BAD SCOTTISH WORDS TO DESCRIBE 2020 

The last bunch of words were the best! Which ones did you like the best?

The Scots must have an unlimited imagination to be able to come up all these colorful words and phrases.

Having only just discovered your channel, I'm a bit late to the parade but I can't tell you how many memories your accent and some of these words have brought back. My mother's family were from Old Kilpatrick and during WWII they had a shop at the edge of John Brown's Shipyards in Clydebank. I was born in Partick in the fifties but with a grim future locally, my parents, followed by other family members, decided to try our luck in The Colonies... Canada... and I am now retired in America. "Ach, it's a sair fecht" was my favorite uncle's favorite expression, bringing back decades-old memories. All us cousins have North American accents, so it was pure joy to listen to your pronunciation and inflection - not just Scottish, but specifically West Dunbartonshire - reminding me of family members long gone. Thank you for that.

I’m usually glumphie because my body is gubbed. My head is always loupin thanks to migraines so I stay pugget. Just a wanweirdit soul without a scooby, meandering through gunk ol’ 2020. Thoroughly enjoyed learning these words, thanks for sharing 😉

Since you can’t say it I’ll say it for you 2020 has been pure shite 😂

I would tell all the American words to describe 2020....but they would all be beeped out.

All my coworkers will now be known as crabbit wabbits, and no I will not be explaining it to them hahahaha.

Wabbit reminds me of Elmer J. Fudd.

theres also "hochmagandy" first heard by the majority of English people being explained by James Cosmo to D I Regan (john thaw)in an episode of the 1970s tv show "The Sweeney"!!!!

My grandfather had a pretty thick Highlands accent, it was great watching him talk to my cousin's friends in Houston....'yea dinnea ken a sangle ward combin outta mea mooth dea yea?' lol.

I love the band Stramash.

I love the Scottish accent. I could listen to you forever.

2020 Ah cannae be arsed wie anything or anybody

6:18 - In Shetland, it's phonetically, "Ah dinnae keen". Interesting. How about, "Ming-ing". Not sure how you would write this. You drink a bottle of juice and the blowback from the carbonation would be "Ming-ing". You could use that word for 2020. 11:40 - Puggled. "I'm fair puggled after climbing Arthur's Seat". That one was popular in the 70's. I think Oor Wullie used it a lot.

I have heard many here in Tennessee say yer fair done in, never thought of its origins. 2020 has been bad for all of us, glad you still have your positive personality. Good job as always

Erin try frazzled ,I use puggled or puggelt a lot as well as sair fecht ,bilin rather than bealin. Great video .

I just came down from the Isle of Skye, had to wear a mask or I just might die and the ladies cry as I past them by, Donald put your mask on.

I was crabbit now I’m wabbit, Grumpy glumfy and glumph. Dare I say it 2020? I’ve really had enough! The year’s been a shambles, and I’m feelin done in, But the moon’s 🌝 shinin’ bricht on a knackerd Erin. A lovely lass who lives by a loch, Who made me guffaw- when she said the word Kauch! The weathers been dreich and so has the year, But thanks to this video I’m full of good cheer. Dinnae ye ken?

We also use "bolt" to mean to flee. Whenever someone is frightened and runs away, we say "he bolted." It's used quite frequently here. For "glumph", many Yanks use the Yiddish "kvetch," meaning "grouch; curmudgeon." And as a verb, "to kvetch," meaning to complain excessively and/or bitterly. I bought the book 'Robert Burns: The Complete Poetical Works' when I was in Scotland, last year. It contains a glossary of the 18th century Scottish dialect. So a few other Scottish words for 2020 could be: "Felly" (bitter), "Brak" (broke), "Mirksome" (dark), "Doolfu'" (doleful), "Fank" (entangled), "Dowie" (gloomy), "Gumlie" (muddy), "Wanchanchie" (unlucky).

I was ramfeezled, but then I watched Erin's video and I felt much better! 😘

"It's a sair fecht" has been my Grandma's catchphrase for this pandemic! So accurate...

Awesome video Erin. Some of those words/phrases are quite catchy. Looking forward to your next video. I think I have become a Scot at last. I had my very first can of Irn-Bru. It was the full strength version. Got it at one of our largest supermarkets here in Oz (Australia) called Coles. Very sweet indeed.

Yes Minced ground meat is minced and I also think of scrambled for whatever reason.

I bought a Scotch Pie from Aldi and you should have seen the mince in it, i was totally scunnered.

Since I am from America and do not know Gaelic I wish when people spoke of 2020 they would speak to me in Gaelic so I wouldn't have a clue to what they are talking about. However, since recently learning of my Scottish ancestry I may try to learn Gaelic or at least the same vernacular used today in Scotland.

I remember "dinnae ken" from Outlander, Jamie says it all the time

Great video, Erin!

It's so great watchin your videos, I'm in southeast Michigan and my mother is Scottish and her sister, my auntie Janine, is in Houston Texas with an awesome Scottish/Texas accent.... Don't see everyone as much as I used to as it's crazy now seeing how much sway voices hold in your memories. Got to spend time with my grandparents outside of Brechin a couple times too. Haven't heard 'dinnea ken' used casually in lterally two decades, lol.

Love this so much. I'm a Scooby Doo fan, so that one was the absolute best!

Anything ya talk about is great

It’s a sare fecht fir a cal tattie, is the full phrase we know in the North East. Or it’s a hell of a fight for no return.

Love it!

I live in South Africa 🇿🇦. Saying- I was greetin like a HALLMARK CARD- took alot of explaining. Crabbit too!

This is so funny, we use some of the same words in slightly different context. We'd say "Ma heid's bawfin'" like, it's muckit, a mess, troubled. Parents are from Edinburgh and I'm from West Lothian so we have a bit of a mix. We use puggled, wabbit and bealin' a lot. When we say dinnae ken ot comes out more like "di-ah-ken" without clear enunciation. I had a teacher who'd call our exam answers mince to mean rubbish (I assumed? Maybe he meant a confusing mess!) We'd call a person a Hee Haw of they were being a total prat. I've never heard "slorp an' greet" but I needed that in my life so much. Ta! Def need Heeligaleerie too. Love learning more of these having been taught NOT to speak Scots at school. Wanweirdit is brilliant, I guess it comes from Wyrd, the path of fate, as in to Dree Your Wyrd.

Adding fair infront of anything is also a great way to emphasise your feelings 😅 Combo: fair scunnered 😉

You can tell if someone has a Glasgow / West Central Scottish accent. They will never use the word "ken" instead of "know" if you use "ken?" they will probably look over your shoulder to see where you have parked your turnip truck. Also, I think you missed out "Stooshie" which is a bit like a Stramash or that might just be a Lanarkshire thing. I recommend a book, "Chambers. The Scots Thesaurus". Contains over 20,000 Scots words. Then you could really gie it laldy.

Aye,2020 has certainly can be described in of the old scottish words,some I've heard of some I haven't. Good to see you back Erin.cracking vid.

I am wondering why hearing you explain these words describing bad stuff has cheered me up? Thanks Erin

You had many great words to describe how bad 2020 is but there's still a silver lining! We still get to see your beautiful face many times throughout 20/20 and you're amazing videos always got to take the good with the bad LOL

I really do believe that you gave all the right words about the year 2020. Well done you Erin girl.

This is the perfect list

my favorite part of the show!! hurrraaay!!!!

This year has been one big jobby 😅! But, I think scunnered describes my mood for most of 2020. Although, heeliegoleerie would be a great word too, if I could remember how to pronounce it 😅! Also, the video wasn't too negative, there's something relaxing/fun about finding the perfect word to describe something. Hope ya hanging in there, and thanks for the video Erin, and the new Scottish words! Stay safe!

Scunnered just about sums up my year, and especially the last few months. Well over a year ago I ordered a new door and windows and the job still isn't completed! I eventually sacked the builder. At the beginning of the year I was in a good place on a prime engineering contract and the promise of two follow up projects after that. The client has done an abrupt U-turn on their spending, my project is complete but shelved for two years and no sign of the other two on which millions have already been spent. Now I am furloughed and although my employer does have another project for me it is on the other side of the country. And last week I had a telephone conversation with my GP over what appeared to be a kidney infection. I was advised to have a coronavirus test, presumably so they know where they are if they have to see me in person. A week later and six days after I did the test I still don't have the result back. If it doesn't come in tomorrow morning I will have to ask my neighbour to do a shop for me. Top of the shopping list all the basics, whisky, beer, bread and milk. There is a silver lining, or one or two. Completion of the building work by another builder will commence shortly. And I have often been asked why I have not been selling my artwork. I have been using my furlough leave productively! Landscapes, mountain scapes, town scenes, transport themes both north and south of the border.

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I like Glumf. Good video, thanks

I loved the second set of words so much but I busted out laughing the minute you said Kauch! Then you said No not what your thinking & I busted out laughing again! Thank you for these words! I am going to try to use them here in the states and see how far I get with them. 🥰

quality wee vid dawl ..

I learned to speak Scottish from the Broons and Oor Wullie.och aye!

2020 really is aw a’ these, also side note I see the moon and it really is amazing💕 My favourite is definitely baws, I use it aw the time

2020 til 2022..so far..were GINKIN`,but i`m fae the 70s,to me it`s a cross between grotty and stinkin`,or maybe it`s a Mandela effect.

I remember when I had 2 wk in Penicuik/Edinburgh..back in 01..Great days....

I love you x

To be honest wit you.....I love them all! Buh mi favourite ones are the terms: crabbit and mince!!!! Very firery I could say#geein LALDY#ye ken

West Dunbartonshire massive 💪

Such a beautiful woman, love watching your videos.

The perfection you ❤️

Nice description of 2020, its also a new plank for me coffin......

You should defo do a drum video if you can get a kit! 👌 Also, happy St Andrews day! 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄🥃

Crab it is like cantankerous

Good 'uns. I will borrow some. Nice 🌕 shot

Kebby lebby is a good one too

We have the word mince in the US but we don't use it like you do. Here it means to cut up extremely fine. Something minced, is cut up fine. So if you say your brain is mince, we would think your brain is really messed up or scrambled. We just wouldn't say it that way. We do say our brain is mush. Much the same thing.

2020 has been a sair fecht..but the moon is out and its a broad moonlight night tonight and your all right yea ken.

You are so pretty.

Aw my granny said wabbit, I don’t think I’ve heard it since. I was waiting for shan!

"jobbies and mince." "minced jobbies." Hahaha. Made me laugh out loud - even as a Scot, jobby has tae be the best word gawn.

Check out the 'Wee Macgreegor' and how the wee boy used to ask to be allowed into the bedroom to see 'the big grumphy', his name for one of his grandparents, stay safe :) www.amazon.co.uk/Wee-Macgreegor-J-J-Bell/dp/1874744092

Happy St Andrews day Erin :)

Trying to put all this into a sentence lol... My heed’s pure mince it’s baws man, 2020 needs tae bolt as it’s got me totally gubbed, really dinny Ken when it’s gony stop being bowfin ☺️😃 Oh isn’t jobby just a quality word 🤣

hi from scotland

Ha ha class hen

There's one russian word that can describe all bad things - пиздец (pizdetz)

Most of the words you’ve used this evening describe my life sadly and in South Africa toalie mean small penis ken nie mean don’t know.

Season's Greetings?

I am scunnered by Erin's rejection of my advances.

A good description about yer heid....."thinking all over the place".

With life I have one word, done.

Ma'am.Take pictures of castles in Scotland. Or photographit.

Loupin would mean jumping to me if yr heid was loupin I’d say you had lice 😂😂

2020s Pure Utter shite. Means it's very very very bad or crappy. We love to double triple emphasis the last word in the sentence or statement. The reverse would be, that wis pure n utter sweet, that was absolutely awesome/fantastic.

Your beautiful and bang on 😂

😂🤣🥰

You are so cool and beautiful..

SHITE!!! 💙✌🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We have so many words for rubbish, tired ,fed up and drunk. All the best Scots words are for negative things. Probably because we excel at all the bad stuff. Missing your hillwalk videos.

Honkin' :P

2020 is an anagram of sh*te Yes, definitely one my grandparents used to use, CRABBIT, that's me stressed p*ssed off and I don't know what day it is.

Let´s get married.