Black humor; Country life -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Scotland -- Fiction
Forbears, ancestors.
Forby, besides.
Fou, full.
Fouest, fullest.
Frae, from.
Fu', full.
Fule, a fool.
Gaed, went.
Gaen, gone.
Galliard, sprightly.
Gane, gone.
Gang, go.
Ganging, going.
Gar, to force, to make.
Gate, way, direction.
Gaun, going.
Geisen'd, leaking.
Gie, give.
Gill-flirt, a giddy flirt.
Girning, crabbed, ill-tempered.
Gled, a kite.
Gnostic, knowing, sharp.
Gomeril, an ass, a fool.
Goupin, a double handful.
Gowd, gold.
Gowk, a fool.
Gree, to agree.
Grosert, a gooseberry.
Gude, good.
Gudes, possessions, property.
Gully, a large knife.
Ha', a hall.
Hae, have.
Hail, haill, whole.
Harns, brains.
Haud, hold. "Neither to haud nor to bind," a proverbial phrase
expressive of violent excitement.
Haugh, low-lying flat ground, properly on the border of a river, and
such as is sometimes overflowed.
Haverils, foolish chatterers.
Heather-tap, a tuft or bunch of heather.
Hellicate, giddy, wild.
Hempie, roguish, romping.
Het, hot.
Holm, the level low ground on the banks of a river.
Hooly, softly, slowly.
Hotch, to jerk oneself along in a sitting posture.
Hottle, an hotel.
"Hout fie! hout awa!" expressions of dissatisfaction.
Howff, a favourite resort.
Howk, to dig.
Hurley-hacket, a badly hung carriage.
Huzzie, a jade.
Ilk, ilka, each, every.
I'se, I shall.
Jaugs, saddle bags.
Jer-falcon, a species of hawk.
Jirbling, emptying liquids from vessel to vessel.
Kale, broth.
Ken, to know.
Ken'd, knew.
Kitchen-fee, dripping.
Kittle, to tickle, to manage.
Kittled, were born.
Knap, to break in two; also, to speak after the manner of the English.
Kouscousou, a Moorish dish of various compounds.
Laird, a squire, lord of the manor.
Lamer, amber.
Landlouper, a charlatan, an adventurer.
Lang, long.
Lave, the remainder.
Lawing, a tavern reckoning.
Lea-rig, unploughed land or hill-side.
Lee, a lie.
Leeving, living.
"Let abee," let alone.
Lick, to beat, to overcome.
Linking, walking arm in arm.
Linkit, linked.
"Link out," to pay down smartly.
Lippen, to trust.
Loon, a fellow, a person.
Loot, allowed.
Loup, leap.
Lug, the ear.
Mailing, a farm.
Mair, more.
Maist, most.
Mansworn, perjured.
Mask, to brew.
Maun, must. Maunna, must not.
Mawkin, a hare.
Mazareen, mazarin, a deep blue colour.
Meith, a mark.
Mell, to maul, to meddle with.
"Minced collops," meat cut up very fine.
Mind, to remember.
Muckle, much.
Muir, a moor.
Multiplepoinding, a method of settling rival claims to the same fund.
Multure, the miller's fee for grinding grain.
Murgeons, mouths, distorted gestures.
Mutch, a woman's cap.
Mutchkin, a measure equal to an English pint.
Na, nae, no, not.
Naig, a nag.
Neist, next.
Odd-come-shortlies, chance times not far off.
Ony, any.
Or, before. "Or they wan hame," before they get home.
Ower, over.
Owerta'en, overtaken.
Palinode, in Scotch libel cases a formal recantation exacted in addition
to damages.
Parritch, porridge.
Pat, put.
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