Shetland Area Nicknames
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Traditionally all Shetland areas were also known by individual nicknames. Some might be lost, some are probably no longer in use, but others are well remembered.
| Area | Traditonal Nickname |
| Aithsting | Smuiks or Smocks (sewn cloth shoes) |
| Bressay | Women: Crackers (from craic – good talkers), Men: Sharks |
| Delting | Sparls (smoked and dried sheep sausage) |
| Doon O'Waas | Dirt |
| Dunrossness | Liver Coids (from Cuithes stuffed with cod liver then roasted in hot peat ash) |
| Fetlar | Russie Foals (young horses which have ungroomed shaggy hair) |
| Foula | (Tammy) Nories (puffins) |
| Lerwick | Whitings |
| Lunnasting | Hoes (dogfish) |
| Mid Waas | Gentry |
| Nesting | Gauts (cut pigs) |
| Northmavine | Liver Muggies, Ulie Muggies or Ulie Coils (cod stomach filled with its liver, boiled) |
| Papa Stour | Scories |
| Sandness | Burstin' Brunis (oatmeal or beremeal cakes) |
| Sandsting | Suck o'Legs |
| Scalloway | Sma Drink |
| Tingwall | Timmer Guns (timber) |
| Unst | Midden Slues (lazy, unclean people) |
| Wast O'Waas | Settlins |
| Weisdale | Gauts (cut pigs) |
| Whalsay | Piltocks (young coal fish or cuithes) |
| Yell | (Sheep) Thieves |
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