http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Pencaitland Railway Path en Wed, 13 May 2026 05:09:28 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139310 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:43:22 +0000 Radgeworks 139310@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shut-Yer-Pus-Scots-Slang/dp/1845020367">buy mauchit</a></p> <p>@ Fimm, aye ye did say it wiz a scots dictionary yer ma looked in for ye. </p> <p>It is in here though, which might be the tome ye seek??</p> <p>Regards<br /> RJ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139308 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:32:22 +0000 fimm 139308@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@RonnieJ I did say "Scots dictionary" thus, I hope, implying a tome in which one might find such a definition. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139290 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:18:52 +0000 Radgeworks 139290@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://literalbarrage.org/blog/2005/01/07/your-scottish-slang-word-of-the-day/">get mauchit! </a></p> <p>@ Fimm aye ye might no find Mauchit in the dictionary, its a slang word, here is a wee linky to it.</p> <p>Awrabest...</p> <p>RJ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139287 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:15:28 +0000 fimm 139287@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mum doesn't know mockit/mauchit/mawkit. She looked it up in their Scots dictionary and suggested "exhausted". (I don't know which spelling that was against.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139111 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:32:58 +0000 fimm 139111@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I would understand manky in the same sense as wingpig. "Slaters" for woodlice is one I have to remember not to use without thinking. </p> <p>(What do you mean, thread drift?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139091 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:06:39 +0000 wingpig 139091@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've heard "clatty" from westcoastofScotlandees as dirty more in the sense of being insufficiently personally hygienic rather than covered-in-dirt. "Manky" was around in Lincolnshire when I was small for distastefully unclean/decayed/foul rather than simply mud-covered. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139084 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:42:44 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 139084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surely if you're muddy then you're dirty?</p> <p>It's funny the words you pick up - I refer to sparrows as spuggies all the time, and always thoguht it was an Aberdonian word (given we moved there when I was 4), till someone there recently looked at me blankly when I used it. Turned out it was a NE England thing that I must have picked up from my folks.</p> <p>Had a weird thing in the butcher recently where the guy behind the counter picked out a Geordie accent from me - must just be certain words. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139080 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:28:29 +0000 fimm 139080@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@W.C. manky = muddy?<br /> I don't think I'd use it in that sense. I think manky = dirty.</p> <p>I need to check if my mother knows mockit/mauchit/mawkit. She turned out to know "tumshie lantern" although I don't recall ever hearing her use it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139074 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:05:47 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 139074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Growing up close to Newcastle upon Tyne, I'm fairly sure clarty was used in that area for muddy.</em>"</p> <p>Absolutely. Though my folks tended to use 'manky' a bit more. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139070 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:55:40 +0000 PS 139070@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Clarty" is alive and well in Cumbria too, as is "bairn". </p> <p>In less frequent Cumbrian usage, I've heard "mockin" used to mean, ahem, "turd". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139065 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:32:20 +0000 cb 139065@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shouldn't the RC church be a straight line along the bottom with everything else branching off it? Splitters. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139063 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:24:28 +0000 Roibeard 139063@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Kappers - I think you've forgotten the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster (in Scotland). Granted they're not of the same lineage...</p> <p>&lt;wanders off to check&gt; Ah, it appears they no longer have a Glasgow branch!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139061 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:18:54 +0000 fimm 139061@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Now, you see, I know both clarty and slaistered (though my mother uses slaistering of a child (or adult) who is making a mess while eating and getting their food on their clothes rather then inside them).</p> <p>Growing up close to Newcastle upon Tyne, I'm fairly sure clarty was used in that area for muddy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139059 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:08:43 +0000 dg145 139059@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye, these scrabble games can get a bit feisty. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139038 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:24:45 +0000 allebong 139038@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I still use 'rank' to describe stuff that's pure boggin. </p> <p>'This place smells pretty rank like...'</p> <p>I did get into an extremely long, intense and ultimately hostile argument with a friend about whether it's actually spelled wrank. I didn't think so, but upon googling it right now it turns out I'm wrong, so there you go. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139035 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:17:19 +0000 kaputnik 139035@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>or "pure boggin'" to translate for the yoof </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139024 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:21:24 +0000 Cyclingmollie 139024@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mawkit means clarty or slaistered. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139021 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:00:23 +0000 gembo 139021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What is. Nice is that many of the schisms and sub schisms do come back into the fold. Around 1929 Also of course a few thousand holding out by 1950. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139017 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:39:40 +0000 kaputnik 139017@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>an added bonus in my scots dictionary is the diagram at the back detailing the many schisms in the Church of Scotland in the past e.g Auld Lichts, New Lichts, Cameronians etc</em></p> <p>How complicated can it be?</p> <p><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Churches_of_Scotland_timeline.png"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Churches_of_Scotland_timeline.png/640px-Churches_of_Scotland_timeline.png"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-139014 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:25:13 +0000 gembo 139014@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cc good point. Many scots words are just old words. We are very drawn to the past in the northern lands.</p> <p>bairn is still used in Newcatle etc.</p> <p>an added bonus in my scots dictionary is the diagram at the back detailing the many schisms in the Church of Scotland in the past e.g Auld Lichts, New Lichts, Cameronians etc </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138993 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:57:27 +0000 cc 138993@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some years ago I gave my elderly Dad a Scots dictionary. He was delighted to discover in it quite a few words from the Nottinghamshire dialect he'd spoken as a child. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138978 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:32:38 +0000 dg145 138978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Fimm "I recall a colleague using the word "stookie" and I had no idea what he was on about, and he didn't know what the standard English word was!"</p> <p>I think it is 'plaster of paris cast for the purpose of immobilizing an injured appendage, thereby aiding recovery'.</p> <p>Stookie is much more descriptive ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138961 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:41:03 +0000 fimm 138961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thank you</p> <p>In my defence, although I was born in Scotland of Scottish parents I lived in England from the age of 2 until I was 30. So my knowledge of Scots words depends mostly on what my mother and grandmother use/used. I don't think my father uses Scots much, if at all. Other than that, I've picked up the odd one since I moved back here (I recall a colleague using the word "stookie" and I had no idea what he was on about, and he didn't know what the standard English word was!), but mockit/mauchit was one I hadn't come across before. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138956 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:50:22 +0000 PS 138956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mucky </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138955 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:42:11 +0000 Radgeworks 138955@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>if its awrite wi the rest of ye's ah wid like tae correct mockit tae the right spelling, which is Mauchit.... </p> <p>Nae bother by the way.</p> <p>RJ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138954 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:38:46 +0000 DaveC 138954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh c'mon Fimm!! Even I know what Mockit means and I'm Engrish!!</p> <p>Think, boggy, filthy, muddy, gunjy, boggin! Just whats in a typical blokes mind when he thinks about fitties on the beach! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138939 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:09:59 +0000 fimm 138939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Cyclops: "mockit"? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138938 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:08:56 +0000 I were right about that saddle 138938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was up and down that path in November. It was beautiful to be honest, with the tunnels of golden leaves. Surface was fine, bit of superficial mud, no more. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138900 Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:26:21 +0000 Cyclops 138900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was up there twice this week. There are some seriously big puddles (some almost small lakes) up by Crossgatehall which stretch across the width of the path. It's quite muddy in patches, although only about an inch deep, by Ormiston and Pencaitland. </p> <p>Great fun but you'll get mockit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11999#post-138897 Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:06:42 +0000 Schemieradge 138897@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone been on the Pencaitland Railway path recently? </p> <p>I normally commute on it to Musselburgh (from Pencaitland) but have been taking a break from it.<br /> Last winter it got seriously muddy and I ended up having to stick to the road.. so was wondering what it's like this year after all the storms? </p>