4037181Wee Macgreegor — GlossaryJ. J. Bell

GLOSSARY

  • Abin, above
  • Ablow, below
  • Auld, old
  • Ava', at all
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  • Ba', ball
  • Bass, a door-mat
  • Baun', band
  • Bawr, a joke, a "lark"
  • Begood, began
  • Bew, blue
  • Blate, backward, ashamed
  • Blether, a talker (of nonsense)
  • Breith, breath
  • Buits, boots
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  • Ca' (to), to call
  • Ca' (to), to drive, to force
  • Caim, comb
  • Cairrit, carried
  • Canny, careful
  • Carvies, sugared caraway-seeds
  • Cheuch jean, a toffy sweet
  • Chief, friendly, "chummy"
  • Claes, clothes
  • Code-ile, cod-liver oil
  • Coup (to), to upset
  • Crack, conversation
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  • Daud, lump (also blow)
  • Daunee, stroll
  • Dicht (to), to wipe
  • Doo, dove, pigeon
  • Dook (to), to bathe
  • Dour, stubborn
  • Drookit, soaked, drenched
  • Dunt, knock
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  • Ernin', ironing
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  • Fash (to), to trouble, to worry
  • File (to), to soil
  • Fin (to), 'to feel
  • Fit, foot
  • Flannen, flannel
  • Fou, full
  • Frae, from
  • Fricht, fright
  • Furbye, also
  • Furrit, forward
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  • Gab, mouth
  • Gab (to), to induce, to compel
  • Gartnavel, a local asylum
  • Gemm, game
  • Girny, fractious, complaining
  • Glaur, mud
  • Goonie, a little gown
  • Greet (to), to weep
  • Grumphy, a pig
  • Guid-sister, sister-in-law
  • Gundy, candy
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  • Hap (to), to cover cosily
  • Haud (to), to hold
  • Havers! Nonsense!
  • Hoast, cough
  • Hurl, ride (in a vehicle)
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  • Intil, into
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  • Jawbox, sink
  • Joog, jug, mug
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  • Keek (to), to peep
  • Kirt, chest
  • Kitly, tickly
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  • Leevin', living
  • Let bug (to), to show, to inform
  • Louse (to), to loosen, to unlace
  • Lum, chimney
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  • Maun, must
  • Muckle, much, great, big
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  • Neb, nose, point
  • Ne'erday, New Year's Day
  • Nick (to get the), to be "run in"
  • Nock, clock
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  • Oarin', rowing
  • Oose, Oosie, wool, woolly
  • Ootbye, out-of-doors
  • Ower, over, excessively
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  • Partins, crabs
  • Pechin', panting
  • Pickle (a), a few
  • Pooshun, poison
  • Potty, putty
  • Preen, pin
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  • Quate, quiet
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  • Rid, red
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  • Sare, sore
  • Sark, shirt
  • Sate, seat
  • Scale (to), to spill
  • Scart (to), to scratch
  • Sclates, slates, scales
  • Sclim (to), to climb
  • Scoot (to), to squirt
  • Shin, soon
  • Shoogly, shaky, insecure
  • Shoogy-shoo (to), to rock
  • Skelp (to), to whip
  • Soom (to), to swim
  • Soople, supple
  • Speir (to), to inquire
  • Speldron, a small dried fish
  • Steerin', restless, energetic
  • Stracht, straight
  • Stravaygin, wandering
  • Strippit, stripped
  • Sumph, a lout
  • Suree, soiree
  • Syne, ago
  • Syne (to), to wash out
  • Sweirt, unwilling
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  • Tae, toe
  • Tate, a small portion
  • Taurry-biler, tar-boiler
  • Tawpy, a "softy"
  • Tewky, a chicken
  • Thole (to), to bear, to endure
  • Thon, yon
  • Til, to, unto
  • Tim (to), to empty
  • Toosie, untidy
  • Torrie, tassel on bonnet
  • Tosh up (to), to tidy up
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  • Wake, weak
  • Wannert, wandered
  • Waur, worse
  • Wean, child
  • Wheen (a), few
  • Whit wey, what way, why
  • Whumle (to), to roll about
  • Wice, wise
  • Winda-sole, window-sill
  • Wulk, whelk
  • Wur, our
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  • Yin, one
  • Yinst, once