Fine Ham an’ Haddie

Fife Council Central Area Libraries brought out an excellent booklet many years ago titles Fine Ham an’ Haddie.

The booklet was an attempt to record local use of words and phrases before they are lost
I have listed a few examples from this excellent small booklet about the dialect of Fife.

Fine Ham an’ Haddie
by Fife Council Central Area Libraries
1996
ISBN 1 869984 07 2
32 Pages
Cost £4.50

This booklet is now OUT OF PRINT and NOT available from Fife Council Libraries, so please do NOT contact them to ask, try a book shop online perhaps.

FINE HAM AN’ HADDIE pretty pickle

DOO’S CLECKIN two children,a son and daughter.

COME AWA’ BEN come in,welcome.

DINNA DREEP ON YOUR GEBBIE while eating, don’t drop or spill your food.

HUD YER WHEESHT be quiet

LONG LUGGIT BAIRN child who’s always listening in to adult conversations.

PIT THE WUID IN THE HOLE shut the door

YE’LL GET SENT AWA’ WI’ THE WEE YELLA VAN you’ll be sent to the madhouse

YE CANNA’ SEE GREEN CHEESE BUT YER EEN BIRL / REEL you want everything; envious of everything.

YE CANNA’ TAK THE BREEKS AFF A HEILANDMAN you can’t have what doesn’t exist.

A’ JOCK TAMSON’S BAIRNS all equal

BAFFIES slippers

BLOOTERED drunk

CLASH BAG gossip; tell tale.

CUSHIE DOO wood pigeon

FOGGIEBUMMER bumble bee

GOONIE nightgown.

JIGGERY POKERY suspicious goings-on

SCUNNERED fed up

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