The Gaelic (Gaidhlig) and Doric and Lallans.....

[rdem]

Much to my chagrin, I taught my Canadian wife two words of Scots.
Scunner and Glaekit, both which she has since applied to me on many occasions.
I have talked to many Scots and all agree scunner is a wonderful, t really defies translation. You can approximate the meaning to a non Scots speaker but you can't produce the bile it evokes when speaking of a person fits the description.

I also talked to a nurse from Glasgow who did her training in Aberdeen.
In her first days there she had helped in the maternity ward and she thunderstruck when the new mother asked repeatedly
"bist quean or loun? and she ahd no idea what she was asking.
(girl or boy?)