As long as we are translating English sayings in Scottish, I thought it might be fun to try some expressions that are already a mystery to most people… at least you landlubbers… so let’s translate some nautical terminology.
————————————-
I have not yet begun to fight – Ah hae nae yit begun tae rammy
First mate – Foremaist pal
Man the yardarm – Jimmy th’ yardarm
Full steam ahead – stowed oot steam ahead
Come about – Come aboot
Full to the gunwales – Stowed oot tae th’ gunwales
Walk the plank – Donder th’ plank
Make that line fast – Mak’ that line fleet
—————————————-
Well… that wasn’t as much fun as I thought it would be. It turns out that a lot of nautical terms are the same in Scottish as they are in English… because the English are famous sailors… and… uh… well… the Scots aren’t. So to finish up, I am going to just type in random swear words and naughty expressions, and give you the translations without telling you what I typed in.
Fell free to guess if you want.
But do not type your answers in the comments. This is a family friendly blog, remember?
———————————–
Boaby
Bugger
Winch mah bahookie
Hoor
Oral throwing a sausage up a close
Fud
Hurdie
Gobble
Plooter yersel’
Wee baby fishies
Mak’ loue
—————————
I didn’t make any of those up. But guess what? It turns out that a lot of dirty words are the same in Scottish as they are in English. But this time I suspect it is because the Scottish are the ones who invented them.
You can see if you are able to match these up by going to: http://www.scotranslate.com/
Pouring My Art Out 
You’re poem is up at wePoets. So so funny!
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I conquer
Yes… yes you do…
Ha! Are you reblogging?
Let me get to it.
okay
Are we in a time warp?
maybe not..
Are we in a time warp?
maybe
You know you can respond to everyone’s comments too right?
I did that last time…
couldn’t remember as you were!
who knows?
Winch ma bahookie … Love it. I was going to say what it was, but you requested otherwise 🙂 My dad, being a Scot, has mentioned Bahookie before
Yeah… but ‘winch’???
I can only guess at kiss
It just sounds like it hurts…
It does.
ha
winch ma bahookie? yowee.. I don’t think I wanna know 😀
It sounds painful.
darn tootin … that’ll teach me wearing my kilt around fire ants.
Or killer bees…
or sand fleas …
or crack squirrels…
or honey badgers …
ohhh man… do not mess with badgers…
and them ones that like honey are the worst.
You would think it would make them sweet… ha
😀
Or is that where we started.
hmmm…
The circle of life… it always leads us back to nuts…
😀