This
could lead to some confusion.

To "bide" in my part of the world means to live, stay or reside. So, your post may lead me to believe that you've left the elderly chap with the tricky-dicker and gone elsewhere.

I don't believe you mean that.

Here it would be "chauvin' awa."

Which means getting on with my (incredibly dull, hopelessly exploited, awful) life.

We need a Doric/Fife, Fife/Doric dictionary.

The rest of the world, not.
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Sat 2 Jun 2012, 21:13, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

The standard answer in fife
is bidin' awa', ya see it a'
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sat 2 Jun 2012, 21:14, Reply)

No
the standard question from a Scots male to anything vaguely female,pulse optional, is "aye, aye, lassie, die ye tak it in the moo?

Posted with apologies for my nation.
(Phudbree oh man, the Doric Yorick, Sat 2 Jun 2012, 21:21, Reply)