WEIR OF HERMISTON
- skelp, slap.
- skirling, screaming.
- skriegh-o'day, daybreak.
- snash, abuse.
- sneisty, supercilious.
- sooth, to hum.
- sough, sound, murmur.
- spec, The Speculative Society, a debating Society connected with Edinburgh University.
- speir, to ask.
- speldering, sprawling.
- splairge, to splash.
- spunk, spirit, fire.
- steik, to shut.
- stockfish, hard, savourless.
- suger-bool, suger-plum.
- syne, since, then.
- tawpie, a slow foolish slut, also used playfully = monkey.
- telling you, a good thing for you.
- thir, these.
- thrawn, cross-grained.
- toon, town.
- two-names, local soubriquets in addition to patronymic.
- tyke, dog.
- unchancy, unlucky.
- unco, strange, extraordinary, very.
- upsitten, impertinent.
- vennel, alley, lane. The Vennel, a narrow lane in Edinburgh running out of the Grassmarket.
- vivers, victuals.
- wae, sad, unhappy.
- waling, choosing.
- warrandise, warranty.
- waur, worse.
- weird, destiny.
- whammle, to upset.
- whaup, curlew.
- whiles, sometimes.
- windlestae, crested dog's-tail, grass.
- wund, wind.
- yin, one.
Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty,
at the Edinburgh University Press.
