cleekit lay hold of

clinkan jingling

clashmaclavers tittle-tattle

clout patch

clud cloud

coft buy

cogs wooden drinking cup

coof fool

coost cast

cour cringe

crack gossip

craigie neck

crambo-jingle doggerel

cran-reuch hoar-frost

cresshie greasy

croudie-time breakfast-time

crouse merry

crump baked dry

curchie curtsey

cutty short (shirt)

daffin fooling

dail deal

daimen-icker ear of corn

dauds thrash

dawtit pet/fondle

deave deafen

dight wipe/clean

doited crazy

donsie unlucky

dool sorrow

douce sober

dow (to have) courage

doxy beggar’s woman

doytin see doited

drave pass

dreigh dreary

drouth thirst

drumlie cloudy

dub puddle

duds clothes

e’e (een) eye/eyes

eild old age

elbuck elbow

enow enough

ettle aim

eydent diligent

fae foe

fain content

fairing trinket from a fair

farls quarter of a bannock

fash bother

fauld enclose

faut fault

feck value

fell powerful

fient the Devil (fiend)

fissle rustle

flewit slap

fley frighten

forfairn undone

fou drunk

fow firlot (full measure)

furms form

fur furrow

fyke fidget

fyle defile

gab talk

gar make

gart cause

gash smart

gate road

gaud iron bar

gawsie ample

geck toss the head scornfully

gin if

gilpey young girl

glaikit foolish

glaizie glittering

glaum snatch

gled kyte

gleg smart-witted

gloaming twilight

glunch look sullen

gowans daisies

gowk fool

graith tools

greet weep

grissle gristle

gruntle grunt

gude good (or God)

guid good

gulravage romp

gyvel gable

hafflins-wise half-measure

hainch haunch

hain’d preserved

hairst harvest

hal smallholding

halesome wholesome

hallan cottage-partition

hap cover

happer hopper of a mill

haughs fertile land near water

havins (good) behaviour

hawkit spotted with white

heapet well-filled

hilch lurch

hirple limp

hizzie hussy

hoast cough

hoddin coarse-cloth

hotch’d hitched

houghmagandie sexual intercourse

howdie midwife

howe valley

howe-backit hump-backed

howk dig

hoyse pull upwards

hoyte between a trot and a run

hums mumble

hurdies buttocks

ilka each/every

ingle fire on a hearth

jaups jerk

jow toll

kail cabbage

kebars pine-pole

kebbuck cheese

kebbuck-heel cheese-rind

ken know

kiaugh anxiety

kirn churn

kirsen dilute

kittle excite

knaggle nobbled

knowe hill

kye cows

kyles skittle

kytes belly

laithfu bashful

lalland lowland

lave remainder

laverock skylark

lear learning

leeze delight

leuch laugh

limmer woman

loof palm

loup jump

lowe flame

lowin blazing

lugs ears

lyart streaked

maukin hare

maun must

mavis thrush

mawn basket

meikle large, great

mell friendly

melvie to soil

menseless unrespectable

merle blackbird

messan dog

mim demure

mirk dark

moil labour

moop nibble

mottie spotty

mou mouth

moudiewart mole

mow(e) to fornicate

natch notch

naur near

niffer barter

nit nut

nowt cattle

orra spare

paetrick partridge

painch paunch

pangs cram

parritch porridge

pawkie sly

peghan puffing

penny-wheep small beer

philibeg kilt

pint-stoup pint-pot

pith strength

pliskie trick

pliver lapwing

poortith poverty

pou pull

pyke pick

quean girl

raibles gabble

ram-stam headstrong

rape rope

rase rose

rattons rats

rax stretch

rede advise

rief plunder

rig arable ridge

ripp unthreshed corn

roose agitate

roupet husky

rowte bellow

rowth abundance

rungs cudgel

runkle wrinkle

ruth pity

ryke reach

sair hard/sore

sair-worn worn-out

sark shirt

saugh willow

saumont-coble salmon-boat

sconner sicken

scrimp cutdown

shangan dog-stick

shaver young wag

sheers scissors