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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 |
