Here are a few that you might find obscure. Firstly the word 'Gozzle' this was phlegm or whatever coughed up from the lungs. My grandmother used to tell us kids a story about gozzle. She would tell us about all the old men who had chest complaints lying in hospital with a flat sloping tray next to their beds covered in a nice layer of icing sugar. The old men would gozzle onto it and the gozzle would roll down the tray picking up the icing sugar. Then hit us with her punchline,"That's how they make jelly babies" And of course all to make us go 'oh Yuk' Our reactions used to tickle her to bits. There were people in Accy who used to gozzle onto the footpath or road without a thought in those days.
Another word was "wezzle'. she used to threaten us kids that she would get some from the butcher for tea. After a bit of a tease she would then tell us it was a bulls willy. Grandmother used to look after us whilst mum was out at work and I learned alot of old lanky from her. Another word she used was 'pizzle(yes I know all these words have a double zz sound but once one remembers one I start to recall more
Pizzle referred to rain. A bit more than drizzle but not as much as rain. Another one was scraggy which comes from scrags or scrag ends(butcher)which meant useless bits and pieces left over. In this case scraggy meant scruffy. There are a lot of examples of old Accy dialect on this thread and there also other threads with many many more. All it needs is for someone who has the time to collate them all and it would be a list any student of dialect would be proud of. There were also many a dialect word that was not strictly all over Accy.(circa 1945-50) There was neighbourhood dialect and different meanings as well for the same word depending on whereabouts in Accy you lived For example there would be one or two words used in the Derby st area that wouldn't be known in the Willows Lane area. Hard to believe but true.