GLOSSARY OF SCOTCH WORDS A number of Scotch words differ from corresponding English words by a single vowel, such as: aften often; blaw blow; saul soul; etc. Such words are not in this list. bicker hurrying bide endure big to build biggin house billies comrades birks birches bield shelter birkie proud fellow blether idle talk blinks glasses bluid blood bluntie a stupid person bocket gushed boddle cent bogie a hobgoblin boisses drinks bracken fern braes heights braid broad brattle outburst braw gay brawly heartily braxies dead sheep brunt burned buirdly stately bum to hum bunker recess bure did bear burn stream bum clock night beetle buskit dressed but without byke or bike bees' nest byre cow stable ca' call caff chaff cairds tinkers callans boys canna cannot cannie carefully, gentle cantie cheery cantraip magic cleekit linked clout to patch cood cud coofs blockheads core corps cracks stories craze wear out croon a moan crooning humming cushat wood pigeon carl-hemp male stalk of cutty short GLOSSARY OF SCOTCH WORDS flingin'-tree a flail foggage green growth forfoughten worn out frae from fyke to fret gab mouth gaed went gae to go gang to go gars makes gart made gash wise gate manner gaun going gawsie large gear wealth gentle gentry gie give gif if glint to shine briefly gloamin' twilight girnin grinning glaikit giddy gowan daisy gowd gold granes groans gree victory greet cry fecht fight fell keen guid good grushie large growth |