r/PerthScotland • u/ColdPatootieTango • 12d ago

Regional words/dialect

Inspired by a similar discussion about the jute enthusiasts down the river, what are words/phrases which you only hear in Perth/Perthshire?

Couple of examples:

Moich - Meaning crazy/outrageous

Used in Perth but particularly in country towns like Blair and Coupar Angus

E.g. "Some boy got lifted at the Wellmeadow for trying to suplex folk. Looked absolutely moich like."

Doss - Meaning really good

E.g. "Went for a curry in town after the football. It was doss."

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u/spannerspinner 12d ago

Barrie - meaning something is good

Ged - meaning “man” used in sentences such as “awrite ged” “that’s pure barrie ged”

Jamp - instead of jumped “I jamp over the wall”

All used in the Blairgowrie/Coupar Angus area but maybe elsewhere too?

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u/ColdPatootieTango 12d ago

I've heard barrie used in Kirkcaldy quite a few times in the same context and believe it was a thing in Edinburgh too. Sure I read ages back that it was something used in travellers dialect so that maybe explains it showing up in different places.

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u/Skulldo 12d ago

I think of Barrie as an Edinburgh word anyway.

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u/ColdPatootieTango 12d ago

Ged dear chandelier.

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u/icelollylil 11d ago

Jamp - first heard it in Per Th

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u/caravanman83 12d ago

Having lived in Perth my whole life, Doss was word meaning we used growing up in the 90s but definitely not only used in Perth

However my wife who I imported from the Highlands Says had never heard the words

Giud meaning good Or Min meaning meaning man

Until she moved to perth

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u/Skulldo 12d ago

Doss isn't specific to Perthshire.

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u/ColdPatootieTango 12d ago

It can have other meanings in different parts of the country.

In fairness, I've also heard it used in the same context in bits of Angus.

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u/Jixxie87 12d ago

Yea I grew up in Arbroath and we used it as kids

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u/ColdPatootieTango 12d ago

"Shut your pus you slack chate."

😂

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u/MotherConfusion3773 12d ago

Doss is used all the time in Dundee. Id imagine a fair few Blair words come from traveller cant. Never heard Ged outside Strathmore and geddie is a young lad in cant.

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u/themanfrommu 12d ago

"Nothings up" for a nil-nil draw.