Oor Wullie: Jings! Crivvens! Help Ma Boab!

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She was swamped by her team-mates, the green being trampled by dozens of feet, perhaps forgetting that Emily Pedersen and Lexi Thompson were waiting to play, with their match still in the balance. Criffins, Criftens, Crifty’, Scottish National Dictionary, Dictionary of the Scots Language https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/criffins (Consulted 19 October 2020). Anyway “doable” is probably not a real word, but we use it in scotland anyway, because we don’t care what anybody else thinks. We “kudnae gee a toss” or “kudnae gee a monkeys”, which both equate to something like “We could not care less” or in unidiomatic terms “We are indifferent to the outcome”. Now where were we, oh yes the title phrase. close - an alleyway or passage at the rear of houses. The passageway leading into a tenement building. Humid weather.

jings’, Macquarie Dictionary https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/aus/word/map/search/word/jings/The%20Riverina/ (Consulted 19 October 2020). Between 2016 and 2017, artist Diego Jourdan Pereira filled in for Peter Davidson on Wullie, The Broons and Wee Harry. Jourdan Pereira also provided illustrations for the 2017 Annual and official merchandising. [5] Characters and story [ edit ] An Oor Wullie costume as part of The Big Walk [6]tan - smash windows ( I'm gonny tan yer windaes), or also a drink ( Gonnae gies a tan ae yur juice?) Meanwhile, Corpuz generously conceded a two-foot putt on the 17th that gave Stark a 13th European point and set the scene for Ciganda.

Criffins, Criftens, Crifty’, Scottish National Dictionary, Dictionary of the Scots Language https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/criffins (Consulted 19 October 2020). Turkish - a faeces ( Gies the paper, ah'm away fur a turkish) from rhyming slang: 'Turkish Delight' - ShiteWhen I saw Suzann on 16, she told me a couple of things, and I was like, 'I'm just going to do this for her, because I love her and she deserves this'." gem - game/up for (Pronounced by properly enunciating the G ((Hard G)), unlike the term Gem meaning jewel)

For the early Oor Wullie comics, the use of the word ony was very typical. In fact, the first story (from March 8, 1936) both began and ended with We never get ony fun here; as for the next two stories (March 15 and March 22, 1936), we find this famous catch phrase only at the end (although without “here” as the last word). Ony also occurs in other Oor Wullie stories. Indeed, in a corpus of nearly 230 Oor Wullie stories, dated between 1936 and 2004, the expression ony occurs fifty-seven times, with forty-two times alone in the first thirty-four years of the comic strip’s publication. fandan - (short for "Fancy Dan") an overconfident, fandango, pretentious idiot ("That guy's a pure fandan, by the way.") Yous/Yees. Yous would be said if there is a number following it for example "Wit yous 2 dain", Yees would be used without saying a number "Wit yees dain" Suzann gave me a job to do. We knew it was going to be a tough day but important to get blue on the board early," said the Irishwoman.So Jings on its own is a fairly neutral expression of surprise or dissapointment. It is fairly close in meaning to another scottish word “jeez”. I would say both of them could be used almost interchangeably, the only difference being “jings” sounds a bit more old fashioned, and to that would probably be used only for comic effect, and “jeez” is more used in a neutral construct, for instance a parent speaking to a child, as a replacement word instead of using something slightly harsher or more adult. Lets look at another example. I myself spent at one point a school year in Great Britain and became fascinated by Oor Wullie. Later, I decided to make it the subject of my PhD thesis. 10 This study, entitled “The Scottishness of Oor Wullie”, looks at a range of questions. It investigates, for example, the dynamics of the stereotypes, along with the linguistic changes and the mechanisms of the great success Oor Wullie has been enjoying now for so many years. Given these premises, the thesis analyses phonological, morpho-syntactic and lexical features in Oor Wullie in the context of the changing topics between 1936 and 2004. jing, n.’, Scottish National Dictionary , Dictionary of the Scots Language, https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/jing_n1 (Consulted 19 October 2020). scoobie - This spelling meaning is used instead of Subaru ( Have ye seen Mikes new scoobie?)As above.