The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163457   Message #4233755
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
03-Jan-26 - 08:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: on the naming of Snowploughs
Subject: RE: BS: on the naming of Snowploughs
Ploos yer doos is a bit of wordplay on a common greeting in the Doric-speaking NE of Scotland, especially Aberdeenshire, where people ask each other “Foos yer doos?”
Colloquially it means “How are you?” Though literally it means “How are your pigeons?”