Glossary
- A', all.
- A-back, behind, away.
- Abiegh, aloof, off.
- Ablins, v. aiblins.
- Aboon, above up.
- Abread, abroad.
- Abreed, in breadth.
- Ae, one.
- Aff, off.
- Aff-hand, at once.
- Aff-loof, offhand.
- A-fiel, afield.
- Afore, before.
- Aft, oft.
- Aften, often.
- Agley, awry.
- Ahin, behind.
- Aiblins, perhaps.
- Aidle, foul water.
- Aik, oak.
- Aiken, oaken.
- Ain, own.
- Air, early.
- Airle, earnest money.
- Airn, iron.
- Airt, direction.
- Airt, to direct.
- Aith, oath.
- Aits, oats.
- Aiver, an old horse.
- Aizle, a cinder.
- A-jee, ajar; to one side.
- Alake, alas.
- Alane, alone.
- Alang, along.
- Amaist, almost.
- Amang, among.
- An, if.
- An', and.
- Ance, once.
- Ane, one.
- Aneath, beneath.
- Anes, ones.
- Anither, another.
- Aqua-fontis, spring water.
- Aqua-vitae, whiskey.
- Arle, v. airle.
- Ase, ashes.
- Asklent, askew, askance.
- Aspar, aspread.
- Asteer, astir.
- A'thegither, altogether.
- Athort, athwart.
- Atweel, in truth.
- Atween, between.
- Aught, eight.
- Aught, possessed of.
- Aughten, eighteen.
- Aughtlins, at all.
- Auld, old.
- Auldfarran, auldfarrant, shrewd, old-fashioned, sagacious.
- Auld Reekie, Edinburgh.
- Auld-warld, old-world.
- Aumous, alms.
- Ava, at all.
- Awa, away.
- Awald, backways and doubled up.
- Awauk, awake.
- Awauken, awaken.
- Awe, owe.
- Awkart, awkward.
- Awnie, bearded.
- Ayont, beyond.
- Ba', a ball.
- Backet, bucket, box.
- Backit, backed.
- Backlins-comin, coming back.
- Back-yett, gate at the back.
- Bade, endured.
- Bade, asked.
- Baggie, stomach.
- Baig'nets, bayonets.
- Baillie, magistrate of a Scots burgh.
- Bainie, bony.
- Bairn, child.
- Bairntime, brood.
- Baith, both.
- Bakes, biscuits.
- Ballats, ballads.
- Balou, lullaby.
- Ban, swear.
- Ban', band (of the Presbyterian clergyman).
- Bane, bone.
- Bang, an effort; a blow; a large number.
- Bang, to thump.
- Banie, v. bainie.
- Bannet, bonnet.
- Bannock, bonnock, a thick oatmeal cake.
- Bardie, dim. of bard.
- Barefit, barefooted.
- Barket, barked.
- Barley-brie, or bree, barley-brew-ale or whiskey.
- Barm, yeast.
- Barmie, yeasty.
- Barn-yard, stackyard.
- Bartie, the Devil.
- Bashing, abashing.
- Batch, a number.
- Batts, the botts; the colic.
- Bauckie-bird, the bat.
- Baudrons, Baudrans, the cat.
- Bauk, cross-beam.
- Bauk, v. bawk.
- Bauk-en', beam-end.
- Bauld, bold.
- Bauldest, boldest.
- Bauldly, boldly.
- Baumy, balmy.
- Bawbee, a half-penny.
- Bawdrons, v. baudrons.
- Bawk, a field path.
- Baws'nt, white-streaked.
- Bear, barley.
- Beas', beasts, vermin.
- Beastie, dim. of beast.
- Beck, a curtsy.
- Beet, feed, kindle.
- Beild, v. biel.
- Belang, belong.
- Beld, bald.
- Bellum, assault.
- Bellys, bellows.
- Belyve, by and by.
- Ben, a parlor (i.e., the inner apartment); into the parlor.
- Benmost, inmost.
- Be-north, to the northward of.
- Be-south, to the southward of.
- Bethankit, grace after meat.
- Beuk, a book: devil's pictur'd beuks-playing-cards.
- Bicker, a wooden cup.
- Bicker, a short run.
- Bicker, to flow swiftly and with a slight noise.
- Bickerin, noisy contention.
- Bickering, hurrying.
- Bid, to ask, to wish, to offer.
- Bide, abide, endure.
- Biel, bield, a shelter; a sheltered spot.
- Biel, comfortable.
- Bien, comfortable.
- Bien, bienly, comfortably.
- Big, to build.
- Biggin, building.
- Bike, v. byke.
- Bill, the bull.
- Billie, fellow, comrade, brother.
- Bings, heaps.
- Birdie, dim. of bird; also maidens.
- Birk, the birch.
- Birken, birchen.
- Birkie, a fellow.
- Birr, force, vigor.
- Birring, whirring.
- Birses, bristles.
- Birth, berth.
- Bit, small (e.g., bit lassie).
- Bit, nick of time.
- Bitch-fou, completely drunk.
- Bizz, a flurry.
- Bizz, buzz.
- Bizzard, the buzzard.
- Bizzie, busy.
- Black-bonnet, the Presbyterian elder.
- Black-nebbit, black-beaked.
- Blad, v. blaud.
- Blae, blue, livid.
- Blastet, blastit, blasted.
- Blastie, a blasted (i.e., damned) creature; a little wretch.
- Blate, modest, bashful.
- Blather, bladder.
- Blaud, a large quantity.
- Blaud, to slap, pelt.
- Blaw, blow.
- Blaw, to brag.
- Blawing, blowing.
- Blawn, blown.
- Bleer, to blear.
- Bleer't, bleared.
- Bleeze, blaze.
- Blellum, a babbler; a railer; a blusterer.
- Blether, blethers, nonsense.
- Blether, to talk nonsense.
- Bletherin', talking nonsense.
- Blin', blind.
- Blink, a glance, a moment.
- Blink, to glance, to shine.
- Blinkers, spies, oglers.
- Blinkin, smirking, leering.
- Blin't, blinded.
- Blitter, the snipe.
- Blue-gown, the livery of the licensed beggar.
- Bluid, blood.
- Bluidy, bloody.
- Blume, to bloom.
- Bluntie, a stupid.
- Blypes, shreds.
- Bobbed, curtsied.
- Bocked, vomited.
- Boddle, a farthing.
- Bode, look for.
- Bodkin, tailor's needle.
- Body, bodie, a person.
- Boggie, dim. of bog.
- Bogle, a bogie, a hobgoblin.
- Bole, a hole, or small recess in the wall.
- Bonie, bonnie, pretty, beautiful.
- Bonilie, prettily.
- Bonnock, v. Bannock.
- 'Boon, above.
- Boord, board, surface.
- Boord-en', board-end.
- Boortress, elders.
- Boost, must needs.
- Boot, payment to the bargain.
- Bore, a chink, recess.
- Botch, an angry tumor.
- Bouk, a human trunk; bulk.
- Bountith, bounty.
- 'Bout, about.
- Bow-hough'd, bandy-thighed.
- Bow-kail, cabbage.
- Bow't, bent.
- Brachens, ferns.
- Brae, the slope of a hill.
- Braid, broad.
- Broad-claith, broad-cloth.
- Braik, a harrow.
- Braing't, plunged.
- Brak, broke.
- Brak's, broke his.
- Brankie, gay, fine.
- Branks, a wooden curb, a bridle.
- Bran'y, brandy.
- Brash, short attack.
- Brats, small pieces, rags.
- Brats, small children.
- Brattle, a scamper.
- Brattle, noisy onset.
- Braw, handsome, fine, gaily dressed.
- Brawlie, finely, perfectly, heartily.
- Braxies, sheep that have died of braxie (a disease).
- Breastie, dim. of breast.
- Breastit, sprang forward.
- Brechan, ferns.
- Breeks, breeches.
- Breer, brier.
- Brent, brand.
- Brent, straight, steep (i.e., not sloping from baldness).
- Brie, v. barley-brie.
- Brief, writ.
- Brier, briar.
- Brig, bridge.
- Brisket, breast.
- Brither, brother.
- Brock, a badger.
- Brogue, a trick.
- Broo, soup, broth, water; liquid in which anything is cooked.
- Brooses, wedding races from the church to the home of the bride.
- Brose, a thick mixture of meal and warm water; also a synonym for porridge.
- Browster wives, ale wives.
- Brugh, a burgh.
- Brulzie, brulyie, a brawl.
- Brunstane, brimstone.
- Brunt, burned.
- Brust, burst.
- Buckie, dim. of buck; a smart younker.
- Buckle, a curl.
- Buckskin, Virginian: the buckskin kye, negroes.
- Budget, tinker's bag of tools.
- Buff, to bang, to thump.
- Bughtin, folding.
- Buirdly, stalwart.
- Bum, the buttocks.
- Bum, to hum.
- Bum-clock, beetle, cockchafer, Junebug.
- Bummle, a drone, a useless fellow.
- Bunker, a seat.
- Bunters, harlots.
- Burdies, dim. of bird or burd (a lady); maidens.
- Bure, bore.
- Burn, a rivulet.
- Burnewin, the blacksmith (i.e., burn the wind).
- Burnie, dim. of burn, a rivulet.
- Burr-thistle, spear-thistle.
- Busk, to dress; to garb; to dress up; to adorn.
- Buss, a bush.
- Bussle, bustle.
- But, without.
- But, butt, in the kitchen (i.e., the outer apartment).
- By, past, aside.
- By, beside.
- By himsel, beside himself.
- Bye attour (i.e., by and attour), beside and at a distance.
- Byke, a bees' nest; a hive; a swarm; a crowd.
- Byre, a cow-house.
- Ca', call, knock, drive.
- Cadger, a hawker (especially of fish).
- Cadie, caddie, a fellow.
- Caff, chaff.
- Caird, a tinker.
- Calf-ward, grazing plot for calves (i.e., churchyard).
- Callan, callant, a stripling.
- Caller, cool, refreshing.
- Callet, a trull.
- Cam, came.
- Canie, cannie, gentle, tractable, quiet, prudent, careful.
- Cankrie, crabbed.
- Canna, can not.
- Canniest, quietest.
- Cannilie, cannily, quietly, prudently, cautiously.
- Cantie, cheerful, lively, jolly, merry.
- Cantraip, magic, witching.
- Cants, merry stories, canters or sprees or merry doings.
- Cape-stanc, copestone.
- Capon-castrate.
- Care na by, do not care.
- Carl, carle, a man, an old man.
- Carl-hemp, male-hemp.
- Carlie, a manikin.
- Carlin, carline a middle-aged, or old, woman; a beldam, a witch.
- Carmagnole, a violent Jacobin.
- Cartes, playing-cards.
- Cartie, dim. of cart.
- Catch-the-plack, the hunt for money.
- Caudron, a caldron.
- Cauf, calf.
- Cauf-leather, calf-leather.
- Cauk, chalk.
- Cauld, cold.
- Cauldron, caldron.
- Caup, a wooden drinking vessel.
- Causey-cleaners, causeway-cleaners.
- Cavie, a hen-coop.
- Chamer, chaumer, chamber.
- Change-house, tavern.
- Chanter, bagpipes; the pipe of the bag-pipes which produces the melody; song.
- Chap, a fellow, a young fellow.
- Chap, to strike.
- Chapman, a pedler.
- Chaup, chap, a stroke, a blow.
- Chear, cheer.
- Chearfu', cheerful.
- Chearless, cheerless.
- Cheary, cheery.
- Cheek-for-chow, cheek-by-jowl (i.e. close beside).
- Cheep, peep, squeak.
- Chiel, chield (i. e., child), a fellow, a young fellow.
- Chimla, chimney.
- Chittering, shivering.
- Chows, chews.
- Chuck, a hen, a dear.
- Chuckie, dim. of chuck, but usually signifies mother hen, an old dear.
- Chuffie, fat-faced.
- Chuse, to choose.
- Cit, the civet.
- Cit, a citizen, a merchant.
- Clachan, a small village about a church.
- Claeding, clothing.
- Claes, claise, clothes.
- Claith, cloth.
- Claithing, clothing.
- Clankie, a severe knock.
- Clap, the clapper of a mill.
- Clark, a clerk.
- Clark, clerkly, scholarly.
- Clarkit, clerked, wrote.
- Clarty, dirty.
- Clash, an idle tale; gossip.
- Clash, to tattle.
- Clatter, noise, tattle, talk, disputation, babble.
- Clatter, to make a noise by striking; to babble; to prattle.
- Claught, clutched, seized.
- Claughtin, clutching, grasping.
- Claut, a clutch, a handful.
- Claut, to scrape.
- Claver, clover.
- Clavers, gossip, nonsense.
- Claw, a scratch, a blow.
- Claw, to scratch, to strike.
- Clay-cauld, clay-cold.
- Claymore, a two-handed Highland sword.
- Cleckin, a brood.
- Cleed, to clothe.
- Cleek, to snatch.
- Cleekit, linked arms.
- Cleg, gadfly.
- Clink, a sharp stroke; jingle.
- Clink, money, coin.
- Clink, to chink.
- Clink, to rhyme.
- Clinkin, with a smart motion.
- Clinkum, clinkumbell, the beadle, the bellman.
- Clips, shears.
- Clish-ma-claver, gossip, taletelling; non-sense.
- Clockin-time, clucking- (i. e., hatching-) time.
- Cloot, the hoof.
- Clootie, cloots, hoofie, hoofs (a nickname of the Devil).
- Clour, a bump or swelling after a blow.
- Clout, a cloth, a patch.
- Clout, to patch.
- Clud, a cloud.
- Clunk, to make a hollow sound.
- Coble, a broad and flat boat.
- Cock, the mark (in curling).
- Cockie, dim. of cock (applied to an old man).
- Cocks, fellows, good fellows.
- Cod, a pillow.
- Coft, bought.
- Cog, a wooden drinking vessel, a porridge dish, a corn measure for horses.
- Coggie, dim. of cog, a little dish.
- Coil, Coila, Kyle (one of the ancient districts of Ayrshire).
- Collieshangie, a squabble.
- Cood, cud.
- Coof, v. cuif.
- Cookit, hid.
- Coor, cover.
- Cooser, a courser, a stallion.
- Coost (i. e., cast), looped, threw off, tossed, chucked.
- Cootie, a small pail.
- Cootie, leg-plumed.
- Corbies, ravens, crows.
- Core, corps.
- Corn mou, corn heap.
- Corn't, fed with corn.
- Corse, corpse.
- Corss, cross.
- Cou'dna, couldna, couldn't.
- Countra, country.
- Coup, to capsize.
- Couthie, couthy, loving, affable, cosy, comfortable.
- Cowe, to scare, to daunt.
- Cowe, to lop.
- Crack, tale; a chat; talk.
- Crack, to chat, to talk.
- Craft, croft.
- Craft-rig, croft-ridge.
- Craig, the throat.
- Craig, a crag.
- Craigie, dim. of craig, the throat.
- Craigy, craggy.
- Craik, the corn-crake, the land-rail.
- Crambo-clink, rhyme.
- Crambo-jingle, rhyming.
- Cran, the support for a pot or kettle.
- Crankous, fretful.
- Cranks, creakings.
- Cranreuch, hoar-frost.
- Crap, crop, top.
- Craw, crow.
- Creel, an osier basket.
- Creepie-chair, stool of repentance.
- Creeshie, greasy.
- Crocks, old ewes.
- Cronie, intimate friend.
- Crooded, cooed.
- Croods, coos.
- Croon, moan, low.
- Croon, to toll.
- Crooning, humming.
- Croose, crouse, cocksure, set, proud, cheerful.
- Crouchie, hunchbacked.
- Crousely, confidently.
- Crowdie, meal and cold water, meal and milk, porridge.
- Crowdie-time, porridge-time (i. e., breakfast-time).
- Crowlin, crawling.
- Crummie, a horned cow.
- Crummock, cummock, a cudgel, a crooked staff.
- Crump, crisp.
- Crunt, a blow.
- Cuddle, to fondle.
- Cuif, coof, a dolt, a ninny; a dastard.
- Cummock, v. crummock.
- Curch, a kerchief for the head.
- Curchie, a curtsy.
- Curler, one who plays at curling.
- Curmurring, commotion.
- Curpin, the crupper of a horse.
- Curple, the crupper (i. e., buttocks).
- Cushat, the wood pigeon.
- Custock, the pith of the colewort.
- Cutes, feet, ankles.
- Cutty, short.
- Cutty-stools, stools of repentance.
- Dad, daddie, father.
- Daez't, dazed.
- Daffin, larking, fun.
- Daft, mad, foolish.
- Dails, planks.
- Daimen icker, an odd ear of corn.
- Dam, pent-up water, urine.
- Damie, dim. of dame.
- Dang, pret. of ding.
- Danton, v. daunton.
- Darena, dare not.
- Darg, labor, task, a day's work.
- Darklins, in the dark.
- Daud, a large piece.
- Daud, to pelt.
- Daunder, saunter.
- Daunton, to daunt.
- Daur, dare.
- Daurna, dare not.
- Daur't, dared.
- Daut, dawte, to fondle.
- Daviely, spiritless.
- Daw, to dawn.
- Dawds, lumps.
- Dawtingly, prettily, caressingly.
- Dead, death.
- Dead-sweer, extremely reluctant.
- Deave, to deafen.
- Deil, devil.
- Deil-haet, nothing (Devil have it).
- Deil-ma-care, Devil may care.
- Deleeret, delirious, mad.
- Delvin, digging.
- Dern'd, hid.
- Descrive, to describe.
- Deuk, duck.
- Devel, a stunning blow.
- Diddle, to move quickly.
- Dight, to wipe.
- Dight, winnowed, sifted.
- Din, dun, muddy of complexion.
- Ding, to beat, to surpass.
- Dink, trim.
- Dinna, do not.
- Dirl, to vibrate, to ring.
- Diz'n, dizzen, dozen.
- Dochter, daughter.
- Doited, muddled, doting; stupid, bewildered.
- Donsie, vicious, bad-tempered; restive; testy.
- Dool, wo, sorrow.
- Doolfu', doleful, woful.
- Dorty, pettish.
- Douce, douse, sedate, sober, prudent.
- Douce, doucely, dousely, sedately, prudently.
- Doudl'd, dandled.
- Dought (pret. of dow), could.
- Douked, ducked.
- Doup, the bottom.
- Doup-skelper, bottom-smacker.
- Dour-doure, stubborn, obstinate; cutting.
- Dow, dowe, am (is or are) able, can.
- Dow, a dove.
- Dowf, dowff, dull.
- Dowie, drooping, mournful.
- Dowilie, drooping.
- Downa, can not.
- Downa-do (can not do), lack of power.
- Doylt, stupid, stupefied.
- Doytin, doddering.,
- Dozen'd, torpid.
- Dozin, torpid.
- Draigl't, draggled.
- Drant, prosing.
- Drap, drop.
- Draunting, tedious.
- Dree, endure, suffer.
- Dreigh, v. dreight.
- Dribble, drizzle.
- Driddle, to toddle.
- Dreigh, tedious, dull.
- Droddum, the breech.
- Drone, part of the bagpipe.
- Droop-rumpl't, short-rumped.
- Drouk, to wet, to drench.
- Droukit, wetted.
- Drouth, thirst.
- Drouthy, thirsty.
- Druken, drucken, drunken.
- Drumlie, muddy, turbid.
- Drummock, raw meal and cold water.
- Drunt, the huff.
- Dry, thirsty.
- Dub, puddle, slush.
- Duddie, ragged.
- Duddies, dim. of duds, rags.
- Duds, rags, clothes.
- Dung, v. dang.
- Dunted, throbbed, beat.
- Dunts, blows.
- Durk, dirk.
- Dusht, pushed or thrown down violently.
- Dwalling, dwelling.
- Dwalt, dwelt.
- Dyke, a fence (of stone or turf), a wall.
- Dyvor, a bankrupt.
- Ear', early.
- Earn, eagle.
- Eastlin, eastern.
- E'e, eye.
- E'ebrie, eyebrow.
- Een, eyes.
- E'en, even.
- E'en, evening.
- E'enin', evening.
- E'er, ever.
- Eerie, apprehensive; inspiring ghostly fear.
- Eild, eld.
- Eke, also.
- Elbuck, elbow.
- Eldritch, unearthly, haunted, fearsome.
- Elekit, elected.
- Ell (Scots), thirty-seven inches.
- Eller, elder.
- En', end.
- Eneugh, enough.
- Enfauld, infold.
- Enow, enough.
- Erse, Gaelic.
- Ether-stane, adder-stone.
- Ettle, aim.
- Evermair, evermore.
- Ev'n down, downright, positive.
- Eydent, diligent.
- Fa', fall.
- Fa', lot, portion.
- Fa', to get; suit; claim.
- Faddom'd, fathomed.
- Fae, foe.
- Faem, foam.
- Faiket, let off, excused.
- Fain, fond, glad.
- Fainness, fondness.
- Fair fa', good befall! welcome.
- Fairin., a present from a fair.
- Fallow, fellow.
- Fa'n, fallen.
- Fand, found.
- Far-aff, far-off.
- Farls, oat-cakes.
- Fash, annoyance.
- Fash, to trouble; worry.
- Fash'd, fash't, bothered; irked.
- Fashious, troublesome.
- Fasten-e'en, Fasten's Even (the evening before Lent).
- Faught, a fight.
- Fauld, the sheep-fold.
- Fauld, folded.
- Faulding, sheep-folding.
- Faun, fallen.
- Fause, false.
- Fause-house, hole in a cornstack.
- Faut, fault.
- Fautor, transgressor.
- Fawsont, seemly, well-doing; good-looking.
- Feat, spruce.
- Fecht, fight.
- Feck, the bulk, the most part.
- Feck, value, return.
- Fecket, waistcoat; sleeve waistcoat (used by farm-servants as both vest and
- jacket).
- Feckless, weak, pithless, feeble.
- Feckly, mostly.
- Feg, a fig.
- Fegs, faith!
- Feide, feud.
- Feint, v. fient.
- Feirrie, lusty.
- Fell, keen, cruel, dreadful, deadly; pungent.
- Fell, the cuticle under the skin.
- Felly, relentless.
- Fen', a shift.
- Fen', fend, to look after; to care for; keep off.
- Fenceless, defenseless.
- Ferlie, ferly, a wonder.
- Ferlie, to marvel.
- Fetches, catches, gurgles.
- Fetch't, stopped suddenly.
- Fey, fated to death.
- Fidge, to fidget, to wriggle.
- Fidgin-fain, tingling-wild.
- Fiel, well.
- Fient, fiend, a petty oath.
- Fient a, not a, devil a.
- Fient haet, nothing (fiend have it).
- Fient haet o', not one of.
- Fient-ma-care, the fiend may care (I don't!).
- Fier, fiere, companion.
- Fier, sound, active.
- Fin', to find.
- Fissle, tingle, fidget with delight.
- Fit, foot.
- Fittie-lan', the near horse of the hind-most pair in the plough.
- Flae, a flea.
- Flaffin, flapping.
- Flainin, flannen, flannel.
- Flang, flung.
- Flee, to fly.
- Fleech, wheedle.
- Fleesh, fleece.
- Fleg, scare, blow, jerk.
- Fleth'rin, flattering.
- Flewit, a sharp lash.
- Fley, to scare.
- Flichterin, fluttering.
- Flinders, shreds, broken pieces.
- Flinging, kicking out in dancing; capering.
- Flingin-tree, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses
- in a stable; a flail.
- Fliskit, fretted, capered.
- Flit, to shift.
- Flittering, fluttering.
- Flyte, scold.
- Fock, focks, folk.
- Fodgel, dumpy.
- Foor, fared (i. e., went).
- Foorsday, Thursday.
- Forbears, forebears, forefathers.
- Forby, forbye, besides.
- Forfairn, worn out; forlorn.
- Forfoughten, exhausted.
- Forgather, to meet with.
- Forgie, to forgive.
- Forjesket, jaded.
- Forrit, forward.
- Fother, fodder.
- Fou, fow, full (i. e., drunk).
- Foughten, troubled.
- Foumart, a polecat.
- Foursome, a quartet.
- Fouth, fulness, abundance.
- Fow, v. fou.
- Fow, a bushel.
- Frae, from.
- Freath, to froth,
- Fremit, estranged, hostile.
- Fu', full.
- Fu'-han't, full-handed.
- Fud, a short tail (of a rabbit or hare).
- Fuff't, puffed.
- Fur, furr, a furrow.
- Fur-ahin, the hindmost plough-horse in the furrow.
- Furder, success.
- Furder, to succeed.
- Furm, a wooden form.
- Fusionless, pithless, sapless, tasteless,
- Fyke, fret.
- Fyke, to fuss; fidget.
- Fyle, to defile, to foul.
- Gab, the mouth.
- Gab, to talk.
- Gabs, talk.
- Gae, gave.
- Gae, to go.
- Gaed, went.
- Gaen, gone.
- Gaets, ways, manners.
- Gairs, gores.
- Gane, gone.
- Gang, to go.
- Gangrel, vagrant.
- Gar, to cause, to make, to compel.
- Garcock, the moorcock.
- Garten, garter.
- Gash, wise; self-complacent (implying prudence and prosperity); talkative.
- Gashing, talking, gabbing.
- Gat, got.
- Gate, way-road, manner.
- Gatty, enervated.
- Gaucie, v. Gawsie.
- Gaud, a. goad.
- Gaudsman, goadsman, driver of the plough-team.
- Gau'n. gavin.
- Gaun, going.
- Gaunted, gaped, yawned.
- Gawky, a foolish woman or lad.
- Gawky, foolish.
- Gawsie, buxom; jolly.
- Gaylies, gaily, rather.
- Gear, money, wealth; goods; stuff.
- Geck, to sport; toss the head.
- Ged. a pike.
- Gentles, gentry.
- Genty, trim and elegant.
- Geordie, dim. of George, a guinea.
- Get, issue, offspring, breed.
- Ghaist, ghost.
- Gie, to give.
- Gied, gave.
- Gien, given.
- Gif, if.
- Giftie, dim. of gift.
- Giglets, giggling youngsters or maids.
- Gillie, dim. of gill (glass of whiskey).
- Gilpey, young girl.
- Gimmer, a young ewe.
- Gin, if, should, whether; by.
- Girdle, plate of metal for firing cakes, bannocks.
- Girn, to grin, to twist the face (but from pain or rage, not joy); gapes;
- snarls.
- Gizz, wig.
- Glaikit, foolish, thoughtless, giddy.
- Glaizie, glossy, shiny.
- Glaum'd, grasped.
- Gled, a hawk, a kite.
- Gleede, a glowing coal.
- Gleg, nimble, sharp, keen-witted.
- Gleg, smartly.
- Glieb, a portion of land.
- Glib-gabbet, smooth-tongued.
- Glint, sparkle.
- Gloamin, twilight; gloamin-shot, sunset.
- Glow'r, stare.
- Glunch, frown, growl.
- Goavin, looking dazedlyl; mooning.
- Gotten, got.
- Gowan, the wild, or mountain, daisy.
- Gowany, covered with wild daisies.
- Gowd, gold.
- Gowdie, the head.
- Gowff'd, struck, as in the game of golf.
- Gowk, the cuckoo, a dolt.
- Gowling, lamenting (as a dog in grief).
- Graff, a grave, a vault.
- Grain'd, groaned.
- Graip, a dung-fork.
- Graith, implements, gear; furniture; attire.
- Graithing, gearing, vestments.
- Grane, groan.
- Grannie, graunie, grandmother.
- Grape, grope.
- Grat, wept.
- Gree, the prize (degree).
- Gree, to agree.
- Greet, to weep.
- Groanin maut, groaning malt, brewed for a lying-in.
- Grozet, a gooseberry.
- Grumphie, the pig.
- Grun', the ground.
- Gruntle, the face.
- Gruntle, dim. of grunt.
- Grunzie, growing.
- Grutten, wept.
- Gude, God.
- Guid, gude, good.
- Guid-e'en, good evening.
- Guid-father, father-in-law.
- Guid-man, husband.
- Guid-wife. mistress of the house.
- Guid-willie, hearty, full of good-will.
- Gullie, gully, a large knife.
- Gulravage, riotous play.
- Gumlie, muddy.
- Gumption, wisdom.
- Gusty, tasty.
- Gutcher, goodsire, grandfather.
- Ha', hall.
- Ha' folk, the servants.
- Haddin, holding, inheritance.
- Hae, have.
- Haet, a thing.
- Haffet, hauffet, the temple, the side of the head.
- Haffets, side-locks.
- Hafflins, half, partly.
- Hag, a moss, a broken bog.
- Haggis, a special Scots pudding, made of sheep's lungs, liver and heart,
- onions and oatmeal, boiled in a sheep's stomach.
- Hain, to spare, to save.
- Hairst, har'st, harvest.
- Haith, faith (an oath).
- Haivers, v. havers.
- Hal', hald, holding, possession.
- Hale, hail, the whole.
- Hale, health.
- Hale, hail, whole, healthy.
- Halesome, wholesome.
- Hallan, a partition wall, a porch, outer door.
- Halloween, All Saints' Eve (31st of October).
- Hallowmas, All Saints' Day (1st of November).
- Haly, holy.
- Hame, home,
- Han', haun, hand.
- Han-darg, v. darg.
- Hand-wal'd, hand-picked (i.e., choicest).
- Hangie, hangman (nickname of the Devil).
- Hansel, the first gift; earnest.
- Hap, a wrap, a covering against cold.
- Hap, to shelter.
- Hap, to hop.
- Happer, hopper (of a mill).
- Hap-step-an'-lowp. hop-step-and-jump.
- Harkit, hearkened.
- Harn, coarse cloth.
- Hash, an oaf.
- Haslock woo, the wool on the neck of a sheep.
- Haud, to hold, to keep.
- Hauf, half.
- Haughs, low-lying rich lands by a river.
- Haun, v. han',
- Haurl, to trail.
- Hause, cuddle, embrace.
- Haveril, hav'rel, one who talks nonsense.
- Havers, nonsense.
- Havins, manners, conduct.
- Hawkie, a white-faced cow; a cow.
- Heal, v. hale.
- Healsome, v. halesome.
- Hecht, to promise; threaten.
- Heckle, a flax-comb.
- Heels-o'er-gowdie, v. gowdie.
- Heeze, to hoist.
- Heich, heigh, high.
- Hem-shin'd, crooked-shin'd.
- Herd, a herd-boy.
- Here awa, hereabout.
- Herry, to harry.
- Herryment, spoliation.
- Hersel, herself.
- Het, hot.
- Heugh, a hollow or pit; a crag, a steep bank.
- Heuk, a hook.
- Hilch, to hobble.
- Hiltie-skiltie, helter-skelter.
- Himsel, himselfk
- Hiney, hinny, honey.
- Hing, to hang.
- Hirple, to move unevenly; to limp.
- Hissels, so many cattle as one person can attend (R. B.).
- Histie, bare.
- Hizzie, a hussy, a wench.
- Hoast, cough.
- Hoddin, the motion of a sage countryman riding on a cart-horse (R. B.).
- Hoddin-grey, coarse gray woolen.
- Hoggie, dim. of hog; a lamb.
- Hog-score, a line on the curling rink.
- Hog-shouther, a kind of horse-play by jostling with the shoulder; to jostle.
- Hoodie-craw, the hooded crow, the carrion crow.
- Hoodock, grasping, vulturish.
- Hooked, caught.
- Hool, the outer case, the sheath.
- Hoolie, softly.
- Hoord, hoard.
- Hoordet, hoarded.
- Horn, a horn spoon; a comb of horn.
- Hornie, the Devil.
- Host, v. hoast.
- Hotch'd, jerked.
- Houghmagandie, fornication.
- Houlet, v. howlet.
- Houpe, hope.
- Hove, swell.
- Howdie, howdy, a midwife.
- Howe, hollow.
- Howk, to dig.
- Howlet, the owl.
- Hoyse, a hoist.
- Hoy't, urged (R. B.).
- Hoyte, to amble crazily (R. B.).
- Hughoc, dim. of Hugh.
- Hullions, slovens.
- Hunder, a hundred.
- Hunkers, hams.
- Hurcheon, the hedgehog.
- Hurchin, urchin.
- Hurdies, the loins, the crupper (R. B.) (i. e., the buttocks).
- Hurl, to trundle.
- Hushion, a footless stocking.
- Hyte, furious.
- I', in.
- Icker, an ear of corn.
- Ier-oe, a great-grandchild.
- Ilk, ilka, each, every.
- Ill o't, bad at it.
- Ill-taen, ill-taken.
- Ill-thief. the Devil.
- Ill-willie, ill-natured, niggardly.
- Indentin, indenturing.
- Ingine, genius, ingenuity; wit.
- Ingle, the fire, the fireside.
- Ingle-cheek, fireside (properly the jamb of the fireplace).
- Ingle-lowe, ingle-low, flame of the fire.
- I'se, I shall, or will.
- Itsel', itself.
- Ither, other, another.
- Jad, a jade.
- Janwar, January.
- Jauk, to trifle, to dally.
- Jauner, gabber.
- Jauntie, dim. of jaunt.
- Jaup, splash.
- Jaw, talk, impudence.
- Jaw, to throw, to dash.
- Jeeg, to jog.
- Jillet, a jilt.
- Jimp, small, slender.
- Jimply, neatly.
- Jimps, stays.
- Jink, the slip.
- Jink, to frisk, to sport, to dodge.
- Jinker, dodger (coquette); a jinker noble; a noble goer.
- Jirkinet, bodice.
- Jirt, a jerk.
- Jiz, a wig.
- Jo, a sweetheart.
- Jocteleg, a clasp-knife.
- Jouk, to duck, to cover, to dodge.
- Jow, to jow, a verb which included both the swinging motion and pealing
- sound of a large bell (R. B.).
- Jumpet, jumpit, jumped.
- Jundie, to jostle.
- Jurr, a servant wench.
- Kae, a jackdaw.
- Kail, kale, the colewort; cabbage; Scots' broth.
- Kail-blade, the leaf of the colewort.
- Kail-gullie, a cabbage knife.
- Kail-runt, the stem of the colewort.
- Kail-whittle, a cabbage knife.
- Kail-yard, a kitchen garden.
- Kain, kane, rents in kind.
- Kame, a comb.
- Kebars, rafters.
- Kebbuck, a cheese; a kebbuck heel = the last crust of a cheese.
- Keckle, to cackle, to giggle.
- Keek, look, glance.
- Keekin-glass, the looking-glass.
- Keel, red chalk.
- Kelpies, river demons.
- Ken, to know.
- Kenna, know not.
- Kennin, a very little (merely as much as can be perceived).
- Kep, to catch.
- Ket, the fleece on a sheep's body.
- Key, quay.
- Kiaugh, anxiety.
- Kilt, to tuck up.
- Kimmer, a wench, a gossip; a wife.
- Kin', kind.
- King's-hood, the 2d stomach in a ruminant (equivocal for the scrotum).
- Kintra, country.
- Kirk, church.
- Kirn, a churn.
- Kirn, harvest home.
- Kirsen, to christen.
- Kist, chest, counter.
- Kitchen, to relish.
- Kittle, difficult, ticklish, delicate, fickle.
- Kittle, to tickle.
- Kittlin, kitten.
- Kiutlin, cuddling.
- Knaggie, knobby.
- Knappin-hammers, hammers for breaking stones.
- Knowe, knoll.
- Knurl, knurlin, dwarf.
- Kye, cows.
- Kytes, bellies.
- Kythe, to show.
- Laddie, dim. of lad.
- Lade, a load.
- Lag, backward.
- Laggen, the bottom angle of a wooden dish.
- Laigh, low.
- Laik, lack.
- Lair, lore, learning.
- Laird, landowner.
- Lairing, sticking or sinking in moss or mud.
- Laith, loath.
- Laithfu', loathful, sheepish.
- Lallan, lowland.
- Lallans, Scots Lowland vernacular.
- Lammie, dim. of lamb.
- Lan', land.
- Lan'-afore, the foremost horse on the unplowed land side.
- Lan'-ahin, the hindmost horse on the unplowed land side.
- Lane, lone.
- Lang, long.
- Lang syne, long since, long ago.
- Lap, leapt.
- Lave, the rest.
- Laverock, lav'rock, the lark.
- Lawin, the reckoning.
- Lea, grass, untilled land.
- Lear, lore, learning.
- Leddy, lady.
- Lee-lang, live-long.
- Leesome, lawful.
- Leeze me on, dear is to me; blessings on; commend me to.
- Leister, a fish-spear.
- Len', to lend.
- Leugh, laugh'd.
- Leuk, look.
- Ley-crap, lea-crop.
- Libbet, castrated.
- Licks, a beating.
- Lien, lain.
- Lieve, lief.
- Lift, the sky.
- Lift, a load.
- Lightly, to disparage, to scorn.
- Lilt, to sing.
- Limmer, to jade; mistress.
- Lin, v. linn.
- Linn, a waterfall.
- Lint, flax.
- Lint-white, flax-colored.
- Lintwhite, the linnet.
- Lippen'd, trusted.
- Lippie, dim. of lip.
- Loan, a lane,
- Loanin, the private road leading to a farm.
- Lo'ed, loved.
- Lon'on, London.
- Loof (pl. looves), the palm of the hand.
- Loon, loun, lown, a fellow, a varlet.
- Loosome, lovable.
- Loot, let.
- Loove, love.
- Looves, v. loof.
- Losh, a minced oath.
- Lough, a pond, a lake.
- Loup, lowp, to leap.
- Low, lowe, a flame.
- Lowin, lowing, flaming, burning.
- Lown, v. loon.
- Lowp, v. loup.
- Lowse, louse, to untie, let loose.
- Lucky, a grandmother, an old woman; an ale wife.
- Lug, the ear.
- Lugget, having ears.
- Luggie, a porringer.
- Lum, the chimney.
- Lume, a loom.
- Lunardi, a balloon bonnet.
- Lunches, full portions.
- Lunt, a column of smoke or steam.
- Luntin, smoking.
- Luve, love.
- Lyart, gray in general; discolored by decay or old age.
- Lynin, lining.
- Mae, more.
- Mailen, mailin, a farm.
- Mailie, Molly.
- Mair, more.
- Maist. most.
- Maist, almost.
- Mak, make.
- Mak o', make o', to pet, to fondle.
- Mall, Mally.
- Manteele, a mantle.
- Mark, merk, an old Scots coin (13 1-3d. sterling).
- Mashlum, of mixed meal.
- Maskin-pat, the teapot.
- Maukin, a hare.
- Maun, must.
- Maunna, mustn't.
- Maut, malt.
- Mavis, the thrush.
- Mawin, mowing.
- Mawn, mown.
- Mawn, a large basket.
- Mear, a mare.
- Meikle, mickle, muckle, much, great.
- Melder, a grinding corn.
- Mell, to meddle.
- Melvie, to powder with meal-dust.
- Men', mend.
- Mense, tact, discretion, politeness.
- Menseless, unmannerly.
- Merle, the blackbird.
- Merran, Marian.
- Mess John, Mass John, the parish priest, the minister.
- Messin, a cur, a mongrel.
- Midden, a dunghill.
- Midden-creels, manure-baskets.
- Midden dub, midden puddle.
- Midden-hole, a gutter at the bottom of the dunghill.
- Milking shiel, the milking shed.
- Mim, prim, affectedly meek.
- Mim-mou'd, prim-lipped.
- Min', mind, remembrance.
- Mind, to remember, to bear in mind.
- Minnie, mother.
- Mirk, dark.
- Misca', to miscall, to abuse.
- Mishanter, mishap.
- Mislear'd, mischievous, unmannerly.
- Mistak, mistake.
- Misteuk, mistook.
- Mither, mother.
- Mixtie-maxtie, confused.
- Monie, many.
- Mools, crumbling earth, grave.
- Moop, to nibble, to keep close company, to meddle.
- Mottie, dusty.
- Mou', the mouth.
- Moudieworts, moles.
- Muckle, v. meikle.
- Muslin-kail, beefless broth.
- Mutchkin, an English pint.
- Na, nae, no, not.
- Naething, naithing, nothing.
- Naig, a nag.
- Nane, none,
- Nappy, ale, liquor.
- Natch, a notching implement; abuse.
- Neebor, neibor, neighbor.
- Needna, needn't.
- Neist, next.
- Neuk, newk, a nook, a corner.
- New-ca'd, newly driven.
- Nick (Auld), Nickie-ben, a name of the Devil.
- Nick, to sever; to slit; to nail, to seize away.
- Nickie-ben, v. Nick.
- Nick-nackets, curiosities.
- Nicks, cuts; the rings on a cow's horns.
- Nieve, the fist.
- Nieve-fu', fistful.
- Niffer, exchange.
- Nit, a nut.
- No, not.
- Nocht, nothing.
- Norland, northern.
- Nowt, nowte, cattle.
- O', of.
- O'erword, the refrain; catchword.
- Onie, any.
- Or, ere, before.
- Orra, extra.
- O't, of it.
- Ought, aught.
- Oughtlins, aughtlins, aught in the least; at all.
- Ourie, shivering, drooping.
- Outler, unhoused.
- Owre, over, too.
- Owsen, oxen.
- Owthor, author.
- Oxter'd, held up under the arms.
- Pack an' thick, confidential.
- Paidle, to paddle, to wade; to walk with a weak action.
- Paidle, nail-bag.
- Painch, the paunch.
- Paitrick, a partridge; used equivocally of a wanton girl.
- Pang, to cram.
- Parishen, the parish.
- Parritch, porridge.
- Parritch-pats, porridge-pots.
- Pat, pot.
- Pat, put.
- Pattle, pettle, a plow-staff.
- Paughty, haughty.
- Paukie, pauky, pawkie, artful, sly.
- Pechan, the stomach.
- Pechin, panting, blowing.
- Penny-fee, wage in money.
- Penny-wheep, small beer.
- Pettle, v. pattle.
- Philibeg, the Highlander's kilt.
- Phraisin, flattering, wheedling.
- Phrase, to flatter, to wheedle.
- Pickle, a few, a little.
- Pint (Scots), three imperial pints.
- Pit, put.
- Placads, proclamations.
- Plack, four pennies (Scots).
- Plackless, penniless.
- Plaiden, coarse woolen cloth.
- Plaister, plaster.
- Plenish'd, stocked.
- Pleugh, plew, a plow.
- Pliskie, a trick.
- Pliver, a plover.
- Pock, a poke, a bag, a wallet.
- Poind, to seize, to distrain, to impound.
- Poortith, poverty.
- Pou, to pull.
- Pouch, pocket.
- Pouk, to poke.
- Poupit, pulpit.
- Pouse, a push.
- Poussie, a hare (also a cat).
- Pouther, powther, powder.
- Pouts, chicks.
- Pow, the poll, the head.
- Pownie, a pony.
- Pow't, pulled.
- Pree'd, pried (proved), tasted.
- Preen, a pin.
- Prent, print.
- Prie, to taste.
- Prief, proof.
- Priggin, haggling.
- Primsie, dim. of prim, precise.
- Proveses, provosts.
- Pu', to pull.
- Puddock-stools, toadstools, mushrooms.
- Puir, poor.
- Pun', pund, pound.
- Pursie, dim. of purse.
- Pussie, a hare.
- Pyet, a magpie.
- Pyke, to pick.
- Pyles, grains.
- Quat, quit, quitted.
- Quean, a young woman, a lass.
- Queir, choir.
- Quey, a young cow.
- Quietlin-wise, quietly.
- Quo', quod, quoth.
- Rab, rob.
- Rade, rode.
- Raep, a rope.
- Ragweed, ragwort.
- Raibles, recites by rote.
- Rair, to roar.
- Rairin, roaring.
- Rair't, roared.
- Raise, rase, rose.
- Raize, to excite, anger.
- Ramfeezl'd, exhausted.
- Ramgunshoch, surly.
- Ram-stam, headlong.
- Randie, lawless, obstreperous.
- Randie, randy, a scoundrel, a rascal.
- Rant, to rollick, to roister.
- Rants, merry meetings; rows.
- Rape, v. raep.
- Raploch, homespun.
- Rash, a rush.
- Rash-buss, a clump of rushes.
- Rashy, rushy.
- Rattan, rattoon, a rat.
- Ratton-key, the rat-quay.
- Raucle, rough, bitter, sturdy.
- Raught, reached.
- Raw, a row.
- Rax, to stretch, to extend.
- Ream, cream, foam.
- Ream, to cream, to foam.
- Reave, to rob.
- Rebute, rebuff.
- Red, advised, afraid.
- Red, rede, to advise, to counsel.
- Red-wat-shod, red-wet-shod.
- Red-wud, stark mad.
- Reek, smoke.
- Reekie, reeky, smoky.
- Reestit, scorched.
- Reestit, refused to go.
- Reif, theiving.
- Remead, remedy.
- Rickles, small stacks of corn in the fields.
- Rief, plunder.
- Rig, a ridge.
- Riggin, the roof-tree, the roof.
- Rigwoodie, lean.
- Rin, to run.
- Ripp, a handful of corn from the sheaf.
- Ripplin-kame, the wool or flax comb.
- Riskit, cracked.
- Rive, to split, to tear, to tug, to burst.
- Rock, a distaff.
- Rockin, a social meeting.
- Roon, round, shred.
- Roose, to praise, to flatter.
- Roose, reputation.
- Roosty, rusty.
- Rottan, a rat.
- Roun', round.
- Roupet, exhausted in voice.
- Routh, v. rowth.
- Routhie, well-stocked.
- Row, rowe, to roll; to flow, as a river; to wrap.
- Rowte, to low, to bellow.
- Rowth, plenty, a store.
- Rozet, resin.
- Run-deils, downright devils.
- Rung, a cudgel.
- Runkl'd, wrinkled.
- Runt, a cabbage or colewort stalk.
- Ryke, to reach.
- Sab, to sob.
- Sae, so.
- Saft, soft.
- Sair, sore, hard, severe, strong.
- Sair, to serve.
- Sair, sairly, sorely.
- Sairie, sorrowful, sorry.
- Sall, shall.
- Sandy, Sannack, dim. of Alexander.
- Sark, a shirt.
- Saugh, the willow.
- Saul, soul.
- Saumont, sawmont, the salmon.
- Saunt, saint.
- Saut, salt.
- Saut-backets, v. backets.
- Saw, to sow.
- Sawney, v. sandy.
- Sax, six.
- Scar, to scare.
- Scar, v. scaur.
- Scathe, scaith, damage; v. skaith.
- Scaud, to scald.
- Scaul, scold.
- Scauld, to scold.
- Scaur, afraid; apt to be scared.
- Scaur, a jutting rock or bank of earth.
- Scho, she.
- Scone, a soft flour cake.
- Sconner, disgust.
- Sconner, sicken.
- Scraichin, calling hoarsely.
- Screed, a rip, a rent.
- Screed, to repeat rapidly, to rattle.
- Scriechin, screeching.
- Scriegh, skriegh, v. skriegh.
- Scrievin, careering.
- Scrimpit, scanty.
- Scroggie, scroggy, scrubby.
- Sculdudd'ry, bawdry.
- See'd, saw.
- Seisins, freehold possessions.
- Sel, sel', sell, self.
- Sell'd, sell't, sold.
- Semple, simple.
- Sen', send.
- Set, to set off; to start.
- Set, sat.
- Sets, becomes.
- Shachl'd, shapeless.
- Shaird, shred, shard.
- Shanagan, a cleft stick.
- Shanna, shall not.
- Shaul, shallow.
- Shaver, a funny fellow.
- Shavie, trick.
- Shaw, a wood.
- Shaw, to show.
- Shearer, a reaper.
- Sheep-shank, a sheep's trotter; nae sheep-shank bane = a person of no small
- importance.
- Sheerly, wholly.
- Sheers, scissors.
- Sherra-moor, sheriffmuir.
- Sheugh, a ditch, a furrow; gutter.
- Sheuk, shook.
- Shiel, a shed, cottage.
- Shill, shrill.
- Shog, a shake.
- Shool, a shovel.
- Shoon, shoes.
- Shore, to offer, to threaten.
- Short syne, a little while ago.
- Shouldna, should not.
- Shouther, showther, shoulder.
- Shure, shore (did shear).
- Sic, such.
- Siccan, such a.
- Sicker, steady, certain; sicker score = strict conditions.
- Sidelins, sideways.
- Siller, silver; money in general.
- Simmer, summer.
- Sin, son.
- Sin', since.
- Sindry, sundry.
- Singet, singed, shriveled.
- Sinn, the sun.
- Sinny, sunny.
- Skaith, damage.
- Skeigh, skiegh, skittish.
- Skellum, a good-for-nothing.
- Skelp, a slap, a smack.
- Skelp, to spank; skelpin at it = driving at it.
- Skelpie-limmer's-face, a technical term in female scolding (R. B.).
- Skelvy, shelvy.
- Skiegh, v. skeigh.
- Skinking, watery.
- Skinklin, glittering.
- Skirl, to cry or sound shrilly.
- Sklent, a slant, a turn.
- Sklent, to slant, to squint, to cheat.
- Skouth, scope.
- Skriech, a scream.
- Skriegh, to scream, to whinny.
- Skyrin, flaring.
- Skyte, squirt, lash.
- Slade, slid.
- Slae, the sloe.
- Slap, a breach in a fence; a gate.
- Slaw, slow.
- Slee, sly, ingenious.
- Sleekit, sleek, crafty.
- Slidd'ry, slippery.
- Sloken, to slake.
- Slypet, slipped.
- Sma', small.
- Smeddum, a powder.
- Smeek, smoke.
- Smiddy, smithy.
- Smoor'd, smothered.
- Smoutie, smutty.
- Smytrie, a small collection; a litter.
- Snakin, sneering.
- Snap smart.
- Snapper, to stumble.
- Snash, abuse.
- Snaw, snow.
- Snaw-broo, snow-brew (melted snow).
- Sned, to lop, to prune.
- Sneeshin mill, a snuff-box.
- Snell, bitter, biting.
- Snick, a latch; snick-drawing = scheming; he weel a snick can draw = he is
- good at cheating.
- Snirtle, to snigger.
- Snoods, fillets worn by maids.
- Snool, to cringe, to snub.
- Snoove, to go slowly.
- Snowkit, snuffed.
- Sodger, soger, a soldier.
- Sonsie, sonsy, pleasant, good-natured, jolly.
- Soom, to swim.
- Soor, sour.
- Sough, v. sugh.
- Souk, suck.
- Soupe, sup, liquid.
- Souple, supple.
- Souter, cobbler.
- Sowens, porridge of oat flour.
- Sowps, sups.
- Sowth, to hum or whistle in a low tune.
- Sowther, to solder.
- Spae, to foretell.
- Spails, chips.
- Spairge, to splash; to spatter.
- Spak, spoke.
- Spates, floods.
- Spavie, the spavin.
- Spavit, spavined.
- Spean, to wean.
- Speat, a flood.
- Speel, to climb.
- Speer, spier, to ask.
- Speet, to spit.
- Spence, the parlor.
- Spier. v. speer.
- Spleuchan, pouch.
- Splore, a frolic; a carousal.
- Sprachl'd, clambered.
- Sprattle, scramble.
- Spreckled, speckled.
- Spring, a quick tune; a dance.
- Sprittie, full of roots or sprouts (a kind of rush).
- Sprush, spruce.
- Spunk, a match; a spark; fire, spirit.
- Spunkie, full of spirit.
- Spunkie, liquor, spirits.
- Spunkies, jack-o'-lanterns, will-o'-wisps.
- Spurtle-blade, the pot-stick.
- Squatter, to flap.
- Squattle, to squat; to settle.
- Stacher, to totter.
- Staggie, dim. of staig.
- Staig, a young horse.
- Stan', stand.
- Stane, stone.
- Stan't, stood.
- Stang, sting.
- Stank, a moat; a pond.
- Stap, to stop.
- Stapple, a stopper.
- Stark, strong.
- Starnies, dim. of starn, star.
- Starns, stars.
- Startle, to course.
- Staumrel, half-witted.
- Staw, a stall.
- Staw, to surfeit; to sicken.
- Staw, stole.
- Stechin, cramming.
- Steek, a stitch.
- Steek, to shut; to close.
- Steek, to shut; to touch, meddle with.
- Steeve, compact.
- Stell, a still.
- Sten, a leap; a spring.
- Sten't, sprang.
- Stented, erected; set on high.
- Stents, assessments, dues.
- Steyest, steepest.
- Stibble, stubble.
- Stibble-rig, chief reaper.
- Stick-an-stowe, completely.
- Stilt, limp (with the aid of stilts).
- Stimpart, a quarter peck.
- Stirk, a young bullock.
- Stock, a plant of cabbage; colewort.
- Stoited, stumbled.
- Stoiter'd, staggered.
- Stoor, harsh, stern.
- Stoun', pang, throb.
- Stoure, dust.
- Stourie, dusty.
- Stown, stolen.
- Stownlins, by stealth.
- Stoyte, to stagger.
- Strae death, death in bed. (i. e., on straw).
- Staik, to stroke.
- Strak, struck.
- Strang, strong.
- Straught, straight.
- Straught, to stretch.
- Streekit, stretched.
- Striddle, to straddle.
- Stron't, lanted.
- Strunt, liquor.
- Strunt, to swagger.
- Studdie, an anvil.
- Stumpie, dim. of stump; a worn quill.
- Sturt, worry, trouble.
- Sturt, to fret; to vex.
- Sturtin, frighted, staggered.
- Styme, the faintest trace.
- Sucker, sugar.
- Sud, should.
- Sugh, sough, sigh, moan, wail, swish.
- Sumph, churl.
- Sune, soon.
- Suthron, southern.
- Swaird, sward.
- Swall'd, swelled.
- Swank, limber.
- Swankies, strapping fellows.
- Swap, exchange.
- Swapped, swopped, exchanged.
- Swarf, to swoon.
- Swat, sweated.
- Swatch, sample.
- Swats, new ale.
- Sweer, v. dead-sweer.
- Swirl, curl.
- Swirlie, twisted, knaggy.
- Swith, haste; off and away.
- Swither, doubt, hesitation.
- Swoom, swim.
- Swoor, swore.
- Sybow, a young union.
- Syne, since, then.
- Tack, possession, lease.
- Tacket, shoe-nail.
- Tae, to.
- Tae, toe.
- Tae'd, toed.
- Taed, toad.
- Taen, taken.
- Taet, small quantity.
- Tairge, to target.
- Tak, take.
- Tald, told.
- Tane, one in contrast to other.
- Tangs, tongs.
- Tap, top.
- Tapetless, senseless.
- Tapmost, topmost.
- Tappet-hen, a crested hen-shaped bottle holding three quarts of claret.
- Tap-pickle, the grain at the top of the stalk.
- Topsalteerie, topsy-turvy.
- Targe, to examine.
- Tarrow, to tarry; to be reluctant, to murmur; to weary.
- Tassie, a goblet.
- Tauk, talk.
- Tauld, told.
- Tawie, tractable.
- Tawpie, a foolish woman.
- Tawted, matted.
- Teats, small quantities.
- Teen, vexation.
- Tell'd, told.
- Temper-pin, a fiddle-peg; the regulating pin of the spinning-wheel.
- Tent, heed.
- Tent, to tend; to heed; to observe.
- Tentie, watchful, careful, heedful.
- Tentier, more watchful.
- Tentless, careless.
- Tester, an old silver coin about sixpence in value.
- Teugh, tough.
- Teuk, took.
- Thack, thatch; thack and rape = the covering of a house, and so, home
- necessities.
- Thae, those.
- Thairm, small guts; catgut (a fiddle-string).
- Theckit, thatched.
- Thegither, together.
- Thick, v. pack an' thick.
- Thieveless, forbidding, spiteful.
- Thiggin, begging.
- Thir, these.
- Thirl'd, thrilled.
- Thole, to endure; to suffer.
- Thou'se, thou shalt.
- Thowe, thaw.
- Thowless, lazy, useless.
- Thrang, busy; thronging in crowds.
- Thrang, a throng.
- Thrapple, the windpipe.
- Thrave, twenty-four sheaves of corn.
- Thraw, a twist.
- Thraw, to twist; to turn; to thwart.
- Thraws, throes.
- Threap, maintain, argue.
- Threesome, trio.
- Thretteen, thirteen.
- Thretty, thirty.
- Thrissle, thistle.
- Thristed, thirsted.
- Through, mak to through = make good.
- Throu'ther (through other), pell-mell.
- Thummart, polecat.
- Thy lane, alone.
- Tight, girt, prepared.
- Till, to.
- Till't, to it.
- Timmer, timber, material.
- Tine, to lose; to be lost.
- Tinkler, tinker.
- Tint, lost
- Tippence, twopence.
- Tip, v. toop.
- Tirl, to strip.
- Tirl, to knock for entrance.
- Tither, the other.
- Tittlin, whispering.
- Tocher, dowry.
- Tocher, to give a dowry.
- Tocher-gude, marriage portion.
- Tod, the fox.
- To-fa', the fall.
- Toom, empty.
- Toop, tup, ram.
- Toss, the toast.
- Toun, town; farm steading.
- Tousie, shaggy.
- Tout, blast.
- Tow, flax, a rope.
- Towmond, towmont, a twelvemonth.
- Towsing, rumpling (equivocal).
- Toyte, to totter.
- Tozie, flushed with drink.
- Trams, shafts.
- Transmogrify, change.
- Trashtrie, small trash.
- Trews, trousers.
- Trig, neat, trim.
- Trinklin, flowing.
- Trin'le, the wheel of a barrow.
- Trogger, packman.
- Troggin, wares.
- Troke, to barter.
- Trouse, trousers.
- Trowth, in truth.
- Trump, a jew's harp.
- Tryste, a fair; a cattle-market.
- Trysted, appointed.
- Trysting, meeting.
- Tulyie, tulzie, a squabble; a tussle.
- Twa, two.
- Twafauld, twofold, double.
- Twal, twelve; the twal = twelve at night.
- Twalpennie worth, a penny worth (English money).
- Twang, twinge.
- Twa-three, two or three.
- Tway, two.
- Twin, twine, to rob; to deprive; bereave.
- Twistle, a twist; a sprain.
- Tyke, a dog.
- Tyne, v. tine.
- Tysday, Tuesday.
- Ulzie, oil.
- Unchancy, dangerous.
- Unco, remarkably, uncommonly, excessively.
- Unco, remarkable, uncommon, terrible (sarcastic).
- Uncos, news, strange things, wonders.
- Unkend, unknown.
- Unsicker, uncertain.
- Unskaithed, unhurt.
- Usquabae, usquebae, whisky.
- Vauntie, proud.
- Vera, very.
- Virls, rings.
- Vittle, victual, grain, food.
- Vogie, vain.
- Wa', waw, a wall.
- Wab, a web.
- Wabster, a weaver.
- Wad, to wager.
- Wad, to wed.
- Wad, would, would have.
- Wad'a, would have.
- Wadna, would not.
- Wadset, a mortgage.
- Wae, woful, sorrowful.
- Wae, wo; wae's me = wo is to me.
- Waesucks, alas!
- Wae worth, wo befall.
- Wair, v. ware.
- Wale, to choose.
- Wale, choice.
- Walie, wawlie, choice, ample, large.
- Wallop, to kick; to dangle; to gallop; to dance.
- Waly fa', ill befall!
- Wame, the belly.
- Wamefou, bellyful.
- Wan, won.
- Wanchancie, dangerous.
- Wanrestfu', restless.
- Ware, wair, to spend; bestow.
- Ware, worn.
- Wark, work.
- Wark-lume, tool.
- Warl', warld, world.
- Warlock, a wizard
- Warl'y, warldly, worldly.
- Warran, warrant.
- Warse, worse.
- Warsle, warstle, wrestle.
- Wast, west.
- Wastrie, waste.
- Wat, wet.
- Wat, wot, know.
- Water-fit, water-foot (the river's mouth).
- Water-kelpies, v. kelpies.
- Wauble, to wobble.
- Waught, a draft.
- Wauk, to awake.
- Wauken, to awaken.
- Waukin, awake.
- Waukit (with toil), horny.
- Waukrife, wakeful.
- Waulie, jolly.
- Waur, worse.
- Waur, to worst.
- Waur't, worsted, beat.
- Wean (wee one), a child.
- Weanies, babies.
- Weason, weasand.
- Wecht, a measure for corn.
- Wee, a little; a wee = a short space or time.
- Wee things, children.
- Weel, well.
- Weel-faured, well-favored.
- Weel-gaun, well-going.
- Weel-hain'd, well-saved.
- Weepers, mournings (on the steeve or hat).
- Werena, were not.
- We'se, we shall.
- Westlin, western.
- Wha, who.
- Whaizle, wheeze.
- Whalpet, whelped.
- Wham, whom.
- Whan, when.
- Whang, a shive.
- Whang, flog.
- Whar, whare, where.
- Wha's whose.
- Wha's, who is.
- Whase, whose.
- What for, whatfore, wherefore.
- Whatna, what.
- What reck, what matter; nevertheless.
- Whatt, whittled.
- Whaup, the curlew.
- Whaur, where.
- Wheep, v. penny-wheep.
- Wheep, jerk.
- Whid, a fib.
- Whiddin, scudding.
- Whids, gambols.
- Whigmeleeries, crotches.
- Whingin, whining.
- Whins, furze.
- Whirlygigums, flourishes.
- Whist, silence.
- Whissle, whistle.
- Whitter, a draft.
- Whittle, a knife.
- Wi', with.
- Wick a bore, hit a curling-stone obliquely and send it through an opening.
- Wi's, with his.
- Wi't, with it.
- Widdifu', gallows-worthy.
- Widdle, wriggle.
- Wiel, eddy.
- Wight, strong, stout.
- Wighter, more influential.
- Willcat wildcat.
- Willyart, disordered.
- Wimple, to meander.
- Win, won.
- Winn, to winnow.
- Winna, will not.
- Winnin, winding.
- Winnock, window.
- Winnock-bunker, v. bunker.
- Win't, did wind.
- Wintle, a somersault.
- Wintle, to stagger; to swing; to wriggle.
- Winze, a curse.
- Wiss, wish.
- Won, to dwell.
- Wonner, a wonder.
- Woo', wool.
- Woodie, woody, a rope (originally of withes); a gallows rope.
- Woodies, twigs, withes.
- Wooer-babs, love-knots.
- Wordy, worthy.
- Worset, worsted.
- Worth, v. wae worth.
- Wraith, ghost.
- Wrang, wrong.
- Wud, wild, mad.
- Wumble, wimble.
- Wyliecoat, undervest.
- Wyte (weight), blame.
- Wyte, to blame; to reproach.
- Yard, a garden; a stackyard.
- Yaud, an old mare.
- Yealings, coevals.
- Yell, dry (milkless).
- Yerd, earth.
- Yerkit, jerked.
- Yerl, earl.
- Ye'se, ye shall.
- Yestreen, last night.
- Yett, a gate.
- Yeuk, to itch.
- Yill, ale.
- Yill-Caup, ale-stoup.
- Yird, yearth, earth.
- Yokin, yoking; a spell; a day's work.
- Yon, yonder.
- 'Yont, beyond.
- Yowe, ewe.
- Yowie, dim. of ewe; a pet ewe.
- Yule, Christmas.