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glaikit
(glai·kit) Dialect, chiefly Scot -adj.
1. (intr.) stupid; senseless, silly. (often in “He stood there wi’ a glaikit look oan his fizzog“)
2. (tr.) giddy, thoughtless.
3. affected.
4. petty.
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11 responses to “Your Scottish Slang Scots Word O’ The Day: Glaikit”
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My favorite scottish word is heed, as in HEED…PAPER….NOW!! Or maybe frikkin as in weee not so weee and frikkin huge.
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are you scottish brad?im from the highlands,speak scots and doric and have never heard any one say frikkin,honestly.you hear it in england often and i think the irish use the word.
it may well be scots but it is never ever said nowadays, heed tha ba,thats a belter though, 🙂-
gregorisim:
Brad was referring to an old Saturday Night Live skit, “All Things Scottish”. Region restrictions might kill it, but the Hulu link is here. -
“Frikkin” and “Fek” was popularised via the idiot lantern aka the TV.
I did not hear that word until it appeared in common usage in the 1990’s. The TV show Father Ted is the most likely suspect.
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Doric/Scots/Lallands whichever term you prefer is NOT ‘slang’. It never has been and never will be and calling it that is both ignorant and insulting.
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J.R.:
I’ve definitely heard from others of your particular persuasion/opinion. No offense is intended, but if we Americans were to attempt to use Scots dialect in our daily lives, it might best be described as “slang”, at least in our use.-
No, Doug. Maybe you sometimes say things in America
like ”au fait” or
”plus ca change” for examples of commonly used French words? Would you refer to them as slang? I wouldn’t. -
Someone calling it slang doesn’t make it so. I might CALL French slang out of ignorance. Would that change that it is a language?
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Is there anybody more ignorant with the language than America ?
American English is a form of slang.
Scotland has several dialects and an entire language that is older than Latin.
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I agree with you absolutely.
On the subject of ‘ glaikit ‘-
I don’t entirely agree with the above attempted definitions.
Although I do agree with no3.
because the root of glaikit is ”glassy or glazed” ( a dreamy/far away/not focussed – sometimes affected )
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http://www.scotslanguage.com/ or http://www.dsl.ac.uk/
Scots language is NOT slang – get a grip. Ignorance is no excuse.
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