message

To go (for) or do the messages means to do the shopping. The items bought are known as messages. "Wis that you Ah saw staggerin up the road wi a ton a messages?" A shopping bag is often referred to as a message bag. Any kind of errand, not just to buy something, may be called a message: "She'll be back in a minute: she's just away a wee message."
To give someone the message is to convince him of the error of his ways, either by verbal chastisement or physical force: "Boy, Ah'll gie you the message all right if Ah catch ye at this wee gemme again."

© Michael Munro