A REFERENCE GLOSSARY OF THE RARER WORDS Aback, behind 96, 12. Abeigh, aloof; stand abeigh 157, 23 507, 24. Abread, abreed, abroad; set abread 205, 20; spread abreed 158, 15. Aff-loof, off-hand 82, 6. Agley, awry 124, 4. Aiblins, perhaps 6, 12, etc. Aidle, foul-water 394, 18. 496, 2. Airles, id. 216, 37. Bairn, child; mammy's ae bairn 329, 14, etc. Bairn-time, offspring 159, 1; thae bonie bairn-time 228, 1. Bake, biscuit; bakes an' gills 100, Bang, blow; an unco bang 255, 20. Airle-penny, earnest money 468, 27; Barmie, yeasty; noddle 179, 14. Airn, iron 176, 13. Airt (8.), direction; anither airt 3, 18; a' the airts 342, 6. Airt (v.), to direct; airted till her 375, 31. Aith, oath; swoor an aith 77, 13. Aiver, cart-horse; a noble aiver 228, 16. Aizle, a live ember 117, 21. Ajee, ajar 531, 27. Ase, ashes 116, 22. Bauckie-bird, the bat 127, 4. Baudrons, a cat 177, 9; 492, 5; 622, 14. Bauk, beam 117, 3. Bauk-en', beam-end 117, 11. Bawtie, a dog's name 361, 11. Bear, barley; Scotch bear, 151, 27; bearded b. 285, 16; corn an' b. 443, 3. Asklent, obliquely 48, 7; askance 507, Beas' (= beasts), vermin, 224, 29. GLOSSARY 17. Bide, endure; bide the stour 15, 21; | Blether, to talk Bien, comfortable; her house sae bien Billie, fellow, brother 71, 16; 236, 7; Birken, of birch; birken shaw 318, Birkie, fellow 100, 23; honest b. 286, 18; a b. weel worth gowd 297, 3. Birr, vigour 427, 10. Birr,to whirr; birring paitricks 268, 5. Bizz, ferment, bustle 150, 11. Blae, blue; black an' blae 58, 23; Blastie, a little wretch 200, 10; 205, Blink, a moment; a blink did tarry Blinkers, wretches 155, 16. Blype, a large piece; skin in blypes Bock, vomit; bocked (of a stream) 273, 26. Boddle, a small coin (2 pennies Scots= 1 boddle: 2 boddles=1 plack); I'll wad a b. 256, 3; cared na a b. 441, 6. Bode, look for; I'll bode nae want 12, 7. Bole, recess in the wall 488, 19. Boord, board; the jinglin icy boord Boor-tree, elder-tree 148, 11. Boot, extra payment; boot and better Bore, recess, hole; benmost bore 129, 5. Bouk, body 401, 25. etc. Braik, harrow; pleugh or braik 80, 22. Brainge, to dash forward 158, 13. branks 71, 6; the beast an' branks GLOSSARY Brechan, horse-collar 249, 6. Brent, smooth, bright; your bonie brow was brent 386, 10; brent new 441, 12. Brie, juice; the barley brie 154, 3; 398, 9. Brisket, breast 158, 15. Brock, badger 57, 13; a stinkin brock 162, 32. Brogue, trick 150, 7. Broo, water 258, 9; snaw-broo (melted snow) 256, 30. Broose, wedding-race from church 157, 27. Brose, meal mixed with boiling water 403, 2. Browst, a brewing 336, 16. Brugh, burgh 254, 23. Brulyie, quarrel, broil 90, 22; 430, 6. Brunstane, brimstone 102, 2. Brunt, burnt 117, 21. Brust, burst 167, 26. Butt the house, in the kitchen 375, 4. Butt, the kitchen part of the house; a routhie butt 498, 8; but an' ben 318, 26. Bye attour, moreover 587, 19. Ca', drive (of cattle) 29, 9; work, ca' at my hammer 140, 7. Ca'd, driven; ca'd a shoe on 438, 19. Caddie, cadie, fellow; auld-licht caddies 89, 20; cowe the cadie 171, 22. Cadger, carrier, hawker; a cadger's whip 128, 2. Caff, chaff; some pyles o' caff 197, 8. rest 499, 15. Callet, trull 128, 22. Cankert, cankrie, cankered 270, 29, Cannie, careful, cautious; wi' cannie care 45, 11; 115, 6; cannie for hoarding o' money 11, 5; quict, a cannie hour 37, 17; a cannie errand 141, 26. Buckie, fellow; that daft buckie 423, Cannie, quietly 74, 29; cleverly 103, 11; envious buckies 477, 28. Buckle, curl 389, 10. Buff, to pound; buff our beef 58, 29. Burn, burnie, a small stream 86, 11. Burnewin, the blacksmith 153, 17. Busk, to dress up; buskit in a braw new coat 255, 21; bonie b. nest 296, 10; a buskit up naething 244, 12. Buss, bush 572, 12. 27; carefully 36, 14. Cannilie, quietly 100, 24. Cantie, lively, merry ; - as a kittlen 121, 2; kind auld c. carlin 169, 20; hale an' weel an' cantie 411, 12; etc. Cantraip, cantrip, spell, magic 149, 8; 272, 14; etc. Care na by, do not mind 2, 18; 35, 21; 390, 7. Carl, old man ; a gray-hair'd carl 270, 23. Carlie, dim. of carl; a fusionless carlie 496, 24. Carlin, old wife; kind, auld cantie carlin 169, 20. Carle-hemp, male hemp 412, 24. But, without; but biot 285, 21; but Cartes, playing cards 63, 10; 67, 24. bush or bield 572, 12. Catch-the-plack, money making 80, 4. GLOSSARY Cauk, chalk; cauk an' keel 391, 19. Caup, a wooden cup; cogs an' caups 102, 14; the luggit caup 153, 16. Cavie, coop; chicken-cavie 135, 19. Change-house, tavern 100, 28. Chanter, a part of the bag-pipe 32, 14; 85, 21; 105, 16. Chap, fellow 226, 30. Chap, a blow 153, 18. Chap, to strike 94, 26. Cheep, squeak; wi' tunefu' cheep 176, 10. Cheep, to chirp; - like some chicken 297, 30. Chiel', chield, fellow; an odd kind chiel' 76, 25; a dainty chiel 237, 27; best o' chiel's 60, 20. Chimla, chimlie, chimney 60, 10. Chittering, shivering 274, 11. Chuckie, a hen; auld chuckie Reekie 296, 8; a dainty chuckie (of a woman) 314, 23; 413, 3. Chuffie, fat-faced; vintner 169, 3. Clachan, village 72, 13; 125, 22; the clachan yill 70, 7. Claise, clothes 43, 19. Clankie, a smart knock 404, 2. -- Clash, to gossip; let them clash 47, 14. her by the rump Clatter, gossip; kintra clatter 47, 12. Clatter, to chatter 153, 26. Claught, caught; 444, 17. Claughtin, grasping, scraping 11, 6, Claught, to clutch at 622, 13; clautit, scraped 229, 26. Claut, a quantity; - o' gear 469, 15; o' siller, 516, 25. Claver, clover 497, 27; 499, 26. Claw, to scratch 577, 8. Cleg, gad-fly; the clegs o' feeling 271, 11. Clink, coin 3, 7; 376, 13. Clishmaclaver, idle talk 228, 18; 259, 9. Clockin-time, hatching-time 46, 13. Clootie, Cloots, Satan 147, 6; 151, 1. 27; clouted 226, 20. Clout, a patch 604, 18. Clunk, to sound (of liquor) 135, 14. Cock, cockie, good fellow 44, 10; 413, Coup, overturn; coup the cran 251, 21. See cowp. Couthie, kindly, loving 115, 21; - Fortune 478, 7. Cowe, a fright 89, 25. an' Cowe, to lop; 178, 8. her measure shorter Cowp, to fall; I nearhand cowpit 73, 8; to overturn, stooks are cowpit 105, 13. Cowt, a colt 200, 11; 228, 15. Crack, talk, conversation 52, 7; 76, 10, etc.; pl. cracks 44, 15; 116, 30. GLOSSARY Crack, to talk; cracks o' horses 143, Daft, foolish 130, 27; 135, 22. Craft, a croft 227, 9. Craft-rig, a croft ridge 617, 15. Craigie, dim. of craig 135, 4; 557, 1. Creel, basket; senses in a creel (=con- Creepie-chair, stool of repentance 196, 1. Creeshie, greasy 174, 9; 442, 17. Crood, to coo; the cushat croods 86, Croon, a moaning cry 121, 22; eldritch croon 148, 6. Croon, to make a hollow sound; to jow Crooning, humming over 77, 23. Crouse, crousely, merrily; crackin Crowdie, meal mixed with milk 402, 28; 617, 24. Crowdie-time, breakfast-time 97, 19. Darklins, in the dark 117, 3. Daunder, to saunter 427, 12. 17. Daw, to dawn 398, 8; day was dawin Dawin, the dawning 405, 17. Deil, devil 7, 3, etc.; deil a ane 3, 28; Delvin, digging 232, 8. Dern, to hide; dern'd in caves 126, 1. Cuif, ninny; fumblin cuifs 153, 27. Devel, a heavy blow 267, 15. Cummock, a staff 237, 13. Cushat, wood-pigeon 86, 29; 433, 1. Cutty, short; cutty stool 264, 6; cutty sark 443, 5. Daddie, father 3, 27; 47, 10. Diddle, move quickly 109, 11; 270, 19. Dight, to wipe; dight his hide 64, 27; that tear 133, 9; your e'en 361, 24; to clean (of corn) 197, 8. Din, dark-skinned; she's dour an' din 7, 8; 491, 16. Ding, to beat; a' to sticks 305, 5; chiels that winna ding 226, 17. Dink, neat 291, 6. Dirl, a rattle; play'd dirl on the bane 72, 29. Dirl, to rattle 441, 20; dirl❜d them aff 544, 17. Daffin, merry-making 97, 11; 130, Doit, to benumb; my very senses 81; 197, 10. doited 305, 24. |