h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm on the bru - I'm on the dole (unemployed)
Ganting - Not very nice
Ley Di Oh - an Aberdonian Game like hide and seek

Also, used in Ayrshire;

Watergaws - Rainbow
Simmet - Vest (often of string)
chankin - cold.
fair - quite
oot - out
i.e. Its fair chankin oot - Its really quite cold outside.
Buggerlugs, Heid the Ba' - A less than inteligent individual
Lum - chimney
May your lums reek land and weel - May your chimney produce foul smoke for a long time and in much profusion. Often used as a general good luck statement.

skrechin (soft 'ch' as in loch) - Screeching or bad noise, someone butchering a song, aye she sounds like a seagull skrechin on a wire
burach (pronounced boorach, soft ch) - from gaelic, a mess. Just going for a burach around, its an awful burach in there
gadgee - Invernesian for a mannie
wifey - woman

More........
Braw - Good
Bairn - child (have none of youse read Oor Wullie or The Broons ?)
houghin - (pronounced howfin) similar to Mingin, this beer is houghin
boughin - (pronounced bowfin) see above
cullach - (soft 'ch') cockeral
weigie - (pronounced Weegee) someone from Glasgow
weeched - (soft 'ch') grabbed or moved suddenly, I will just weech that out
sleekit - sly, cunning that wis affy sleekit

Not sure if these are scottish slang, but visitors may not know them
aye - yes
byre - barn
burn - stream or small river
leash - (dog) lead
caley - lots of music, beer and dancing
whins - gorse bush
clagged - if on the hills and clouds come down you are clagged in
sassenaks - technically lowlander Scots, but at my school enlarged to anyone from daan saath
dug - dog
nuhing - Invernesian pronuciation of nothing
Inversnecky - Inverness
White Settlers - people with loads of money from daan saath who purchase houses and land, pushing prices beyond local means, and either live here part time, or full time and want to stop any development like decent roads, street lamps etc. that will make life easier for locals
shuftey - technically arabic but definatly in use here, meaning look, to have a wee shuftey over there

Thats ceilidh, not caley, which would be the Glaswegian shortening of Caledonian. Certainly to me.

Very true, but my gaelic spelling is dodgy at the best of times, spell it as it sounds and then throw in a random selection of constenants at any spot you wish

Another one (maybe not scottish, but I have never heard anyone from Englandshire use it so........
Eedjit - Idiot

Sorry to pick you up again, but I think it's spelt minus the "d", eejit.

I've always spelled it "broo"- As far as I know it's from "Bureau", ie, the Unemployment Bureau- Labour Exchange, Department of Social Security, Benefits Agency- whatever, you get the picture.
Before this type of State Aid for the unemployed, those down on their luck were said to be "on the Parish"- ie, so impoverished they relied on charity from the local church.

Clarted - covered (i.e. he was clarted in mud...)
Honkin' - stinking

BCNU - Crescent