Words we used

[glenshena]

'Hoachin' I remember as being alive with fleas! Or infested by any kind of insect.

[bonzo]

It's the same thing really, whether it's hoachin wae flees or people. It's very busy

[glenshena]

David Williams mentions ''Mr. Mingin''. a very smelly man, worse than 'bonkin' in his childrens books!

[margb]

While I was growing up and watching football I remember that the word 'shy' was used as a throw in off the side lines in football. I often wondered if it was still used.

[glenshena]

Heard an old expression today, ' they told me not to be so pernikety' meaning overly precise.

[bonzo]

What about plank as in to hide something.

[John Donnelly]

Here's one; 'cloaking.'
We used it as boys when out collecting birds eggs. If the chick was already developing and you could not blow the egg empty, it was cloaking.
JD.

[morag]

Here's one; 'cloaking.'
We used it as boys when out collecting birds eggs. If the chick was already developing and you could not blow the egg empty, it was cloaking.
JD.

a bit disgusting, aff ma dinner noo.

[Hughie]

I remember my dad using the 'cloaking' expression when one of his hens would be sitting on a fertile egg in the nesting box. He also used to have dummy eggs in the boxes, said to entice the hens to lay - China eggs he called them. Had me bamboozled as a wee boy when I gathered them along with the real eggs.

[morag]

Still boak, and wheesht!

[John Donnelly]

Still boak, and wheesht!

It's a man/boy thing Morag.
Çollecting birds eggs is very 'not-done' these days; and so it should be.
JD.

[5siamese7]

When I was a kid I remember this nasty piece of work who had a coots egg and he shook it and said it was scudid by which he meant cloakin.