BAD SCOTTISH WORDS TO DESCRIBE 2020

Bad Scottish words to accurately describe 2020
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Words:
Scunnered
Mince
Crabbit
Baws
Gubbed
Ramfeezled
Disjaskit
Stramash
Bolt
Wabbit
Bowfin
Dreich
Dinnae ken
Hee-haw
Jobby
Keech
Toalie
Glumf/glumph
Grumphie
Glunch (sh)
Loupin’
Hurry burry
Kauch
A knardy Knotty
Greet
Slorp and greet
Mang
Heeliegoleerie (gau)
Puggelt
Bealin
Wanweird
No got a scooby
Whitey
Gunk
It’s a sair fecht
Yer fair done in

[@ErinsHoose]

The last bunch of words were the best! Which ones did you like the best?

[@amberhiggins6327]

Bolt; I haven't that one before but I have heard bolted in the use of I bolted out of the house. "to move very fast, especially as a result of being frightened"

[@Seumas-MacDhaibhidh]

Jobby indeed is a perfect word for this year. Wow. And I like bolt. I've actually heard and used that myself over the course of my life. It's been used in the context of something or someone leaving, and quickly! "Dude, he bolted out of that house like a bat out of hell!" The moon at the end looked pretty neat. I love seeing the moon in all its phases and colors. Good video, Erin. Thank you! This year is almost over; let's make next year a not-a-jobby-year, what do you say?

[@ErinsHoose]

@@amberhiggins6327 Ah yeah that's used everywhere really I think, but this context is a wee bit diff :)

[@amberhiggins6327]

@@ErinsHoose I would think so too. I don't know how much bolted is used these days. I haven't heard in a number of years.

[@ninogaggi]

I thought the part from 7:20 - 8:00 was a lot of shite

[@PghPiwo]

The Scots must have an unlimited imagination to be able to come up all these colorful words and phrases.

[@92mkd]

We do. Slang is the art of language efficiencies. Helped by our accents.

[@catchyname5403]

I’m usually glumphie because my body is gubbed. My head is always loupin thanks to migraines so I stay pugget. Just a wanweirdit soul without a scooby, meandering through gunk ol’ 2020. Thoroughly enjoyed learning these words, thanks for sharing 😉

[@TheViewfromBethlehem]

Having only just discovered your channel, I'm a bit late to the parade but I can't tell you how many memories your accent and some of these words have brought back. My mother's family were from Old Kilpatrick and during WWII they had a shop at the edge of John Brown's Shipyards in Clydebank. I was born in Partick in the fifties but with a grim future locally, my parents, followed by other family members, decided to try our luck in The Colonies... Canada... and I am now retired in America. "Ach, it's a sair fecht" was my favorite uncle's favorite expression, bringing back decades-old memories. All us cousins have North American accents, so it was pure joy to listen to your pronunciation and inflection - not just Scottish, but specifically West Dunbartonshire - reminding me of family members long gone. Thank you for that.

[@GnomeGunner33]

All my coworkers will now be known as crabbit wabbits, and no I will not be explaining it to them hahahaha.

[@lyllydd]

I'd love to tell my co-workers to go 'awa and bile yer heid'.

[@ATinyPlace]

Wabbit reminds me of Elmer J. Fudd.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

theres also "hochmagandy" first heard by the majority of English people being explained by James Cosmo to D I Regan (john thaw)in an episode of the 1970s tv show "The Sweeney"!!!!

[@DivandBenny]

Since you can’t say it I’ll say it for you 2020 has been pure shite 😂

[@devilman2465]

I love the band Stramash.

[@richardpichan6916]

My grandfather had a pretty thick Highlands accent, it was great watching him talk to my cousin's friends in Houston....'yea dinnea ken a sangle ward combin outta mea mooth dea yea?' lol.

[@Coyotemoon73]

I love the Scottish accent. I could listen to you forever.

[@davidarnold2532]

I would tell all the American words to describe 2020....but they would all be beeped out.

[@lyllydd]

Yeah, the cleanest ones I can come up with are straight out of science fiction shows. Gorramit and frack.

[@shawnthompson2303]

2020 Ah cannae be arsed wie anything or anybody

[@eddieengland470]

I have heard many here in Tennessee say yer fair done in, never thought of its origins. 2020 has been bad for all of us, glad you still have your positive personality. Good job as always

[@PaulGarthAviation]

6:18 - In Shetland, it's phonetically, "Ah dinnae keen". Interesting. How about, "Ming-ing". Not sure how you would write this. You drink a bottle of juice and the blowback from the carbonation would be "Ming-ing". You could use that word for 2020. 11:40 - Puggled. "I'm fair puggled after climbing Arthur's Seat". That one was popular in the 70's. I think Oor Wullie used it a lot.

[@benjaminprietop]

I remember "dinnae ken" from Outlander, Jamie says it all the time

[@missmccherry]

"It's a sair fecht" has been my Grandma's catchphrase for this pandemic! So accurate...

[@bradleybillings6625]

Great video, Erin!

[@wild13hawk]

I was ramfeezled, but then I watched Erin's video and I felt much better! 😘

[@jeffreyhill7990]

Anything ya talk about is great

[@bartonseagrave9605]

I bought a Scotch Pie from Aldi and you should have seen the mince in it, i was totally scunnered.

[@gdavew63]

Love it!

[@BrettWMcCoy]

This is the perfect list

[@FreshIceColdBeer]

I just came down from the Isle of Skye, had to wear a mask or I just might die and the ladies cry as I past them by, Donald put your mask on.

[@ChrisJohnsonChannel]

That’s funny

[@probuilder961]

Troosers or not!

[@AnFithich]

Haha, singin awa tae masel. Thanks that'll be stuck in a ma heid fur oors

[@mikeok2092]

my favorite part of the show!! hurrraaay!!!!

[@lyllydd]

Love this so much. I'm a Scooby Doo fan, so that one was the absolute best!

[@richardpichan6916]

It's so great watchin your videos, I'm in southeast Michigan and my mother is Scottish and her sister, my auntie Janine, is in Houston Texas with an awesome Scottish/Texas accent.... Don't see everyone as much as I used to as it's crazy now seeing how much sway voices hold in your memories. Got to spend time with my grandparents outside of Brechin a couple times too. Haven't heard 'dinnea ken' used casually in lterally two decades, lol.

[@TheGardeningArtist]

Yes Minced ground meat is minced and I also think of scrambled for whatever reason.

[@LucyLane07]

I live in South Africa 🇿🇦. Saying- I was greetin like a HALLMARK CARD- took alot of explaining. Crabbit too!

[@nwahs41066]

Awesome video Erin. Some of those words/phrases are quite catchy. Looking forward to your next video. I think I have become a Scot at last. I had my very first can of Irn-Bru. It was the full strength version. Got it at one of our largest supermarkets here in Oz (Australia) called Coles. Very sweet indeed.

[@Japanican269]

We also use "bolt" to mean to flee. Whenever someone is frightened and runs away, we say "he bolted." It's used quite frequently here. For "glumph", many Yanks use the Yiddish "kvetch," meaning "grouch; curmudgeon." And as a verb, "to kvetch," meaning to complain excessively and/or bitterly. I bought the book 'Robert Burns: The Complete Poetical Works' when I was in Scotland, last year. It contains a glossary of the 18th century Scottish dialect. So a few other Scottish words for 2020 could be: "Felly" (bitter), "Brak" (broke), "Mirksome" (dark), "Doolfu'" (doleful), "Fank" (entangled), "Dowie" (gloomy), "Gumlie" (muddy), "Wanchanchie" (unlucky).

[@ErinsHoose]

Ohh I thought that was just the general meaning of bolt? Other than a lock etc. This is just a different Scottish meaning :)

[@paulrussell3750]

I am wondering why hearing you explain these words describing bad stuff has cheered me up? Thanks Erin

[@ChrisJohnsonChannel]

I was crabbit now I’m wabbit, Grumpy glumfy and glumph. Dare I say it 2020? I’ve really had enough! The year’s been a shambles, and I’m feelin done in, But the moon’s 🌝 shinin’ bricht on a knackerd Erin. A lovely lass who lives by a loch, Who made me guffaw- when she said the word Kauch! The weathers been dreich and so has the year, But thanks to this video I’m full of good cheer. Dinnae ye ken?

[@ThistlesJones]

Since I am from America and do not know Gaelic I wish when people spoke of 2020 they would speak to me in Gaelic so I wouldn't have a clue to what they are talking about. However, since recently learning of my Scottish ancestry I may try to learn Gaelic or at least the same vernacular used today in Scotland.

[@ErinsHoose]

I don't speak any Gaelic either tbf

[@davidd5213]

I like Glumf. Good video, thanks

[@garyjohnstone8183]

Aye,2020 has certainly can be described in of the old scottish words,some I've heard of some I haven't. Good to see you back Erin.cracking vid.

[@theburpman8006]

I really do believe that you gave all the right words about the year 2020. Well done you Erin girl.

[@iainrollo3525]

It’s a sare fecht fir a cal tattie, is the full phrase we know in the North East. Or it’s a hell of a fight for no return.

[@AnFithich]

As in like, ye had to fight just to get a cold potato? Any idea where that came from? Was it something from the industrial revolution where folk had to work hard in factories or something?

[@luther1472]

You had many great words to describe how bad 2020 is but there's still a silver lining! We still get to see your beautiful face many times throughout 20/20 and you're amazing videos always got to take the good with the bad LOL

[@___Bexx___]

Adding fair infront of anything is also a great way to emphasise your feelings 😅 Combo: fair scunnered 😉

[@AnFithich]

This is so funny, we use some of the same words in slightly different context. We'd say "Ma heid's bawfin'" like, it's muckit, a mess, troubled. Parents are from Edinburgh and I'm from West Lothian so we have a bit of a mix. We use puggled, wabbit and bealin' a lot. When we say dinnae ken ot comes out more like "di-ah-ken" without clear enunciation. I had a teacher who'd call our exam answers mince to mean rubbish (I assumed? Maybe he meant a confusing mess!) We'd call a person a Hee Haw of they were being a total prat. I've never heard "slorp an' greet" but I needed that in my life so much. Ta! Def need Heeligaleerie too. Love learning more of these having been taught NOT to speak Scots at school. Wanweirdit is brilliant, I guess it comes from Wyrd, the path of fate, as in to Dree Your Wyrd.

[@Spike0000]

I remember when I had 2 wk in Penicuik/Edinburgh..back in 01..Great days....

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

I learned to speak Scottish from the Broons and Oor Wullie.och aye!

[@ianlogan1150]

Crivens, jings and help ma bob.

[@RichardOrr1977]

quality wee vid dawl ..

[@nobodyhere017]

This year has been one big jobby 😅! But, I think scunnered describes my mood for most of 2020. Although, heeliegoleerie would be a great word too, if I could remember how to pronounce it 😅! Also, the video wasn't too negative, there's something relaxing/fun about finding the perfect word to describe something. Hope ya hanging in there, and thanks for the video Erin, and the new Scottish words! Stay safe!

[@kierancampbell9365]

I love you x

[@xgachapupx2350]

2020 really is aw a’ these, also side note I see the moon and it really is amazing💕 My favourite is definitely baws, I use it aw the time

[@springyt75]

I loved the second set of words so much but I busted out laughing the minute you said Kauch! Then you said No not what your thinking & I busted out laughing again! Thank you for these words! I am going to try to use them here in the states and see how far I get with them. 🥰

[@ErinsHoose]

Thanks for watching :)

[@jimbelter2]

Crab it is like cantankerous

[@tonymaries1652]

Scunnered just about sums up my year, and especially the last few months. Well over a year ago I ordered a new door and windows and the job still isn't completed! I eventually sacked the builder. At the beginning of the year I was in a good place on a prime engineering contract and the promise of two follow up projects after that. The client has done an abrupt U-turn on their spending, my project is complete but shelved for two years and no sign of the other two on which millions have already been spent. Now I am furloughed and although my employer does have another project for me it is on the other side of the country. And last week I had a telephone conversation with my GP over what appeared to be a kidney infection. I was advised to have a coronavirus test, presumably so they know where they are if they have to see me in person. A week later and six days after I did the test I still don't have the result back. If it doesn't come in tomorrow morning I will have to ask my neighbour to do a shop for me. Top of the shopping list all the basics, whisky, beer, bread and milk. There is a silver lining, or one or two. Completion of the building work by another builder will commence shortly. And I have often been asked why I have not been selling my artwork. I have been using my furlough leave productively! Landscapes, mountain scapes, town scenes, transport themes both north and south of the border.

[@ianlogan1150]

You can tell if someone has a Glasgow / West Central Scottish accent. They will never use the word "ken" instead of "know" if you use "ken?" they will probably look over your shoulder to see where you have parked your turnip truck. Also, I think you missed out "Stooshie" which is a bit like a Stramash or that might just be a Lanarkshire thing. I recommend a book, "Chambers. The Scots Thesaurus". Contains over 20,000 Scots words. Then you could really gie it laldy.

[@ErinsHoose]

I missed out loooads :( the video would've been too long otherwise! Might need to do a part 2 haha

[@kipdrordy8089]

Beautycreep 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Joe Dirt said ,"lifes a garden, dig it"☺️ Stay sweet💕

[@kierancampbell9365]

West Dunbartonshire massive 💪

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Nice description of 2020, its also a new plank for me coffin......

[@junin2982]

The perfection you ❤️

[@erincroft1358]

Kebby lebby is a good one too

[@oneshotonekill2528]

Such a beautiful woman, love watching your videos.

[@genpakusugita8503]

hi from scotland

[@ingerbomorgan7011]

To be honest wit you.....I love them all! Buh mi favourite ones are the terms: crabbit and mince!!!! Very firery I could say#geein LALDY#ye ken

[@chrishayne4515]

You are so pretty.

[@musicianpatt]

Good 'uns. I will borrow some. Nice 🌕 shot

[@ufoclips1]

2020 til 2022..so far..were GINKIN`,but i`m fae the 70s,to me it`s a cross between grotty and stinkin`,or maybe it`s a Mandela effect.

[@robotnic]

Aw my granny said wabbit, I don’t think I’ve heard it since. I was waiting for shan!

[@ErinsHoose]

Awww we don't say shan here, I never thought. I had to cut out so many though - the video would've been too long :(

[@robotnic]

@@ErinsHoose Totally, I only thought of it because my Fifer friend says it and it’s one of those great words that sounds exactly like what it means.

[@Magentae69]

Happy St Andrews day Erin :)

[@mikestark818]

2020 has been a sair fecht..but the moon is out and its a broad moonlight night tonight and your all right yea ken.

[@pcraig1991]

You should defo do a drum video if you can get a kit! 👌 Also, happy St Andrews day! 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄🥃

[@ErinsHoose]

Oh god, no chance! Only went for a short while and have no plans to get a drumkit 😂

[@pcraig1991]

@@ErinsHoose Genuinely gutted 😅 But yeah, decent band! You planning on seeing any bands once the lockdown stuff is over and done with?

[@MONKEY-ne7vu]

Trying to put all this into a sentence lol... My heed’s pure mince it’s baws man, 2020 needs tae bolt as it’s got me totally gubbed, really dinny Ken when it’s gony stop being bowfin ☺️😃 Oh isn’t jobby just a quality word 🤣

[@probuilder961]

Season's Greetings?

[@georgemcmeechan2284]

Ha ha class hen

[@rossmcmahon604]

"jobbies and mince." "minced jobbies." Hahaha. Made me laugh out loud - even as a Scot, jobby has tae be the best word gawn.

[@josefkrakel9136]

I am scunnered by Erin's rejection of my advances.

[@MONKEY-ne7vu]

That was a mince comment lol

[@jimmyjumbo2006]

Check out the 'Wee Macgreegor' and how the wee boy used to ask to be allowed into the bedroom to see 'the big grumphy', his name for one of his grandparents, stay safe :) www.amazon.co.uk/Wee-Macgreegor-J-J-Bell/dp/1874744092

[@mandz861]

Loupin would mean jumping to me if yr heid was loupin I’d say you had lice 😂😂

[@nomeaknat]

With life I have one word, done.

[@augustsmith6991]

There's one russian word that can describe all bad things - пиздец (pizdetz)

[@iainhamishstuartforbes1613]

Most of the words you’ve used this evening describe my life sadly and in South Africa toalie mean small penis ken nie mean don’t know.

[@christinestockman7042]

We have the word mince in the US but we don't use it like you do. Here it means to cut up extremely fine. Something minced, is cut up fine. So if you say your brain is mince, we would think your brain is really messed up or scrambled. We just wouldn't say it that way. We do say our brain is mush. Much the same thing.

[@ErinsHoose]

Ohh I thought that meaning of minced was universal? As in to cut up finely. We use it too. This is just a different Scottish meaning :)

[@MissGarland1986]

A good description about yer heid....."thinking all over the place".

[@mcgowanfitnesstraining7345]

Your beautiful and bang on 😂

[@92mkd]

2020s Pure Utter shite. Means it's very very very bad or crappy. We love to double triple emphasis the last word in the sentence or statement. The reverse would be, that wis pure n utter sweet, that was absolutely awesome/fantastic.

[@mtnbknmichigan]

😂🤣🥰

[@Wolloston]

Ma'am.Take pictures of castles in Scotland. Or photographit.

[@ErinsHoose]

I do when I visit them. They're all on my ig @beautycreep 🎉

[@andrewhillhousekelly3583]

SHITE!!! 💙✌🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@damouldo]

You are so cool and beautiful..

[@shlibbermacshlibber4106]

2020 is an anagram of sh*te Yes, definitely one my grandparents used to use, CRABBIT, that's me stressed p*ssed off and I don't know what day it is.

[@steviedee9826]

Honkin' :P

[@allano937]

We have so many words for rubbish, tired ,fed up and drunk. All the best Scots words are for negative things. Probably because we excel at all the bad stuff. Missing your hillwalk videos.

[@deckardmorillo4405]

Let´s get married.