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SCOTS
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| abeigh |
aloof. |
| aboon abune |
above. |
| ae |
one. No -S hook. |
| aff |
off. |
| agee ajee |
off the straight, ajar. |
| aglee agley agly |
aside, askew. |
| airest |
earliest. |
| airn |
iron. |
| airt |
direction, quarter; (verb) to direct. |
| aiver |
a draft-horse. |
| aizle easle |
hot ashes. |
| ajee |
off the straight; disturbed, mildly deranged. |
| allenarly |
solely; only. |
| almous awmous |
alms. |
| alow alowe |
ablaze. |
| amissing |
wanting, lost. |
| ane |
one. |
| aneath |
beneath. |
| anerly |
only. |
| ann annat annates |
the half-year's stipend payable to a minister's wife on his death. |
| appleringie |
a herb, southernwood. |
| archilowe |
a treat in return. |
| arles |
an earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain. |
| arriage |
a former feudal service rendered by a tenant with his beasts of burden. |
| ashet |
a large plate. |
| asklent |
athwart, aslant. |
| assythment |
(Scots law) indemnification for injury; satisfaction. |
| atweel |
well, indeed. |
| auld |
old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e. Edinburgh. |
| aunter |
adventure. |
| awa |
away. |
| awanting |
missing, wanting. |
| aweel |
well, well then. |
| backet |
a shallow wooden trough for carrying ashes. |
| backsey |
sirloin. |
| backspeer backspeir |
to cross-question. |
| baggit |
full of spawn; (noun) a ripe female salmon that has failed to shed her eggs. |
| bairn |
a child. |
| bairnlike |
childlike. |
| baith |
both. |
| bajan |
a freshman at Aberdeen university. Cf. BEJANT, a freshman at Aberdeen. |
| bakeboard |
a board for kneading dough on. |
| ballant ballat |
a ballad; (verb) to make a ballad. |
| bammer bampot |
an idiot, fool. |
| bandster |
a binder of sheaves after the reaper. |
| bangster |
a violent person. |
| bannock bonnock |
a flat unleavened loaf of bread |
| bardy |
scolding, impudent: BARDIER, BARDIEST. |
| barnsbreaking |
a boisterous frolic; an injurious or mischievous activity. |
| barp |
a mound or cairn. |
| barrie+ |
very good: BARRIER, BARRIEST. |
| baubee bawbee |
a halfpenny. |
| bauchle |
a loose, down-at-heel shoe; (verb) to make shapeless, to bungle. |
| baudrons |
a quasi-proper name for the cat; also for the hare. N.B. There is no singular BAUDRON. |
| baur bawr |
joke, amusing incident. |
| baxter |
a baker; originally, a female baker. |
| bederal bedral |
a beadle. |
| beetmaster beetmister |
a help in need. |
| beezer |
something of exceptional quality. |
| beflum |
(Scott) to befool, cajole. |
| begunk |
to trick, to play a trick on. |
| bein bien |
well off, comfortable. |
| beinness |
the state of being comfortable, well off. |
| bejant |
a freshman at St Andrews. Cf. BAJAN, a freshman at Aberdeen. |
| belive |
with speed, immediately. |
| bethankit |
elliptical for God be thanked. |
| bield |
a shelter; (verb) to give shelter. |
| bieldy |
sheltering: BIELDIER, BIELDIEST. |
| big |
to build: BIGS, BIGGED, BIGGING. |
| biggin bigging |
a building. |
| birk |
birch. |
| birkie |
a lively or mettlesome fellow; (adj.) active, lively: BIRKIER, BIRKIEST. |
| birr |
to emit a whirring noise; move with a whirring noise. [Also, unrelatedly, a monetary unit of Ethiopia with pl. BIRROTCH]. |
| birse |
a bristle or bristles. |
| birsy |
bristly: BIRSIER, BIRSIEST. |
| bittie |
a small piece, a short time. |
| bittock |
a small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. |
| blad blaud |
a fragment, a broken off piece; (verb) to strike, disfigure. |
| blaeberry |
the bilberry. |
| blash |
a dash or splash of liquid or semi-liquid. |
| blate |
timidly awkward, bashful. |
| blatherskite bletherskate |
a contemptible person. |
| blatter |
a clattering rainy blast; (verb) to beat like rain on a window. |
| blaw |
to blow. |
| blawort blewart |
the harebell; the corn bluebottle. |
| blee |
complexion. |
| blellum |
an idle boring chatterer. |
| blude bluid |
blood. |
| bludie bludy |
bloody: BLUDIER, BLUDIEST. |
| bluidy |
bloody: BLUIDIER, BLUIDIEST. |
| blunk |
to spoil, bungle. |
| blunker |
a bungler. |
| bodle boddle |
a 17th century Scots copper coin. |
| bonie |
bonny. |
| bonspiel bonspell |
a curling match between clubs. |
| bool |
a bowl. |
| boortree bountree bourtree |
the elder tree. |
| bothan bothie bothy |
a hut, cabin. |
| bouk |
the body; bulk. |
| bourd |
an amusing tale, a jest; joking, banter, fun. |
| bowat bowet buat |
a lantern. |
| brachet bratchet |
a BRACH, a whelp |
| brae |
A steep bank beside a river valley; a hillside, a slope. |
| braeheid+ |
the summit of a hill or slope. |
| braird breer |
the first shoots of corn or other crops; (verb) of crops, to appear above the ground. |
| brander |
a gridiron; (verb) to cook on a gridiron. |
| brank |
to prance, toss the head. |
| branky |
showy: BRANKIER, BRANKIEST. |
| brattle |
to rush noisily. |
| braw |
fine, brave. |
| brawlie brawly |
very well: BRAWLIER, BRAWLIEST. |
| braws |
fine clothes. |
| brecham brechan |
a horse-collar. |
| bree |
the eyebrow; the liquor in which anything has been boiled. |
| breenge+ breinge+ |
a lunge forward; (verb) to lunge forward: BREENGES, BREENGING, BREENGED; BREINGES, BREINGING, BREINGED. |
| breest+ breist+ |
breast. Also BREIST. |
| brent |
steep: BRENTER, BRENTEST. |
| bricht+ |
bright: BRICHTER, BRICHTEST. |
| bridie |
a meat and onion turnover. |
| brochan |
gruel, porridge. |
| brockage |
fragments of crockery etc. |
| brocked brockit |
variegated, esp. black and white. |
| brog |
an awl; (verb) to prick with an awl. |
| broo buroo |
unemployment benefit; the office at which people receive it. |
| broose brouze |
a race at a wedding. |
| brose |
a dish of oatmeal with boiling water or milk poured on it. |
| browst |
a brewing. |
| bruckle |
liable to break, brittle. |
| bruilzie brulyie brulzie |
a broil, a noisy disturbance. |
| buckie |
a large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. |
| buik buke |
a book. |
| buirdly |
stalwart; large and well made: BUIRDLIER, BUIRDLIEST. |
| buist |
a box, a tar-box; an owner's mark on sheep and cattle; (verb) to mark with this. |
| bumbaze |
to perplex, bamboozle. |
| burdie |
birdie. |
| burnie |
a small brook. |
| burrowstown |
a town that is a BURGH. |
| byde+ |
to bide: BYDES, BYDING, BYDED. |
| byke |
a nest of wasps or wild bees; a swarm, throng; (verb) to swarm. |
| caa+ |
to call: CAAS, CAAING, CAAED. |
| caber kabar kebar |
a heavy wooden heaving pole. |
| caboc |
a double cream cheese rolled in oatmeal. Cf. KEBBOCK, KEBBUCK. |
| cadee cadie |
a caddie. |
| cadgy |
brisk, cheerful: CADGIER, CADGIEST. |
| caduac |
an incidental payment; a windfall. [L. cadicum]. |
| callan callant |
a boy; a fellow. |
| camsho camshoch |
crooked or deformed. |
| camstairy camsteary camsteerie |
perverse, unruly. |
| camstane caumstone calmstone camstone |
a white argillaceous stone used for whitening doorsteps. |
| cangle |
a noise or disturbance; (verb) to wrangle. |
| cannach |
a cotton-grass. |
| cantiness |
cheerfulness, liveliness. |
| cantrap cantraip cantrip |
a charm; an incantation, a witch’s trick.. |
| canty |
contented: CANTIER, CANTIEST. |
| capernoitie capernoity cappernoity |
the head, noddle. |
| carcake |
a small cake baked with eggs, eaten on Shrove Tuesday in parts of Scotland. |
| carfuffle curfuffle kerfuffle kefuffle |
a commotion; (verb) to make a commotion. |
| carline |
an old woman, a witch. |
| carnaptious curnaptious |
bad-tempered, quarrelsome. |
| carritch |
a catechism. |
| carriwitchet |
a pun; a conundrum. |
| carse |
alluvial lowland beside a river. |
| carvy |
caraway; a caraway seed, esp. one coated with sugar. |
| castock custock |
a cabbage stock.. |
| cateran |
a military irregular or brigand. |
| cauld |
cold. |
| cauldrife |
apt to feel chilly; lifeless, without vigour. |
| caum |
pale bluish-grey clay; (verb) to whiten with this. |
| caup |
a two-handed drinking bowl. |
| cavel kevel kevil |
a piece of wood used in casting lots. |
| cavie keavie |
a hen-coop or cage. |
| chack |
a snapping shut or pinching; to pinch or nip. |
| chaft |
the jaw, cheek. |
| channer |
gravel, shingle. |
| chaumer |
a room or building in which male farm-workers sleep. |
| chib+ |
a sharp weapon such as a knife or razor; (verb) to slash with a sharp weapon: CHIBS, CHIBBING, CHIBBED. |
| chiel chield |
a man, a lad, a fellow. |
| chirk |
to chirp or squeak; to grate; (adj.) cheerful: CHIRKER, CHIRKEST. |
| chirl |
to emit a low sound, to warble. |
| claes |
clothes. |
| clamjamfry clamjamphrie clanjamfray |
rubbish, nonsense. |
| clat clart claut |
something scraped together, a lump; (verb) to scratch, scrape.. |
| clatch |
to dabble or work into a miry matter. |
| claucht claught |
to snatch. |
| claver |
gossip; (verb) to gossip. |
| cleck |
to hatch. |
| cleekit |
pt. CLEEK, to seize, hook. |
| cleuch cleugh clough |
a ravine. |
| clipshear+ |
an earwig. |
| clishmaclaver |
gossip. |
| cloot |
a division of a cloven hoof; a cloth. |
| closehead |
the entrance to a close, or the gossips that congregate there. |
| clour |
a knock, bump; (verb) to knock, bump. |
| clow |
a clove. A clow-flower is a gillyflower. |
| cludgie |
a lavatory. |
| cockaleekie cockieleekie cockyleekie |
soup made from a fowl and leeks. |
| cockernony |
the gathering of hair in a fillet; a coiffure. |
| cocklaird |
the owner of a small farm, who farms it in person. |
| coff |
to buy. |
| coft |
pt. COUGH. |
| coggie cogie cogue |
a small wooden bowl. |
| cognosce |
(Scots law) to examine; to give judgment on. |
| collieshangie |
a squabble, a brawl. |
| compearant |
one who COMPEARS, appears in court. |
| condiddle |
(Scott) to steal. |
| coof cuif |
a lout, a dolt. |
| coorie+ courie+ |
to nestle: COORIES, COORIEING, COORIED; COURIES, COURIEING, COURIED. |
| cooser cuisser cusser |
a stallion. |
| coost |
cast (pt.). |
| cootikin cuitikin cutikin |
a gaiter. |
| corbie corby |
a crow, a raven. |
| corfhouse |
a salmon-curing house. |
| cottar cotter |
a medieval peasant inhabiting a cottage. |
| cottown |
a group of outhouses. |
| coup cowp |
to overturn, turn up |
| couper |
a dealer. |
| couth |
refinement; (adj.) refined: COUTHER, COUTHEST. |
| couthie couthy |
kind, friendly: COUTHIER, COUTHIEST. |
| cowan |
a dry-stone diker; a mason who has never served an apprenticeship. |
| craig |
a form of CRAG, meaning cliff or neck. |
| cramboclink |
rhyming doggerel. |
| crame |
a booth for selling goods. |
| cratur |
a woman. |
| creesh |
to crease. |
| creeshy |
greasy: CREESHIER, CREESHIEST. |
| crewels cruels cruells |
scrofula [Fr. écrouelles.] |
| crine |
to shrink or shrivel. |
| crivens crivvens |
(slang) an interjection expressing dismay. |
| croove cruive cruve |
a pen for livestock; esp. a pigsty. |
| crouse |
lively, pert, arrogant. No comparative. |
| crowdie crowdy |
a mixture of meal and water, aka BROSE. |
| cruisie crusie crusy |
an open iron lamp with a rush wick. |
| crummie |
a cow with crooked horns. |
| cuddie |
a donkey. |
| cuit |
the ankle. |
| cuiter |
to wheedle; to cocker, pamper. |
| cuittle |
to coax, to cajole. |
| cummer kimmer |
a woman, a girl. |
| curch |
a covering for the head, a kerchief. |
| curliewurlie |
(of) an object with a curled or twisted shape. |
| curmurring |
a rumbling or flatulent sound. There is no verb CURMUR. |
| curn curran |
a grain, a small quantity. |
| curpel |
the crupper. |
| cushat |
the wood-pigeon or ring-dove. |
| cutty |
short, curtailed: CUTTIER, CUTTIEST; (noun) a short clay pipe. |
| dabbity |
a cheap pottery figure found at fairgrounds. |
| dacker daiker daker |
to lounge, saunter. |
| dae |
to do. |
| daidle daddle |
to waddle, stagger. |
| daimen |
occasional: 'a daimen icker in a thrave'. |
| dalt dault |
a foster-child. |
| dargle |
(Scott) a dell. |
| daud dawd dod |
to knock, thump. |
| daur |
to dare. |
| daut dawt |
to pet. |
| dautie dawtie |
pet. |
| deave deeve |
to deafen, worry with noise. |
| deid deed |
dead: DEIDER, DEIDEST/ DEEDER, DEEDEST. |
| deif+ |
deaf: DEIFER, DEIFEST. |
| deil |
devil. |
| dempster doomster |
formerly in Scotland, an officer who repeated the sentence after the judge. |
| devel devvel |
a hard blow; (verb) to stun with a club. |
| dicht |
to wipe. |
| dindle dinnle |
to tingle, vibrate. |
| dinmont |
a wether between the first and second shearing. |
| dinna+ |
do not. |
| dirdam dirdum durdum |
an uproar; a scolding; blame. |
| dirl |
to (cause to) vibrate. |
| disjaskit |
jaded, worn out. |
| disjune |
breakfast. |
| dit |
to block: DITS, DITTING, DITTED, DITTIT. |
| dittay |
an indictment, a charge. |
| docht dought |
pt. of DOW, to be able. |
| docken |
= DOCK, the plant. |
| dod |
a rounded hill; (verb) to cut the hair of. |
| doddy |
a hornless cow; (adj.) sulky: DODDIER, DODDIEST. |
| doiled |
crazy, foolish. |
| doilt |
crazy, foolish: DOILTER, DOILTEST. |
| doited doitit |
in one's dotage. |
| donnard donnart donnerd donnered |
stupid, dull-witted. |
| donsy donsie |
sickly, stupid: DONSIER, DONSIEST. |
| doo |
dove, pigeon. |
| doocot dooket |
a dove-cote. |
| dook |
to duck, bathe. |
| doon+ doun+ |
down. |
| dort |
to sulk. |
| dorty |
pettish, sulky: DORTIER, DORTIEST. |
| doup dowp |
the bottom of anything. |
| dout |
to put out, extinguish. |
| dove dover |
to doze. |
| dovekie dovekey |
a kind of guillemot; also, the little auk. |
| dovie |
stupid: DOVIER, DOVIEST. |
| dow |
to be able: pt. DOCHT or DOUGHT. |
| dowf |
dull, heavy, spiritless. No comparative. |
| dowfness |
dullness, heaviness. |
| dowie |
dull, low-spirited: DOWIER, DOWIEST. |
| dowt |
a cigarette end. |
| dozen |
to doze: DOZENED, DOZENING. |
| drap |
to drop. |
| drappie drappy |
a little drop, esp. of spirits. |
| dree |
to suffer, endure. |
| dreich |
dreary: DREICHER, DREICHEST. |
| dreigh driegh |
dreary. Unlike DREICH, these do not have a comparative. |
| drook drouk |
to drench. |
| drookit droukit |
drowned, drenched. |
| drow |
wet mist. |
| drucken |
drunken. |
| drumbledor |
a DUMBLEDORE, a large flying insect. |
| drumly |
turbid, muddy, gloomy, cloudy: DRUMLIER, DRUMLIEST. |
| duddie duddy |
ragged: DUDDIER, DUDDIEST. |
| dunch dunsh |
to jog, nudge, butt. |
| duply |
in Scots law, a second reply; (verb) to say in DUPLY. |
| dush |
to strike heavily against. |
| dwalm dwam dwaum |
a swoon, a sudden sickness; (verb) to swoon. |
| dwine |
to pine, to waste away. |
| dyester |
one who dyes cloth. |
| dyvour |
a bankrupt. |
| dyvoury |
bankruptcy. |
| eard yird yeard |
earth; (verb) to bury. |
| eassel eassil |
eastwards, easterly. |
| easselgate easselward |
eastwards. |
| eastlin eastlings eastlins |
eastwards. |
| eatche |
an adze. |
| ee |
eye. |
| eident |
busy, diligent. |
| eilding eldin elding |
fuel. |
| elshin elsin |
an awl. |
| endlang |
endlong, lengthwise. |
| ethercap ettercap |
a spider. |
| ettle |
to intend, purpose, plan. |
| ewest |
near, close at hand. |
| ewhow |
alas! |
| excamb |
(Scots law) to exchange. |
| excambion excambium |
(Scots law) exchange of lands. |
| exeem exeme |
to release or exempt. |
| |
exhausted. |
| exies |
a fit, e.g. of hysterics or the ague. |
| faa+ |
to fall: FAAS, FAAING, FELL(!), FAAN or FALLEN(!). |
| fae+ |
from. |
| faik |
to abate; to excuse. |
| faither+ |
father. |
| fank |
a coil, tangle; an enclosure for sheep. |
| fankle |
to entangle. |
| fantoosh |
fashionable, pretentious. |
| farand farrand farrant |
having a certain manner or humour. |
| farl farle farthel |
the quarter of a round cake of flour or oatmeal. |
| fattrels |
ends of ribbon. N.B. there is no singular FATTREL. |
| faur+ |
far: FAURER, FAUREST. |
| faurd |
favoured. |
| faut+ |
to fault: FAUTS, FAUTING, FAUTED. |
| fecht |
to fight. |
| fechter |
a fighter. |
| feck |
quantity, number. |
| feckly |
mostly, nearly. |
| feer |
to draw the first furrow in ploughing. |
| fegs |
a mild oath. |
| feirie |
nimble, fit to travel. |
| fendy |
resourceful, thrifty: FENDIER, FENDIEST |
| ferntickled fernticled |
freckled. |
| fernyticle |
a freckle. |
| fess |
to fetch. |
| feuar fiar |
in law, the owner of a property in fee simple. |
| fient |
fiend, devil. Fient ane: devil a one. |
| fike fyke |
to fidget restlessly. |
| fikery |
fuss, fidget. |
| fikish |
fidgety. |
| fiky |
fidgety: FIKIER, FIKIEST. |
| finnan |
haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fin'an), Scotland. The name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. |
| firlot |
(a container used as) a measure of capacity for corn etc. |
| fissle |
to rustle. |
| fizzen foison fushion fusion |
physical energy or strength. |
| flacker flaffer |
to flutter. |
| flaff |
to flap, to pant. |
| flaught |
a snowflake; (verb) to cut, pare. |
| flaughter |
to flutter or flicker. |
| fleech |
to flatter, coax, beg. |
| fleechment |
flattery. |
| fleg |
to frighten; (noun) a fright. |
| fleme |
to put to flight. Pt. FLEMIT. |
| flemit |
pt. of FLEME, to put to flight. |
| fley |
to frighten. |
| flichter |
to flutter. |
| flisk |
to caper about. |
| flisky |
restive, whimsical: FLISKIER, FLISKIEST. |
| flite flyte |
to contend, strive; argue noisily; chide. |
| fodgel |
plump and solidly built; buxom. |
| foggage |
a grass that grows after the hay is cut. |
| forby forbye foreby forebye |
besides. |
| foreanent fornent fornenst |
right opposite to in location. |
| forestair |
an outside stair at the front of a house. |
| forfairn |
worn out, exhausted. |
| forfochen+ |
exhausted. |
| forhoo forhow forhooie |
to desert or abandon. |
| forisfamiliate |
to emancipate from parental authority. |
| forjaskit forjeskit |
tired out. |
| forpet forpit |
a fourth part (now of a peck measure). |
| forrad |
forward: FORRADER or FORRARDER, FORRADEST. |
| forrit |
forward. |
| forwander |
to wander away; to go astray. |
| fou |
drunk: FOUER, FOUEST; (noun) a bushel: FOUS. |
| fouat fouet |
the house-leek. |
| fousty |
mouldy, damp: FOUSTIER, FOUSTIEST. |
| fouter foutra foutre |
to mess around aimlessly. |
| fouth fowth |
abundance. |
| foziness |
weakness, softness. |
| fozy |
spongy, lacking firmness: FOZIER, FOZIEST. |
| frack |
prompt, eager. N.B. no comparative. |
| frae |
from. |
| fraim fremd fremit |
foreign, strange; (noun) a stranger. |
| frampal frampold |
(Scott) peevish, intractable. |
| frampler |
(Scott) a brawler. |
| freet freit |
an omen. |
| freety freity |
superstitious: FREETIER, FREETIEST/FREITIER, FREITIEST. |
| fricht |
fright; (verb) to frighten. |
| fud |
a rabbit's or hare's tail. |
| fuffy |
light and soft: FUFFIER, FUFFIEST. |
| fugie |
a cock that will not fight, a runaway. |
| fugitation |
(Scots law) absconding from justice. |
| furr |
a furrow. |
| furth |
forth, outside of. |
| gabbard gabbart |
a kind of barge. |
| gaberlunzie |
a wandering beggar or a harmless hobo. |
| gabnash |
chatter, prattle. |
| gadsman |
a person who drives horses at the plough. Pl. GADSMEN. |
| gae |
to go: GAES, GAUN, GAED, GANE, GAEING. |
| gair |
a gore (in cloth or land). |
| gaitt |
a child. |
| galdragon |
(Scott) an obsolete Shetland word for a sorceress or witch. [ON galdra-kona]. |
| galravage gilravage gillravage gilravitch gillravitch galravitch |
a noisy frolic; to behave riotously. |
| gamash gramash gramoche |
a kind of legging. |
| gant |
to yawn. |
| gar |
to compel; (noun) a garfish. |
| gardyloo jordeloo |
a warning cry given when throwing slops from the window into the street. |
| gare |
greedy, miserly. |
| garvie garvock |
a sprat. |
| gaucie gawcy gaucy gawsy gawsie |
portly, jolly. |
| gaumless |
stupid; witless; vacant. |
| gaun |
going. |
| geggie+ |
the mouth. |
| gey |
considerable: GEYER, GEYEST. |
| geyan |
= GEY AND, e.g. gey and easy, easy enough. |
| gie |
to give. GIES, GIED, GIEING, GAE, GIEN. |
| gillet jillet |
a skittish, flighty girl. |
| gilpey gilpy |
a boisterous girl. |
| gilravager |
a riotous person. |
| gimmer |
a young ewe; (contemptuously) a woman. |
| girnel |
a granary; a large chest or vat for storing grain. |
| girr |
a hoop, for a barrel or used as a child's plaything. |
| gizz jiz |
a wig. Pl. GIZZES, JIZZES. |
| gizzen |
to shrink from dryness so as to leak. |
| glaik |
a flash, a dazzle. |
| glaiket glaikit |
giddy, foolish. |
| glaum |
to clutch or grab. |
| glaur |
mire. |
| glaury |
miry: GLAURIER, GLAURIEST. |
| glee gley |
to squint. |
| gleg |
quick, sharp: GLEGGER, GLEGGEST. |
| glid |
slippery. |
| glidder |
slippery. |
| glisk |
a glimpse. |
| goldspink gowdspink |
the goldfinch. |
| gollar goller |
a loud inarticulate gurgling sound; (verb) to make this sound. |
| gomeral gomerel gomeril |
a simpleton. |
| goodsire gudesire gutcher |
a grandfather. |
| gool goold gule |
a marigold. |
| gorcock |
the cock of the red grouse. |
| gorhen |
the hen of the red grouse. |
| gouk gowk |
a cuckoo; a fool, an April fool. |
| goustrous |
boisterous, rude. |
| gousty |
desolate, dreary: GOUSTIER, GOUSTIEST. |
| gowan |
a daisy. |
| gowd |
gold, golden. |
| gowf |
to strike, cuff; to play golf. |
| gowfer |
golfer. |
| gowl |
to cry or howl. |
| gowpenful |
a double handful. |
| graith |
apparatus, equipment; (verb) to get ready, to dress. |
| grape |
to grope. |
| grassum |
(Scots law) a lump sum paid in addition to rent by a person taking a lease of landed property. |
| grein |
to long, yearn. |
| grippy |
inclined to avarice: GRIPPIER, GRIPPIEST. |
| grit |
great: GRITTER, GRITTEST. |
| groof grouf grufe |
the front of one's body, one's face. |
| groser grosert groset grossart |
a gooseberry. |
| grumph |
to grunt. |
| grumphie grumphy |
a pig. |
| grushie |
healthy, thriving. No comparative. |
| guddle |
to catch fish barehanded. |
| gude guid |
good. |
| gudeman |
goodman. |
| gudewife |
goodwife. |
| guffie |
a pig. |
| guildry |
the corporation of a royal burgh. |
| guising |
a survival of mumming, where children dress up and go from house to house. |
| gumphion |
a kind of banner formerly carried in a funeral procession. |
| gundy |
a toffee made of treacle and spices. |
| gurl |
to growl. |
| gustie |
savoury. |
| gyte |
crazy, mad; (noun) a child, a brat. |
| had |
to hold: HADS, HADDING, HADDEN. |
| haddie |
the haddock. |
| hae |
to have: HAES, HAEING, HAED, HAEN. |
| haet |
a whit. |
| haffet haffit |
the side of the head, the temple. |
| hafflin |
a halfling. |
| hag |
to hack, hew |
| hagg |
broken ground in a moss or bog, a place from which peat has been dug. |
| haggis |
a dish consisting of the heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep etc. minced with suet, oatmeal, and onions, stuffed into the maw of the animal or into an artificial bag like a large sausage and usu. boiled. |
| hain |
to enclose or protect with a fence or hedge; esp. to preserve (grass) from cattle; to save, preserve, spare. |
| hainch |
haunch; (verb) to haunch. |
| hairst |
harvest. |
| haith |
interj. by my faith! |
| hallan |
a partition or screen between the door and a fireplace in a cottage. |
| hallian hallion hallyan |
a lout or lazy rascal. |
| halver |
a half-share. |
| hame |
home. |
| hamesucken |
the assaulting of a man in his own house. |
| hamewith |
homewards. |
| hanch |
to snap at with the jaws. |
| hantle |
a lot. |
| harigalds harigals |
viscera. |
| harl |
to drag along the ground; to roughcast. |
| haterent |
hatred. |
| hattock |
a little (esp. fairy) hat. |
| haud hauld |
to hold. |
| hauf+ |
half. |
| haugh |
a low-lying meadow by the side of a river. |
| haverel |
a foolish person. |
| hawkie |
a cow with a white-striped face. |
| hawkit |
streaked, white-faced. |
| headrig |
a headland in a ploughed field. |
| hecht |
to call. |
| heeze |
to lift, raise. |
| heezie |
a lift. |
| heid |
head. |
| hellicat |
giddy-headed, flighty; (noun) a wicked creature. |
| hempie hempy |
a rogue, a romp, a tomboy. |
| hen |
to dare to a challenge. |
| henner |
a challenge to an act of daring. |
| herriment herryment |
spoliation, plunder. |
| hership |
plundering, plunder, esp. cattle. |
| hesp |
to hasp. |
| heuch heugh |
a crag, a steep-sided valley. |
| hidling hidlings hidlins |
in secret. |
| hilch |
to hobble. |
| hinderland hinderlings hinderlins hinderlans |
the buttocks. |
| hippen hippin hipping |
a baby's nappy tied round the hips. |
| hirple |
to walk lamely. |
| hirsel |
a stock of sheep; (verb) to put (sheep) into different groups. |
| hirsle |
to slide, wriggle. |
| hirstie histie |
dry, barren. No comparative! |
| hoatching+ |
infested, swarming e.g. with flies. |
| hodden hoddin |
a coarse undyed homespun woollen cloth. |
| hoddle |
to waddle. |
| hogmanay hogmane hogmenay |
New Year's Eve. See HAGGIS, FOU and GILRAVAGE. |
| holk howk |
to dig, burrow. |
| hoolie |
easy, slow. |
| hotch |
to hitch, jog. |
| houf howff houff howf |
a place where one is often found, a haunt; (verb) to go to such a place. |
| hove |
to swell, to rise. |
| howtowdie |
a dish of boiled chicken. |
| hudden |
past part. of HAUD, to hold. |
| humdudgeon |
low spirits. |
| humlie |
a pollarded or hornless cow. |
| huntiegowk |
a fools' errand, appropriate to the first of April. |
| hurcheon |
an urchin, a hedgehog. |
| hurdies |
the buttocks, the thighs. |
| hurlbarrow |
a wheelbarrow. |
| icker |
a single ear of corn. |
| ilka |
every. |
| inby inbye |
towards the interior, by the house. |
| induciae |
(Scots law) the time limit within which (after a citation) the defendant must appear in court or reply. N.B. there is no singular INDUCIA. |
| infeft |
(Scots law) to invest with heritable property. |
| infeftment |
(Scots law) the act of giving legal possession of fedual property. |
| ingan |
an onion. |
| ingate |
a way in, an entrance. |
| ingo |
entry into or taking on a new tenancy. |
| insucken |
(Scots law) relating to a SUCKEN, the jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it. |
| inwick |
a kind of stroke in curling; (verb) to make such a stroke. |
| inwith |
within |
| ish |
a legal word meaning issue or expiry. Pl. ISHES. |
| isna+ isnae+ |
is not. Also ISNAE. |
| jabble |
to splash, ripple. |
| jakey+ |
a homeless alcoholic: JAKEYS. |
| jalouse jealouse |
to suspect or surmise; to be jealous or begrudge jealously. |
| jap jaup |
to splash or spatter. |
| jawbox |
a sink. |
| jawhole |
a cesspool. |
| jee |
to urge on. |
| jeel |
to congeal, set. |
| jeelie jeely |
jelly, jam; (verb) to set, jell. |
| jeistiecor |
a close-fitting garment. |
| jessie |
an effeminate or namby-pamby man or boy. |
| jibbings |
the last milk drawn from a cow. |
| jimp |
slender: JIMPER, JIMPEST. |
| jimply |
slenderly. |
| jimpness |
slenderness. |
| jimpy |
neat: JIMPIER, JIMPIEST. |
| jirble |
to pour splashingly. |
| jo joe |
a loved one. Pl. JOES. |
| jockteleg |
a large clasp knife. |
| joco |
cheerfully complacent. |
| jook jouk |
to duck or dodge. |
| jookery joukery |
trickery, roguery. |
| jougs |
an old instrument of punishment consisting of a hinged iron collar locked round an offender’s neck and attached by a chain to a wall or post. |
| jow |
to toll; (noun) the stroke of a bell. |
| kae |
jackdaw; (verb) to serve. |
| kaim |
a comb. |
| kaugh kiaugh |
care, trouble. |
| keb |
to cast a lamb prematurely; (noun) a ewe that has lost its lamb. |
| kebbie |
a shepherd's crook. |
| kebbock kebbuck |
cheese. |
| kedgy |
brisk, cheerful: KEDGIER, KEDGIEST. |
| keelie |
the kestrel or other hawk; an urban tough, esp. from Glasgow. |
| keeling |
a codfish. |
| keelivine keelyvine |
a lead pencil. |
| kelpie kelpy |
a water-horse, a fabulous beast. |
| kelt |
a salmon that has just spawned; a coarse fabric made of black and white wool. |
| keltie kelty |
a bumper or glass filled to the brim, esp. one imposed as a forfeit. |
| kemple |
40 bottles of hay or straw. |
| kenspeck kenspeckle |
obvious, conspicuous. |
| kent |
a leaping or punting pole; (verb) to punt or pole. |
| ket |
carrion. |
| kidge |
brisk, cheerful. No comparative.. |
| kidgie |
brisk, cheerful: KIDGIEST, KIDGIEST. |
| killogie |
the space in front of the fireplace of a kiln. Cf. LOGIE. |
| kingle |
a very hard rock esp. sandstone. |
| kipp |
anything beaked; a pointed hill. |
| kippage |
a state of displeasure or anger. |
| kirk |
church. |
| kirkward |
in the direction of the church. |
| kirkyaird kirkyard |
churchyard. |
| kirn |
the cutting of the last sheaf. |
| kist |
chest; (verb) to coffin. |
| kittle |
ticklish, delicate: KITTLER, KITTLEST; (verb) to offend. |
| kittly |
ticklish, delicate: KITTLIER, KITTLIEST. Cf. KITTLE. |
| knapscal knapskull knapscull |
a kind of helmet. |
| knevell nevel |
to pound with the NIEVES, the fists.. |
| kook |
to dart in and out of sight. |
| kow |
a bunch of twigs. |
| kye |
cattle. |
| kyne |
kine, cattle. |
| kyte |
the belly. |
| laggen laggin |
the angle between the side and bottom of a wooden dish. |
| laich |
low; (noun) a piece of low-lying ground; a hollow. Pl. LAICHS (not LAICHES). |
| laid |
to load: LAIDS, LAIDED, LAIDING. |
| laidly laithly |
loathly |
| laigh |
low; (noun) a piece of low-lying ground; a hollow. |
| laik lake |
to sport or play. |
| lair |
to mire, cover with mud. |
| laird |
the owner of a landed estate. |
| lairdly |
in the manner of a LAIRD. No comparative. |
| laith |
loth. |
| laldie laldy |
a beating or thrashing. |
| lallan lalland lawland |
lowland. |
| lammer |
amber. |
| lanely |
lonely. |
| lang |
long. |
| langsyne langsynes |
long since; long ago. |
| lapper lopper |
to curdle, clot. |
| lass lassie |
a girl. |
| lassock |
a little lass. |
| lauch |
to laugh. Pt. LEUCH or LEUGH; pp. LEUCHEN or LEUGHEN. |
| laverock |
a skylark; (verb) to catch larks. |
| lavrock |
a skylark. |
| lawin |
a bill or reckoning. |
| leal |
loyal. No comparative. |
| lealty |
loyalty. |
| leear |
a liar. |
| leglan leglin leglen |
a milking-pail. |
| leish |
active, supple: LEISHER, LEISHEST. |
| lenocinium |
(Scots law) connivance at one's wife's adultery. |
| leuch |
pt. LAUCH, to laugh. |
| leuchen |
pp. LAUCH, to laugh. |
| leugh |
pt. of LAUCH, to laugh. |
| leughen |
pp. LAUCH, to laugh. |
| lichtly |
to slight, make light of. |
| limmer |
a scoundrel; a prostitute. |
| linn |
waterfall. |
| lintie lintwhite |
a linnet. |
| lippen |
to trust, depend on. |
| lippie |
an old Scottish dry measure, the fourth part of a peck. |
| lirk |
a fold, a wrinkle; (verb) to wrinkle. |
| lith |
a joint; spec. the last joint or the tip of a finger. |
| littleane littlin littling |
a child. |
| loaning |
a lane, an open space for passage between fields of corn; a place for milking cows. |
| loo |
to love: LOOS, LOOED, LOOING. |
| loof |
the palm of the hand. |
| loofful |
an open handful. |
| loon lown lowne lownd loun lound |
sheltered, calm, quiet; (verb) to calm, become calm. |
| loonie |
a boy, a fellow. |
| loor |
comparative of LIEF, glad. |
| losh |
(interjection) Lord. |
| lou+ |
to love: LOUS, LOUING, LOUED. Also LOO(!). |
| lounder |
to beat, thump; (noun) a heavy blow. |
| loup |
to leap. |
| loupen |
pt. of LOUP, to leap. |
| loverly |
like a lover. |
| lowe |
a flame; (verb) to blaze. |
| lowp+ |
to leap: LOWPS, LOWPING, LOWPED. Also LOUP(!). |
| lowse |
loose: LOWSER, LOWSEST; (verb) to loosen. Pt. LOWSIT, not LOWSED*. |
| lowsit |
pt. LOWSE, to loosen. |
| lozen |
a window-pane. |
| lucken |
closed. |
| luggie |
a hooped dish with one long stave. |
| luit |
pt. LET. |
| luiten |
pp. of LET. |
| lum |
chimney. |
| lungie lunyie |
the guillemot. |
| lunt |
a slow match; a sudden flame; (verb) to kindle. |
| luppen |
pt. of LEAP. |
| lythe |
the POLLACK, a fish of the cod family. |
| macallum |
a dish of vanilla icecream topped with raspberry sauce. |
| mae |
more. Pl. MAES.. |
| maik |
a mate or consort, an equal. |
| mair |
more. |
| maist |
most. |
| maister |
master; (verb) to master. |
| maisterdome |
mastery. |
| maistring |
mastering. |
| maistry |
mastery; superiority; art. |
| mak |
to make: MAKS. |
| makar |
maker, poet. |
| manky |
filthy, dirty, rotten: MANKIER, MANKIEST. |
| manty |
= MANTUA, a woman's loose outer gown. |
| marischal |
a marshal; (verb) to marshal. |
| mashlum mashlam mashloch |
a mixed grain, esp. rye and wheat. |
| massymore |
(Scott) a subterranean prison. |
| mattie |
a young herring with undeveloped roe. |
| maut |
malt. |
| mease |
to assuage, mitigate. |
| meck+ |
an old halfpenny. |
| meith |
a landmark, a boundary. |
| melder |
the quantity of meal ground at one time. |
| meltith |
a meal; a cow's yield at one milking. |
| menseful |
decorous, graceful. |
| menseless |
graceless, uncivil. |
| mercat |
market; trade. |
| merse |
a low flat marshland. |
| messan |
a lapdog, a cur. |
| micht+ |
might: MICHTS. |
| mickle meikle muckle |
great, much: MICKLER, MICKLEST. |
| milsey |
a milk-strainer. |
| mim |
prim and proper: MIMMER, MIMMEST. |
| mingin |
having an unpleasant smell. |
| minnie |
mother. |
| mirligoes |
dizziness. |
| misarray |
disarray. |
| misaunter mischanter mishanter |
an unlucky chance, a misfortune. |
| misguggle mishguggle |
to bungle, mar. |
| misleared |
mistaught, unmannerly. |
| mislippen |
to mistrust. |
| mistryst |
to disappoint by not keeping an engagement. |
| moch |
misty or humid weather. |
| mochie mochy |
mouldy, damp. |
| mochiness |
mouldiness, dampness. |
| moggan |
a footless stocking. |
| monie mony |
many. |
| monteith |
a large 17th or 18th century bowl, usu. of silver, for cooling punch glasses. |
| mool |
mould. |
| moop moup |
to nibble, munch. |
| moorill |
a cattle disease of moorland districts, marked by haemoglobin in the urine. |
| motty |
full of motes or specks: MOTTIER, MOTTIEST. |
| mou |
a mouth. |
| moudiewart mowdiewart mowdiwort moudiewort |
a mole. |
| mouls |
clods, esp. in allusion to the grave. N.B. no singular MOUL! Cf. MOOL. |
| moust muist must |
to powder. |
| mouter |
Multure, a miller's fee for grinding corn; (verb) to take multure for. |
| mouterer |
a multurer, a person who pays or receives a miller's fee for grinding corn. |
| mowdie+ |
a mole: MOWDIES. |
| muil |
a mule, a backless slipper. |
| muir |
moor. |
| murgeon |
a grimace; (verb) to grimace. |
| murl |
to crumble. |
| murly |
crumbly. |
| na |
no, not at all. |
| nacket nocket |
a snack; a light lunch. |
| nae |
no. |
| naebody |
nobody. |
| naething |
nothing. |
| nain |
one's own. |
| nainsell |
own self. |
| nane+ |
none. |
| nashgab |
prattle, chatter. |
| neep |
a turnip. |
| neese neeze |
to sneeze. |
| neist |
next. |
| neuk |
nook. |
| nicher nicker |
to neigh. |
| nicht+ |
night: NICHTS. |
| nickum |
a mischievous boy. |
| niffer |
to barter, to haggle. |
| nirl |
a lump, a crumb; a stunted person; (verb) to stunt, shrivel. |
| nirlie nirlit nirled nirly |
knotty, stunted. |
| nonentry |
(Scots law) a vassal's heir's failure to renew investiture. |
| noop |
a knob, tip of the elbow. |
| notour |
(Scots law) notorious. |
| noup |
in the Shetlands, a crag, a steep headland. |
| nourice |
a nurse. |
| novalia |
(Scots law) waste lands newly reclaimed. |
| novodamus |
(Scots law) a charter or single document containing a clause by which certain rights, privileges etc. are granted anew. |
| numpty |
an idiot. |
| nyaff |
a small or worthless person or thing; (verb) to yelp, yap; to talk frivolously. |
| och |
an interjection. |
| oe oy oye |
a grandchild. Pl. OES. |
| offput |
the act of putting off. |
| oncome |
a coming on, a sudden onset, e.g. of rain. |
| oncost |
extra expense. |
| onding |
a sudden onset of rain or snow. |
| onie+ ony+ |
any. |
| oo |
wool. Pl. OOS. |
| oon |
oven. |
| oorie ourie owrie |
dingy, shabby. |
| oose |
to ooze. |
| oosy |
oozy: OOSIER, OOSIEST. |
| oot |
out. |
| ordinar |
ordinary; (noun) usual practice. |
| orra |
odd, not matched. An ORRA MAN is a farmworker kept to do any odd job that may arise. |
| ou |
an interjection expressing concession. |
| oucht |
anything. |
| oughtlings |
at all. |
| ouk oulk |
a week. |
| oup |
to bind with thread, to join. |
| outby outbye |
out of doors; a little way off. |
| outshot |
a projection in a building or a recess made in the wall of a room. |
| outspeckle |
a laughing stock, a spectacle. Cf. KENSPECKLE. |
| outwick |
in the sport of curling, to strike the outside of another stone and send it within a circle; (verb) to make such a stroke. |
| outwith |
outside of. |
| overby owerby |
a little way over.. |
| overgang |
to dominate; to overspread. N.B. there is no past in use, but there is a pp. OVERGANGING. |
| overword owreword |
the refrain of a song. |
| ower |
over. |
| owerloup |
to leap over. Pt. OWERLOUPIT. |
| owrecome |
a crossing over; a surplus, an excess. |
| owrelay |
a large cravat. |
| owsen |
(pl.) OWSE, ox. |
| oxter |
the armpit; (verb) to take under the arm.. |
| padle paidle |
a fish, aka LUMPSUCKER. |
| paik |
to thump, drub. |
| painch |
the paunch. |
| paitrick |
a partridge. |
| palmie palmy |
a stroke of the tawse on the palm. |
| pand |
the valance of a bed. |
| panton |
a slipper. |
| pape |
pope. |
| paraffle parafle |
a pretentious display, a fuss. |
| parischan parochine parishen parischane parochin |
a parish. |
| parly |
a gingerbread cake in biscuit form. |
| parridge parritch |
porridge. |
| parrock |
a croft, or small field; a paddock; (verb) to enclose or confine in a parrock or small field. |
| pattle pettle |
a small long-handled spade for cleaning a plough. |
| paughty |
haughty: PAUGHTIER, PAUGHTIEST. |
| pawk |
a trick. |
| pawky |
drily or slily humorous: PAWKIER, PAWKIEST. |
| pearlin pearling |
a lace of silk or thread, used as edging. |
| peat |
an advocate favoured by a judge. |
| peatship |
the position of PEAT, an advocate favoured by a judge. |
| pech pegh |
to pant. |
| pechan |
the stomach. |
| pedder pether |
a pedlar. |
| peenge |
to whine like a peevish child. |
| peeoy pioy pioye |
a home-made firework. |
| peerie peery |
(noun) a cone-shaped wooden toy; (adj.) small: PEERIER, PEERIEST. |
| peesweep |
the peewit. |
| peever |
a tile, tin lid etc. used in playing hopscotch. |
| pellach pellack pellock |
a porpoise. |
| pendicle |
a piece of land or other property forming a subsidiary part of an estate. |
| pennyfee |
a small wage. |
| perduellion |
treason. |
| perjink prejink perjinkety |
prim; finical. |
| perjinkity |
a nicety. |
| pettle |
to indulge, pet. |
| pickery |
in Scots law, petty theft. |
| pickmaw |
the black-headed gull. |
| pictarnie |
(Scott) a tern. |
| piet pyat pyot pyet |
a magpie. |
| piggin |
a small pail or bowl made of staves and hoops. |
| pingle |
to strive, to struggle with difficulties; (noun) a strenuous exertion. |
| pinkie |
small; (noun) the little finger. |
| pioted |
pied. |
| pirn |
a reel, a bobbin. |
| pirnie |
a striped nightcap. |
| pirnit |
unevenly wrought, striped. |
| pitten |
pt. of PIT, to put. |
| plack |
any of various small coins current in Scotland or the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th cents. |
| plackless |
destitute, not having a PLACK. |
| pleuch pleugh |
a plough. |
| pliskie plisky |
a practical joke; a trick. |
| ploat |
to dip in very hot water, to scald. |
| plook plouk |
a small spot, a pimple. |
| plookie ploukie |
pimply: PLOOKIER, PLOOKIEST/PLOUKIER, PLOUKIEST. |
| plotter plowter plouter |
to dabble in liquid; to potter. |
| ploughgate |
plowland. |
| plumdamas |
a damson. Pl. PLUMDAMASES. |
| pockies+ |
woollen mittens. No POCKIE*. |
| podley |
a young coalfish. |
| poffle |
a PENDICLE, an appendage. |
| poind |
to distrain, impound. |
| poinder |
one who POINDS, impounds. |
| polonie |
a child's polonaise, a stately Polish dance of moderate tempo. |
| pook pouk |
to pluck, pinch. |
| poortith |
poverty. |
| poot |
a poult, a young fowl. |
| portmanky portmantie |
a portmanteau. |
| pottingar |
an old form of APOTHECARY. |
| pourie |
a container with a spout, a cream-jug. |
| pousowdie powsowdy |
any mixture of heterogeneous kinds of food. |
| pouther |
to powder. |
| pow |
head. |
| powan |
a species of whitefish found in Scottish lochs. |
| powin pown |
a peacock. |
| powter |
to poke, rummage. |
| praeses preses |
a president or chairman. |
| preceese |
precise. |
| pree |
to make a trial of, esp. by tasting or kissing. |
| prent |
to print. |
| primsie |
prim, demure: PRIMSIER, PRIMSIEST. |
| proo pruh |
a call to a cow to come near. |
| propale |
to disclose. |
| propine |
to pledge in drinking; to present or offer. |
| puckle |
a small quantity; a grain of corn. |
| puggie puggy |
a monkey. |
| puir |
poor: PUIRER, PUIREST. |
| puirtith+ |
poverty. Also POORTITH(!). |
| purfly |
short-winded. |
| purpie purpy |
purslane, or perhaps brooklime. |
| putten |
(Pt.) PIT, to put. |
| quean queyn queynie quine quinie |
a young woman. |
| quey |
a heifer. |
| radge |
angry, obstreperous; lustful: RADGER, RADGEST; (noun) a bad temper, a rage. |
| raik |
a course, journey; a range, pasture; (verb) to go, to range. |
| railly |
(Scott) a jacket. |
| raird reird |
an uproar. |
| ramgunshoch |
rough. |
| rammy |
a fight, a free-for-all. (Also, unrelatedly, an adjective ‘like a ram’: RAMMIER, RAMMIEST). |
| rampauge |
to rampage. |
| ramstam |
headlong. |
| ranshackle ranshakle |
(Scott) to search, ransack. |
| raploch |
a homespun material. |
| rascaille |
(Scott) a form of RASCAL, rabble. |
| raucle |
rough; vigorous: RAUCLER, RAUCLEST. |
| raun rawn |
fish-roe; female fish. |
| reckan |
(Scott) racked. |
| redd |
to put in order; (noun) the spawning area or nest of a fish, especially a trout or a salmon. |
| reddendo |
(Scots law) service to be rendered or money to be paid by a vassal. Pl. REDDENDOS. |
| ree |
an enclosure e.g. for cattle. |
| reekie reeky |
smoky, reeking. |
| remead remede remeid |
remedy; (verb) to remedy. |
| rentaller |
a kindly tenant. |
| reprobator |
(Scots law) an action to prove a witness perjured or biased. |
| rhone rone roan |
a roof-gutter. |
| richt |
right: RICHTER, RICHTEST. |
| rickle |
a loose heap; a rickety structure. |
| rickly |
loose, rickety. |
| rigwiddie rigwoodie |
a cart-horse's back-band; (adj.) lean and tough. |
| rinthereout |
a vagrant. |
| ripp |
a plucked handful e.g. of grass, corn. |
| risp |
to rasp, grate. |
| rit ritt |
to scratch. |
| rivlin |
a shoe moulded from untanned hide. |
| rizard rizzart |
a redcurrant. |
| rizzor rizzer rizzar |
to dry, esp. in the sun. |
| roarie roary rory |
noisy, garish, too bright. |
| rocklay rokelay |
a short cloak. |
| roon rund |
a strip of cloth, a selvage. |
| roop |
to make a hoarse sound. |
| roopit roupet roupit |
hoarse. |
| roopy |
hoarse: ROOPIER, ROOPIEST. |
| roset rozit rosit rozet |
to rosin. |
| rosetty rosety |
like rosin. |
| roup |
a sale by auction; (verb) to sell by auction. |
| routh rowth |
abundance. |
| routhie |
plentiful: ROUTHIER, ROUTHIEST. |
| rubbet rubbit |
pt. RUB. |
| ruckle |
to rattle in the throat, gurgle. |
| rudas |
a hideous, vile and loathsome old woman. |
| rug |
to pull roughly: RUGS, RUGGING, RUGGED. |
| rullion |
a rawhide shoe. [OE rifeling]. |
| rumblegumption rumgumption |
common sense. |
| rundale runrig |
a system of holding land in single detached pieces. |
| rybat |
a dressed stone at the side of a door, window etc. |
| ryke |
to reach. |
| sae |
so. |
| saft+ |
soft: SAFTER, SAFTEST. |
| saikless |
= SACKLESS, quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent. |
| saim |
a seam. |
| sair |
sore, very: SAIRER, SAIREST; (verb) to savour. |
| samen |
same. |
| sannie |
a sandshoe. |
| sapple |
to wash clothes by hand in soapy water. |
| sar |
to savour: SARS, SARING, SARED. |
| sark |
a shirt, a chemise. |
| sasine |
infeftment, the act of giving legal possession of feudal property. |
| sauch saugh |
a sallow. |
| saulie |
a hired mourner at a funeral. |
| saunt |
saint. |
| saut |
salt. |
| scaff |
food; riff-raff. |
| scaffie |
(Scots coll.) a scavenger. |
| scail skail |
to scatter, disperse. |
| scarre |
to scare. |
| scart |
to scratch. |
| scarth skarth scart skart |
a cormorant. |
| scaud |
to scald. |
| scaur |
to scare. |
| schellum skellum skelum skelm |
scoundrel, rascal. |
| schemie+ |
derogatory word for member of a housing scheme. |
| sclaff |
a light slap or its sound. |
| sclate sklate |
to slate. |
| scliff skliff |
a small segment or piece. |
| sclim sklim |
to climb. |
| scog skug scug scoug scoog |
shadow, shelter. |
| scomfish scumfish |
to suffocate or stifle; to smother. [A Scottish variant of DISCOMFIT]. |
| scoup scowp |
to bound, caper. |
| scouth scowth |
free range, plenty. |
| scouther scowder scowther |
to scorch, singe. |
| scrae |
(Scott) scree, loose rock debris. |
| scraich scraigh |
to screech, make a scratching sound. |
| scrauch scraugh |
a raucous squawk; (verb) to make a raucous squawk. |
| screich skreigh skriech skriegh screigh scriech |
to screech, shriek. |
| scrieve |
to glide swiftly along. |
| scrimpit |
meager. |
| scrunt |
anything stunted. |
| scrunty |
stunted: SCRUNTIER, SCRUNTIEST. |
| sculduddery sculduddry skulduddery |
a breach of chastity; bawdy talk. |
| scummer |
a shallow ladle or sieve for removing scum or floating matter from the surface of a liquid. |
| scunner |
a feeling of strong dislike; (verb) to be in a state of disgusted irritation. |
| scye |
an armhole. |
| sealch sealgh |
a seal (the animal). |
| seik |
sick: SEIKER, SEIKEST. |
| sel |
self. Pl. SELS. |
| selkie silkie |
a seal. |
| semmit |
a vest or undershirt. |
| semple |
simple, meaning not of gentle birth: SEMPLER, SEMPLEST. |
| sey |
a carcase of beef. |
| shabble |
an old rusty sword. |
| shacklebone |
the wrist. |
| shairn sharn |
cow-dung. |
| shauchle |
to shuffle. |
| shavie |
a trick. |
| shellycoat |
a water goblin dressed in shells. |
| sheuch sheugh |
a ditch or drain; (verb) to plant temporarily. |
| shilpit |
sickly-looking, puny. |
| shirra |
sheriff. |
| shoogie shoogle |
to swing, sway back and forth. |
| shoogly |
shaking, swinging, wobbly: SHOOGLIER, SHOOGLIEST. |
| shortgown |
a woman's short jacket. |
| shottle shuttle |
a small drawer, esp. in a cabinet. |
| shouther |
shoulder; (verb) to shoulder. |
| showd+ |
to rock to and fro: SHOWDS, SHOWDING, SHOWDED. |
| siccan |
such, what a. |
| siccar sicker |
sure; certain; firm. |
| sicht+ |
to sight: SICHTS, SICHTING, SICHTED. |
| sickerness |
certainty. |
| siclike |
suchlike. |
| sighter |
an inspector. |
| sillock |
a young coalfish. |
| sind synd sine syne |
to rinse, wash out. |
| sinsyne |
since that time. |
| siver syver |
a drain; a grating over a drain. |
| skeely |
skilful: SKEELIER, SKEELIEST. |
| skeigh |
(of a horse) skittish, spirited; (of a person, esp. a woman) shy, coy, disdainful, proud: SKEIGHER, SKEIGHEST. |
| skelf |
a splinter of wood, esp. one embedded in the skin. |
| skellie skelly |
to squint. |
| skelloch |
a yell; (verb) to yell. |
| skite skyte |
to dart or glide; (noun) a queer person. |
| skivie |
deranged, askew. |
| sklent |
to slant. |
| skoosh |
to squirt, spurt. |
| skyre |
to shine, be gaudy. |
| slae |
a sloe. |
| slaid |
pt. of SLIDE. |
| slairg |
to spread or smear sloppily. |
| slaister |
a sloppy mess; (verb) to bedaub, to do anything in a wet, dirty way. |
| slee |
sly: SLEER, SLEEST. |
| sleekit |
crafty, sly, smooth. |
| sleepery sleepry |
sleepy. No comparative. |
| slidder |
to slip, slide. |
| sloan |
a snub, reproof. |
| slocken sloken |
to quench, moisten. |
| |
slothful; grievous, heavy. |
| sma |
small. |
| smaik |
a contemptible fellow, a rascal. |
| smeddum |
a fine powder; (fig.) spirit, mettle. |
| smeek |
to smoke. |
| smiddy |
a smithy; (verb) to smithy. |
| smit |
to stain, infect. |
| smittle |
infectious. |
| smoky |
(Noun) a smoked haddock. |
| smolt smout smowt |
a small person or child. |
| smoor smore |
to smother, extinguish. |
| smur |
to drizzle. |
| smurry |
referring to SMUR, a fine drizzly rain: SMURRIER, SMURRIEST. |
| smytrie |
a collection of small things. |
| snab |
a cobbler; a shoemaker's apprentice. |
| sneck |
a latch; (verb) to fasten with a latch. |
| sneesh |
a pinch of snuff. |
| sneeshan sneeshin sneeshing |
snuff. |
| snib |
a small bolt, a catch for a window-sash; (verb) to fasten with such. |
| snirt |
a smothered laugh, a snicker. |
| snirtle |
to snicker. |
| snod |
smooth, neat: SNODDER, SNODDEST; (verb) to trim, tidy: SNODS, SNODDIT, SNODDING. |
| snool |
to be tamely submissive. |
| snowk |
to snuff or smell about |
| somegate |
somewhere, somehow. |
| sonce sonse |
good luck, abundance. |
| soom |
to swim. |
| soop |
to sweep. |
| sorn |
to impose in order to obtain hospitality, to sponge. |
| soum sowm |
the proportion of sheep or cattle suitable for any pasture; (verb) to reckon this. [Scots variety of sum]. |
| sourock |
sorrel. |
| souter soutar |
a cobbler. |
| sowf sowff sowth |
to whistle or hum softly. |
| sowp |
a spoonful, a sip. |
| spaer |
one who foresees the future. |
| spaewife |
a wise woman. |
| spain |
to wean. |
| spald spaul spauld spall spalle |
the shoulder, esp. of an animal used as food. |
| spale spail spall spawl spalt |
a splinter, chip. |
| spane spain spean |
to wean. |
| spavie |
spavin. |
| speal spule |
the shoulder.. |
| speel speil |
to climb. |
| speer spier speir |
to inquire. |
| speld spelder |
to spread open, sprawl. |
| speug+ |
a sparrow: SPEUGS. |
| splatch |
a splash, a splotch. |
| splore |
a frolic, a spree. |
| sprackle spraickle sprauchle |
to clamber. |
| sprattle |
to scramble. |
| sprug |
a sparrow. |
| sprush |
spruce, neat; (verb) to spruce. |
| spuilzie spulye spulyie spulzie |
spoliation; (verb) to plunder. |
| spulebane spuleblade spulebone |
the shoulder-blade. |
| spunkie |
an ignis fatuus. |
| squattle |
to squat down. |
| staggie |
a colt. |
| stallenger stallinger |
a keeper of a stall; a person who paid for the privilege of trading in a burgh of which he was not a freeman. |
| stane |
stone. |
| stang |
a sting; (verb) to sting. |
| stank |
a ditch, a pool. |
| stap |
to stuff, thrust, cram. |
| starn |
a star; (verb) to row backwards. |
| starnie |
dim. of STARN, star. |
| stashie stooshie stishie stushie |
fuss, ado, disturbance.. |
| staun+ |
to stand: STAUNS, STAUNING, STOOD(!). |
| staw |
to stall. |
| steale |
a handle. |
| stealed |
pt. of STEAL. |
| stealt |
pt. STEAL. |
| steamie |
a public laundry. |
| steek |
a stitch; (verb) to stitch. |
| steekit |
pt. STEEK, to stitch. |
| steelbow |
those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord. |
| steeld |
pt. of STELL, to place or fix. |
| steery |
(Scott) a commotion. |
| steeve |
stiff, firm: STEEVER, STEEVEST. Cf. STIEVE. |
| steil |
a handle. |
| stend |
to bound, stride vigorously. |
| stenlock |
a coalfish. |
| stent |
assessment, valuation; tax; (verb) to stint. |
| stepbairn |
a stepchild. |
| stewartry |
a former territorial division of Scotland (abolished in 1747) under the jurisdiction of a steward. Now only in The Stewartry, the Kirkcudbright district of Galloway. |
| stey |
steep: STEYER, STEYEST. |
| stibble |
stubble. 'That wee-bit heap o' leaves an' stibble.' (Burns). |
| stibbler |
a horse turned out to feed on stubble. |
| stickit |
unfinished; having failed esp. in an intended profession. |
| stieve |
stiff, firm: STIEVER, STIEVEST. Cf. STEEVE. |
| stime styme |
glimmer, glimpse; (verb) to glimpse. |
| stirra |
= SIRRA. |
| stirrah |
= SIRRAH. |
| stoit styte |
to stagger; of a fish, to leap above the surface of the water. |
| stoiter |
to stagger; to falter in speech. |
| stooden |
pp. of STAND. |
| stookie+ |
stucco; a statue. |
| stourie stoury |
dusty: STOURIER, STOURIEST. |
| stouth |
theft |
| stoutherie stouthrie |
theft, stolen goods. |
| stouthrief |
theft with violence. |
| stovies |
a thick stew of potatoes, lard, onions and sausagemeat. |
| stowlins stownlins |
by stealth. |
| stown |
stolen. |
| strae |
straw. |
| straicht |
straight: STRAICHTER, STRAICHTEST. |
| stramash |
disturbance, racket; crash, smashup; (verb) to make a racket. |
| stramp |
to tread, stamp. |
| strath |
a valley of considerable size, through which a river runs. |
| straucht straught |
straight: STRAUCHTER, STRAUCHTEST/STRAUGHTER, STRAUGHTEST; (verb) to stretch, lay out (e.g. a corpse). |
| stravaig |
to wander about idly. |
| stravaiger |
a wanderer, idler. |
| strinkle |
to sprinkle. |
| stroup |
a spout, nozzle e.g. of a kettle, jug etc. |
| stroupach stroupan |
a drink of tea. |
| strunt |
to strut. |
| studden |
pp. of STAND. Cf. STOODEN, STANDEN. |
| stunkard |
sulky, sullen. |
| suddenty |
suddenness; a sudden. |
| sugarallie sugarally |
liquorice. |
| summar |
summary. |
| sumph |
a dunce, a blockhead. |
| sumphish |
stupid, doltish. |
| sunket |
a dainty or delicacy. |
| sunkie |
a little stool. |
| swack |
pliant, nimble. N.B. No comparative or superlative. |
| swankey swankie swanky |
an active, smart, vigorous person. |
| swarf swerf |
to faint |
| swedger+ |
a sweet. |
| sweetiewife+ |
a garrulous person: SWEETIEWIVES. |
| sweirness |
sloth. |
| swey |
to sway, swing. |
| swither |
to be undecided; a state of indecision. |
| sybo syboe sybow |
a CIBOL, a spring onion. Pl. SYBOES. |
| tacket |
a small, broad-headed nail, a hobnail. |
| tae |
to toe: TAES, TAEING, TAED. |
| taillie tailye tailzie |
= TAIL, in sense of ENTAIL, an entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted. |
| tait tate |
a small portion, a pinch. |
| taiver taver |
to wander, to rave. |
| taivert tavert |
muddled, fuddled. |
| tak |
to take. |
| tam |
cap with a broad flat top. |
| tammie tammy |
a Tam o' Shanter, a kind of woolly hat. |
| tappit |
with a top, crested. |
| tapsalteerie tapsieteerie |
topsy-turvy. |
| targe |
to interrogate, reprimand. |
| tarrow |
to hesitate, be unwilling. |
| tash |
to soil, blemish. |
| tassie |
a small cup. |
| tauld |
told. |
| taupie tawpie |
a foolish or awkward young person. |
| taut tawt |
to mat, tangle |
| tautit |
matted, tangled. |
| tawie |
tractable: TAWIER, TAWIEST. |
| tawtie |
matted, tangled: TAWTIER, TAWTIEST. |
| tediousome tedisome |
tedious. |
| tedy |
(Scott) tedious: TEDIER, TEDIEST. |
| teind |
a tithe; (verb) to assess or take a tithe on. |
| telt |
pt. TELL. Cf. TELD. |
| teuch teugh |
tough: TEUCHER, TEUCHEST/ TEUGHER. TEUGHEST. |
| teuchat tewhit tewit |
the lapwing. |
| teuchter |
a derogatory term used by a Lowland Scot for a Highlander. |
| thack theek |
thatch; to thatch. |
| thae |
these. |
| thaim |
them. |
| thairm tharm |
an intestine, catgut. |
| thegither |
together. |
| thereanent |
concerning that matter. |
| thig |
orig., to take (esp. food), consume by eating or drinking. Later, to take or appropriate for one’s own use; borrow (with or without permission); plagiarize. N.B. past tense THIGGIT. |
| thiggit |
Pt. of THIG. |
| thir |
those. |
| thirlage |
a servitude imposed on the tenants of certain lands, restricting their custom to a particular mill, forge, etc.; spec. the obligation of tenants to grind their corn at a particular mill and to pay the recognized dues or MULTURE. |
| thon |
yon. |
| thonder |
yonder. |
| thowless |
pithless, listless. |
| thrae |
= FRAE, from. |
| thrang |
to throng. |
| thrapple thropple |
throat, windpipe; (verb) to throttle, strangle. |
| thrave threave |
a collective noun for a number of sheaves of corn, two stooks of twelves sheaves each. |
| thraw |
to throw. |
| thraward thrawart |
froward, obstinate. |
| thrawn |
obstinate; twisted, wry. |
| threap threep |
to rebuke, to insist |
| threapit threepit |
persistent, obstinate. |
| thrissel thristle |
thistle. |
| thumbikins |
thumbscrews. N.B. there is no singular THUMBIKIN, but cf. THUMBKIN. |
| thumbkin |
an instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew. |
| tid |
mood, state of mind. |
| tiff tift |
to sip, drink; to squabble. |
| tine |
to lose, be lost. |
| tirl |
to turn; to whirl; to rattle. |
| tirr |
to strip. |
| tirrivee tirrivie |
a tantrum, a commotion. |
| tittie titty |
a sister. |
| tolbooth tollbooth |
a town-hall; a prison. |
| toom |
empty: TOOMER, TOOMEST; (noun) a rubbish-tip; (verb) to empty. |
| toorie tourie |
a small heap, a knob of hair. |
| toots |
to tut. |
| tose |
to tease out, draw out. |
| touk |
= TUCK, a tap, stroke, beat esp. of a drum; (verb) to tap, drum. |
| toun |
town. |
| toustie |
(Scott) irascible: TOUSTIER, TOUSTIEST. |
| toutie |
petulant: TOUTIER, TOUTIEST. |
| towmon towmond towmont |
a twelvemonth. |
| towt |
to pout; (noun) a pet, a fit of sulks. |
| tozie |
(Scott) a shawl made from a goat's inner coat. |
| traik |
to make one's way wearily; to get lost. |
| traikit |
worn out. |
| trankum |
(Scott) a trinket. |
| trashtrie |
trash. |
| trews trooz |
close-cut tartan drawers sometimes worn under the kilt in Highland dress. |
| trig |
trim, neat; (noun) a stone placed under a wheel to keep it from rolling; (verb) to make something trig. |
| trigness |
neatness. |
| triply |
in Scots law, to reply to a DUPLY. |
| troak troke trock |
to barter |
| troggs |
interjection: by my troth. |
| tron trone |
a public weighing-machine for weighing produce in the market-place of a city or burgh; the post of this used as a pillory. |
| tuilyie tuilzie |
a fight, a brawl; (verb) to struggle. |
| tumphy |
a blockhead; coaly fireclay. |
| tumshie |
a turnip. |
| tuptowing |
(Scott) present participle of TYPTO, to work at Greek conjugation. |
| tuts |
to say tut. |
| twa twae |
two. |
| twafald |
twofold. |
| twal |
twelve. |
| twalpenny |
an old shilling. |
| twasome |
twosome. |
| tweedledee |
a fiddler. |
| tweel |
= TWILL, the fabric; (verb) to weave with this. |
| twinter |
two years old; a two-year old sheep or other animal. |
| ulyie ulzie |
oil |
| umquhile umwhile |
some time ago; formerly. |
| unacquaint |
unacquainted, not on familiar terms with. |
| unbrizzed |
(Scott) unbruised. |
| unce |
ounce. |
| unco |
strange; foreign; extraordinary; (noun) a stranger, a piece of news. Unco guid: strictly moral. |
| unhalsed |
(Scott) unsaluted. |
| unsicker |
insecure, unsafe. |
| unsoncy unsonsie unsonsy |
unlucky. |
| untenty |
careless. |
| upgang |
ascent. |
| uphaud |
to maintain, warrant. |
| uptak |
uptake, as in GLEG in the UPTAK. |
| vassail vessail |
(Scott) vessel. |
| vennel |
a lane. |
| verra+ |
very. |
| viretot |
(Scott) rush, dash, gad. |
| virl |
= FERRULE, a rod or stick. |
| visie vizy vizzie |
a close or careful look; a gunsight; (verb) to look at closely. |
| vive |
lively, forcible. |
| vively |
adverb from VIVE, lively. |
| vivers vivres |
food, comestibles. |
| vogie |
vain, proud; merry, cheerful: VOGIER, VOGIEST. |
| wabbit |
exhausted, tired out. |
| wadset wadsett |
a kind of pledge or mortgage; (verb) to pawn or mortgage. |
| wadsetter |
one who holds by a WADSET. |
| wae |
woe. |
| waeful |
woeful. |
| waesuck waesucks |
interjection used to express pity, alas! |
| wakerife waukrife |
waking, sleepless. |
| wald |
= WELD, wild mignonette. |
| walise |
a valise. |
| wally waly |
fine, excellent: WALIER, WALIEST/WALLIER, WALLIEST. |
| wallydraigle |
a feeble, imperfectly developed, or slovenly creature. |
| wampish |
(Scott) to brandish, flourish. |
| wanchancie wanchancy |
unlucky, dangerous, uncanny. |
| wanrestful |
restless. |
| wanthriven |
stunted, ill-grown. |
| wanwordy |
worthless, unworthy. |
| wanworth |
a very low price, a bargain. |
| wapenschaw wappenshaw wapenshaw wapinshaw wappenschaw wapinschaw |
a periodical gathering of the people within an area for the purpose of seeing that each man was armed according to his rank, and ready to take the field when required. |
| wark |
work; to work. |
| warst |
worst. |
| waster |
to spend prodigally. |
| wasterful |
extravagant. |
| wasterife wastrife |
wastefulness. |
| wat |
wet: WATTER, WATTEST. |
| wate |
3rd pers. of WIT, to know. |
| waucht waught |
a large draught; (verb) to drink in large draughts. |
| waur |
worse; (verb) to defeat, to worst. |
| waurst |
worst. |
| waygoing |
departing. |
| |
weak or feeble. |
| wecht |
an instrument for winnowing or measuring grain. |
| weem |
a subterranean dwelling. [Gaelic uaim, cave]. |
| weid |
any sudden illness, cold or relapse with febrile symptoms. |
| weird |
to destine, to doom. |
| weise weize wise |
to guide in a certain direction. |
| wersh |
tasteless, insipid, unsalted: WERSHER, WERSHEST. |
| westlin westlins |
towards the west. 'When the fringe was red on the westlin hill' (James Hogg, 'Kilmeny'). |
| wha whae+ |
who. |
| whaisle whaizle wheezle |
to wheeze. |
| whample |
a blow. |
| whaup |
a curlew, sometimes great whaup as distinct from little whaup, the whimbrel. |
| whaur |
where. Can take an –S: WHAURS. |
| wheech |
to move rapidly with a whizzing sound. |
| wheen |
a few, a good many. |
| wheenge |
to whinge. |
| wheep |
to give a prolonged whistle. |
| wheeple |
to cry like a curlew; to whistle feebly. |
| wheesh wheesht whisht |
an interjection calling for silence; (verb) to utter this interjection. |
| whid |
a brisk movement; a lie; (verb) to lie. |
| whidder |
to whiz. |
| whig |
to jog along. |
| whiggamore |
a Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians. |
| whigmaleerie |
an odd or fanciful contrivance. |
| whilk |
which. |
| whilly |
to wheedle, cajole. |
| whillywha whillywhaw |
to wheedle, cajole; (noun) cajolery. |
| whirry |
to move rapidly. |
| whitrack whitret whittret |
a weasel. |
| whow |
interjection expressing deploration. |
| whunstane |
= WHINSTONE, a hard and compact rock. |
| wice |
wise. |
| widdie widdy |
a rope, esp. one made of osiers; a hangman's noose. |
| wight wite wyte |
to blame, lay the blame on. |
| williewaught |
a deep draught. |
| willyard willyart |
wilful. |
| windle winnle |
an appliance for winding yarn. |
| windlestrae windlestraw |
anything light or insubstantial; a feeble person |
| windock winnock |
a window. |
| winna |
will not. |
| wintle |
to stagger. |
| wirricow worricow worrycow |
the devil, a hobgoblin, anything frightening. |
| wonner |
a wonder, a prodigy. |
| wowf |
crazy: WOWFER, WOWFEST. |
| wud |
wood; (verb) to load with wood: WUDS, WUDDING, WUDDED. |
| wunner |
a wonder. |
| wyliecoat |
a flannel undervest or petticoat. |
| yae+ |
ae. |
| yaff |
to bark, scold, nag. |
| yagger |
a pedlar. |
| yald yauld |
active, nimble. No comparative. |
| yanker |
a rap; a big lie. |
| yankie |
a scold; an impudent woman. |
| yate yett |
gate |
| yaud |
a mare, jade. |
| yauper |
one who YAUPS. |
| yealdon |
fuel. |
| yelloch |
to yell. |
| yesk yex |
to hiccup or belch. |
| yestreen |
yesterday. |
| yibbles |
perhaps. |
| yill |
ale. |
| yince |
once. |
| yirth |
earth. |
| yitie+ |
the yellowhammer. |
| youthy |
young: YOUTHIER, YOUTHIEST. |
| yowe |
ewe. |
