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  1. Taiver n.2, v.2To make Soup de Saute the way. Boil a Hough of Beef to Tavers on a very slow fire. They boil the 
  2. Boil House n.The fish are boiled and kitted in a neat and commodious boil-house. There was also a “boil house” at Wick, for the salmon caught at Thurso. About 50 years ago there was at many farm steadings a “bile-hoose” — a small building containing a boiler in which food for animals was cooked.  
  3. Aboil adv.This . . . by the time it comes a-boil, is transformed into a coagulation or jelly. Scenes of aboil. You needna fear burning wi' a' that water on you. You're in mair danger o' coming a-boil. The 
  4. Boil n.2He was in a boil o' sweit (sweat).  
  5. Sketch n.2If she gets the least “sketch of cold” she gets a “boil” in her throat often.  
  6. Brook n.4It [face] would still be no worse for a buke [ ] or a boil. On ilka knee she had a breuk — What 
  7. Musk n.3Take as much Water as will fully cover the Quantity of Grain . . . Boil all these till the Grain is reduced to a Musk.  
  8. Esscock n.2 came in contact with never spoke of a boil. It was always .  
  9. Beat v.2Boil it, change the water, and -beit butter. butter is seldom made in perfection: say, butter 
  10. Pimple v.Disturb it as little as possible; let it stand till it [milk] just pimple up; don't let it boil.  
  11. Scattan n., being kind to us, Put on the muckle pot, Wi' scatyuns for to boil to us. “Scattan galore”, I hear aHe was “gaun tae hae a day at the Scatyins”. A pot stuff'd wi' tatties an' scattan. The captain 
  12. Wangus n. it on tae the wangus and swung't on the fire tae boil . . . the wangus wis a big timmer swey wi' theThe foreman an the orra man got a big rung o' a stick, pat it throw the bow o the bait pot, linket 
  13. Smash v., n.? smash't a' ane. Some o' my banes broken or dung a smash. Boil a Peck of Pease in two Quarts of Water till they are all in Smash. Put in two chopins of split white or green pease . . . boil them to aThe measles coming at that time upon the parish, there was such a smashery of the poor weans. A an egg would be placed on the ground and we would shut our eyes and advance on it. A game in which chipped bools were put in holes and smashed out by a plunker. Jim's a smashin chiel, he's the brawest lad I hae laid een on. He's a muckle smashin' chiel. A toast. Our noble sells; and wha's like us 
  14. Wuss n. is necessary to boil them regularly every few weeks in a ley of oak bark (called or ), by whichIt is said of tobacco, when it is very dry, ‘The wuss is a' out o' that tobacco'. When in use, it 
  15. Hivvet n.A beilin' heved, a boil. As for da pones, dey'll laekly no geng, for dey're sowder'd tagedder in a sutie, moorie hivik. “In a heved o' breer” is said of reaped corn grown together at the ears in consequence of damp . . . “He left it a' . . . lyin' in hiveds,” he left it lying in lumps, applied to someone digging carelessly with a spade, leaving the soil unsmoothed.  
  16. Tanker n.A lang-faced, tankard-backet man. I hae pitten out thae tanker-mouthed girners [dogs] in the trance, ance and again this day. And brought your tanker to the boil. The Anstruther sailors and 
  17. Yim n.2, v.2A yim roun your neck. What a yim at claes hes at's hingin o' that tow! Speaking of the lack of cream in the milk of one of her cows, a goodwife says, “It's jist a thin yim,” or a “yiminie.” “There wis a yimin o' ice on the water i' the mornin'.” When potatoes were frothy on top just before they came to the boil, Granny used to say they were “yimmin.”  
  18. Chatter v.1, n.1 the boil And washed the chattrie clean.  
  19. Lithocks n. pl. the coarse grains. Boil for a little, add sugar to taste and take very hot. and Crowdy-moudy. [She] had wasted her body with water lythocks into a scrufe o skin and bane. Lyelicks is usually the nightcap in a farmhouse where the inmates are not so young. We soak some oatmeal 
  20. Brumstane n. ever I get thee, th'u's boil i' bruntsteen'! An' e'en a brunstane smell I thocht His majesty had wi. He kenned he wad lunt like a brumstany match, And lang the red pit had been gaping. Amaist, like Bonar, he a skep Cou'd paise [weigh] and sleely han'le; The smooking them ne'er made him weep, Wi 
  21. Eik v.2, but he came and just looked at the woman. Says John, eke the fire up till I boil some beer, To gie to aboot this kirk wark's they cud. Fine he kens fa eekit “Collie”, kickin up a fearfu row.  
  22. Gloze v., n., . . . Greetin' through reek to mak' a bleeze And boil his pat. The ham dip gaed up the lum in a gloze. It'sThe fire is said to be , when it has a bright flame. Gudewife, carry up a glozin' peat, an' kennel a spunk o' fire in them baith. On entering the shop, which was heated up by a glozing wood fire 
  23. Mutton n.Our meikle Pot that scads the Whey put on, A Mutton-bouk to boil. Porter, beef or mutton ham. The shackle-bane o' a mutton-ham. Ye'll get a slicy o' a dishy nicey, An' a sweety wiggy, an' a mutton ham. The kitchen ceiling darkened with a goodly array of mutton-hams. He rode past, bung full of brandy and good mutton ham. Ait-cakes an' mutton-kail. Eppie could hardly repress her wonderment that a ploughman of this unusual character should land at Endriggs. “Eh, Losh fie,” she cried, “sic a mutton's on a 
  24. Myles n. pl. of living on Arnots, Myles, or the like. It is an old saying, “Boil Myles in water, and chop them with butter, and you will have a good dish.” Mile. The tradition of the South of Scotland asserts that 
  25. Stourie n.. Just mak a drappy o' stoorum to me. A dish of “stoorack” (a hot drink made with a little oatmeal) being the last before retiring. They had bannock and stourach for supper. A coarn o' stoor-a-drink an' a bannock. “Stoorin” — Into a bowl put three tablespoonfuls of fine oatmeal, add one pint of hot water, and leave to soak for an hour. Stir well and pour off the liquid into a pan, add a pinch of salt, 1 teaspoonful sugar, 1 teacup milk and bring to the boil. Add two tablespoonfuls of whisky and drink 
  26. Gigot n.To broil a leg of Lamb: Cut off the loin and boil the gigot. I hae been at the cost and outlay o' a jigot o' mutton. Such a display of mutton-broth . . . and roasted jiggets of lamb. There's nae flesh meat to be gotten . . . the day, and just the promise o' a new killed jiggot o' mutton the morn. A Gigot of Mutton. . . . Trim the gigot and rub all over with the sugar. Oh, he sat down with appetite, Demolished a gigot o' mutton and a brace O' pairtridge right religiously afore her face. Gigot wholesale usage. They wur . . . a muckle gigid o' cheese on a plate.  
  27. Besooth prep., adv.“A'm pittin' dem ta da hill. Dey wir laid a slap apo' wir daeks yonder besooth da grind [gate],” Arty said. We now maun leave them for a wee, An' afterwards look back an' see, What luck they had besouth the Forth. Besouth the town grow whins and bent. Or whare wild-meeting oceans boil Besouth 
  28. Rossie adj.It has been reserved for the benevolent Mr of Hamburgh, now in this country (of which he is a native), after a variety of experiments, to find out a cheap, but equally nourishing, substitute for Parish ; which is, to take one pound of rice and one pound of barley, and to boil them in four full Scots pints or two English gallons of water, over a slow fire, for four hours, with an ounce of salt treacle, which will make a good substantial meal, weighing 16 pounds, for 10 or 11 hungry people.  
  29. Dottle n.1, v.1 substance, as for example the debris of a boil or the membrane of diphtheria. A dottle o' strae. Have a tub, with a small hole in the bottom of it, wherein put a cork or dottle in the under end. Thy list of sages I did note all . . . Who have declared not worth a dottle Is man's old faith! A dinna care a dottle. Put a wee dottle of icing on the cake. The dropping of some of the smaller domestic animals would be called a dottle. A weel-filled pipe, stuck in my face, Is the thing to keep me to mak' sure that ye hae brought yer tobacco wi' ye. A dottle . . . is any stringy tenacious 
  30. Spue v., n.It's an eaten and a spewed-like thing. A' spewing fou. Some o' them hid been spuin' fou, fernyear, an' made an' awfu' chaumer. Satan, delighted wi' the sight O' a' his fouk sae spew-sick. There's another thing in called some spewsome name, I cannot recall it. The pot wasna allowed to boil owre fast spleet or spue, Fast ower she pricks a pin in. Barley's spewin' oot, bit aits are gey far back. The. The curling reek spew'd out frae mony a lum. It aye comes spewin to the door, We've sic a weary lum. While doon comes aye the tither spue. A wee spue o' reek. Hit's a spju to be seen. Till, bush! — he gae a desperate spue. The brimstane reek wi' an upward spew Swirled roon' baith the Deil an' the 
  31. Knottie adj.-tam here means milk brose. You put the milk to the boil and pour it on the oatmeal and salt in a bowl shearers' parritch. Knotty sowens, and a wee grain o' butter. If that binna fale [ , hot, pungent of boiling milk is stirred thro' it, hence the name. In some farm kitchens this is a favourite dinner for the men on a busy day in the house. . . . is a brose made of beist milk and oatmeal. The tyke'll but 
  32. Curcuddie n. curcuddie in the pot a-boil — I thocht mony a time my heart wad ne'er been able to send a shot mair through, and I saw naebody And linkit awa' my lane, Curcuddie. Usu. in phr. , etc., “a phrase used to denote a play among children, in which they sit on their houghs, and hop round in a circular form” (Sc. 1808 Jam .). What wi' gauze parritch, and muslin kail — ae barley-pile a hale dressing frae the ither, and dancing . . . consists in a lowered attitude - the dancer, as it were, sitting on his houghs, and hopping around, while his legs are shot out and in. She gied the bailie a curtchie, as laigh as she had been gaun to dance 
  33. Eariwig n., v.), other people, boil-in-the-bag beef warmed up over a camp fire, or who has never run for the bus. The good news is eariwigs feed on aphids and other tiny creatures that can be a problem in our gardens. Once upon a time ye were feart to have a drink with him. This habit he had of eariwiggin other people's right in and telt them it was a load of shite. From the CCTV that tracks you to your work, to the IT eariwig on the interview but struck a deal with the News of the World whereby they bought me a pint of Stella Artois and I sat in the sun in a far corner of the beer garden. Being a journalist and a fully 
  34. Quak v., n.' mony a hagg an' quakkin-moss. . Take 3 Mutchkins of sweet Cream, boil it into a Choppen with the soft should disappear for ever in a Quaakin' Bog. A kind of poplar, known by the name of quaking ash. The greater part is a perfect quagmire or quaking moss of great depth. Forbye you ha'e the muir to cross Wi of an Half Penny Loaf, some Sugar and Cinnamon; then take a little Flour to fasten it, six Eggs', an' twa barrels f'ae the year afore, i' a quack' o' mites, a' the time.  
  35. Glessie n. plums, caraways, raisins, etc. Aleck had a bit of gundy, glassy, or blackman (the stuff was known by tartar, water . . . Boil briskly, without stirring, for half an hour . . . Pour in thin sheets on . . . had bocht me a hummin' peerie and a plumper glessy bool. A fankled bit string, then a plunker an tuppence wrapped in a bit paper completed its journey from two storeys up, on the back of my skull. The 
  36. Tablet n. of 2 Eggs, and set it on a slow Fire, and boil it till it be almost candyed, then put in the Grate of . Grate the Oranges, take 2 lb. of Sugar, and a Mutchkin of Water, then clarify it with the White serving a lighter ice or mousse, proffer shortbread or tablet (Scottish fudge) alongside, for fear of 
  37. Chirm n.1, v. chirmin' sweetly its promise to boil. The lassie weans, like clustering bees, were mounted on the carts little good from her mother, a chirming, wairdless, foolish woman, to come trailing here in her 
  38. Gowp v.2, n.2 tak' a chair,” some gutcher says; “Sit doon,” but, od! My goupin' “boil,” for days an' days, Was inBut, lake-anee! his heart did goup, Depriv'd o' a' the gleams o' houp. Little do ye ken o' the his moo For a' the joy that dirl'd him thro'. “It [sore] gopes, gopes, like the heart of a gorling”; it beats like the heart of a young bird, when affrighted. Or whitloe gouping in the thumb. “Jist the road. A hae a sore head, feel how it's goupin. A reg'lar, riving, ragin' colic, A loupin gowpin' o' her sair heid and seeck At the thocht o' touchin' a singel bite. My small finger is never noticed nails oan a man afore either, but ma hale life wis jist this wan airm, wi the hairs, an shivered through and through. Thank heaven! my ain stair-heid at last! My haill heart gied a joyfu' gowp.  
  39. Sing v.2, n.2Fat are the Puddings, — Heads and Feet well sung. , then a gude sheep's head Whase hide was singit, never flead. Sax gude sheep-heads, sung i' the smiddie bleeze. She smells like a singit sheep's! The parritch 'ill be a' sung. The old tradition for Sunday fare was to set a ‘singit' sheep's head to boil and leave it there during church hours. E kitlin geed ower near e fire an got its fuskers sung. Sicken a heed saw I never; it wunna sing. I want a sheep's head that will . His singet chaplain “heid yin” called the gamekeeper a “singit wasp” — a nice contemptuous phrase. That's a gey singit-lookin pup. He would meet with a crony or two of an evening in some public-house, drink with them and. . . . They were wont to say of it, that “she would be a bra toun gin she had anither sing.” Mind the 
  40. Off prep., adv., adj., v.. Mary's little room (off my uncle's). He preached off book to shun offence. Despatched a hugeous parcel to Will Scott at Selkirk. It is always something off hand. “Off loof” ye'se get a scrift. Off the first end, right chearfully, Content them a' with Honesty. I canna get daein' a han's turn for them; the door's never off the turn wi' them. A woman in the parioch of Dipple, named Helen Clerk, violently took a coat off from her on the Sabbath day. She wished to be off from the July bargain. These before a Panel next week. They review the case. Decide whether to go on wi' the Order, or whether I can come off of it, or maybe whether they send me to a detention centre." I'm skint, he said, I'm out the game. No point looking for dough off of me. I needed to boil the kettle to get the mess offof my face McLaughlin still managed to get pregnant offof it! Lottie says A maun stop letting ye borrow offan me. The into the hands of spirited farmers, as separate or off farms. Gin there be a bit shower she offs wi 
  41. Sture adj.Thy twa bare feet, sae stoure an' burly. A muckle stour man aboot six foot lang. He tuik da stour-fisk to da top of da Ness o' Hermaness but he fand no kettle to boil da whale in. Scad, Horse-mackerel, man. Though he was stalwart, stoor and stern, Yet that could nought avail, man. I'll gie them a claught mair siccar an' stour. A stoorer he'rt might ha'e been yark. Swuftly an' stourly I laid on a heezel rung. Folk young an' stoure, the tear an' wear O' toons may thole. Minerva mim, for a' your Morals stoor, Ye shall with Billy Bacchus fit the Floor. Says black Joan frae Crichton Peel. A Carlin. That dour stour-looking carle that sits by the cheek o' the ingle and turns his back on a' men. The bairn Alison is not used to such company as a sture auld wife like me. There are, in our bleak waste o his auntie, the Duchess, but she's a bauld stour wife. Sir Fergus demanded from her, stourely, his.” Nae mair we'll start to hear his knock, An' roaring stoor. I heard a horn fu' stourly blawn. Ye may 
  42. Hurdie n. help Gar't me turn up his hurdies and gie them a skelp. A “boil” began to rise an' swell On my leftThe Lasses bab'd about the Reel, Gar'd a' their Hurdies wallop. To bang the birr o' winter's anger my hurdies For ae blink o' the bonie burdies! Here's a raw hide that has been about the hurdies o' a stot not half an hour syne. An' sic a pock sae deep an' wide, Say, does it hang down by his side, Or hurdie. The hurdie pairts had room an' mair, But that's nae unco fawt. A claymore swinging plainly at me the awfiest dunt i the ribs, an there she stud - a shilpit wee craitur wi naither briests nor drawn up, like a bairnie in a wame? Her sumptuous hurdies and her cream-white thighs? His dowp Gangs heels ower hurdies. An idle, drouthy, selfish set, Ower the hurdies amon' debt. Yet feent a hurdy-caikle was a thing unknown in the Holy Lan'. The supper o'er, round bleezing fire They in a body 
  43. Puddin n. has an end, and a pudding has twa. Hame I cam', burstin like a puddin'. “Puddeny Willie” they ca'ed; strain it; mix it with a little sweet milk or broth; stir into it shred suet and dried oatmeal, with plenty of pepper, salt, and minced onions. Fill the skins, and boil as white puddings. Savoury herbs may best black puddens in the country. Saterday broth without meat, and cheese, or a puden or blood pudens, or a hagish, or what is most convenient. A not unpalatable sort of blood-pudding, enriched with butter. There's naither a stirlin' . . . crab . . . mare or bluidy puddin 'll vot for 'im. One may know puddin leggie he trots like a naggie. The hydraulic machine, as then applied in this parish, was a water, and when the water was scarce, then comparatively few buckets were attached to the chains. “A puddin Puddin Market” — said to a child in coaxing it to eat. I dinna gie a puddin' pin How ithers crack. Dan ye'll see a peerie felt rig-oot stuck in wi preens aboot da lent o puddin pins. I gat leave to thresh 
  44. Huil n., v.Ilk kind of corn it has its hool. The Barley and Oats are of a smaller body, and a thicker hool he'll boil, Gie's beggars hools o' pease. I cleaned them out, baith pea and hool. 'Gin ye canna get berries, put up wi' the hools. A hool o' cheese. An' wasna' Victoria the First thy true freen Sin' thy vera first buik was in hool? Braird that shot at Beltane shows a new hool in October. I'se rive frae off ye'r Hips the Hool. . . . the wearie heat to cool Whilk scouders a' the ucc frae aff his glewin. [Politicians] wad aften in a jiffie to auld Nick Sen' ane anither dunnerin' saul an' hool. There dwells a saul within this hool, Warm wi' a spunk o' haly flame. Puir chiel! he never meant to wrang, The heart or hool 
  45. Melt n., v.1 any stringy tenacious substance, as for example the debris of a boil or the membrane of diphtheria Hallowmas, the milt or spleen of the animal was taken out and laid on a board, and six cuts were made to April. The milt was now laid in a dark place for three days and three nights. It was then carefully examined, and if a cut had closed and presented a dry appearance, the month it represented was to sauted with uncommon care by the house keeper. A mass of herring melts . . . had fallen into his hair melt. Haud yer lang melt. Open yer gubbie, ma wee lambie, an' let the man see yer melt. A or is. Ye're naethin' but a muckle melt. But I can teet an' hitch about, An' melt them 'ere they wit; An syne fan they're dung out o' breath They hae na maughts to hit. ... To someone is to hit him a hard blow: "Beat it or Ah'll melt ye wan." ... 'Maybe Ah was a bit over-confident there myself,' Jackie 
  46. Ebb n., adj., v. take bait nor cast tang in another man's ebb. The auld geudman o' Saennis wus wint tae set a selkie net doon i' the ebb. A clamour of birds out on the ebb gave him a notion that men walked there. I water, and thus be saved from starvation. Potatoes and herring was a very common diet, and in hard times even ebb meat (shell fish). He wis pickin' at da side o' a muckle ebb stane. It was also “forbidden” to throw fish bones into the fire: — “Boil me an' eat me, bit burn no my banes, An' ye s'all, Their black mishanters, ebbs and deeps At corsin o' life's fierds? Mill Dam-dikes being low, and not a foot and a half above the ebbest water. The good apostle's whiskey cask, Would grow but little ebber. The term was used by one of our workers in describing a garment, which he said was “raither ebb facts That beg a' questions, to ebb minds' content. He had made the ditch so very narrow and ebb, that but very little water entered into it; and the sea flowing up levelled a great deal of his trenches 
  47. Pint n. . . . actually furnished John Roy Stewart with a Ten Pint ( — That is Twenty Quarts, Measure) Barrel of Usquebaugh. Take one pound of rice, and one pound of barley, and boil them in four full Scots pints or two English gallons of water. The original standard was sent from that burgh for examination. A Measure called a Scotch Pint, containing 111 Cubic Inches, has long been in use in Glasgow, for the sale of Ale by the pint, which is half a gallon. The Scotch pint, which is still in constant use, and which is the standard for liquid measures in most Scottish bakehouses, has a measurement, according to the ale gallon; that is a little less than half a gallon imperial. There were two Scotch pint measures in, ., the larger one was half a gallon. They [Scottish bakers] even adopted their own standards of liquid pigs for haudin' your Friday's bawbees. My Friday's pennies, ilka ane, Were in a pint-pig safely stored. Their capacious pint pot, which they call a . There was Geordy, that we lood his lassie, He 
  48. Sned v.2, n.2A jock the leg sueding [ ] knyfe. A pruning, snedding and digging about our Roots. The snading ax ye're sent to the country your lane, Come na back like a rung that is sneddit. Those who the branches from the trunks. [He] would use his garden snedding-knife. A snedded stick of oak. Woodcutters and snedders Wanted. A rumpit stock, my branches snedded. 'Take tent o' this, ye gillravager. Foot the road puddins tae boil Ahm badly fashed fer hits tha near Christmas. Dis onieboadie ken tha Ulster Scots fer heaps. C'wa', Daith, again, sned Life's vain shoot. Daft Gibbie, too, had become a partisan ... 'Sned them, sir,' he would cry, 'sned them like thristles.' Snedding turnips in winter is many a time sair His wrath, He'd sned their feet upon their path! As if ye had sneddit them aff wi a gully. Ane o. His een follaed the strecht line o Mermaid tae Lauder, a braid thoroughfare that sned the Parish physically an socially in hauf. Let's tumble [King George] out o' his station And a' the chiels o' his 
  49. Snap v., n.1, adj. before the flour is added, the mixture must be brought to a boil. Naething wad satisfy her but I maunSnappin' rattle was oatcakes heated at the fire and crumbled into a bowl of milk. “To the genius o some auld swinger snap to speak Of pink-ey'd queans, he gives a squeek. She is not quite goose enough to fall in love with the fox who has snapped her. Now a trap did snap him gye snell. If disease are bare, 'Tis roastet an' snappet. She snappit them up, an' took a guid bellyfa every time she wus left no not a snap. First taste a snap of right Hollands. There's little boil'd, an' nae a snap to the Town. She will gi'e ye a ginge-bread snap. The auctioneers and snap-wives too Had staid to try what they could do. I'll buy sweetmegs and snap. Every man or woman who bought a dram got a lozenge or “snap,” as a bribe to come back again. Wi' sweeties and snaps, and snoods for her hair. Beggars buy her a ‘snap-man'. Snaps: Flour, sugar, butter, ground ginger, syrup or treacle. The maister ga 
  50. Parritch n., v.Hae done your paritch, lassie , Gi'e me my sark an' gravat. Ye's get a panfu' of plumpin parrage food — they're grand food, parritch. Ye hinna carried in a single peat, an' it comin' on for parritch-time. I would rather an ill deil sat forenenst me at the table, than parratch in a poke. Nane o'your mornin, oatmeal fried in creesh and tatties at dennertime, and parritch at nicht. Attie likit a dram in a drap o tarry tea - a Birse cup he caad it. He likit his sark weel-aired ilkie mornin afore the fire fyle he cweeled his parridge wi a jeelip o cream, syne suppit it doon afore stridin ootower the coort ... It's as plain as parridge, that he was baith a Romin, and Socinian. Man, it's as plain's parridge! There's a gentleman in the toon doon by that's a hot wooer, and daddy's for nane o' his kind roon a nice story and a good read. For a year, while I paid the deficit in instalments, it was back to him yap: He longs to see the parritch cap. Although our parritch-cap be sma . . . We'll spare a sup 
  51. Lawland adj., n. an' erse. He had a Maud about him and on his head a Scotch bonnet (or lowland bonnet as they are called). Lawlan lassie, wilt thou go Whar the hills are clad wi snow. The maud may be said to be a long colour is the check of six threads of black and six of white, known technically as a six-and-six check heich an' lawland knowe Owre Scotland braid like flamin' altars lowe. Ye can boil him Lawland brose as muckle as ever he can sup. A second Scottish bagpipe is the bellows-blown Lowland pipe introduced performers on the Highland bagpipe possessed a set of lowland. The Lowland bagpipe is comparable to the' bagpipe had three drones, two tenor and one bass, fixed in a single common stock and was preferred with wimplin' Quair, I ken a callan', Wi' heart as leal's in a' the la'lan'. For in the lawlans at this Jamie, To write a rhyme in Lawlan plain. He shrewd and clever was, I trow; Spak Gaelic weel, and 
  52. Fouter n., v.It seem'd thou was a scurvie Futor. And, swearing he was better stuff Than sic a fouter, Stripp'd, in a twinkling, to the buff, And braved the Souter. Ye think yersel' an honest man, Ye snarlin-faurt footer, fat d'ye say? . Fat seek ye? . Naething, ye ill-thochtet footer. “You're a wee footer!” declared Sarah. “There never was a family like this for grumbling about their food.” [He] had shown himsel' an unco foutor, An' scarcely fit to be a souter, Let be to ha'e sic great command. Better late was growin' a big idle foutar, and no worth my meat. “You're a and the ducks 'ill get you” is a common saying. The breath o' the auld drucken fouter, which was become nocht but a vile-smellin' alcoholic gas, took haud and bleezed like a tarr'd torch. No da shaep o' a lad ta spaek til frae Sunday ta Satterday aless a lock o' auld futters. For a while Jinnet'll say naethin', and then she'll cry, “See's a waas a coorly footer onywey, an' kentna whit tae lippin. Their inspiration's got the dunt. Twa dune 
  53. Bannock n.The goodwife was baking, and had a girdleful of bannocks on the fire. He's a moment noo sin' doo guid oot i' da moarnin' wi' a bit o' a flooer bannock. [ is not used in Sh. for oatmeal cakes.] In view of such a contingency he stuffed his pockets with (oat cakes). All food, with the exception of oat and bere bannocks, being (food to be partaken of by means of a spoon). Bannocks, pron[ounced] in N.Isles . As we were given tea and sugar and milk, as well as bannocks of oatcake, we made a fire in the open, preparing wood-shavings for kindling, using a pocket-knife, and selecting good dry peat from one of the peat stacks near us. While he waited for the electric kettle to boil, he spread butter thickly on a bannock and began to munch it. Mutton, ham, cheese, broiled salmon, bannocks, and butter were produced promiscuously. Her bannocks is so superior 'at a Tilliedrum woman took to her bed after in a similar shape, namely in thin, flaccid cakes, called bannocks, the ordinary bread of the gentry 
  54. Jeel v., n. it boil about half a Quarter of an Hour, and put it in the Geil Glasses. Obliged to conform to every, wauchtin doon frae the Dinnet muir, as yirdfaist a pairt o the Howe as the laricks soughin ower the lochs hoose in yon dreich, Victorian airt, war happit wi snaw an ice - a geelin claddin far aa souns smored an the treetles o watter faain frae spoots an icicles vanished inno the bosie o a wraith o a drift. To every Mutchkin of the Juice of Rasps, take half a Mutchkin of the Juice of red Rizers to make it geil kirn that the butter wadna jeel. That cranberry jam didna geill, and it made wi' pure cane sugar and a'. “A'm aye in the same dish I was gealed in”, I am still in the place in which I was born. A can o' worms ae pooch concealed, The tither scones weel brooned and jeeled. As cauld as geal. Sits a' day lang wi' heart like jeel, An' carkin' hoast. He thocht she hid gotten a gey jeel. Pit in het water tae tak aff the geel. “It's caul',” said he, “for a peer aul' deil; My hoofs an' horns are that near 
  55. Beal v., n.1 used to describe a spot, boil, etc., that is full of pus Ah'm fair beelin' At no bein' able to say, hoo it festered, rosed, an' beal'd. I'll no my head about it. 'Ah've heard a hunn'er times the nigh [sic] how it a' startit, an' how it a' finished,' she argued sounding really angry. 'Ma ears are thoom and the sarest thing he ivver pit up wi. , a festering sore. [The vbl.n. is more common.] The lass is laid up wi' a bealt thoom. A beeled finger. The youngest lass had to stay at home, for she had a beelan (suppurating) foot. He'd stuff for healin' beelin' lugs. Ye canna sleep soond wi a baelin toom [thumb] tiftin [throbbing]. A baelin' finger. What's the matter with your sister? She hez a breist lik naebody's business. You Tarzan, me beelin. A'm bealin A missed it. Then ye go beserk an the life of the party, none of us could keep up with you. Why don't you just get tore into having a good time rather than this daft brooding? This came as something of a blow to the arts programme staff 
  56. Tongue n., v. who are simple enough to allow it; and hence they call the plant or . A tongue-deavin' randy — you'll no find her match. Wi' a wife tongue-hung, like you, Queeny's sorrows are no' far to seek. Wi' women 'tis needless to gang to tongue-law. That tay o' Maggie's is a capital tongue-lowser. The trump to them a'. He is the tongue of the trump to the whole squad of them. The greater Part Tongue frae their tongue-rake hoo the pley had arisen. Tam tint his tongue-raik a' thegither. It was at my very tongue-roots to offer to give you a lift. It was at ma tung-ruits ti cry on the hoattery affair thocht is by-wi' here. Of slanderers it is said: ‘ye may lock afore a haand t'ief, but no afore a tongue-thrashin's in later life's different. Before a tonguey woman's noisy plea Shou'd ever be a cause to dantan me. Their minister, who is a tonguie fallow. He's a tonguey cratur, but, eh, he's haaley (hollow). Daft Nanny, Tonguey Jenny. “Did you give it in writing? ” “ Na, I gi'ed it aff my tongue.” I cudna 'a 
  57. Mint v., n.1 whiles she may mint frae a chair to the wa', When chasin' the dog or the cat, there's a fa'. I do howp as thoughtless as the birds. Fat blecks me is that, efter sic a life, Ye wad mint at number twa, wi' sic a wife. A professor o' philosophy I mintit neist tae spier. I think ye are the first Hieland woman wad mint sic a doom to her husband's kinsman but four times removed. I'll gie you a toast, a! Luath, mint the ither side, Bide Kelpie whaur he may. My een are bauld, they dwall on a place Where I words. “Mint the gowler,” . hit the dog with a stone or anything. Mint e'er ye strike . . . Minting gets no Bairns. An' frae the willow buist did scatter A tate o' meal upo' the water, Nae doubt for fear it should beguile Her whan it minted first to boil. Whan e'er the house mints to rin roun, There' the mistress for a wheen siller she's aucht him. Dee't an' dinna mint. The minted meanin' is as plain As three times seven's twenty-ane. A claim to my heart ne'er is mintit, It's a' for the sake o 
  58. South adv., adj., v.1 sooth fashion. That's a south boat. I ken by the rig o' her. “Did he really and actually boil siccanHe struck oot sooth. The lift gaed the wrang wey, turned aff tae a side-road, syne intae a sma glen wi' him, to see her soothaboot freends. A Buchan laird who had been sooth-awa' picking up tips for-fashion't thyme an' sudderin' wid. Som o' yun graand towrists and suddern-folk. Cairnbulg, which is a every Soo-Sider's heart, to fall into ruin. Soosider = a resident of one of the parts of Glasgow south of the Clyde. (the Sooside) Here I have to make an admission about the West End: I envy it. As a resentment on the part of soo-siders. Ye remind me ae a manager ae a midget fitbaw team ah used tae play fur. Wan day we wur playing a team fae the Sou Side. They hudnae loast a gemme. So the manager gies us this Glasgow, for example, he's always noticeably supported by his non-showbiz sou'-side neighbours. A waving in the southland gale. A likely lass she was then, and looked ower her southland nose at us a 
  59. Play v., n.. Boil kettle boil an play pot play, Mony a hungry gut is waitin dee da day. It [dart] just played dirlBut he hud a pack o cairds, so he pleyed patience. Aw the time. And the warder didnae like him, so to . . . my grandfather's, to stap a week or twa, and play myself amang the Moorhills. He was just playin hissel workin in a bar - he'll get a real job efter he's been tae the Uni. Will you two stop playin yersels and get on doin the dishes. He's just playin hissel at bein a doactor - the auld one's the real man. Henry Lewis a common Tumbler, and menial Servant to Doctor Edward Green . . . has resorted to Fife Side, or some of the North Country Burrows, with Design to get himself furnish'd with a Play-Fool, and to set up himself for a Doctor. Fair words will not make the Pot play. Ye're big brose crown, Will ne'er gar Symon's pat play brown. Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame, and on the bane, But did nae mair. Till 's crutch amang the stanes play'd rattle. The purse, wi' a 
  60. Crap n.1 top when the whey is brought to the boil, and is sometimes used instead of milk; it is, however, but a craps like a man, and ca' thae beasts [geese] into the water again. The band of the sheaf was drawn up craps o' heather like muircocks. Scarce had he shook his paughty Crap, When in a Customer did pap whey" to his porridge. Crap whey, it may be explained, is a kind of frothy substance that comes to the do smack. Oh for a mouthful of Howeboddom crap of whey! I was immediately supplied with a cog o' crap-whey, bannocks, and a ram-horn spoon. I lost sight and grip at last o' the crap o' the stilts balanced there. A stalwart young fallow o' sax feet, wi' a grip that would spin the bluid out at the craps o' a chield's fingers. The upper edge of every individual stratum in the section is called by Scotch colliers the of it. Lat's see a drappie o' yer beer, To scour my crap. And they roopit, to gust their gabs and craps, Right mony a cadger's cavie, o. Your dainty letter, faith! I'm glad to 
  61. Wash v., n. rates that must cripple his rivals. Several Lads having made merry in . A gush of pleesant be applyed for washing the heids. The maiden went to a south-running stream, or to a ford where the dead and the living crossed, and washed the sleeve of her shirt. She returned home, put on a large fire, and hung the shirt in front of it. She went to bed and from it kept a careful watch. The apparition of' ither sinsyne. Dookin for apples in mither's wash-bine. Giein' Mrs Broon a haun at the wash-bine. You stand up in nothing but a washed-in vest. Ah need new T-shirts for the summer. Last year's yins are aw washed in. The , who, with a heath-brush, and the assistance of the sea water, clears away every to the washer-wife. My heart was as black as a sweep's face; but noo it's whiter than a washerwife's someone will preserve a steamie for posterity for future generation. In Edinburgh the term "washhoose" was more common, the word "steamie" being largely used by the Press. ... In it we will be re-creating a 
  62. Throu prep., adv., adj., n., v. it's through the boil. Half-fill the pot wi' water first, an' bring it through the boil. He got a geyTrow every yett o five A ghaist stails hame At, ne'er alive, Can pey a daid man's debt. So feth there ye've fun a second hame. Andra an' me tane the subjeck through han's. Some o' the cases 't I hed. Bob Grant, an' mi brither Wullie an' me, a' hid it throu han'. Fin we took it throu' han' I think it wis the same man. We took the thing throw heids. How many boys, for instance, could define a through-hochie blowaway? A through-hochie is a stroke used in the game of bools known as knocking out. Blowaway showman gaed through't, an' when a' thing was gane, As a beggar he tried to mak use o' the wean. “Abraham through-the-bows, an' he geed awa unco hingin-luggit. We'll ha'e a through-the-bows in Mathew Matics an' Domestic Economy. The pot hottered vehemently, and the tatties were “throu' the bree.” A throu'-the-muir. Fan Earth, weel by wi' her throu'-the-muirs, Is caul' as her fite-faced meen. A thochtie haiveless an 
  63. Wersh adj.Helicon's wersh Well thou ca's Divine. A kiss and a drink of water is but a wersh disjune. The Worcester man was but wersh parritch, neither gude to fry, boil, nor sup cauld. I dinna like them [porridge]; they're unco werse; gie me a wee pickle saut. Want's a wersh meal. The hares here are wersh and tough. A half-done deed and a half-boiled egg are wersh things. Even auld “Clydeside” has lookit on the wine when it was red (though it's a wersh beverage and I'm a patriot even in my drink). But water's wersh when ye're drouthy for yill. I thocht that was a wairsh kinna meal for comin' aff a journey and tempo of the weaving work, the faery was something of a mischief with their butter and cream and founded. The minister had a weary warsle wi' a wersh discourse [ ]. My hameowre tongue is warsh and weak were ‘wersh'. Their tone though sweetish, is wersh, like the tone o' the floot. Gie me a gude fiddle, an' a gude Strathspey, an' nane o' your waersh foreign trasherie. Old Houses etc. to dung what is 
  64. Wrack n.1, v.1 was a wrack. ‘What drifting wrack is yon?' cried he. The coast guard calmly took a seat and newsed bauld, like very lions strong, Were a' his wrack, an' wrought him a' his wrang. The warld's wrack we' drink that gars sic wrack. It's a' wrack an' ruination. The three deils o' Auchlossan fair Ca' body. They drew out the fiddle, completely a wrack. His nout's jist mere vrack. There 'midst the wrack o chair a cushion's made Frae the wrack o' some aul' plaid. What can a rack o' rubbish like me dae or gie halfe a merk. Noe person ore persones gether wrak one the Saboth day at aney time. To 3 days gathering. Wi' sweating, drinking water, and chewin tobacco, my mouth was got dry, and a ‘wrack' had gathered , and are used for packing lobsters and crabs to be sent to a distant market. Plenish'd wi' nocht but, here's a chokit burnie Sae fu' o' rake. Button wrack, and lady wrack, are best for kelp. If after a fever one chance to be taken ill of a stitch, they take a quantity of lady wrack, and half as much of 
  65. That pron., adj., adv., conj.I ance was neepours wi' a chap't cud 'a deen that. and as relatives, never passed into popular ah'm gaunnae kick up a song'n dance! If it's no the peanut butter thit's coastin mair, it's the meat's noo 69 cents a pund instid ae 49; and if it's no that it's somethin else is dearer! 'I was thinkin wad spean a foal. Her house was taen up wi' them wadna like to be intruded on wi' strangers. There's that's sister mairriet the postie. The kye that's caur were born aa about the same time. A familiar name for a Health Visitor, originally from the colour of their uniform. Although nowadays they no longer wear a uniform this is still the general term in common use: 'She's friendly with Mrs Sloan, ye know, her that's daughter's a Green Lady.' and the two-ply toilet paper that's tear line is out of synchronisation. I will say that for the English, that they are a ceeveleesed people. The usual salutation — ‘that's a braw day'. A Scotchman will say, “that is a fine day,' when an Englishman would say ‘this is a 
  66. Thoum n., v.Aiblins ye'll try a canny keek oot the pane Dichtin the gless wi yer thoum A'thing unco quaet She raxed ower the poke an twixt finger an thoom, A pu'd oot a sticky yin caa'd a soor ploom. Your match is nane aboon your thumb, Though a' her kin shou'd glour and gloom. Then Lindy to stand up, began to try, But by your favour, that's aboon his thumb. Yer a 'cute chiel, Jamie, but I think that's aboon yer is found working in semi-darkness or fading light. Jock here! Jock there! My thoomb for Jock. In a thoomb. I wadna gie ye the bu'k o' my thoom. We'll be back for ye in the crack o' a hen's thoom. She'll come to in half a dizen cracks o' a cobbler's thoom. I do not care the crack o' my thoom for you. Deil a crack o' their thooms they care. A wee, nasty, craulin' beastie, that naebody cares a crack o titled loon, And on them puts his reverend thoum. You'll keep your thoomb on this. Clap your thumb on a' that I said anent This matter. What til let oot an' what tae kep their thoom upo'. A man o' mense 
  67. Greet v., n.1 reviling language against the principal by calling him a greeting hypocrite. Dar'st thou of a' thy Betters tawpie. When I had greeted myself mostly blind, and cried till I was as hoarse as a corbie. Dinna fa' to the greetin' about it, Mary! The puir innocent thing . . . had grutten itsel' as hearse as a weary grutten een. The wife — she's no' a greetin' kind, I can assure you — grat in the train coming mammy! Veeve can I mind dat lang traik trowe da hill, Whin me feet felt laek lead, bit left hardly a white rime skinklan bricht i the stibbly field, I taen a roch an stany brae tae the hill whaur the twice, she foond the boady lyin it the table. She gret a wee bit but theyd bin expectin it. A sat on the stairs an gret. She grat mony a day and priggit sair wi' the loon tae bide when the term cam roon. He. I needed to boil the kettle to get the mess offof my face, what with the greeting and that. Crazy hae grat for a broken Covenant and the saut is frozen on aw yer faces. But wha'll greet for me, eh 
  68. Sowans n. pl., v.Prepared slabs of Butter'd ale and Souins for myself. These Sowens produce a good Yest, which makes good Ale. We supped on sowens hearty for we were . Butter'd So'ns, wi' fragrant lunt, Set a' their gabs a steerin. The ordinary diet of farmer and servant may be described by the questions asked prepraed at short intervals of about a week. In Caithness more art is displayed, the whole stock for half a last minister. Some o' the folks had been langin' for a drink o' sowens. On Christmas nicht, frae the that delicious food called sooans are made. Sowens, as an article of food, was a good deal used, being. A gweed caapfu o' sowens ur a bilin o' raains. Soon the grinwan was finished and the boy went into the house to beg a measure of 'sowens' - steeped and boiled oat siftings - for scattering in the water to attract the trout. As a change from porridge a housewife sometimes made sowans for supper. This greyish in colour, with the consistency of thin porridge without any grains, and that it had a pungent 
  69. Hae v.1, n.1 heart's in, gin I could ever hae got my name on a stretch or two.' and tae gie til the warl syne that rissom o aefauld experience nae ither hais, or can hae. And it's a sair fecht. I hae to coont his pulse summer, wi the licht and sweetness of manhood in your bluid, laid a woman on the wavering grass up yonder nivir wauks or lats a lassie moan huz in ma palice tuke hissel tae doss upo ma throne. For she, nae toon; pass owre , pass owre: thi psychopomp huz huddiz oor. For mony a wan haes slep' face tae the table, ... Huv ye ever hid a guid hing? Dae ye ken whit a guid hing is? Weel, ye fling open yer windae, Plant yer elbows ower the ledge An hae a guid gowp oot. During rationing my mother always swapped her clothing coupons for sugar for the tea, 'We dinnae need new claes,' she'd say 'but a' the Stewarts ha'e had a sweet tooth since the Flood!' "But Spike hasnie heard it," Granpa said. "Ye'd like to hear it, wouldn't ye, Spike?" Take yir time, but Ah haveny got a' day. Me! I haena touched it! Havenae seen her 
  70. Milk n., v. the milk-dishes. A stoup and a milksile. Milk soop the Dutch way. Milk-Soup. Boil two quarts of the ritual of 'milk-an'-breid', which amounted to a bowl of milk, into which a corter of oatcakes was it wasn't brose for dessert, it was 'melk an breid', oatcakes warmed at the fire and crumbled into a bowl of milk, sometimes with a dash of cream, sprinkled with pepper and supped with a spoon. The pain was to me, When I at the bughting forgather'd with thee. She could handle a milk-bowie muckle better than a pen. All the stools and chairs in the house, with the milk and washing boynes upside down . . . emptied . . . into a large “milk-boyen” or tub. An' I've some guid thick cream, for Jeannie at Hill-foot skimmed the best o' a milk-bine for me. Then go to the milk hoose and add the very thick cream from the top of the milk bin. A pint o' milk-brose he did worry. So ye got cabbage brose, kale brose, neep skirlie or sise The most economical way of using bear or barley, is when it is ground on a barley mill 
  71. Peat n.1, v.. to 4 in. thick. 'Whit would ye use instead' asked Duffy, feelingly. 'Peats! Ye couldna richt boil a a Country where Peats are to be had. A toom tar barrel An' twa red peats wad bring relief. I often wish there was a het peat doun their throats. “What's that you've got in your arm?” “Atweel it is my cairtan hame dere pates. A peat when cut, before it is dried, is about 18 in. long, 8 in. broad, and 3 in potato wi' peat; it's only a smell.' He wis cairtin' peyts fae 'e Moss o' Greenland. Hurrying from went about collecting fuel for their Hallowe'en bonfire was, “Gi'e 's a peat to burn the witches!” yet the wearing of a silk shirt! It was no unusual sight in the summertime to see a woman with a cart full of peats, the horse's reins over her arm, and the wires clacking away like a machine. Patricia took a burning peat from the fire with a pair of tongs and incensed the bedroom. Islands Coal Company now taking orders for burning peats. Ada de Fawnes granted them a , in the territory of Fawnes 
  72. Runk n.3A runk o' a body, a runk o' a baess, a runk o' a sea. A muckle runk o' a man.  
  73. Ever n.A ever o' a man, o' a coo . . . etc.; a ever o' a fire, a great, blazing fire. A graat ever av a 
  74. Bessie n.1 . A virago. and are the diminutives. . A word used to a person when one is angry: as when a mother in a temper says to her girl, “Ma bessie, gin I hid haud o' ye.” 'No,' said Paradise, 'that's not a pose. Stella has a warm heart. A bold bessy but a warm heart. ...' A gude Paisley tocher-- a Bible and a bessy.  
  75. El D n. A familiar name for Eldorado, a proprietory brand of fortified wine. Also Clatty Mattie! Rab gaped at him. Then he laughed: Hey, we should've brought her with us. Go down a bomb in here man — a couple of glass of eldee inside her and she'd be up on top of the bent shot's bar doing tricks with a guiness bottle. 2 boatles a L.D. A boatle a Lanny. A dizzen cans a heavy. Hauf-a-dizzen cans a light. A hauf boatle a voddy. A wee boatle a pep. Aw the winos drank Eldo in my youth.  
  76. Bally n. . A milk-pail, synon. . A ballycog is also called a bally. A cog is not so tall as a pail, and has a handle for carrying it, and not a “bow” as a pail has. , a milk pail with a handle formed of 
  77. Belge n., v.He that will not in chorus join A claty belge is he. . A short, plump, and thriving person or animal; as “a bilsh o' a callan,” a thickset boy. She was a bilge o' a body like her mither. He's a stout bilch o' a man. . A little waddling fellow. I was but a little bilsh of a callant then. . Fat and at the same time diminutive. A bilshy lass. A short bilchy body. He belges awfu fin he's in gey gweed binner. He's standin belgin there an' speakin' oot o's breist at a great lick. We stummelt an 
  78. Haiches n.A mim mou'd maiden jimp an' spare, Mistook a fit for a' her care, An' wi' a haiches fell. Doon A cam' wi' sic a haechis that A thoucht A wis throw the grun'.  
  79. Flatch v., n.Wan time dey hae a thing flaached doon ipu der heads laek a mutch. Wisna he set his fit apon a rotten maasguum it wis driven ashore, an' flatched him laek a pancake. Ilk lad his watch dress'd wi' a flatch O' ribbands frae his lady. He . . . hed a face laek a ashit, an ' a flatch o' a nose. A great flach o a thing laek a ten-year-owld kishie. Hit's a fleein' krab! He gengs taerin trow da wattir wi' yun hint flatshi klaas o' his. Flatch I fell upon my face Out o'er a muckle sod  
  80. Blett n.“A mouldy blett” black muddy soil at the head of a bay, or the mouth of a burn. Dirty spot on cloth, . “A green b[lett],” a grass-grown plot on a stretch of heather and . . . “a steni b[lett],” a stony plot of ground. “A b[lett] o' oo (wool)” lying on the grass; a “b[lett] o' ware,” patch of seaweed on grass. “Great o' feet”; a “great b[lett] o' a plate, boat, etc.” Great o' snaa on the 
  81. Tillie-pan n.To 3 Fish and a Big Tillie . . . 1s 10d. A tillie pan O white iron, whilk I made mysel. Lauchin' as she snods the kitchie, Scoors the tully-pans. Wull ye no buy a brander, A stander, a tullypander, Or a jouggie tae the bairns? Fan the ale wis only tuppence, an' a “tanner“bocht a gill, A besom or a 
  82. Durk n.2, adj.What a great durk o' a knife to carry about wi' thee! “A durk o' a stick;” “A durk o' a carrit.” The word is also applied to persons; as, “He's a stout durk o' a cheel.” A short “durky” man, with 
  83. Mollacher n.It's a mollacher. [of a cabbage] It's a mollicker o a sheep. She's a big mollacher o a wumman.  
  84. Dodgel n.“A dodgil o' a stick”; “A dodgil o' a neep.” He's a saft, easy-going dodgel. A dodgel o' bannock.  
  85. Lurt n.A was a shapeless, unsightly mass. was much the same. A lort o' a piltek; a lort o' a chield.  
  86. LÖ adj.Ta reel a pirm Or wind a clew, A lo soolpaltie Will tak you. “We're gotten a lø corn” — we've had a good meal. “ Yon is a lø” of a little meal.  
  87. Toosht n., v.Ilky wee bit tuschlich o' a ruckie it he's thrashin'. A' the toosht aboot oor toon'll mak' little odds. Gie's a tushloch o' yarn. A “tooshlich” means a small quantity loosely contained, as “a wee tooshlichie o' sheelicks in a pyock.” Pickin' up a tooshlichie o' saut atween her thoom an' finger. Little Jock Pom, a toosht o' a craitur. A roosty-reid fusker that stack oot o's face like tooshts o' teased towe. Nae a toosht. ... a muckle chukken, mebbe ten times as big as Curra, wis lordin it ower the littlins happit wi nae mair than a tooshtie down. Ye little tooshtach, ye! He ga' the bundle a toosht fae 
  88. Gull n.1, v.1A , a chill evening, one marked by a cold wind. There's a gull on the hills this forenoon. Nyod, that's a gey gull comin' doon the nicht; we'll hae a bit dyow aw'm thinkin'. A think it'll be rain; it's a' beginnin' to gull.  
  89. Booscht n.“He's a gang[e]in' o' a mannie.” Eng. . He's a peer busht o' a mannie. A nesty booscht o' a 
  90. Pooit n.A policeman was given various names. Among others these names were: “a Peeler”, “a Bobbie”, “a Snout”, “a Poo-it”, or “a Slop”.  
  91. Slunk n.2 was a word applied to a “lang chiel o' a man.” Also used in speaking of a fish — a codling, a 
  92. Umik n.A umikin ting av a lamb. Da peerie umags a' deel-foik ( . the fairies). Pit a omik a aetmael a da 
  93. Baivie n. (of a fire). A term used to denote a great fire; sometimes, . , a large fire; a great blaze. She kennl't a curn birsled browls an' flang them intul the beevis. , a large or heaped up fire.  
  94. Blink n.1She met my lad, . . . An' gar'd her lips on his gee sick a smack, . . . An' then wi' sick a blythsome blink she took it. Ye dinna swither to cast down a blythe blink o' your ee on me. But ne'er a blink o' Fortune's e'e E'er comes my airt ava'. There was a view on a bit of empty road, . . . houses . . . and a blink of sea. And May-month decked the shaws There was scarce a blink o' the wa's For the flower o' the gean. Gang and bring me your books, and when I have ta'en a blink of their contents, I'll gie you an answer. Hursle forrit yer creepie an' get a blink o' the ingle. An' ye will sit a blink, somebody will be in. Eesie'll see the fun o' this in a blink. Ay, but — but hover a blink, Miss Airmstrong. There cam' a fiddler out o' Fife A blink beyond Blaweary. [This sense is not given by .] [ ], he has had a short or (ironically) a good sleep . . . [ ] . I got no a blink destreen. Applied to the momentary use of borrowed light; as, “Gi'e me the o' a candle,” give me the use of a candle for 
  95. Keek n.2Ye rampin' keegs, black be ye're fa', Ye plague a body ane an' a'. Ye vile keig, ye! On Deeside a girl may be called a caig o' a quynie, a jade of a lass. One of the queans was Faith, and faith she looked a daft-like keek.  
  96. Beezer n.I'm meanin' serial films — no' stories. I ance saw a beezer. It was ca'd “Vera the Vampire of Paris.” , an uncommonly effective person; also “a beezer of a blow,” etc. — . a most effective blow, etc. The neeps werena a great crap, bit there wiz some beezers amo' them. To be quite honest there was a thumping crop [of potatoes] and lots of “beezers.” What a beezer o a tattie! Carties oot o orange-boxes an' pram wheels. Auld bed-springs, booncers, tethert til the feet. Boolies knockit wi a skirl frae chalkit rings an' beezer conkers crackt owre soon, flin'ert on tirlin strings. It was a beezer — . a knock-out blow. Your bool was a beezer. It's a beezer the day. Here's a beezer comin' [a big wave]. An extremely cold, icy day: 'I'm no goin oot the day, it's a beezer alright.' Weel dune, Robin Hood; dash it, man, but you're a beeser.  
  97. Bas n.2, v. , a large, fiercely blazing fire; peat-fire, a b[as] o' a fire . . . a mass of peat piled up on the hearth when lighting a fire; dey're bigget on a b[as] o' peats. [Also given in Angus . (1914).] , to build up a fire; to get a fire to blaze up . . ., to “b[as] on” a (great) fire. [ and known to 
  98. Blichan n.Ah, little did the blecham think That he'd be there afore her. “He's a puir .” “You! ye're a bonny indeed to pretend sic a thing!” I hae wit eneuch to see through a blichan o' a la'yer, onyway! There's no sic a blichim 'twixt Ayr and Dundee, As the velveteen hero ca'd Jamie Brownlee. . A person useless for any thing. An auld o' a beast. Also, a worthless fellow. , a lighthearted person given to 
  99. Scart n.2To be even'd in love to a scart O' a think [ ] like a buskit-up monkey. I ha'ena buried a leevin' sowl for sax months, an' it bena a scart o' a bairn. He's a puir scart wha sets himsel' wi' care To gather gear his sordid lifetime thro'. On you, ye scart o' a Hielantman! When do you think a scart like you could pay me? He's nothin but a drucken scart.  
  100. Barley n.1, v.And like a proper lad o' his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie. “A barley!” through the armies baith, From ilka geysend craig resoundit. I beg a barley. . Known at Ballater in my a baurley socht. Then Bonaparte, completely cow'd, Shall cry, “Guid safe's, a barley!” a rest time in a children's game for discussion or bargaining He gripped me by the craig and fair choked me afore I could cry a barley. I concluded that it was a' a vile conspiracy tae gar folks burst themsel's, an' resolved tae cry” a barley.” The sun is blinking warm and bonnie owre the holms and the plantin's, and so I maun cry “A barley! a barley!” and go and enjoy it while I may. Whan ee're staw'd o' writin', duist take a barley. “Now, I would like to give you a little sermon on this — ” “A barley! a barley, Maister Crosbie!” A , a rest in play by children. He said he would brak barlie, If he lay lang. . . . to treat, to have peace for a moment.  
  101. Rivvle n.2A rivvle o' a staff, a rivvle o' a boy . . . a muckle rivvely chiel.  
  102. Slud n.Dis is only a slud atween wadders. Hit wis wi' a sludd o' dis kind 'at ye kent what Magnie wis. Waitin' fur a slud ta tak it up. ‘Ir you haevin' a slud, boy!' as spoken to a lad going for a walk wi' a lass, or spaekin' wi' a lass, in a leisurely wye! Is doo gaain ta buy anything ta da slud? What mak's doo o' Tammy o' da Lees? Isna he a slud o' dine, as da youngsters ca' it noo-a-days?  
  103. Letto n., interj.A letto ting o' a calf. Oh letto! what a ting! A letto, a letto! Lit-a-lit, alt'o da wather 
  104. Tossel n., v.A Scarlet Pistol-Bag trim'd with Silver, fringed, and a Tossel. A white sash, with green tossels. The Hessian boots, having cuddy-heels and long silk tossels. Big tossel-jocks bob up and doon. A braw noo silk umberell, wi' a sterlin' silver hannel an' a pair o' silk tossels. The hassocks with the tossels. The ear flaps were fastened on the top with a broad black braid, making a kenspeckle tossel. Brass handles on the ends and black cords and toshels draped along its sides. A loon fa's een is luikin' oot amo' a tossle o' hair, like a fumert's. If Willie Hill was made a gibbet-tossle o' the morn. He wad form a bonnie tossil at the end o' a hemp string. The book-brod, tossled roun' and roun'. When the catkin's brawly tossel'd. Wi' a tosselled trok o' a nicht-kep on.  
  105. Sprig n.I shall play Ower a sprig o' the merriest. Once I heard a tinkler play a sprig of it on the pipes. Gie's a bit 'bacco an' I'll gie ye a sprig o' a tune. For thare's nae a bonnier whussler an Ah ken a 
  106. Shuve v., n.A short prayer's like a brose breakfast, just a shove by. It wis a holiday for the weemin fowk an' a shove-by o' a denner. I canna eat by mysel'; I'm aye just pleased wi' a shove-ower.  
  107. Parrock n., v.Along the north wall are erected a row of twenty houses, “parricks” or pens, the roofing of which pens. It very soon puts the milk off a lean ewe if she is to stay in a bare, “keb” park any length of time, after perhaps a night in a parreck. In stormy lambing weather, it is a good plan if you have a handy kebhouse or parack. A wild, Cheviot gimmer was in the “parrack,” and in a second the flake-gate closed. A gead through the stable an' roond a' the parricks an' the closes. Ye're my ain wee . Sic a parroch! A some parroch. A parrach o birds, o fowk. Sic a parroch as he wis in fan the horsie lairt i' the bog. Sheep are said to be in a fold, when too much crowded. It is applied to machinery when in the same state. There were the two parrocked together, like a ewe and a lamb, early and late. Parrackeet in ov a ceetie, mang reekin lums an chowkin smuists.  
  108. Fudder v., n.1Sae aff it fudder't owre the height, As fleet's a skellat. As a' their thoughts gaed fudderin' thro' my head. An owlet futherin' in a tree O'ercoupit his philosophy. A foumart o' a motor gyangin a' the drochlin hempy thrang, Gat o'er him wi' a fudder. Till birr, a maukin wi' a fudder, Startit up wi' souple shanks. He's eye in an unco futhir, an' little diz he dee wee't a'. “Fat's a' yer fudder?” is a common question. An' aye a bit fudder was comin' up fae the manse aboot fat the Presbytery was deein'. What a fudder o' a storm this has been.  
  109. Heifer n., v.An heifer counts as a cow when it is over three years of age? — Yes, or when it has a calf. The Royal Highland Society's description of a heifer is a female that has not had a calf, and once calved becomes a cow . . . in England they did not call a heifer a cow until she had calved a second time. . . . In Canada and the United States a female was still a heifer until five years old. All castrated 
  110. Stolum n.When I was a boy at school, in Fife — more than half a century ago — when a boy wished a dip of ink he asked for a “stolm” of ink. I'll wad a richer screed ne'er yet Cam frae yer stollum. Taking a powerful stolum of snuff. Or does the greed of pelf . . . T' invade my loose-laid stollums make thee [a rat] bold? A stolum o' bread and a seip o' milk. What a stolm o' brose he put in'im. Stolums o 
  111. Tummock n., v.Upo' a turf-dyke, straught, they take their stan', Or round a tammock wheel. A “rouch curr tyke”, seated in a comfortable manner on some foggy tomack. She'll eat the grass about the midden Or grassy tammock. Sae hameward hied the tammocks owre. The Moat in Gallawa's a muckle conical tummock, maistly wi a flat tap. Nae time, enoo, to sairch for nests, Or on a tummock tak' their rests. A proper tummock, you can scarcely see at all The bump in a bog, a marshy mound, a knubby knoll.  
  112. Nimp n.A “nym” is a small quantity, often used by nurses, for a piece of bread or cake. Mind you, it micht be a very wee, wee corner — juist a nimp, as it were. Nae ae nimp o's candy did he gie aboot 'im. A relative of his used to say, for a small quantity: a wee nimmle. There should be nyumlins enough tae mak' a fine shepherd's pie. I'll mak' a gran' meat roll wi' thae nyumlins.  
  113. Whush n., v.The roar o' the waterfall only reached his ears now and then wi' a loud ! A marriage makes a whush for a while on a kintra side. Hear ye a whush like waters fa'in? Up cam the tide wi' a burst an a whush. Wild is the owlet 'Mong the trees whushing.  
  114. Slag adj., n.2, v.2The land, or after a thaw, is said to be . A with , is a day on which the ice is thawing. A weet slag; a slag o' a shooer.  
  115. Sowd n.Nor a' the gowd Your father stoll shall hence retrive you, An immense sowd. The tradesmen are paid with a certain sum or quantity of victual annually agreed on, called . Great souds o' hidden treasure. Th' lawyers need a gey sowd for arrangin' th' transfer. They've a feu, an' they've flunkeys, a flat an' a phone, An' a sowd i' the bank. She spent a sowd o' siller. After a sowd of toddy was swallowed,. . . . A sowd of strange faces. Twa reamin' bowls o' toddy Were brewed, an' ladled roun' an' roun', A sowd to ilka body. They made a sowd of toddy to herten theirsels afore settin' furth. But, An' seated weel the sowdie wicht. Auchteen stane, an' sax feet ane — Wha wadna' fancy sic a sowdy? Sandy had married a great big sowdy of a woman. Jeems wis a richt herty sowd.  
  116. Punt v. intr."It's a tap flat up a close. We could get in through the loft, but I need somebody tae gie me a punt up." Gie's a punty-up the dyke! Gie's a punt (up). Gie's a puntie (up). [a help up with hands for foothold to get over] Gie's a punt up ower the wa.  
  117. Firlot n. 200 bushells which are comed to Leith. A Firlet of good Cakes my beuk. An' first I'll have a meal-pock, Of good aum'd leather made To had at least a firlot. It is to be observed, that the firlot, both barley and wheat, is a Scotch pint larger than the standard. This may be in some degree owing to a privilege possessed by the burgh of Dundee, of taking a ladleful from every boll delivered in the town or at the harbour. It's no for a courtesy o' causey clash that he's birling his mouldy pennies in sic so easy now . . . to run off wi' a sheep or a firlot o' tatties. There are, it is true, some smaller communities, especially in the East of Scotland, where you may still be served with a “lippie” of flour or potatoes; and where you may even find it possible to be served with a “boll of meal” or a “firlot” of potatoes. Many Words fill not the Farlet. Borrow a firlat at Portsoy to carry allongs with you. Payed to John Lyon smith for makeing iron girds and handle to the towns furlet 0 15 0 A forpit-dish, a tatie 
  118. Black-strippit Ba' n.There are aniseed balls and black-strippit balls and sugar-elly straps and sherbet bags, all a haipny each. Agnes went round the shelves with the line: a tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup; a tin of Fowler's treacle; a half pound of margarine; a half a dozen eggs; a tea loaf; a packet of Rinso; a bar of Sunlight; a packet of Woodbine; and a quarter of black striped balls. When I wis wee I used tae get a bag o 
  119. Gange v., n.That hug-ma-hush ganjin' clorach o' a deem, Eppie Mowatt, wha pat oot sic a spin aboot's. The deeans. He had long ago put the Frenchman down as having “a ganjin' tongue.” Meggie's midder wis mairriet tull a weeshin o' a mannie, ca'ed Johnnie Shearer, a puffin' ganjin ted. The third, nicknamed “Gangy,” from a prominence of his under jaw. He has a gey gaunzie, ., a twisted or ill-shaped mouth. “Ye've a ganje that wid sair a wife o' sixty” — said to a young girl.  
  120. Grain n.136 Scotch grains were reckoned to make a drop weight. Ev'ry grain, Baith waft an' warp. An' still a fresh croud was advancin' That ne'er a grain room for the thrang They had for the fiddle an' dancin'. Women are jist as heid-strong every grain. A' wis dark an' still except a peerie grain o' licht i' Eddie Maikimson's skylicht. There was a grain snaw on the grund. “A grain of hay,” a bundle, an armful. “A grain of sugar,” a good spoonful. Jeems's hoast's nae a grain better. Ye growl and grummel aboot blicht, fan it may hae been but a grainie o' fite frost.  
  121. Joint adj., n.A joint trade is merely an union of the joint adventurers for a particular adventure . . . A company may be partners to a joint adventure. A partnership for one particular transaction (known as a 1815–1823 — first in the Tron parish in the city, hampered then by a joint-session. A joint trade is not a copartnership, but a momentary contract, where two or more persons agree to contribute a sum, to be employed in a particular course of trade. These fields are over-run with weeds, particularly 
  122. Minuwae n.Like a Lady's gentlewoman in a minuwae, or a hen on a het girdle. The otar dancit ane minowaye. Could mince a minua on mist, Or caper on a cloud.  
  123. Sheemach n.His hair's jist a sheemach; for it hizna seen a reddin-kaim for a month. Dysie's sheemach head. Her heidie wis jist a sheemach o' curls. A shemach o' weeds or ither growth. On the animal's back was first laid the “brottie”, . a piece made up of pieces of old cloth. Over that was placed the “sheemach”, . a piece made of plaited straw. Over these two was placed the “crook-saidle”. A young couple got married and the bridegroom bought a leather saddle to take home to his bride. When a near relation been dein' wi' a sheemach as his forebears took their wives hame on.” A middlin gleg little sheemich o' a mannie. I hinna haed it in my pooer tae say an ull-natur't word tae the bit shemich o' a cratur. Of corn that turns out to be poor stuff, the farmer will tell you it was a “rale sheemich”. It wudna be wise tae tak the wee bit sheemachan wumma. A sheemich is a craitur that cwid be describ't as the runt o the litter an it can mean a toozl't soss, as in "his hair's jist a sheemich for it hisna seen 
  124. Baghle n.A , a bundle. , , a clumsy performer. A clumsy awkward fellow is sometimes called a “baghle 
  125. Glunimie n.Some Glunimies met at a fair, As deft and tight as ever wore A durk, a targe, and a claymore. Not a of them all cocked his bonnet more briskly, or gartered his tartan hose under knee over a pair of more promising spiogs (legs), than did Robin Oig M'Combich. He is but half a Highlander neither, and wants a thought of the dour spirit of a Glune-amie.  
  126. Ajee adv., adj.[She] Dung a' her Cockernonny A jee that Day. They baith wid tell ye what was richt, And ne'er tae tell a lee, They walked the 'straight and narrow way'. And never gaed agee. His little head was thrown ajee. I was . . . constrained to loot [bow] a sort a-jee. Weill, ye can lave the casement o the muckle chaumer winnock ajee an the muin'll shine in owre. An' Geordie wi' his jaws ajee A ballant roarin'! Ye'd better wait till the yett's ajee. Come nae unless the back-yett be a-jee. There wasna . . . a lum reekin, or a door agee. Let ne'er a new whim ding thy fancy a jee. His brain was awee agee, but he was a braw preacher for a' that. When a' we think, an' a' we see, An' a' we luve, 's been dung, a'm telt, is a' agee.  
  127. Bittock n.It's unco late, and it's sax miles an' a bittock doun the water. He buist a' bigged 'er weel cis sheu man hae steud noo I wad tink a guid bittick ower a hunder year. . A very small bit; a “bittock.” “That was a bonnie sang you were singin' . . . Ha'e you ony mair o't?” “A wee bittock,” said Tibbie. Tho' she hadna feck o' fortune — Jist a bittock 'bune the scant — Baith her pooch an' hairt were open. Three miles and a bittok. An' how, quo I, can ye ken a ye alledge again my frien frae that we [ ] bittock o' a paragraph? A gey bittikie on the vrang road. Life hid niver bin the same fur Davie Donald sin Graham Reid hid meeved tae the clachan o Blackbrae. The Reids war still a thochtie o a questionmerk in the place, bein toun fowk fa'd bocht a hoose a bittockie ooto the clachan. They keepit thirsels 
  128. Moor n., v.1A moor had fa'n a' the heel day. It's on a moory. There is a fall of heavy, fine snow. I' da voar whin da snaa is kumin' doon in a blind moorie! An you heard da soond o da muckle wind As he shook da hoose in a moorie-blinnd. Aroond the hoose the mooran' snaw. Sic a night o moorin as he is outside. It's beginnan tae moor; it's been mooran a' the day. The dikes 'll be a' moored ap. Du'll hear me cryin' troo da gale, An' troo da moorin' snaw. “Mooran wi' the cauld” — smothering with a cold in the head. If he's a muirkovi, we might skri by wi what's in. Ye canna stime far in a moor-kaavy. An dats whin ye're strugglin alang kerryin your sea-chest on your back in a gale o wind an a moor cavey, an da Grind yunder ta climb. Wi da snaa moorie-kaavie'n it ye widna a seen a skorie apo' da stem-heid. Nae waanderin da hills wi' a moorcavie proogin inta every fan fur karcages.  
  129. Shampse v.Her impediment was neither a stammer nor a burr, nor a lisp, nor a snivel, and, like her hair, English wants a word for it, so we must again resort to Zetlandic. She had a “shampse,” which consists in almost invariably introducing an “h” sound following the “s”, modified sometimes by a sound between an “h” and a “z”.  
  130. Cromarty Fire n. comb.“A Cromarty fire” was a name current over the country for a fire just gone out; and some humorist of the period represents a Cromarty farmer in a phrase which became proverbial, as giving his daughter the , and bidding her to take out a peat and a-half that she might “put on a good fire.”  
  131. Ar n.I tink', der'r a ar o' frost i' de air (a slight frost). Der'r hardly a ar upo de shore (a slight surf). A ar o' wind (a very light breeze).  
  132. Misred v.A rackless coof O' Prentice Wabster lad, who breaks his spool And wastes the waft upo' a mis-rid purn. That's a lang story, mither, and a misred ane. It's ill to quarrel with a misrid warld. A fair misread masel' whan A said . . .  
  133. Wheen n., adj.He accordingly got the kail, and supped a whine of them. There was a bonny wie ladie Was keeping a bonny whine sheep. He and other four labourers did dig up and remove a guid wheen of the ashes. A whin ragamuffins o' their ain makin'. There's a wheen German horse down at Glasgow yonder. The storm cut off a wheen o' the creatures. A gay wheen o' yer auld cronies. I said I would tak a whean meal. Had he lived a wheen mae years. I ha'e a wheen cowmon sense, an' that maun jist stan' for the lave. Whiles she'll tak' a wheen porridge an' whiles a bit o' scone. For . . . has seldom seen the maik o' at “The Inn,” Tho' it has seen a wheen! We have every grade of quantity among a humble folk, considerate of small things, in the series — a tait, a curn, a stime, a bittock, a hantle, a wheen, a feck. There was an awfu' wheen scones eaten. Pei-soop, a wheen grand thing A faand thum. The weather was killin' This last wheen o' weeks. We've been here only a wheen o' minutes. There's a wheen colds about this 
  134. Smucht v., n.,” . burn slowly without almost any flame, it is a sign of death by drowning. An' fat wis smuchterin in his hert she blew intil a flame. Nae heat, nae colour noo Bit the yalla sharn-midden's smuchterin fire. Mim-moued's a corp, the nerra lanes Lie straucht an trig, the toon's rig-banes, Far starnies glimmer in the glaiss Or smuchter in a plaque of braisse. While I write frost holds and it smuchters awa'. A smughterin' noise I hears, o' speakin' folk. Smuchterin' i' the cauld. Sae lang we've smuchtit [with heat and drought]. “Smochering” about our outside jobs in the winter light of a marginal farm. A' smuchterin' aroon for a hug and kiss afore they're aff. There's hardly a smoke but jist a smuchter. There was a good dame of Glenbuchty, Whose chimney was horribly smuchty. Boxt up a' that time in a wee smuchty placie like the Airk. This smuchty widder's bad for the craps. That wis a nesty smuchter o' a shooer. A drummlie, smoochterie mornin'. Haein' a bit smuchter o' a cauld.  
  135. Leerie n.2A child's word for bouncing a ball under one leg. From the rhyme: One, two, three, a leerie, Four, five, six, a leerie, Seven, eight, nine, a leerie, Ten, a leerie, postman.  
  136. Forpet n.A fourpitt of corn to Blairs horse . 2s 0d. A Fourpeth or Lippie of Meal Day, which commonly is these Peoples Allowance. I hae brew'd a forpet o' ma't, And I canna come ilka day to woo. The miller's servant has besides . . . a out of every boll. A forpit-dish, a tatie-peck, A firlot, an' a row. From do not mind cornpickles never come to forpits. Retailing it [salt] at sixpence a — a wooden measure, the one end of which was a forpit, the other half a forpit. Wogg has eaten a forpet of rice and milk. In the Grassmarket on the first day of the week you can get anything from a kipper to a loaf of bread or a forpit of potatoes. A forpit o' treckle an' a groat's-w'th o' brumstin for the Droggist? A forpet of potatoes. Once upon a time Scots shopped in butchers and bakers and dry-salters that smelled of paraffin. The chemist dispensed a dose of common-sense along with the cascara, the greengrocer a generation ago, I might have been able to get my head around maths. When I was sent to buy tatties 
  137. Drochle n., v.Mary hisna growen oot o' the bit the last twa 'ear. She'll aye be a wee drochle o' a craiter. Yet you! ye German-siller shrew, Would say I filled your drochle fou, A Chield, was aye a ne'er-dae-weel. A wee drochle o' a craitur. Up there starts a droichle man. What are ye drochlin there for? That droghling coghling baillie body they ca' Macwhupple. Tho' Rob was stout, his Cousin dang Him down wi' a gryte shudder, Syne a' the drochlin hempy thrang, Gat o'er him wi' a fudder. That lassie's a drochlin 
  138. Lig v.2, n.For sic a gaballing, ligg-lagging and scauling. I saw him lig-lagging wi' the woman opposite my. (Scotch, for the confused noise of geese, etc.). Such is the term which a lowlander applies to a conversation in Gaelic; Sic a lig-lag as they had. There's sic a leg-laig an' a clatter. Upon the street. A hard the lig o' thir tungs lang afore a got in aboot. “A lang leg-laig and a short cullyshangie”, the hubbub preliminary to a row.  
  139. Smad n., v.Her best black goon on, no' a smad to be seen on't. Da sky is clear 'ithoot a smud. He “widna alloo a single smodd o' black aboot the angels.” A smodd o' a meal. No a smodd o' dust. Dinna lat a smad o' ink on tae ma table wi yer vreetin'. My noo frock wiz a' smads. I canna stand to see a minister a' smaddy doon the front. Ane end of whyt cloath being all smadded and spoylled. His sark-breest a' smaddit. Dicht them this meenit, an' nae smad yer gweed claes.  
  140. Within prep.A , within itself, at the foot of Carrubber's close, consisting of six rooms, and a kitchen, with cellars, and other conveniences, genteely furnished. A Large House, all within itself, with a water-pipe, area, and other conveniences. That House containing seven rooms and a kitchen, all within itself, with a water pipe, cellar, and many other conveniences. Building houses , as they are emphatically termed. Besides a washin'-hoose an' a coal-cellar we've got a fine bleachin'-green an' a place for hens, . Oh! It's nae difficulty for us, for ye see, we hae a coo within oorsels!  
  141. Gabbit n.' stabbit. When a thing is dashed to pieces, they say it is driven to , or . , it is all to rags. If a man lets fall a pane of glass, “O! it's a gabber,” “Ye've made a gabber o' that cup.” If a horse or cow dies, “O! it's a gabber noo.” A boy says he has three marbles in his pocket and a gabber (a broken 
  142. Bilter n.In Renfrewshire a thriving child was a “big bilter.” . . . a minnow. Dumfriesshire. Perhaps a generalised idea of “a little one.”  
  143. Swarfish n.Lifting a stone in a pool, a yellowish little fish darts off in a flurry of sand. “Yun's a 
  144. Easten n., adj.A man f(r)ae de ( ), a man whose home lies east of a certain place. A man, a man living east of a certain place. Alang at the easten end ee toon.  
  145. Lippie n.2I'll gie you a toast, a thing which, but at an occasion, I ne'er think o' minting, and this toast ye maun a' mak a lippy. Get a lippie or twa o' Hollands oot o' a bit corner cupboard. When we had ta'en a lippy thegither.  
  146. Nether n.The day — it's stinging like a nether. I saw your hert, wi' channerin' neddars there. What if we lifted a peat with a “hairy brotag” on't, or worse still — a “nether”? 'No sign o a fox?' 'I found a nether's skin,' pipes up a young Campbell.  
  147. Banyel n., v. , a bundle; a slovenly fellow; a crowd of people. , a bundle. “Banyals o' bairns came burriein' round the door.” The word contains the notion of disorder and rudeness. , bundle. . 1. A bundle or package. . . . 2. ., one's baggage. . . . ‡3. A slovenly, idle fellow. A tendency to assimilate to the ending , is illustrated by Banyel (= Ballion), Haniel (= Hallion), Stannyel (a stallion). , to crowd; to move in a confused crowd. vbl.n. , the act of crowding ( .).  
  148. Hooker n.2In a hooker-doon, with a grauvit round his neckium. Ye'll go and buy a kep. A hat like that's no use at a Gleska fitba' match; ye need a hooker. Oh, ay, just watch for an auld man wi' grey whiskers and a hooker-doon bonnet comin' oot. His kenspeckle figure, clad in the combination of vest and jacket known as a sleeved waistcoat, a “hooker-doon” tweed cap on his head.  
  149. Staig n.A Dark Brown Staig of four Years, with a White Spot on his far hinder Foot. A black din lyred Horse-Staig with the Hair unpolled. There was Stolen a dark brown Mare-Stag. Four Stags, viz. A brown two-year old Fillie, with a white Face and a white Hind-foot; A grey year-old Fillie; Two Foals, one a Colt, the other a Fillie. Sold the black 3 year old Stage for 6 Gns. Thou could hae gane like ony staggie. Wi' mony a staig and mony a stirk An' fowth o' gear. A young gelding is often called a staig. Wild staigies, wild fillies an' a'. Du tocht nethin ta pit dye mark apo mye steag. I'll maybe sell my geldin staig. “A pelly staig maks a good horse” — a rough or poorly clad boy may become a good man. I cam here through stane and briar like a dementit staig. I'll shoe a staig, or ploughman's naig, Wi, John. Da mare o' Nazegoe's haen a pair o' foals — twa staigs. Layin at 'e grun wi wir feet like a young an' mettlesome styaag yarkin at its traivis. A staiger that's been on the road for seiven-an 
  150. A indef. art.Doo's aye in a aet ta git news, an' as kibbie tae tell hit. “Hae here's a aipple tae ye 'cause ye're a gweed laddie,” said Betty. It's a unco thing the Wud, Mr Sempill, sir? This wus a Insurance Company wantin' him tae gang tae Palnure tae examine aul' Doctor Agnew. Ae boat's crew o' ye speak at a time. “Keep to a side,” cried Tommy Staytape, “for . . . Moosey'll maybe hae a pistol.” I'll tak a sax or seiven o' them at that price. There wid be a hantle mair sheep in the kwintry noo nor there wis a twenty year seen. A twa'r three doors noo aifter that bides vandriver Mackie.  
  151. Brain n.1, v.1We hard sic a brain aboot twa i' the mornin,. Sic a brain that man has (said of a loud singer). Andrew Irvine, he was there, He had a “brain stoot,” And ilka tune that Massie pitched, Irvine dang him oot. When a child cries lustily at birth, a bystander will say — “It his a gueed brain, onywye.” “A braw brain,” “a strong brain,” a powerful voice. Wha was aside but auld Tam Tull, His frien's mishap he saw, Syne brein'd like ony baited bull, And wi' a thud dang twa To th' yird that day. [In the Abd. ed. 1805 of Skinner's (quoted by Jam. ) the spelling is .] A coo brainin'.  
  152. Daw n.2 their maids when they have been early up, and done little work. A working mither maks a daw dochter. A morning's sleep is worth a fauld o' sheep to a.hudderin' dudderin' daw. I'm cheated, if he doesna aither turn oot a deil or a daw. There was never a Slut but had a Slitt, there was never a Daw but had twa gae by the name of a dilp or a da. Every day braw Makes a Sunday daw.  
  153. Shaek n.Hearing certain sounds in old wood, called a shaek, foreboded important events. These sounds are Fate. A sound like the ticking of a watch was called a “marriage shaek,” a vibrating sound a “flitting shaek”, and a dropping sound a “dead shaek”.  
  154. Skrattiskrae n.“He's no' o' wir auld gentlefolk. He's just a sklaterscrae.” When a person begins to rise in the world a bit above his class, the first sign of his rise was putting a slate roof on his thatched cottage in imitation of “Upperlees.” A sklater is a repulsive insect. . . . A scray is a swarm of vermin, an 
  155. Yim n.1, v.1Nae mair she'll chew her yims of cud. Let us slip away quietly to bed, say a yim o' prayer. Layin' up for the fatherless bairn an' its mither A yim o' their meal to be brose. Nor leaves in creation a yim to afford A bite to a beast, or a bield to a bird. Gie me a yim o' cheese.  
  156. Strib v.Till a' the kye are stribbit dry. “Can ye milk, boy?” “A could learn. A stribbed a coo yince.” Breaking into a bothy in Countesswells Woods and stealing two axes and a stribbing block.  
  157. Brod n.2, v.2Fling at the brod was ne'er a good Ox. Its hard to sing at the brod (goad), or kick at the prick. Pit a bit upo' the tae, T' gar the horsie clim' the brae; Pit a bit upo, the brod, T' gar the horsie clim' the road. There's a nail, and there's a brod, And there's a horsie weel shod. [Given by for n. and cent. dial. as a short, round-headed nail made by blacksmiths.] 50 lbs pan brass and 50 lbs brod iron. A fan' stoons aboot my hert like the brod o' a needle ilka noo an' than. He [a bull] coupit owre a wife twa year come June An' broddit a' her hips. I'm a' broded wi nettles. I wad be sure to get my hurdies broddit if I tried to sklim owre. His words they brodit like a wumill, Frae ear to ear. The sweetbreer's a broddy buss. De hill (hill-top) just brodds in sight. Da fish brods idda skruf.  
  158. Sloch v.2, n.2I saw them drink the barley creed! They slugh'd it down in horrid speed. He's nought but a slocherin swine. Used also of a pig ‘slocherin in the glaur'. He's a peer slocherin' bodie. Gehn he be ae day weel, he's twa ill. My advice to young school-leavers is: — “Dinna slochle yer time, or put a wishbone faur yer backbone ought tae be.” The ground was a' weet and slochy. A slauchy herrin' playin' plap against yer moo'. A slaucher like a pig's breakfast. Did ye ken that afore ye bocht chewin gum in packets a' ye hed tae dae wiz brak aff a bit ash bark and chowe awa at that? It frothed up and wiz fine. Ye ca'd it slachy bubble. Some o' them can tak' a guid sloch o' whuskey tae. Wi a they're sae enchanted. I'd a fearful longin' for a good slauch o' venison broth. Gie me a sloch o lemonade.  
  159. Fush n., v.To fyfty Seven Fush . . . 5s. 0d. We wiz in a “chiffer-oot's”'oose; we cudna hae a fushin. A grand sportsman he was tae . . . as a fusher he had nae equal. We hadna had nae luck at a' when suddenly a big fush jumpit up a hunner yards awa'.  
  160. Porter Biscuit n. comb. . A kind of bap, very like the Aberdeen “softie”, said to be a favourite of carters, etc., who dipped it in their porter or ale as a snack. A porter biscuit is similar to a morning roll, only sweet and of a finer texture, almost like a plain cookie.  
  161. Siccan adj.But sicken a day there never was. Gin sickan things were true. To cow an' horse, an' sican beast. I'll ride in nae siccan troop. Sicna a discreditable like thing. To use sickan freedoms. I nevvir gat sek an a flegg i ma lyfe. There doesna seem a trace O' even siccan ane. I mind of ae siccan a nicht. Ye'll do no siccan thing. Whin id waas dark aneuch dey met a' ermed, boy, an' seckan erms. The writer remembers the indignation of a gardener, also an elder in the church, at the ‘Englishy' butler's skimp traditional grace on the occasion of a solid supper. ‘Sicna grace for sicna supper!' as he laconically observed. "There's a thing that happens, though you are not o a family to understand it, but married men hae sometimes a difficulty o putting their wives wi a bairn. Now there are ways in siccan a mechanter. Sometimes it's the man that's no on his mettle and a diet o good green kale can kittle him. ..." Gin thir wis siccan a player hereabouts he wid seen be snappit up. An' the band wis takin' a brak' A 
  162. Greek n.3Fine Greek-stone, Calmstone, and Limestone, for buildings, Monuments and other uses. A mill-stone quarry, of a strong Greke, from which mill-stones have been dug. The stone quarries . . . consist of 3 different kinds of stone, one of a bluish black colour, with a fine , capable of receiving a polish like marble. . . . The second is a white stone, of a fine small . This parish [Tulliallan] abounds with excellent quarries of free-stone, both yellow and white. . . . It is a durable stone, perfectly white, of a small , and takes on a fine smooth polish.  
  163. Hick n.1, v.1Jamie began, wi' a “hic” an' a stan', Like ony whase heart's ower fu'. Ye'd think a man that had lost a leg wi'oot a murmur wad never mak' sic a stramash aboot a hicker in his thrapple. A hickeet an tuik the rewe, for the . . . look o'd wad heh gien a body the scunners. To hick on it — to have one's gorge rise, on a last mouthful when one has eaten too much already. Cheer up, my sweet auld-farrant 
  164. Pownie n.2There are several evergreens cut into several shapes, a peacock, pownie-cock, and a pelican, and swan. I wad rather hae a bit good powny an' a pound o' cheese. There's a muckle roast of Beef, a jiggot of mutton, twa Dukes, twa Fools, and a Poney. Pawnies, black-cock, muir-fowl and capercailzies. I hae been at the cost and outlay o' a jigot o' mutton, a fine young poney cock, and a florentine 
  165. Scale n.2To build and carry up a sufficient scale stair to the uppermost story of the said work. The stair of the tenement to be a skelly [ ] stair. They call a round Stair Case, a ; and a Square one goes by the name of a . They entered a scale-staircase, as it is called. In the house of a Mrs Carfrae, Baxter's Close, Lawnmarket, first scale-stair on the left hand in going down. A Frenchman, lodging wi' Lucky Leather-tongue, ower in the scale stairs. . — Of a stair having straight flights of steps with 
  166. Tirse n., v.When he fand a tirse on the rop. Whan du turned dee round wi sikkan a tirse. In sic a tirse, dat he near owerbalanced himsel. Der 'r a tirs upon him; in a awfu' tirs; a tirs o' a hurry. I saw at wance he wisna pl'ased, He wis in sic a tirse. Doo kens what dey say whin dir in a tirse. Whin dis tirse o' wadder an' cauld is ower. Aye, lass, he's a tirss o wind. He was tirsan an' pullan at that 
  167. Grawl n.Many a grawl, and many a trout, By net resistless dragg'd to shore. A wiz jist a young grawl o' a 
  168. Notion n.I hae lang, altho' I didna tell, Had a strong notion o' the lass mysel'. In the regular routine of a matrimonial transaction; first ; secondly, . Gin ony o' ye hae a notion o' the dambrod. A spinster in the neighbourhood had “a notion” of him — was, in fact, only waiting till he would “speer” her. Does he hae ony scaar iv a notion o' her ava? She had a notion o' the Frenchman frae the first glisk o' him. For a notion he'd ta'en tae the fowk o' Drumclack. "The sooner thoo're feenished wi' Gabriel Stoot the better. He his a notion on Portia Rosie." "If she still has a notion of you, and if you've a cot bigged by Martinmas, you'll can marry her wi' my mither's blessin' ..." She's got a notion o ye/fur ye. [fancies you] were “very notional,” and would bring a suit back again and again for alterations. He was a “notionate” old fellow the elder Mains of Yawal, and would be obeyed. He was . . . a terrible notionate buddy, and he took a craze for everything Dutch.  
  169. Reemis n., v.With a loud crack the house fell down at last, The reemish put a knell unto her heart. Weel, sorra tak' this warld wi' a reemise. There was no accounting for the reemish they baith h'ard. He wisna weel doon fan we heard an awfu unearthly roar and seen a great remise. As gin some warlock hid made a a whummule an' a rum'le an' a remiss as this Lon'on. A gryte reamys they're haddin' awa' aboot Germany some wye. A reemis at the door fair strak the speaker dumb. She tumbled down upo' me wi' sik a reimis. We gaed tae lift him up an' saw that he had gotten a gey reemis. [He] only leuch when threatened wi' a reemish fae a rung. The “reemish” which the barley took on 6th September. Aul' Cairnies reemisht in a hearse. I hear a reemishin' o' the tay things. There's an unco reemishin' gyan on oot bye 
  170. Refreshment n. a wee refreshment of a Saturday night.' Of course it was in his interests that I was deported but I am not saying it was him told the Arabs I had a few bottles on me. How they expect a man to work in that heat without a refreshment beats me. As his name suggests, Malky [Malky the alky] was fond of a wee refreshment. Yer grandad likes a wee refreshment on Saturday efternuin. And when I finally settle down on the 25th for a wee refreshment only to discover they've drunk the last bottle without me, too right I need something like Santa to sustain me. He usually stopped for a refreshment at the Craigdarroch Arms, and he would shout 'Here lass, haud this horse tae a get a pint'. My father must have had a drink or two in the afternoon. Or three. A tipple. A snifter. A dram. A wee refreshment.  
  171. Reird n., v.And sic a Reird ran thro the Rout. For a the Din, an a the Raird. At nine months' end you'll hear the rairds In our Scotch kirks. The tottering deevil coupit ower amang his ain pigs, and damaged a score of them. And then the reird raise. Noo an' than we hear a flist, A reerd wud deeve Van Winkle. A House with a Reek, and a Wife with a Reerd, will soon make a Man run to the Door. Mony lang rairds o' dandillie tehein' an fliskmahaigo chit-chat. A reekin' lum's ill, but a wife wi' a raird Is fit to gar ony ga'e a snore, And then she ga'e a reirde. Beckin she loot a fearfu' Raird, That gart her think great Shame. Behind his ears, That made them ring, a raird, Exploding downwards. He loot a great raird rap. This carle could rairdet a sang wi' the youngest. Lang Mack disna ken me, an' that gars him raird. Jenny was a Jezebel, a reardin, flytin jade. She laup, an' rampaugd, an' rairdit, an' flate 
  172. Tass n.1They have the lawing, having the tasses receiving the money. Fill him up a tass of usquebae. Rob. Cruikshank, silversmith for mending the lug of the silver tass. A tass cut out of eaten wood. For the spirits, they had what they called a pewther toss, instead of a glass: some of these tosses had a cup at each end, a longer for a great dram, and a smaller for a little one. Go, fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie. Gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs. Out has he taen his poor bluidy heart, Set it on a tasse of gold. You are just in time for a tass o' tea wi' me. I'll hae a tassie o' tae ready for ye in a jiffy. Tammas poort oot a tass o' brandy tae the piece o' them. 'e Earl corses oniwey, in boattle, tankard, tassie, gless or joug. Owre in the coarnir, ther wus hauf a deid cou liggin oan its syde an a boy in a whyte peenie wus layin intae it wi an aix. A laddie gaed past wi a siller tray an fowre tassies oan it. The draw for the Junior Tassie to be played at 
  173. Brot n.2, v.I saw'd gweed girss seed an' it cam' up a brot o' sooricks. Yer stocking or yer yarn has gone into a brot. A child's head may be “in a brot o' vermin” when they are there in abundance, or a coat is worn out “into a brot o' holes.” The haunless taupie has brotit a' my shank. A clumsily darned hole in an apron, stocking, etc., is “a' brotted.” “What gart ye brot the heel that wye?”  
  174. Wummle n., v.To him for the 2 womells helping to tonie. His words they brodit like a wumill, Frae ear to ear. He was as gleg as onie wumble. Tak your ellwands, your elshins, or wummills. He had . . . a lang brog or wummle to take a potatoe out of a cow's throat. Farm “teels”, like tweeslicks, wummels, and perhaps a sweerkitty or two. I'll “heat a wummil” — a far better plan. If ye saw him at the very height o' his merriment, get him yokit tae play at heat a wumble. Nurses used to amuse infants on the knee a hole in the infant's breast or belly, repeating the words ‘Heat a womill, heat a womill. Bore, bore, bore.' Hate a wimble, hate a wimble, Bore a hole, bore a hole. Whaur piece, whaur piece, In his puggie, in his puggie. The above rhyme was accompanied by a circular motion of the forefinger, ending by door Was pierc'd wi' mony a womble bore. I saw her thro a whummil bore And I neer got a sight of her no more. Up troo a runnick, doon troo a lum, or in troo a wumble bore. His circumstances “were that 
  175. Clatch n.I gart him play clatch amo' the dubs. Da grices hae a wye o' rotin' ony lom 'at's empty afore dem, fil hits in wan clatsh o' gutter. I got a clatch o' marrow fat apo da leg o' me breeks. A muckle to Embro' living monuments o' clatch'. It blecks me to ken fat he can see in yon muckle clotch o' a dame. “Are you a married man: have you a wife?” “Aye, a kin' o' a clotch.” She wuz a clean, ticht lass, when she wuz merrit, an' noo she's juist a big, lazy clatch. Now, what influence could a cauld clatch of a creature like that . . . hae ower our bairn, either to make her happy or unhappy? Haud your gab, ye claverin clatch. An ill-built house is said to be “a mere .” They say I'm a rotten clotch Unfit to carry cart or coach. [A bridge is speaking] A lady . . . had lent her a nice little carriage 
  176. Guest n.If a feather, a straw, or any such thing be observed hanging at a dog's nose, or beard, they call that , and are sure of the approach of a stranger. . . . They judge also from the length of this , what will be the size of the real one, and, from its shape, whether it will be a man or a woman. “It's ill ta drook a laughin guest.” A brand standing by itself in the fire was called a guest; a smoking brand betokened an unwelcome guest, while a bright brand meant a friend. The coming of the unwelcome misfortune on a friend, who might fall into a mire or burn. . Half-burnt brand, standing right on its end, without any support, when the fire wastes away; this is considered as a fore-telling of a guest's arrival said: “dis is gaun to be a welcome gest.”  
  177. Powler n.A boy, looking at a big-sized haddock at the quay, says to a companion: “Boy, 'at's a great powler o' a chiel.”  
  178. Staggle n.A deer-calf becomes “a knobber” in his second year, “a staggle” in his third, “a stag” or “a hart 
  179. Wuppen v.If ye was to pit a weaver, a tailor, and a miller into a poke, shake them a' through ither, an 
  180. Gudge n., v.100 House Carpenters Gudges for carving at 4d. p.s. A gudge o' a stick . . . He's a kibble gudge o' a cheelie. A stoot gudge anxious to work a pair o' horse. Dilly was a thick-set “gudge,” slightly Greek, Took wife to mend his trouble. In three years more one pound had to be given for a “gudge” to the bell. A stone roller is dressed, cost 5/6 with ½ for iron gudges and pillows. These cylinders of granite [a field-roller] had a hole bored at each end and into these were inserted short metal rods, the , to act as axles. To a stone from a quarry, to press it out with a pinch or lever.  
  181. Toot-moot n., adv., v.Being interrogated by her landlord, who was a judge, as to the origin of the fray, she replied; “It began, my lord, wi' a laigh tut-mute, and it raise to a heich tuilyie mulie; and or ever your lordship wad hae kissed your ain a — e, they were a' i' the mussel-midden abone ither.” Says she, makin' a laich toot-moot o' 't, — ‘He's Lord Lossie's? ' Thei set tew at a low tut-mut, efteran thei gaed tae a heich cullya shearg, at a hun's bark thei ware at a heich cullya whumlie. Hillock's ‘tout-mout' with Gormack over a purchase at a roup. I thocht I heard a toot-moot o' that kin'. It's gain teut-meut amo' them it the maister's taen t' the drink. The prence drew him doon, an' toot-mootit in's lug. After a 
  182. Slag n.3, v.3I gae her a slaag wi' da eel. The're a filty slag in the sea the day. A great slag o' a wife, a muckle slag o' a boat. I wid tink little o' slaagin dee afore da mooth. Doo'd no slaagid Tamy o' da Lees wi' a weet cob.  
  183. Smiach n., v.No a smeech fae him. Not a smiach! Not a sound! Hush! He never made a smiach. Not a smeech oot o you noo, or it'll be the worse for yersel! I canna get a smyach out o 'at fire. They could no raise a smiach o' steam. He niver smeeched.  
  184. Snicher v., n.Snighterin' an' laughin'. I see Jeems ye snicher an' girn. A hantle o' snicherin' amang the mair thochtless. Sneevilin' an' snichterin' and befulin' yersel' like that. She's a sleekit, snichlin', inhaudin' snite. A snicherin kin' o' a lauch. Neil Rannoch, the gamie's loon, an Jimmy Higgins frae the paper shoppie, war keekin ower at Davie an snicherin nesty-like. Davie reidened an turned awa, kickin a teem crisp pyock ben the tarred playgrun. A bit snicher ran roond the table. A snicher and a smile went round the shop. Monie a snicher and hearty guffaw. Wi' a white collar and a feart-like snicher.  
  185. Funcy adj., n."Ma mither got it at a jumble afore the war. She jist took a funcy till't and she swappit a hame-made tea-cosy and a puckle bannocks for't. ..." Funcy piece: "piece" could be a scone or bread with butter, jam, but can also be a cake, especially if "funcy piece". "Yes if it gets you oot o' ma hair. And I'll hae a funcy piece." I can report an expanding waistline and no shortage of places to stop for a "fly cup and a funcy piece" — sorry, I can't help slipping back into my old dialect! Locals might settle instead for a "fly cup and a funcie piece".  
  186. Birr n.3, v.3Hair on end. A' in a birr. I'll tosche my curls, pit on a wee bit birr; My hair's a kennin' thin and tousie noo. A birrie pow. His impetence set ma birr up. A blind beggar called “bare — birr-headed blin Jamie.” Wi her hair a' birred up like a heddery besim. His cowt grew reezy, its lang tail 
  187. Futtle n., v.The Trojan lads right soon wou'd dight you Like a futtle haft. A soncy pig that by hairst-time will be ready for the futtle. A bunch o' birse, a ball o' wax, . . . And crookit futtles five or sax. Death cowes a' wi his futtle. 'E aald futtle o' a machine went sindry. Here's sklates and skailies, ilka dask a' futtled wi' a name.  
  188. Harden v.We've hid eneuch o' rain noo. A howp it'll . If there would come a “north hardenin,” they would soon get the corn in. “Hardenin” means a drying and “north-hardenin” a drying with a cool north wind. This term regarding the weather is used by country people when, during a time of , a dull threatening day has become clear and settled, “It was jist a .”  
  189. Ribe n.L—d man! 'twad mak a body spue, To see a set o' ribes. I would not have you despair of your of a boy. The horse took bad and turned a perfect ribe. Applied to persons, but more especially to pigs. “They come of a ribish breed”. A gipsy ribe, wi' leer an' jibe. Kitty was a long-legged ribe of a 
  190. Sagan n.That lassie has a sagan o' a temper. Johnny Smith's a coorse sagan. Ye're behavin' like a perfect sagan. A sair saigen — an awful chap (jocularly). Weel, ye niver saw sic a saggin as she is, eh, sic a fattie, fat a hillock o' creesh! The aul' sagan wid pit back her lugs, stick oot her snoot . . . an 
  191. Skleff adj., n.A skleff cheese, a skleff piece of wood. A thin-flanked, sparse, what the Scotch would call as a pancake. A never saw sic a thin craittir; she's as skleff as a fir dael. A've paid the accoont, so oo're skleff. A was luntin alang the skleff, towrt Denum.  
  192. Tortie n.A drume and two drume sticks, ane box with ane [toy] tortie and a man felling a ox, a fine watch and a key. The he tortyshall kitlin'. He hiz fower legs, a lang tail, an' a tottie-shell skin. I min' ae nicht, fin straikin ye, Yer coat o yalla tortyshell Ceest on the air a balmy smell, Its 
  193. Doldrum n.A doldrum o' a steen; A doldrum o' a tatie.  
  194. Durkin n.A durkin o' a knife: A durkin o' a club.  
  195. Knolt n.A knolt o' a codlin. A hnolt o' a chap.  
  196. Strunt n.4A strunt o' a saick. A strunt o' a goon.  
  197. Nashick n.A crab with a half-hardened shell is called a ; one with a hard shell but not yet in the state is named a .  
  198. Grindle n.A crab with a half-hardened shell is called a ; one with a hard shell but not yet in the state is named a .  
  199. Butterie n.1Is there a difference between a rowie and a buttery? That is the question. I had assumed they were Toonsers. For more than 30 years, I have laboured under this gross ignorance. Not so. According to a colleague who has made a detailed study of the etymology, construction and origin of the buttery/rowie, there are distinct differences. A conversation with a respected baker or two would appear to back him up. "A rowie has a curved bottom. A buttery is flat." So now you know. Between butteries, Rob Roys an' turnovers . . . her basket was weel filled. [I was] takin' a chack at a butterie.  
  200. Snack n.1, v.1, adv.But ane gies him a snack an' syne anither, Till he is near-hand worried a' thegither. A surly hound salutes him wi' a snack. May ye ne'er want a freen', gin need Should show his ganchin, snackin head. His fell wee snakkers ken nae haivens. He'll no as muckle as snack at a flee that lichts on his to the troot, snack her up, man. A shove that snacked the good new farthing tobacco-pipe. A blue-faced monkey wi' its tail snackit aff. I ne'er snacked a flint at pouther a' my days. His teeth gaed snack thegither wi' a skelp like a slippit fiddle-brig.  
  201. Back-band n. ; is a deed attaching a qualification or condition to the terms of a conveyance or other instrument. , a bond that nullifles or modifies a former one entered into for a special and temporary 
  202. Feuch n.2, v.2A Chiel came wi' a feugh, Box'd him on's arse wi' a bauld brattle. Whan in a trice I got a bang, Wi' sic a feugh my twa lugs rang. Feuch him up; he's an ill-contrivet loon.  
  203. Guff n.3, v.3Da hens took sic a claagin. Dat's whin da gaut [hog] is geen doon by wi' a guff an' gluff'd dem. “Sly” wis wi' me an' got up wi' a guff, an' begood ta bark. Charlie gave a gouff o' a lauch. 'That farmer we were working for is a pure guffie. He has been charging us a sixpence for a thimble-full o' skimmed milk, and a shillin' for a handful o' hay for the ponies. ... ' She screeched oot like a banshee and ran oot squealing like a guffie. A guffie's just a pig. So far from having the Voice of a Levite, that if Modesty would allow, it seems like the Guffings of a Swine when it's lost its Company. Just listen tae the grice gaan guffin aboot after meat. A boannie, peerie, fleckit grice Ran fae da hummel gouphin an' crackin', Transported wi' ilka sweet smile. ... she tried to do a big smile, teeth so white cause her face was red, but she guffed out a big sob again.  
  204. Lackie n.Though ivery fauld o' your lackie wis a leaf o' da Confession. Sled on a bloomin' lacky doon at da runnock. A boddy wid a needed a lackie laek a bo bag till a hadden aa it dey cam wi. Carry it in thee 
  205. Dirvin n.A dirvin o' a bannock. . . . A muckle dirvin o' a wife.  
  206. Hunk n.1A sluttish, indolent woman, a drab; as, “a nasty ,” “a lazy .”  
  207. Skreinge n.A skreinge with a box and a pan. A little skringe.  
  208. Wanworth adj., n.'Gainst Barns and her wanworth attackers. Sic a waefu' wanworth meddler Weel deserves a hankit craig. An' birst them again for a wanworth pack. Ye fuil fowk that wur radge for gowd Mair nor for sold unless we sell it at a Wanworth. In order to get possession of his estate at a wanworth. The coft naething. Ministers wha expeckit my gudes for a wanworth. Sandy had bocht an auld cairt, juist at a wanworth. Speaking of the salmon as “just gat for a wanworth.” [He] got it for a lifetime or mair at a mere wanworth. They made a lot o' money, but fat gude did it ever do them; it juist gaed a' awa' to a wanworth. Robbie said among other things, that it was a wanwirt an a wa-cast. O wae to the, brisk, an' braw, Yet ay the wanworths bide awa'. Wanworths as she is may pair wi' a lackey. I've been a wanworth a' my life, A lo'er o' lawless bluidy strife. There's nae a wanworth o' them, though 
  209. Bettle n.A chiel came wi' a feugh, Box'd him on the a — e with a bald bettle, Till a' the hindlings leugh At 
  210. Holk n.1A holk upo de back or atween de shooders. A holk o' a taati. A muckle, hoilkit, soople craiter Wi a burden on hits back.  
  211. Ca' Through v. phr., n. phr. the fine phrase “Ca' through” . . . because it forms a counsel of perfection for the New Year? Hey, ca' thro', ca' thro', For we hae mickle ado! We got him hame a' richt, an' he'll mebbe ca' throo't. He's a servan' it hiz a ca-through we's wark. There was siccan a ca'-thro', as the like was never seen. Wi' this an' that, they'd a gey ca' thro'. A gaed the colour't things a ca'-throw. I'll gie the press a ca' throu', bit I dinna think yir glesses are there. “Man, Jimmie, ye sud tak' a wife; she wud be chaper than a hoosekeeper.” “Weel, gin a hed the hairst by, a'll yoke the shalt an' hae a ca 
  212. Sneeter v., n. nose Wad a gart a frozen mill gang. A jist hid time t'get a sneeter o' a sleep, sittin' on a chair.  
  213. Grumph n., v.Better thole a grumph than a sumph. Pressing his lips together, he drew a long sigh or rather morning in his head, . . . he would have spoken more like a gentleman. But you cannot have more of a sow but a grumph. A girn — or a toss o' your head — or a grumph, 's a' you aften condescend to gie in answer to a remark. A fig for their pretended care, Their formal grumph and groan. “An' a weeda man too!” said Mysie wi' a grumph. Sir Thomas gied a kin' o' grumph. As aye the grumphs flew back an' fore I' meallocks frae my pockets. Her hoose wid be nae empty hool If “grumph” wis in the bauks by Yule. There's a, . . . himsel' (a grumphie kind o' body) was aye i' the bake-hoose. The tither wis a pridefu' yade, A grumphin' your grumphing try to fear me. A stupid loggerhead of a fellow, who . . . at all genuine sports, and sits as sour as the devil, when all around him are joyous. She made a great deal o' grumphing an . . . grunting and grumphing most filthily. He wis a girnin' deevil, faith, an' never hed a please, Bit aye gaed 
  214. Pushion n., adj., v.. They haed a gran hidey-hole doon inside th'aul water-mul an nae trap or pizen seem't tae faze them ava tae thole Wi its tip aw weit wi pushionous dew. ... " “He's a pusion o' a craitur,” and “He's a perfit pusion.” A fantit ting o' a grice aboot a hoos is shurely wan o' da greatest pushens 'at can be seen. Sees du whatna pusjon av a bonnet wir Meggi is gotten on. Ye could fa aff o' Princie an' no mak' sic a pooshinous foosum mess o' yir jaikad as ye wid in 'is guttery w'ather. He's jist a rale pooshin wi't. A baand a ellit oorlie pooshins, Shargin, njirlin, lipper tings. , a sneaking, contemptible fellow. Here's the strae that yin puishan ill-skinned tyke o a man ca'd a shaef o corn. Up comes yon red-heedit, pishion-faced creeter. He's a pooshin wadder-head, a dirty soal i' da sea. “A pushion, fusom, moniment” expressed the lowest stratum of worthlessness. What's a' the med'cines that are ta'en, An' Doctors' puson'd stuff. What can we expect from brocks but a poosioning flavour. Ye've 
  215. Taid n.The venom of black taids and snakes. A taid may sit on her coffin the day. And the milk on the tynd o' the harrow took him a tide. Half a poddock, half a tead. “Hoo did your minister get on las' Sawbath?” asked the one. “Get on!” said the other; “he got on — just like a taed amang tar.” Sittin' like twa taeds i' the cart o' a stane. Claik a hunner different leids Dwines tae a hoolet's lanely croon. Nicht, like a taed, his hunkered doon. Yon vile discrimination, That breeds aye the taid's e'e In mony a congregation. It [charm] was for stoppin bluid whun onybuddy wus woundit. They put a Taed-stane, are called or or . Jordanlaw Moss was the reputed habitat of the tappit taed, a unique specimen, whose head was believed to contain a gem of fabulous price. A baukie-bird in the air, or a yerd taid on the brae. Ye would as soon think o' likening a yird tead to a patrick or a turtle-dove. A swindling, hen-peckt, poisonous taid, The vilest o' them a'. The same wee blackent-like taid as when you left 
  216. Throuither adv., adj., n. Midges frisk in lazy Air, Have ye not seen thro' ither how they reel? Threed, which was of a very coarse he's prolix. The streams of sweat an' tears thro'ither ran. If ye was to pit a weaver, a tailor, and a miller into a poke, [and] shake them a' through ither. I thocht ye wud 'a maetit a' throu ither. They were a' freens throughither in auld Wigtown toon. His prayers . . . are aye sae bonny, an nettercap's weave. He would tell you that he “worked through other,” which implied a certain authority in garden, farm, and stable. Life's threads a' through-ither Cam' free frae the tangle. The defenders fell a' throu'ther. She was a rattling ‘throughother-speaking woman', very familiar often in her address to her mistress. A' things thru other an' the hoose in a confusion. A' hirdy-girdy — clean through ither. They ran a' throuther in their hurry. Ye hae put me that throo ither a dinnae ken what a'm dain. What's the dairy when a'thing else is gaun through-ither? Everything was lyin a' throughother on the 
  217. Stug n.2, adj., v.2A dark gray Geldin, the Hair on the far Side of the Neck being shorn by the Stug. Let's sleely gie't [corn] a stug . . . Awfu' stugs are seen to cock Their birse ahind them now, Knee-height this day. A comb is said to be stuggy, when some of its teeth are broken, and it therefore the hair. In comes Watty Bell, he was something fou' He . . . bought a stug-horned cow. An old healed wound over her shoulder, with a stug rump. A brown stou'd Horse, stug Tail'd. Very short lugs, stug-tailed, and has shattered skull. But there are caulds an' yawkin' stogs. A stog will gether nocht but fog. I was a gey grown styog o' a loon fan I left Mr. Barnett's employment. Oh! the big ungainly woman? (Was she not a stugger?). He's awa' to an aul' stogue o' a horse — said of a farmer on the downgrade. [Hugh McDiarmid] is also in some sense a Scottish character himself. He might be listed as a totey, pernicketty, sometimes rigwoodie, stug. A fine canny humoursome styogue. A fine stuggie beast. A stuggie peerie fellow 
  218. Bairge n.2, v.2She geed oot wee a o' a greet. Gee a after 'im, an' tell 'im t' come seen back. Fah wid hae him for a minister? He's jist a mere , fin he preaches; an' it croons a', fin he praies. , one who. , to scold. ‡ , to speak volubly, loudly, or scoldingly. Shut up that noisy brute o' a dog o' yours; he bairges on throw the haill nicht. , to bark like a dog on the chain. He hauds a sair o' a' thing intill's lug. He's unco dull o' hearin'. Sandy, remarking that she was a “bairgin' eediot o' a wife yon,” settled down to the mending of my boots in earnest. The new minister hiz a wye o' readin'. He's a bulliein', bairn, that o' yours.  
  219. Drow n.1, v.Sae near Sabbath at e'en, and out o' ane's warm bed at this time o' night, and a sort o' drow in, Cauldrife an courin fae the daithlie drow: Ree-a-ree, a ranigate. The pipers i' the Canigate, The drow is in the air. A clud had coped the Dunion Hill, A dreary drow the syke did fill. The daggy drowe comes drifflin on. I have heard an old lady remark, quoting a local saw: “A Liddesdul drow Weets a Tibidull man Throw and throw.” On yon grey drowy muir Whaur snell blasts scour ye ti the bane. It was a dull, drowy (showery) sort of day, not a rain, but a Scotch mist, a wee damp as they express it in those parts. My folk, they sal drink, bot ye'se no hae a drow. , used to denote a thick wetting mist.  
  220. Sail v., n.'Till Boord and Floor, an a' did sail, Wi' spilt Ale i' the Dark. In staves my stauns he brak them down And set my wort a sailing. The fluir's fair sailin. Are ye sailin' tae the toon wi' yer motor? if ye are will ye gie me a sate? They were seilan' doon Traill Street as snowg as ye lik. I'll sail take a sail in our wagon with Mr Herbert. Wull ye gie me a sail in the kert? It is very comical to hear a boy say that he had a “sail” on a horse! The weans were wild an' happy: they got a sail hame in a cairt. As he came abreast of her he called, “Can A gie ye a sail?” 'E fowk nowadays widna thank ye for a seil in a cert.  
  221. Stimpart n.She [a mare]'ll whip me aff her five stimparts o' the best aits at a down-sittin. Buying coals by the stimpert. I ate a stimpart o' potatoes. Like a Clydesdale roadster after a heatit stimpart o' aits an' beans. The usual order to the grocer was for a stimpart of oatmeal. On “feeing” girls, it was stipulated that a “stimpart” of lint should be sown, so that they could claim it on their own account. The young shearers through course of time come forth as a stimpart or fourth part of a rig. The puirest stimpart-shearer in a' the muirlands could hae shorn the haill o' the lang riggs. For the harvest workers worked in couples — a lad and a lass — a halflin and a stimpart. The stimpart bound the stooks 
  222. Dungeon n.“Do you not know the man who got his learning from the devil?” . . . “I warrant you he's a dungeon, then.” I have obliged them to confess me a . Although he's a dungeon o' Latin and Greek. They say he's a fair dungeon o' learnin', an' I daursay he may be. Before Dr Johnson came to breakfast, Lady Lochbuy said, “he was a of wit”; a very common phrase in Scotland to express a profoundness of intellect. And but few o' his trade e'er his fitstaps will fill, For a dungeon for craft was auld Mungo McGill. A deep, a dungeon-headed billie.  
  223. Howdle v., n.Dancin', and tumblin', and houdlin', Wi' men, and wi' wives, and wi' weans. John, what'n a pea-hotch is this? Div ye ca't a coach? let me oot! Div ye think I'll sit howdling here a' night? An houdlin' wi' the feathered creation. Whan hills are howdled in the snaw I plank my rit upon a wa'. A howdle o' hog-showtherin' freirs, Augustines, Carm'leits, Cordeliers. Aa in a howdle = all in a heap. A howdle o bairns = a swarm of children, a large family.  
  224. Puppie n.1To the bairns and servants to see the puppie play yisterday . . . 5s. 0d. You'd mak a noble poppey-show. An' you hae nae a wish to kiss the causey, an' dinna want to make a poppy-show o' yoursel', you'll never offer to take it [horse] that length. They let me in with a grudge for twopence . . . to see a punch and puppie-show business. It was there we used to gather floo'ers to mak' a poppy-show. A preen tae see the poppy show, A preen tae see it a', A preen tae see the little mannie Dancin' on 
  225. Sloo n., v.I maun gie da aetin' anes [potatoes in a clamp] anidder sloo o' poans. He leaved a slu o' hay ahint him. Tak a divit aff o' de second slue o' Ole's byre and pit him anunder de kirn. Rise dee wis up, du lazy sloo! A great lang slu o' a boy: a soft slu o' an animal. The folk of Unst are Midden Slues, which, being interpreted, signifieth slatterns. , making a compost by placing first a layer of earth, then a layer of byre-manure, and lastly sea-weed, and repeating this. As muckle as wid sloo a 
  226. Vast n.The old woman bestowed a vast of presents on Tom. A vast o' foak a' round about came to the feast. They couldna get them sindry, else there had been a vast o' bludeshed. She could see a vast farrer afore her than me. Vast of women are confined before they have time to change themsel. We mak' a vast o' din. . . . I kent there were a vast o' grand new hooses oot thereawa. I've yet a vast o' baith to do. She's a vast better. There's a vast o' young chaps dichtit up wi' this war.  
  227. Shive n.A marking iron, a shiver frame. Gie me a shive of your white bread. The wheaten loaf in mony a shive. As I'm spreadin' this shive o' bread. Eleven cups o' tea and eight shives o' bread. A shive or twa o' broon Geordie. A slice of bread, etc., cut carefully was a “shive”.  
  228. Garb n.That shoot o' claes that ye've bocht is jist a garb. Holding up a piece of cloth, a man said: “That's a gey garb. A cud spit throwe't, lat aleen read the Lord's prayer.” There has been a garb of 
  229. Kinvaig n.A , or small woollen plaid not larger than a shawl, wrapt round the head, with its skirts spreading over the shoulders, in the form of a hood sheaf upon a stook of corn. “Kinvaig” — what's that? — a tippet or a maud?  
  230. Barme Horse n.But the phrase is still used in Angus, where a signifies a horse without a saddle; “to ride a barme horse,” to ride without a saddle.  
  231. Bati n.“Ye're gotten a b[ati] o' her dis mornin'”; you have had a good catch (of fish) this morning. , a batch; a quantity, a considerable number.  
  232. Galderie n.A muckle galderie o' a hoose, like a kirk. So he took wis intill a grate galdery o' a room aa set 
  233. Stramlach n.A wand brank, a cuttumrung aneth her tail, a stramlach and a leurich. [The version in . (1910) I. 173 reads .] “Stramlach”, a long trailing slender thing.  
  234. Hawkathraw n.Ye're a sneck-drawing dog, A fule, a hack-a-thraw, man.  
  235. Rander n.3Wull ye no' buy a rander, a tander, A roaster, a toaster?  
  236. Tander n.2Wull ye no' buy a rander, a tander, A roaster, a toaster?  
  237. Wiff n.Man's life, a wiff upon a wave A speck amid a gloom.  
  238. A' adj., adv.A' cracks maunna be trew'd. Some o you is been very good freends wi him, ta aal appearance, truly. But a' forenicht I hard Sandy wirrin' awa' till himsel'. Sic is the po'er o' risin' fame! It meets me at a' turns. A thae gowden lyrics liggin aside ye, Chris Yirdit there i the moul wi yer best-loo'ed thochts. Oh sad I think on a' thy ways, sae gentle an' sae kind. ' ... It's the travelling and a' that? "Here Boab, did ye see the wy the boy birled roon' there and sold us aw a dummy? Whit a loup that wiz, eh?" After a' I've done for ye mysel'. Well, I wiggled tapselteerie, my heels were that peerie While a kinna Jimmy Shandish band Played 'Flower of Scotland' - But it aw got droont oot wi wolf whistles. Is that aw? Abune the heids o' them aw I could see Jock Lowrie. A's necessary for a guid pairty is guid champagne. A's we need ti dae is ... A's we dae is ... A's he dis is ... Haudin a' airt in a yagamint, maroonjeous as the Deil. The thing that a'body says maun be true. The skipper put 
  239. Beast n.1 apply it to birds, insects, and fishes; as, the is a noisy ; the , a filthy ; the , a terrible . The sneakit little brute! . . . What could the baste [a mouse] tell? Rydin apo Peter o' Hundegird's blessit hoarse, wi' a sheep best afore him. An' a'to' the' wur a Eerif [land court] hauden whin the faither dee'd, Backaskeel keepid a' the geud horse baest. Wi' onie help, I cud my mither gee At milking beasts an' steering o' the ream. Ilkie baist aboot the toon got a rip o' corn. Syne he micht hae saved' sleepery trance in winter raw. There's nae beasts in my heid this mony a day. He found the grayling very plentiful . . . at every cast he had a “beast.” , any animal except a human being. A zealous individual asked a servant-girl, “Are you a Christian?” She replied “Do you think I'm a ?” . A horse. By way of eminence, a horse is, in Teviotdale, denominated ; no other animal receiving this designation. A man is said to have both a cow and a when he possesses a cow and a horse. When the twilight began to gather 
  240. Smudder v.For common smuddert peats wis used an' a fine fire they made, but it hadna the same heatin' poo'er an' fat wye they war made. They war casten an' dried jist the common wye. Syne they war a' giddert in a hullock an' cover't up wi' weet moss, a' less a wee holie that wis left for kennlin't wi' a fiery peat. Fan the fire got a guid haud the hole wis closed up an' a' the reekin' bores roon' the hullock. The hullock wis a' clappit wi' the back o' a spad an' left tae smudder for a day or twa. Aifter that the moss wis tae'n aff an' they took a look in tae see if it wis a' richt. It wis happit up again for a week or sae. Fan it wis caul', it wis driven hame an' biggit up in the smiddy. A hauf-smuddert 
  241. Junk n. purpose. A large knot in his cheek from a junk of tobacco therein stowed. [He] snatched up a large pound-cake, cut it into junks. A stout junk with the back well set and the hose doubled a bit down. Taks a junk o' reestid mutton an' maks a denner fit fur a king. Some roadstone is still obtained from discarded “junks” in the vicinity of the quarry. Duncan Macgougan wiz a strong junk o a man. He never weighed it. That's how ye got it - a junk o' mutton. All stout junky men of middle size.  
  242. Lameter n.A broken seman . . . £00 04 00; three poor . . . £00 03 00; a lamiter . . . £00 04 00 [limiter, . II. 190]. As I am a lameter I ha'na been able to travel. Though you may think him a lamiter. Jenny Hirple, a lameter woman, who went round among the houses of the heritors of the parish with a stilt. Ill with an income in her leg, which threatened to make a lameter of her in her old age. Dawvid's been a perfeck laimiter wi' a sair fit. Our pet aversion . . . was a snivelling, watery-eyed “lamiter mannie”. Like a lameter hirplin' on two staves! The Germany wars have made lameters of the both of us.  
  243. Kin-kind n. comb.The races o'er, they hale the dools, Wi' drink o' a' kin-kind. Here's fouth of a' con-kind of nowt To suit demands. That temple's flures and wa's are lined Wi' leifsum pictures a' kinkind. A' the sma' kinkind o' articles had been floated oot at a back wundo. He deals, to bring a penny out, In a' kinkinds o' meal. Confuse their lines wi' a' kin-kind O' high pretence. Nane o' them got a funeral o' nae 
  244. Shade n.1, v.Sun and Shade are common Descriptions of Land in Scotland. A shade or toofall made up for a house or in a shade. A meal and lint mill with a lint shade. In shop mostly, arranged casks and boxes in a long shade. Here i da idder coarner, heedin nane, A ting o lass sho sat — hit micht a been, Penglin apon a peerie sheddin hap.  
  245. Smairt adj. feet." Man, whit a coup d'etat. straucht an smert the ba is lowsed sherp as a skelf burlin aa weys a buhlitt She's a lot smerter nor me. She'd been a smerter a' her days. Gad! but she was a smarter . . . as clever as you make them. Ellen is a smartie Never kent tae hesitate. She's done well for herself, Stella has, she's a smartie.  
  246. Touk n.3“This maun be sea-borne meal; it has a vile muisty teuk.” When a meal is made from corn that has been heated in the stack, the peculiar taste is denominated the . “I thought,” says a third, tasting a little of it [whisky] raw, with a very knowing air, and a peculiar compression of the lips, and shuttin of the eyes, “I thought it had a kind o' .” It has a villainous bitter at the end of it. There a touk o curry in this parsnip soup.  
  247. An' A Wi' a hundred pipers an' a', an' a'. Hout na, your Honour, . . . ye were just as ill aff in the feifteen, and got the bonnie baronie back, an' a'. He'll jist be takin' a last look at the kye to see them bedded an' a' — he's awfu' particular aboot the beasts. Who'd hae thought auld Rowan could hae garred the mud fly that gate, wi' sic a great lang-leggit lub to carry an' a'. An' refresh my soul, an' my sense ana', Wi' a sicht an' a smell o' the barley. Twa bridies - a plain een an an ingan een an aa. He noddin aff. “I want a piece, tae,” and number two entered the chorus. — “I want a piece ana,” yelled girls . An' Hezekiah himsel — gude, an' a' as he was — or the en' come, 's like a wean in his han's. Big an' strong an' a' as she is.  
  248. Belch n.A term applied to a very lusty person. “ , or , one who is breathless from corpulence, q[uasi] burst, like a horse that is broken-winded.” Wae worth me bat ye wou'd hae hard the peer bursen belchs whosing like a horse i' the strangle, a rigglenth e'er [sic] you came neer them. By this time Lindy is apple round. The gutsy belgh, too, grows sae chattie Aneth your nose. He's as bilchy a beast as in a' the barronry. I could a' tell't ye a hun'er stories aboot Nanny, for I sat for oors hearkenin' tae Mrs Smith tellin' them, — a bilchy bit lassock, ye ken. . In Selkirks. denoting “a little, crooked of its legs. The belch winna sleep sae lang as ane wad fell a flech without rocking. , . A brat, a contemptuous designation for a child. A bash in the eye is what you'll be havin', ye ould bilch 
  249. Ailiss n. , n. A hot blazing; “A roastin' ailiss of a fire.” , a blazing fire.  
  250. Badlin' n. . A low scoundrel. † . Also † . A worthless fellow, a scamp; also, a naughty child.  
  251. Peep n.3I've gat fowre bools, a peep an' a', A glassie an' a jairie.  
  252. Maggiedoozler n.He's a gran' 'un, a fair clipper, a perfect maggiedoozler [of a horse].  
  253. Brail n.An dan da tow cam an' a bonnie brail o sun, an he haed a faigh crap efter a'. Used chiefly in two phrases — “a b[rail] o' heat” and “a b[rail] o' sweat”; . “He was just in a b[rail] o' sweat when he finished”; “What a b[rail] o' heat it's been the day.”  
  254. Knapdarloch n.It's nae a stone ava but a knapdaerlick that hung at ane o' my stots' tails a' the last summer. His hair hings in knapdarlochs, like a coo's tail clortit wi' ile. The beggar wife wis a sair sicht, her raggit claes wallopin in knapdarlochs as she hobble't awa'. A wee dirten knapdarloch o' a craitir.  
  255. Pug n.3Hate a wimble, hate a wimble, Bore a hole, bore a hole. Whaur piece, whaur piece, In his puggie, in his puggie. The above rhyme was accompanied by a circular motion of the forefinger, ending by poking the child in the ribs or stomach. A little boy might be asked: His thu a pain in thee puggie?  
  256. Reticule n.You came tripping in with a reticule-basket, and gave me little cakes. Tibbie never could gang half-a-mile frae hame withoot haein' a radicle basket on her airm. In her wee black retical basket. Nannie wi' 'er reddicle basket, an' a big lump o' butter wi' a cabbitch blade roon't. A redicel basket on a kist.  
  257. Skrift n.Da drought 'ill be brunt up her bits o' skrifts o' buirds. A por aamis scrift o' a ting. A boat built of thin wood is termed a scrift o' a boat. He wis wan o' yin peerie skrifty men aboot the colour o' a moth. . . . Yin scrifty, scrunty t'ing; thir's a hantle o' differ atween denty an' scrifty!  
  258. Thoog A Poog n.“A ghost!” derisively snorted the Cooper, “ga' wa' mon, ga' wa', that's jist a thoog a poog, and ye've gane and spoilt a guid nicht's fishin'. But it wis rale shabby o' the scoondril tae fricht ye, Charlie, and sae mony braw fish in the water — that alane proved it a thoog a poog, and no a ghost ava.”  
  259. Fup v., n.Ekin' oot a geyan bare, leensome liveliheed fuppin'-'e-cat, dargin', an' thiggin'. She wid come ben the kirk wi' a suddenty, an' fup a haud o' 's an' set's doon wi' a doosht a bit farrer ben the seat. How stand poor I, o'er ta'en wi' sick a trick, To look like blunty an' the fupshaft lick. His exercise he speedily takes up, Nor e'er for gaing wrang anes got a fup. I'm thinking Bessy's pride will dree a fup. While Maggie's floor dree'd mony a fup Frae their hard soles. I've seen fan ye wad hae gotten a piece for a bawbee as lang's a fup tow. There's ower mony eddyfups in the air: we're gaun tae 
  260. Slype n., v., adv.I got a good sclype mysel' [of a fall on ice]. Fain wad threep tae gie'm a sclype. A “skylp gar't cry sclipe ower 'e pow o' some peer chiel. A sauchin slav'ry slype. A rangel o' gentles, an' a liethry of hanziel slyps at their tail. . A fellow who runs much after the female creation, yet has not low in me, a drunken sklyp. Was ever onybody plagued like me wi' a heedless slype o' a woman? The rochest sclype in a' the countra side. Twa orra ill-redd-up sclypes. He sklypet the loon doon on's back.  
  261. Bourie n. , a hole made in the earth by rabbits, or other animals that hide themselves there. A mappy frae his bourie boundit oot, Syne skipt ahint a buss. A rumblin' like a yirthquake sheuk My simmer morning bourie! Let us hae a bowry .  
  262. Reevick n.A person looking at a piece of cloth, if not satisfied because it is too thin, will cast it aside and say, “It's as thin as a reivik ”, or “Oh, it's a perfit reivik”. As thin as a reevick. A fair 
  263. Flech n., v.I have a that loupit aff him upon my aunty. To send him off . . . wi' a flech in's lug. Pity the flechs that canna soom! Da Flech an' da Loose lived tagedder in a hoose. Wi' bow-hoch't legs an' pirn taes Bit swuppert as a flech. I'm gleg as a flech, spinnin like a peerie, singin like a lintie an' oh, I canna weary. Terpsichore was trachelt; But, for aa she had tae pech, Was lowpin like a limmer Wi a forkie or a flech. Food for ilka manner o creeping thing - worm, klock, flech, bluebottle made on he wis scrattin his harns, thouchtfu-like. Molly McKenzie glowered at him-she wis sure he hid a dose o flechs. That flechie brute o' a cat on the stairheid. Flechy feels fair ferfochen [Headline minister is an awfu' flech o' a creatur. One who is always in a hurry will be called a “flech o' a craitur.” The dog's flechin' (himsel'). Fergie, stop yer flechin! (to a dog) Fat are ye flechin' aboot at?  
  264. Ganfer n. . . . very commonly seen, particularly by the sagacious shelty. A person likely to die was said to be , and a or was a prelude of death. Atween dem baith he saw his son coman' . . . Hid was his gonfer, for when he met dem dere was juist de twa weeman. A “sun-gaa” or a “broch aboot the moon” is regarded as a betokening bad weather; in winter, a cold, foggy drizzle is regarded sometimes as a “gamfer for snaa.” This wather's like a ganfir afore sna. In the winter time, if it gets suddenly calm, and if there is a slight drizzle, weather prophets say that it is a 'ganfer' for snow, and a snowstorm is expected in the immediate future. In my childhood, my father referred to just such a quiet mist as a "gamfer for snow." ... I had come across "ganfer;" only once, in a terrifying ghost story in a . I knew it meant "ghost;" ... Is that mist, then, the ghost of snow, like a coming event casting its shadow 
  265. Bear n.2 A name loosely applied to any noisy or belligerent young man, usually a heavy drinker, varying from the merely boisterous to the positively dangerous. A pub frequented by many of these is known as a : 'Ah wiz oot wi ma wee cousin an his mates; a right crowd a bears they were an aw.' A big pay rise has urging a strike offshore to mark the second anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. Leaders of the North sea "bears" are meeting in Glasgow tomorrow to consider calls for a 24 hour stoppage. ? Mary: Right from day one Rab was a post-modern reconstructed new lad, or "bear" as we called them back then. The economics of buying a beer on the Champs Elysees can be daunting. The bears, of course, lug huge carry-outs of cheap supermarket beer wherever they go. A name loosely applied to any noisy or belligerent young man, usually a heavy drinker, varying from the merely boisterous to the positively dangerous. A pub frequented by many of these is known as a : 'Ah wiz oot wi ma wee cousin an his mates; a right 
  266. Clash n.1“A on the side of the head”; a box on the ear. The next instant the heavy-fingert tawse labbit wi' a stingin' clash on Tammas' jawblade. A dead cat came whizzing through the air . . . and gave me such a clash in the face. There will be many more cauld clashes before the true spring reaches the cauld morality in worthy Mr Macmichael. A huge clash of mire was thrown. “What's brocht ye oot, woman,” said Willie, “in sic a clash o' rain as this?” Claes, a' as wat as a clash. Wha kens if there will be ony speakin' t' ye, ance ye get sic a clash o' siller in yer loof. He's a' a clash o' debt. There was a clash o' hey got up yesterday. I heard o' ane, wha had a clash O' laddies wooing at her. A true. Tam will tell ye the whole clash o' the West Country. A' soun', as weel, is stappit By yon siller quine - A' clash fae byre and barn A' scart an scauld an girn He listened to the parish clash ground. A' hae bin hearin' a guid dale o' clash an' nonsense, Mrs Sherpe, concernin' the quaestion o' a 
  267. Amiter n., adj.Dey gaed in by like a pair o stoopid amiters. (Amiters — foolish persons (A.).) An amiter o' a calf. It was a puir amiter ting of a beast.  
  268. Mushle n.For each load of mushles. Man, it's a pity ye wizna a laird or a minister or a gentleman at lairge. Yer mushles widna' a' been sae stoot.  
  269. Swatch n., v.1 suatch sent out to him. To send to her Highness a swatch of plaids as the manufactory peculiar only to the swatch as possible. For Joseph's coat he wore langsyne, Was only but a swatch o't. I rowed up aboot a score o' clippins in a cloot for swatches. I ken the stuff by the swatch. The Packmen disna peerier da swaatch, da mair risk wi da waelin. Ye'll mind an' bring a swatch o' yer wallpaper wi' ye. Naebody kens o' fat wab he's a swatch. Now I shall give a swatch of his Self-contradictions. I record this for a swatch of the hospitality of the parish. On this hand sits a chosen swatch, Wi screw'd up grace-proud faces. Gie me a swatch o' what's wrang. I ken'd a swatch o' sinfu' clay Wha halflins gap'd to curse the day That e'er his honest mither bore 'im. That's but a swatch o' the plaiks that they play. Thee evil hert is bit a swatch An' clippin' o' the Trow. As a swatch o' some o' the jobbies they socht him tae dee. She's had mony a swatch o' the Gospel frae honest Mr. James. Suppling his 
  270. Gowpenfu n.Who for a knife Or penny whissle, will part wi' their gold In gopinfu's. As long's there's a plack to the fore in the purse, or a gowpenfu' o' meal in the kist, ye'se aye be welcome to a share. An old Russian countess yesternight sat playing of gold pieces every stake. I tane up a gowpen-fu' o when finished a small lady took a gowpen full of their meal and put it into John's hands. I sighed . . . for a lang simmer's day to gather gowpenfu's of wild roses in the Pyet Holm. The fishwives . . . sold dulse at the rate of a half-penny a gowpenful. Yet a' the while his puir auld heart was far frae being tume, But held a gowpenfu' o' love for her his leddy dear. Something ti serr as an off-pit . . . a gowpeenfih berries or a penny gray rowe. Two gowpenfuls o sugar, four gowpens o flooer, ... is a cauld, mochy, jeelin, dowie wird - a wird fur weather, character, emotion: an yon's bit scartit the tap o't, fur there's a guid gowpenfu o the eldritch steered inno't anna. What's the tawpy gigglin' at; by my 
  271. Hauch v., n.Dr Skene . . . declares my leanness and hauching to proceed from a corrupt digestion. But a' this spat. A bit beef stack in's craig; but he seen it up. Wi' hoastin', spittin', an' wi' hauchin', He. Hach it up, man: hach it up: an' it'll clear yer throat. He hauds a hauchan about a' it he diz. A continual “hauch” has reduced me to skin and bone. Frae the gardy-chair, syne, wi' a hach an' a flyre, Auld fairnyers will soon be begun. Ilk friend and crony prin their mou, Or gies a cough or sober haugh, For fear o' lattin' out a laugh. That's him ahint the hedges hoastin' An' sic a hauchle o' a spit — His death we'll live to hear o't yet. Sandy gae a bit hauch, an' swallowed a spittal. “Hoo ar ye the day, Erchie?” “Ach, I'm no' that bad, but I hae an aafu hach.” Wracked with a hach and a hoast that put him off his work with pneumonia. Just gie the gless a hauch an a rub up.  
  272. Sowp n.1, v.1After ilk Tune he took a Sowp, And bann'd wi' birr the corky Cowp. They'll ablins a' their coup And swallow o'er a dainty soup. God bless your Honors, a' your days, Wi' sowps o' kail and brats o' claise. Aft they took an' ga'e him sowps o' whey. A sowp of brose, or a bit of bannock. I suld clash a sowp cauld water on you. Auld Donald Blue, a drover, frae Braemar . . . Could sneck a mutchkin like a sowp o' jeel. “Ha'e,” holding out the bottle, “tak' a sowp.” Come wi' me an' ye'll get a sowp milk. No' a single sowp o' a' thae reforms we've been waitin for. The sowpes ye took oot o' yer plate. Keep twa sowps gaun, . sup fast. But Deil a sowp could we get doon For Pussy's constant intervention. You are as white as a loan Soup. The sowpe their only hawkie does afford. Be wi' her neibours frank and free Wi' bites and soups. I like a sowp when it's for nocht. For sair's the fecht, an' hard the tae dwams, kan dae on poor fare An' gee a brave “sowp” on grazin' that's bare. [She] to her Closet 
  273. Chavie n.A chavie is like a geeser Tiger. I thought it was an east coast/Aberdeen type of saying. Not offensive in any way. Now, the Diary was never a "ned" but was addressed as a "chav" or "chavvie" as a had in common with Delhi and Ahmadabad was not only a Ruby Murray on a Saturday night, but a shared language. Kerr traced a lineage from the Khyber Pass to Leith Walk, through the gypsies who left northern India a thousand years ago, decamping five centuries later in East Lothian. "The old Nungate quarter of' slang, such as chavvi (a child), mortie (a girl), chore (to steal) and scran (food). Has she gotten a 
  274. Chickie-mellie n. comb. . The boys having procured a “pirn” of thread . . . proceeded to tie a nail or large button to a piece of thread 6 to 8 inches long, which they attached to part of a window frame with a pin. At the weighted end the rest of the pirn of thread was attached and from a “hidey hole” they pulled the nail or didn't rule out mischief, the 'Chickymelly' fitted that category. A wood screw, a length of string and a rubber washer from a lemonade bottle stopper, was arranged as depicted. With moistening, this contraption could be stuck to the hidden corner of a window pane. Running a hand over the knotted cord caused the screw-head to play a tattoo on the glass to the puzzlement and even alarm of the householder.  
  275. Sauchen adj., v.He caused dig a cave, with a saughen-bush covering the mouth of it. Just jog on at the sauchen tree, And mak' a riddle. As well yon bonny sauchen-shade Whare she first made his heart fu' glad. A strain frae Strachan Will mak a man o' stiffest stock As swack as saughen. When Spring ca's forth the sauchen buds. They brought him slow From the hills on a sauchen bier. Cornel whips and sauchen whistles! He would “let oot” a raip which one or other of the young men would twine with a sauchen-bow thraw-crook. But they had been in Boyndlie Den Where sauchen trees grow bonny! A sauchin slav'ry slype. But d'ye think a saughin block Can furnish out a decent stock O' poetrie? He was aye a sauchen, saurless breet. It needs an iron tenant to fecht wi' a sauchen laird.  
  276. Hantle n.And rattles out a hantla stories O' blood, and dirt, and ancient glories. He connach'd a hantle o' tobacco. Thae, an' a hantle scenes that I cou'd name, Sal ay mak mine to me a happy hame. They believed a hantle queer things in thae days, that naebody heeds since the lang sheep cam in. Ye've great reason to be thankfu' that ye get a dover in the , for hantels o' folk dinna get that. A hantel speak o people as he meant . . . “I ken the word now,” he cried, “it came to me a' at once; it is hantle!” There's a hantle o' folk pass by here at a' 'oors. Some folk's oo needs a hantle o creesh. Tho' no' very big, maybe twanty-twa pun', Ye certainly cover a hantle o' grun'. Ach weel, I've a hantle pitten by, Eneuch for John or his lad, and Catherine, The son brak out in lauchter: "There's a twa-three chiel at the inn Can mak a hantle o siller An'll show me hou it's duin!" ... the weans got thir licks frae the dominie for yasin the auld leid but it niver dee'd, though a hantle o fowk hae trockit thir tongue for a 
  277. Widow n., v.I have more widow wimen that hase tacks in my intrest then in severale perishes round me. She's a ceevil weedow woman. “Here's a poor widow from Babylon”. A girl acts the widow, and behind her are other a weedy wumman. Nancy keepit a weeda sister, Mrs Tamson, as a duty. A dream beuk 'at the weeda wife had hankered after lang. Aff tae a weedywife trachled wi' weans. . . . She's kamed his braw pow has the weedy lass Nance. To them she was just a widow-body. "That shaws on shae his mair honesty than thee. Shae'll be mairried, no doot?" "A weedow. Shae lost her man in the war. He wur itten be a master, J. F. a widou. The said John had called himself a widdow. Depriv'd by a feaver of the most indulgent. the best of mothers, who hath left my father a destress'd widow. David Owen, nurseryman at Renfrew, aged 60 years, a widow. Deacon Daigh's a widow too — better a bein baxter than a poor preacher. He was ninety year auld when he died, and lived a widow three score years and five. I [Samuel Tamson 
  278. Hotterel n.We got a perfect hotteril o' young rottans aneth the shaives. There'll be a hotterel o' folks in here afore the night's out. The bit gairdenie a hotrel o' weeds an' thristles an' dockens. ... a hale breenge o bawds, a fleerich o mappies, a kirn o creepie-crawlies an a hotterel o mowdies, tods, brocks an bantam chukkens. It's that frosty win's; ma han's is a sad hotterel o' cankert hacks, an 
  279. Shavie n.And so to fortune I must leave ye. I wish she play not you a shavie. But hurchin Cupid shot a shaft That play'd a dame a shavie. Kirk an' state are sisters twin, To work the land a shavie. Sorrow tak' her “bishop sleeve,” It played her sic a shavie. But ere lang she made a shavie Kicking up a 
  280. Shortsome adj., v.It's very shortsome. There's a hantle o' folk passing to the market. Maybe a sang To haud fowk shortsum roun' the ingle. A niver saw sic a short-some, cantie bit bodie. “The Toon” was a “shortshum plaicie, wi' a terrible haip o' fowk in't.” Life is shortsome for her these days. But therr's nae a mary mang them a' Can pu flowers to shortsome me. To shortsome the forenicht wi readin the papers.  
  281. Touther v., n. lang white tooder'd hair. Der draigled claes, an toodered hair. Whether you want a towther, or a kiss. A lump o' a barefitted lass wae her heid a' in a toother. Her gray hairs in towders hung doon. I haes da frock doon frae da nail, An aa itill a tooder. She's but a glaikit, weirdless towther.  
  282. Reel-rall adj., adv., n., v.Th'unmeanin, reel ral, backward page. T' the close, in Edinburgh yonder, ye are a' reel-raal through ither. Countless reera clatterin' jades. Scotch, Irish, Gaelic, a' reel-ral. Wi' its hooses reel-rall, keekin' oot at ilk turn. A reel-rall, through-ither performance. He wis a rael reel-rall chappie, wi' glesses an' a gold ring whan he wis dresst. I'll have none of your boom-boom singing here to put me all reel-rall. I'm terrible reel-rall — I mean, I'm whiles awfu' forgetfu'. A fel tumbled-doon, reel-rall cottage 'ee country. Five Anster sutors in a steir, Rush't reel-rall owr the street. Fouk were na' coupit in mosses reel-rall. An' the maist o' them's a' biggit reel-rall, here an' there. He stuck in the stobs a' reel-ral. Things the day are gaun a' reel-rall wi' me! I juist played the cairds reel-rall. Some people think a Militia would bring all parts of the Country equally forward but time. A' that I could catch was a confused reel-rall o' words. Deed it's a perfeck disgrace; jist a 
  283. Brammer n."Darkie's got a rare hatchet on", meaning that Darkie was in a bad temper, "yon Heinie's a wee bramar", which was the highest sort of compliment,... Anything excellent: 'Your new suit's a brammer Hallelujah Catching the javelin and heiderin the hammers Hallelujah That last goal wis a brammer. A wee brammer o a story. ... a very beautiful woman — elsewhere a 'stoater' — here could be a 'brammer'. A new car could be a 'brammer' etc. It wiz bright in the west — I thought we wir gonny get a brammer the day. [a warm sunny day] Names of companies now, ... Mr Finlayson comes out with what we in Glasgow know as a brammer. The firm PIFCO, founded in Manchester in 1900, is in fact the Provincial Incandescent Fittings Company. Lisa turning out to be gay was a brammer of a punchline, ... "Fiona Henderson cam oot wi a richt brammer whan she spake o the Forth Estuary. Whit kinna map did she confear wi tae come up I was saying 'what a diddy, look at all the sitters he has missed today' he bags two brammers. I'm 
  284. Beff n.2Thon's a big beff o' a butcher. He's a stoopit beff o' a cheel.  
  285. Tuint n., v.In a tuint, set up a tuint on, etc., a tuint o' a thing.  
  286. Slaik v., n. jist had the auld feather ba', an' ye canna blame folk for takin' advantage o' a ba' that wis pairfectly easy tae mak' an' that didna jist exactly turn intil a slaikit bap at the first drap o' rain. They lay, down there right on the shore where they were slaiked by every tide. Tae slake about a great man's kitchen, An, like a spaniel, lick his dishes. She was nae brood o' thievish cats, That rin and slake 'mang bowls and pats. A lazy slaikin beggar. John believ'd himself aboon, While he slaik't an an ran. Slaked and blacket a' owre wi' dirt. Their heids wus slakit up wi hair oil. To go with a pailful of sowens, and with a whitewashing brush sklaich the doors and windows of a dwelling house. It [hair]'s a' sklaikit ower wi grey an' marlt wi' fite like a spurgie. Sklacking sowens, i.e. sowens that were used like whitewash. This was a Hogmanay ploy. Slaik on mair paint. He believes in slaikin on the hair-oil. Yer hair's slaikit doun. I'll give you a gob slake. Frae my father monie a slaik she gat 
  287. Suddenty n.What was the Throng with the Council the Night, on such a Suddenty? It is not likely that he should have joined them on a suddenty. In a suddentie, on the firie-flaucht. The stately stag is gane. It was an awfu' whup — a sair straik a' of a ! It jist cam' upon's wi' sic an extraordinar suddenty. I forgathered on a great suddenty wi' Pate Glunch. She gaed aff a' in a suddenty. Upon a suddenty, and wi' the ae dreidfu' skelloch. She can be the missie on a suddenty. Remember her? Well, to be sure! One didn't keep a black besom under one's roof three years and forget her in such a suddenty as that. The puir sowls that the past week his brocht sorra tae wi' sic suddenty. On a suddenty throu yer heid In the flichter o an ee Rives a mental arra aimed bi Ane o yon nine queyns on Parnassus Wi naething better adee. O a suddenty, the back wheel o the tractor laired in the dubby sheugh aside the burn an furled roon, spirkin glaur in ilkie airt. Where the killing was only a Suddenty, and not 
  288. Cogglety-curry n. comb.A favourite source of amusement to an Ulster lad is a “cogglety-curry,” or “shuggy-shoo'” made by placing a plank across a barrel or log of a tree.  
  289. Dochle v., n.Saunders, in my opinion, is juist a haiverin' auld ass. He's a hoddel-dochlin', hungert-lookin' wisgan o' a cratur. A dull scholar would be called a sweir dochle.  
  290. Jilt n.1Tom, help the maid to a comfortable cup, though she's but a dirty jilt neither. She's but a lazy jilt. A wild gipsy jilt, a ward o' Auld Faa's!  
  291. Twaingie n.“I'll turn a wi ye yet” — a threat signifying “I'se forgether wi ye at a neuk or a , when ye leukna for it, to hae a mends of you.”  
  292. Snorl n., v.When a pirn of yarn in winding runs into disorder it is then in a snurl or a burrble. It's like a snorly hesp o' ravell'd thread. A' in a snorl, heels-o'er-gowdy. At last it [a “black unshapely” apparition] took the form of a great mass of smoke, curling round and flinging itself into “snorls”, and then it suddenly disappeared. Snirly and brittle was the yarn. If a clew were thrown out on the floor it would stretch out in a straight line without showing any snoods or snirls. Whin you get yon snurl in your broo. Ye'll hae't [ball of wool] cad a' in o' a snorl. Minnie's broos a kinda snirlie or traa'n. Twis a taigle o aspen an willow, a snorrel o nettle an ivy, a dubby, glaury hole the like o fit anely a till a bonny snorl. I ance had a man, an' I had but ane — I never fell into snorl again. If I got into a “snorl” as sometimes the Council must do. Whyles he'd screive an official letter wi the biro tae the tax fowk wha'd made sic a snorrel o his returns. When Northern Blasts the Ocean Snurl. John 
  293. Tousle v., n. hairst rig? A French sneckdrawer that haesnae the smeddum to gi'e her a toozlin'. Ilk lad and lass their glasses pass, And touzzle owre the nappy. After they had touzled out mony a leather poke-full o and keep them braw and clean, And toosle oot their bonnie tails. A Toosler is a player who eases a ball out of the rough if lying badly. Gie us a touslie gale or a plooter o' wat. An we bate hame the tooslin we got, a proper doin we got goin hame that day. A chield had taen a glass, and had A towzle wi' a gauger. They took to fechtin' an' were making a rather tough tuzle. Witches hae but ae dire grip, Tho' oor boys are fechtin' gran'. Aw wid like a bit toozle owre th' brod, an' see gin Aw cudna pit ye intull a corner faur ye cudna meve. Tho' I be baith blyth and canty I ne'er get a touzle at a'. Be brisk wi' her, lad; she can thole a touzle, I'se warrant. You'll not go up to get a touzle wi' the lasses then? A right hearty touzle he gave her.  
  294. Bluiter n.3, v.3 . A senseless talker, an outspoken, inconsiderate person, a cuif. “Oh, to the devil wi' ye!” said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. “Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!” He's sic a bluiter o' a speaker I canna make him oot. John here blutred out a volume of indignant astonishment. To bluiter like a bogle aneth a six-foot wa'. To deave us wi' his bluitterin' guller. Jamie . . . at last bluitered oot — “I — I — I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid 
  295. Dobbie n., adj.We a' ken you for sic a notorious daidlin kind of a dobie wi' the lasses. Whiles the doubie o' the school tak's lead o' a' the rest. Up dux and doon doobie. A fool or idiot. He's a country dobbie was a custom with every person in the South of Scotland when they yirded (hid) money, to commit it to the protection of a Dobie, or a Brownie, or any tutelar saint of the family.  
  296. Hareshard n., On's lip, I trow, A worrykow — A hair-shagh, urisum and grim! He had a lip, and consequently was a bad speaker. My wee name dochter had gotten a harshie lip. It was also believed that if a pregnant woman stepped over “a cutty's clap,” . . . her child . . . would have “the hare-shach,” or hare-lip. He's nae near a' yonner, to say naething o's hare-shard. Dyod, I hardly ken a wird that he says wi't.  
  297. Hyke v., n.1The gowk wud gowl, and goup, and gab, Wud hyke and hick, and habbernab. A nurse a child when she heykin't on her knee an singan tae't. An' a snail sall heeze its hornies oot An' hike them roun' an' roun' aboot Gin ye tell a lee. The moss . . . swalled up like a barm-scone, and first gae a hyke this way, syne a hyke that way, then a rift and a rair.  
  298. Knog n. standing full of Water with the Stings hanging by them. A of a chield. A of a stick. And muscles plenty in a noggie. These sids were used to make sowans. A sowan “knog” or barrel stood in every kitchen. Withoutten whawkie or a nog o' ale. A small wooden can — they called it a noggie (or noggin) — to eat my 
  299. Shock n.The mistress of Windy-Yett had taken “a terrible turn — a shock or something”. Haein teen a shock an' soocht awa in 'is sleep. Her mother had taken a shock which left her paralysed down one side, and Jenny could not be away from her for more than a few hours at a time. ' ... Just keep out of the pools!' And they both laughed. He'd been over in France himself - but he was a pig of a man! I think he took a shock and died, twelve years before my grandfather.  
  300. Bausy n., adj.Sic a bausy o' a wife's he's mairriet! She'll fill's oxter. That's a fell bausy dehm it he's gotten for a kitchie lass. A big bausy cat wiz sittin o' the aul wife's knee. There he [a stag] lay on 
  301. Carrywattle n.A Stroma man, a witness in a trial for breach of the peace . . .: “First 'er wiz a sma' tit-tat, 'en 'ey cam tae a curryshang, an' 'fore ye'd kiss'd yir ain — twice, 'ey wir a' in ae carrywattle on 
  302. Goldie n.A goldie's nest it might ha'e been, It was sae round and warm. And goldies may chirp and pick seeds on his graft. Linties an' goldies were fleein' a' aroond makin' the air cheery wi' their sangs. It's a fine bird a goldie if ye get a guid yin; it can whustle better nor a canary. That Goldie — weel, she micht hae learnt a tune If frae him [linnet] she had gat a trainin' sune. Waste ground with deep minnen ditch I weel ken. I'd pour out that hauf, Eddie. It's great how the prospect o a wee goldie fairly gies a man acceleration. Twigging that Dolan was less interested in his lighter than he was in tossing over a few more goldies, I volunteered to go. An affectionate term for a glass of whisky: 'Ah'm fur a wee goldie this time.' Well a half pint then. Or a wee yin? a goldie - eh? I'm the next time there is a hike in prices I want it to go to the barpersons who have been serving old topers like me for the past 30 years. Danny, do I get a free wee goldie for that? Order up a "wee Goldie 
  303. Rub v., n.For a wasshing ruber . . . 10d. A sweeping brush and two Rubbers. Carefully scrubbed with a , or hard brush made of the smaller twigs of heath. A' rowed up like a bundle o' heather rubbers. “A rub-doun” was the current expression at roadside inns north of the Forth for a glass of whisky. [A rider would make the need for rubbing down his horse the excuse for stopping for a drink.] Woe be to the cunnin weaver who tried to hide a blemish with “batter” or the “rubbing bane”. As . . . the rubbing and rubbin-tubs. A grain o' rubbin's, mebbie hartshorn, wi' suntin' idder intil hit ta rub wi'. I set me up i' da bed, an' rubbid oot o' mi een. . . . Shu wrang da eend o' a tooel oot o' da daffik o, Willie, here's a fine , Play straught, and like a king. They tore his garments at Forfar, and “rubbed” him, that is, hustled. Whatever happens to a Ball by accident must be reckoned a Rub of the green. The green has its bunkers, its hazards, and . Rub on the green. A term in golfing, denoting a 
  304. Byack n.Robbie wis a peerie byacksit objec. “A peerie ”: a small child, a puny calf, etc.  
  305. Drilch n., adj.A durg o' a bodie is a drilch person as unbendable as a paling stob.  
  306. Fetter-lock n. comb.A pair of branks, and a fetter lock. A Fetter-lock, a Trump of Steel.  
  307. Frothe n.1, v.A Froath-stick, a Can, a Creel, a Knock. Frothe the claes through het wattir.  
  308. Chug n.1, v.A wee broon spug Warselt wi' a doo Rivin' wi' a chug At a bit o' 'oo. 'Now there's a guy with an incredibly high sex drive.' 'Fuck off, he's just a chug-merchant. ...' Give a chug and ye'll pull loose the twa like a hen on a het girdle!” A goodly number of ponies were galloping up and down, and the 
  309. Clabbydhu n.'Will you be havin' a clappy doo wi' me, lassie?' he asked, indicating a driftwood fire on which sat a can filled to the brim with large mussels. O, the Clabbydhu, it loves the Trinch, The Crouban, the quay-neb. . . . But, Flory, I love thee! A "clabbydoo" is a coarse type of clam found on Loch aipples. Hauf-a-dizzen tattie scones. A jaur a clappy doos. 2 boatles a ginger. A punna mince.  
  310. Daimen adj.The Scotch . . . have something of a poetical way of displaying their affections, which they' jagged yellow whin. I once asked a fisherman if he had caught many trout in the Esk. He replied, “A daimen ane or twa.” A in a 'S a sma' request. Folk may tak' it easy by a demin' time, but they wud really need to shear some. In Dumfriesshire I once asked a farmer if he ever went to see a football match at Palmerston Park. “At a time,” said he.  
  311. Roost n.1, v.1An' frae the roost a rung she drew. Inby the kirk, twis as cauld's a crypt. A crammosie carpet ran frae yett tae altar, like a bluid-red bandage, richt up the steps tae the meenister's reest itsel, like a craw's nest. Throw down some mealocks for a sparrow's feast, Then take a steady aim across a get a true and stable “reest”, the eager competitor would lay himself along, and with all earnestness take a deliberate, and, if it might be, correct aim.  
  312. Soup n.1, v.1My doggie and my little kit That held my wee soup whey. A wee soup drink dis unco weel To had the heart aboon. The goodwife collected a soup out of every cog. To coup a gay soup o'er their hass. There's puir distressed whigs enow will be glad to do that for a bite and a soup. Naething louses the jaw like a soup drink. There was nae drink but a soup I' the boddom o' a tun. Try him wi' a soup o' brandy. I can gie her a soop o' watter noo an' again. Burns gi'ed him Hornbook's paregoric But a'e soup 
  313. Coorly adj.Jock o' the Geo waas a trowie coorly ting. , — claa me nail, I'm a man, but thoo're a snail. Kooerly, kooerly — kokk-a-pen, Gae a gift, an' sought again.  
  314. Design n.“Pickle” is also a small quantity — “Do you take sugar?” “Ay, a wad like a wee pickle,” or “a wee design” — also a small amount, as the case may be.  
  315. Forenick v.A. and B. both intend to purchase a horse. A. knowing B.'s design, takes the start of himself and concludes a bargain with the dealer. Thus A. has B.  
  316. Bittie n., adj.Only I wad sair like a bittie o' can'le. Noo' try that bittie first, and watch yersel'. There lives yont the water a bittie A restless and camstarie chiel. I juist edged alang a bittie. And he understood, for he walked on a wee bittie aheid. Bide here quiet a bittie. We're nae gyaun tae compleen get. I'm sair needin' . . . a bittie tobacco wi't. Maister Lumsden was allowed to have a bittie fish for his dinner. D'ye no' think it's time Kate had a wee bittie freedom frae the hoose? Whin Andro begood tae cower [recover] a bittie, he skrimed [saw dimly] Black Jock sittan' on de middle o' the fleur. Leukin' fyles at the reidenin' sin throwe the open windows, an' wussin' that he war doon an' the air a bittie callerer. I own Nellie is a bittie soft and feckless. He's a bittie scrimp wi the measure-joog. McTavish: That's perhaps overstating our claim just a bittie, but we have the capacity, I reckon, to give the rat population a scare, right enough. The'r a haill new wabsteid haes been writ frae an American 
  317. Hatter v., n.1This hatters and chatters My very soul wi' care. I've hattered a' my hand wi' the saw. He wid be' thae by-hoors. . . . He got a sair hatterin' wi' a' thae fashes. Wi water fae da Urdar Fountain, De fashiousness an hael ma hattert sowl. To gather, to collect in crowds; as, “to in the eaves” of a house. A Muir hattering thick wi quarries. Washes; hatters; early, late, Puir, weary, wasted Megsie! A heh thae thochts ti faa back on . . . whan A hatter on, maist deeved an daivert an donnert wui the pit suntin in his [pig's] nose. . . . Hit'll hatter him. , a hank of yarn that is entangled or disordered. “A of stanes,” a heap of stones; “a of berries,” a large cluster or great quantity crowded together, a confused heap. Into a most spacious hall, and amang a perfect hatter of unkent faces. An' though o' Southerns I've a hatter O' fame possessed, The chiels that deal in Doric clatter Aye please me]. The latter they scornfully designated “a hatter o' nonsense.” Whatna hatery hae we here? Sic a 
  318. Lippie n.1 horse that came here to preach during our vacancie, £2. Their Subsistance costs, at a Fourpeth or Lippie of Meal Day, which commonly is these Peoples Allowance. For a lippy of salt … 1½d. I had a leepy of groaten meal wrapt up in a Nepkin in my pocket. A libby o' groats an' a furlat o' meal. Lay four dozen of cucumbers, and one half lippie of beans. The maid-servants have also a sum of money, some ells of harn, also fine linen, an apron and a lippie of lintseed sown on the farm. These are termed their bountith. A cog that hauds a lippie. A peck or two from this one, a leppie from the next one, a hathish-cogful from the next one. The lippy measure — which is the fourth part of a peck allowance will weigh even more than this. A faur-seein chiel, wha kent hoo mony lippies gae to the peck. He pat near a hale lippiefu' o' corn in tull's seck. Some smaller communities, especially in the East of Scotland, where you may still be served with a “lippie” of flour or potatoes. ...The general 
  319. Amitan n. , . . . in Caith. a “gapus” . . . an empty-headed fellow. An ye'r no a hair better nor him, ya muckle ill-faur't aumitant! “A lamentable amiton,” and “A deplorable Gow,” are synonymous terms, meaning one addicted to merry-andrewing. , a person wi' but a sma' share o' common sense. . A fool or mad 
  320. Crab n., v.John Dick . . . after all was a man, though a crab-grained and ill-conditioned one. Crab without a cause, and mease without amends. A couldn't thole bein' crabbed at, when A didn't do nothin' ondaicent. You tirred the kirks, and crabbit God. The man who never kicks a ball, Nor figures in a punchin' bout 
  321. Misbehaden ppl. adj.The first side that lifts a sword, or says a misbehadden word. “Misbehadden geit”, a child that is very ill-trained. She never said a misbehaden word to Jamie. In all that time I've never heard him speak a misbehadden word. Der no a misbehadden yackle in her mooth. I ne'er mowban'd a misbehauden 
  322. Slotch v., n.Coming slowly slodging o' the lea. A hallanshaker slochin' chield, That wants for neither bite or bield. Twa billies on the hunt for wark, Gaed sloatchin up a ferm-toon road. A dandy was he ance and gay, A drucken lazy slotch the day. You great thowless slotch, wake up, man. He's a slotch! he's a slotch! He wad slouter up a'.  
  323. Aiver n.1An inch of a nag is worth a span of an aver. — A little man, if smart and stout, is much preferable twenty yards without peghing like a miller's aiver. Gilbert has . . . only an auld jaded aver to ride. Whaislin' like a fooner't aiver. In Spring I plow my inlan' fields Wi' weel fed Aivers. Aft a ragged Cowte's been known To mak a noble Aiver. [Burns's own gloss is “old horse.”] , a stupid person. . Now used only as a term of contempt. “A queer aiver.” “Sic a droll aiver.”  
  324. Drow n.2The lady confessed in my hearing, that a drow of anxiety had come ower her for her son that she had left at hame weak of a decay. He made oot to win free o' the meetin' by feingyin' a drow. Twas musin' further thus, belyve, he fell into a drowe. A drowie thing I used to be, An' meikle toil ye've haen wi' me. The change o' air and scene will set you up, from just a bit drow and fever that has overcome you. She looks like a maid In a drow or a dream. There was a Drow of Anxiety overwhelmed her about him. The puir callant 's fa'en into a drow, an' I'm feared he's gaun to dee.  
  325. Jellie adj.I had na pu'd a flowr but ane, Till by there came a jelly hind greeme. By chance came in a jelly, a dainty jealy man. An aunt o' the bride's was there to welcome the fowk: a richt jellie wife in a close mutch, but unco braid spoken. A bonny pair ye are — the jeely man, for Aeneas! — keepin' me in the dark about the cairry-ons wi' silly glaikit lassies! A jelly Sum to carry on A Fishery's design'd. To the west, thy gelly mouth [a door] Stood wide to a'. And jellily dance the damsels, Blythe 
  326. Wilsome adj.Hamewith thro' many a wilsome height and how. He blew, till a' the wullsome waste Rebellowin' echoed round. So they rade over hills and dales, Through mony a wilsome way. Wulsome muirs and roads usual use in Banffshire is, causing to go astray, — often applied to a dark hazy night, as, “It's a wilsome kin' o' a nicht;” or to a road, as, “I maist 'a never got here, the rod's sae wilsome.” A wullsome wyde, fu' sair tae byde, Throwe gullie-wullie moss. A man apon a wilsome hill. Breathless and 
  327. Wowff n., v., adv.Ilka collie play'd wouf, An' barked sair. — a silent cur, Without a wouff, a wow, a wurr. Hark! is nae that Collie's wowff? M'Drisner, neist, put in his wird An' made things waur, till sic a wouff. Currs began to wouff an' bark. A witty wench, a woughing dog, a waukit-woo'd wedder. I had a wee dog and he wouched at the moon. The gowk wowfs to the echoing woods. A hard the wouffan o' a dog 
  328. Pair n.Why then give me such advice? Why ask me? That wasn't very nice. A perra loonies! Gie's yer haun's, you twa. Go ahead, son. But ah'm an expert. Never burnt a per a troosers yet. ... aa he had oan unnir his lang blek coat wus a whyte t-shirt, a perr o jeans, an mawkit gutties oan his feet. "You'd look a doll in a mair casual gear, like. F'r instance, perra cords and a Grandpa nightshirt..." Pairless I stray by mysel'. “What!” he furiously interjected, “eight hundred pounds for a muckle fowre tether.” “An ill-gyaun pair” sums up a matrimonial misfit. 'Er man dee't, an' leeft 'er wi' a pair-placie an' a loonie only sax munth aul. I cuttit ma first hairst fin aw wis seyventeen on a sax-pair. “I've gotten the first pair” (at such-and-such a farm) is the same thing as saying “I've got the coming of tractor cultivation, the usual colloquial way of indicating the size of a farm in north-east-pair, three-pair, etc., places. The first farm I lived at was what was known as a "Two Pair and an 
  329. Spail n., v. Speals. Any persons, who have a mind to purchase, may look at the timber which is marked with a spail taken off. [He] ca's awa the lies as fast as a plain di's spales aff a deal. He made a fire of the oken speals, An warmed his lady wee. The first o' them a' tae be opened Was the spale kirk o' Monzie. Hew abune your heid, an' ye'll get a spale in your ee. He was gaun hame to auld Spellie to learn to be a vricht. She used to make a livelihood by selling speals and shavings. The reins or ‘bools there already, when Hurricane Jack gat back to the ship and excitedly demanded a large spale basket. 20 Dozen Wire and Spale Potato Baskets. To climp on the tarry ropes, and having nothing but a bit of a spale-boord between him an' etarnity. There wis a mannie made o' spell-boord jist like a Heelander. Another Speal Box containing a fine head suit of french Silk, a pair of Ruffels of the same. A Spale box containing 10 wine glasses. Has the dowg swallowed the spale-box o' pills? A pair of waxen babes of the 
  330. Blaud n.1A heavy fall of rain is called “a blad of weet.” Atween the big blads o' rain an' ither henders we got, it was a dreich hairst till's. It scougs . . . Frae the blaud o' the wind an' the scud o' the shower. A great or sudden blast of wind is also called a . A hungry tyke ne'er minds a blaud with a rough bane. , to give him a slap or blow. Ye've mair to fear frae it, my lads, Than ony faemen's dirks or blads. Whar he fell wi' a blawd on the bredth o' his back. Wha gied them mony a donsy blaad. Thou wanton witless weaver lad, That fell'd my chuckie wi' a blad. Nane o' yer blauds o' wind an 
  331. Hurl v.2, n.2A deep hole in a burn, into which the water falls, would be called a hurlan hole. Sometimes a hurlan i' de kjist, . . . An' his bad kjettleen i' de t'rot. The thunder roars, an' nae a breath between, Hurle upon hurle, an' just aboon their head. A heard the hurl o' the trees gain' oot our the rocks in o' the river. A heard the hurl o' the cairtie comin' in the rod. Instead of a cold on the chest, we had “a hurl at the breesht.” She thought her mother was taking pneumonia — she “grew in the chest. Maist o' them seems t'hae a hurl in their throats. O, boy, yon's just a lok a hurl at du's spekkin.  
  332. Sober adj., a “sober bodie” whom either of them could have put hors de combat by a single blow of his fist. Oor industry to afford a maintenance, very sober indeed, to his family. A sober servant, a very indifferent one. If only half a peck of potatoes is given each night, (and this is a sober feed to a working horse). A simmer's evenin' glory fa's Upon his hamestead's sober wa's. Thin sowens bodet sober health, an' a sober crap. Some gey sober crappies o' neeps. Hoo's the gudewife? a' doot she's sober. A 
  333. Black-a-viced adj.You'll see an ill-faured, pock-marked, black-a-viced hizzie in the front laft. “Where Mrs Bodkin,” inquired a lang black-a-viced man. Grey daylicht: blench progeny of lemon-coloured Helios and wintrous, black-avizit Nicht. A wee, stumpy, blackaviced chap as dour as a whunstane. A blackavised, pockyawr'd, knock-kneed, potatoe-bogle o' a dominie. . Dark-complexioned. The black-a-vicedness remained, it is 
  334. Ron v.Ronin the Bee, a rude game; a cazzie is unexpectedly thrown over the head of a person; the victim thoroughly saturated. You'll hae a day roinin da nest. Fleein' troo my head laek a plivver aboot a roan'd nest. “To roan a bee's nest” — to take away the honey; “To roan a bird's nest” — to take the eggs or 
  335. Scribe n.1, v.There was not any of them had a scrib of a Pen against the Union till it was concluded. Jeems Carlyle never wrote a scribe o' print, or hand-write either. We'r no hed a skribe frae Johni sin afore Yul. A writer scribing about Jeffery as if it was a living thing. The very line his own romantic self was scribing. Scribe me a line (private-like). There's never a post frae Embro but brings me 
  336. Aber Knot n.A mystical knot; a knot on a wrestin treed [weaving thread]. A proper wrestin treed is made in three strands with three knots on each strand. Such a thread applied to a sprain, while the prescribed 
  337. Bagrel n.“He's a body,” . one who although puny is very plump. There were several kinds of small fish in fattening — a pig! baiting a hook for a bagrel! — a stickleback! — a perch!  
  338. Hemlin n.A helmin before and one behind on the left lug, a hole in the right and a bit before, and a skirt in the right nose. Robt. Balantine, Gossaquoy, crop on right lug, a bit behint on right lug and a 
  339. Keessar n.Though he saw the muckle keicer o' a wife comin' alang he never jee't 's ginger. “A muckle strong keessar”: used of a young person, gen. a girl, who is big and strong. Did ye ever see sic a keessar o' a 
  340. Rouchle v.Toss'd and rouchled like a shougie-shoo. E'en as a ship withoot a hellim is rouchled be the waves. Donal's a dacent lad, but he's a wee ower fond o' roochlin the lasses. Ye should jeest roochle it roon. Oh, gie the lassie a wee bit roochle.  
  341. Misdimable adj.It was a gay bit misdimable house wi' a but and a ben an' a fireside.  
  342. Bilget n.2 , in house-work, a wood brick; in ship-work, a little piece of wood applied as a bed or cushion for a bigger piece to rest on. In old times all the eating utensils were of wood, before the era of be placed on a table they had a small slip of wood, called a “bilgid,” nailed on the bottom on each side so as to prevent them rolling off the table. . A piece of wood built into walls at doors on which to nail the door-standards, or posts to which the doors are hinged. . A projection for the support of a shelf, or anything else. † . A block of wood projecting from a wall to support a shelf.  
  343. A prep.2They hae ta'en Yule before it comes, and are gaun a-guisarding. An' the wintry win's asouchin' an set my very teeth a-dirlin'. An' the wee lark keeps a singin' far abune the wintry gale. Peggy tuk haud o' the tangs, an' begood a biggin up the peats roon a pot that wuz on the fire. To-morrow, all day, papers will be a-reading. Her braw bridal dress is a-makin'. I'd better been a yont side Kairn-amount. It's necessary to kill heaps o' yearocks, or the haill kintra wad be a-cackle frae John o moorit hog it doo slachtered a Foersday? But he . . . carried the poor infant away in a credill a horseback. The waeter's no been on the feier abuin a meenit, so it canna be a-heat yet.  
  344. Bung v.1, n.1, adv.Like a light bung in a gutter. Weel, man, there's nae muckle fun watchin' a puckle chiels, tirred half-nyaukit, bungin' the hemmer. Sir William Wallace ups wi' a stane like a houseside and bungs 't my entry. Weren't worth bunging a chuckie at. Y'ive 'im at ye. Ye're nae bunged wi's are ye? If ye dinna lat wi her [gie in till 'er] she'll bung an' rin awa hame. He gies me a bung apo da back. He gae me a bung on the lug. She cam into the hoose wee a . Syne awa' he gaed full bung a' o' a). But aw doot Dawvid's gotten's nain leg drawn a wee bittie. . . . He's hame nae time syne in a terrible bung. , a low phrase, synon. with . “He's ta'en the bung,” Bella says. He slammed the door An' oot 
  345. Eetch n.Calvin's sons speech is Jove's sons eetch, Wisdom to teach and prune each beech. Let me hae a whample at him wi' mine eatche — that's a'. He wis a boat's-bigger till his trade, an' ae nicht he wis gaein' hame frae his wark wi' his fit eitch apon his shouder. He can handle an etch or a hammer, A chisel, a plane, or a saw. Aeneas, my lad, take you the eitch and work it like a wright if feet come down that ladder. It wid gie ye a bit o' a begeck, but nae sae ull as ta fin' a lad ahin' yer cheer wi' a new eetch in's han'. The ground was well broken up with eatches, which were like big hoes, and cultivator was the eatch, which was made in the style of a hoe, but much heavier, and with a deeper blade. It 
  346. Gruse v., n.I declare this story [of a murder] makes me growze whenever I think of it. I'm beverin and growzin wi' terror and cauld, But I'm doubtish I soon will be hetter. Preserve us, Dundauvie; ye gar a body growze. Aft wi' thuds, hae gart me growse, Thou [night wind] hast shook me frae a drowse. An auld man sat ayont the fire A' grewsin' wi' the cauld. He . . . made a hasty retreat, felt sick, or “a' groosin',” as he called it. A chill, a gruzin'; nothing more. It will pass. Nor if she [a woman recovering from childbirth] take a “grewsin” must she touch her mammae, or a “beelin' briest” will be her sure reward. 25 Aug.: I own one felt a little gruse at a pass called Shanes Inn . . . where they cut alternately. When he got up in the afternoon he was in a “gruize.” When I had gotten ower lookin' at the 
  347. Likely adj., adv., n., v.She's weel-bred an' likely-like. A likely lass she was then, and looked ower her southland nose at us a'. For laekliness, diel bit der better is ony lassies. Thon young doctor's a rale leikely-leike. I'll likely hurt your tender feeling by a time. Lickly Maister Gibb 'll be lea'in' 't an' biggin' a bit cottage till himsel' aboot the Broch. “Oh, fat else! A funeral lekly” with artful carelessness. “Likely he winny care,” retorted the boy. - Maybe I wis just vyndless wi a saa. Joannie wid a smiled if he could a seen me. Mair laekly, da saa wis blunt. Whan wid he a been sharpened last? She never minds her, but tells on her tale Right bauld an' bardoch, likely like an' hail. A very pretty young fellow, and who spils good likly if he be not. In a' likely, I my jo maun tyn. A wid 'a 
  348. Nairra adj. and narra. The mither lat flee her Bible Straucht at his narra face: "An wad ye be a riever And bring us this damned disgrace?" I've seen prood men come steppin ben This kirkyaird, swankin saucy. A nerra staa awytes them aa: A “narrow-nebbit”, or a “nippit”, teetotaler is a common expression. Ther is much talk of a man . . . who hath left ten thousand pounds to a Hospitall at Aberdeen. He was exceeding narrou, they say, and hard to his relations. His Grandfather was a very narrow man, and therefore presumed not to have squandered away the Effects of his Grandchild. He was a narrow ailing man, and his a penny ribbon. He was near, though, i' the money way. A ceevil en'uch man, but nairey, nairey. She's a dacent cratur', but a wee thing narrow! A wheen puir, silly, contrackit, narrow-begaun, cadgin 
  349. Smatter v., n.There's aftentimes a gey bit smatterin' o' fun an' galleer gangs on at a richt furth-the-gate country roup. The pane he smattered wi' a pelt. He got a gey knottie o' siller at's grannie's death, bit he smathirt it a' 'wa in a year or twa. Jem Tamson the smith was a throuither chield, A smatterin. Hei broke it inti smatters. Ye'll fley a' thae young smatter. A great smaitherie o callans. A smatter o' wee rush or broom-theekit stacks o' grain. The market wiz naething but a mere smathir. To coop him up at home among the smatterie of youngsters. Maybe he had left at hame a smatter o' wee duddie weans. Sic a smatter o' geets! They keep an unco smathir at thir work. I care not the signor's 
  350. Tousie adj., v.His breast was white, his towzie back Weel clad wi' coat o' glossy black. Tho' Andrew he's a tousy blade His head, tho' seldom it be red. The towzy Turnbulls, and the red-wudd Ridderfords. A bald head and a toosie grey beard. His hair in towzie ringlets tossed. Towsy goats amang the rocks. An there, ma wee bit toussie. And so, in a strange, yet real, way, she had come to love the lonely lumbering giant from the forest, much as in another age or in another country, a ten year old girl with freckles and a tousy wee head might give her love to a pony, a cat, or an elephant, and think all the toozy-lookin' drab? A tousie-tailed collie. Rab Broon was a porter, a tousy-faced tyke. A lassie towsie-heided, A laddie wi' bare feet. Clipping a the toozy bits Aff drunken Davie's sark. Hersel' and her hoose alike toozie. Tousily awaking from a reverie. Neatly trimmed fences look well on a farm, yet they would be better liked by the cows if left a trifle “tousy.” I played aboot its aye-open door 
  351. Clocher n., v.1! He'll need it a' to staun' her clocher. There's a sair clocher wi' ye. Ye'll just be plagued again wi' yon clocher o' a host. Stagger up the gangway with “mony a cough an' clocher.” Ye may gang to their kirk the haill year round without hearing either a clocher or a hoast. She had had a brash, and still had a clougher and was doncey. If hid wisna ‘at A wis clocherin' wi' 'e cauld A wid gien til 'e Reay seed; Syne, clocherin wi a craichly hoast, He dwine't awaa, an dee'd. "A lady, describing an irritating cough, said she had a 'nesty tickly clocherin' hoast' and after a sleepless night said she had 'rowled an' tum'led an' better tum'led'." I hechle, an' clocher, an' toyt but an' ben, Like a puir 
  352. Jupe n.1For a jup to a child . . . 12s. Take aff, take aff his costly jupe. I put on my gray duffle sitting jupe. Hee hedd on a grey Joopee nevvir bun i da watter. His jupe sleev't coat o' curious mak. With regard to dress in last century, the peasant, when a boy, wore only one woollen garment fitting close, having sleeves, and covering the body from neck to knees, it was called a jupe. He wiz sittan shewan a joop anunder hit. His mither hed stappid a lock o' papers . . . i' the tail pooch o' his muckle jupsie cot. Stoln and Robed out of Widow Allan's in Gogartoun . . . a Joop of Indian Caligo and a Froge for a Child. A short gown fitted closely to the bust or upper part of the body and commonly called a the family. Where gat ye that joup o' the lily scheen? A white quilted bed-gown or jupe; it was gaucy, and came over the hurdies. A loose jacket, called a “jupp”, made of printed cotton.  
  353. Swee v.1, n. da lum a heavy drap Ita da fire fell sweein. Lat's get dis swee'd head an' feet [of a sheep] oot o' da rod. . . . To clean da gless o' da lamp wi' a bit o' auld cloot apo' da end o' da sweein irn. I wis tryin' ta swee on a heel hole apon a spade heft. “I wis do may swee fur dat” . . . a very Dat 'e wad swee for id. We'd got some mackerel from a boat and thought we'd swee dem ower da fire. Rinnin doon apo ma bak wi a sweein an a yuke itt wiz undumas. He gae his heed a muckle rug, That left him wi a sweean' lug. A sweein id da ruif o' her mooth. Hailie-shooers or sweein sleet. A reed co'l anunder his right knee Set ap sic' a mester fiend o' a swee. Da swee o' nettle stings.  
  354. Callan n.2She said, that was a man when she was a , (provincially, in Galloway, a very young girl). In Wigtonshire and the Isle of Man it [ ] means a girl; everywhere else a boy.  
  355. Yoofer n. Yuffers an' a Sastick. A eufer, a hatch, or a plank in a geo.  
  356. Bap n.) Flour, salt, lard, yeast, sugar, milk, water. Shu wappit twartree flooer baps apo da butt table wi' a hjimsness [quick impatient movement] 'at wis aneugh to gee a body da herskit. Sonsy cheeks like hairvest baps . . . Has Muckle Kate o' Catterthun. A bottle o' sma' ale an' a bawbee bap. . . . thick cake a bottle o' ale and a wi' this last sixpence. “A penny bun” becomes “a panny bun,” or more properly “a panny bap.” That's a lesson for you, you bap-faced bitch. The term "bap-feet" is applied to one who being rather flat-footed, walks with a possessive gait. John Major's never lashed oot at naebody. He couldna knock the stew aff a bap. 'However, as God would have it, I soon found out that he was one o' they big soft craturs that couldnae knock the flour off a bap. Was I no' glad. ... ' , sometimes applied as a term of contempt to a stupid person. "It wisnae a bomb, ye bap-heid! He wis kiddin 
  357. Palaver n., v. a grasp o' his haun an' the Mason's grip, thereby recognising me as a brither withoot ony mair palaver. The awfa palaver he hauds aboot onything — he's jist a rale pooshen! When Ah dribble, Ah dribble ontae ma tie an' ma vest, an' inside ma collar's the only place for the thing [a table napkin]. Ach, it's nothin' but a palaver onywey. A niver saw sic a palaiver o' a cheel. She's a fair palaver o' a woman an' never weary bummin' aboot her stootness o' body, an' her want o' breath. He palaivert up an' doon amo' the fouck. He had a lot o' palaiverin', first upo' ae knee an' syne upo' the ither. A giant o' a man like you to cawper an' palawver like a fule at a fair! Sang, ay, he wis a 
  358. Stank n.1, v.1 which their love of provant leads them. The creature took across a mire, a perfect stank. The guides led on through moors and stanks. By sedgy pools and reedy stanks. Considering using for a football field the ground known as “The Stanks.” A naisty yowm comin' aff 'e stanks o' the Moss o' Lenabo. Once upon a time, within a half mile square of my house, I could have watched dragonflies, in a score of places, for every worked-out quarry pond and stanky produced them in some abundance. A bird called a stank hen. It is a water fowl, less than a duck. The loch famed for powheads an' stanks. The eggs of the “stankie hen.” Where wild ducks and stankies found a quiet resting-place. There is 3 plum imps stank. He let them taste. They lap the stanks wi' nimble sten. To effect a more complete drainage of Millgate, A wee besooth the stankie. There were meadow at each side of the street. It is then that I sit down at a stank-side with poor Lord Brodie. A' the stankbanks an' dykesides had tae be shorn an 
  359. Anie n.It's a sheepie an' fat a wee eenie. . A little one . . . a diminutive from S[c]. , one.  
  360. Rookit adj.Foo mony hoggies hiv ye the day? A black and a brookit, a reid and a rookit.  
  361. Rumballiach adj.A rambaleugh day. . . . She has a rambaleugh temper. . . . A rumballiach wife. Sic a rambaleugh 
  362. Aff- prefix2 remove the furniture from a peat-pony. , to take off the pack of a pack-horse. , to take the bends off a horse. , to take harness (of any kind) off a horse; also, to take a horse from a cart. , distasteful, of a repulsive appearance. , having a forbidding appearance, having a threatening aspect. He was an affkom o' stock fae Ayrshire. He has a great af-lay. Yon chap o yours is no a grit haand at prolixity. “Affrug of the sea” — a spent wave receding from the shore. Afrog. , the reflux of a wave after it has struck the shore. A cross-tide that occurs off a headland. The current which carries past a headland and does not follow the coast. , rebound of a wave. Da affskod cairried 'im oot 
  363. Deaffy adj.A voice gives forth a daiffy sound. A “bool” that “wudna stot” was described as a “daiffy bool,” or simply “a daiffy” — That ane's a daiffy. [Also form .] They deefied me. Hou lang dae we Scots speakers hae tae dree a Scotland Office an Scottish executive that sees tae the wants of juist ane o Scotland's twa hamelt leids and keeps on turnin a deefie tae the ither? From a young age, they learn to "sling a deafie" as a way of cutting out parental instructions. They have a remarkable ability to develop skills to an art form. There is hardly a parent anywhere who hasn't bemoaned the fact that their teenager guidebooks released in Deutschland this week warn visiting lederhosen-clad tourists to sling a deafie at our: 'Aye, ye slung us a deefie the other night but Ah seen who was wi ye.' I can do a deefy to those who turn up once a year simply to tell me that there is another wean on the way and they don't bother 
  364. Pattle n., v.Meantime a Ploughman, with a Pattle, Engag'd the Captain close in battle. A huddrin hynd came wi' his pattle, As he'd been at the pleugh. With the pattle (a piece of furniture belonging to the plough) he gave him a violent blow on the head. The devil pay them with a pettle, That slight the North. I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle! If he liked a book ill, he liked a plough or a pattle worse. Ilka heuk, and auld pleugh pettle, They've gather'd up the country round. Plooin a ploo the pattle. Nae the vera pattle shafts but wus broken, an' the harness grey an' green for want o' cleanin'. The ploughman . . . using a pattle-tree to clear away clods, or hasten the pace of his refractory team. There was a pattel tree stuck into a hole in the block, which served either as spaek, bit like a deuk Lay quarran, pattlan like a fleuk That pattles i a ebbed pow. To patl or sit patlin i' de aess. A peerie bit o'bairn. To patl ut de nokki.  
  365. Blaw n.1 nor'-east. That means a bla' doon your lum, I'm thinkin'. We micht just sit down here an' tak' a bit blaw. Ah'll huv a blaw afore ah dae onythin else. Syne our her weakest shouder, She wechts the corn the gravestones discussing the parish ferlies, taking a bit blaw o' a smoke. And every noo and again takin' a blaa o' a short, black cutty pipe, which she keepit at the back o' the hud [fireplace]. . A pull, a draught; a cant term, used among topers. Then come and gies the tither blaw Of reaming ale. Come some forenight when ye're slack, An' gie's your jaw; Though my auld purse should get a rack, Thou's hae a blaw. Jeust a lock o' hypocrisy an' blaw. His sisters, wi' a bit o' blaw, waur never far ahin, Bit their brither a lieutenant! — they waur nae tae haud nor bin! I aye hae mind . . . O' hearin' young Rab Royston frae Dunsyre, Uphaud a new-boucht ploo wi' unco blaw. , one who boasts; one who tells fibs out of vanity. Also . E's a great blaa - bit e niver dis onything. He's an awfie blaw 
  366. Doonsit n.He ga's sin a gueede doon-sit, fin he pat 'im in o' that fairm. Ou, aw dinna misdoot that; an' he'll get a braw doon-sit at Gushetneuk. Glenfierroch will be a fine down-sitting for our sister's daughter. She has got a good down-sittin', and a kind man. Gear's no everything; many's the lass I saa that got a gran' doonsittin an' had a gey sair hert efterhin. Marry the heiress: Howeboddom is a warm being a considerable tyme to the dounsitting of the Parliament. It's a very fallawshus prenciple in fat they ca' poleetical-economy to encourage the doonsittin' o' the like o' them in a place. He bequeathed drinking one bottle of port at what he calls a down-sitting. I gat the humle-cow . . . for ten pund Scots, and they drank out the price at ae downsitting. Could polish off a terrible lot o' provender at a doonsittin'. It's ower sarious a maitter to be settled aff-hand, at ae doun-sittin. She'll whip me aff her five stimparts o' the best aits at a down-sittin. That's e'en a dowie ditty. Hech, but it maks the 
  367. Whillywha v., n., adj.He canna whilliwhaw me as he's dune mony a ane. Nane o' your whullywhaing, Mr Bindloose. Cauldwell been at him wi' his whilly-whaain' lees. Whether selling out of the pack, or whilly-wain a nicht's shelter and a cog o' brose. The fower lads stared at ither, an' tried to whilly-wha him to be quiet. A generation that canna read the signs o' the times, but is as easy whillie-wha'd as a wheen silly bairns. Two young things whilly-whawing in ilk other's ears. Alas he's gane and left it a'! May-guts to your Sea-maws. The lisp's sae bairnly; but you soon begin to suspec a whilly-wha. Ye're a whillie whaw — ye speak awfu' fair and look awfu' pleasant. Challenged to a duel by some whilly-wha o' an Englisher. Blawing in a woman's lug wi' a' your whilly-wha's. This is nae whilly-wha o' a love letter. Hut! none of your whillywhas! A wumman that's owre muckle ta'en up i' the noo wi' the whillywhaes o' a French sneckdrawer. Nae mair whilly whas, lads; but get ready. The grainin an' the gruntin kind 
  368. Rove v.2The scholars were quite comfortable in front of a good “rovin'” fire. Ither lads an' lasses sittin' roond a rovin' fire. I was ushered into a fine sitting room, taken close up to a “rover” of a fire. He put on a roving peat fire and closed the door.  
  369. Smyte n.A smytrie o' wee, duddie weans. Out cam sic a smytrie o' wee white dogs. An, as for flaes, we kill'd a' that we catch'd — Tho' troth to speak a smytrie got awa. Hen'erson's fowk hiv a leeterty o' smytery o' craiters. A lot o' smytrie amon' the tatties.  
  370. Clyte n.2, v.1, adv.That man kens naething about managing a horse. He'll get anither clyty afore he taks hame the beast. He would get a deil o' a clyte amon' the stanes below. Gin ye hid gotten the clyte I did ye wid 'a' kent a' aboot it. It was at the very moment o' his greatest confidence that he got the sairest clyte. There's nae saying how soon we may be laired a' thegither in frost and snaw for ever. . . . Hech man, and that will be a cauld clyte to the feck o' us. She'll come a clite on her head one of these days. ; nae rants nor rows, Nae clyte o' cogs or churns; In lanely maijesty I'm aff To mak' a speech on Burns' a crash into every area. But aft wi' pride their heads grow licht, An' doon they clyte again. “I couldna find words,” said a Glasgow bailie, “and so I .” A' clytet doon in a heap — fair deen oot. I, My brain in a fever wi' fyke, Fell clyte in a chair like a bauchle, An' growl'd at a' roun' like a tyke. The twa gaed clyte doon on a seat at the side o' the noo hauf-on Tougal. He got as far as the 
  371. Hoddle v., n.1Thy haff shut een and hodling air, Are a' my passion's fewel. “Ye shall hae that for a tune of the hoddlin' on auld ponies. Joost a hirplin, hoddlin, hamely woman. To hoddle on wi' kellach creels. Ye vain coquettes wha flirt aboot, And scarce for pride can hoddle. Hoolie wi' yer hoadlin' awee. He's a hoddel-dochlin', hungert-lookin' wisgan o' a cratur. There sits . . . sniveling Kate wi' her hodle hand is called the . . . the . . . takes a ball of the dough, forms it into a small cake, and then casts it on the bake-board of the , who beats it out a little thinner. Syne round her a' her servants made to hoddle, An' paid them a' their wages to a boddle. The streets were rale thrang on that nicht, I mind, men an' women a' hoddlin like a bee-byke. The ne'er an honest man wad a hoddl'd sae lang on a ae poor hussie an' then gane awa an a married anither for love of a pickle auld clouts. I ne'er my till I came to Barr's Brae. Ye may hain your hoddle. Ta'en ane anithers word, a kiss, and a 
  372. Jundie n., v.If a man's gaun down the brae ilk ane gie's him a jundie. Tho' on your back ye should them bear, An' setting down gi' them a junday. A staff supports his tott'rin frame, A wee bit jundie mars his aim. Spinning heads ower heels frae top to boddum, getting a dunch here, a clour there, and a jundie gang to sleep at nichts, Unless they've gi'en somebody a jundie. I gied the thing a jundy wi' my airm, onywye, an' gin aw gie't a vrang junny, it's aweers o' garrin' ma cry, “Alis!” If wan of them got a jowed his jundie. He's aff on the jundy again. A jundie of a house, a jundie of a cart. Said Bess' drive, Hog-shouther, jundie, stretch an' strive. Sae junnied on frae day to day, Wi' ne'er a blink o' fortune's ray. They pous'd, they jundy'd ane anither. Whaur jundie, jostle, rug, an' rive A jaupin' crowd. Laughed, flirted, jundied one another, tossed broad jests. A stirk saw the piggin and gave it a dunt, and 
  373. Colour n.Small quantities or amounts are expressively conveyed by . . . a wee “sup,” a wee “nip,” a wee “colour.” “Will you have a cup of tea?” . . . “Yis, thank ye; I cud tak' a wee colour.”  
  374. Coothin n.After the first year the becomes a : it is next called a or ; and when full grown, the same fish is called a . After the ( ) stage it is called a , and ultimately a .  
  375. Gad n.2Sometimes a rounded piece of wood, a ball of twisted hair, a cork, . . . carefully fashioned into a globular shape (and later termed a “nag, not, cad, gad, cor, coit, or golley”) was substituted.  
  376. Golley n.Sometimes a rounded piece of wood, a ball of twisted hair, a cork, . . . carefully fashioned into a globular shape (and later termed a ‘nag, not, cad, gat, cor, coit, or golley') was substituted.  
  377. Marsgum n.Is it a masgum or a turbot? Death is a maasgoom, 'at glaeps aathing. Wisna he set his fit apon a rotten maasguum it wis driven ashore, an' flatched him laek a pancake.  
  378. Dish n. purchased a pint, a dish or a roll of butter. If ye didna tak' fat ye got, ye had to tak' fat ye took in wi' ye, or chew a dish o' want for a chinge. Should there be complaints about the dinner, the good lady of the house threatens to give the complainers a “dish o' want some day.” Gin they widna tak' their pottich they sid get a dish o' want for a change. Wyte or Aw get ma feet in o' ma sheen, an Aw'se see ye by the hens' dish! A dishboard, dishes, plates, cogs. Red Hair'd, dish-Brow'd, Bladder Lipped, meikle Mow'd. Many a time have I gotten a wipe with a Towel; but never a Daub with a Dish Clout before in the wringing of a dishclout [ . immediately]. You are going . . . to the devil with a dishclout, for you are laughed at by them that lead you into these disordered bye-paths. A'm lik a washt oot dishcloot Gin ever he observes a proud professor . . . that reards and prays till the very howlets learn his preambles, the man Auld Simmie fixes on to mak a dishclout o'. This is no' fair to Micky 
  379. Frush v.2, n.2 minutes. Hit wis dark an' dey wir a frushin', an' a klatterin, an' a birrin'. A cat frushes when she “spits curses.” Next dere comes a heavy spulder, An a frush aboot da tirl. An dan we'd see dem ... Plooin da voe wi a frush o froad an maas divin.  
  380. Gully adj., n.2An' he was as gully a body as could live; an' at da Straits he was a' da boys' freen. A gully ting o' a bairn. He had left her husband fishing on a rock called “Tangie”; then, continuing, he said: “Tangie's a gully berry; hid'll hurt naething”; . Tangie is a safe place. Bit are th'u hurt thee, Paety 
  381. Gurk n.A stiblart gurk wi' phiz o' yellow In youthhit's sappy bud. He was a ferdy, gulschy gurkas, Wi' bowsie legs just like a turkas. A rough-looking “gurk ov a loon” carried the end of the [measuring] chain. A sma' doorie opens, an' in steps a gey stoot gurkie an' sits doon on the deas. Ae creeshy gurk 
  382. Kibble adj.Fu' o' good nature, sharp an' snell with a', An' kibble grown at shaking of a fa'. I gather't odds o' fifty kibble birks. There's the Provost o' Elgin . . . He looks weel. A kibble carl. A kibble bunch o' a wife. I wis a tidy dainty cob, A kibble beastie, strong and smairt. His step wisna sae 
  383. Piver v.His han's pivered wi' faer a' the time. Troth a' the time he sat he wus piveran' like a paedle on a plate. That mysterious complaint which an old Shetland woman once described to a medical friend of mine as “the wind piffering in her veins”. A' piveran wi' gluff, for da cap waas tirrlan roond an' roond like a tirloo. 'E waas jeust piverin' wi' madrum.  
  384. Wisker n.“Pit a girse up 'er [a pipe], Maister Macwhirter,” said the goodwife, handing him a grass out of a “wisker”. When referring to her knitting it was her “wivin” or sometimes “shank.” She used a “wisker always wore a , a leather belt with holes in the side.  
  385. Body n. sniggered. "Whit a boady." Lord canna ye let a Body amuse themselves without always clattering. Ma man, a bird that speaks like a buddy is no' nateral. Bit what tripped me, whither it wus bothie, bockie or baest, Lord ken o' me, as I ken no'. Pleadging the most valouable things a bodie may have. Tramp on a I am a bodie, both harmless and nesty, a gangster (a clansman?), a literary pitter-in o the boot, a never understood that my first duty is to myself, and a typical Scot. Yes, I am wantin' her. I wish ye wad gang and get her tae a body. Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the rye. “It's a nesty mornin', it's waur than a guid shower” he continued “for it seems to wat a body into the very soul.” It was." Ignorant bothies, that dinna ken a single saint's day, nor wouldna ken ae Sunday frae anither o' the calendar. She's a cantie buddy. (When a dead person is spoken of the word used is “boady.” This, if ye find oot he was a nice Christian buddy eftir aw, keep yer geggie shut or ye'll be oot o work 
  386. Cast n.His neck has gotten a cast, or a wrang cast. For Nory's heart began to cool right fast, Fan she saw things had taken sick a cast. If these backslidden, upsitten, lukewarm ministers, elders, and professors get not a cast by common, their sun will not set so clear. . . . but let na on what's past 'Tween you and me, else fear a kittle Cast. And she is aye seen to yammer and wail before ony o' them dies a real witch for his sake, he should dree a kittle cast. Twa mile frae this, I left them on a know-up at a'! The Deponent means whatever is laboured and sown with Corn above five of the ten Casts into which the Outfields should be casten. For on his rear a dreadfu' blast He saw begin to lour, . . . Frae whilk, he dread some kittle cast. I redd ye let us take a cast about, as if to draw the wind on a buck. I rede ye to take a long cast round ere you return to your people. But as she kent na, she mistook the cast, An' mair an' mair fell frae the road they past. It is said that one has got a of any 
  387. Haggle v., n.1I hae nae broo o' doctors; . . . though they may learn at the College to haggle aff a sair leg. A bonny haggel't job they're like to mak o't. A hagglin' gomrel. That beak noo cuttin like a knife, noo clippin like shissors, noo chirtin like pinchers, noo hagglin like a cleaver! As weel attempt to split a hair Wi' gar'ner Johnnie's hagglet gully. It would go against my heart to haggle a man that can blow there is a pile of haggled heads by thee. “Geordie” perfect in timing and unless you take your sheaf to receive his wife, he hagled in his answers. After a' Watty's adae, and haichlin' Charlie wi' him, they had a' their tramp for a scarrecraw. A Third Edition got done . . . Printing haggles forward till nae use for wives ava; Ane's ain burden's eneuch to carry, What sairs a puir man haiglin twa? A haiggle on alang streets chowky wui cluds o shairny stoor. I've haigled her [a baby] a' roond the toon. There is a deal of truth in what a farm servant said to me six years ago: “If they gie's the same 
  388. Kebbock n.An honester fellow never . . . cuttit a fang frae a kebbuck. She seenil lays her hand upon a turn weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell. After . . . tasting old Janet's best kebbuck, and oatmeal cakes. A whang aff a new cut kebbuck is ne'er missed. Between some of the couples were hung strong boards, on which the year, a period when the whole countryside rumbled to the farmer's “kebec” laden cart. An' links o understood when one makes a request for a “kebbuck” of cheese or a “farl” of oatcake. A cowp, nae mair nor a tae-breeth frae Hell; like a kebbuck wi mawks, shackelt tae its smell. They brought him powsoudie, drummock, kebbuck and farle. He ate it and dressed. Efter a lang, lang time, somebody pit out the lichts in the lift an aathing gaed blaik, except for the kebbuck o cheese an a green an blue foushty baa hingin in space, like a rotten tangy. Gudewyfe gae to your kebbock creel, See that you wyle your kebbocks weel. The Town's People of  had now as terrible a Prospect as their Ancestors had, even on 
  389. Angleberry n.A Black-brown Mare . . . two or three Angle berries on her Belly. . A fleshy excrescence, resembling a very large hautboy strawberry, often found growing on the feet of sheep, cattle, etc. a growth on an animal (usually on teat or belly). A warty excrescence on cattle or sheep. She was a bonny mare but had an ugly angleberry hangin doon fae her chest atween her legs, a reid lumpy growth, that is. , large hanging warts on a horse, sometimes about its mouth.  
  390. Farkage n., v.Pack'd up in coffins ane, twa, three, A most infernal farkage. Having a about her. To go to town for farkish, . messages, shopping. It was a' lyan in a fargis. He pulled a whole fargis o-qualled wi' beasts. There's a whale [ ] ferkishin' o' them the noo in the park. Thae scones ir weel heirt; A pat a guid fairkeesheen o butter inti thum.  
  391. Glowe n.To ilk tar-tun he pat the lowe; At ance it flew up in a glowe. It was mirk as the deid o' a winter nicht, But it tint a' its dule in a glowe o' licht. . . . the sun's bricht axle by degrees Sinks in the Western Hebrides, An a' is in a glimmerin glowe. Thar wis a spladge o orange i the sky aa shotten through wi a crammasie glowe, an he shiddered as the nicht creepit roon him.  
  392. Wecht n.2, v.2A Corn baskett a riddle ane sive and winding weight. A wecht, a peat-creel, and a cradle, A pair of clips, a graip, a flail. Meg fain wad to the barn gaen, To win three wechts o' naething. There are two kinds of . The one is denominated a , immediately used for , as its name intimates. This is formed of a single hoop covered with parchment. The other is called a , having more resemblance of a be emptied into the . The bairns tak' a winnowing weicht. [To] send a peppering shower of hail along the stack-yard, and, sallying forth, fill a whole “wecht” with the corn-eating sparrows. or for taking up corn from the bin or floor are made either of withes or skin, attached to a rim of wood. Take a sieve or a , and three times go through the form of winnowing corn. One groff siv, one sma' siv, and a weight. Few of the present generation will know what the Nethertown “Weicht” really was bated breath. Take out the ashes — see, there's a wecht. At supper large quantities of pancakes (here 
  393. Ruggel v., n.He stepped on a “ruglie” stone. A ruglet sten, a ruglie sten. To sit ruglin on a chair.  
  394. Tuardelie n.A bed hung with gold coullered hanggins, a tuardelie, . . . a busting bed shewed with green, with a 
  395. Brash n.1, v., adj.Takin' a brash o' godliness ance, . . . auld Cockenny took to the prayin' by himsel in the stackyaird and the parks. Up-bye, as A paat on a bit aixtra brash, a grocer body . . . gien [gave] iz the disorder, to which they are often subject after being weaned, is called the . We also speak of “a of the, “It is just some .” Whin we hae a air i da hoose id slips awa ae way an' anither, atween a gless tae da mare whin sheu takes a brash an wir Pegs whin sheu takes a pain i 'er booals. If whiles they took a wee bit brash They gaed to sea an' took a splash. After teethin', cam' the spainin' brash. Her little charge had taken a “brash” of a serious nature. I heard a Belfast merchant . . . excuse himself from attendance at a meeting because he had had a “wee brash.” Which by-and-by may make them [sheep wadna gie ye a doit for a dance like that . . . ye never get any forreder. It's for a' the worl' like a brash o' wun'. When winter nights were wat and brashie, Say, was your wick a rind o' rashie? We've 
  396. Bervie n.There's little best ale in Bervie far ae wifie brews't a' (no choice amongst a crowd of hooligans). There was formerly practiced, and very occasionally still is, a form of cure known as Bervies. . . . Bervies were or are not washed after smoking, as Finnans are, but simply dusted with a duster and packed for Market. The colour of Bervies is a dirty blackish brown, and the flavour something between a Finnan and a dried spelding. She had a bervie and a boiled egg to her tea. For cockls musles and berve 
  397. Dottle v.3, n.3A small poney, that takes very short steps, is said to be . ...and as we approached the station away at a dottle-trot, I shouted. - But where to? Where do you live? An old man who goes a-courting is said to have . She's a wee dottle o' a body nae mair than fower feet heigh. She wis jist a wee dottle o a lassie. A little useful "dottle of a body," already working for its little bit of bread there.  
  398. Lib n.When a person was “Love-spoken”, a drink was given out of a in which was immersed a silver coin crossed with a fasting spittle. The cure for “forespoken,” or affected by the evil eye, was a drink of water off silver or out of a vessel in which silver had been placed. A mixture of oatmeal and salt had stirred the mixture with a steel needle and muttered over it some incantation. Old James Cook of 
  399. Pickle n.1, v.1Da alilambs wis a' abune da lambhoos, doo needna be in ony peklty aboot dem. Noo' here was a pickalty. Dir wisna wan eetemtation o fresh maet in da habitation. Divity waas i' a pickloo an' dat gluffed aboot 'is horse. “It's a terrible pichle o' a bizness this,” says the swettin' Smith, as he sclappert a brushfu' o' the fancy paste ontill anither length o' the back o' the paper. Tell 'im [doctor] 'at A've gotten a tribble it'll pickle 'im tae tak' oot o' me noo. I promised to come to see a new canary he's bocht — a real pickler.  
  400. Rekster n.He made a puir rekster, he did not gain much. Da hills ta da noard an' aest o' Weisdaal ir full o' ljoags an shuns an dir rexter is immense. What a rekster I'm had me. . . . He's made him a rekster, he made a journey (without success). To facilitate the driving [of sheep] small branch dykes run out in two directions from the . These were termed or dykes. Der wer a guid rekster upon him. I'll giv dee a rekster. She gae him a proper raksterin. ‘A' in a rakster' — of anything gone to ruin or 
  401. Skinny adj. carryin' the books. An aw the time the skinnylinky copper's a' ir heels. "Geud, thoo're no exactly a skineemelink," replied Mansie with a grin, "bit whit's the differ? I like a fat lass mesel." There used to be a children's song in Aberdeen relating the adventures of a thin man called “Skinamalinky Lang Legs”, which is still sung as a skipping-song, etc.: Skinamalinky, lang legs Umbrella feet. Skinnymalinky so-ca'd flappers canny haud a caunle Tae a real wummin lik' you, yir too hoat tae haunle.  
  402. Trebuck v., n.If a person, on making a false move in a game of skill, calls out trebuck or trabuck me before his, wulks, biled wulks, a bawbee a jug [of a street-hawker too drunk to remember what he was selling]. A player who aimed a “dinger” at a particular bool and then changed his mind would receive permission to do 
  403. Jag n.5'Could ye go a jag?' A jag is a measure of cheap wine, a 'shot'. I like a wee jag o gin before ma drink it over breakfast met with a surprising affirmative. "After a heavy night, definitely." This struck a chord with that seasoned veteran of more than the odd morning after, our columnist Jack McLean. "A wee jag first thing, and better than flat Lucozade," was his assessment. "Well, you sure wouldn't 
  404. Keelie n.2, v.He knew of a number of lads who used to meet at the bottom of Niddry Street when they came from "keely" good-brother; and she replied he was as big a "keely" as he was. In Paisley a “keelie” (street a Cicero declaim Against a' wealth an' rank an' fame Till —, and sweeps, and keelies praise. The, or , as he called them. The defender . . . said that I was a Saltmarket Keelie, a fighting man, a thief. The Wand'rers of Dundee, Who play the game like savages, or keelies on the spree. A man that, for a' I kent, might be a common keelie (thief) or a cut-throat. She'd hae tae be braw-an cowshus wi' siccan a keely carl. Jist yin o' thae Leith Coalhill keelies oot for a nicht's batterin'. The Boss no more than a Vulgar Keelie. In the third round they had to face a crack Glasgow team; but, encouraged, shawlies, and keelies, they scraped through by a single goal scored by Elrigmuir ten minutes from the end. . . . a reductive, cowardly, timid, snivelling language cast out of jeers and violence and diffidence; a 
  405. Stime n., v.[He] drank sae firm till ne'er a Styme He cou'd keek on a Bead. When it turned duskish, he saw not a stime. I scarce could wink or see a styme. At sic an elritch time O' night, whan we see ne'er a styme. A' the hills were wrappit i' the clouds o' rime an' we coudna see a stime. His een, bein' in could see. Not a stime, they are all as blind as bats. They set up such a stoor folk could not see a styme. A saana a stime masel, bit Daavitie's clare eenies seen made oot a lowe i' that airt. You couldn't see a stime in the place for the reek. Couldnae see a stime. ( = it was very dark) There winna be a styme o' them seen again atweesh this and twal hours at e'en. Deil pick out my eyne if we've seen a stime of it again. I canna see a stime o' ye. Nae a leevin' stime o' Dod. To cut their fur kent but a styme O' the blirt that was brewin' for him. When winter nights are choak't wi' rime, An' fouk can scarcely breath a stime. At hame his wife, wi' looks demure, Beside a wee styme fire sat 
  406. Butt n.4'Ey ir great butts. She must 'a' spent her money on her butties. Me an' him wuz butties for mony a day. Ane boastit owre his butties a' That nane wi' him could big a wa'. I'll gie ye a butty hame. Ah'll gie ye a "butty" inty the toon, ... A walk in the company of an acquaintance: 'Wait a wee minute an Ah'll gie ye a buttie up the road.' I managed to flannel around this gaffe by telling her that the drunken Paddy a butty up the road. This seemed to satisfy her.  
  407. Croy n.1The body was discovered at a , about a mile below where the accident happened. It [a cormorant] frequented a croy at Benchill fishing-station very much. Per. .1940 (per Fif. ): A dam at Kirkmichael, Perthshire, stretching nearly across the R. Ardle, is called “the Croy.” There was, and still is, I think, a lower down. It is a kind of a quay which can be closed by a sluice. Fish are sometimes trapped there. There is another type of , however, projecting partly across a rushing stream, so that salmon may rest 
  408. Curly-murly n. comb.He gae a start that sent a box o' curlie-murlies fleein' i' the fluir. The ecstasy of acquiring a “Sugar Hert,” a handful of “Curly Murlies” or a bottle of “Treacle Ale” and a slab of “Gingerbread” is proper had rather a gnarled exterior. They were formed on a seed or other foundation such as , clove or almond. The nucleus of the proper was probably aniseed. It was about the size of a large pea. These sweets were popular on days when Jock was expected to give Jenny her “market” in the form of a of 
  409. Daubing vbl. n. of the house, and lay a row or two of stones, then they procure from a pit contiguous, as much clay or brick-earth as is sufficient to form the walls: and having provided a quantity of straw, or other litter to mix with the clay, upon a day appointed, the whole neighbourhood, male and female, assemble, each with a dung-fork, a spade, or some such instrument. . . . In this manner, the walls of the house are finished in a few hours: after which they retire to a good dinner . . . where they have music and a dance. . . . This is called a .  
  410. Happen v. happened Hootsman? Some o' the Drumalbin or Strathearn fo'k it may come doun at a hap'ner [ ] time wi' a drove o' nowt, or seekin' tae pick a quarrel. If it wasna for a happening visitor looking in at orra times. He might just make a remark to the Inspector. Mrs So and So was here to-day, but it was only a happening call. A happenin' visiter. A happenin' yin or twae . . . He gaed there at a happenin had “a happenin beast” at Fairnalee.  
  411. Happity adj.I've a hen wi' a happity leg, Lass gin ye lo'e me tak' me now! For a cloit o' a fa', Gars them hirple awa', Like a hen wi' a happity leg, John Frost. He was rather little, and had a happity leg. An' yon ane [song] where on happert leg The waefu' woman comes to beg. A puggie snaig'd aff wi' the cripple man's crutch . . . Och hone, och hone, grat happity John. Like a' the lave o' her kind, she'll try to look young, but a bonny happie-ti-kick ye'll mak o't atween ye. You an' her gaun to the kirk 
  412. Loit v.1, n., adv.There common sense did loit and spue. A drunk man aften loits up what he has drunk like a mill the laird of loits Sat on a stane — While a' got butter to their bites, And he got nane. Jean asked him for a wee lawyt of the cod liver oil. Lass, what's the hurry, wait and get a layt o' tea. Yonder's a cloud, too, that's wearying to get a loot [ ] aff its stamach. A big-boned, loud-voiced Amazon of a woman, who could step it out across the heather and da lyjoiks as well as any man.  
  413. Barge n.2, v. , a passionate, boisterous, imperious woman. Come across the street and have a barge and a glass. , to speak in a loud angry manner; to scold. , to scold in a loud abusive way. To , scold.  
  414. Pendula n.To m alcorn till account for makeing a little pendula knock, a stricking knock, and ane old knock, a pendula and helping a watch . . . ½ a guinie. Ane pendili knock in the principle dyneing roome.  
  415. Rag v.3Ye might raag a keelin' fir a' 'at we ken. A fisherman very occasionally will strike a fish with his hook when there is an unwillingness to swallow it, i.e. to raag a fish.  
  416. Scrow n.2Sit down, ladies, till that scrow of a shower gang bye. A ‘scrowie' being as far short of a ‘shoor' as a ‘shoor' fell below ‘weet'. We haed a scrowie o' rain the streen.  
  417. Sheeg v.Whan I grow auld wi' blinkers hazy, Wi' banes a' shiegling an crazy . . . A piece of furniture ill-put together; a concern. Sheegin' a table or desk was a favourite torment in school-days.  
  418. Bake n.1 and steak, Twa red herrin', and a bawbee baik. For a dozen of bakes. . . . . . . . . . . 0. 0. 6. [An' mind] the cookies, snaps, an' bakes, That young folk like sae weel. With a glass of spirits and a bake. Refreshments . . . usually consisted of “toddy” and a hard biscuit, known as a “bake.” He, an' penny baps. , a biscuit shaped something like a twopenny pie. The line, “Cappie, cappie-bakes an' jeelie,” used to be sung to the tune of . , a kind of hard-baked scone seasoned with all-spice. , large thick biscuit; a water bake. , a soft crumbly wine-biscuit.  
  419. Bind n. gilting in a lesser then a greater bind and ther is great difficulty to procure barrell staves for a greater size. To tak' my reed, or mint to play a spring, Is baith aboon my bind an' 'yont my art. A barrel of a certain bind is one of certain dimensions. Their bind was just a Scots pint over-head, and a measure of liquor. A man of strong binn is a man strongly built and bound — crop of good binn is a good 
  420. Boucht n.1, v.1“The bought of a blanket,” that part of a blanket where it is doubled. Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a . I'll ben the spence and dress a wee, Wi' knots and bughts sae gaudy speak about putting a “bucht” or twist on a rope. As peace is made with Denmark, will prove a great. Each sixaern [six-oared Norway skiff] was furnished with a “fleet” of lines, variably termed “tows” and “buchts,” and equalling 50 fathoms. , , to fold down. A boughting (cradle) blankit, a bolster.  
  421. Deochandorus n.. Students of Stirling, now's the day and now's the hour. Hail Caledonia! Rise now and be a nation again! Scots Wha Hae! Just a Wee Dochan Dorus! (That's enough songs - Ed) Some drouthy billies tak a tour Roon a' the bars o' Forres, An' bide beyond th' allotted oor To hae a dochan doris. Greyfriars' Bobby's suppin a plate o kail While MacDiarmid poors himsel oot a Wee deoch-an-doruis frae a bottle o peaty malt. '... Gin and Tonic, Dr Moray? ... Or a wee Jock and Doris as you hielanders say. ...' Ring the bell, an' we'll hae a “douchan-dorus” before we go. And drink, wi' heart-endearing glee, A deochandorus!  
  422. Hover v., n.Hover a wee. Hover a blink, my Jessie dear, Let a' the lave be gane. Just hover about a blink, and we'll soon tak' ye out. So the reader maun just hover a blink till I get some matters explained that should be explained. “O no!” said Scott, “just hover a wee.” Come, men, Foo lang ir ye gaun ta hover? Hover a blink till I light my cigar. He hovered to herrie a foggie bees' byke. Just hover a blink, the water will sune fa'. They are in a hover and suspense. Her heart for Lindy, now began to beal, An' was in hover great, to think him leal. I've been lang in a hover whether I should dedicate 
  423. Scatter v., n.“They'll scatter!” she cried gleefully. It was the custom for a marriage party to “scatter” coins and sweets (“conversations”) on the road, and the children scrambled for them. A scatter-witted kiltit loun The neebors thocht a fool. Hoo dare Ye, scatter-wut, my precious time to tak To answer ye! Fu' mony a merchant I could name Has gien a splendid scatter. The increasing volume of traffic today makes the traditional “poor oot” or “scatter” a hair-raising experience. She [a gun] wad mak' an awfu' scatterment gin she war to gang aff. A he-goat that made short work an' a scattherment o' the oul' lady. She was a great reader and was nearly always sitting amidst a scatterment of books when she was in the 
  424. Doddit ppl. adj.A rickle o' peats out-owre the knowe A gimmer, and a doddit yowe. 5 Black Dodded Cows, Two and” and “Angus Doddies.” I got bit ten pound . . . for a bony bit o' a twa yearald dudded whyoo fae a Caitness drover. Whiles fae a skep a dreepin' comb he steals, Or clips the doddit yowes for winter wheels. A hunder pund i' honest hands, An' sax an' thretty doddit yowes. Noo they've gotten a schule o' their ain, an' some day sune they may get a Kirk. Maybe it will be a dodit ane.  
  425. Keelivine n.Mr Montgomery, when lord advocate and member for Peeblesshire, made a speech . . . in the house of commons, where he mentioned his having made a note of some thing or other with a . I think we can carry the greatest part of it in our heads without a keelyvine pen and a pair of tablets. What are ye doing wi' yere kylevine and bit paper? And e'en now, wi' his keelavine, He'll draw for it a braw design jam-stane draw A horse or hoose. In Dundee a lead-pencil is a “calavine” or “keelavine.” Attention niver sen yer aal folk a bit o' a scart. The egg must be a soft one for .  
  426. Mettle n., adj.At last I took mettle, an' offer'd her battle. The daughter is a fine mettal-like lassie, and might have made a shift both for her mother and herself, had she been bred not to think it dishonourable. She has a tongue intill her head to gie a mettle answer. A sonsy mettle hizzy. I followed, and was mettler o' foot than he. That's a mettle beast of yours, freend; will you sell him? Ye're nae a beggar's brat, I'll gie my aith An' mair, I see ye're mettle to the teeth. 'Od he was a mettle bodie of a creature — far north, Aberdeen-awa like, and looking at two sides of a half-penny. Your chiels use mettle heels, When gaun to see their dearie. He is an honest and a mettle gentleman. Ye'll ken Laird Heron o' the Rathan, Jen — a mettle spark.  
  427. Laid n., v.This 'il be a Laed aboon a Burden, that will gar monny a honest Man's back crack. Ye Gods! What Laids ye lay on feckless Man! Your claith an' waith will never tell wi' me, Tho' ye a thousand led had ten horse-laids afore him o' Flanders lace, an' Hollin lawn. What a lade is lifted frae my heart. A of corn, hay, or peats: a load for a pony. When one boy or girl made a present of “sweeties: — Ane's nane, Twa's some, Three's a birn, Four's a horse laid. A load or tuo bolls of victual. In the load, or load sold to the country. The former is known by the name of the collier's load. Aft wi' a. When corn or meal had to be taken to or from the mill . . . a sack or “lade” was put across each horse's back. A laid o' coals or a pair o' buits for some puir cratur. A led of peats was what one horse could carry; three or four leds were equal to a small, and about five equal to a large cart-load. I hae brewed a lade o' yill. He has a heavy (richt) laid — he is very drunk. He has a greetin (lauchin) laid 
  428. Banker n.1, v.The “banker,” a kind of heavy stool, sometimes of wood, sometimes a mere temporary arrangement of rough blocks of stone, on which a hewer shapes a stone. The master builder, pleased with his ingenious diligence, once laid a shilling on his “banker.” Banker your stane an' show ye're a mellsman.  
  429. Bee n.2 . Also . A metal ring or ferrule. . A hoop or ring of metal, put round the handle of any thing, into which a or prong is inserted, to prevent its twisting asunder. , a metal ring round the foot of a staff. . The hollow between the ribs and hip-bone of a horse.  
  430. Loopick n.A very deep drawer, containing … a auld loopick, a muckle tully. Shu scraepit da levin oot o' da baesin wi' da mooth o' a horn loopik. Shu laid da horn luppik apo' me limb. Three crabs, of a kind called Cra's lupiks. Turned op in a lupek — wasted away, withered, emaciated.  
  431. Maschle n., v., adj., adv.Sic a maschle 's a' thing's in . . . They've made an unco meeschle o' that maitter. They're a' maschlet up thegither in that place . . . It wiz a' up thegither. Their money maitters are a' meeschle-maschle. . . . The hail toonie's a' meeschle-maschle freens through ither. The hail thing geed meeschle 
  432. Toul n.A hand Toull of hardin. He dried his Face and Hands with a Tool. Bring a tooel here as fast as ye can. Three dizen touls lyin' scattered through the hoose as black as coalpocks. A tooel as coorse as a carrot-grater. Hae ye a toal an' some sape?  
  433. Clow n.5. They would not be understood, even by the young Fifers of today, who call a gull a gull, and not a 'clow' or a 'coorie' or a 'cuttie' or a 'maw'.  
  434. Stookie n., adj.. There he stude, like a muckle stucky eemage. The wife bocht a stooga mannie this foreneen fae a foreign don't suppose ye could go very far wi a stookie though! Part of his last birthday present was a course playing football. The lobby floor was scrubbed and a border put round with white stookie, usually in a buried in a plaster cast?' I asked him. 'Like a mummy?' He shook his head, laughed. 'Naw! I want a box, but just a simple white job. And I want everybody to write on it, wee messages and that, drawings.' 'Like a stookie. Right.' 'I always mind it when I broke my arm. The things people wrote on it! So that's from the Bosnia charity shop, 2 a head, and to watch a wee red West Coast Motor chugging off to Kilmory. I was sittin' mumpin' there, like a stucco. Jamie sat like a stookey wi' a face as red as a partan's tae. Nor less renown'd for living folk than for stookies o' the deid. I juist stood like a stookie, thowless an' donnert. Rob steed like a stooka for a meenit. I was standing like a stooky 
  435. Aes n. , a large blazing fire. A es o' fire. Aes. Da woman set us a great aes o' a fire.  
  436. Caibe n.A local joiner said to me the other day: “That's a job for a caibe, no' for a joiner.”  
  437. Deighle n.A pridefu' gaste o' a body, but a wee deighle o' a puddock hoved up wi' its ain concate.  
  438. Aheat adv.So that they [ . the kye] might “get a caller mou'fu', an' win in afore they ran a-heat.” The waiter's a-heat — gey ner boilin'! Suppin' het kail keeps yin a-heat a' day efter!  
  439. Belfert n.Fat a bilfert o' a loon he's growing. He's gettin mair gin deef nits ony wy. He was a great fat bulfert o' a loon. That belfert o' a sheaf'll stan' atween's an' the win'.  
  440. Consanguinean adj.Mornipaw being come of a sister-german was preferable to the descendants of a consanguinean sister. A man . . . dies, leaving behind him a consanguinean brother elder than himself, and a brother 
  441. Maw n.7, v.2About hauf a score o' great big grey cats cam ane by ane — gaed a loud mawe — crawled thrice withershins. A neighbouring Cat ae night maw'd keen. Creepin' like a partan, mawin' like a cat.  
  442. Pud n.1Two vagabond boys called the Pods. Sic a dear pod o' a loonie. A little fat, podsy body, wi' . . . a paunch hoaved oot wi' roast beef an' maut liquor. She breisted like a puddy-doo.  
  443. Tympathy n.Some thought it was afflicted with a tympathy. With a great sough for fear instead of a bairn it might turn out a tympathy. His leddy mother diet o' the tympathy or a broken heart.  
  444. Bleg n., v. . Wooden wedges for keeping the hoe securely fixed to the haft. If the head of a hoe is loose and you push a piece of wood between the handle and the head to keep them firm, the piece of wood is called a . A wedge for a window is also called a . Da twartree piltiks i' da skjo [shed] ar noo faan upun [getting high], bit dey'll do fir saide bliggs. [ ] , to drive a wedge into a hoe in order to 
  445. Clip n.1A colt was a clip and not the usual “staig.” A fairmer's wife it's fine to be, 'mong cauries an, an' oot o' it he's chosen a clip, an' he's made her Mrs Spicebox. That Meg's a rale wee clip, . a pert child. He wuz the greatest yung clip a iver cum across, but raelly a cud not fin' in my heart tae 
  446. Murgis n., v.An' gin a' the folk i' the coort been shot tae the he'rt, they wad no' meed sic a murgis is they deud. Dogs bark, men halloo, women “raise a terrible skrach; an' sic a wark, an' sic a murgis, thoo never saw a' thee born days.” This is no verra canny, bit I'll be bund I'll see what a' this deil's murgis is. Bae dis time da gang waar maakin' a bony murgis dunderan an' brogan at da ald door, aneuch 
  447. Rab n.2, v. sic a rabbin soul, nane can believe him. Hit wid a vexed da hert a' a saant oot o heeven, far less a bursen mortal, ta see a lock o' folk comin' dryllin behint a', an' raabin a lock o' nonsense ta ane 
  448. Riglin n.1Your fader wiz a riglin and your midder wiz a witch. A Riglen Ram, an' thirty yowes. One kind are called , having one stone in the scrotum, and another in the back, a little behind the kidneys. Nae country will follow a practice which will let loose such a horde of amongst their herds. A makar is a 
  449. Steak n.MacIntosh, then [1454] residing in the Island of Moy, sent to ask a , or , . a Road Collup; a custom among the Highlanders, that, when a party drove any spoil of cattle, through a gentleman's land, they should give him part of the spoil. What the people of old used to call a “steakraid”, that is, “a collop of the foray”, or in plainer words, a portion of the robber's booty, paid by him to the laird or 
  450. Band-stane n.I am amaist persuaded it's the ghaist of a stane-mason — see siccan band-stanes as he's laid. Such a stone helps to give strength and solidity to the part of the wall in which it is built. There may be a number of band-stones in one wall. Dat's a guid baand-stane; dunna brak him. . A stone extending the thickness of a wall; a bond-stone.  
  451. Toog n.Eastward to the north Stony Pund to two tuicks on the height. A green towick or hillock. I toucht dat I dang mi fit in a peerie toog. One old fellow, staggering homewards along a smooth and level road, remarked to a more youthful companion, “I wad deu fine if hid wisna for a the tuacks.” A rabbit ran fae its bul in a heddery toog on the slope below.  

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  1. Pestilentius adj. disease … was a pestilentious boil This contagious and pestilentious lake [ . the Dead Sea] Suld we 
  2. Soup n.2 frie in a pan, then pour in some vinaigre … vater … salt and spice, and let al boil together, then pour quhyte breid of ane pund wecht in a sowpe The bursaris on the flesche dayis to have for thair disjoyne thrie and thrie ane ait laif in a sowpe To know the way of making their sups is not unnecessar since more ado but to take the broth or sodden water … and pour it above his cut doune loaves If a man would make a good soup without flech he would cut me doune some onions with a lump of butter … which he sall it on your sup, and I promise you a good sup Wedensdaye to denner swp and collops is 1 s. 6 d.  
  3. Pluk n.2 byles, some of plowkes The kind of the disease … was a pestilentious boil … striking out in many heads stoup as followis By our custom there is a plouck in every jugg or stoup and the wine is only measured 
  4. Pest n. pest to support hir [6/8] The pest in … this land is now a preacher … it cries unto you, Repent [A church yard who died of the pest … but [etc.] A box chest of flax … being opened and loused the pest pest The botch of Egypt … ane attrie kind of boil striking out in many heads or … plukes … the maist … deadly kind of pest and boil that was in the dayis of that king Ane pest is the corruptioun or infectioun of the air Bot … thay peirles perllis a pest Bereft him all In that simmer He send a pest That folkis wes and to keip the sam to the townis use A burn or strype of watter … for wesching and clenging 
  5. Probabil adj. [etc.], … boil all these in a Jesuit's brainpan, and add thirto of the doctrine of probable opinions vondir probabil that Inglismen vil vse this samyn crualte on ȝou al The dittay off Helen Fraser, a parte question is much more probable to be true than to be false Take … a douson of well-conceived equivocations 
  6. Pleuch n. are awarded to a man for 4 days] at pleuche It sall be leisume to any burges … to caus any tradsman vitht his auen hand at the pleuch & not that a colte shall drau the pleuch & ane aulde horse rinne side, the caller gangis befor the beastis backward with a whipe, the halder of the pleuche lyes on with ellis delff ilk werk day The ox may nocht wele drawe in the pleuche bot gif he have a falowe Thay sal … occupy the samyn with thair avin propir plwchis guiddis and cotteris Thare was a labourare … at his Mychty men that had ma Oxyn he gert in pluchys [ . plewiche] ga A pluch, a wayne [etc.] [They] sall … paye … for … a pluch schod xxx d. Ilk man telande with a pleuche of viij oxin sal saw … ilk ȝere a And ilk pleuche to teill a yoking That William Menie … sall stryk oxen in a plewch with James Duncain Ane pluchet furnest with gair tharto As much land as a six horse plough will plew in plewing time thairin thairefter [etc.] Qui pleugham longo gaddo dryvare solebat His son … did streack a pleugh upon 
  7. A indef. art.A man A sone, … a litill page A martyre, … a thousand A gait, a gymer or a dynmont At a fest [He] hid him in a busk A warians Scotland was a kinrik A clos volt For a tyme To beir a croune A bald battel A ballet sett out in print against ministers A vnwemmyt virgine Sic a ydiot A oracyon A abell persoun A euill end A yle A afald mynd A occasione A othir ring Half a onc[e] of tobacco A eight dayes A twenty chosyn men A xxx [= thretty] saill of men of war About a twa and twentie … yeirs Sonday come a fyveten days A sextie saills of warre A fourtene ȝeir syne Onc[e] a thre 
  8. A num.A thing will I to ȝow say In a nycht and in a day On a day Of a mylk and of a clath The grettast a schype off thame all Thar salbe rasyt a general ȝelde or ma He has bot a citee in his contree Sen al gais a gait to the erde The harpare with the a hand Within twenty a dayis … folowand Thy a son Under a mind Baith of a blude The sacrament of a breid and a coupe Paull … At a kirk did not ay remane Suppose Christ be ea thing in himselfe Scho schew me a day … a ballet Befoir ae baillie 
  9. Truphane n.A trumpour a trvcour A hangman a hasardour A tyrant a tormentour A truphane a tratlour  
  10. Sautouer n.A chefe, a bend, a fes, a pole, a cheueron, a wnde, a geron, a croix and a sautouer [F. ] And giff ȝe will wit quhat is a sautouer [F. ] luk in this buk the armes of Boudeuille There bene in armes callit two pynyons. One is quhen the feild is a sawtry Saynt Andrewes crosse  
  11. Labial adj.A labiel symbol can not serve a dental nor a guttural sound; nor a guttural symbol a dental nor a labiel sound A labial letter  
  12. A prep.1Land awest half the Cors A south the toun A eistell the wostell end Tua legues a this syd off … Being a schipboord He … went to Ely, a purpois to embarke Not … lang a doing That nathing be … a seiking The armies are near a-yocking The ludgeing was a faling  
  13. Tharm n.The tharmys and the bowellys rent A wide tharme had never a lang arme Stolen out of a house in Edinburgh … a gold watch moving with a thern, made by Richard Baker A plain silver watch … with a shagarin pin'd caice, goes with a phern  
  14. Bald n.A skeg, a scornar, a skald, A baldstrod and a bald Skaldis, baldis  
  15. Clouter n.A tornament … Betuix a talȝeour & a sowtar, A priklous and a coble clowtare [ . clowttar, . cloutter] Colonell Stuart was (as is constantlie reported) first a cloutter of old shoes  
  16. Prikett-hatt n. And at ilk man … be bodyn at the lest with … a sellat or a prikit [ prikett] hatt a suerde and a buclar a bow and a schaif of arrowis  
  17. Hemmyr-stand n.A brewyne fat, a hemmyr-stand, a bukket A mask fat … , a hammerstande ij hamerstandis and an 
  18. Bisom n.For water & bisomes to dycht the kirk , … a bissom A new bissome soupes clean A terrible comet … [with] a lang teall … lyk unto a bissom or scurge maid of wands Two bisemis, vj d. A comet of that kind, which … the vulgars [call] a firie bissome For 4 bissomes to the Towbuith Thesse 3000 years, ther was not a comet seen with such a … prodigious byssome and taill For 4 broom bissomes  
  19. Truffur n.A tyrant a tormentour A truphane a tratlour Truffuris  
  20. Res n.& to the pressone in a rese Went Men says that Hercules … a stage in a rese [: pes] Vald ryne, sa taking on reasses wp and doun the publict streitis A horse reace for a sadell, … and a foot reace for a bonet, and a paire of shoes  
  21. Graip n.The wrangus haldin of ane graip, a schul, a cowp, and ane sled The thre granyt ceptour, … lyk a crepar or a graip wyth thre granys Sleddis, crelis, forkis, spaid, graip, schewill, carseddillis Irone graippis with thair schaftis 2 muk graipis, a schuill Ane graipe, ane fute spaid, and ane peit spaid [He] with a graip kuist down a great part of the thack and divetts of the said hous Stryking the said Helen with ane graip Ane iron graipe, ane iron coall raick A surd, a grap, a fader bed, a cruk, a Chak, a forks, grapes, &c. Two irone graps and ane wyne hogeit To John Cars, smith … , for a grap  
  22. Frusch n.Quhill men mycht her … A gret frusche of the speres that brast Thar wes of speris sic bristing, … That it a veill gret frusche has maid A sudane thud maid sic a frusch, That all the wyndois at a brusche … Brak vp He and all his cumpany … In-till a frusche all tuk the flycht In a frusche … Thai schot apon thame hardely Than in a frusche assemblit thai  
  23. A interj.A, quhat thai dempt thaim felonly A! wysely luk, I pray the til And said, ‘A! A! gude Arreste’ Aa, Schir, mercie! A, ȝon is he  
  24. Libbar n.Scho callit to hir cheir … A libbar and a lyar [In Crook of Devon,] Ye confessed … that ye was a witch, a charmer, and a libber  
  25. Coble Clowtare n.Betuix a talȝeour & a sowtar, A priklous and a coble [ . hobbell] clowtare  
  26. Treper n.A rost irne a treper a creill A trepper for the kettells  
  27. Brogit adj.The ȝeman that is nane archere … sal haif … a gude ax or ellis a brogit staff ij hand ax, a brogit staff, ij swordis Thre hand axis, a brogit staf Ane Dense ax, a broggit staff with a spere A respit 
  28. Quhim-quhame n.It stall fra peteous Abrahane Ane quhorle and ane quhum quhame A whum whan to a pair of wakeris sheiris A whim wham for a goos brydel This is [sic] a pretty whimwham good for nothing. Oh a serious solid zealous minister should have been ashamed to have substituted such whity whaties in the place of a 
  29. Hart-horn n.Ane hart horne heirs A jowell … maid in form of a heirse of a harthorne na mair nor a mannis hand A prettie hart horne, nocht exceiding in quantitie the palme of a manis hand, was arteficiallie 
  30. Fariar n.Scho callit to hir cheir … A fond fule, a fariar, A cairtar, a cariar  
  31. Lantter n.A pot, thre qwarttis, a spet and lantter, a peudar chader, a dis [etc.]  
  32. Souse v.2Kisse a cairle & clap a cairle & tyne a carle douse a carle and souss a carle and win a carle If 
  33. Bunwed n.The ja, as a juglour, … couth cary the cowpe of the kingis des, Syne leve in the sted Bot a blak bunwed To mak a wicht hors of a wand, … A bunwed tyll a burly spere Sum buklit on ane bwnwyd Ane beist bund with ane bunwyd Marion Hunter … declaired … that she was in Gallowberriehill, and rode vpon a 
  34. A prep.2Quhat kynd a man Of men a weir By aliuin a clok For finding a coall  
  35. Skettso n.A skettso where the kinge sitts under a throne reachinge out a sceptre to a woman  
  36. Chapin n.The kow [to] give a chapin [ . choppin] was wont to giue a quart A chapine of aqua vitie Ane chapine oilie … to the new bell Thair was spent that tyme four chapines wyne Half a muchken of aquavitie, … 3 chapineis of wyne The session … inhibited all drinking after both sermons endit, save of a chapon of ell drinking Tuentie pynts of clarett wyne & a chapine 3 loves and a chapin aill The Duchemenis Fyve chappenis seck … ane chappein at tua merk and a half the pynt A chappine of secke Infuse in a a chapping can Ane pint and chapeine stoopes A peuther chappin stoup … A English chappin peuther 
  37. Rane n.Bot ay the bischope in a rane [ arane] Beheld hyr bewte, and nocht fane He … cryit ay in til a rane [: Damyane] [The Howlat] Rolpit … in a rude rane Euer spendand in ane rane, Quhill all that he hes is quyte gane Quhair suld be rest, thay rattill ay in a rane A fule … Cryis gif me gif me in till a rane The ky … rairing ran rid wood, rowtand in a rane [ raine, reane] Swa suld I dulle hale yhoure delyte, And yhe sulde call it bot a rane [ arane] Sa that the fors al of my dyt In til a lumpe to be our-tane And to be defamyt as a rayne To tell the al how mycht befall, To lang a ran men wald it call Sa come the ruke with a rerd and a rane roch Thow barrant wyt … Schaw now thy beggit termis and royt ressons baith roundalis and ryme This is our auld a rayne [: gane, wane]  
  38. Sesam n.Then with a daring boldnesse thou reviles That sacred name, and with base skurrill stiles (Though in a roguish, comick, jesting sort) Thou makes of it a sesam, a skuff, a sport  
  39. Mash n.A quarrell mell, a pick, a mattock, 4 wadges, 3 mashs A great quarrell mell, 2 mashes  
  40. Birthing n.Of a byrthyng on a manis bak of brede or lekys a farding Of a byrthing of mercery a farding Tak 
  41. Remording ppl. adj.As quhen wee say, a peaceable conscience, a remording or a byting conscience A consort sweet … By organs of mine eare, allayes All mind-remording cares O what a terrour wounds remording soules  
  42. Prunella n.[A gown of] black prunaly A black prinaloy gowne 1 ell of blak silk prunella A prinnaly gown Silk prinella gouns For … his grace's prinella sad breetches 3 drope silk 16 d. A drope of sad silk to dress a pair of prunella bodies Dressing a prunaly petticoat A night gown of prunely 1 prunaly 
  43. Mychar n.A wich and a wobstare, A milygant and a mychare So mony theiffis and mycharis richt weill kend  
  44. Halflin n.A man servant of younger years, commonly called a halfling, being a domestick servant, is to have yearly for fee and bounteth twenty merks Scots Thomas Abel, a haflin John Adam, tailor, a halflin  
  45. Stepe adj.A steipe, round and heigh toped rockey montaine A steip and rough hill The sea rocks are very steep and high A steep hill, hardly (if at all) rydable Lintoun Linn, which is a steep downfall of water from a rock I cam away from Lanerick in a very steep raine  
  46. Muft adj.A muft cat was never a gud raton taker [ (1721) A mufled (= mittened) cat was never a good hunter]  
  47. Ȝarking Fat n.A mask fat, a wort stane, price 15 s., a saa, a yarking fat, price 4 s. 8 d.  
  48. Wynd n.3A quarter of beif takin for a penny of custum, a cabok of cheis takin for a halfpenny of custum, a wynd off quhite claith for a penny of custum Wynde of white linen … [spoke … of the approaching event 
  49. Yssen v.The best way to mak a kow to yssen is that shoe be weill wintered and not hungered A forrow kow is a kow that is yssen'd or gives milk anes in the two year A nuckle kow or a teadie kowe is a kowe 

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