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not resolvedAnyone been on the Pencaitland Railway path recently?
I normally commute on it to Musselburgh (from Pencaitland) but have been taking a break from it.
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?
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.
Great fun but you'll get mockit.
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.
@Cyclops: "mockit"?
Oh c'mon Fimm!! Even I know what Mockit means and I'm Engrish!!
Think, boggy, filthy, muddy, gunjy, boggin! Just whats in a typical blokes mind when he thinks about fitties on the beach!
if its awrite wi the rest of ye's ah wid like tae correct mockit tae the right spelling, which is Mauchit....
Nae bother by the way.
RJ
Mucky
Thank you
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.
@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!"
I think it is 'plaster of paris cast for the purpose of immobilizing an injured appendage, thereby aiding recovery'.
Stookie is much more descriptive ;-)
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.
@cc good point. Many scots words are just old words. We are very drawn to the past in the northern lands.
bairn is still used in Newcatle etc.
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
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
How complicated can it be?
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.
Mawkit means clarty or slaistered.
or "pure boggin'" to translate for the yoof
I still use 'rank' to describe stuff that's pure boggin.
'This place smells pretty rank like...'
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.
Aye, these scrabble games can get a bit feisty.
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).
Growing up close to Newcastle upon Tyne, I'm fairly sure clarty was used in that area for muddy.
@Kappers - I think you've forgotten the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster (in Scotland). Granted they're not of the same lineage...
<wanders off to check> Ah, it appears they no longer have a Glasgow branch!
Robert
Shouldn't the RC church be a straight line along the bottom with everything else branching off it? Splitters.
"Clarty" is alive and well in Cumbria too, as is "bairn".
In less frequent Cumbrian usage, I've heard "mockin" used to mean, ahem, "turd".
"Growing up close to Newcastle upon Tyne, I'm fairly sure clarty was used in that area for muddy."
Absolutely. Though my folks tended to use 'manky' a bit more.
@W.C. manky = muddy?
I don't think I'd use it in that sense. I think manky = dirty.
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.
Surely if you're muddy then you're dirty?
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.
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.
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.
I would understand manky in the same sense as wingpig. "Slaters" for woodlice is one I have to remember not to use without thinking.
(What do you mean, thread drift?)
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.)
@ Fimm aye ye might no find Mauchit in the dictionary, its a slang word, here is a wee linky to it.
Awrabest...
RJ
@RonnieJ I did say "Scots dictionary" thus, I hope, implying a tome in which one might find such a definition.
@ Fimm, aye ye did say it wiz a scots dictionary yer ma looked in for ye.
It is in here though, which might be the tome ye seek??
Regards
RJ
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