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  1. Aiberdeen-awa adj., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1814-1920
     Scott Waverley xxix.: 'Ye're a Highlandman by your tongue?' 'Na; I am but just Aberdeen-a-way; em.Sc.(a), wm.Sc.] 1 . adj . Of or pertaining to Aberdeen (and its neighbourhood). Sc. 1814 north, Aberdeen-awa like, and looking at two sides of a half-penny. 2 . n . Aberdeen; neighbourhoodAIBERDEEN-AWA , ABERDEEN-AWA , -AWAY adj ., n . [′ebər′din ə′wɑ: n.Sc.; ə′we: Lth. + ɑ:; ə′wǫ.' Edb. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch (1839) xx.: 'Od he was a mettle bodie of a creature — far of Aberdeen; the Aberdeen dialect. Sc. 1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods , Note: Burns's Ayrshire, and Dr MacDonald's Aberdeen-awa', and Scott's brave, metropolitan utterance will be all equally the ghosts of speech. Abd.(D) 1920 C. Murray Country Places 29: I'll no compleen Tho' a alighted from the Edinburgh coach at the canny twa and twae toun of Aberdeen awa, he had some doubt if the 
  2. Cleek n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1870
    CLEEK , n . 2 A term applied to Aberdeen weavers taking jobs in the Dundee mills. Ags. 1870 . . . the Dundonians would say by way of banter, 'Ye'll better look oot, there's a curn mair cleeks come the W. Buchanan Olden Days in Aberdeen Preface vii.: The Dundee folks did not like to see so many Aberdeen 'cleeks,' as they called them, coming to take up their spare jobs. . . . When they arrived 
  3. Bonaccord n.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1715-2000
     like brother. 2 . “A term which seems to have been formerly used by way of toast, as expressive ofBONACCORD , n . Also -acord . 1 . “Agreement, amity” (Abd. 1825 Jam. 2 ). Peb. 1715 A amity and kindness” ( Ib .). 3 . The motto of the city of Aberdeen, and hence substituted for the name of the city. Abd. 1887 W. Walker Bards of Bon-Accord 41: Thanks to a worthy son of Bon-Accord. Abd. 2000 Herald 27 Mar 28: 'Is that an albatross on you shoulder, Sandy, or a regular Aberdeen seagull?' So as the bold publicans of Bon Accord gear up for summer my advice is quot.). Abd. 1931 I. F. Grant Everyday Life in Old Scotland. 134: A personage who was a sort of parody of the real rulers. In Aberdeen he was called the Abbot of Bonaccord or the Abbot Out of 
  4. Unfeued adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1819-1871
    . See Feu , n ., v . Abd. 1819 Aberdeen Journal (20 Jan.): The unfeued and unproductive property would also be exposed to sale in way of few. Abd. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xliv.: Half-a-dozen acres of the unfeued land. [O.Sc. onefewit , id., c .1480.] 
  5. Aberdonian prop. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1773-1952
    ABERDONIAN , prop.n . A native or citizen of Aberdeen. Gen.Sc. [ɑbər′donjən, ebər′donjən] Sc. 1773 Boswell Journal (1936) 68: The Aberdonians had not started a single mawkin for us to their associates. Abd. 1832 Aberdeen Mag. (April) 191: The well-known acuteness and sharp) 240: Perhaps we have gone in for specialisation in the intensest way; we have specialised in producing an Aberdonian, a good hard-wearing wage-earner, whether in divinity, medicine, Eng. Lit 
  6. Doctrix n.[0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1751-1759
    DOCTRIX , n . An assistant school-mistress, the fem. of Doctor , n ., 1 . (Ayr. 1746 A. Edgar Years Doctrix to the said Mrs Warder, proposes to entertain young Ladies in the same Way. Abd. 1759 Aberdeen Jnl. (27 Feb.): They can have Access to enter to the said Miss Eleonora Grant's School, in a Fortnight hence, where they will be educate as above, and genteelly used by her and her Doctrix. [Lat. doctrix , a female teacher.] 
  7. Burkin' House n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1870-1886
    BURKIN' HOUSE , BURKING- , n. comb . A house used for dissections. ne.Sc. 1883–1886 D. Grant Chron. of Keckleton (1888) 34: There's nae a cat nor a dog can gang in the direction o' the Back Lodge . . . that ever finds its way hame again; but it's weel kent where the puir brutes gang, even to Dr Lott's Burkin' House. Abd. 1870 W. Buchanan Olden Days in Aberdeen x.: During 
  8. Grief adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1932-1939
    , adverse. Kcd. 1932 “L. G. Gibbon” Sunset Song 43: Some said the North up Aberdeen way, had had. Sth. 1939 A. A. MacGregor Goatwife 267: It took five men three hours to cut a track three hundred yards long for the sheep. It was a gey grief job, I can tell you. 2 . Of weather: stormy rain enough, with Dee in spate . . . but not a flick of the greeve weather had come over the hills 
  9. Englify v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1821-1947
     426: He had Englified the Scotch in such a way, that sometimes I could neither make buff nor sty o' my way o' thinkin, 's naither one thing nor anither. Abd. 29 1947 : When a friend of mine returned to Aberdeen after three years at Oxford our old gardener complained that he 'cudna mak oot fit she 
  10. Aberdeen prop. n.[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1721-2005
     Aiberdeen the once. In phrs. and comb.: 1. Aberdeen († and ) -Angus , used attrib . as the name of a of their beef. Gen.Sc.,; † 2 . Aberdeen sey , a kind of serge made in Aberdeen. See Sey , n . 2 ; † 3 . Aberdeen's man , a male native of Aberdeen. See Aberdonian and -S , suff ., (1). 1 should in future be 'Aberdeen-Angus.' 2 . Sc. 1860 A. Leighton Curious Storied TraditionsABERDEEN , prop.n . Also Aiberdeen , gen.Sc. variant form of the place-name Aberdeen (Abd. 1871 W breed of black hornless cattle orig. in the counties of Aberdeen and Angus and noted for the excellence, the 10th of February, 33 Aberdeen and Angus-shire Oxen . Sc. 1844 Scottish Farmer (Aug.) 53: The Aberdeen and Angus polled breed. Sc. 1910 J. MacDonald & J. Sinclair Hist. Abd.-Ags. Cattle 515: The official name had been followed: 'Aberdeen or Angus.' The Council of the: He's an Aberdeen's Man, he may take his Word again. Sc. 1800 A. Carlyle Autobiog. (1860 
  11. Bejanella n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    BEJANELLA , n . A first-year lady student at Aberdeen University. This has come into use in Aberdeen since the admission of women to the University. [bedʒən′ɛlə] 
  12. Gordonian prop. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    GORDONIAN , prop.n . A (former) pupil of Robert Gordon's College for Boys, Aberdeen, founded as Gordon's Hospital by the endowment of Robert Gordon of Pitlurg, merchant in Aberdeen, in 1729. [gɔr′donjən] 
  13. Skenea [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    SKENEA . Zool . A fossil gasteropod found in glacial clays in W. Scot. (1828 J. Fleming Hist), of Aberdeen, Professors of Natural History in Marischal College, Aberdeen.] 
  14. Tympany n.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1719-1884
    . 1719 Slg. Burgh Rec. (1889) 162: When the stone work is finished to be putt on in a plain way-shot was raised into a Timpany or Storm Gavel. Abd. 1780 Aberdeen Jnl. (26 June): A Tympany part of the front of a house, raised above the level of the rest of the wall, formed like a gable, and. (Mry. 1825 Jam.). See Gavel ; tympany room , the room formed by a tympany . [′tɪmpɑni] Slg. 212: The jetings on the wings or office houses, particularly those in the midle of each, finish in a Room and a Garret. Sc. 1800 Edb. Advertiser (18 Feb.) 107: A good room in the tympany, with a closet. Gsw. 1884 Gsw. Past & Present I. 106: An old house with tympany windows. [Eng. tympan(um) , a pediment in architecture, ad. Lat. tympanum , id., Gr. τυμπανον, a kettle-drum.] 
  15. Furry Boot City n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1992-2000
     is a question: 'Furry boot y' frae?' Sc. 1997 Observer 20 Jul 30: Aberdeen is the onlyFURRY BOOT(S) CITY , n. Jocular nickname for Aberdeen. Also adj. Furry Boot , of or from Aberdeen. Sc. 1992 Herald 24 Jul 18: Going to Nuremberg to drive and talk about Audis had undertones of Tom Shields's Furry Boots City. Posters extolled the virtues of a health drink recommended by of FitLike. Sc. 1992 Herald 26 Nov 10: Just over a year ago a company move forced our, thousand that is, readers have asked why Aberdeen is sometimes referred to as furry boot city. The answer (1999) 24: He pulled a carrier bag out of one of the side pockets: new tapes — Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Dancing Pigs again. The receipt was from HMV in Aberdeen. 'My guess,' Rebus said: 'he worked in Furry Boot: Duthie Park, Aberdeen. Michelle Strachan came from Pittenweem in Fife, so of course all her Furry Boot Aberdeen have to put up with endless jokes about sheep, largely spawned by uncouth southerners. But the 
  16. Purgy n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1831
    † PURGY , n . A nickname for Aberdeen Grammar School. Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. 398: That 
  17. Tangerines n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1994-2004
     a few beers about his decision to award Aberdeen a penalty in the Tangerines' 3-2 win over the Dons little in the way of goal threat. Sc. 2003 Scotsman 10 Jul : Also heading to Tannadice is 
  18. Sub-principal n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1700-1795
     the sub-principal and regents. [O.Sc. subprincipall (of Aberdeen), a .1566.]† SUB-PRINCIPAL , n . The deputy of the Principal of a College or university, only in regard to King's College. Aberdeen, through its foundation charter, the office being abolished in 1860 at the Union of King's and Marischal Colleges to form the University of Aberdeen. The modern deputy-principals in 
  19. Chavie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1914-2004
     Tiger. I thought it was an east coast/Aberdeen type of saying. Not offensive in any way. Sc. 2004CHAVIE , CHAVEY , Chavvie , n .  A boy, a sweetheart (Per., Arg. 1907 A. McCormick Tinkler-Gypsies , App. x., chavey ); also as a term of address to a boy or young man. Also in forms chavo , chauvie (Gall. Ib .). Sc. 2004 http://scottishpool.com 15 Jul : A chavie is like a geeser Scotsman 20 Oct 24: 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). e.Dmf. 2 1914 : Has she gotten a chavie? [ Cf . Romany Sp. chabo , boy, youth, from Skr. śava , the 
  20. Snicher v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1825-1996
     . v . To snigger, laugh in a suppressed way (Abd. 1825 Jam.). Gen.Sc. Sc. 1825 Aberdeen Censor' girn. Ags. 1887 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends 33: A hantle o' snicherin' amang the mair' like that. Bnff. 1937 E. S. Rae Light in Window 14: She's a sleekit, snichlin', inhaudin' snite. Abd. 1955 W. P. Milne Eppie Elrick xx.: A snicherin kin' o' a lauch. Abd. 1996 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. II . n . A snigger, a titter. Gen.Sc. Ags. 1892 A. Reid Howetoon 126: A bit snicher ran roond the table. Gall. 1900 R. J. Muir Muncraig iii.: A snicher and a smile went round the shop. Ayr. 1912 G. Cunningham Verse 69: Monie a snicher and hearty guffaw. Abd. 1940 C. Gavin Hostile Shore ii.: Wi' a white collar and a feart-like snicher. [Imit. Cf . Nicher .] 
  21. Economist n.[0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1750
    ECONOMIST , n . In the University of Aberdeen: the steward or keeper of the students' lodgings,' . . . was appointed Economist in 1753. [O.Sc. economus , 1577 (Glasgow), 1593 (Aberdeen), 1690 (St Andrews); cf . obs. Eng. economist , a housekeeper.] 
  22. Birniebouzle n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1844
    . [Prob. derived from a place-name. Cf. Burnieboozle near Hazlehead, Aberdeen.]BIRNIEBOUZLE , n . A pipe and violin tune, also known as 'Braes of Tullymet.' See Middleton's Aberdeen) 33 and Hamilton's Universal Tune Book (1844) I. 61. (A.T.M.) Mearns 1844 W. Jamie Muse 
  23. Yo Yo n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1965
    YO YO , n . Sc. usage: a very small haddock (see quot.). Mry. 1965 Stat. Acc. 3 149: Buyers from Aberdeen were also attracted to the port [Lossiemouth] and were especially interested in the Aberdeen. [From the appearance and struggles of the fish on the hook resembling the motions of the toy.] 
  24. Crulla n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1935
    CRULLA , n . Found only in comb. Aberdeen crulla , a kind of doughnut (Edn. 1829 Mrs. Dalgairns the Dutch krullen , to curl, and a 'cruller' is the same thing as an Aberdeen crulla. Crullers are [quoting Mrs Dalgairns] seems to limit this fried paste to Aberdeen. The writer first met it in Peterhead, truly enough, but he has also had it better elsewhere in Scotland. It is a paste of flour, butter, sugar and eggs, cut into strips, plaited together or curled, and fried to a light brown in clarified lard. They are drained and served on a napkin, with or without sugar. Jamieson gives 'crule' as a small cake have come to the east coast of Scotland from the Low Countries. [Prob. from U.S. cruller , a kind 
  25. Faction n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1700-1902
    . Abd. 1868 J. Riddell Aberdeen & Its Folk 20: To make a thorough examination of all the† FACTION , n . Sc. usage: a division or section of a school class; the benches on which it sat. Only in Aberdeen Grammar School. Abd. 1700 Abd. Burgh Rec. (1872) 330: Censors of such as pocket-knife behind him. Abd. 1900 E.D.D. : In the Aberdeen Grammar School the 4th and 5th classes were divided into factions of four, the number of boys on a desk. I'm third of the fourth faction (15th from dux). Phr.: burry on the factions , a boys' game played on the benches. Cf . Burrie carried on in the great school, a dangerous sport, as running at full speed on the top of the benches 
  26. Macgillivraii [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    MACGILLIVRAII . Zool . Specif. name of various animals, e.g. Pecten , a type of scallop shell (1845 T. Edmonston in Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist . XV. 250); Ammodramus , a bunting (1839 J. J. Audubon Synopsis 110), Sylvia , a warbler (1839 J. J. Audubon Ornith. Biogr . V. 75), Fringilla , a finch, (1834 Id . II. 285), all from America, Pelurotana , a gastropod slit-shell (1850 C. B. Adams in Contr. to Conch . IV. 54). [From William Macgillivray (1796–1852), of Aberdeen, Professor of Botany in Marischal College, Aberdeen, who helped Audubon to publish his work.] 
  27. Tertian adj., n.[0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]1749-1980
     a Scottish University, now only in the universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen (Sc. 1880 Jam.).  Also tertiana , a third year female student at Aberdeen University. ne.Sc. 1826 Aberdeen Censor Alexander Stuart in the Semi-class. Abd. 1799 Stat. Acc. 1 XXI. 85: Tertian Class. — After a. Thomson 83: During my Tertian year. II . n . A third year student studying for a degree in Arts at 175: A host of empty-headed semis and tertians. Abd. 1874 N. MacLean Life at a Northern. Murray Scarlet Gown 121: In his second year he became a semi , in his third a tertian , and in his fourth a magistrand . Sc. 1895 A. M. Stoddart J. S. Blackie I. 228: He followed the Natural Philosophy and Moral Philosophy courses as a tertian and a magistrand. Abd. 1929 K. E. Trail Reminisc. Old Aberdeen (1952) 105: Bajans, semis, tertians and magistrands. Sc. 1946 R. G. Cant Univ. St Andrews 17: The change from bachelor to tertian — a natural consequence of the disuse 
  28. Version n.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1711-1937
    ‡ VERSION , n . Sc. usage: a school exercise consisting in the translation of a passage of English prose into Latin, the passage so translated, a Latin prose (Abd. 1929), esp. associated with the bursary competition in Aberdeen University in the 18th and 19th cs. (ne.Sc., Ags., Lth. 1973). Abd. 1711 Burgh Latin teaching is the 'Versions' or translations from English into Latin prose [at Aberdeen Grammar 'versions' with Mr. Adam Mitchell, rector of the Old Aberdeen Grammar School, before essaying the Bursary Competition. Sc. 1937 St Andrews Cit. (30 Jan.) 10: The prize-lists were settled by a succession of trial versions. [ Cf . Fr. version , a translation of a piece of French prose into a foreign 
  29. Provisor n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1795
    PROVISOR , n . Sc. hist . usage: a steward or purveyor of provisions, gen. to an institution, as a monastery, a college, etc. (Sc. 1740 J. Grierson St Andrews (1838) 180). The usage has been revived in Aberdeen University since 1938 as the title of the steward of the Students' Union. Sc. 1795, and others, who were bound to reside within the College [King's College, Aberdeen]. [O.Sc 
  30. Mattie n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1980-1998
    MATTIE , n. 2 Informal name for a maternity hospital (Ork., Bnff., Ags. 2000s). Highl. 1980 precisely, the maternity unit at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Abd. 1998 Aberdeen Evening Express 7 
  31. Nation n.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0]1723-1946
     of Glasgow and Aberdeen, and till 1858 of St Andrews, made according to place of birth for the purpose of electing a Rector , a survival of the system of nations in the medieval universities of Universities, Glasgow and Aberdeen, the election is by the students voting in four nations, each nation having their forerunners in continental Europe, of electing the rector. Only in Glasgow and Aberdeen do the student nations — four in number as in medieval Paris — make the election. And only in Aberdeen do they do so through the procurators of the nations. The practice in Aberdeen is thus the closest approximation, although this was preserved in the case of Glasgow and Aberdeen. 
  32. Mineer v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1887-1995
     make a great noise, to create an uproar (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 114). Vbl.n. minneeran (Ib din. II . n . A noisy uproar, a din, tumult, an uproarious party or gathering, a confusion or muddle, a fuss, hubbub, a to-do (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 4; ne.Sc. 1963). Abd. 1887 J. Cowe Jeems Sim 74: Ye wid hae thocht a' the fowk in Aiberdeen wis gyaun tae see that bake-hoose. I niver saw sic a mineer. Bnff. 1909 Banffshire Jnl. (29 Dec.) 3: To let the people's voice be mineer wis something nae ordinar'. ne.Sc. 1993 Aberdeen Evening Express 2 Mar 7: We jist seem tae be ga'n fae bad tae worse. Fit a meneer things is in. Abd. 1995 Flora Garry Collected Poems 38: An made sic a meneer ower her braw chiffoneer, Bit neen could compare wi her bress. Abd. 1995 Sheena Blackhall Lament for the Raj 10: Hard teetle the Milky Way it gaed Far aa 
  33. Advocate n.[1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1701-1909
     to be deserted simpliciter. 3 . A solicitor (Aberdeen: see second quot.). Bnff. 1721 inADVOCATE , † Advocat(t ), n . 1 . A barrister. Sc. 1710 Douglas's Virgil : Subscribers, Library of the Faculty of Advocates. Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial. 215: Advocate , a Trans. Bnff. Field Club (1892) 17: Mr Patk. Duffe, Advocatt in Aberdeen, to be found att his loaging Advocates in Aberdeen. [Lat. advocatus , called in (esp. to aid one's cause by pleading in court); (n 
  34. Sacrist n.[0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1]1732-2001
    , Saccarist in the King's College. ne.Sc. 1826 Aberdeen Censor 210: Enrolled as a student inSACRIST , n . Also † saccarist . Sc. usage: in Aberdeen University, the chief porter or custodian divinity, by paying six shillings to the sacrist of Marischall College and a moiety to the library. Abd. 1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes xxxv.: A long broom which the sacrist had been using to clear foot gowns and tricorne hats. Abd. 2001 Order of Ceremony for Aberdeen University Graduation Jul. sacrista , a sacristan, who looked after the vessels, vestments, etc., of a church, a beadle or sexton 
  35. Sprawlach v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1827-1943
    , sprallich ; ne.Sc. 1971). Bnff. 1827 Aberdeen Star (20 July) 313: I saw the beast horsie begin to spralach an' caper. Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. 642: There were we sprawlaching in the white jaws like deein' flukes wrigglin' on a greatline. Abd. 1943 Scots Mag. (Feb.) 360: Yon silk things — a lot o' use they'd be and me sprawlochin' in ower the snow. II . n . A sprawling A. Cumming Tales 79: Not unlike the sprawlich of a disturbed seal. [Intensive form of 
  36. Leper n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1857
     in the quot. is to the leopards in the design of the pound note of the Aberdeen Banking Co. (1771–1849) derived from the heraldic supporters of the arms of the city of Aberdeen. It had been proposed in 
  37. Fluther n.2[0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1732-1933
     struck up through a fluther that was on the way. Rs. 1765 N. Macrae Romance Royal Burgh 223FLUTHER , Fludder , n . 2 1 . A boggy piece of ground, a marsh (Cai. 1916 T.S.D.C . II.), in pl . as a place-name in Cupar (Fif. 17 1952). Also in n.Eng. dial., esp. in place-names, in the form, Jamie lad. 2 . A slight rise or turbidity in a river, “a slighter change than what takes place in a Papers , Middleton v. Magistrates Old Aberdeen (May) 16: In great rains, it run in fludders, that is a fluther in the water. Per. 1933 W. Soutar Seeds in the Wind 26: The muckle mune.-B. ). [O.Sc. fludder , = 1 ., 1611, of doubtful orig. Phs. a deriv. of Flude , flood ; see D 
  38. Extranean n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1848-1900
    , foreign; a stranger; used in the above sense until c .1850, e.g . 1826 Aberdeen Censor 102.]† EXTRANEAN , n . An outsider, stranger; one not belonging to the household. Used in Aberdeen during the 19th century as a name for those boys who came in from country districts to attend the Grammar School for a short time in order to study intensively for the University bursary competition. Obs. since. Abd. 1900 E.D.D. : In the Grammar School at Aberdeen the “extranean” was one who had not gone through the regular curriculum from the lowest to the highest classes, or attended a whole year in the highest classes, but had come from other schools for the last quarter in order to get a final drill or 
  39. Rubislite [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † RUBISLITE . Geol . A granular aggregate alumino-silicate (1879 Trans. Royal Soc. Edb . XXIX. 112). [Named by M. F. Heddle from Rubislaw Quarry, Aberdeen.] 
  40. Dons n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]2000
    DONS , n . pl . Nickname for Aberdeen football team. Also attrib . Abd. 2000 Herald 2 Oct 21: He was a bowler, a Kirk elder and a lifelong Dons supporter... 
  41. Squeeb n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1996-2005
     Aberdeen Evening Express 26 Jan 22: I used to have fun with friends in Aberdeen when over a few drinksSQUEEB , n . 2 Gen.Sc. form of Eng. squib , a firework, a “banger” (Edb. 1863 J. Smith Habbie. usage: a mean, scrounging, paltry fellow (Abd. 1911 Abd. Weekly Jnl . (20 Jan.), 1921 T.S.D.C .; ne.Sc favourites include: Sypin' ( soakin ), caunle' (candle ), squeeb (firework), bleezin' (the effects of a litre bottle of vodka), mingin' or reekin' (smelly)... Edb. 2005 : Ah hate squeebs-they juist make a 
  42. Buchanensis [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    BUCHANENSIS . Zool . Specif. name for a Fusus or gastropod mollusc from Aberdeenshire coast (1843 W. Macgillivray Hist. Mollusc. Aberdeen 170). [Lat. adj. form from Buchan in Abd.] 
  43. Morisonia [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    MORISONIA . Bot . A genus of Cappareae , the caper family, from the tropics, called by Linnaeus after Robert Morison (1620–83), of Aberdeen, Professor of Botany at Oxford. 
  44. Crombiei [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    CROMBIEI . Bot . Specif. name of a Lecidea or lichen (1868 Jones in Flora LI. 345). [After James M. Crombie (1830–1906), of Aberdeen, lecturer on botany in London] . 
  45. Blackwellia [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    BLACKWELLIA . Bot . A genus of tropical plants of somewhat doubtful ascription, allied to cacti ( a .1791 Jan Commelin in A. L. de Jussieu Genera Plant . 343). [From Elizabeth Blackwell (1700–47), of Aberdeen, botanist.] 
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    DAVIDSONII . Zool . Specif. name of a Dentalina or elephant's tooth-shell, from Aberdeenshire Marischal College, Aberdeen.] 
  47. Milnea [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    MILNEA . Bot . A genus of tropical shrubs, order Meliaceae , which has edible fruit ( a .1815 Roxburgh Flora Indica I. 637), also called Aglaia . [From Colin Milne (1743–1815), of Aberdeen 
  48. Walloch v.2, n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0]1831-1942
    , howl, wail (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 206; Mry., Abd. 1973); a din, noise, sound; way of speaking. (Kcd. 1825 Jam.). Cf. wallopie , wallop-a-weet s.v. Wallop , n . 3 Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. 1808 Jam., warrachand ), vbl.n. wallachan , the act of screaming, a continued scream (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 206). Comb. walloch-goul , a noisy blustering fellow (Ayr. 1825 Jam.), a female of slovenly appearance ( Ib ). These latter usages are of doubtful authenticity. Bnff. 1852 A. Harper Solitary Hours 68: And a' the witches o' Glenshalloch Up in the welkin yout and wallach! Abd. 1942 Scots Mag. (July) 276: The teuchat's wallochin' to the ploo. II . n . 1 . A scream sounds a foreign thing. Abd. 1898 W. Brewster Poems 18: The walloch o' their wildest mirth for an hour That rants in the smiddies o' the North Countree! 2 . A demonstrative noisy person. 643: Running about the sea-shore yawmering like a herrit walloch. Abd. 1899 Trans. Buchan 
  49. Cargillia [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    CARGILLIA . Bot . A New Zealand shrub of the ebony family (1810 R. Brown Prodromus Florae Nov. Holl . 327). [From James Cargill ( c .1603), of Aberdeen, doctor, botanist and authority on seaweeds.] 
  50. Davidsonite [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † DAVIDSONITE . Geol . A synonym for beryl (1836 T. Thomson Outlines Mineralogy I. 247). [Found in Rubislaw Quarry, Aberdeen, and called after James Davidson (1792–1841), Professor of Natural 
  51. Palatine n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1838-1882
     returned Palatine (as the boys abducted from Aberdeen were called). [A jocular application of palatine† PALATINE , n . Also palantine . A jocular term applied, after their return to this country, to Wilson's Tales of the Borders IV. 361: Palantine — a name given by the Americans and seamen, to kidnapped individuals. or those who went out voluntarily to be indented, for a time agreed upon, with any magistrates of Aberdeen for suppressing his narrative, in which he exposed them for this traffic. Sc. 1882 J. Grant Old and New Edb. I. 176: A tavern, kept by the famous Peter Williamson, the , the Lord Proprietor of a province in the former American colonies, esp. of Carolina.] 
  52. Hairm n., v.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1712-1995
     Dennison Sketch-Bk. 43: I t'ought hid nee great hairm tae ca' her a leear. Kcb. 1894 Crockett Raiders xxxiii.: There's nae hairm dune, for a gallant lad to tak a bit cheeper frae the maid on his way ben to the mistress. wm.Sc. 1920 H. Foulis Vital Spark 18: You must not excite: Hell's bells, if a neebor draps by fur tea Or Missis asks visitors in for a wee swaree, Where's the herm? Abd. 1991 Aberdeen Evening Express 8 Jan : 'At's far he wis. I mean, I like Frunkie. There's. Macdonald Malcolm i.: For ane 'at has the hairmlessness o' the doo i' this ill-wulled warl', there's a feck o' ten 'at has the wisdom o' the serpent. Edb. 1894 P. H. Hunter J. Inwick 10: A. No like some ah could mention, ... [O.Sc. has n. harm(e) , from a .1400, hairme , from a 
  53. Bellyriver n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    BELLYRIVER , n . “A sort of bun composed of odd bits of dough mixed with treacle and currants and cut into squares. Common in Aberdeen city before the Great War” (Abd. 16 1934). 
  54. Seminar n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1881
     Scholars 39: They're baith gyaun into Aberdeen to a lady's Seminar. [O.Sc. seminar , seminary, 1573 
  55. Elick [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ELICK . Sc. form of Alec for Alexander (Fif., Lth. 1926 Wilson Cent. Scot . 96, ne.Sc., em.Sc.(a), w.Lth. 1975). Dim. form Ellickie (Abd. 1929 Stories Young Aberdeen 5). See also Eck , Elshiner . 
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    ARNIT , n . 3 A shrimp. Abd. 1853 W. Cadenhead Flights of Fancy 190: Or fish for bandies, arnits, eels in ilka wee bit pot. [Still remembered by older people in Aberdeen. Origin 
  57. Jacksonia [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    JACKSONIA . Bot . A genus of Australian shrubs of the bean family, sub-division Pulleneae (1811 R. Brown Misc. Works (Ray Soc.) II. 428). [After George Jackson (1790–1811), of Aberdeen 
  58. Dickiea [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    DICKIE(I)A . Bot . A genus of microscopic algae or diatoms (1844 Berkeley and Ralfs in Ann. &; Mag. Nat. Hist . XIV. 328). [After George Dickie (1812–82), of Aberdeen, Professor of Botany there 
  59. Jackia [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    JACKIA . Bot . A genus of the sub-order Gardenidae (order Rubiaceae ) from Malaysia ( a .1820 N. Wallich in W. Roxburgh Flora Indica II. 321). [After William Jack (1795–1822), of Aberdeen, in medical 
  60. Twaggle v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1831
    ¶ TWAGGLE , v . To shake to and fro, to sway about. Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. 642: Yoursel' twagglin' in the win', like a thing hung up on a lang peg stuck in the warld's rim. [? Conflation of 
  61. Aulton Market [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † AULTON MARKET . In November at Old Aberdeen (Abd. 1935 J. R. Allan Farmer's Boy 12). 
  62. Solve n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1790
    † SOLVE , n . At Aberdeen University: a name given by the students to that member of the College who generally exacted fines. [′sɔlve] Abd. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 242: He [the College 
  63. Darg n.4[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1880
    DARG , n . 4 A young whiting (Sc. c .1928 (per Mry. 2 ); ne.Sc. 1903 G. Sim Vertebrate Fauna of ' Dee '). Cf . Dargie . Abd. 1880 F. Day Fishes I. 291: At Aberdeen those found in June and 
  64. Five-chancer n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1826
    † FIVE-CHANCER , n . A name of a button in the game of Buttons , q.v . See also Chancer . ne.Sc. 1826 Aberdeen Censor 101: Can you decline amo ? Hae ye ony snishin, Geordie? Is your 
  65. Jemmies n. pl.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1795
    ¶ JEMMIES , n.pl . A kind of woollen cloth manufactured in Aberdeen. Abd. 1795 Stat. Acc. 1 , but the word is prob. a misprint for temmies . See Temming . The form tammy occurs in Eng. dial.] 
  66. Craibia [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    CRAIBIA . Bot . A genus of leguminous plants from Africa (1911 Journal Bot . XLIX. 106). Deriv. Craibiodendron , a genus of Chinese Ericaceae (1912 W. W. Smith in Rec. Bot. Soc. India IV. 276). [After W. G. Craib (1882–1933), botanist in India, Professor of Botany at Aberdeen.] 
  67. Duck n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1929
    . Trail Reminisc. Old Aberdeen (1952) 57: Dr Smith is always associated in my mind with sweets, a 
  68. Angus prop. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1845
     . to a breed of cattle. See Aberdeen , 1 ., and Angus doddies . Ags. 1845 Stat. Acc. 2 XI 
  69. Unreason n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1820-1927
     chief personage and leader of the revels in a Christmas festival in the medieval burghs, a local Unreason, a species of high-jinks, in which a mimic prelate was elected, who, like the Lord of Misrule in. 1905 G. M. Fraser Historical Aberdeen 129: The Master of the Revels, in Aberdeen, went by the Unreason. Sc. 1927 A. J. Mill Medieval Plays 25: As the [16th] century wore on, the popularity 
  70. Subjanitor n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1705
    : John Dey subjanitor in the Kings College of Aberdeen. [See Janitor .] 
  71. Tantileirum n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1827
    . [tɑntɪ′lirəm] Bnff. 1827 Aberdeen Star (20 July) 313: A tantileirum o' a thing as big as my¶ TANTILEIRUM , n . A big grotesque object or erection, in quot. of a travelling showman's caravan 
  72. Promote v.[1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]<1700-1962
     act in the meantime as pro-Rector and Promotor. Sc. 1898 A. C. Fraser T. Reid 46: In the [at King's College, Aberdeen]. Sc. 1962 Abd. Univ. Review (Autumn) 313: The other graduands : to cause a stone to move forward by striking it with another stone (Abd., em.Sc.(a), Kcb. 1966). Hence promotion , n., the act of doing this, the movement made by a curling stone when struck by another. Phr. to be in the way of promotion , to be in the path of another stone, to lie in the direct came to a standstill some little distance from the tee. 'Graun' man, graun',' exclaimed Mr David, 'ye're a graun' curler. That yin's in the wey o' promotion.' . . . He left the stone alone, however 
  73. Burse n.[1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1707-1876
    . Sc. 1785 Boswell Tour to Hebrides (1936) 283: He then went to Aberdeen, where he gained a.: In 1779 the Council [of Aberdeen] enacted that no boy who has . . . competed for a 'burse,' shall† BURSE , n . Also burs . A bursary; a scholarship. [bʌrs] Sc. 1730 T. Boston Memoirs burse in King's College, upon a competition. Abd. 1876 J. Grant Burgh Schools Scot. ii . v to pay the burs to the minister upon demand. [O.Sc. burse , burs , burce , (1) a purse, 1512, (2) a sum or endowment for the support of a student or scholar (or the payment of a teacher), a , suggest our close contact with the French academic vocabulary at a period when England had severed the , the only form now in use, carries only the notion of a money payment' (Abd. 16 1937).] 
  74. Nidge v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1833-1949
    : In Aberdeen, where the stone is very hard, being a granite, they use the scabbling hammer, by which Aberdeen. It is brought to the square by means of a cavil or hammer with a sharp point. Sc. 1869 JNIDGE , v ., n . I . v . To dress a building stone roughly by picking with a sharp-pointed called nidged-work , and the operation nidging . . . . Nidged Ashlar , a species of ashlar used in. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 394: Nidging is a mode of dressing used chiefly for granite, but than daylight when a straight-edge is applied to the surface in any direction. II . n . The hammer blocks would have stood the nidge of an Ayrshire hammer. [A voiced variant of Nitch , to notch.] 
  75. Massonia [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    MASSONIA . Bot . A showy genus of amaryllis found in South Africa (1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis Malaysia, China and Japan. [Named by the younger Linnaeus after Francis Masson (1741–1805), of Aberdeen 
  76. Paf n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1896
     Aberdeenshire coast — Peterhead, Aberdeen and Fraserburgh — have a preference amongst buyers, before those† PAF , n . Used only attrib . as in quot. Sc. 1896 Chambers's Jnl. (21 March) 177: A 
  77. Architec' n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1884
     Aberdeen Condemned the hale affair [Church]. 
  78. Finnan n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1707-1952
    FINNAN , n . The local name of Findon , a small fishing village in Kcd., near Aberdeen, noted for its smoke-cured fish. Hence combs. Finnan haddock ( haddie ), Finnan speldin (see Speldin ), a). Transf. usage of Finnan haddie , a special constable in Edinburgh (see 1868 quot.). Sc. 1707 G. Miege Pres. State Gt. Brit. II. 15: Those, called Findon-Haddocks, which abound at Aberdeen, being dry'd, eat with a marrowy Taste, and are much admir'd by strangers. Abd. 1735 Abd. Estate (S.C.) 21: To Finnan haddocks and a Lobster 0 0 4½ [ Ib . Finden] Edb. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems. Ramsay Reminiscences 122: The lang-tongued hizzies skirling out 'Ael a [yellow] Findram Speldrains,' and they just ca'ed it that to get a better grip o't wi' their tongues. Edb. 1868 St Andrews. 1903 G. Sim Vertebrate Fauna of 'Dee' 236: 'Finnan Haddies' are now made in Aberdeen . . . they 
  79. Clark [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     at Marischal College, Aberdeen. 
  80. Channery n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    CHANNERY , CHANRY , n . [′tʃɑn(ə)rɪ̢] 1 . “Used in Aberdeen to designate the street where the, reduced forms of channory , channonrie , chanounrie , a canonry ( D.O.S.T .); O.Fr. chanoinerie , a 
  81. Mexie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1961
    MEXIE , n . A child's marble with variegated colouring (Bnff. 1962). Abd. 1961 Press and Jnl. (24 Feb.): I see that the marbles season is with us again in Aberdeen — and presumably elsewhere in 
  82. Trickle n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1780
     pistol. 2 . Abd. 1780 Aberdeen Jnl. (3 July): A Steel mounted Highland Pistol . . . with a, Gasterosteus aculeatus (Arg. 1936 L. McInnes Dial. S. Kintyre 9); 2 . trickle-nail , the trigger of a Silver Top on the Trickle Nail. [In 1 . prob. a corrupt form of Eng. stickle(-back) . Cf . n.Eng 
  83. Duff's Luck n. phr.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1881
     family name of the Earl of Fife. The family has gone on for several generations, adding, from a beginning not at all large, land to land, so that the estates now bulk largely in the shires of Banff, Aberdeen 
  84. Maxwell [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     Philosophy at Aberdeen, London, and Cambridge. Used absol . as a common n . = the unit of magnetic flux 
  85. Yawn n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1963
    YAWN , n . Also yaan . A long sea-inlet or gully, common in place-names on the Kcd. coast, as', partially plugged with boulder clay, cut along dolerite dykes between Stonehaven and Aberdeen. [ Specif . usage of Eng. yawn , a gaping opening, a chasm.] 
  86. Dod [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     (Abd. 1781 Aberdeen Jnl . (15 Jan.)), Dordie (Rxb. 1942 Zai). [Prob. orig. representing a youngDOD . Also Daud , Dodge (Rxb. 1942 Zai. See Watson W.-B. Intro § 23 (A)), Dodger (Abd. 1975). Pet forms of George (Lth. 1884 A. S. Swan Carlowrie ii.; Sc. 1914 N. & Q . Ser. XI. x. 430; Fif 
  87. Sake n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1824-2003
    . 1999 Aberdeen Evening Express 25 Sep 17: For ony sake, Bunty. Ye couldna complain aboot the wye Apr 12: So strong is Islamic sensibility that over a decade ago, in the Gulf war - when our troops officers' and Forces radio was forbidden to play Christian hymns. ne.Sc. 2003 Aberdeen Evening Express 18 Apr 22: But for ony sake, Doddy, keep the freeloading foreign junkets to a minimum. 2. 1920 C. L. Hay When the Cat's Awa 7: Sakes preserv's a', fat's happen't. 
  88. Skainie n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1704-1936
    .: Barter value in the way of marbles, transfers, knives and skeany strings. [O.Sc. skeynȝie , a skein‡ SKAINIE , n . Also skaeny ; skainy(a) , scaignie ; scangie (Mry.); skenzie ; skeen(g)(y)ie , skeenzie , skeinzie ; skeenie , -y , skeany , skinie , -(a)y , skinny . String, twine). Also attrib. with thread , tow . In 1919 quot. used derisively for a soft weakling. [′skeŋ(j)i, ′skini] Fif. 1704 Rothes MSS. : For 4 quar of gray peper and on quer whitt and half a pound of Stat. Acc. 1 XXI. 221: A bit of strong skainy is fixed, with a noose formed on one end. Slk Carlyle Early Life (Froude 1882) II. 182: Tie a piece of good skeenyie about my papers. Abd. 1864 Aberdeen Journal (27 Jan.) 8: Skeinzie tows and hairn tedders. Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto T. Bodkin ii.: The lanthorn hung round Mr Bodkin's neck by a piece o' skeengyie. Wgt. 1877 G. Fraser Sketches 312: A bit skeeny that A keep in my wascoat pouch for the mole-traps 
  89. Sanquhar prop. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1763-1957
     peculiar to Sanquhar (Kcb., Dmf. 1969); 2 . Sanquhar hose , stockings knitted in a similar way; 3SANQUHAR , prop.n . A town in Dumfriesshire, noted esp. for its knitting industry. [′sɑŋxər] Combs.: 1 . Sanquhar glove , a glove knitted in various ornamental patterns with a double thread T. Brown Union Gazetteer (1807). 1 . Sc. 1777 Caled. Mercury (23 July): Aberdeen of the present century, a considerable trade was done in the weaving, by hand, of stockings and stockings, earning a deservedly high character for comfort and durability. Both were woven on wires in a, leatherwork, Sanquhar gloves. 2 . Sc. 1777 Caled. Mercury (5 Nov.): A variety of the best Sanquhar Hose. Sc. 1820 Blackwood's Mag. (July) 375: A species of leggins, called Sanquhar-hose, of a deep black rib, and reaching far on the shoe. Sc. 1833 J. Gorton Topograph. Dict. III initials. 4 . Sc. 1776 Caled. Mercury (13 Jan.): A rachan or Sanquhar plaid, stripped white 
  90. Buttery Benjie n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † BUTTERY BENJIE , n.comb . A nickname for a first-year student at Aberdeen University (Abd. 1854 Blackwood's Mag . (Oct.) 433). [The second element is a corrupted dim. form of Bejan . For the first cf. Buttery Willie Collie s.v. Collie , n . 1 , 3 . There is poss. some allusion to a tavern nicknamed the 
  91. Footdee [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    FOOTDEE . A folk-etymological spelling of the fishing quarter of Aberdeen, at the mouth of the. Kennedy Annals Abd . I. 390, 1872 A. Allardyce Footdee in the last Century 1, 1965 F. Wyness City by Grey North Sea 16). [O.Sc. Foty , Futy , from 1317, where there was a chapel dedicated to Fotin , a Gaulish bishop and saint of the 2nd c.] 
  92. Braif adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1851
    . a brave show . The 'braif toun' was the name applied by its bards to the city of Aberdeen. Abd† BRAIF , adj . Loosely used as a gen. epithet of admiration: worthy, excellent, good. Cf . Eng. 1851 W. Anderson Rhymes, etc. 107: I've been watchin' mony a year Ilk change that's happen'd 
  93. Mattie n.[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1721-1952
     Aberdeen Jnl . (4 Sept.)); madgie (Abd.). A young maiden herring with the milt or roe not fully developed herring in this way. Comb. madgied herrin (Abd. 1962). [′mɑte; Abd. + ′mɑdʒi] Sc. 1721 Ramsay the smallest kind; 2. The full herring, which has got a large milt; 3. The spent herring, which is Zetland . . . A Parcel of Ling, Cod, and Tusk fish . . . with a few Ankers of Matkie cured Picked Herrings condition in which a herring can be used for food purposes. Sc. 1913 J. Cranna Fraserburgh 268 , a maiden. The forms suggest that madgie is due to oral transmission from Du. or L.Ger., mattie 
  94. Nicol [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    NICOL . 1 . After William Nicol (1768–1851), of Edinburgh, in phr. Nicol's prism , in Optics : a polarising prism used in microscopes for the examination of crystals. Sometimes called a nicol , from its inventor. 2 . After James Nicol (1810–79), of Traquair, geologist and professor at Cork and Aberdeen. Derivs. Nicolia , a fossil plant found in Egypt (1850 F. Unger Gen. et Spec. Plant. foss . 523); Nicolella , a genus of Ordovician brachiopods (1917 F. C. Reed in Trans. Royal Soc. Edb . LI. (4) 860). 
  95. Trickit ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0]1974
    . 1974 Press & Jnl. (17 Oct.): Aberdeen Reference Library have every right to be 'fair tricket 
  96. Bejan v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1808
    BEJAN , v . To handle roughly. See Bagenin(g) , n . Fif. 1808 Jam. : Bejan . When a new shearer comes to a harvest-field, he is initiated by being lifted by the arms and legs, and struck down on a stone on his buttocks. This custom has probably had its origin in some of our universities. [Prob. from Bejan , n . Within living memory the first year's men at Aberdeen University were roughly 
  97. Dick n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1925
    DICK , n . 2 A schoolmaster (Abd. 1916 T.S.D.C . II.; Mearns 6 1949). Also dicker and in comb. Domine dick , “a name applied irreverently to a country teacher” (Ags. 1 1918). Mearns 1925 schoolmasters in Aberdeen, Banff and Moray, or from the proper name Dick to alliterate with Dominie .] 
  98. Forseeth adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1772-1810
     R. Fergusson Poems (1925) 21: Here Sawny cries, frae Aberdeen; . . . 'Here tak a rug, and am I, Roger, my honest frien'; Whar's this you're gaen'? an' fu's a sin the streen? Mry. 1810 J. Cock Simple Strains 133: Quoth Rob to Tam, what hear we now? Forseeth the smith's a' wrang! 
  99. Porter Biscuit n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1900-1957
     ., and Saft . Gsw. 1900–57 : Porter biscuit . A kind of bap, very like the Aberdeen “softiePORTER BISCUIT , n.comb . A large round flattish bun resembling a roll in texture, said to be so”, said to be a favourite of carters, etc., who dipped it in their porter or ale as a snack. Dmb. 1957 Bulletin (2 May): A porter biscuit is similar to a morning roll, only sweet and of a finer texture, almost like a plain cookie. 
  100. Croochie Proochles n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1923
     North-east Kincardine, and has heard it in Aberdeen. A friend describes the sensation of return to theCROOCHIE PROOCHLES , n. comb . 'Discomfort from sitting in a cramped position; fig . restlessness will be some time before I get over it.' [Phs. a reduplicative altered form of crooky + prickles .] 
  101. Just v.[1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]<1700-1765
    JUST , v . To adjust (Sh., Ork. 1866 Edm. Gl .; Sh., Ork. 1959); to make a weight or measure accurate. Abd. 1765 Aberdeen Jnl. (25 March): He likewise makes, justs and sells all Kinds of 
  102. Libertine n.[0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1757-1795
    † LIBERTINE , n . In King's College, Aberdeen: a student who had no bursary or scholarship (Sc: I was matriculate as a Libertine in the College and University of King's College. Abd. 1795 
  103. Bulfie adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1909-1934
     : My old schoolfellow . . . who was short and fat, was known at Silver Street Academy, Aberdeen, as Bulfy or Beefy Fraser. Ags. 1909 P. Carragher Arbroath  8:  She was the antithesis of a China tea clipper, her bulgy-' Bulfy the boys termed it-bow resembling that of a Bible picture of Noah's ark or a Dutch galliot. [See Bilf , n . 2 ] 
  104. Elementarian n.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1710-1795
     yite , s.v. Yite (Abd. a .1842 J. Ramsay in Bon Record (ed. Simpson 1906) 198). In Aberdeen† ELEMENTARIAN , n . Also elimentarian , and hypocoristic form eelieyte , with a play on yella Grammar School: a pupil in the beginners' class. Abd. 1710 Abd. Burgh Records (1872) 341: The 
  105. Foof interj., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1865-1887
     the road to Aberdeen ony mornin'.' II . n . A stench (Cai. 1900 E.D.D. ), from the exclamation o' siller. Mry. 1887 A. G. Wilken Peter Laing 55: Peter appeared to regard my question as one that could be easily answered. 'Foof, man, ance on a day I thocht naething o' startin' awa oot 
  106. Potterton Hen n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1903
     numbers upon the estate of Pottertown [near Aberdeen], hence the above local name. 
  107. Maugre adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1763-1804
     To imitate a parrot.' Hence maugre days , maigre days, i.e. days when abstinence from flesh was enjoined, orig. by the Roman Church. Abd. 1763 in R. S. Rait Univ. Aberdeen 206: That on the 
  108. Lax n.2[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1704-1819
    † LAX , n . 2 Also lox . A salmon. Obs. in Eng. since the late 17th c. Comb. laxfisher , a Aberdeen. Abd. 1790 Abd. Jnl. N. & Q. III. 283: Robert Garvock, son of Jas. Garvock 
  109. Gregory [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     – x 7 etc. 2 . James Gregory (1753–1821), born in Aberdeen, Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, in Gregory's powder , a mixture of rhubarb, ginger and magnesia, used as a mild 
  110. Bridie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1]1833-2004
    BRIDIE , Brydie , n . Also bradie , braddie . Also Forfar bridie , Farfar bridie . A kind of pie made with a circle of pastry folded over with a filling of meat, onion etc, originally made in. 1995 Daily Record 3 Feb 67: ... We got Robson from Insch Amateurs for a pint and a braddie) 1925 : Bridie , Brydie , a pie made of minced meat; the paste is turned over the mince. Abd. 1833 Abd. Shaver (Oct. 17) 13: James Torry is about to introduce a famed sort of Pye, in Edinburgh called Forfar Bridies . Abd. 1988 : Bradies still available in Aberdeen. Good ones from 'bridies,' which are a sublime kind of pie. Ags. 1912 A. Reid Forfar Worthies x.: Bridie consists of a circle of dough on the half of which are placed the little cubes of steak, the chopped 'ingans,' and the seasoning, whose combination, when cooked, is so appetising. Ags. 1934 A. H. Rea Corner o' the Field 131: For we gaed to Willie Dakers, A very prince o' bakers' He turned oot 
  111. Out-toll n. comb.[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1742-1872
     of a tenement in Aberdeen in the year 1720 being made with the symbol of a penny utole, and not withOUT-TOLL , n.comb . Also utole . A nominal payment made to the bailie in a burgh by one resigning older burgh usages, burghal subjects were transferred by the bailie taking a penny for in-toll and a 
  112. Dotterel n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1825-1898
    DOTTEREL , n . Also dottrell , dothrel . A dotard (Slg. 3 1940). Also in n.Eng. dial. [′dɔt(ə)rəl] Sc. 1825 Aberdeen Censor 27: Peace, peace, you dothrel, we are to punish him. Cai 
  113. Rybat n.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1710-1952
     , State of Process (18 Nov.) 67: There is a high-way, upon which there is cheeks built with hewn rig Aberdeen Jnl . (14 June)), rebit(t) (Abd. 1715 Abd. Jnl. N. & Q . VII. 246; Bte. 1765 Rothesay T.C, ′rebət] The reveal or side of the jamb of a door or window (Lth. 1825 Jam., s.v. arras ; Sc. 1861 of a lintell, with rybetts for the door. Slg. 1757 Session Papers, Wallace v. Morrison buts [ sic ], as if it had been for a gate. m.Lth. 1796 Cramond Session Rec. MS. IX. 265: A. 1914 N. Munro New Road xxxv.: The twig of a rose-bush nailed to the ribbits of the window. rebatt , id., 1554, appar. ad. O.Fr. rab(b)at , a recess in a wall. This has become in Eng. rabbet , rebate , with the meaning of a cut or groove made along the edge or face of a stone or board to receive a correspondingly shaped piece, a check.] 
  114. Handy adj., n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1709-1998
    : Mrs Cochrane came roon yesterday way a balaclava an a bag a soor plooms. Ah hope the balaclava comes 121: Seean' nae way for the laird out o' his difficulty but by handy micht. 2 . Light-fingered (Lnk. 1825 Jam., hanny ). Gen. used in a bad sense = thievish. 3 . Dexterous, skilful, as in Eng.' Fif. 1806 A. Douglas Poems 69: Gin ye angry grow, or glowr, That winna be sae handy. Abd. 1839 A. Walker De'il at Baldarroch 21: To strive wi' some it's nae sae handy. Ayr. c off at a rate nae handy. But he summed up, at 'lang lenth.' Bnff. 1989 : A dirl nae-handy means a 'real good' dirl. Gsw. 1993 : 'His shoe! It's got a weight nae handy.' 5 . Of an animal: quiet to handle, amenable, adaptable (ne.Sc. 1956). Abd. 1765 Aberdeen Jnl. (12 Aug. II . n . A nickname for one who has a maimed or missing hand. Cf . Fittie , n ., 5 . Bwk account of his having lost a hand). [O.Sc. handy , a .1500, ready with the hands.] 
  115. Mile n.1[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1715-2005
    MILE , n . 1 Used also in sing. form as a collective pl. as in dial. or colloq. Eng. (Ayr. 1794 Burns A Red Red Rose iv.). Comb. milestane , milestone (Edb. 1851 A. Maclagan Sketches 214, 1900 E nere to fourtie Scots miles in tuentie-four houres. Abd. 1758 Aberdeen Jnl. (27 June): The town and lands of Hillbrae . . . in the parish of Udny, and within seven miles of the town of Aberdeen 94: He in a neighbourin' paris' won'd A few Scots miles awa. Ayr. a .1878 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage (1892) 184: A lang Scots mile was shortlin's past. 2 . Phr. to gae one's mile(s) , to go a collective plural. m.Sc. 1997 Liz Niven Past Presents 17: At Jan Palak Square A mindit on oor ain martyrs, A thoosan mile awa. Twa wummin, young an auld Droont ower the heid o releegion In 
  116. Medie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1874-1929
    . 1929 K. E. Trail Reminisc. Old Aberdeen (1952) 36: A minor mistake in the Version counted as aMEDIE , n . An error in a Latin version which is of a less serious nature than a Maxie , q.v ., and thus merits a moderate penalty. Cf . Majie . Abd. 1874 N. Maclean Northern University 1: Nae that a version wi' maxies hisna got the first bursary afore noo, for I could show ye the version o' a first bursar wi' sax o' them in't, and as mony medies as wid mak' a gweed mony mair. Abd “Medie” and was marked with a 2. [Curtailed dim. form of Lat. medius error .] 
  117. Jacque n.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1716
    † JACQUE , n . A reduced form of Jacobite , the spelling prob. being intended to allude to the.) 10: Yesterday, receiv'd the following Letter, dated Aberdeen, Feb. 16. Sir, Our Deliverance at last hath been wonderfully brought about, considering what a sad Set of Jacques are in this Place. . . . Our 
  118. Shag n.2[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1729-1780
    SHAG , n . 2 An ox which has been castrated incompletely or when fully grown, a Segg (Bnff undervalue and sink your Price — if a Shag, and Reason he has, he will lose his Customers, if he give them oft so bad Meat as the Beef of the best Shag. Abd. 1780 Aberdeen Jnl. (22 May): No Bulls or 
  119. Choke v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1800-1899
     (Sept. 1930) 171: The custom of street vendors of gooseberries in Aberdeen, and I have no doubt elsewhere, known as 'chokin' the joog,' the trick being to hold the jug in a slanting position in the left hand, putting what was supposed to be a handful of berries into the jug with the right, and then 
  120. Gamrie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]2003-2004
    GAMRIE , n. Local name for the village of Gardenstown, Banffshire. Sc. 2003 Aberdeen weekend. Thieves made off in a white Ford transit van from a farm building in Gamrie between 11pm on 
  121. Way interj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]1894-1964
    WAY , int . [we:] 1 . A call to a sheepdog to make a detour or move away from the sheep always short and sharp: 'Way by! ' 'In ahint! ' 'Roond aboot!' 2 . As in Eng., a call to a horse to. Gen.Sc. Also way by , -out , -wide . Slg. 1932 W. D. Cocker Poems 77: 'Way wide there' roon' the haugh; Way, Glen, way! s.Sc. 1964 Scottish Field (Oct.) 91: His commands are stop (Lnk. 1973). Hence way-hie , turn left!, way-hup , turn right! (Bwk. 1942 Wettstein). See Hi , Hup . Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) 3: Way-wo' haud still, wo man. [ 1 . is prob. a reduced form of away . For 2 . cf . Wo , id.] 
  122. Pye n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1969
     pie . The usual term in Aberdeen. French Tick and Tack is played by counting a pie and the odd man outPYE , n . Also pie . A counting-out rhyme, a jingle (Abd., Kcd. 1967). Phr. to say a pye (Id.); to count a pye (see quot.). Abd. 1969 I. & P. Opie Children's Games 29: Counting a is the mannie. In the nineteenth century counting-out was often conducted by each boy putting a 
  123. Hail-sale adj.[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1725-1934
     the publick Market of Aberdeen. Edb. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 139: Syne fernziers guid a the lasses hale sale a'. Abd. 1761 Abd. Journal (16 Feb.): Market Pork sold hail-sale in frae them fa's I' hale-sale batches. Ayr. a .1850 A. Aitken Poems 25: Guid bless them a 
  124. Hythe n.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1723-1927
    HYTHE , n . Also hyth ; dim. hythie . A harbour, haven, landing place, inlet among rocks (Mry ane knoweing man for wining the rocks out of Guthrie's hyth.' Bnff. 1827 Aberdeen Star (20 July) 313: As the tide widna float her atil the saters . . . we, in consequence, pat a-lan atil the little hythie. Mry. 1927 E. B. Levack Lossiemouth 30: A gaed awa' doon tae the Hythe tae see an A could get a bit partan. [O.E. hyȳð , id. Now obs. in Eng. exc. hist . or in place-names 
  125. Mortify v.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1701-1933
     'Aberdeen Mortifications' the term 'mortified' is used with reference to a gift by a donor during life charitable purposes. Hence phr. master of mortifications , a member of the Town Council of Aberdeen , and in one great borough (Aberdeen, if I remember rightly) there is a municipal officer who takes care, property or money in perpetuity to a corporation or public body for specified religious, charitable or & Bennett) 80: I observed upon one small thatched house a broad piece of freestone with an appointed to administer the mortified property, etc. of the city; comb. mortification brod , a wooden panel in a church on which charitable donations and bequests were recorded; 2 . mortifier , the donor of a mortification (Sc. 1799 H. Mitchell Scotticisms 55). 1 . Sc. 1707 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1908) App. 668: Item, making a large mortification brod to the session house of 3 divisions and furnishing naills to plant on the rolls, a man a day, . . . 1 0 0. Peb. 1728 C. B. Gunn Cross Kirk 
  126. Squatter v.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1929-1934
    SQUATTER , v . 2 Appar. in nonce usages: 1 . To act like a squatter, to take illegal possession of an abode, to settle without permission. wm.Sc. a .1930 N. Munro Looker-on (1933) 208), sit clumsily on (something). A nonce usage, phs. partly associated with 1 . and Squatter , v . 1 Kcd. 1934 L. G. Gibbon Grey Granite 218: The great Dundee-Aberdeen buses squattering the 
  127. Locality n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1701-1930
    , or liferented to a widow by way of jointure. Hence attrib. locality lands . Sc. c .1701 [Marischal College, Aberdeen]. Sc. 1869 A. MacDonald Settlement (1877) viii.: He was alsoLOCALITY , n . Sc. usages, now only hist . 1 . The revenue or produce of a certain piece of land specif. appropriated to an individual as part of his income, e.g. to a parish minister as stipend Analecta Scot. (Maidment 1837) II. 163: The Doctors Wife had possessed a Liocalitie of the bygone Rents the lands are presently life-rented by the widow of the said deceased John Stenhouse, who has a total locality over them, she by a writing in process, has become bound to cede her locality to the purchaser he had a locality being exhausted, and no new one yet settled for him. Sc. 1838 W. Bell called locality lands . … The liferent of lands called a locality, in which she is infeft. 2 . The apportionment of liability for (an increase in) a minister's stipend among the various heritors in his parish 
  128. Heritably adv.[0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1713-1896
     mortgaged as heritable security . See Heritable . Sc. a .1714 Earls Crm. (Fraser 1876) II. 465 secured, must, as a moveable subject, go to the seller's executors. Sc. 1896 Session Cases (1948 irredeemably All and Whole the subject Number Forty-seven Belmont Street, Aberdeen. [O.Sc. heritabilly 
  129. Backland n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1767-1929
    BACKLAND , n . A house built behind others. [′bɑk′lɑn(d)] Sc. 1927 G. M. Thomson Caledonia 20: In a backland (a tenement built on what was originally the drying green behind an older tenement) a family of eight people sleep in one bed. Abd. 1767 Abd. Journal  (23 Feb.):  These Tenements of Foreland, Inland and Backland, lying upon the South-side of the Castlestreet of Aberdeen: Supping in a back land in the Trongate . . . on minced collops, black-puddings, and whisky toddy 
  130. Cover n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1781-1941
     lookin' for anither fairm, an' wid manage cover for aboot a hun'er aacre. Abd. 1781 Aberdeen JnlCOVER , n . 2  The maximum live-stock which a farm will carry. Gen.Sc. Bnff. 2 1941 : I'm Banff. Abd.(D) 1875 W. Alexander My Ain Folk 16: He'll be worth a hantle o' dry siller hert to cairry sic a cover o' nowt beasts. [Prob. an extended use of Eng. cover in sense of funds adequate to cover a liability or secure against contingent loss.] 
  131. Hamesucken n., adj.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1707-1956
     : (the offence of committing) a premeditated assault upon a person in his own house or dwelling place (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 39), still known and understood but generally now termed assault, formerly a capital offence. Also used attrib . n.Sc. 1707 Fraser Papers (S.H.S.) 37: The Rape. 1717 W. Hector Judicial Rec. (1876) 218: The defender . . . did by way of Hame Sucken within or Principles iv . iv. 32: Haimsucken . . . is the assaulting or beating of a person in his own house and nightly; so that neither a public-house, nor a private, where one is only transiently, falls within the . . . law. Sc. 1797 Aberdeen Mag. 206: John Davidson, from Rathen, Banffshire Letter xiii.: The essence of hamesucken is to strike a man in his dwelling-place . . . and so there's hope Plainstanes may be hanged. Sc. 1838 Wilson's Tales of the Borders IV. 342: A case o' hamesookin, Jenny — a decided case o' hamesookin. Fif. 1895 S. Tytler Kincaid's Widow xv.: More 
  132. Jibble v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1826-1938
     Life Studies 226: A fu' cup . . . it's ill to carry: we're apt to jibble some o't by the way] I . v . 1 . tr . To agitate a liquid, gen. so as to cause spilling (Ayr. 1825 Jam.; Ant. 1892 with oot , owre , up (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 60; n.Sc., m.Lth. 1959); intr . of a liquid: to' hairl the pail aifter hir, geeblin' an' spillin' the wattir a' the time. Ayr. 1870 J. K. Hunter. Ayr. 4 1928 : Don't rin sae fast; ye're jibblin' a' the mulk. Abd. 1 1938 : Dinna showd . To prepare (liquid) food in a careless, sloppy or messy manner; “used of cooking, with the idea of . 60). Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 60: She'll niver dee at a' for a wife, yon han'less tawpie; for, fin a geed in, she wiz geeblin' an' tryin' to mack chappit green kail, an' cudna dee't. The aul' bodie geebles on at ( or wee) teh, an' never tacks a made-ready (cooked) diet. 3 . To lose, to destroy (Ayr. 1825 Jam.). II . n . 1 . A splash, the splashing or lapping of a liquid in motion (ne.Sc 
  133. Weegie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1996-2004
    WEEGIE , n. also weedgie . Informal word for a Glaswegian . Also attrib. Sc. 1996 Herald (30 Dec) 13: A recent incident not only confirms the ubiquity of Irn-Bru in the average weegie's day-to-day life but also illustrates Myth No 2 — Irn-Bru is a health drink with revitalising properties. Sc. 1998 Scotland on Sunday (22 Feb) 27: It would have been eight but if, as a non ... Sc. 2001 Sunday Herald (16 Dec) 20: Gordon had been whipping up Weegie fury at the way in. 2004 Edinburgh Evening News (21 Jan) 11: And I found our Minister for Sport, Frank McAveety, a; Blue (1999) 54: 'You know what this means?' Bain said. Rebus nodded. 'A trip to weegie-land.' Scotland's two main cities, separated by a fifty-minute motorway trip, were wary neighbours, as though years Nov) 17: It is a lovely building [the Armadillo], the structure of which echoes a famous opera Weegieland — knows you get a friendlier welcome belting out The Sash at Parkhead than you would ever get from 
  134. Howdy-towdy adj., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1820-1826
     of (head-) dress worn in deshabille, a mob-cap or the like. ne.Sc. 1826 Aberdeen Censor 261; unkempt, untidy (m.Lth. 1 1957). Sc. 1820 Scott Letters (Cent. ed.) VI. 154: She is a little the midst o' my weans wi' my wife's howdy-towdy on her head. [A redupl. formation analogous to 
  135. Relict n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1]1706-1993
    RELICT , n . Also † relic . 1 . The surviving wife of a deceased man, a widow; also a widower relict till account of her housemaill a ducadoon. Sc. 1750 Caled. Mercury (8 Oct.): Lady unlikely to find a mate for himself, maybe he could be urged towards taking on Sandy Hope's relict and Jun 10: As a small boy in Dumfries he was on visiting terms for tea and scones with Jean Armour, relict of Robert Burns. Abd. 1993 Scotsman 25 Sep : Peacefully, at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at the University of Aberdeen), much loved husband of Nancy Mitchell and relict of Marion Wilson, much loved father of ... 2 . In pl .: the remains of a dead person. Sc. 1807 G. Chalmers. Columba. [O.Sc. relict , = relic, 1514, a widow, 1491, remains, a .1649.] 
  136. Hudge n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1831-1898
     . 82; Ork., Cai., Abd. 1957). Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. 118: When viewed in conjunction with aHUDGE , n ., v . [hʌdʒ] I . n . A large quantity, a vast amount (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff 'hudge o' siller,' she appeared to him a paragon of excellence. Abd. 1898 J. R. Imray Sandy Todd vi.: He haes been a steady, weel-daein' chiel an' sud be worth a hudge o' siller. II . v . To amass, heap up (Abd. 1957). Hence vbl.n. pl. hudgans , a large number or quantity, e.g . of fish (Ork. 1929 Marw.). Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 82: The're jist hudgin' up siller. [A voiced variant of Eng. hutch , in its orig. sense of a chest or coffer for money, etc.] 
  137. Doric n., adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1809-2004
     33: Bosses at Skene House, in Aberdeen, said the lessons in the Doric dialect are a hit withDORIC , n., adj. Add variant Dorick I. 1. n. The Scots language, esp. when regarded as a Gibb of Gushetneuk Preface: The native character and pure Doric of Aberdeenshire still possess a fresh interest for a very considerable number of readers. Sc. 1925 Hugh MacDiarmid tag-ends of it remained on the tongues of the people, pretty much in the same way that even the most anglicised Scot today can produce a word or two of 'the Doric' when he wants to be jocular. Sc. 1986 Doric is first nature to me. I am not one of the lasses who left Leven for a weekend in London and came back speaking posh. It will take a brain-surgeon to rid me of my Fife-isms. ne.Sc. 1993 Press the Scots language as a whole in comparison to the prestige dialect of South-east England. Gsw. 1994 Alasdair Gray A History Maker xi: Like Scott he tells a Scottish story in an English 
  138. Way Loom n. comb.[0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1734
    WAY LOOM , n.comb . Appar. the tail-race of a mill. Ags. 1734 Reg. Particular Sasines (Record Office) (10 Sept.): To carry over the Dyke of a Dam over the Way Loom or back water gang of the Miln of Pitkerro. [Appar. way + Lume . Cf . Way-Flude .] 
  139. Hi-hi n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1]1952-2004
    -Hi. Sc. 2000 Aberdeen Evening Express (16 May) 42: A Third Lanark side beaten twice inHI-HI , n . A sporting nickname for Third Lanark Football Club (Sc. 1964 J. T. R. Ritchie Singing the league weren't expected to be a threat in the semi -finals, but the Hi-Hi's were well worth their are looking for football's equivalent of a bogeyman with which to startle their audience. Goodness that this or that club are about to go the same way. Sc. 2003 Daily Record (3 Nov) 15: Do you know anything of Rangers keeper Willie Robb's time at Third Lanark? Hi Hi Man. He was only a guest in the first 20 minutes against Lochee, Haddington are in with a shout. Sc. 2004 Evening Times (17 Aug) 54: That's when a squad of teenagers take to the pitch resplendent in Third Lanark 
  140. Censor n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1700-1927
     Aberdeen University for a student entrusted with keeping the attendance roll till about 1938. Abd. 1700CENSOR , n . The title of an official in a University or school (see quots.); “still the term used of a department in Dundee High School when acting as headmaster, as was done by these heads in rotation before the appointment of a Rector” (Ags. 2 1939).The word was used in some of the classes at Francisque-Michel 145: Censor , whose office, in the Aberdeen University . . . was to keep the register ipso having held the office of Censor of the Names. [O.Sc. has censour , censoure , a censor ( D.O.S.T .). Fr. censeur , official in a school or college, ad.Lat. censor , from censere , to count 
  141. Barbaree n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1911-1921
    -spy,' Aberdeen name for same game. [ Barbaree is an Eng. game where the King of Barbary plays aBARBAREE , n . A boys' game. [′bɑrbɑri] Cai. 1911 John o' Groat Jnl. (3 Oct.): A game like barley-break. . . . A certain spot was fixed as the goal, and one was appointed by lot to catch one had shouted 'Barbaree!' Then he set out in pursuit, and if fortunate to make a capture, this one 
  142. Ochil prop. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1845-1868
    OCHIL , prop.n . In pl. with def. art .: the name of a range of hills, stretching between the.: 1 . Ochil doddie , one of the Aberdeen-Angus breed of cattle. See Doddie , n ., 1 .; 2 . Ochil eye , a name for a kind of pebble found in the Ochil Hills; 3 . Ochil frandie , see Frandie . [′o:xɪl] 1 . Per. 1868 Trans. Highl. Soc. 172: Next to them the Ochil doddie (a deep 
  143. Almichty adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1865-2005
     to Mozart's bicentenary celebration held in a Vienna cathedral, that an Archbishop offered a prayer Aberdeen Evening Express 23 Jan 18: On to the silver screen hoves Clark, in one of his first starring. Macdonald Alec Forbes (1892) i.: The wrath o' the Almichty maun purge this toon or a' be dune. Edb 
  144. Backie n.1, v., adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1]1825-2005
     way. [See Bab at the Bowster , phr ., , and Hockey-duck .] (3) A ride on the back of a bike) A hoist on the back.Also buckie-up (Bnff., Ags., Edb., Gsw. 2000s) Also a piggyback. Sc. 1997 Daily Mail 17 Oct 11: ( ... giving idle weans a backie up the stairs to bed or flinging said layabouts off sofa etc). Sc. 2004 Sun 25 Jun : Milan reckoned the only way they were going to finish the trek was if I got a backie - but I was left red-faced as his soldier pals all hooted with laughter. Edb. 1992 : Gimme a buckie-up tae hing the curtains. Edb. 1993 : Backie meaning a piggy back was used by my children at school in Edinburgh.   Gsw. 1985 Michael Munro a buckie-up.' Ayr. 1887 J. Service Dr Duguid 171: Ane o' them gied the ither a backie up on to the wa'. (2) A boys' game. Ags. 1 1932 : In e.Ags. a game called backie used to be played. A row of boys bent down, the head of each touching the posterior of the one before him. A 
  145. Bruckles n. pl.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1841-1898
     Olden Time 16: From others of them were suspended . . . a bunch of stars or bruckles to redd (ed. E. Newman) III. 979: In . . . Aberdeen, where it abounds on the moors, it is called Bruckles by 
  146. Mat n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1761-1957
    MAT , n . Also matt . Sc. usages: 1 . A thick woollen bedcover (m. and s.Sc. 1962). Also a mat meant a thick woollen covering for the bed, generally wrought into a pattern. Edb. 1957 Edb. Ev. News (29 Oct.) 1: Alhambra Bedspreads. Britain's Best Bedmat. 2 . A sack made of matting used as a container for flax. Crm. 1761 W. MacGill Old Ross-shire (1909) 200: In 1761 a ship for Portsoy with 93 matts of flax is driven on the beach at Inver. Abd. 1776 Aberdeen Jnl 
  147. Argument n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1825-2003
     : A piece of English, dictated to boys at school, to be turned into Latin; the subject of a version Aberdeen schools.] 
  148. Beef n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1706-2004
     jocular way, hence body. Abd. 1768 Ross Helenore 42: While monie a paik unto his beef they led taken a massive pay cut to star with Robert De Niro in the low-budget Copland. Sc. 1998 Aberdeen actresses. She's munching her way through cream cakes to put on a stone. Alas, for most of us putting on theBEEF , n . Used as in St.Eng., but note the following special Sc. usages. 1 . Human flesh in a 34: Not really, well, putting on the beef a bit but who hasnae! Listen...listen, do you mind Joyce Kirdie? Mind, reddish hair, freckles, was always a hoot in the French class, did dentistry? Sc. Sc. 2000 Times 22 Apr : Liberated by a metabolism roughly twice the speed of sound, he's. Wgt. 1794 in G. Fraser Lowland Lore (1880) 69: A Beef sold at £4 4s. 3 . (See quot.) Sc' reek, Wi' three seeds o' barley an' the smell o' a leek. [See Bree .] (2) Beef-brewis , broth liquid in which beef has been boiled. Abd. 1900 A. Paterson Memories of Monquhitter in Bnffsh 
  149. Raith n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1768-1950
    . ne.Sc. 1826 Aberdeen Censor 101: I then, in a loud country voice, told them of my intention, if Autobiog. 58: I should have a wraith in Aberdeen [University]. [O.Sc. rath , a quarter of a year. wraith (Abd. 1902 J. Ogilvie J. Ogilvie 22). 1 . A quarter of a year, a period of three months (Bnff., Abd. 1967). Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 12: And fu soon as the jimp three raiths.) II. 129: You needna grudge to draw your breath For little mair than haf a reath. Abd. 1802 roun raiths o a year, An even at the three raiths' end I sall draw near. Cai. 1842 J. T. Calder Sketches 227: There was a particular time for visiting it [a holy loch], viz., the first Monday of the 'reath,' or quarter. Fif. c .1850 R. Peattie MS. : She's awa' takkin' a raith at the saut. S. Rae Hansel fae Hame 56: I [cat] had a bield, a lilac tree . . . An' there I crouched five raith an' mair. 2 . Specif .: a term at school, a three-monthly period of full-time education 
  150. Caddie n.1, v.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1713-1934
     the Cape of Good Hope. †(2) One who earned a living by running errands, lighting the way in theCADDIE , CADDY , Cadie , Cawdy , Cawdey , n . 1 and v . [′kɑdi] 1 . n . †(1) A cadet in buy him one this year; For he shall serve no longer a cadie — o. Sc. 1769 Ballad in D. Herd Sc. Songs (1776) II. 170: There was Wattie the muirland laddie . . . With sword by his side like a dark with lanterns, etc. Orig. applied to a number of such persons who formed an organised corps in Scotland of Our Fathers (1933) xi.: There were in Nasmyth's younger days a number of 'caddies' round the markets, i.e . sturdy women, each with a creel on her back, who acted as porters. Abd. 1740 in Sc. Notes and Queries XII.121: To a cadie for going to the Gallowgatehead for my horse . . . six pence. Edb. c .1730 E. Burt Letters North Scot. (1754) I. 26–27: The Cawdys , a very useful Black. . . . This Corps has a kind of Captain or Magistrate presiding over them whom they call the Constable of 
  151. Wide-a-way n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1874
    WIDE-A-WAY , n.comb . A children's game. Slk. 1874 Border Treasury (12 Dec.) 246: D'ye mind what games at krinky, the hand an' fit ba' , . . . Spy, races, swingtail, an' noble wide-a-way? [ Cf . n. Eng. widdy-widdy-way , a chasing game, in which the phr. is used as part of a refrain.] 
  152. Fluther v., n.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1791-1934
     , excited (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. ). Abd. 1797 Aberdeen Mag. 198: My heart wi' sic a fluth'rin (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl . 208); hence, to rush clumsily and hastily; to be in a great a waefu' tale, It gars my heart a' flutherin' fail. Fif. 1894 D. S. Meldrum Margredel ix.: 'You seem fluthered.' 'I daursay,' said Rab, indignantly. 'I thocht by the way he pinted that ye had) † flutteration , excessive finery, frills and flounces; (2) flutter-baw , a puff-ball, fungus (Sc. 1911 S.D.D' French flutteration, Stap forth the uphads o' the Nation. II . n . 1 . A flurry, a confused fluttering mass, as of snow. Deriv. fludderoch , anything without solidity or weight, as a bag of feathers and wan, 'Twas mair like a flowther o' drivin' snaw. 2 . A flutter, bustle, stir, confusion (Abd. 15 1930, flowder ); (Fif. 1952, flither ); agitation, anxiety. Phr. apo' da fludda , in a great chasit ane anither, In bousy Bacchanalian flither. Fif. 1806 A. Douglas Poems 97: Tod Lawrie 
  153. Provost n.[1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]1700-1980
    : Some of the old hands in local government will be barely able to suppress a wry chuckle at the way and usages: 1 . The head of a Scottish municipal corporation or burgh, who is the civic head and chairman of the town or burgh council and the chief magistrate, the Scottish equivalent of a mayor (Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial . 221, 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 70). Also irreg. pl. form proveses . Derivs. provostry , -ie , the status or term of office of a provost , provostship; provostorial , adj., pertaining or belonging to a provost. Comb. Lord Provost , the title accorded to the provosts of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee and, by use and wont, of Elgin. Under the reorganisation of local by the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen. See Lord . Sc. 1700 Burgh Rec. Gsw the Union of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England , anno 1707, was usually a Member of the Privy Council. Ayr. 1787 Burns Brigs of Ayr 152: Ye worthy proveses, an' monie a bailie. Abd 
  154. Lockerstrae n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1826-1929
    ; An' that I'd need a locker strae My part to keep. Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. 245: I was† LOCKERSTRAE , n . Also loker- , locastry . A small pointer, reed or straw, used in teaching accordingly furnished with a Shorter Catechism, and a pointer, or, as Janet called it, a lokerstrae , in. [Appar. for * locus strae , a straw for pointing out the locus or position of the word or letter on 
  155. Inland n., adv.[0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1710-1866
    INLAND , n ., adv . Also inlan' . Sc. usages: I . n . An inner part of a block of buildings lying between a front and back wing and gen. forming one side of a courtyard. See Land . Abd. 1710 Burgh Rec. Abd. (1872) 339: He had purchased a tenement of inland, with the closs and pertinents Foreland, Inland and Backland, lying upon the South-side of the Castlestreet of Aberdeen, commonly called In-land, with the Fore-shop , Close , Office-Houses , and whole Pertinents. II . adv . Of a 
  156. Wallop n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1827-1881
     . 206; Inv., ne.Sc. 1973, wallopie ). In deriv. forms wallapyweek , wallop-a-weep , -weet , wallopie- (Ork., Inv., Abd. 1973), wallerperwipe . [′wɑləp (ɪ-′wip, -′wit)] Bnff. 1827 Aberdeen Star (20 July) 313: My hart gaed pit-pat wi' real fear like a wallerperwipe's arse. Abd. 1872 J. G. Michie Deeside Tales 170: Wi' a skailach like wallapyweeks. ne.Sc. 1881 W. Gregor 
  157. Cauker n.4[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1909-1935
    CAUKER , CAWKER , CAKER , n . 4 [′kɑ:kər ne.Sc., sn.Sc.; ′kekər Abd., Fif.] 1 . A stroke on the palm of the hand from a strap (Abd. 19 , Ags. 1 , Fif. 10 1938; Slg. 1916 T.S.D.C . II., cauker s.v. caker ); 'in use amongst Aberdeen schoolboys about 1890' (Abd. 16 1934). Ags. 7 1935 Dundee. 2 . A difficult question; a poser. Mry. 1 1925 : That's a cawker for ye! [Prob. an extension of Cauker , n . 1 For development of Lat. calx , a heel, to Sc. cake(r) , cf. O.Sc. calk 
  158. Baronial adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1994-2004
    , Scottish weddings are held at night with flaming torchlight processions to baronial castles for a bit of — is expected to cost at least £500,000. Sc. 2004 Aberdeen Evening Express 25 Oct 6: It 
  159. Spald v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1876-1928
     . tr . To split, lay open (Sc. 1880 Jam.), Obs. in Eng. exc. n. dial. Hence spaldin(g) , a dried fish split open (Sc. 1825 Jam.), spaldin-knife , a knife used for splitting fish (Sc. 1880 Jam.). Abd. 1876 R. Dinnie Songs 102: An' up on the hillock sat Aberdeen Kate, Wi' haddies an' spaldins, and rowth o' fresh skate. 2 . intr . (1) To push out the limbs feebly, as a dying animal (Sc. 1825 Jam gied spowlin' past them. II . n . A feeble stretching of the limbs (Cld. 1825 Jam.); a long stride 
  160. Blackening n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1931-2004
    , with the occasional Ensa concert as a diversion. Sc. 2004 Aberdeen Evening Express 3 May 2: I've fowerpence for to buy blackening. 2 . Traditional smearing of a bridegroom and/or a bride with boot polish etc. the night before the wedding. Also attrib . Sc. 1998 Aberdeen Evening Express 27 Mar 16: Part of Stonehaven's Market Square was awash in treacle and flour following a recent friends to a Hopeman hotel for a joint, pre-marital blackening party before returning to their Harbour never having been to a hen night, 21-year-old Lindsey, from Keith, in Moray, knows she will be subjected to a 'blackening' - a tradition of the North East. 'It's really, really, bad luck not to have a: Every bride feels a bit stressed as her wedding day approaches. But Angela Aitken had good reason to 11 May 3: 'I am not against blackening but if a blackening wants to use it they can pay for the extra cleaning up of the premises,' he said. 'It takes a hell of a lot extra to clean up after a 
  161. Original adj., n.[0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1730-1920
     child (Sc. 1825 Jam.); (2) a term for a debt lying on an estate to which one succeeds (Cld. 1825 Jam Galt Provost xxv.: He was in his original, a lad of the place. Abd. 1920 : He was in Aberdeen afore he cam here, but I dinna ken fat was his oreeginal. [O.Sc. originall , = 2 ., c .1420.] 
  162. Paraffle n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1824-1842
     your hand and swear, or I'll send you to prison,' said to a witness by a Buchan Bailie of AberdeenPARAFFLE , n ., v . Also parafle (Sc. 1816 Scott Antiquary xxi.). I . n . 1 . A flourish subject of this paraffle of words, it's not worth a pinch of tobacco. Sc. 1842 Tait's Mag. (Oct.) 637: Geordie, man, ye'll no ken yoursel' in a' that paraffle o' purple an' fine linen. 2. Sc. 1827 C. I. Johnstone Eliz. de Bruce I. xiii.: I hate a' parade and vainglorious paraffling. [Freq. form ad. Fr. parafe , paraphe , a flourish added to a signature, low Lat. paraphus < paragraphus , Gk. παράγραφος, a mark to indicate a new paragraph.] 
  163. Surcoat n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1763-1818
     Aberdeen Jnl. (4 April): A Blue and White stripped Coat uppermost and a White Plaiden Surcoat under it coat, orig. worn over armour with heraldic insignia embroidered on it: in Sc. a kind of short under-waistcoat, somewhat like the modern cardigan; a fisherman's jersey (Kcd. 1971). [′sʌrkət] Abd. 1763. Abd. 1768 A. Ross Works (S.T.S.) 145: In the days they ca'd yore, gin auld fouks had but won, To a surkoat hough-side for the winning o't. Kcd. 1775 J. A. Henderson Banchory-Devenick (1890) 237: To buy a surt-coat to Annie Buchan, 4/5½. Ags. 1818 Scots Mag. (Sept.) 235: Next to his shirt he wears an under vest, absurdly enough termed a surcoat . [The Sc. meaning has 
  164. Swesch n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1827-1893
    SWESCH , n . Also ¶ sweesh . A drum, esp. one used by public criers, gen. a side drum as opposed to a bass drum. Now only hist . In the 1871 quot. and in the comb. swesch-trump , the word has been taken to mean a trumpet, from an erroneous definition by Jam. Fif. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry 47: The town's drum of Aberdeen was exhibited . . . in the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1888, with the following notice: — 'The Drum, or 'Sweesh', was a very important civic institution before the introduction of daily newspapers.' [O.Sc. swasche , 1533, swesche , 1543, a drum. Cf . Swash , n . 1 , 1 ., a blow, a thump.] 
  165. Flemingia [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     Philosophy, Aberdeen and New College, Edinburgh. In form flemingii , as a specif. name of a Stylaxis orFLEMINGIA . 1 . Zool . Also earlier in form Flemenia , a genus of polypod worms (1827 G palaeozoic coral found in Derbyshire (1849 F. McCoy in Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist . (Feb.) 121), of a sea-squirt or ascidian, Cynthia (1842 H. D. S. Goodsir in Edb. New Philosoph. Jnl . (July) 175), of a Cemoria or spiral limpet shell (1827 Zool. Jnl . III. 77), and of a Productus , or fossil branchiopod of the Carboniferous period (1814 J. Sowerby Miner. Conch . I. 155). 2 . Bot . A genus of 
  166. Ned n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1910-2004
     specific kind - socks worn over tracksuit legs, baseball cap worn a certain way. If things start gettingNED , n . A lout, a drunken brawling fellow, a tough (Ags., Gsw. 1975; Bnff., Abd., Ags., Edb' like a lot o' neds at a mairrage party wi' naething to eat. Sc. 1959 Times (18 Dec) 5/3 his clothes I suppose. A right Glasgow ned.' wm.Sc. 1977 William McIlvanney Laidlaw (1985) 15: 'Makes me feel like Saint George. I could give that dragon a terrible laying-on. Lead me to the neds. God. I'll do the rest. ...' Gsw. 1985 Michael Munro The Patter 48: ned A criminal or hooligan: 'Partick police are on the look-out for two neds who walked out of a local hostelry a ned . Sc. 1994 Daily Record (24 Feb) 12: After shopping in Glasgow, I boarded a bus a bit less intimidating in Edinburgh. You get all these neddy sort of people here and they're quite scary. It's not like that in Edinburgh. ...' Sc. 2003 Independent (7 Feb) 4: For a self 
  167. Bursary n.[0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1733-1933
    BURSARY , n . A scholarship, an endowment given to a student in a school or university, an with constant Solicitation to procure a Bursary for this hopeful Boy, because his Parents are not able to give such an Education. Sc. c .1733 A. Carlyle Autobiog. (1860) 62: The bursaries given . . . to students in divinity to pass two winters in Glasgow College, and a third in some foreign: There are four bursaries at the King's college of Aberdeen for boys educated here [Mortlach]. [O.Sc 
  168. Gild v.1[0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1733-1828
    GILD , v . 1 Also † guild . Sc. usages: † 1 . intr . Of fish: to assume a yellow phosphorescent colour due to incipient decay. Cf . Gilt , v ., 2 .; 2 . ppl.adj . in n.comb. † gilded lady , a gilt gingerbread made in the shape of a woman. 1 . Sc. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scot. 210 become rancid. Sc. 1788 Aberdeen Mag. 337: Doing this [pickling] is of more utility than is generally imagined, particularly for such [salmon] as have a chance of being kept any time on hand, or sent to a warm climate; as it prevents their gilding. 2 . Edb. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch (1898) iii.: I had a gilded lady thrust into my little nieve . . . in less than no time she had 
  169. Glugger n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1831-1954
     inarticulate sound; a catarrhal huskiness. Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. 643: Again and again I listened toGLUGGER , n ., v . Also † gluggar , glowger . [′glʌgər, Cai. ′glʌu-] I . n . A gurgling or wind and waves. Abd. 1954 : I'm bathert wi a glugger in my throat. II . v ., tr . &; intr . To make a gurgling noise in the throat, as when swallowing liquids (Rxb. (Teviotd.) 1825 Jam coont a hunder the back'art gait an' then gluggar them [salts and senna] up. [Onomat. Cf . Eng 
  170. Nairra adj.[0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1]1731-2000
     thousand pounds to a Hospitall at Aberdeen. He was exceeding narrou, they say, and hard to his relations, though, i' the money way. A ceevil en'uch man, but nairey, nairey. m.Sc. 1932 O. Douglas The New Makars 30: The mither lat flee her Bible Straucht at his narra face: 'An wad ye be a riever seen prood men come steppin ben This kirkyaird, swankin saucy. A nerra staa awytes them aa: Sc.; Uls. 1963); (4) nairrowly-nippitness , see Nippit . (4) Sc. 1899 Mont.-Fleming 103: A “narrow-nebbit”, or a “nippit”, teetotaler is a common expression. 2 . Tight-fisted, stingy. 1731 R. Wodrow Analecta (M.C.) IV. 262: Ther is much talk of a man . . . who hath left ten. Sc. 1748 Session Papers, Earl of Morton v. Muirhead (21 Nov.) 4: His Grandfather was a very. 1821 Galt Annals iii.: He was a narrow ailing man, and his maiden-sister, Miss Girzie, was the too, as narrow as a penny ribbon. Fif. 1896 D. S. Meldrum Grey Mantle 244: He was near 
  171. Broket adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1908
     had a b [ roket ] way aboot him , he behaved in a peculiar way. [See Brok , v .] 
  172. Row v.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1788-1967
     suggesting a successful passage through life. Abd. 1788 Aberdeen Mag. 537: O weel may the boatie row , to work an oar. [rʌu] 1 . To go fishing, to put to sea in a fishing-boat whether it is propelled . Of a boat: to move along in the water easily or smoothly (Sh., Abd., Ags. 1968); fig . in contexts boatie rows light. Abd. 1916 G. Abel Wylins 11: This is no a chummy warld for him whause 
  173. Gnib adj.[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1748-1900
     Aberdeen, As gnib as drive a nail aye. Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 67: He's unco gnib; it wiz. 27 1930; Sh. 10 1954, knib(by) ), sharp, smart, eager. Sometimes used in a derogatory sense. Also only yesterday a got the len o't. Abd. 1900 E.D.D. : 'Ye're rael gnib,' said of one that 
  174. County Of City n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0]1947-1957
    COUNTY OF CITY , n.comb . One of the four cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen, whose of a county council (Sc. 1961 J. B. Miller Admin. & Local Govt. Law 28), = Eng. county borough burghs. . . . Sc. 1957 Acts Parl. 6 Eliz. c. iv. § 5: The city shall continue to be a county of a city by the name of “the county of the city of Dundee”. 
  175. Killie n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1994-1998
    KILLIE , n. 2 A short form of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire (Ayr. 1786 Burns Inventory 11, 1952 some, but it means frayed nerves for us.' Taking Rangers to a Tennents Scottish Cup semi-final replay may be taking its toll on the Killie players. Sc. 1998 Aberdeen Evening Express 11 Mar 40 matches. Sc. 1998 Daily Record 10 Aug 3: He's such a nice, friendly guy and he's got really 
  176. Skitter n., v.1[0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1711-2002
    ., purgative, causing looseness of the bowels. Applied in combs. to various birds which have a habit of voiding Proverbs 16, 176: A Spoonful of Skitter will spill a Potful of Skink. . . . If you was as skitterfull as a skitter of words. Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 81: Ye seem tae hae the skitter, Or bloit this day. Sc. c .1850 A Few Rare Proverbs : Ye hae the wit o' skitteration, ye ought to be presented wi' a turd. Sc. 1911 Rymour Club Misc. I. 135: Sowens is a skittry dish. Ork. 1911 Old Lore Misc. IV. iv . 186: Yea' wirt o' tha bit a skitter broltie, and the Hibs manager, Alex Miller, will approach this one like a reindeer with the skitters 34: Roy Aitken, the Aberdeen manager, must have struggled to bed last night suffering from fearful skitters. Sc. 1998 Aberdeen Evening Express 20 Mar 11: Apparently Airtours have ditched four hotels from their brochure because of the avalanche of complaints about holidaymakers' suffering a 
  177. Blibbans n. pl.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1824-1935
     ): Over sixty years ago I heard the word blibbans at Cove, near Aberdeen. Gall. 1824 MacTaggart put into broth. Quite a common grumble of the ploughman to the maid, as he leaves the kitchen after the breakfast, is, 'Now, Jenny, min', nae blibbans in the kail the day.' [Seems to be a cross 
  178. Blanket n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]1862-1969
    BLANKET , n . Used as in St.Eng. but note the following. See also Blue Blanket . 1 . A banner , a tartan plaid. Abd. 1862 Bnffsh. Jnl. (24 June) 6: The corpse of the suicide was wrapped in a tartan or what was then called a barred blanket. [In the Hist. Papers relating to the had apprehended a man for wearing a plaid and carrying a party-coloured great-coat under it. The local Justice of the Peace having refused to try the case, the Captain had to take his prisoner to Aberdeen. The Sheriff there would not convict the man, alleging that he was wearing a 'dyed blanket' and not a plaid. On 20th August the Captain again reports: 'I have taken up and sent to Aberdeen another Highlander for having a plaid of different colours which I think the Sheriff cannot call a blanket as he was pleased. It was then called a blanket. See Bar Plaid .] (2) blanket bay [bəi],  bed. (3) blanket-fair  = (2), 'Awa' tae blanket-fair' (Abd. 4 1929). (4) Blanket-heezie , 'one who tosses another in a 
  179. Maunsemas n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0]1946-1962
     both days are given in the Aberdeen Breviary and in the Drontheim Missal. Sh. 10 1962 : The 'Camerlan ' fae Amsterdam Cam on a Maunsemas day On Stoora Stack she brook her back. [Reduced form of 
  180. Peeble n., v.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1710-1958
     (Edb. 1771 Fergusson Poems (S.T.S.) II. 5; Sc. 1815 A. Pennecuik Tweeddale 45). Sc. forms and. 1926 Wilson Cent. Scot . 258; ne.Sc., Slk. 1965). [′pibəl] I . n . 1 . A semi-precious stone. set in silver to make a distinctively Scottish type of jewellery (Sc. 1825 Jam.). Combs. peeble-stane these peebles are of a clear and white perspicuous colour, some are like agates. Abd. 1750 Aberdeen Jnl. (13 March): Bristol and Peeble set Breast and Shirt Buttons. Abd. 1762 Aberdeen Jnl. (19 April): There was lost in this Town, a whitish Peeble-Stone, having cut thereon the Coat of Arms of Sir Archibald Grant. Sc. 1764 Caled. Mercury (22 Dec.) 618: A Scots peeble in the form of a heart, a gold ring, with a peeble set in it. Edb. 1798 Edb. Weekly Jnl. (30 May Lochandhu Intro. iv.: Ane o' yere horn mulls, wi' a wee bit silver, and a Scots peeble on the tap o't. Abd. 1851 W. Anderson Rhymes 91: A cappie fu' o' peeble stanes. Sc. 1958 Maxwell & 
  181. Way-flude n.[0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1756-1930
     the wa'-fleed, an' it gars the wheel lag a bittie. [From way , Wey , n ., + Flude . Cf . O.ScWAY-FLUDE , n . Also -flood , wa(e)fleed (ne.Sc.), and corrupt forms wamflet , wafflin , wefflin , -um . The outflow of water from a mill-wheel, the tail-race (Abd. ( waefleed , wamflet ), Ags. ( wefflin , -um ) 1825 Jam.); a water-channel (Bnff., Abd. 1973). See Flude . Mry. 1756 Session Papers, Stephen v. Brodie (11 Nov.) 5: £25 Scots for the Mill-lead and Way-flood. Rxb. c .1840 
  182. Central Belt n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1]1989-2004
    . 1989 A. Gibson and T. C. Smout in R. A. Houston and I. D. Whyte Scottish Society 1500-1800 84 had made most gains in real income and obtained a slightly wider dietary choice than their forbears in mother has died. It took me a year to save for this holiday and my brother just phoned to tell me she died, he says in a Central Belt accent. Sc. 1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov 12: Movement executive member Sandy Cluness has accused Labour of still suffering from a 'Central Belt mentality' and Brown's alleged warbling of a few bars of a well-known Orange song down a lady friend's phone has set the development is in danger of being held back by a lack of co-operation between local authorities, public much a forgotten corner,' he said. 'It's getting better but there's almost a psychological barrier between the central belt of Scotland and the southwest.' Sc. 2004 Aberdeen Evening Express 14 Sep 12: The city council and Aberdeen and Grampian Tourist Board plans seek to address national 
  183. Maxie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1860-1934
    ‡ MAXIE , n . An abbreviated dim. form of the Latin maximus error , a gross error in a Latin translation, entailing the highest deduction of marks as a penalty (ne.Sc. 1962). Ags. 1860 A. Whamond, and was satisfied that I had made no grammatical errors. Abd. 1868 J. Riddell Aberdeen and Its Folk 28: He had examined a version which was correct in every respect, except in the use of one unfortunate word near the end, by which mischance a “maxie” had to be marked on the paper. Kcb. 1904 Crockett Strong Mac xxiv.: None of the crew but Wee Peerie could read a page of Virgil without a dozen, with a bundle of Latin exercises on his knee, hunting for “maxies” with, to us, an altogether perverted energy. Abd. 16 1934 : A mistake entailing deduction of four marks was a “maxie”. 
  184. Poak v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1929
    POAK , v . Also poag . To walk slowly and deliberately, to march around in a purposeful way, poag gen. implying quicker or more active movement (I.Sc. 1966, poak ). Ork. 1929 Marw. : A fowl looking for food in a field would be said to be ' gyaan poakan '. Also used without suggestion of search: e.g. of a man walking sedately about his house . . . An old man describing how he caught a skarf in his 'girn' said he was watching the bird, and 'she poag-ed this way an' she poag-ed that way 
  185. Wey n.1[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1704-2005
     . [Ork. m. and s.Sc. wəi; Sh., n.Sc. wɑe] 1 . As in Eng., way, path. Comb. way-kenning , a knowledge way-kenning. Spoken when I ask my Neighbour a Loan, and he tells me that he cannot, but such an one an a' ways , in every way; aye the ae way , always the same, equable in temper (Ork., Per. 1974: She's the best creature, ae way an' a' ways, that ever was about a poor body's house. Ayr. 1887 adv. phrs. and combs.: (i) in a — way , gen. with qualifying adj. to indicate being in a state of members burping their way through a performance with suitable comments like: 'Here Boab, did ye see the wy Gallovidian II. 123: Oor mistress was in a way. She said it was a lot o' lees. Sh. 1954 New Man Sandy (1899) 20: He's a queer cratur that way. Kcb. 1901 R. Trotter Gall. Gossop 50: He is aye in the way for a crack. (3) used as a quasi -suff . Gen. in the form weys , later , in every way or respect. Gen.Sc.; douf ways , in a dejected state; hyngan-wa's , id. See Hing , v 
  186. Cross-fit n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1788-1996
     D. Bnff . 33, Abd. 27 1947; Ags. 1927 (per Ags. 1 ).  Cf . Krossick . ne.Sc. 1788 Aberdeen 
  187. Black Stone n.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1713-1927
    BLACK STONE , n . Also -stane . (See quots.) Sc. 1902 A. Lang Hist. of Scot. II. xxi.' A seat with a stone in it still exists at Glasgow, a black capping stone at St Andrews [University University in the expression 'sit the Blackstone.' The black stone was a slab of black marble forming part of a wooden chair (still preserved in Glasgow University) on which a student sat for examination into his fitness for promotion into another class. The Black Stones of Aberdeen and Edinburgh have. Gsw . 343 and 344). [O.Sc. blak-stane , a dark-coloured stone used by students at their public 
  188. Hissel n., adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1807-1937
    ] I . n . A hazel stick used as a cudgel; a hazel nut (Cai. 9 1939); a stout stick of any wood (Cai. 1957). Bwk. 1807 A. Hewit Poems 59: She raxt a hissel aff the bed, An' bang'd him tightly. Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. 513: The rush and sally of the impatient class, eager to revel in the A. Christie Mountain Strains 99: Saugh an' hizzle, keep your grip, Till she arrive in Elflan saucy an' sae cheerie. [O.Sc. hissil , from a .1568. See note to Hazel .] 
  189. Slug n.3[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1781-1952
    SLUG , n . 3 Also slugg . [slʌg] A gap or narrow pass between hills, a defile, a narrow gorge or ravine (Kcd. 1825 Jam.; Abd. 1904 E.D.D. ). Hence slug road , a road through a narrow pass or valley Session Papers, Earl of Aboyne v. Earl of Aberdeen (1 July) Proof 1: To the north of the said burn of, where the banks on each side are remarkably high and steep. Kcd. 1893 A. I. McConnochie Craig Beg (1054 ft.). Kcd. 1952 A. R. B. Haldane Drove Roads 123: Cattle crossing the Dee Stonehaven. [Local variant of Slock , n . 2 , Gael. sloc , a hollow, dell, pit.] 
  190. Lagamachie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1826-1995
     Gregor D. Bnff . 100), -mashy ; leinglhamachie (Abd. 1935 Sc. N. & Q . (Feb.) 24). A long-winded rambling story or discourse, a harangue, rigmarole (ne.Sc. 1960). Cf . also Lamgabblich , Lamgammerie . [lə′gɑmɑçi, ləŋ-′, ləm-′] Abd. 1826 Aberdeen Censor 94: That lawyer chiel, anent me there, has set aff a lang lamgamashy aboot my unfitness to manage my domestic concerns. Abd. 1888 Bon-Accord (22 Dec.) 5: An' if it comes tae gien you a legammachie upo' airt in Aiberdeen I'm yer lang lagamachie aboot salamanders and a' the lave o't. Abd. 1957 Bon-Accord (18 April) 8 by Man e'er pree'd Yer tongue can tell; na, ye've nae need To spiel a lang langamachie. [ne.Sc. form of Eng. logomachy , Gr. λογομαχια, a battle of words, some variants being influenced by Lang .] 
  191. Mash n.[0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1734-1890
     Mashes, one small hammer. Abd. 1767 Aberdeen Jnl. (18 May): A large Mash Hammer and otherMASH , n . Also dim. mashie . A heavy two-faced hammer, used for stone-breaking, etc. (Cai., Per . XXXIV. 99). Gen.Sc. Deriv. masher , a quarryman who breaks large blocks of stone into smaller fragments with a mash (Ags. 1962). Ork. 1734 P. Ork. A.S. (1923) 65: Two pair of tongs, . . . two edges with a cold chisel and mash hammer 6 lb. weight. Fif. 1868 St. Andrews Gazette (28 Nov. 1886 J. Barrowman Mining Terms 44: Mash, a double-hand hammer for breaking coal, setting up props, etc. Lnk. 1890 J. Coghill Poems 96: A' ye, wha mell an' chisel wield, Or mash an 
  192. Gate n., v.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]<1700-1995
    ., Arg. + gɛt, Sh. + gjɛt] I . n . 1 . (1) A way, road, path (Per. 1915 Wilson L. Strathearn 248 Thornhill say 'doon the gate' for 'down the street.' Combs.: †( a ) gate-leave , right of way, esp. for use of a private road; ( c ) gate-side , way-side, road-side; used attrib . in quot. ( a ) Sc speerings,' said John, 'for a gate-side greeting.' (2) Way, in sense of direction, route, relative. 1900 E.D.D. ); cf . ellipt. use of (20) ( a ); (2) by the gate , on the road, on the way; (3) doon gate , ( a ) on the way, along the road (Abd. 27 1954); ( b ) to hand; ( c ) in the gate ( o' ), in' gate , ( a ) out of someone's (the) way (Arg. 1 1929; ‡Abd., Ags. 18 , wm.Sc. 1 1954); ¶( b ) fig , ( a ) up the road (‡Abd. 27 1954); ( b ) out of the way; cf . (8) ( a ); (10) to be at the gate; ‡Abd., Fif. 13 , Hdg., wm.Sc. 1 rare, Arg. 3 ( gett ), Ayr. 8 , Rxb. 5 1953), a street (now esp. in street and farm-names, e.g. Canongate , Trongate , Gallowgate , Overgate , Gateside ); 'a narrow 
  193. Dean n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0]1701-1940
     and Edb.), the titular head of the guild or merchant-company in a royal burgh, and, since the Burgh Reform Act of 1833, a constituent member of the Town Council. Now chosen by the Councillors from among their own number, except in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth, where he is still elected by also found (Abd. 1895 J. Davidson Old Abdsh. Ministers 125). Hence (1) Dean of Guild Court , a court which, where it exists (there has been none in Aberdeen for many years), exercises jurisdiction over the buildings in a burgh. In Perth, the Dean of Guild does not now sit as a member of this court . Dean of ( the ) Faculty , (1) the head of a Faculty ( q.v .) in a Scottish University; (2) “the elected leader of the Bar, whether of the Faculty of Advocates or of a local Bar of solicitors” (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 26). 1 . Bnff. 1702 W. Cramond in Trans. Bnffsh. Field Club Dean of the Guild , who, assisted by a council, superintends the markets, regulates the price of 
  194. Outshoother v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1930
     way through (a crowd). See Shouther . Bwk. 1930 J. Cockburn Country Love 121OUTSHOOTHER , v . Also oot- . To jostle out of the way with the shoulder, to shove or elbow one's 
  195. Incarcerate v.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1703-1959
     inlargment.' Abd. 1749 Aberdeen Jnl. (18 July): One Margaret Hutchson, . . . incarcerate last week on a committal warrant. 
  196. Bourignonism n.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1710-1934
     religious doctrines of an emotional and visionary nature proclaimed by Antoinette Bourignon, a French mystic Aberdeen] was deposed from the Ministry of the Church of Scotland, and he did more than anyone else to 
  197. Goog n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1826-1930
     Jam.). 3 . “A large, open, festering sore” (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 68, googg ). 4 . A heavy cloud ( Ib .). 5 . Any soft, moist stuff (Sc. 1911 S.D.D. Add ., goog ); “a mess of something ill Aberdeen Censor 208: Hunting and herrying the kirk-yards and gougouring with dead fouk. [Onomat. rather a variant of Gog .] 
  198. Parochial adj., n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1709-1926
     to have a Parochial School. Sc. 1786 Aberdeen Jnl. (18 Sept.): The parochial school of , 1 . Hence parochial schoolmaster ; 3 . parochial visitation , a periodical inspection of the religious affairs of a parish by the Presbytery, in which minister, elders and congregation were separately Combination of Parishes there shall be a Parochial Board of Managers of the Poor; and the whole Administration. Inwick xiii.: The minister an' session werena to hae a seat ony mair on the Parochial Buird. Sc. 1923 A. A. Cormack Poor Relief 137: The Parochial Board, representing the owners of property and Fraserburgh in the county of Aberdeen is now vacant, and the patron has resolved to supply the same by Education Abd. (1947) 119: To encourage active schoolmasters (in the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and. Abd. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb ix.: The parochial school; a sample of that noble Grammar School of Forres had never been a parochial school, as the master would in that case have been 
  199. Speld v.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1710-1999
    . 1827 Aberdeen Star (20 July) 313: My throat was dried like a speldit haddock. Sc. 1874 W manner, being dipped in the sun, and eaten by the Scots by way of a relish. Sc. 1821 Blackwood's Day O Judgement 11: The cloods are speldit like a door Tae the chaumer o the King, an there The) , spelden , speldack (Rs.), -ag (Cai.), spellan , a fish, gen. a haddock or whiting, split and dried in. 29: Swith hame and feast upon a Spelding. Sc. 1773 Boswell Tour (1785) 50: I bought some speldings , fish (generally whitings) salted and dried in a particular sea and dried in the without further dressing. Lnk. a .1832 W. Watt Poems (1860) 332: Some greedily a speldin. S. Haldane Scotland of Our Fathers 44: In Scotland a 'spelding' or dried salt haddock was in former days often placed beside the glass of ale ordered at a roadside inn to whet the traveller's thirst. Rs. 1936 C. Macdonald Echoes Glen 2: 'Speldacks' (a variety of the Finnan Haddock of 
  200. Procurator n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1708-1952
     University of Aberdeen and also, before 1859, in the Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews: a student students at Aberdeen do not give a direct vote for the Rectorial candidates. They vote for a student who , procoter . The form proctor in Sc. usages is gen. found in Eng. writers or may be a misreading of a. procurator-fiscal , † -f(e)iskal , ¶ -fliskie , the public prosecutor in a Sheriff Court, who initiates the Sheriff or magistrates, see quots. Freq. also in reduced form fiscal , id. Fif. 1708 A. Laing cannot be — there is not a word of it in the Sheriff-Office — the Procurator-fiscal kens nothing of it. Dmf. 1836 A. Cunningham Lord Roldan II. iii.: I hae a cousin that clerks to the procuter up to the laft, an' in o' the heritors' seat i' the forebreist. Sc. 1904 A. M. Anderson. wm.Sc. 1943 Scots Mag. (May) 128: But you know what the Fiscal is. He'll never put a bettin' case Procurator-Fiscal. (2) a solicitor or lawyer practising before the lower courts (Sc. 1798 Monthly Mag 
  201. Fa pron.[0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1742-1930
    ' 'gin ye speer fa' got the day, We parted on a nevel. Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore 66: They, frae Aberdeen; 'Come ye to me fa need.' Bnff. 1887 W. M. Philip Covedale 10: Fa kens fat a stranger (Abd. 7 1925, Abd. 27 1950). 
  202. Wa adv.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1728-1997
    WA , adv . Also waa , waw , wa(a)h ; way . Aphetic forms of Awa , away. [wɑ:, wǫ:] 1 , -gyaun , -g(y)ain , -gaen , -going , -ganging , (i) ppl.adj ., (a) departing, going away. Comb. way in Eng. dial.; way-going sale , the sale of the stock and effects of one who is leaving a farm away, a terror. See Scar , v .; (10) way-sliding , a fall from the path of rectitude, a moral or 15: Her way gate's caused an unco stir. (6) (i) (a) Dmf. 1812 W. Singer Agric. Dmf. 1954 D. Mackenzie Farmer in W. Isles 156: The way-going tenant is in as good a position. Sc easter enclosure, on the north side, in corn or grass for his way-going crop. Ags. 1819 A to the way-going crop, over-stocking, rates, and so on. Fif. 1894 A. S. Robertson Provost disbelief, disapproval or impatience, pooh! (Abd. 1825 Jam.; Sh. 1914 Angus Gl .; I., ne.Sc., em.Sc. (a) Lnk. 1973). Phr. † to make way of oneself , to commit suicide. Sc. 1728 Six Saints (Fleming 
  203. Janet [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     Burns Ep. to J. Tennant 54; Per., Fif., Lth., Ayr. 1915–26 Wilson; Gen.Sc.). Also in imitation of a. 1717 W. Hector Judicial Rec . (1876) 124), and dim. forms Jan ( n ) ettie (Abd. 1788 Aberdeen Mag . (Aug.)), Jinty (Cai., em.Sc.(a), Ayr. 1975); Jennie , Jenny (Sc. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Shep . v. iii 
  204. Harrowbill n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1702-1908
    ); † harobill , harroble , -abel ; † hurrobill . [′hɑrɔbəl] 1 . One of the cross-bars or spars of a harrow harrowbells, one hand speck, Seven souples, five old shovels and one new. Bnff. 1780 Aberdeen Jnl. (9 Oct.): A great Parcel of Birch Axletrees and Harrowbills of a very large size. Hence harbilly , adj., like a harrow, and, by extension, rough and prickly; used esp. of a stocking knitted tightly in a coarse wool (Ork. 1929 Marw.). 2 . A kind of hard wood formerly imported into Shetland from. 3 . A miserable, bony animal, emaciated person. Also used attrib . Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928): A harrabel o' bens, a living skeleton . . . a harrabel craeter. [ Harrow , n . 1 + Bill , n . 3 Cf . also Dan. harvebul , Sw. dial. harvbole , the framework of a harrow.] 
  205. Latch v., n.3[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1866-2003
     Dod Forbes. ne.Sc. 1999 Aberdeen Evening Express 3 Mar 11: A few weeks back I spotted ppl.adj. latchin , tardy, slow, lazy ( Id .). Bnff. 1869 W. Knight Auld Yule 14: Though a' are grievin' for a dance, The lads are latchin to advance, And wile their partners out. Abd. 1923 R. L latchy applied to a lazy-bones, or to a cow that is reluctant to let down her milk, or in short to anyone 18 Jan 13: We were a bit latchie at harvest time last year, and this week we still had 40 acres an advertisement for what appeared to be a cracker of a job - chief executive of the Scottish Parliament. It occurred to me they were a bit latchie in filling such a key post. No matter. They must know what they're doing. ne.Sc. 2003 Aberdeen Evening Express 25 Apr 22: Sadly, Mrs MacDonald secret to her. However, I know 43 years on is a bit latchie, but: Sorry, Christine. II . n . Indolence (Gregor); an indolent, dilatory person, a dawdler. Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 101: He's 
  206. Mouser n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1922-1996
    MOUSER , mowser , n . A moustache. Gen.Sc. [′mʌuzər] Mry. 1922 Swatches o' Hamespun 19 here, and what do you want?' a huge man with a red mouser, and face to match, shouted. m.Lth. 1991 : Ye mind, Arthur, the butcher, big dark-haired fella wi a wee mouser o a moustache. Abd. 1991 Aberdeen Evening Express 22 Oct : 'Sayin' Prince Charles wis like Hitler. I mean, can you mind ever seein' Prince Charles wi' a stupid wee mouser.' Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall frae the blackboord cloot, an drew a pictur o Miss McTavish on the boord wi a mowser that suited her rale weel. [Appar. an extended usage of Eng. mouser , a cat, hence a cat's whiskers, jocularly 
  207. Murlin n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1788-1961
    . 1963); also used by a spinner for holding wool (Cai. 8 1934). [′mʌrlɪn] Abd. 1788 Aberdeen MagMURLIN , n . Also murlain ; with variant dim. endings murlig (Cai.), -ick (Crm.). A round narrow-mouthed basket used by fishermen, usually shaped like a large flower-pot (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.; Abd to the Newhaven fishwife's murlin. Hence comb. murlin mou , a clam shell (Abd. 1949); phr. to get a blunk in one's murlin , to get a disappointment, to have a failure ( Id .). [Gael. murlainn , murlag , a basket for holding wool, Ir. murlog , murlan , a round narrow-mouthed basket used by fishers 
  208. Will adj., adv., v.2, n.2[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]1721-1964
    .: A tint ma meathes a'thegidder an' gidd clean wull. III . v . To go astray, lose one's way finnin da rest. IV . n . The state of having lost one's way, error, with a play on will , wish, straying, lost, unsure of one's way or whereabouts, wandering (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Ork., ne.Sc., Ags. 1974). Also trans . and merging with (2). Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 26: Breathless and Pop. Ballads I. 242: In his richt hand a lichted brand That aft the wull nicht-wanderer Has i.: Whaur are ye gaein' that get, like a wull shuttle? m.Sc. 1884 C. Neill Poet. Musings 94: In this mirk warld I feel quite wull. Abd. 1959 People's Jnl. (5 Dec.) 13: A body wis gey wull aboot a new toon. (2) Transf . of things: straggling, spreading unchecked. Sc. 1926 H. M'Diarmid Drunk Man 10: Fear, shame, pity, like a will and wilyart growth, That kills a' else wi' in its reach. 2 . In a moral or intellectual sense: misguided, erring, wayward (Rxb. 1942 
  209. Thrast v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1954
    † THRAST , v ., tr . To push, jostle, shove, press one's way in a clumsy forceful manner. Rare . ne.Sc. 1954 Mearns Leader (15 Jan.) 5: We thrasted throwe a fyow reels an' schotteeshes that left's a' fobbin' like fat kittlins. [O.Sc. thraist , to oppress, weigh down, 1513, Mid.Eng. thrast , threst , to push one's way, O.E. þrǣstan , to writhe, twist, constrain. But poss. confused with the etym 
  210. Loom v.1, n.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1824-1899
     indistinctly as out of a haze or shadow. Vbl.n. loumen , a blurred appearance or outline; loomin , twilight (Ork. 1929 Marw.). Abd. 1831 Aberdeen Mag. (Dec.) 641: Out on the trackless sea, wi' a'thing mirk and unkent about us, nae a loumen o' moon nor starn was to be seen in the hale wilkin. Bnff room An' saw some women on me loom. II . n . The indistinct appearance of anything seen through a haze or at a great distance, a haze or fog (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl . 325; Uls. 1953 
  211. Mediciner n.[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1]1725-1998
    MEDICINER , n . [mə′dɪsɪnər] 1 . A doctor, a physician. Liter . Sc. 1828 Scott F. M. Perth xxiv.: How is such a revulsion of blood to the brain to be prevented, sir mediciner ? Sc. 1932 Scots Mag. (Feb.) 365: It's a rare sickness, an unco distemper, though kent to the mediciners, Aberdeen. Now only hist . Sc. 1725 Fasti Aberdon. (S.C.) 445: The procuratores . . . elect Dr suffix. O.Sc. medicinar , = 1 ., a .1400, = 2 ., a .1670.] 
  212. Far adv.2, conj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1826-1927
    ? [O.Sc. for (1539), id., in Aberdeen Council Register (S.C. 1844) 159.] 
  213. Freeholder n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1702-1830
    FREEHOLDER , n . Sc. Law : a person who, before the Reform Act of 1832, could elect or be elected a member of Parliament, by virtue of holding lands direct of the Crown assessed at or over forty said station upon their own charges. Abd. 1760 Aberdeen Jnl. (18 March): To conveen the Commissioners of Supply and Freeholders, to instruct their Members concerning the Scheme proposed for raising a Militia. Sc. 1779 G. Stuart Public Law 305: A real freeholder may retain a sufficient 
  214. Tarnty prop. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1842-1929
    TARNTY , prop.n . Also Tarrnty , Taranty . A common Sc. form of Eng. Trinity , now obs. exc. in Aberdeen, which on its original site stood on land belonging to the Trinity Friars of pre-Reformation times; 2 . Tarnty Fair , -Market , -Muir see Tarnty fair , (the site of) a once important fair and. (7 June) 3: Liker the brak' o' a Taranty Muir than a meetin' o' rev[erend] gentlemen. Ags. Tarnty day , a market-day, 1634 (see D.O.S.T. Trinite n . 3 . (4).] 
  215. Side adj., adv.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1700-1934
    ., Ayr. 1915–1923 Wilson). Phr. side-and-wide , extending in every way, long and large (Ayr. 4 1928). w.Lth. 1726 Edb. Ev. Courant (4–6 Oct.): A dog with small black and white spots on his legs. iv.: You may tell her to sew me a gude side shirt. Ayr. 1822 Galt Entail xcix.: Sitting like an effigy on a tomb, wi' your hands baith alike syde. Sc. 1832 A. Henderson Tait's Mag. (May) 288: Your corduroys, a' baith side and wide, and no a broken steek in them. Abd, An' jimp for my body. Sc. 1894 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie 206: A street so 'syde-and-wyde' that there was elbow-room for everyone in Boulder in it. Combs.: (1) side-coat , a long coat, one with a long frock or tails, a great coat. Obs. in Eng. exc. dial.; (2) side-tailed , having a long tail, of a horse, a coat, etc. (1) Arg. 1700 Arg. Justiciary Rec. (Stair Soc.) I. 187: Ane gray syde coat and a night cap. Sc. 1753 Trial J. Stewart App. 20: Allan was 
  216. Pleep n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1885-1957
    PLEEP , n ., v . Also plip (Jak.): plep . I . n . A shrill piping cry, esp. that of a wading bird, the weak peeping cry of a young bird (Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928); Ork. 1929 Marw.; I.Sc. 1966 stameck. 2 . A sea-bird having a thin, high-pitched cry. Also in comb. water(y)-pleep(s) , id, Da pleeps alang da shore. (2) Per. 4 1950 : There's a pair o pleeps nestin in the bog] utters when disturbed has given rise to its names of Heather peeper (Aberdeen) . . . watery pleeps (Orkney Isles). (4) Ork. 4 1957 : A horse gowk, a water pleep an a snipe a' rin on the same twa feet, i.e. they are all the same bird. 3 . A complaint, grumble, 'moan'; a querulous, peevish tone in the ordinary way' (Ork. 1929 Marw.). Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928): Hold dy plip ! hold your tongue. Ork. 1910 Old-Lore Misc. III. i . 32: Wi' a pleep he telt 'er dere wad be naethin for dee,' she said. 'An not anidder pleep oot o dee head aboot bronis' II . v . 1 . To utter a 
  217. Grub v., n.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1814-2004
    ) grubber , an iron harrow, usu. with cultivator tines, used esp. for weeding in drills, a scarifier. Gen.Sc instrument in use here . . . called a grubber , which is drawn by one horse, and is used with effect in I. 487: The common Scotch grubber resembles a strong harrow frame, running upon four wheels and guided like a plough. Kcd. 1894 J. Kerr Reminisc. III. 15: The steam engines will then, wi (1855) 383: He wanted a grub-harrow for turnip-land. 2 . To grasp at (money) in a mean or took it out . . . Was just a grubbing, shyling cuif. Deriv.: grubber , A scrounger. (Ags. 2000s). Ayr. 1997 : Ye're a wee grubber (said to kids). Phr.: in the grubber , Having too little or no Nov 24: 'I seem to recall,' writes Graham Stephen of Montrose, 'my mother telling me as a wee say to my pal, 'fancy a pint?', and if he says to me 'no, I'm in the grubber this week', what he means. Sc. 2003 Aberdeen Evening Express 10 Jul 18: 'Get your student loan here - and put yourself 
  218. Dauble v.1[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1748-1940
    DAUBLE , Daable , v . 1 Sc. forms of Eng. dabble , to employ oneself in a dilettante way, to Court, I should certainly have been daubling this way. Abd. 2 1940 : Yon mannie is a sloungin 
  219. Rector n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1709-2003
    . Gsw. (1911) 84: He had a letter from Mr. Purdie, headmaster and rector of the Grammar School. Fif. 1762 Caled. Mercury (24 July): There is a Vacancy in the Office of Rector of the Grammar of Dundee is at present vacant. Ayr. 1779 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1909) 159: He is. 1804 A. Steel Annan (1933) 183: The Magistrates and Council decide, while the Endowment of the said Academy shall not exceed £50 per annum in money, there shall only be a Rector and two other consisted of a rector and four other classical masters. Ags. 1865 J. C. Jessop Educ. in Ags post of rector of Aberdeen Grammar School. Abd. 1960 Stat. Acc. 3 ( Aberdeenshire ) 482 the headmaster, only a few years ago. Sc. 1994 Daily Record (16 Jun) 20: A letter from Tony McCulloch, rector of Charleston Academy, in Inverness, told parents ... Sc. 1998 Aberdeen afternoon and rector Joe Leiper sent a letter to parents. Sc. 2000 Courier (19 Feb) 4: Mr James 
  220. Molendinar adj., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1820-1877
    MOLENDINAR , adj ., n . Also -ary . [molən′dəinər] I . adj . Pertaining to a mill or miller. Still current in place-name the Molendinar Burn , a stream running through the older part of Glasgow which drove various mills along its course. Otherwise a recreation of Scott as a euphuistic parody. Also molendinary , id., and as n ., a mill. Sc. 1820 Scott Monastery xxviii., xxix.: Comeliest of justly claim. . . . The house of thy molendinary father. Sc. 1822 Scott Pirate xi.: Can a man . . . look at that thing there, which they have the impudence to call a cornmill, without trembling to think that corn should be entrusted to such a miserable molendinary? Sc. 1827 Scott. 1877 W. Alexander Rural Life 151: A curious commentary on the utterly obsolete character of the old molendinary system is found in the case of the mills belonging to the burgh of Aberdeen. II . n . A molar tooth. Sc. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's W. xiii.: The extraction of a carious 
  221. Hugmahush n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1801-1955
    HUGMAHUSH , n . Also hagmahush . [hʌgmə′hʌʃ] 1 . A slovenly person, a slattern (Abd. 4 1931, hagmahush ), a loutish fellow. Also used attrib . = slovenly (Abd. 1825 Jam., Abd. 1953 M. M. Stewart, hugmahush ; Kcd. 1957). Abd. 1801 W. Beattie Parings 6: O laddy! ye're a hagmahush; Yer face is barked o'er wi' smush. Sc. 1825 Aberdeen Censor 155: The Laird was like to burst with rage at being fickled by sic a hag-ma-hush carle. Abd. 1898 J. R. Imray Sandy Todd x.: That hug-ma-hush ganjin' clorach o' a deem, Eppie Mowatt, wha pat oot sic a spin aboot's the nicht ye cam' here. Bnff. 1955 Banffshire Jnl. (19 July): A roch, hug-ma-hush, unshaven an' unshorn, gyaun-aboot kine o' a lad. † 2 . An incompetent or slovenly piece of work. Abd. 1882 T. Mair John o' Arnha's Latter-day Exploits 103: Nae hagmahush o' scythin' then, The reapers a' were gweed. ¶ 3 hugmahush, They snool't their heartless business throu'. [A fanciful formation influenced by such words 
  222. Mercat n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1]<1700-1996
     patch in a field of oats where a courting couple have lain together on the way home from a market (Ork long yesterday and well into the evening the new market stance at Aberdeen was a hive of activity on shopping or purchases, a market transaction. Obs. in Eng. Abd. 1797 Aberdeen Mag. 463: On Friday: Expressed as it is in a very homely style, still it was law, that a person injured in this way was entitled. Arbuthnot John Bull ii . iv.; Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 35; Rxb. 1926 Kelso Chron . (18 June: 'Naebody frae Mensweir's gettin a brak in July,' quo Francie Selby, the store manager. 'We're bringin in a. 5 1962). See Boold ; (3) market brither , a girl's partner at the festivities accompanying a market ( Ib .). See Lammas , 2 .; (4) mercat cross , a market cross; (5) market custom , a due payable on all goods, livestock, etc. brought for sale at a market; (6) market-fair , -fare , money given to spend at a market (Fif. c .1930); a present brought home from a market. See Fair , n . 2 
  223. Magistrand n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]1708-1962
    MAGISTRAND , n . Also † -an . 1 . A fourth year student in a Scottish university about to take the degree of Master of Arts. Now applied in the Universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen to Honours used in those days to be taken for granted, to a degree of Master of Arts. Sc. 1807 J. Grierson Philosophy, and what other classes they please, are termed Magistrands , probably from a barbarous Latin word, magistrandus , put for a person who is about to be made Artium Magister , or Master of Arts. Sc. 1927 A. Murray Old College Gsw. 21: A student . . . in his fourth year [was known] as a. Univ. Calendar 186: At the end of any Winter Session. a Student of the “Fourth” or “Magistrand” Class shall mean a matriculated student qualified to graduate at the end of that Session, who is not of. Thom Hist. Aberdeen II. App. p. 39: Magistrand Class . — The science of astronomy employs the relates to the abstract sciences, or the philosophy of mind. Sc. 1862 A. Dalzel Hist. Univ. Edb 
  224. Pictarnie n.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1710-1930
    . 1832 Aberdeen Mag. (May) 253: He described his wife as being a perfect piktarnty . Abd. 1868 J. Riddell Aberdeen 13: A peer pykit-to-dead-like pictarntie o' a forfairn craeter. 1885 C. Swainson Brit. Birds 202, picket-a , piccatarrie ; ne.Sc. 1903 G. Sim Fauna 'Dee' 179 , a storm occurring about the beginning of April when the terns are returning from wintering abroad that bird, Hector? — it's but a sea-maw.' 'It's a pictarnie, sir,' said Edie. Sc. 1825 Jam. : It is said proverbially, 'If ye do that,' or 'If that be sae, I'se be a pictarnie,' . . . referring to a thing supposed to be impracticable or incredible. Bnff. 1876 S. Smiles Sc. Naturalist ostralegus (Bnff. 1965). 4 . Fig ., a thin, wretched-looking person, an ill-cared-for wretch, a 'scarecrow', 'fright', 'guy' (Kcd. 5 1944, pictarnity ); a bad-tempered person (Cai. 9 1939). Abd 
  225. Wan n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1825-1925
    WAN , n . 2 A general and imprecisely defined term for a locality, an area, a region. Freq. suffixed to a n . and giving the sense 'the direction of — '; also used adv . without prep . = in the to words; Wan is, 'He was gain to Aberdeenwan;' He was on the road to Aberdeen. Abd. 1871 W. 1920 A. Robb MS. ii.: He's maybe heard some tidings aboot her, him bein' awa tae that wan the clover, That grows in yonder wan. [Prob. to be associated with Wane , a dwelling-place, q.v ., which ., which has the same ultimate orig. Cf . Norw. dial. von , expectation, a place where one may expect to find something, a hunting-ground.] 
  226. Wincey n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1763-1933
    . 1763 Aberdeen Jnl. (21 Nov.): A stripped Winsey Petticoat. Per. 1816 J. Duff Poems 2); winshey , wunshey . A cloth material woven with a woollen weft and a linen ( linen wincey ) or cotton ( cotton wincey ) warp (n.Sc. 1808 Jam., winsey ; Ags. 1860 A. Whamond James Tacket 24; Lth. 1886 J. W. McLaren T. Catchiron 44); a garment made of this. Also attrib . Gen.Sc., now adopted in Eng. Abd 24: She's torn my braw new wincey, To mak' a dolly's frock. Sc. 1894 Scots Mag. (March) 290: Set her better to wear a gude winshey goon. Abd. 1917 C. Murray Sough o' War 24 
  227. Semi n.[1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0]1702-1980
    SEMI , n . Also semie . A student in the second year of his university course, usu. applied to the Arts faculty and now only in the Universities of St. Andrews and Aberdeen. Also in full semi , appar. a student's jollification at St. Andrews University to celebrate his entry into the semi -class.) II. 374: John Dunlop a semi his being found drinking in an alehouse. Sc. 1708 Univ. Edb superior Class, albeit he was not a Begen. Sc. 1713 Two Students (Dickinson 1952) 76: Of the intermediate stage before this, he tended to be referred to as a semi-bachelor or semi that had a name at Marischal was the first year medicals, i.e. lambs. [O.Sc. semi , 1626, (Latin) semi-bejanus , id., later taken to mean semi-baccalaureus , one half-way to his bachelor's degree, where such a degree was given at the end of the third year. Semi-bejane is found in 1647.] 
  228. Rictum-ticktum n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1828
     Mansie Wauch vii.: He would . . . fall down as dead as a bag of sand; yet, by their rictum-ticktum, rise-up-Jack, sleight-of-hand, hocus-pocus way, would be on his legs, brushing the stour from his breeches knees, before the green curtain was half-way down. 
  229. Backsey n.[1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1704-1933
    BACKSEY , n . Name for a part of the loin (not the same in all districts) in the Sc. method of cutting up a carcass of beef, less commonly of mutton or pork. [′bɑk′saɪ] Sc. 1704 Acc. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (S.H.S. 1894) 355: A breast and backsey of beife. Sc. 1721 Ramsay Poems 334: A healthfu' Stomach sharply set Prefers a Back-sey pipin het. Sc. 1808 Jam. (s.v. Sey ): In the through it. In Aberdeen used most frequently for pork and mutton. Ayr. 8 1933 : The word backsey 
  230. Brank v.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1867-1925
    ' corkin' preen, An branks the muckle hawket cow For Aberdeen. Ags. 1875 J. Watson Samples of 
  231. Lodge n., v.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]<1700-1991
     . Abd. 1725 W. Orem Old Aberdeen (1791) 85: He made a convenient lodgable house, anno 1713. His etym. note.] I . n . A hut or shelter where men work, specif .: 1 . of operative masons and hence, by extension to Freemasons, a local company or fellowship, now Eng., but appar. of Sc. orig. in this usage; 2 . of fishermen engaged in salmon or, in Sh., deep-sea fishing, a bothy. Also attrib .; 3 . of miners: a pithead shelter (Sc. 1886 J. Barrowman Mining Terms 42). 1 . Sc. 1696 in first lodge? In the porch of Solomon's Temple. Sc. 1755 Scots Mag. (March) 135: A lodge is a place where masons assemble and work. Hence that assembly or society of masons is called a lodge . 2 . Per. 1830 Perthshire Advert. (28 Jan.): A few days ago, some evil disposed persons broke into rows of huts or lodges , ten or twelve of them built in a block, having side-walls instead of gables sittin wi a viscal o gloy windin fytlins for da cappies. Sh. 1900 Manson's Sh. Almanac 122 
  232. Toga n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0]1865-1964
    TOGA , n . Sc. usage: the scarlet gown worn by undergraduates, esp. at the University of Aberdeen has such a charm for him as his red toga. Abd. 1955 W. P. Milne Eppie Elrick v.: He. Deriv. togati , n.pl., students of the Faculty of Arts in Glasgow University who were obliged to wear a required to wear the ancient Academical robe, a scarlet cloak. Under the Non-Togati, or ungowned Students 
  233. Smyster v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     .). 2 . To sit about in a dreamy way, to smile or talk to oneself in a reverie (Cld. 1882 Jam.). II . n . The doing of work in a feeble, dreamy or inept way (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 171; Cld. 1882† SMYSTER , v ., n . [′sməistər] I . v . 1 . To work in a feeble indolent manner (Bnff 
  234. Guggle n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     dirty (Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl ., Sh. 1955); “to knead leaven in a slovenly way” (Edm.). 3 . Fig . To do any kind of work in a bungling way (Sh. 1914 Angus Gl ., Sh. 1955). [O.N. gogli , ooze, mud, bloð 
  235. Saftie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1889-2003
     front of the telly tucking into a home-delivered tikka masala. Nae luck. Sc. 2003 Aberdeen, -ɪk] 1 . = Eng. dial. and colloq. softie , a weak-minded, timid or effeminate person, a simpleton: a policeman. Gsw. 1889 J. Houston Autobiography 167: A bobby, a peeler, a blue-bottle, a Robert, a pig, a sauftie. Lnk. 1895 W. Stewart Lilts 76: Dod, I've often heard o' safties a “saftie”. 2 . A soft biscuit (see Saft , I . 4 . (2)) (Sh., Cai., ne.Sc., Ags., Fif. 1969). Bnff. 1952 Bnff. Advertiser (30 Oct.): In I gied for a saftie An' tossed it doon a crumb; ne.Sc. ( saftick ), Ags., Fif., ( saftie ) 1969), gen. used for bait. Such a crab when no longer soft to the touch is called a hard saftie (Bnff. 1930 Fishery Board Gl .). See also Safter . Bnff. Fif. 1985 Christopher Rush A Twelvemonth and a Day 105: Crabs that had just lost their shells his sheen at nicht, he'd set them side bi side like a young coortin couple, neist the stickbox far he 
  236. Coast n.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1816
    COAST , n . 1 In phr. aff the coast , out of the way. Obs. Cf . Eng. 'the coast is clear.' Sc. 1816 Scott O. Mortality xxxviii.: I daurna gang in the back way till he's aff the coast. 
  237. Peist v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1866
    PEIST , v ., n . [pəist] I . v . To work in a lethargic, half-hearted way, to “swing the lead”, make a poor attempt at a job (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 123). Freq. form peister , id. (Abd., Kcb. 1930). Agent n. peister , a slow, bungling worker (Kcb. 1930). Ppl.adj., vbl.n. peist(er)in , peistan , incompetent, inefficient, lackadaisical(Abd. 4 1929); a half-hearted attempt at work, a botched job (Gregor). Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 123: That vricht's bit a peer peistin' busht. 2 . In freq. form peister : to make one's way with difficulty, struggle along (Mry. 1 1925; Mry., Bnff. 1965). II . n . 1 . A feeble little person, an ineffectual creature (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D 
  238. Slit n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1776-1822
    -mark consisting of a cut in the ear (Kcb. 1970). Abd. 1778 Aberdeen Jnl. (24 Aug.): A Nip and Sc. Songs II. 189). Sc. form and usages: I . n . 1 . As in Eng. Specif . in Sc. a type of sheep a Slit on one of each's Ears. Sh. 1822 S. Hibbert Description (1891) 185: These [sheep marks] received such names as a shear, a slit, a hole. ‡ 2 . One of the segments of an orange (Abd. 13 1910). 3 . In pl .: the reeds in a weaver's loom. But poss. a miswriting of splits , id rendered our stok almost Euseless. 4 . “A splinter; a splinter of rotten timber” (Sc. 1911 S.D.D .). II . v . As in Eng. in combs. (1) slit-mill , a slitting mill, for splitting iron bars or plates; (2) slit-nail , a split-pin. (1) Sc. 1776 A. Smith Wealth of Nations ii . i.: The which a slit-nail is put, that keeps the teeth immoveable. 
  239. Skinny adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]1892-1985
     Times (22 Jan.): There used to be a children's song in Aberdeen relating the adventures of a thin man) , skineemelink (Ork. 2000s); skinama-link(ie) , and reduced form skinnylinky , a thin skinny person or animal); 3 . skinny tatie , a potato boiled in its skin (wm., sm. and s.Sc. 1970). 2 . Ags. 1892. 1940 R. Garioch 17 Poems for 6d. 13: An aw the time the skinnylinky copper's a' ir heels. Ork. 1952 R. T. Johnston Stenwick Days (1984) 36: 'Geud, thoo're no exactly a skineemelink,' replied Mansie with a grin, 'bit whit's the differ? I like a fat lass mesel.' Abd. 1956 Sunday called “Skinamalinky Lang Legs”, which is still sung as a skipping-song, etc.: Skinamalinky, lang legs a caunle Tae a real wummin lik' you, yir too hoat tae haunle. 
  240. Tenant n.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1711-1781
     well Tenant stead. Abd. 1781 Aberdeen Jnl. (5 March): The House . . . being a complete new. forms and usages in combs.: † 1 . tenant-ste(a)d , -steed , occupied by (a) tenant(s), let. See Steid , v ., 1 .; † 2 . tenant('s) toun , a small hamlet of tenants who lease land as a group, a township Geog. Coll. (S.H.S.) I. 184: Shabster, a great tennent toun of about 30 families. w.Sc. 1775 S. Johnson Journey 203: Land is sometimes leased to a small fellowship, who live in a cluster of huts, called a Tenants' Town, and are bound jointly and separately for the payment of their rent. [The form tenan is a ne.Sc. reduction of O.Sc. tenand , 1425 (See D , letter, 2 .), which has been 
  241. Gag n., v.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     ( atill ) onyting . Also fig . to do work in the wrong way; occas. with object, e.g. to gag a fish , to gut a fish in the wrong way or clumsily” (Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928)). [Origin uncertain. Phs. imit. butGAG , n ., v . 1 Also gagger . I . n . 1 . “A filthy mass of any substance, liquid, or semi-liquid” (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 225, gag(ger) ); “mire; mud; a porridge-like mass, esp. of too thick gruel or spoon-meat” (Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928); Sh. 1953). Cf . Gogar , n . 2 2 “A large rugged cloud” (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 225). II . v . “To stir a porridge-like mass, to sit gagin in 
  242. Gers n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1995-2005
     was even sillier talk of a vendetta by football big-wigs and the law against the Gers. Rangers are too big to be involved in such childish nonsense. Sc. 1998 Aberdeen Evening Express 10 Mar 52, when Arveladze finished from a Claudio Caniggia cross. Sc. 2002 Evening Times 29 Nov : I 
  243. Mediment n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ¶ MEDIMENT , n . A middle course, a moderate way (Abd. 6 1913). [Nonce formation from medi 
  244. Angersome adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1891-1929
    ANGERSOME , adj . Provoking, vexatious. (Obs. in St.Eng.) Gen.Sc. [′ɑŋərsʌm] Mry. 1 a say the widder's fell angersome fyles, fin ye canna depen' on a day. m.Sc. 1924 “O. Douglas” Pink Sugar (1929) xiv.: I canna stand her way of speakin', it's terrible angersome. Knr. 1891 atweel. Lnk. 1928 W. C. Fraser The Yelpin' Stane 174: The way they gaed on aboot Scots folk 
  245. Scribble v.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1701-1795
     scribbler , a workman who cards wool. Comb. scribble-dick , a wool-carding machine. See Dick , n . 3 thereof, from the fleece to the chope such as scribling dyeing mixing burling etc. Ags. 1711 A. J. Galashiels (1898) 300: Another primitive method of carding the wool was by means of what was termed a Scrubling Cards. Sc. 1776 A. Smith Wealth Nations i . i. § 1: The wool-comber, the dyer, the scribbler. Abd. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 XIX. 207: In the year 1789, a water-mill was first erected near Aberdeen, with machinery for teasing, scrubbling, carding, and rowing of wool. [O.Sc. scrubler , 1682 
  246. Beds n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]1884-1985
     peevers beddies in Aberdeen but fell for Rommel at the bottom of the garden... Mearns 1929 J. B — each had a place in the circling year. Fif. 1985 Christopher Rush A Twelvemonth and a Day 75-ropes, their rhymes and roundelays. Lth. a .1885 'J. Strathesk' More Bits from Blinkb. (1885 'Chucks.' m.Lth. 1897 P. H. Hunter J. Armiger's Revenge viii.: She was a girl again 
  247. Glaswegian n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1]1818-2003
     Scott Rob Roy xxii.: The Glaswegian took him by the hand, and bade him 'Cheer up a gliff!' Sc Jan 19: Glaswegian Douglas, who was running a haulage firm near Amsterdam, was at the centre of a bizarre drug war 'execution' controversy two years ago. Sc. 1998 Aberdeen Evening Express 11 fixture in its closing stages. Sc. 2003 Daily Star 24 Dec 50: A poll of nearly 1,300 of Manchester's Ricky Hatton. [A reduced form of Glasgowegian .] 
  248. Nyingie-nyangie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ¶ NYINGIE-NYANGIE , n . Manoeuvring (Abd. 1919 T.S.D.C .). [Imit. of a this-way-and-that 
  249. Peff n., v., adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1866
    , clumsy way, to clump along. Deriv. peffin , a stout heavy-footed person, a clumsy lump ( Ib .). Bnff. III . adv . In a dull, heavy manner, in a clumsy heavy-footed way, with a thud ( Ib .). [Variant ofPEFF , n ., v ., adv . I . n . 1 . A dull, heavy blow or thud, the noise so made, a heavy footfall (Bnf. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 123). 2 . A clumsy, stupid person, a dolt, clodhopper ( Ib .). II. ( Ib .); vbl.n. peffan , a beating, drubbing; intr . to fall over heavily; to walk in a heavy-footed. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 123: Peff in the pile. Peff doon that stane. Sic a peffan's he did get 
  250. Pattle n., v.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1711-1929
    , pɛtl] ‡ I . n . An implement with a spatulate blade, usually carried on a plough for clearing the mould-board of soil, a plough-staff (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Uls. 1905 Uls. Jnl. Archaeol . 125; Sh. 1908 Jak , id. (Ayr. 1785 Burns Earnest Cry xv.), and deriv. pettler , n., one who wields a pattle , the ploughman's boy (Arg. 3 1952). Abd. 1711 W. Meston Poet. Wks. (1802) 155: Meantime a Ploughman, with a Pattle, Engag'd the Captain close in battle. Abd. 1739 Caled. Mag. (1788) 501: A huddrin hynd came wi' his pattle, As he'd been at the pleugh. Mry. 1761 Aberdeen Mag. (March) 153: With the pattle (a piece of furniture belonging to the plough) he gave him a violent blow on the head. Kcd. 1768 in A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 6: The devil pay them with a pettle, That slight the North. Ayr. 1786 Burns To a Mouse i.: I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle! Sc. 1820 Scott Monastery xi.: If he liked a book ill, he liked a plough or a pattle 
  251. Kribble n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1930
    KRIBBLE , n . Also kripple . An arrangement of a number of sheaves in a certain way in a small the east side. This made six sheaves so spread. Then a second tier in the same way atop of the other east side. Then two sheaves leaned on the west side. This formed the steethe of seven sheaves. Then a 
  252. Owerhip adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1787-1879
    OWERHIP , adv . Also owre- . Of a smith: striking in a particular way by raising the hammer from the hip and bringing it over the shoulder; fig . with a heavy blow, in a hard forcible manner. Comb. owre-hip heat , the degree of heat at which metal may be hammered in this way. Used fig . in quot, wi' sturdy wheel, The strong forehammer. Dmf. 1826 A. Cunningham Paul Jones I. ix.: He 
  253. Jam-tart n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1990-2004
    . , v. I. A. 1. (1)) football team or its supporters. Also in reduced form Jambo . Also attrib: One of the latter had come on the tube from a Jambo saddo who started haranguing Eddie about a dodgy penalty a few seasons back. Sc. 1999 Angus Calder in Moira Burgess and Donny O'Rourke New by the fact Hearts were dumped 4-0 by Rangers on Saturday, and warned of a Jambo backlash. Edb. 2000 Edinburgh Evening News 18 Sep 15: '... We're concerned, too, that Salmond's a Jambo and we tomorrow. ne.Sc. 2003 Aberdeen Evening Express 8 Aug 48: Aberdeen begin their first full season under boss Steve Paterson with a tough test against the Jambos in Edinburgh tomorrow. Few outwith earned a place in the UEFA Cup. Sc. 2003 Observer 5 Oct 6: The Jam Tarts should have taken over from nine yards out. Four minutes later, Dundee hit them on the break. Garry Brady took a quick 45: A Jambo for more than 50 years, Donald Macaulay was the obvious choice for Gorgie chairman 
  254. Fish n., v.[0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1735-1950
     Colliston, there is a commodious and safe harbour. Abd. 1795 Aberdeen Journal 9 Jun 24: Wanted-Lore 201: We wiz in a 'chiffer-oot's''oose; we cudna hae a fushin. Kcb. 1912 G. M. Gordon Clay Biggin' 19: A grand sportsman he was tae . . . as a fusher he had nae equal. Sc. 1930 Scots Mag. (Sept.) 421: We hadna had nae luck at a' when suddenly a big fush jumpit up a hunner yards; 'includes sea-trout' (Bwk. 2 1952). Hence comb. fish-money , a bounty given for a certain number of fish caught (Bwk. 3 1952). Sc. 1830 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) II. 388: You're a gran' par-fisher-Fishing 93: That's no fish ava. . . . Do ye no ken a troot when ye see it? Abd. 1936 T. H. White England have my Bones 29: When people talk about salmon here they call it 'a fish.' Trouts are just trouts. Sc. 1950 Scotsman (1 Feb.): By the way, only salmon are fish in the) fish(y)-bee , a bluebottle fly (Sh. 1952); (2) fish-cadger , a fish hawker. Gen.Sc.; †(3) fish-carle 
  255. Hale v., n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1706-1992
     Aberdeen Jnl. (21 May): Going out of the harbour of Aberbrothick, in a fishing boat, to hale their Eng. Sc. 1706 Mare of Collingtoun in Watson Choice Coll . i . 40: Then in a Grief he did ships that are livered immediately haill out of the way. [1717 Ib . (1909) 17, hale .] Abd. 1764 lobster nets. Sh. 1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shet. 512: Whan we had sitten a while, we tuik wir. 1950 Scots Mag. (April) 58: For they've nae eese for a sorry chiel that cwidna haill a net night watchman - if we wis comin hame fae the toon - he wad say, 'Oh loons, gie's a hand tae hale this net'. Phr. and Combs.: (1) hailin kabe , the thole-pin over which a fishing line is hauled in (Sh. 1914 Angus Gl ., Sh. 1956); (2) hailin muff , a fisherman's mitten used to protect the hands when hauling (Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl ., 1914 Angus Gl ., Sh. 1956); †(3) to haill a hundred , of a weaver: to take away by stealth, to filch a hundred threads from the warping yarn. See Hunder . (3) Sc. 1715 A 
  256. Boutgate n.[0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1737-1921
     a bood-gait,' i.e. the up and down furs of the plough 2 . A roundabout way; fig . a ruse , Boutgain , Bouting , Boutin . Lit. a going about, the extent of an about or a round: hence, the act of, a boutgate or bouting is the space gone over or the work done with one sharp, i.e. one . 2 , 2 .] Gall. 1912 A. Chalmers in Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc. 290: 'He ploughed! Slg. 1818 W. Muir Poems 267: They'll twist me to naething or less at the last, An' mak' me a bout-gait to ilka bit place. Ayr. 1823 Galt R. Gilhaize I. 99: Perth was a wide bout-gait to take frae St Andrews to come to Edinburgh Hence bout-gaits , adv., in an underhand way. Abd : in a shallow pit, a secondary access road to the mine from the surface, independent of the shaft (Fif 'boutgates are run in the hill-side. Fif. 1863 St Andrews Gaz. (14 Feb.): The only proper way 'boutgate'. [O.Sc. boutgate , -gait from 1573, round-about way, evasion ( D.O.S.T .); bout , aphetic 
  257. Mou n., v.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1718-1950
    .) I. 81: But Laurie he took out his Nap Upon a Mow of Pease. Abd. 1768 Aberdeen Jnl. (10 the way the sheaves were built up in the barn. [O.Sc. mow , a stack or pile of grain, 1375MOU , n ., v . Also moue ; moo ; mow(e) . [Sc. mu:, s.Sc. mʌu] I . n . 1 . A large pile or heap of grain, hay, straw or similar dry materials, esp. a pile of unthreshed grain stored in a unthreshed grain; to generate heat through being stored in a damp condition, vbl.n. mow-burning ; n., the heat so generated (Rnf. a .1850 Crawfurd MSS . (N.L.S.) M. 69). Sc. 1718 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S Oct.): Gaitskell made his escape, and got upon a hay mow in the neighbourhood. Ayr. 1788. Robertson Agric. m.Lth. 63: In building the stacks, some draw a large bag, stuffed with straw, up the centre, which leaves a kind of funnel for the vapour to escape, and thus prevents heating , or mow stacking, unless in a very dry state. Slk. 1810 Hogg Forest Minstrel (1874) 276: An' blyther 
  258. Garron n.2[1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1703-1930
    ), † gurran , garra ; gallan (Cai. 1900 E.D.D. ; Bnff. 4 1927; Ork., Cai. 1954). A length of squared timber, a beam. Hence garron-nail , a large broad-pointed nail, a spike nail, esp. such as is used in fixing the body of a cart to the axle (Ags. 1705 in R. Finlayson Royal Burgh of Arbroath (1923) 19; Inv nails 9 inches long for stamping the old roof of the choir £4 Sc. Abd. 1758 Aberdeen Jnl. (25 April): A parcel of Deals, Fir-Logs, Oak-garrons, Bed-Stoups, and other wrecked timber. Bnff. 2 , etc., a short wooden beam, from 1543, a nail for use with garrons from 1616, also garro(u)n-nail , etc., from 1506. Of uncertain origin, phs. O. North. Fr. * garron = O.Fr. jarron , a branch of a 
  259. Heathen n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1813-1928
     called Gneiss. Sc. 1825 Aberdeen Censor 125: It was just a queer clump o' a roun'-aboutHEATHEN , n . Also haethen , haithen , haythen . [′hiθən; ′heθən] 1 . A name given to gneiss or similar stone in ne.Sc., a glacial boulder (ne.Sc. 1956). Comb. blue heathen , hornblende gneiss (Abd. 1956). Also used attrib . Mearns 1813 G. Robertson Agric. Kcd. 3: There is a' dress't sanstane or polish't marble. Bnff. 1890 J. Kerr Hist. Curling 386: A still better tough that these boulders were locally termed heathens . Bnff. 2 c .1928 : That's a haithen; it'll naither mak nor brak; try't wi' a shot o' poodher. 2 . A single-soled shoe (Rxb. a .1838 Jam 
  260. Strowd n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]1824-1968
     . n . ‡ 1 . A popular, usu. anonymous, song of a light or somewhat nonsensical character, a street-ballad or the like (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.; Abd. 1971); a depreciatory term for any piece of verse. Hence stroud-seller , a ballad-monger. Abd. 1824 G. Smith Douglas 80: Now, sirs, ye've seen our Douglas thro' an' thro'; What think ye o' the stroud? 'tis far frae new. Sc. 1826 Aberdeen Censor 1958): I was fascinated by one “stroud-seller” — a hawker of street ballads. With his sightless face disreputable old stroud “The Souter's Feast.' 2 . A piece of nonsense, rubbishy talk or writing, balderdash (Abd. 1971). Abd. c .1880 : Schoolmaster: Blot out a' that strowd![off a pupil's slate] Abd 
  261. Hackum-plackum adv., adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1847-1868
     her hackim plackim . II . adj . Equal in every way (Bwk. 1825 Jam., haukum-plaukum ); closely Wabster 16: The Missus kent the way to straik him, — And Will and she were haukum plaukum. [ Cf . Eeksie-peeksie and Equal-aqual for similar reduplic. formations. The first element may be a corruption of equal and the second influenced by Plack , a piece of money.] 
  262. Bonailie n.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1722-1931
    (ɪ̢), bɔn′alez, bɔn′ɛlo] 1 . “A drink taken with [or a toast to] a friend, when one is about to part with him; as expressive of one's wishing him a prosperous journey” (Sc. 1808 Jam. s.v. bonalais oor bonalie blinkit in At the merket cross o' Aberdeen. Arg. 1931 I. Burnett Ravens Enter hands, the three glasses on a silver ashet. Ayr. 1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage 218: He was and a' To gi'e him a merry bonello. 2 . pl . in phr. to cry bonallies , to cry godspeed. Sc , also bonalai , bonae , bonnaillie , a farewell health or greeting, from Fr. bon , good, aller , go 
  263. By-gang n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    BY-GANG , n. comb . “A by-way” (Gall. 1890 P. Dudgeon in Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc . 58 
  264. Hit interj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ‡ HIT , int . A call to a horse to go at a steadier pace or to back (Cai. 1957). [Prob. mainly onomat. but ? cf . Norw. dial. hit , hither, this way.] 
  265. Smoit n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ¶ SMOIT , n . A person who talks in a silly obscene way (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl 
  266. Slush n., v.[0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]1714-1964
     Tweeddale 23: Tweed, from its first head, runs down to a place upon the high way called Tweed's Slush Shetland News (13 Jan.): Ye shurely a' notic'd what a slush I wis. 3 . A heavy, slothful way of way, a heavy, awkward person ( Id .). 4 . A speech peculiarity in which the lateral l [l] is used in large quantities or a wholesale way (Fif. 1952). Abd. 1714 R. Smith Poems (1853) 82.: Like so many pigs slushing at the same trough. 2 . To work in a messy, untidy or careless way (OrkSLUSH , n ., v . Also sluish . Sc. usages: I . n . 1 . A wet marshy place, a puddle., Cai. 1970). Deriv. slushrie , sloppy food, used attrib . in 1847 quot. Peb. 1715 A. Pennecuik Border Mag. (May) 88: There's a lot o' bog holes and slush in the narrow opening. 2 . A slovenly, untidy person, a slut; a menial worker, a drudge, “skivvy” (Sc. 1825 Jam.). Hence slushy , adj J. Halliday Rustic Bard 182: To make yer wife a slush, yer bairns a scorn? Sh. 1900 
  267. Swab v.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    SWAB , v . 2 To go about in a loose, idle way, to loaf, lounge (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 187 
  268. Winnie v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ¶ WINNIE , v . Also wingie . “To move or walk with a shuglie way” (Rnf. c .1850 Crawfurd MSS 
  269. Ship n., v.[0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1710-1835
     , the pole at the lower end of a salmon-net which is drawn across the river by the boat (see quot.); 3 . ship-wrack , shipwreck (Sh. 1970). This form became obs. in Eng. a .1700. Hence ppl.adj. ship-wracked . 1 . Sc. 1815 Scots Mag. (August) 635: A number of that species of whale called by sailors Ship Jacks . 2 . Abd. 1798 Session Papers, Burnet v. Earl of Aberdeen (18 Dec.) 3: The net itself is protracted and carried over to the opposite side by means of a coble, and then is shipwrack at Muckross, upon this coast. Wgt. a .1725 G. Fraser Lowland Lore (1880) 45: To 3, sir, would suffer shipwrack. II . v . In vbl.n. shipping , a landing-place, pier, quay. w.Lth 
  270. Porteous n.[1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1708-1826
     Porteous Roll, and summoned me to appear before a Criminal Court to be holden at Aberdeen in May, 1709PORTEOUS , n . Also -eus , -uous. Sc. Law forms and usages of Eng. † portas , a portable breviary or manual, in combs. 1 . Porteous clerk , one of a number of legal officers whose function was to be tried before the Circuit Courts of Justiciary, made up by the Justice Clerk with a general the Sheriffs respectively, which enjoined them to cause summon a competent number of fit and habile. Inv. 1721 Steuart Letter-Bk. (S.H.S.) 169: He is advised to porteus roll a great many of these: That Macilivoil was then a prisoner at Fort-William, and stood in the porteous-roll, in order to be notice of his trial, and time for his agent and lawyers to prepare for it, by bringing it on in the way originally applied to a breviary or portable book of prayers might easily be transferred to a portable roll remember before the Porteous roll being quite blank. [O.Sc. portuis , a list of offenders, 1436 
  271. Distrenzie v.[1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1701-1824
    . distrain , to seize (goods) by way of enforcing an obligation or payment of debt. Gen. in phr. to poind distrennyieing his goodes. Sc. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet vii.: After a' that the law could do . . . in the way of poinding and distrenzieing, and sae forth . . . she ran awa to the Charity Workhouse 
  272. Exerce v., n.[1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1708-1793
     office); to act (in a certain capacity); to employ with a view to improvement. Cf . similar obs. use of exercise in Eng. Sc. 1708 in Earls of Crm. (ed. Fraser 1876) II. 79: The presbetery of Aberdeen sent him a summonds to appear before them upon the account of schismatical practises in presuming to exerce the ministry by a license from the exauctorat bishops. Lnk. 1717 J.P.s Lnk. (S.H.S. 1931 the conservator allow no persone to exerce as a factor. Rxb. 1718 in Trans. Hawick Arch. Soc 
  273. Narr v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1789-1955
     . [n(j)ɑr] Abd. 1789 Aberdeen Mag. 505: Whan ither dogs would raise a wark, And niarr at gat him, as he had been a mouse. Uls. 1831 G. Brittaine Irishmen 194: What's come over you, Alice, to be so sharp and nyarragh this morning? Cai. 4 c .1920 : 'At's a nyarrin' moniment o' a bairn. Abd. 1924 L. Coutts Caul' Nor'-East 24: Ye beir the bell at kirk an' ha the nyarrin' an' fechtin' amon' the nieces an' ithers o' Kirsten's kin hed come till a terrible heicht 
  274. Crutlachin ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † CRUTLACHIN , ppl.adj . “Conversing in a silly tattling way” (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.). [Prob. the same word as cruttle , to make a low, chattering sound (see Kruttle ), with dim. suff. -ach .] 
  275. Sharrow n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ¶ SHARROW , n . In phr. never said sharrow , never said a word, remained mute, never uttered a murmur, by way of information, complaint or the like (Knr. 1930). [Orig. obscure.] 
  276. Grist n.2, v.2[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1720-1993
     Aberdeen Jnl. (21 Aug.): Merchant in Aberdeen gives out Flax to spin of all sorts of Grists from sixteen grists , part of the cloth appeared of a fine fabric, while another part of the same cloth seemed quite thread to the pound and is stated as the number of hanks of 560 yards to which a pound of wool can be to be of a certain grist , according to the particular size of the grains. Lnk. 1853 W judge, to guess; 'to guess the weight, size, or temperature of a thing without actually weighing or measuring' (Uls. 1900 E.D.D. ). Uls. 1901 North. Whig : The wife, who never likes to see a man without a turn to do, was on fo' me helping with the churn, but we gristed et that ill that I had on'y grist it. [Not in O.Sc. Prob. a variant with met. of girth , + -st suff. as in Grist , n . 1 
  277. Booshie interj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    BOOSHIE , Bushi , int . “Way of calling on a cow” (Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl ., booshie ; 1914 Angus Gl 
  278. Recounter v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    RECOUNTER , v . Sc. usage: to turn the contrary way, to reverse, to invert; “a technical term 
  279. Kuter v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † KUTER , v . Also cuter . “To converse in a clandestine way, with appearance of great intimacy” (Sc. 1825 Jam.). Also in Eng. dial. [A variant of Cuiter , 2 ., to coax, wheedle.] 
  280. Off-sided adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1885
     265: I speired in a very off-sided way frae them wha were in.OFF-SIDED , adj . Off-hand, casual (Uls. 1964). Kcb. 1885 A. J. Armstrong Friend and Foe 
  281. Incorporate ppl. adj.[0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1711-1953
    INCORPORATE , ppl.adj . As in Eng. = formally constituted as a corporation, applied in Scot. esp. to the trade associations in a burgh. Now gen. in the form incorporated . Cf . Incorporation burgh. Sc. 1755 Johnson Dict. s.v.: Incorporate , v., to form into a corporation, or body to send, from among their Deacons, a representative to the Town Council [of Edinburgh], in the person. Sc. 1953 Stat. Acc. 3 , Aberdeen 527: The several Incorporated Trades, now mainly provident 
  282. Ticher v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    TICHER , v . Also tigher . To laugh in a suppressed way, to titter (Ayr. 1825 Jam.). [′tɪxər 
  283. Uppins adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    UPPINS , adv . A little way upwards, in an upward direction (Sc. 1825 Jam.). Cf. dounnins s.v 
  284. Skevrel v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ¶ SKEVREL , v . “To move unsteadily in a circular way”, to swerve (Rnf. 1825 Jam.). [Poss. a 
  285. Scrift n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1766-1928
    SCRIFT , n ., v . Also scriff- . I . n . A relation, account, a long passage of prose or verse recited or read off, a long-winded story (Cld. 1880 Jam.; Abd. 1921; Kcd., Ags. 1969); a fabrication, falsehood (Jam.). Per. 1766 A. Nicol Poems 76: He can pray, and tell long scrifts of Greek. Fif. 1811 C. Gray Poems 62: “Off loof” ye'se get a scrift (tho' silly) O' my poor my mither, an' gie her a scrift o' a' the news that was gaun on. Lnk. 1865 J. Hamilton Poems 293: [To] rhyme a bit scrift in reply to yer letter. Sc. 1928 J. G. Horne Lan'wart recite, declaim, reel off . Vbl.n. scriffan [ < scriftin ], a story, account. Abd. 1797 Aberdeen Mag. 350: Frae Rabbie's sangs wad scrifted aff bedeen, His pair o' Dogs , Horn-buik , or Hallowe'en . Ags. 1819 A. Balfour Campbell I. xviii.: [They] wad hae scriftit aff a psalm or a paraphrase ilka Sunday night. Abd. 1921 T.S.D.C. : He sent me a letter, a short scriffan about his 
  286. Powk v.2, n.2, adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1866
    † POWK , v . 2 , n . 2 , adv . I . v . 1 . To walk in a heavy-footed way with a dull stane, fin it strack the botham. III . adv . Suddenly with a bump, in an awkward, heavy way, thud fishin'. II . n . A dull, hollow sound “caused by poking, or by anything falling into a hollow place” (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 134). Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 134: A hard the powk o' the! thud! ( Ib .). Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 134: He fell powk heelster-gowdie in o' a hole i' the ditch, an' cam oot drookit like a droont moose. . . . He geed powk , powk ben the fleer 
  287. Chapel n.[0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1]1710-2001
    CHAPEL , n . As in Eng., a church not belonging to the established religion of the country, in. 1710 Short Acct. Grievances Episc. Clergy (1712) 16: The inhabitants of Old Aberdeen, who are of'. Gsw. 1992 Thomas Healy Rolling 5: The priest had a lot of sway. It was an honour should he Wallace was RC and attended the chapel in Annan despite being married to a Protestant. 
  288. Eemage n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1828-1924
     'ill a' come richt 19: He gaed into Aberdeen last weenter a stout healthy callan wi' a fund o' life. C. Smith Braid Haaick 10). [′imɪdʒ Sc., but Sh., Rxb. ′imidʒ] 1 . A figure fashioned by the fairies to resemble and be substituted for a child they desire to steal. Sh. 1877 G. Stewart' oot trow da door, and . . . in comes a beautiful bairn wi' yallow curlin' hair, an' just da very face o' what dere ain bairn sud a been. ne.Sc. 1881 Gregor Folk-Lore 61: That's nae a bairn; that's an image; the bairn's been stoun. 2 . A ghost of one's former self; a pitiful little “scrap”; a “sight” (Sh. 10 , Ork. 5 , Bnff. 2 , Abd. 2 , Bwk. 3 1945). Also found in Eng. dial. Sc. 1828 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) II. 119: Here, perhaps, a leevin cretur, like an emage, staunin at the mouth o' a close, or hirplin alang, like the last relic o' the plague. Bnff. 1872 W. Philip It in him, and he came back an eemage. Ags. 1887 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends 65: Wear absurd 
  289. A-b-buff n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1882
     Blinkb. 187: It's just as easy as A-B-buff when ye're into the way o't.A-B-BUFF , n . The alphabet. [′e ′bi ′bʌf] Lth. 1882 J. Strathesk [J. Tod] Bits from 
  290. Offcome n.[0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1717-1901
    OFFCOME , n . See also Affcome . 1 . An excuse, pretext, subterfuge, evasion, a way of avoiding bad result, the way in which a thing works out (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. ; s.Sc. 1964). Sc. 1901 or getting out of a difficulty or awkward situation (Sc. 1825 Jam.). Sc. 1717 R. Wodrow a silly Stretch and Offcome. Sc. 1819 Scott Bride of Lamm. xxvi: A gude offcome, prudently and creditably handled, may serve a nobleman and his family, Lord kens how lang! 2 . A good or 
  291. Mettle n., adj.[0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1756-1894
     of a creature — far north, Aberdeen-awa like, and looking at two sides of a half-penny. Rnf. 1962). Arch . in Eng. Sc. 1756 M. Calderwood Journey (M.C.) 239: 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. Sc. c .1770 Herd's MSS. (Hecht 1904) 181: She has a tongue intill her head to gie a mettle answer. Fif. 1806 A. Douglas Poems 23: A sonsy mettle hizzy. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet Letter xi.: That's a mettle beast of yours, freend; will you sell him? Abd. 1824 G. Smith Douglas 21: Ye're nae a beggar's brat, I'll gie my aith An' mair, I see ye're mettle to the teeth. Edb. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch xx.: 'Od he was a mettle bodie. 1886 Stevenson Kidnapped xxiii.: He is an honest and a mettle gentleman. Kcb. 1894 Crockett Raiders xxxiii.: Ye'll ken Laird Heron o' the Rathan, Jen — a mettle spark. 
  292. Liefhebber n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1791
     the ling Did wale his nichtly way. [A nonce borrowing from Du. liefhebber , a lover, esp. of the¶ LIEFHEBBER , n . A lover. Edb. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 13: Her fause lief hebber owre 
  293. Smug v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1787-1813
     furtive way (Sh. 1904 E.D.D. ). Also smugger (Id.). Adv. smugglins , in a surreptitious mannerSMUG , v . Also smugg- and freq. form smugger . [smʌg] 1 . To go about in a stealthy underhand way ( Id .). Cf . Eng. hugger-mugger , id. Bnff. 1787 W. Taylor Poems 143: Whiskie we , with the basic meaning of 'creeping in a stealthy manner, acting secretively.' The Sh. form is phs 
  294. Pilder v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1929
    † PILDER , v . To run or trot in a feeble, slow way. Ork. 1929 Marw. : Of an old pony in a 
  295. Tanty-ranty n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1821
    ¶ TANTY-RANTY , n . Fornication. Edb. 1821 W. Liddle Poems 34: Which ever way ane maks a seizure O' the fair, i' the auld affair Ca't tanty ranty. [A reversed form of Rantie-tantie 
  296. Coolie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1948
    COOLIE , n . See quot. (Mry. 1975). [′kuli] Inv. 1948 Football Times (11 Sept.): A “coolie”was the name given to a hiding place. [Dim. form ad. Gael. cuil , corner, nook, out-of-the-way place.] 
  297. Bestriddle v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1847
    : Nae fleeching an' fondness, but glunching an' strife, Bestriddles the way o' a man wi' a wife 
  298. Dushill n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † DUSHILL , n . and v . 1 . n . “A female who performs her work in a very slovenly way” (Ayr 
  299. Sugg n.2, v.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     drink in a sucking, slobbering way like a calf (Ork. 1971). [Variant of Eng. swig , id., phsSUGG , n . 2 , v . 2 I . n . A big drink (Cai. 1931). II . v . In freq. form suggle , to 
  300. Akinda adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1894
    AKINDA , adv . In a way; in some measure; rather. A local form of kin(d) o' , adv. phr. See Kind 
  301. Backin n.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1877
    BACKIN , n . 1 The day after a fair; “The day after a wedding” ( S.D.D . 191; not known to our correspondents). Lnk. 1877 W. McHutchison Poems  141:  That was the way they spent the backin' O 
  302. Drane n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1910
     Football Times (28 Aug. 1948): To have a “drane” was the other way of saying that a person was sulkyDRANE , n . A frown, a peevish expression (Inv. c .1925 (per Abd. 27 )). Inv. c .1910. [Gael. draing , drein , snarling, peevishness, a grin.] 
  303. Black Cork n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1843
     ower the way to Bell's brewery, and get ye a pint o' black cork to synd it doun wi'. 
  304. Lithy n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    . hlið , a gate(way), a space, interval.]LITHY , n . A lull, a calm period in a storm or gale (Ork. 1929 Marw.); a passage of smooth water amid surf or breakers for a boat to beach in ( Ib .). [′lɪθɪ] [Appar. ad. Norw. dial. lid , O.N 
  305. Jirry n., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     W.-B. ). II . v . “To run about from place to place in an unsteady way” (Rxb. a .1838 Jam. MSSJIRRY , n ., v . Also jerry . I . n . A drive at a smart pace in a vehicle (Rxb. 1923 Watson 
  306. Skae interj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † SKAE , int . A call to a dog to get out of the way (Rnf. c .1850 Crawfurd MSS . ( N.L.S .) S. 78). [Poss. a reduced form of iskey s.v. Isk . Crawfurd may have misunderstood the orig. meaning of coaxing (a dog) to come.] 
  307. Covener n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1822
     Clues, that was then deacon Covener, and a man of great potency in his way. [For loss of n , cf† COVENER , n . A Sc. form of Eng. convener . Ayr. 1822 Galt Provost ii.: Mr Alexander 
  308. Platter v., n., adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1885-1889
    , to work in a messy, slovenly way, to Plowter (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff . 129; w.Sc. 1880 JamPLATTER , v ., n ., adv . Also plotter . I . v . 1 . To dabble with the hands in a liquid about in an aimless, leisurely way, to drift around, potter about (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. , plotter . adv . With a splashing noise, 'splosh!' (Gregor). [Prob. chiefly onomat. Cf. splatter .] 
  309. 'ave-a-carry Me interj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1875
     that way. [Prob. for 'Have-a-care-of-me.']'AVE-A-CARRY ME , interj . (See quot.) Fif. 1875 A. Burgess Poute (1890) 113: 'Ave-a-carry me , Tibby; i' oor young days the laddies wud a' been terrified oot o' their wits to hae spoken 
  310. Suggan n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1824
    † SUGGAN , n . A coverlet for a horse's back used instead of a saddle; a bed cover (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl . 441). Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 46: The saddle a goatskin, by way of “sugan” [From Anglo-Ir. dial., ad. Ir. sugan , id.] 
  311. A'wye adv. phr.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1856-1857
    A'WYE , adv. phr . Every way, everywhere. Also in phr. a'wye an' athort (see Athort ). [′ɑ:wɑɪ] Abd.(D) a .1857 Mrs A. Allardyce The Goodwife at Home (1918) xlii.: Syne rin an' leuk for 
  312. Chack-a-pudding n. phr.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † CHACK-A-PUDDING , n.phr . “A selfish fellow, who, either in eating, or in whatsoever other way influence from Eng. jack-pudding , a buffoon.] 
  313. Striffle v., n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    ¶ STRIFFLE , v ., n . I . v . “To move in a fiddling or shuffling sort of way; often applied to one who wishes to appear as a person of importance” (Slk. 1825 Jam.). II . n . A shuffling gait 
  314. Strobble v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1877
    ¶ STROBBLE , v . To walk in a shambling, awkward way. Wgt. 1877 “Saxon” Gall. Gossip 334: Oor John aye gaed strobblin', ye ken, for he's ill-fittit onyway. [? A nonce conflation of Eng. dial. stroddle , to walk in a straddling manner, and hobble .] 
  315. Goit n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    , a sunken foot-path, O.N. gata , a path, way, road.]‡ GOIT , n . 2 A narrow, fenced road (Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl ., 1908 Jak. (1928)). Also gotek , goti (Jak.). Cf. gjet , id., s.v. Gate . [Norw. dial. gota , a road, esp. one with hedges on both sides 
  316. Gabbie Labbie n. comb.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    † GABBIE LABBIE , n. comb . “Confused talking; the way in which we think foreigners talk when we know not their language” (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl . 217). A Gall. form of Cabby-labby 
  317. Fat pron.[1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]<1700-2000
     Aberdeen as in his Kirriemuir birthplace, the much-loved fairytale takes on a whole new look with the. § 122 , § 134 . Abd. c .1692 A. Pitcairne Assembly (1722) 38: Ruling Elder: Fat hae they deen? Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore 8: An' says, O 'oman fat makes a' your care? n.Sc been in the queich before ye? Ags. 1860 A. Whamond James Tacket iii.: Not to say fat . . . when I did not hear, but, what's yer wull . Mry. 1927 E. B. Levack Lossiemouth 21: He's a, especially the Bay. Abd. 1994 David Toulmin in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 78: Fut wi' yarkin at yon lang-handled churn, melkin kye, feedin hens and swine ... and dustin ben the hoose, a' that . fat a , ¶ fat o' , followed by a noun in pl ., what a number of . . .! (Bnff., Abd., Ags. 1950); ¶ 2 . fat-a-feck , ? remarkable, outstanding: app. an extended meaning of fat a feck ! See Feck , n . 1 , fit wey , how, why (n.Sc. 1950). 1 . Bnff. 2 1929 : Fat a bairns gid up the brae tae the pic 
  318. Adber n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1908-1930
    ): Adber, adbert. Sh. 4 1930 : He had a wheer atvird — i.e . a queer way of doing things 
  319. Nap v.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     another's necks in a caressing way (Ork. 1929 Marw.; Ork., Cai. 1963). [A variant of Knap , v . 4 CfNAP , v . 1 To make a gentle snap at with the teeth, to nibble, esp. of horses nipping one 
  320. Trinker n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
     of this has not been traced. ? Connected with Eng. trinket , to act in an underhand way, or poss. a¶ TRINKER , n . One who does not pay his share of a tavern bill (Sc. 1911 S.D.D .). [The source jocular conflation of drinker + tricker , a cheat.] 
  321. Slubber v., n.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]1856-1968
    .) 2: While we slubbered away at our brose. II . n . 1 . A noisy slobbering way of eating (Sc , Du. slobberen , to eat in a slovenly way. Cf . also Slabber .]SLUBBER , v ., n . 1 [′slʌbər] I . v . To slobber, swallow sloppy food, eat or drink in a 76: Dyod, man, fin ye're suppin, Sic a slubberin soun'! Abd. 1968 Buchan Observer (20 Aug. 1808 Jam.; Ork., n.Sc. 1970). 2 . Any sloppy jelly-like matter, as in Eng. dial. Specif .: (1) a' filthy stuff, like a black snail. (3) soft, mushy or sloppy food (Lnk. 1825 Jam.). Adj. slubbery (Sc 
  322. Twichle v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
    TWICHLE , v . To walk in an unsteady, jerky way (Kcd. 1973). Cf . Nhb. dial. twikle , to walk awkwardly, as if with a twist in the legs. [twɪçl] [Immediate orig. obscure but in form a freq. deriv 
  323. Linder n.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1768-1957
     or cardigan. Abd. 1778 Aberdeen Jnl. (9 March): A Blue short Coat, Blue Breeches, a WhiteLINDER , n . 1 Also linner . [′lɪndər; ne.Sc. + ′lɪnər] † 1 . A kind of long woollen jacket Linder, and a Blue and White striped Woolen Waistcoat below the Linder. Sc. 1791 T. Newte Tour the waist-band of the petticoat. Ags. 1825 Jam. : Linder . A short gown, shaped like a of blue woollen cloth, sits close to the body. and has a number of flaps or skirts all round, hanging and has been in use since the period of their invasions. 2 . A woollen or flannel undershirt (Bnff. a .1838 Jam. MSS . XI. 106, linner ; ne.Sc. 1961). Abd. p .1768 A. Ross Works (S.T.S.) 175: A linder coorse, cut out of hodin gray Neist to his skin as white's the paper lay. Bnff. 1872 W. Philip It 'ill a' come richt 148: Fower pair o' drawers, a dizzen o' nepkins — acht ma intae ma new flannen linner, dampt yockie thing. 3 . A fisherman's jersey (Mry. 1961). [Phs 
  324. Band n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1834-1835
    : Keep the band o' the hill a' the way, for I hae seen as clever a fellow waured on sic a day. [ProbBAND , n . 2 The ridge of a hill. Slk. a .1835 J. Hogg Tales, etc. (1837) III. 215 

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  1. Duply n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]1596-1680
    Duply , n . Also: duplie , -ley , -lay . [med. L. duplica .] 1 . Law . A defender's rejoinder to a pursuer's reply. 1596 Melvill 344. The right, disposition, or uther deid … salbe reducit and annullit, as weill be way of exceptioun, reply, or duply, as be way of actioun 1609 were read in Parliament 2 . In a controversy, a reply to a second answer. 1638   Forbes answeres of some reverend brethren 1638 Baillie I. 116. The last duplie of Aberdeen … is now 
  2. Soldatesta n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0]1640-1646
    Soldatesta , n . Also: so(u)ldatista . [Cf. 17th c. Eng. soldatesque ( a 1648), F Aberdeen in 1640. All but the final quot. occur in the ‘Articles of Bonaccord’ imposed on Aberdeen by Monro 
  3. Subwob n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0]1672
     Old Aberdeen sub-wobs'.' Ebenezer Bain Merchant and Craft Guilds. A History of the AberdeenSubwob , n . [ Wob n .] ? A piece of fabric woven by an unfreeman, one who is not a member of.], encroachments by unfreemen having become more frequent, a petition was presented to the sheriff by the weavers 
  4. Postage n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1]1674-1686
    Postage , -adge , n. [e.m.E., in this sense 1654, in other senses 1590.] a . The postal service between two places or generally. b . The charge for sending a letter by the postal service ( Post wanting to pey the postage of them [letters sent] 1686 Ib. XIII 26. [The Aberdeen post-master's malversations such that] the postadge upon the road from Aberdeen to Edinburgh wes very near given over and 
  5. Sub-synod n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]1603-1680
    Sub-synod , n . Also: -synode , -sinod . [ Synod n. 2.] A sub-committee of a synod, or a meeting of such a sub-committee. 1603 Ellon Par. 39. Johne Hariot … to produce the process deducit enjoinit unto them by the refer of the sub synod halden in Aberdeen 1626 Fraserburgh Kirk S. II 28 May. The minister reportit that he was to ryd in to the subsinod to Aberdeen 1639 Moray. Subsynode 1680 Cullen Kirk S. 15 Feb. The said day intimation made out of pulpit of a fast 
  6. Furier n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1640
    Furier , n. [e.m.E. fourier (1678), F. fourrier .] A quartermaster. — 1640 Aberdeen B aucht penneis a day 
  7. Furer n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1640
    Furer , n. [LG. forer , G. fuhrer .] ? A leader of a company. — 1640 Aberdeen B. Rec penneis a day 
  8. Creym-stowp n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1540-1640
    Crem- , Creym-stowp , n . ? A cream-pot. — 1540 Maxwell Mem. I. 408. In creym stowppis, iij 1640 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 69. The haill crem stowpis in auld Aberdeen salbe brocht to the 
  9. Unplunderit p.p.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0]1639-1650
     ppl. adj. , Plunderare n. (both only Aberdeen).] Only in Aberdeen. a . Of a place: Not ransacked for plunder, unpillaged. Chiefly, to save unplunderit , to save from being plundered. b . Of a person: Not violently robbed. — a . (1) c1650 Spalding II App. 488. Exactit from vs sex 
  10. Lastlie adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1615
    . 27 Dec. [Aberdeen] quhairfra she was lastlie returnit 
  11. Parfait adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]1545-1683
    Parfait , -fayt , a . [e.m.E. and late ME. parfet (1419), -fayte (1530), f. earlier parfit , -fite Parfit(e a . influenced by OF. parfait .] = Perfit(e a. 1. — 1545 Douglas Corr. 158. It sal be to me possible tille knawe ther parfayt maynd in thay behalvis 1683 Aberdeen 
  12. Pollonian n., adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1594-1686
     (1599), f. Polonia ] a . n. A native of Poland, a Pole. = Pole n. 3 b. b . adj. Polish. a . 1594 Logie Par. Hist. I 80. Alexius Vodka phisitione, a pollonian excomunicat for papistrie 1600-1610 Melvill 418. A number of strangers, Polonians, Dences, Belgians and Frenchmen, schollars, wha … cam to the Universitie of St Androis that yeir 1666 Cranna Fraserburgh 193. A collectione for two pollonians students of divinity in the University of Aberdeen b . (1) 1636 polonion students in Aberdeen 1665 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III 578. 1681 Edinb. B 
  13. Golenȝeour n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1590-1700+
    Golenȝeour , n. [Cf. Gole(i)nȝeis , n. pl .] A deceitful person. — 1590 Reg. Privy C. IV. 525. The said Robert … misusit the haill magistrattis thairof [ sc. Aberdeen], calland thaim 
  14. Sub-principalitie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0]1673
    , Aberdeen). — 1673 Aberd. Council Lett. V 272 (see Sub-principall n .). 
  15. Generallat n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1645
     1645 Ib. 261. His first voyage to Aberdeen made him swallow the certaine hopes of a Generallat over 
  16. Schrod n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1639
     1570), here used symbolically.) — 1639 Fugitive Poetry II xv 5. Thow bailfull Aberdeen, our nations bane, … Thou baill of burrowes, fyrebrand of the north, A schrod to all good Christians beyond 
  17. Gardnat n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1490-1573
    (e)nap . — 1490 Acts Lords of Council 131/1. A butter plait, a gardenat 1546 Ib. (MS) XXI. 55 b. Twa gardnatis of bras 1561 Aberdeen B. Rec. I. 336. Ane gardnett of tun [= tin] 1573 Ib. II. 10. A gardnet of bras 
  18. Rak n.1[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]<1375-1683
    .).] In Aberdeen: A reach or stretch of water (chiefly or only on the rivers Dee or Don) devoted to salmon, extend, (ON rak streak, stripe, Norw. dial. raak a channel, etc.). Cf. e.m.E. re(a)che (16th c fishing. ( a ) 1358 Exchequer Rolls I 546. De piscaria del Rak super aquam de Dee 1562 Abirdene 1597 Retours II Inq. Spec. Aberdeen (570). De lie Raik et Stellis infra libertatem ) 1683 Retours I Inq. Spec. Aberdeen (459). In piscaria unius retis salmonum piscium de lie rack et stellis b . Once, of such a reach on the river Forth. — 1624 Stirling B. Rec. I 159. Casting of … of the tounes fishing c . In more general use: A stretch of water; a channel or bay. 1617 
  19. How v.2[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1420
    ). [Aberdeen,] Thay trowit it all howit of men 
  20. Pine Pig n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1488
     money box (Aberdeen), of which, SND. conjectures, ‘this may be orig. a corruption’ (SND, s.v. Pint n( Pine pig ,) Pyne pig . ( Pig n. 2 Cf. 19th c. Sc. pint pig earthenware vessel used as a … to the thesaurare … in a pyne pig of tyn … [285] angellis … [188] ridaris … vnicornis [980] … nobilis 
  21. Politicall adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1580
     adj. 4. — 1580 Skeyne Descr. Well 1. The inhabitantis thairof [Aberdeen] maist ciuile 
  22. Reed n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1692
     pertaining to a burgh. Cf. later and mod. Sc. dial. (north-east and north Dumfries) reed, reid , var. of ruid a rood. — 1692 Misc. B. Rec. 144. [In Lauder, before … provost of Dundee … baillie of Aberdeen, etc.] ther cess is payd by taxatione on ther inhabitants of the burgh, borrow reeds, and acres 
  23. Commissionarie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1572-1612
    Commissionarie , n . [f. Commissionar , n .] The office of a commissioner. — 1572 Bk. Univ. Kirk I. 256. Mr George Hay, Commissioner of Aberdeen, was compleand upon … as to the Commissionarie 
  24. Situated p.p.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1]1640-1699
     Lethintye, which is scitwated within 12 myles of Aberdeen 1699 History of the Works of the Learned for the Month of November 1699 386. The Orcades are a knot of islands in number 32 scituated in the 
  25. Wak n.1[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1440-1700+
     behaving; a way of life. 1652 Dumfries Kirk S. 27 April. People of all vaulks & conditionesWa(l)k , n . 1 Also: va(u)lk . [ME and e.m.E. walk (Chaucer), walke ( a 1400-50).] 1 . A place suitable or set aside for walking; an avenue or path. b . A similar place within a house. 1440 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 241. Directe a dicta lapidea clausura in latitudine de communi passagio predicto vsque ad la grein valk directe sicut la valk se extendit et a superiori parte de la valk per spatium quatuor rudarum a dicto passagio 1672 Hist. Kinloss A. xvi. With a flour yeard, alies act or occasion of walking; a procession. 1615 Misc. Maitl. C. II 170. Suppressing of all idolatrie speciallie of walkis and pilgrimadges 1670 Laws of Aberdeen Lodge in Murray Lyon Hist … were fetching a walk about their stone house and in their return [etc.] 4 . A manner of living or (1675) 177. There would be that day more divineness in our holiness … a sort of majesty by ordinary in 
  26. Jimp adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1612-1689
     1682 Mackenzie in Aberdeen Lett. 88. Wee had a jimpe quorum, and hav adjourned the ParliamentJimp(e , a . [Later form of Gymp , Gimp a .] Scanty, scrimp, barely adequate. — 1612 1689 Stair in Leven & Melv. P. 347. We had difficultie to get a signing quorum. It was bot 
  27. Scowal n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1625
    Scowal , n . (?) — 1625 Church Plate of St. Nich. Kirk, Aberdeen, in Scottish Notes and 
  28. Outtoll n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1462-1700+
     a tenement in Aberdeen in the year 1720, being made with the symbol of a penny utole, and not with ); utole . [ Out a ., Toll n .] = Outpen(n)y n. In two early instances (1283, 1293) in Glasgow, otherwise (1317 onwards) only in Aberdeen: see In-toll n. for further examples. 1609 Skene Reg 
  29. Lang-seit n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1542-1580
     ).] In Aberdeen: = Langsadil(l n . 1 — 1542 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 574. Ane lang seitt, and ane 
  30. Nicht-tyme n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1572-1661
     Aberdeen B. Rec. IV. 185. Who might in the nicht tyme … rob the housses [etc.] 1661 Dumbarton B 
  31. Quarter-clerkschip n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1515-1520
    Quarter-clerkschip , n. In Aberdeen: Appar., the clerkship of a quarter (of the burgh or parish 
  32. Resavar General n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1478-1595
    . Andro, Bischop of Aberdeen than Ressaver Generall for the space of nyne yeiris nixt 
  33. Salsarit ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1578-1698
    ( Salsarit ,) Sausered , Saserit , ppl. adj. [ Salsar n. b and v .] In Aberdeen: Marked 
  34. Salsar v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1578-1615
     boundary mark of Aberdeen. — 1578 Aberd. Chart. 339. To ane eird stane pottit and saserit at the syd 
  35. Gayl n.1[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]<1375-1459
    Gayl(l , n. 1 Also: gal . [Var. of Gavill ; in later Aberdeen dial. as ga'ill , gail .] A 
  36. Post-office n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1]1677-1689
     Post n. 2 , etc.) was conducted. Also letter-post-office , Letter n. 9 a. — 1677 Aberd. Council Lett. VI 119. By the abusses off the post office heir [in Aberdeen] in ther exorbitant pryces of 
  37. Land-tak n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1533-1623
    Land-tak , -tack , n . [ Land n . 1 1, 6.] In Aberdeen: A ‘tack’ or tenancy of land (as opposed to a ‘fishing’). — 1533 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 148. Land takis Rubislaw xx s. Hessilheid xiij s 
  38. Half-net n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1]1492-1700+
     dial. of Aberdeen as halfnet , ha'net .] In Aberdeen: A half-share in the fish taken by one net inHalf-net , n. Also: -netht , halff-net , hannat , hawnett . [ Half a . 1. In the later one of the burgh's fishings; freq. half nettis fisching = half ( of ) a net , Half n. 1 Half nets man , a fisherman employed by the proprietor of a half-net's fishing rights. 1492 Acts Lords of Council I. 254/1. To produce sic takis, richtis & evidentis … anent the clame of a half Aberd. B. Rec. III. 122. For ilk halffnet of fourteine halffnettis of the Raick [a duty of] tuentie 
  39. Marrowschip n.[0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1407-1599
    Marrowschip , Marrauschipe , Marwschip , n . [ Marrow n . 1 c.] In Aberdeen: Partnership 
  40. Ospittall n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1489-1598
     the ospittell of Aberdeen, was slayne be Alex. Blynschall, ane of the said ospittall 1598 
  41. Ony-way n. phr.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1399-1599
    Ony-way , Onieway , n. phr . ( adv .). [Cf. e.m.E. any way adv. (1570) and Onywayis .] a . Be ony way , b . ony-way , by any means, in any way, anyhow. — a . a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 548. The quene vald nocht fra that day Bede with the kynge be ony way — b . a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvi. 816. Gif the dekine Eschapit ony way fra hyne 1562-3 Winȝet I. 58 
  42. Nicolas n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1473-1568
     of a bell in the parish church (of St. Nicholas), Aberdeen. — a . 1473–4 Treasurer's Accounts name, see Sanct n .)] a . St. Nicholas bischop , a boy bishop elected for a festival of choirboys 
  43. Wa adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1499-1586
    Wa(y , adv . [ME and e.m.E. wei (Layamon), wai (Cursor M.), way ( a 1325). Reduced f. Away adv .] a . Do ( ga ) way , leave off, cease, desist ( to do something); go away. b . comb, ga way b . 1513 Doug. iv vi 93. Tofor thi wayfleyng [ Sm. wayfleing] Had I a child. , the action of pulling or sending (something or someone) away. See also separate entries. a . a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 434. ‘Do way,’ said Schir Rolland, ‘me think thow art not wise. Persew me not thus with ȝour … teris … Do wa [ Ruddim. way] to present me sik takyn of wo 1567 Idolateris, do way, do way a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS 194/13. ‘Do way,’ quod scho, ‘Ȝe duell to lang, Adew gude sir' a1568 Balnaves in Bannatyne MS 138b/31. Gife thow nocht may, ga way consavyt of thyne ofspryng 1558 Inverness Rec. I 20. Huchon … confessit … the way pullyng of the tayll of ane ox 1558-66 Knox I 420. Sche farther willit, to offer the way-sending of the men 
  44. Striping vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1598-1634
     v .] a . The action of removing by plucking or picking. b . ? A strip of leather or other material for shoes. — a . 1598 Misc. Spald. C. I 121. Thow grantis … that the fruict of the saying … ‘The dirt to the, and the crop to me' — b . 1634 Aberdeen Cordiners' Min. Bk. in 
  45. Frustrat v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1533-1659
     .] tr . To frustrate (a person, expectation, etc.). 1533 Boece xi . xii. 429 b. The king … had madman seand that he had frustrat him selff of his besienes 1659 Aberdeen B. Rec. IV. 182. To 
  46. Succentor n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]<1375-1611
     1235 Reg. St. A. 327. Ego L. succentor subscribo 1358 Reg. Dunferm. 267. Domino Johanne Moray 1537 Exchequer Rolls XVII 55. Master Alexander Kid, succentor of Aberdeen 1611 
  47. Pragmatic adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1]1666-1691
    . Mr. Robert Farguison, a pregmattick head, who kendled a fire in our university at Aberdeen anno 1654), -ique (1638), also as n. (1587), and pragmatical (1543): relating to the affairs of a state; busy a sick apprehensione, but a realitie, and a messenger coming for unknown reasons … from a more swift 
  48. Airn n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0]1551-1668
     arneis of the Croce 1551–83 Aberdeen Baillie Ct. 8. For bringing of salt, ayrun and lint … and 
  49. Hie-way n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]1499-1669
    Hie-way , n . [Var. of He-way n .] A main road, a highway.Also fig . (1) 1513 Doug Majesteis hie way to a darne place in the mure c1650 Spalding II. 3. Capitane Forbes … is wairdit. vii . Prol. 54. The plane stretis and euery hie way Full of … myre, and clay 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 92. Quhen fra the hie way I ga wrang 1567 Ib. 239. Keip furth the hie way 1571 Bann. Memor. 145. In the Gallowley, vpon the west side of the hie way betwixt Leith and … for robbing of ane merchand man … be the hie way 1654 Mun. Univ. Glasg. I. 324. To hold all ... thereof   (2) a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 384. The hie way to Paris … Cantlie on catchand. Ambrois … went the hie way with ane gudelie cumpanye fig . 1591 R. Bruce Serm. 190. So where men think to make themselves sure be slaughter, it is the hie-way to cast themselves in greater 
  50. Palmer n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0]1592-1642
    .] In Aberdeen: An instrument, perh. a rod or ferule, for striking the palm of the hand as a punishment palmeris 1603 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 27. And theas that hes nocht siluer to pay to gett a straik on the hand with a palmer 1603 Ib. 194. Palmar 1609 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 298. Sa lang 
  51. Way n.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1375-1700
    ), weȝȝe (Orm), wæe(ȝ)(e (all Layamon), weiȝe ( c 1250), wey (1297), wai (Cursor M.), way ( a .] 1579 Despauter (1579). Trames , ane way 1 . a . A road, track or path as a physical entity; a and freq. coinciding with a road or track as in a. Also pl. See also He-way n. , Hie-way n. , Path-way n. , Pethway n. a., b . sing. 1375 Barb. viii 168. A gret mos … That fra the way wes quhar men raid A bow-draucht 1439–40 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II 239. My lande way for leading of loads … or … carts or a way for driving of cattle 1682 Fraser Polichron , one's) way . a . At (from) a point on the road, route or journey, passing into (one's) immediate fanding that cuth say Brink his seruandis out of way 1602 Elgin Rec. II 101. Johne Bandoquhie a 201. Such as wer in his way … they must beare him a lashe b . (1) ?14.. Ship Laws c. 22 (B). Of a schyp brokyn be the way: A schyp passys fra Burdews … and it hapnys to … ryve [etc.] 1456 
  52. By-way n.[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1420
    By-way , n . [ME. by wey (1330).] A side way. — c1420 Wynt. viii . 4819. Thai had … ane That kennyd thame a by way, That ewyn down betwix craggys lay 
  53. Spaw n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0]1661-1670
     in Belgium.] A medicinal spring or well. Also in the place-name Wall (= Well) of Spaa . — 1661 things they differ; for Spaa in Aberdeen is actuallie cold [etc.] 1670 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 264 
  54. Sweschman n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1593-1605
    Swesch(e)man , Sweshman , n . [ Swesch(e n. 1 and Man n. 1 e.] Only in Aberdeen swescheman, to by him a juip of reid flanning 1604–5 Aberd. B. Acc. in Misc. Spald. C. V 77. To 
  55. Rug-saw n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]1582-1676
    Rug-saw , n. Also: roug- . [ Rug v. and saw .] A two-handed saw. 1582 Edinburgh 1662 Answers of Some Brethren to the Replyes of the Ministers in Aberdeen Concerning the Late Covenant 58. We are ashamed to draw this rug-saw of contention to and fro in a continuall reciprocation 
  56. Matriculat p.p., v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1]1592-1700+
    - , * matriculare , f. late L. matricula a register, list.] a . To record (arms) in an official register. b . To enrol into a society, or into a university as a student. — a . 1592 Acts III. 554/2 Aberdeen] 
  57. Way Ganging vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1456-1699
    Way ganging , vbl. n . Also: vay ganing . [Reduced f. Away-ganging vbl. n. Cf. Waygaing vbl. n .] Departure, going away. 1456 Hay I 176/28. Gif a man … assuris ane othir frely to cum, and spekis nocht of his way ganging 1570-3 Bann. Trans. 490. It was ewin, at the way his] … way ganging 1607 Fraser Sir-Name of Baird 52. The sillar he disbursit for me before my way ganging fra him 1610 Breadalbane Lett. 18 Feb. Traist freind sen ȝour vay ganing [etc.] 16.. Hist. Kennedy 11. In thair way-ganging schott the maister 
  58. Quhat Way adv. phr.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0]1438-1655
    Quhat way , adv. phr. Also: what . [ Quhat adj. 8 a.] In what manner, by what means, how. — ?1438 Alex. i 2110. Se quhat way throw hard fecht That all ȝour feiris demanit ar 1562-3 Winȝet II 6/14. Quhareby we may cleirlie se quhat way we suld happelie return and be recouncelit to our advyse quhat way performance suld be grantit to the said letter and subscrivit not 1655 Hibbert P. No. 17. I knaw not what way they ar myndffull to pay thair dett 
  59. Waygaing vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1589-1651
    ( Waygaing ,) Wagaeing , Waygo(e)ing , vbl. n . [ Wa(y adv. and Gaing vbl. n .] = Way ganging vbl. n. ( a ) 1589–1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 62a. I mad my count at her wagaeing way going xii s. 1629 S. Leith Rec. 17/1. To confer with Mr. James Fairlie about his way saule blissed God al the way for his goodnes to me in this comunion conforme to my voue befor my. I 82. Mr. George Halyburtoun (although nominat by the Colonell before his way-going … ) hes delayed and differred his journey 1651 Laing MSS 259. You did forbear to go to him att your way goeing & stayed not then a quarter of an hour 
  60. Galcoit n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1522-1541
     Aberdeen records, without dates. 1522 Exchequer Rolls XIV. 463. Pro … tunica de velveto duploito 
  61. Laurence prop. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]1499-1669
    Laurence , Lawrence . (The personal name, L. Laurentius , applied to the saint, a bell of St. Nicholas' Church, Aberdeen, and to the fox: cf. Lowrence .) — 1626 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs Lawrence luikit vp ( a1568 Id. ) Bannatyne MS 315 a/89. As tod Laurence me lerd 1591-2 
  62. Brigancy n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1561-1605
     Aberd. B. Rec. I. 338. Peter Howatt, quha wes found be the … consell as a saillar in brigacie [ sic ] 1576 Reg. Privy C. II. 486. [Thai] intromettit with … his movabill gudis … be way of brigancy and maisterfull oppressioun 1584 Acts VI. 305. Be way of hame sukkin, brigancie and forthocht fellony … be way of brigancie [they had come] to the house of … Robert M c Intailliour 1598 Ib. V. 499. Brokin hieland men and sorners … [came] be way of briggancie [etc:] 1605 Criminal Trials II. 458. The said George … sett vpone him, and be way of brigancie … persewit him for his 
  63. Sum Way adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1499-1500
    Sum way , adv . [Late ME and e.m.E. sum way ( c 1450); Sum(e adj. and Way n .] ? In some way; ? to some extent. — a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1616. Ȝit will I tell & to God pray That it may proffet ȝow sum way 
  64. Na Way adv. phr.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375-1612
    . no wey ; Na a . and Way n. Cf. No way .] In no way, not at all, by no means, not in theNa way , adv. phr . Also: nay and vay , wa ; navaw . [North. ME. na wai (Cursor M.), midl least. Chiefly qualifying, and chiefly preceding, a finite verb, but also in other constructions. Also be na way , see Way n. (1) 1375 Barb. xii . 217. And luk ȝhe na vay brek aray. 1490 Irland Mir. I. 152/9. The flud of syn mycht na way approche to hir 1490 Ib. II. 9/27. That na way He will brek it [ sc. His promise] c1490 Id. Asl. MS. I. 19/18. His Lord, lat thy command Na way fra me depart 1589 Sutherland Chart. 164. The said Erle of Asl. MS. I. 36/10. Bot gif … he forbidis hir and will nay way that she gif almos [etc.] ( c Breadalbane Lett. 1 Nov. Gif … my lord … will stand my gud freind and swte me nay way I will stay my 
  65. He-way n.[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1399-1686
    He-way , n . Also: hee- , heaway , hevay . [ He a . 3 b. Cf. Hieway n .] A highway, a high road. a1400 Legends of the Saints xix. 126. Quhy fled thu fra the hee-way? 14.. Acts I. 32/2. Mysal men … anerly to pas the he way thruch the toune 1575 Wemyss Corr. 95. He menis … to ryid furtht his hee way to the ferrey 1605 Stewart Mem. 114. Jhone Stewart 
  66. Key n.2[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1399-1700+
     to Aberdeen. ( a ) 1399 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 377. Jon Lambynton … sale … hew … xii wyndowysKey , n . 2 Also: kei , kee ; kie(y , kye . [ME. keye ( a 1400), key (also caye (1306)), OF. kay , kai , cay . The form kay , cay appar. does not occur in Sc. ] A quay or wharf. b . Key-dur , The opening or port in the side of a ship for exit to the quay. The earliest examples refer) 253/2. Illam plateam et spacium commune quod dicitur le key [at Aberdeen] 1453 Misc. Spald Augustines wpon the Key, so it is called in Frence 1654 Nicoll Diary 123. It was a great the key alongst the shore, which is of a considerable length 1718 Glasgow B. Rec. IV. 18 Corr. 77. A bark and v marchantis shippes … lay within the kee at Leith ( c ) 1632 
  67. No Way adv. phr.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1499-1616
    No way , adv. phr . [Late ME. no wey , e.m.E. no way .] = Na way . — a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 639. Bot Ypocras no way wald wend Bot thocht he wald his newo send c1550 Rolland Court of Venus iii . 868. No way Christ had dedenȝeit borne to be 15.. Clariodus iv . 2124. Bot for them all no way it [the arrow] wald come out a1578 Pitsc. II. 103/17. And lutte 
  68. Chapterly adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1524-1607
     . 2 See also Cheptourly .] As a chapter, in full chapter. 1524 Reg. Great S. 220/2. George cathedrell Kirk [of Aberdeen] … chaptourlye convenit 
  69. Keyheid n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]1548-1670
     the quay or pier of Aberdeen. See Gordon's Aberd. 16–17 and map. — 1548–51 Misc. Spald. C. V 1670 Gordon's Aberd. 17. In 1634 the citizens causit build a … packhous upon the keyhead … From 
  70. Boutway n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1600-1699
    Boutway , n . [Cf. Boutgate .] A roundabout way. — 16.. Herries Mem. 130. Mortone was sent befor with 800 hors; whoe being commanded a bout-way it was the day after before they came up 
  71. A-gatis adv.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375
    A-gatis , adv. [f. a one + gate way, with ad v. suffix -is .] In one and the same way. — 1375 Barb. iv . 702. That virkis nocht ay-quhar a gatis, Bot sum ar les, sum othir mair 
  72. Gramariar n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1531-1650
     or student of (Latin) grammar; spec. the professor of Humanity at King's College, Aberdeen. ( aGram(m)ariar , -iour , n. [f. Gram(m)ar n .] A grammarian; one skilled in grammar; a teacher 
  73. Upricht v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1457-1492
     position.] tr. In Aberdeen: a . To compensate (a person) ( for damage, etc.). b . To compensate for, make good (damage or loss). — a . 1457 Aberd. B. Rec. MS V i 319 (19 Nov.). The quhilkis 
  74. Respective adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0]1596-1676
    - , respettivo .] a . ? Marked by care or attention; ? courteous; careful ( to do something). b . Properly pertaining to each individual person, group, etc.; separate, several, particular. — a . 1596 Cal. Sc. P. XII 286. [Rather to use towards her a] respective [silence for the present] 1604 and limits of the respective Shereffdomes of Aberdeen and Bamff 1656 Dumfries Council Min 
  75. Way Passing vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1456-1578
    Way passing , vbl. n . Also: vaypassing . [Reduced f. Away-passing vbl. n .] Departure Alexander be summond … to ansuere … for thair way passing contrare his lawis 1456 Hay I 147/35. Gif it hapnyt him in his way passing tobe … distursit of his hors and harneis 1489 Treasurer's Accounts I 118. To … the saim Dens men at thare way passing 1504 Justiciary Rec. I 345a. Personis … remanyng or way passing with the slaier 1548 Reg. Privy S. III 452/2. Convict for his tressonable way-passing … fra oure oist a1578 Pitsc. II 11/25. [They] brunt the toun at thair way passing a1578 Pitsc. II 319/4. The regent … thair remanit becaus of the 
  76. On-na-way adv. phr.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1535-1578
    On-na-way , adv. phr . [Cf. Na-way adv .] = On-na-wayis adv. — 1535 Stewart 32018. Fordermair on na way wald tha wend 1570 Inverness Rec. I. 187. a1578 Pitsc. II. 209/17. He cuild on na way obteine the samyn a1578 Ib. 240/12. Bot he refusit and wald nocht on 
  77. Primping ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1590
    Primping , ppl. adj. [ Primp v .] That ? behaves in a prim, affected or conceited way, ? looks affected or conceited, ? dresses in a fussy or elaborate way. — c1590 J. Stewart 231 §127 
  78. Midway n.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]1399-1661
    . [That] there was a mid-way betwixt papistrie and our religion 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 35. Thair is na mid way left bot owther to do or suffer 3 . adj . a . Intermediate, medium, moderate. bMidway , n ., a . and adv . Also: myd- , mydde- and -vay(e . [ME. mydwaye , midwei , OE. midweᵹ : cf. MDu. middewech .] 1 . n . The middle of the way or distance, the half-way. b . fig . Chiefly, in the midway , half-way. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxx. 521. Theodorus … wes as ware the mydde way Be-twene the ton & the abbay — 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 10143. In the caldnes of Saturn & the byrnand heyt that Mars induris 2 . A middle path. b . fig . A middle course. 1513 Doug. vi . ii. 112. Al the myd way is wildirnes onplayn Or wilsum forest b . Half and half, ‘lukewarm’. a . 1573 Tyrie in Cath. Tr. 3/5. Als conuenient to begyle the 112. Kneeling in … receiving the communion is not a gesture indifferent nor … midway b . 1637 
  79. Sorning ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1639
    Sorning , ppl. adj . [ Sorn(e v .] In sorning way , in the manner of a sornar. — 1639 Aberd. Council Lett. II 113. The said George Gordoun … goes about the countrie in sorning way with 
  80. Sic Wise adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1513
    ). Cf. ME and e.m.E. suche wise (1375).] Only in Doug .: a . In such a way that, to such an extent that. b . In this way, in the same way. — a . 1513 Doug. vi iv 12 (Sm.). Exalationis or 
  81. Forsett v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1500-1566
     beset (a way). — c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxii. 11. Forsett is ay the falconis kynd, Bot euir theForsett , Foirsett , v . [ME. forsette , OE. forsettan .] a . tr . To set aside. b . To mittane is hard in mynd 1558-66 Knox I. 455. The said Erle Bothwell foirsett his way, and … did 
  82. Way Puttar n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1559
    Way puttar , n . [ Wayput v .] That which causes or facilitates a departure or removal. — 1559 Inverness Rec. I 33. Quhilk saingis wes to the gret dischonor … to the towne to be the way 
  83. Way Ridle n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1685
    Way ridle , n . [? Wecht n. 2 and Riddil(l n. 2 1.] ? A coarse meshed sieve. The form — 1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII 368. Belonging to the yairds … A wattering can. 2 way ridles 
  84. Sclenting ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0]1568-1667
     from the straight or straighforward way; ? intermediate. c . fig. ? Immoral. — a . 1643 Blakhall Narr. 79. I … made them turne their faces and the mouthes of their gunnes a sklenting way, not right to the porte nor to the walle over against them, but a midle way betwixt them both — c (1688); Sclent v .] a . That slopes (? in some special but here unspecified manner). b . Deviating 
  85. Gallowgate n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]<1375-1573
     . [ Gallow n. b.] The street in which the gallows stood in Aberdeen and Glasgow. 1317 Misc. Spald. C 
  86. Jeiring vbl. n., ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1660-1661
    Jeiring , Jeyring , vbl. n . and ppl. a . [e.m.E. jeering , etc. (16th c.), f. jeer v. (16th gevin out to the Parliament, be way of mokrie and jeering 1661 Ib. 338. This gevin out by way 
  87. Forhow v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1513-1568
    Forhow , v . [ME. forhu- , forhowien , OE. forhoᵹian .] a . tr . To forsake, abandon. b a1568 Balnavis in Bannatyne MS 138 b/28. Gife thow nocht may, ga way, ga way, Than art thow all 
  88. Agate adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1578-1648
    . agait ). See Gate n ., way.] A-going; in motion or action. — 1578–9 Haddington Treas. AccAgate , Agait , adv. Also: agaite . [e.m.E . agate (1554), on the way or road (so later Sc. Holding a candle to Walter Pinkertoun … till he set ane milne agaite 
  89. Sculking vbl. n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1]1375-1685
     (1297), skulkyng (Manning); Sculk v .] a . Evasion by hiding, or concealment of identity, of the another. — a . 1375 Barb. vii 130. Thai war fayis to the king And thocht to cum in-to sculking lurking within the towne of Aberdeen … Mr. Jhon Stewart appearing in thie Assemblie … from his skoulking 
  90. Prefidence n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1596
    -confidence, presumption. — 1596 R. Bruce Wodrow's Life of Bruce App. 186. The way of presumption is not our way … .We leave the way of prefidence to them that presume of their own strength 
  91. Wataking vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1479-1630
    -wealth will be kept in better order … by [a king], then it can by his way-taking 1606 CramondWa(y)taking , vbl. n . Also: way tackin(g . [Reduced f. Awaytaking vbl. n .] Removal 1567 Digest Justiciary Proc. G 5. Convict for the spuilȝeing and way taking of the saidis gold onlye trew light, schyne unto many, for the way-tackin of one 1597 Dundee B. Laws 523. For waytaking off excuses 1618 Annandale Corr. 278. The fellonious way taking of the nage 1625 croce, 9 s. and for way tacking agan off the deallis and treis, 4 s. 
  92. Way-gouse n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]1682
    Way-gouse , n . [17th c. Eng. way-goose (1683).] An entertainment given to servants by their employer. — 1682 New Mills Manuf. 31. To write to the master to give the servants there way-gouse 
  93. Straucht Way adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1540-1588
    Straucht way , Strecht way , Strait wayis , Straght wyse , Straicht away , adv . [Late ME and); Straucht adj. and adv. , and Way n. , Wis(e n. and Away adv .] Directly; immediately, without delay. — 1540 Lynd. Sat. 4189. I mon pas to the king of fary Or ellis strecht way till full remissioun, To passe tyll hevin straucht way 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 5600. Sa to the 
  94. Utherway adv.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]1399-1676
     , Otherwyse . (Common only in Irland.) — a1400 Legends of the Saints xiii. 63. God disponyt vthire-way Thane he cuth othyre do or say 1456 Hay I. 233/30. Or othir way 1490 Irland Mir. I. 16/17. And it ples … the lecture of this, he may devid it vthir way in sevin bukis 1490 Ib. 66/27. Be wit and ressoune … and nocht wthere way c1490 Id. Asl. MS. I. 8/22 
  95. Top n.3[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1496-1653
     of weight or quantity. b . In Aberdeen: A petty custom of six apples or onions from each barrel (1530-1), MLG toppe , top , OF toppe .] a . A basket (of figs or raisins), or an equivalent measure imported. Also attrib. a . 1496 Halyb. 15, 16. 8 topis of fegis, the stek cost 20 grottis. Item a gret top of rasainis, cost 5 s. 1560 Treasurer's Accounts XI 28. For twa toppis of rasingis, viij li. x s. ( b ) c1575 Balfour Pract. 88. Twentie four tappis of raisingis is a 
  96. Outsicht n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1606
     enclosed place); hence, a way out, way of escape. — 1606 Rollock's Thess. 165 (Jam.). If he bid the contrary when a man … will not follow on God's will except he see a faire out-sight … the Lord will let him 
  97. Intakking vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1500-1648
     assegeing of Aquilea difficill 1637 Aberdeen Council Lett. II. 74. Not onlie thay bot … many ma 
  98. Quhite-fischar n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1528-1700+
     , -fisher . [Only Aberdeen and Banff. Cf. Quhit(e)-fis(c)h(e n . and Rede-fischar n .] One who 
  99. Souldiarie n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1]1650-1693
    . That the souldiries of the said gairshone breaks forth [etc.] b . Soldiering, as a way of life. 1693 Dunlop P. III 77. Oure way of living has been so long soldiery that it has put us out of a way 
  100. Proctour n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]1499-1673
    .), proctor (15th c.), -er ( a 1548), further syncopated form of Procuto(u)r n .] = Procurato(u)r n Neilesone,] the proctoure 1535 Wigtown B. Ct. fol. 310 a. A fens maid by Henre Ahannaye officiare apon a meyre of Andro M c caroleis … to the proctovris of Kyrkynner hand to the sovme of xviii cronys, which can speak for itself better than ye can do? 1673 Retours I Inq. Spec. Aberdeen (412 
  101. Siff-wricht n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1512-1698
    - , swiffwricht . [ Sif(f n. and Wricht n .] A maker of sieves. = Siff-maker n. In surnames from 16th. Sievewright . Sifwricht, etc. 1572 St. A. Kirk S. 364. Lucas Schifwrycht 1578 Aberd. Chart plaistereris and seivewrightis 1648 Aberdeen Reg. of Indentures in Scottish Notes and Queries 1 Ser Edinburgh raise a declarator against the bowars, sclaiters … sivewrights, plumbars, and upholsterers 
  102. Sub-principall n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]1558-1673
     this sense in 1755.] A university vice-principal (at King's College, Aberdeen). Also attrib. in. subprincipall n. (1603) a musical term, also adj. (1601), applied to certain winds; first recorded as a noun in 
  103. Trukling ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1]1681-1700+
     buying and selling, in a small way; hence, petty, small-scale. — 1681 Aberd. Council Lett. VI 323. Others … in a trukling way sold ther goods quich was to the great loss of the goods att the stapell port 1711 G. Mackenzie Proposals to a Farther Union 2. In place of being truckling retailers with a little stock of wool and tin, why do we neglect so rich a treasure, which we have at uptaking 
  104. Suppository n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]1682
     .] A suppository. — 1682 Lauder Observes App. iv 308. A fifth (gerning the while), was for this, that it [ sc. the dog] might take it [ sc. the Test Act] though not … at his mouth by way of potion or bolus, yet fundamentaliter in at this bottome, by way of glister or suppository 
  105. Halfway adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1584
    Halfway , adv . [e.m.E. halfe way , ME. half wey (Chaucer).] — 1584 Satirical Poems xlv. 788. Half way hameward vp the calsay 
  106. Hieghway n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0]1659-1671
    ( Heich- ,) Heigh- , Hieghway , n . [Cf. He- , Hie-way .] A highway. — 1659 Douglas Bequest 7 June. Land … lyand vpon the west syde of the common hiegh way callit the lone 1664 
  107. Thus Wis adv.[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1420-1604
     , thus way . [ME and e.m.E. þus wise , þis wise (both Cursor M.), thus wise (1526); Thus adv. and Wis(e n. Some forms suggest confusion with Way n .] = Thusgat(is adv. (1) c1420 steid Maister Johne Scot 1587–8 Reg. Privy C. IV 247. [Lord Heries having] thus way schawne 105/22. Thus wyes c1590 Fowler II 124/11. A prence then that wald liue and maintane his God, quhy suld I thus wayis de? a1500 King Hart 608. Quhat blame serve I, thus way to be Wallace x 820. This wys he has, in schort, for to conclud, A flud he beris apon his cot armour [etc.] a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 526. Thus way scho began hir tale 1513 Doug. ix vii 76 
  108. Lade n.2[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1400
    . Eng. dial. lode , load a track over a moss etc., OE. lad way, course (as in Lade , n . 1  andLade , n . 2 [ME. (midl.) lod , lode , and lad (Orm) way, journey. course, mod. west midl Lade , n . 3 ).] The course or track (of a heavenly body). — c1400 Troy-bk. i . 533. The 
  109. Siclikewise adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1494-1552
     the same way. b . Const. that : In such a way that. — a . 1494 Loutfut MS 11b. Siclikwis( Siclikewise ,) Siclikwis , adv . Also: -wyis . [ Siclik(e adj. and Wise n .] a . In 
  110. Lipper Folk n.[0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1427-1593
    Lipper folk , n . Also: liper , lippir , lypper , lepper and folkis . [ Lipper a . 1. Cf. Leper Folk .] Leper folk, lepers. c1500 Harl. MS. 4700 300 a. Gif thair be ony lippir folk and Auld Aberdeen 1577–8 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 67. To … tak ordour for the sturdy beggerris 
  111. Toun Court n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1]1654-1696
    Toun court , Toune court , n . [ Toun n. and Court n .] A court dealing with matters concerning the affairs of a town. Also attrib. — 1654 Peebles B. Rec. II 24. John Frank … his tack meill mercat 1696 Burnett Fam. P. The laigh tolboth of Aberdeen … wher the shirreff & 
  112. Wilsum adj.[0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1409-1632
    .] a . Of a way ( lit. or fig. ), route, place or journey: Treacherous; apt to lead one or go astray a wilsome way 1513 Doug. v xi 56. Samony seys and alkyn landis Sa huge wilsum [ Ruddim (Trevisa), wylsum (14th c.), welsome ( a 1400), wildsome (1578), ON villusamr erroneous, false; remote, desolate; dreary. Also transf. b . lit. and fig. Of a person: Wandering, erring, astray; perplexed, bewildered. Also transf. c . absol. as noun. A wandering or homeless person. a . 1460 [ A. wilsom] wane Wyth-outyn gyde 1450-1510 Gray MS vi 6. Thow mon wend Oute of this warld. wylsum] rolkis and schawd sandis 1513 Doug. vi ii 113. Al the myd way is wildirnes onplayn, Or wilsum [ Sm. vilsum] forest 1513 Doug. ix vii 50. This ilk wilsum perplexit way Reformers 126. She raid that wilsome wearie way, Neir fourtie myles 1602 Colville Paraenese. (1614) Sig. L 2. If it had not been for a Christian Amaronite who accidently encountred with vs in our 
  113. Bon-acord n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0]1440-1650
     Aberdeen, having the office of organizing public sports and entertainments. References to the Lordis of B . are frequent in the printed records of Aberdeen from 1531 to 1552. Their function ‘wes in halding of thame for all the inhabitantis 1640 Ib. III. 225. We heartilie desyre … a peremptorie present answer of Bon-accord or Mal-accord b . A health or toast. Also attrib. with cup . c1650 
  114. Far adj.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0]1399-1667
     .] Far, distant. Far way , a long way. (See also Farrer , Farrest .) a1400 Legends of the Saints 1513 Doug. v . vi. 59. Befor thame all furth bowtis with a bend Nysus a far way 1533 BellFar , a. Also: farre , fare , fair . [ME. far , farr(e , var. offer, ferre Fer a 
  115. Roum v.1[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1420-1599
     rumian ; Roum n .] tr. 1 . To clear (a space or way), usu. by force or violence. ( a ) c1420 the way b . To vacate, withdraw from (a place). 1513 Doug. x viii 18. Pallas, seand Wynt. ix 3245. About hym than he rowmyt [ St. A. ramowyt] thare Thretty fute on breid, or mare voydit weill and rowmyt was the feild 15.. Clariodus iii 1084. Him the way thay roumit than gud speid ( b ) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii 826. Wallace … Romde him about a 
  116. Way Carying vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1644
    Way carying , vbl. n . [ Wa(y adv. and Carying vbl. n .] Carrying away. — 1644 Hume Douglas (STS) 63/31. The apprehending and way carying of his wife and childrein to Annandail 
  117. Hamesukin n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]<1375-1685
     ). [ME. hom- , hamsok(e)ne , OE. ham-socn , ON. heim-sokn .] The crime of assaulting a person in his own house or dwelling-place. Freq. in various legal tags, as be way of hamesukkin , etc. The Dictionary of the Law of Scotland s.v. ( a ) a 1300 Acts I. 59/1. Quod nullus exaudiatur de roboria neque de hamesokyn [ transl . haymesokyn] … nisi racionabilem faciat sectam a 1300 Ib. 59. Personis that sal happin to committ slauchter … upoun forthocht fellouny and be way of 1576 Digest Justiciary Proc. I. 35. Bodin in feir of weir … [thay] come be way of hame sukin to the injury is hightned by polluting the husbands own house, and becomes a kind of adulterous hamsucken ( c. When the samen [invading] is committed … within persones ther own hous, be way of hemsucken 1685 ) 1638 Orkney Bishop Ct. 102 b. The said William … cam to the said persewaris hous be way of 
  118. Gain adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1475-1602
     1310), ON. gegn .] a . Of a way: Most direct, nearest, shortest. b . Of a person: Most fit orGain , Gayn , a. Only in superl. gaynest , gainest , ganest . [ME. gayn(e , geyn ( a suitable. — a . c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv . 771. To the south ȝett the gaynest [ v.r. ganest] way he drew c1475 Ib. vi . 178. a1500 Prestis of Peblis . Ȝe are the 
  119. Wipe n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0]1596-1669
    . 1596 Dalr. I 39/25. Is ȝit ane foul, this as a wype be the way, that gretlie abhoris the presens of heir to make mentione of, as a wype be the way, that [etc.] 1637 Baillie I 18. The narration of their way … wherein they petition the parliament … for a toleration, and withal lend too boldWipe , Wype , n . [e.m.E. wype (1550) a blow, wipe (1568), also, (1606) a cutting remark.] fig. A remark, esp. a cutting remark, a disparaging reference, a sneer, jibe. Cf. Wap n. a our concernment to … have a by-blow or wipe at them [ sc. publick sins], reproving the erls of the 
  120. Dust n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1438-1633
    Dust(e , n . Also Aberdeen dial.: dist . [ME. dust(e , OE. dust .] 1 . Dust on or from the ground or a floor. ?1438 Alex. ii . 4305. The dust that rais troubled the air a1500 Bk 
  121. Cars n.[1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0]<1375-1681
    Cars , Carse , n . Also: kars . [Of uncertain origin. See also Kers(e n . 1 ] A carse, a stretch of land along the bank of a river. (Chiefly in place-names.) 1292 Rotuli Sc. 13/1. Johanni agains the said lawes in Aberdeen and the Carse of Gowrie 1641 Acts V. 611/2. The pendicles of 
  122. Waygang n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1627-1628
    Waygang , n . [Reduced f. Way ganging vbl. n. Also in the later dial.] = Way ganging vbl 
  123. South Cuntre n.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375
     Cuntre n .] The southern part of a country; England as distinct from Scotland. — 1375 Barb. xvi to ta His way towart the south contre [ sc . of Ireland] 1375 Barb. xvii 856. For that Ingland hame his way he tais 
  124. Way Letting vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1530
    Way letting , vbl. n . [Reduced f. Away-letting vbl. n .] ? Releasing or ? allowing to escape. — 1530 Yester Wr. 143. John Lord Hay of Ȝester sheriff of Twedale had become in oure will for the way 
  125. Lipper Man n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1499-1654
    Lipper man , n . Also: liper , lypir , lippir . [ Lipper a . 1. Cf. Leper man .] A leper 1574 Reg. Privy C. II. 393. The lipper hous [at Aberdeen] … with ane croft … annext to the same for 
  126. Conway v.[0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1399-1536
    Conway , -wey , v . [Variant of convay Convey v., perh. influenced by way .] tr that he tuk the way a1400 Ib. xl. 979. Thane presit mony to conway Hyme to the gebet ewine the way c1420 Wynt. viii . 4510. In thare cunnand made thai That Scottis men suld thaim 
  127. Kything vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]1585-1653
    , display; appearing, appearance. 1585 Calderwood IV. 315. They are … preparing again a way to their tyrannicall supremacie, … of which the author of our declaration hath made alreadie a smooking kything. & St. P. Jas. VI 381. Thay haveing tint sight of this horsemen, throw occasioun of a little howe in the way, at thair first kytheing agane vpoun the hight, [etc.] 1641 Baillie I. 359. His 
  128. Straucht adj.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1375-1699
    ] raid, in-till a randoun rycht, The strawcht way towart Meffen c1420 Wynt. viii 7074 (14th c.), stryȝte ( a 1420), streit (1475), straight (1535), strayte (1541-2), streck ( a.] 1 . Stretched out to (one's, its) full length or extension. ( a ) ?1438 Alex. i 2680. [He. I 133/26. A bent [= grass stalk] and straucht out wande, in thir dayes called a sceptre xviii 225. Hayre scho had, quhyt & streke, Rekand na forthire na hir neke 3 . Of a course or way: Direct, undeviating. Also in fig. context, and transf. 1375 Barb. ii 312. [Thai ane straucht way to deid c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxxxv 35. Haile, gentill nychttingale; Way ilk day, And at evin tide returne hame the strecht way Till hys lugyng c1520-c1535 Nisbet cours we com to Choum 1533 Boece 439b. Eldrede … moving herefore the strecht way towart Danis 1533 Bell. Livy II 6/30. To send Icelius brother and Numitorius son … the strauchest way thai 
  129. Ostentatively adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1657-1658
    . Ostentatively in a selfis way to give 
  130. Thare Away adv.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0]1375-1659
     abowyn the way, For giff the king held thar a-way [ C. that way] He thocht he suld sone wencussyt be 1400), þare away ( c 1450), there away ( a 1500).] Of motion: In that direction. Also fig 
  131. Murderous adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0]1671
    Murderous , a. [e.m.E. murthur- (1535), murderous .] — 1671 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS. 1 Feb. In ane murderous way and … designe 
  132. Unplain adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1500-1535
    ), vnplaine ( c 1530), vnplayne (1538); Plain adj. 1 ] a . Of human attributes: Not candid or frank, etc.: Difficult. — a . c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxvi 11. The figurit speiche, with faceis tua . 1513 Doug. vi ii 112. Al the myd way is wildirnes onplayn [ Sm. wnplane, Ruddim. vnplane] Or wilsum forest 1513 Doug. ix vii 52. This ilk wilsum perplexit way [ Ruddim. vnplane 
  133. Indigence n.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1399-1599
     .] 1 . Want of means: poverty. ( a ) a1400 Legends of the Saints xviii. 319. Grant syne to my stres 1599 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 47. To support the indigens of … [a] burges of Aberdeen, sumtyme of honest rank ( b ) c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 56/5. To mak helpe … to the 
  134. Libelling vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]1565-1678
     the form of a libel ( Libel(l n . 4, and see Libellit ppl. a .). — 1565 Instit. Ct. Sess. 26 a. That all summondis be direct ather ad instantiam or per libellum as the iudgis … thinkis. The difference betwixt the way of libelling is this, that, if the libel be only founded upon the acts against murder, then self-defence is receivable by way of exculpation to eleid this libel 
  135. Paramour adv.[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1399-1568
     to lufe paramour , to be in love with (a person of the opposite sex), esp. to love by way of sexualParamour , adv . Also: -amoure . [ME. and e.m.E. paramur ( a 1300), paramour (1611), OF. par amur , amour . Cf. Paramo(u)r n . and Paramouris adv .] By way of love. Only in verse in love or as a lover. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxi. 422. Ane erle … Quham … The emprice 
  136. Way Putting vbl. n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1535-1538
    Way putting , Vay putting , vbl. n . [Reduced f. Away-putting vbl. n .] The act of removing for art and part of] way-putting [him, he being suspected of certain crimes] 
  137. Flisk v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1688-1689
    Flisk , v . [e.m.E. (1596).] intr. To move in a frolicsome way. — a1689 Cleland Poems 
  138. Maister-stick n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1]1532-1688
    . meesterstuck (Plantijn and Kilian) masterpiece, G. meisterstuck .] The piece of work produced by a craftsman to prove himself qualified for acceptance as a ‘master’ ( Maister n . 1 14). Appar. chiefly in Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee, Dunfermline. 1532–3 Aberd. Trades 199. That na freman sal be maid of the [to a craft] being exhibit 1560 Perth Hammermen 91. [To] produce ane sufficient sey of ane, a stoven pan, a lantern [etc.] b . transf . and fig. a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxii. 113 James VI Poems I. 151/357. A maister stikke that promeisis the trophee Lernien suire 
  139. Hors-gate n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1660
    Hors-gate , n . A horse-path or -way. — 1660 Edinb. B. Rec. IX. 195. [That there should be] a pond casten at the fute of the horse gate 
  140. Knappish adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1629
    Knappish , a . [e.m.E. (1513), f. knap v.] Snappish, testy. — 1629 Boyd Last B. 61. Your spirit is so knappish and way-ward [etc.] 
  141. Neid-way adv.[1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375-1400
    Ned(e)- , Neid-way , adv . = Ned(e)wayis . — 1375 Barb. xix . 156. The behufis neid-way 
  142. Hilled adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0]1636
    Hilled , a . [ Hill n . 2.] Hummocky. — 1636 Orkney Bishopric Court Book 99. Ane peice hilled midow alongis the south syd of the watter way 
  143. Nicknamed ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]1680
    ( Nik- ,) Nicknamed , ppl. a . Miscalled. — 1680 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XLV. 237. The Lord … moved me to follow that nicknamed way of preaching 
  144. Feabill adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1533
    Feabill , a. [f. Fe v .] Mercenary. — 1533 Bell. Livy II. 146/17. All men that vsis feabill wageouris suld vse thare knichtis on this way 
  145. Thulmard n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1695
    .] A polecat. — 1695 Sharpe Witchcraft 246. By the way his dog catched a thulmard 
  146. Feiritnes n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1499-1500
    ( Ferit- ,) Feiritnes , n. [ME. ferednes ( a 1300). Cf. Ferdnes .] Fear, alarm. — a1500 Henr. Fab. 2558. Quhill he for feiritnes hes fylit vp the way a1500 Ib. 2561. 
  147. Unreddy adj.[0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1420-1628
     ready; unprepared. c . Of a path or way: Not easy to see or follow; obscure, indistinct. d), unready (1510-20); Reddy adj .] a . Of payment: Not prompt; delayed, deferred. b . Of persons: Not . proverb. Not easy to obtain. — a . c1420 Ratis Raving 1004. And it is wnreddy payment That thow . 1535 Stewart 39158. Syne staw away … in ane kne deip snaw, Quhairfoir the way wes wnreddie to knaw miskend — d . a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 163. A rinning hair is unreadie meate 
  148. Withset v.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375-1499
     Barb. xiv 107. [Twa] off thaim … Withset a pase in-till his way Quhar him behowyt ned away With twa (Manning) p.t., with-set ( c 1400) p.t.] tr. a . To set (a place) with an ambush. b . To oppose, set oneself against. See note at With prep. ( conj. ) about MS abbreviations. — a . 1375 Androw Hardclay With [fifty] men with-set the way — b . 14.. Acts I 50/2. Gif the warrand 
  149. Phise n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0]1565-1645
     hoist. In sense b, appar. only in Aberdeen. a . a 1566 Inv. Wardrobe 169. Item tua pair ofPhise , Phese , Pheise , Phease . [Varr. of Fize n. 2 Cf. MDu. vise , vijs(e a screw, from OF. vis id., whence ME. and e.m.E. vys(e , vyce , vice (14th c.) a device involving the use of a screw, a screw, etc. and cf. modern Sc. dial. feeze a twist, turn.] a . ? A device, operated by screws, for mounting a cannon or attaching a cannon to its stock; ? a type of vice or clamp operated by turning a screw. b . ? A mechanical device used in warehouses; ? a type of screw-operated to mount and dismount ordinance be attrib . a 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 255. Thre pair of 
  150. Componitor n.2[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1498-1582
    ).] = Compositioun . Also attrib. with silver . 1498 Reg. Privy S. l. 36/2. A precept of componitour [ pr . -positour] for a remissioun to be mad to Iohne Trumbull … and Iohne Scot … for thair tressonable commonyng , agreed to a composition being made. 1552 Breadalbane Doc. (Reg. H.) No. 82. For the quhilkis Reg. Privy C. II. 416. The burgessis [of Aberdeen] … being delaitit … for the tressonabill assisting 
  151. Miserabilly adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1499-1500
    Mis(s)erabilly , adv . [Var. of Mesurabily .] Moderately, in a moderate way of life. — a1500 
  152. Votally adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]1632
    Votally , adv . [ Votall adj .] By way of a vow, solemnly. — 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 
  153. Kenned ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1659
     giue anie praemium in a partiall way to anie, as becaus they ar of kenned friends or allyanceKenned , ppl. a. [Cf. Kennit and Kend .] Known. — 1659 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 182. Not to 
  154. Intrait v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0]1551-1640
     (2) 1568 St. A. Kirk S. 308. Johne Galbraight and Jonet Brown ar decernit … to intrat. Hist. MSS. App. ix . 51. I am bold to intrait yon … to meit me [etc.] 1640 Aberdeen Council 
  155. Cantrip n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0]1597-1661
    Cantrip , Cantrap , n . Also: cantryp , -trep , -trop ; crantrump . [Of obscure origin.] A cantryps in his way 1597 Ib. 89. Thow com doun the stair and keist thi cantrappis and witchecraft in hir way 1597 Ib. 132. Thow keist thy cantrapis and wichecraft on his guidis your crantrumpis and inchantment vpone him 1649 Cupar Presb. 147. The said Elspet did cast a 
  156. Path-way n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1549
    ( Path-way ,) Path-vaye , n. [e.m.E. pathway (Tindale). Cf. Pethway .] A pathway. — 1549 
  157. Agatewards adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1541-1700+
     prep . On the way towards. a 1714 Cromarty Corr. II. 488. Nixt day then vent a gait wards , -vardis . [f.  Agateward adv . with adverbial -is , -s .] 1 . On the road or way; = Agateward agaitwartis to the kingis grace 1570-3 Bann. Trans. 262. The said duckis sone … is a gatewartis 
  158. Fer adj.[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375-1578
    . 1414. Thane folouyt hym out of the towne, A fer way c1420 Wynt. ii . 1115. Thai … saydFer , a. Also: fere , ferr . [ME. ferre , fer , OE. feor(r .] = Far a. (See also Ferrar , Ferrest .) Fer side , the off side of a horse. 1375 Barb. i . 32. The form fere may thai com off landys fere [: powere] 1456 Hay I. 187/6. Becaus the way is rycht lang and fer 1456 Ib. 280/36. Gif … he war … a tyran … that mycht defame the armes in ferr contreis c1475 
  159. Chill adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1513
    Chill , Chyll , a . [e.m.E. chil (1570). Cf. Schill a . and Chele a .] Chill, cold. — 1513 Doug. v . iv. 100. Mynestheus … The reddy way held our the fludis chyll 1513 Ib 
  160. Gruchandly adv.[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1400
    Gruchandly , adv. [f. Northern ME. grucchande ( a 1400), f. Gruch , v .] Reluctantly. — c1400 Troy-bk. ii . 1641. And at the last thaim graunted wes Half gruchandly, to go thar way 
  161. Derf adj.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375-1586
    Derf , Darf , a. Also: derff . [ME. derf ( c 1200), darf , ON. * dearfr (Icel. djarfr frer furth than his way he tais, That wes derff, stout, and ek hardy c1460 Thewis Wysmen 369. We, that bene a pepill derf and dour 2 . Of things: Violent, severe, cruel. c1450-2 Howlat c1475 Ib. x . 857. The derff schott draiff as thik as a haill schour a1500 Golagros and . Difficult, hard to traverse. a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 383. He … catchit on his way Ouir the daillis sa derf 1535 Stewart 52221. The darfast way, for feiring of thair fo, Tha tuke the gait 
  162. Ofcom n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1]1652-1691
     others.] a . The way in which an argument works out, the conclusion of an argument. b . The way in which one comes out of an affair or is seen to conduct oneself in it. — a . a1653 Baillie Dissuas. Vind. 28. To have set down … some solution of these knots and not to have left them with a meer 1691 Haigs of Bemersyde 327. Lest I have a foolish offcome and receive disgrace 1681-91 
  163. Surpas v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]1572-1689
     speat the keyheid [of Aberdeen] 2 . To be superior to, excel, outdo (another person or thing) in craft & face Surpast a thousand fauld 1587-99 Hume 19/86. How far the … saull … dois surpas The mortall … corps, a lowrd and brukill mas c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxiii 3. I serve ane 
  164. Parentesis n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1610
     parenthesis; here, an aside. — c1610 Melville Mem. 360. This is a parentesis be the way to schaw howParentesis , n. [e.m.E. (1568) and med. L. parenthesis , f. the Greek: cf. Parenthese .] A far a gud K[ing] hes bene abused [etc.] 
  165. Inordinarly adv.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1589
    Inordinarly , adv . [e.m.E. inordinary a. (1606–32).] In an unusual way. — 1589 Rec 
  166. Worthelich adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1450-1452
    . worthelich] wane went thai thair way; Past till a palace of pryce plesand allane), worthilyche (? a 1400).] Noble, worthy. — c1450-2 Howlat 667 (A). Thai … Than till a wortheliche [ B 
  167. Glee v.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1618
    Glee , v. [e.m.E. glee. ME. glee , gle , of obscure origin. Cf. Gleyit a .] intr. To squint. — 1618 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 20. That's not the way to heauen, To make the euen to glee 
  168. Object ppl. adj.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]1650
    Object , ppl. a . [ME. and e.m.E., L. object-us : cf. Object , v .] Set in the way, interposed 
  169. Combrows adj.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375
    Combrows , a . [ME. combrous ( c 1400), var. of cumb(e)rous Cumbrous a .] Difficult it was hard to pass that way 
  170. Perch-plait n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]1692
     in some way the perch or centrepole connecting the rear- and front-carriages of a four-wheeledPerch-plait , n. [Mod. Eng. perch-plate (1794); Perch n. 2 ] ? A metal plate reinforcing vehicle. — 1692 Foulis Acc. Bk. 147. For … a perch plait a mainshekell [etc.] 
  171. Pudlar n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1584-1585
    Pudlar , n. [? f. Pud(d)ill v. 2.] ? One who dabbles in mud or acts in a muddled or messy way. — a1585 Polwart Flyt. 147 (T). Pudlar [ Harl. pedler] I pittie the so pynd 
  172. Acquitment n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1550
    Acquitment , n. [e.m.E. (1643).] Quittance, discharge (of a debt). — 1550 Blk. Friars Perth 222. By way of acquitment the said Patrik, Lord Gray, has contentit and payit to the said Freir 
  173. Drouper n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]1657
     Hutcheson Expos. John  (1657) xiv. 15 (p. 289). To be much about duty and service … is the way to a more( Drouper ,) Drowper , n . [e.m.E. drooper (1586).] A spiritless person. — 1657 
  174. Halfindall n.[1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375-1400
     ) healfan dǽl .] Half. — 1375 Barb. xiv . 497 (E). Bot halfindall a myle of way Fra the cite, a 
  175. Speaking-pynt n.[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1]1670-1700+
    . — 1670 Carr Lodge Mother Kilwinning 251. [At Aberdeen, in 1670, the regulations required that non-operative apprentices, in addition to their entry-money, were to provide a dinner with a] speaking pint 1670 Laws of Aberd. Lodge in A. L. Miller Hist. Lodge Aberd. (1919) 62. He is to pay two have the benefit of the measson word, free of all dewes. Only ane speaking pynt, ane dinner, and a pynt 
  176. Cumrous adj.[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]1375
    Cumrous , a . [ME. cumbrous , cumberous ( c 1400).] Difficult of passage. — 1375 Barb way 

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