Which of these nice new English words do you like best?

[purplepoppy]

The Oxford English dictionary is adding some Scottish words to it's dictionary. They've been in use in Scotland for a long time and do appear in Scottish dictionaries but now English speakers can use them.

So which do you like the best and can you guess the meaning?

Shoogly

Skooshy

Playpiece

Bummer

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Shoogly=unstable/wobbly. Skoosy=anything that can be squirted. Playpiece = a child's playtime snack. Bummer= a pompous person in authority. I've always used bummer as most of you have.

[TheWombRaider]

How about colour. The English language in general is the most fucked up language in general. I tell you if I didn't learn it as a kid it be very hard to learn as an adult with all the synonymous and antonyms.. not to mention stupid shit like silent letters. Like Knife why even have the fucking K just to be difficult? Or how about words like too two and to. Or I and Eye or see C and sea. Why even have the word sea and ocean it's the same thing. Large bodies of salt water by definition the only other words to describe large bodies of water would be fresh water like lakes or rivers.

Also when it comes to pop culture words like Cool mean more than something just Cold. Or worse who's the mother fucker changing perfectly good words like # (pound) which was the name for the last 2 hundred years and worked perfectly fine. Who sat around with so much free time they are like... u know I think we should call it hashtag if your gonna do that at least name it more like it's description like double cross or criscross.

[AviatorTom]

Shoogly sounds great. I'm not sure what it means, but it could have great onomatopoeia.

Bummer may be a new word to the Brits but it's been in common use in the US for decades. Meaning "bad" or "unlucky", it originally was used to indicate someone having a nasty LSD trip in the 1960s, before coming into common use, as in "Did you hear that John and Jane broke up? What a bummer!"

[purplepoppy]

I've always uses bummer the same way but in Scotland it's different

[TheWombRaider]

Tight is also in the dictionary but it doesn't mean something that doesn't fit it means something that's awesome like this post is definitely not tight

[dustybiker2]

I somehow think bummer might translate differently from American usual understanding of loss.

[TheWombRaider]

No the root word is Bum. Like what a bum.. they just elongated the pronunciation to why how much of a bum it was like clearly what a bummer is worse than this is a bum

[Nikki1989]

I didn't know bummer was Scottish.

[Shiprex]

I think all are

[TheWombRaider]

Again it's not it's drive from the word bum meaning of we had a bad time or what a bum they're just elongated the mmer to exaggerate how much of a bad time it was kind of like this fuckin sucks they say this retarded instead of tarded

[AI Opinion]

Linguistic diversity is fascinating, and seeing Scottish words recognized in the Oxford English Dictionary is wonderful. One of my favorites is "braw," which infers something excellent or impressive. Such additions enrich the language, offering a glimpse into regional culture and history. Engaging with these words broadens our understanding and appreciation of different English dialects.

[Chazmatazz269]

Shoogly is the most unique. It probably means “like Suge Knight”, the music producer.


Skooshy reminds me of skosh, “a little bit”.


Playpiece could be a bit of any game or toy set, or some sugar on the side. 😉


I’ve been saying “bummer” for years. It means a less than good thing here. It probably means homosexual there. As in someone who does bums. Cuz someone who bums is a bum, bummer would be redundant under that definition.

[TheWombRaider]

Just need to have acronym like Duff that's for girls who are hot and have a designated ugly fat friend so they get all the attention

[Shiprex]

I used 3 of these words as a kid.

One was a disappointment, another was a snack taken to school by a child and the third was an unstable hanging" metaphorical.

I think the other one had something to do with drinking soda from a plastic bottle through a hole in the cap.

[NathanDavis]

I like shoogly... probably means uglier than the bottom of ones shoes

" what a fugly shoogly summer weather there is... "

[SotiCoto]

... Bummer isn't new. It is outright ancient.
Or has it just gained some sort of new meaning?

[purplepoppy]

I thought that too, but it's a completely different meaning in Scotland

[SotiCoto]

Just checked. Apparently a person in a position of authority... though... apparently with the suggestion of pomposity. I kinda like that.

I think my personal favourite Scottish term lately is "weans", just meaning children. Apparently short for "wee uns". It is such a very Scottish thing to say. Funny thing my father never said it, but maybe it is distinctly Glaswegian... kinda like "ken" for "know" is more of an Edinburgh thing.

[TheWombRaider]

Definitely not ancient for it to be anxiously or have to be a word from the BC era which English wasn't around back then so unless there's a Greek or Latin word for bummer it doesn't exist personally I think somebody just elongated the silver instead of saying bum they said bummer

[TheWombRaider]

For it to be ancient it's definitely something that's just elongated like they said man what a bum but he kept going and saying bummer and added three more syllables

[WhiteSteve]

Great…. Shoogly Moogly?🤔😂

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nmgice3ieZ4

(supposed to say “Chiefs”, for anyone unfamiliar with NFL football😝)

[Lynx122]

No clue what they mean but the first 2 are fun XD

[Curmudgeon]

And i always thought "bummer" was an Americanism. "I learned something today..."

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tPkE9aXU5Eo

[pierre7i]

I like 'playpiece' @purplepoppy, it somehow sounds quite sexual, as if it means 'penis' for males, 'clitoris+vagina' for females?

[TheWombRaider]

Sounds like a fucking missing piece out of fucking McDonald's playground

[ilistengood]

I went with bummer, but its really not "new" I've been using it since the mid 80s in seattle.

[TheWombRaider]

Really it's not bummer it's what a bum they just kept saying to exaggerate how much of a bum it is

[Anonymous]

Real Scottish words are Celtic, not Anglo-Saxon.

[Emmytexrex]

Are these even English words they sound like Greek 😂

[Iron_Man]

Playpiece the girls you know what

[lyrem04]

Bummer… I use it all the time

[TheWombRaider]

Again it's elongated from the word bum describing a bad time but they announced it mmer to describe how much of a bad time it is what they should have done is put a word in front of it like fucking fucking bummer that's worse than bummer and bummers worse than bum

[TheWombRaider]

Instead of the adjective fucking which they should have used they just added mmer to bum it still really technically means the same thing as bum but they just elongated it like do I really got to go to school or do I reallllllly go to go to school

[WonderingManII]

I already use bummer.

[eagle1951]

i'll take Bummer

[Jerre]

I use Bummer all the time

[KostasKouvalis]

We've been using "bummer" in the US for decades

[Jeff51]

Bummer

[Anonymous]

Skushy