a new one on me!

[MarkRae]

Fair enough.

[boxtops]

OH and his family have lived in Scotland for years and he maintains he's never heard any expression other than Binmen.

[ladyalex]

Bucket=bin
bucketmen=bin men
bunker=kitchen counter
baffies= slippers
All in common use in my part of Scotland.

[sandyRoe]

Was the term 'Brock men' used in Scotland? They were collectors of food scraps for pig swill in Northern Ireland.