Glasgow Patter: casting doubt on a person's sanity
cakey A fairly mild word used to describe someone regarded as daft, not all there: 'Did you give him the len of a tenner? You're cakey, so ye are!' Like doughheid this seems to have something to do with baking. Perhaps the idea is that a foolish person's head is like risen dough: full of nothing but air. doughheid Yet another term for a fool or idiot: 'It wis a hunner-watt bulb Ah telt ye tae get, ya doughheid!' This is sometimes shortened to dough: 'There it's lyin right beside ye, ya dough.' © Michael Munro	Always in evidence in gutsy urban dialect, terms of abuse hinting at mental deficiency are numerous in The Patter, from terms almost of endearment to terms reserved for those thought to be severely deranged...

Glasgow Patter: casting doubt on a person's sanity

cakey: A fairly mild word used to describe someone regarded as daft, not all there: 'Did you give him the len of a tenner? You're cakey, so ye are!' Like doughheid this seems to have something to do with baking. Perhaps the idea is that a foolish person's head is like risen dough: full of nothing but air.
doughheid: Yet another term for a fool or idiot: 'It wis a hunner-watt bulb Ah telt ye tae get, ya doughheid!' This is sometimes shortened to dough: 'There it's lyin right beside ye, ya dough.'

Always in evidence in gutsy urban dialect, terms of abuse hinting at mental deficiency are numerous in The Patter, from terms almost of endearment to terms reserved for those thought to be severely deranged...

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