_Mim_, prim,
affectedly
meek.
Robert Burns
_Hove, hoved_, to heave, to swell.
_Howdie_, a midwife.
_Howe_, hollow, a hollow or dell.
_Howebackit_, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.
_Howff_, a house of resort.
_Howk_, to dig.
_Howkit_, digged.
_Howkin'_, digging deep.
_Hoy, hoy't_, to urge, urged.
_Hoyse_, a pull upwards. "Hoyse a creel," to raise a basket; hence
"hoisting creels. "
_Hoyte_, to amble crazily.
_Hughoc_, diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.
_Hums and hankers_, mumbles and seeks to do what he cannot perform.
_Hunkers_, kneeling and falling back on the hams.
_Hurcheon_, a hedgehog.
_Hurdies_, the loins, the crupper.
_Hushion_, a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot.
_Huchyalled_, to move with a hilch.
I.
_Icker_, an ear of corn.
_Ieroe_, a great grandchild.
_Ilk_, or _ilka_, each, every.
_Ill-deedie_, mischievous.
_Ill-willie_, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly.
_Ingine_, genius, ingenuity.
_Ingle_, fire, fire-place.
_Ingle-low_, light from the fire, flame from the hearth.
_I rede ye_, I advise ye, I warn ye.
_I'se_, I shall or will.
_Ither_, other, one another.
J.
_Jad_, jade; also a familiar term among country folks for a giddy young
girl.
_Jauk_, to dally, to trifle.
_Jaukin'_, trifling, dallying.
_Jauner_, talking, and not always to the purpose.
_Jaup_, a jerk of water; to jerk, as agitated water.
_Jaw_, coarse raillery, to pour out, to shut, to jerk as water.
_Jillet_, a jilt, a giddy girl.
_Jimp_, to jump, slender in the waist, handsome.
_Jink_, to dodge, to turn a corner; a sudden turning, a corner.
_Jink an' diddle_, moving to music, motion of a fiddler's elbow.
Starting here and there with a tremulous movement.
_Jinker_, that turns quickly, a gay sprightly girl.
_Jinkin'_, dodging, the quick motion of the bow on the fiddle.
_Jirt_, a jerk, the emission of water, to squirt.
_Jocteleg_, a kind of knife.
_Jouk_, to stoop, to bow the head, to conceal.
_Jow_, to _jow_, a verb, which includes both the swinging motion and
pealing sound of a large bell; also the undulation of
water.
_Jundie_, to justle, a push with the elbow.
K.
_Kae_, a daw.
_Kail_, colewort, a kind of broth.
_Kailrunt_, the stem of colewort.
_Kain_, fowls, &c. , paid as rent by a farmer.
_Kebars_, rafters.
_Kebbuck_, a cheese.
_Keckle_, joyous cry; to cackle as a hen.
_Keek_, a keek, to peep.
_Kelpies_, a sort of mischievous water-spirit, said to haunt fords and
ferries at night, especially in storms.
_Ken_, to know; _ken'd_ or _ken't_, knew.
_Kennin_, a small matter.
_Ket-Ketty_, matted, a fleece of wool.
_Kiaught_, carking, anxiety, to be in a flutter.
_Kilt_, to truss up the clothes.
_Kimmer_, a young girl, a gossip.
_Kin'_, kindred.
_Kin'_, kind.
_King's-hood_, a certain part of the entrails of an ox.
_Kintra_, _kintrie_, country.
_Kirn_, the harvest supper, a churn.
_Kirsen_, to christen, to baptize.
_Kist_, a shop-counter.
_Kitchen_, anything that eats with bread, to serve for soup, gravy.
_Kittle_, to tickle, ticklish.
_Kittling_, a young cat. The ace of diamonds is called among rustics
the kittlin's e'e.
_Knaggie_, like knags, or points of rocks.
_Knappin-hammer_, a hammer for breaking stones; _knap_, to strike or break.
_Knurlin_, crooked but strong, knotty.
_Knowe_, a small, round hillock, a knoll.
_Kuittle_, to cuddle; _kuitlin_, cuddling, fondling.
_Kye_, cows.
_Kyle_, a district in Ayrshire.
_Kyte_, the belly.
_Kythe_, to discover, to show one's self.
L.
_Labour_, thrash.
_Laddie_, diminutive of lad.
_Laggen_, the angle between the side and the bottom of a wooden dish.
_Laigh_, low.
_Lairing, lairie_, wading, and sinking in snow, mud &c. , miry.
_Laith_, loath, impure.
_Laithfu_', bashful, sheepish, abstemious.
_Lallans_, Scottish dialect, Lowlands.
_Lambie_, diminutive of lamb.
_Lammas moon_, harvest-moon.
_Lampit_, kind of shell-fish, a limpet.
_Lan_', land, estate.
_Lan'-afore_, foremost horse in the plough.
_Lan'-ahin_, hindmost horse in the plough.
_Lane_, lone; _my lane, thy tune, &c. _, myself alone.
_Lanely_, lonely.
_Lang_, long; to _think lang_, to long, to weary.
_Lap_, did leap.
_Late and air_, late and early.
_Lave_, the rest, the remainder, the others.
_Laverock_, the lark.
_Lawlan'_, lowland.
_Lay my dead_, attribute my death.
_Leal_, loyal, true, faithful.
_Lear_, learning, lore.
_Lee-lang_, live-long.
_Leesome luve_, happy, gladsome love.
_Leeze me_, a phrase of congratulatory endearment; I am happy in thee or
proud of thee.
_Leister_, a three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish.
_Leugh_, did laugh.
_Leuk_, a look, to look.
_Libbet_, castrated.
_Lick, licket_, beat, thrashen.
_Lift_, sky, firmament.
_Lightly_, sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue.
_Lilt_, a ballad, a tune, to sing.
_Limmer_, a kept mistress, a strumpet.
_Limp't_, limped, hobbled.
_Link_, to trip along; _linkin_, tripping along.
_Linn_, a waterfall, a cascade.
_Lint_, flax; _lint i' the bell_, flax in flower.
_Lint-white_, a linnet, flaxen.
_Loan_, the place of milking.
_Loaning_, lane.
_Loof_, the palm of the hand.
_Loot_, did let.
_Looves_, the plural of loof.
_Losh man_! rustic exclamation modified from Lord man.
_Loun_, a follow, a ragamuffin, a woman of easy virtue.
_Loup_, leap, startled with pain.
_Louper-like_, lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character.
_Lowe_, a flame.
_Lowin_', flaming; _lowin-drouth_, burning desire for drink.
_Lowrie_, abbreviation of Lawrence.
_Lowse_, to loose.
_Lowsed_, unbound, loosed.
_Lug_, the ear.
_Lug of the law_, at the judgment-seat.
_Lugget_, having a handle.
_Luggie_, a small wooden dish with a handle.
_Lum_, the chimney; _lum-head_, chimney-top.
_Lunch_, a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c.
_Lunt_, a column of smoke, to smoke, to walk quickly.
_Lyart_, of a mixed colour, gray.
M.
_Mae_, and _mair_, more.
_Maggot's-meat_, food for the worms.
_Mahoun_, Satan.
_Mailen_, a farm.
_Maist_, most, almost.
_Maistly_, mostly, for the greater part.
_Mak_', to make; _makin_', making.
_Mally_, Molly, Mary.
_Mang_, among.
_Manse_, the house of the parish minister is called "the Manse. "
_Manteele_, a mantle.
_Mark_, marks. This and several other nouns which in English require
an _s_ to form the plural, are in Scotch, like the words sheep,
deer, the same in both numbers.
_Mark, merk_, a Scottish coin, value thirteen shillings and four-pence.
_Marled_, party-coloured.
_Mar's year_, the year 1715. Called Mar's year from the rebellion of
Erskine, Earl of Mar.
_Martial chuck,_ the soldier's camp-comrade, female companion.
_Mashlum_, mixed corn.
_Mask_, to mash, as malt, &c. , to infuse.
_Maskin-pot_, teapot.
_Maukin_, a hare.
_Maun, mauna_, must, must not.
_Maut_, malt.
_Mavis_, the thrush.
_Maw_, to mow.
_Mawin_, mowing; _maun_, mowed; _maw'd_, mowed.
_Mawn_, a small basket, without a handle.
_Meere_, a mare.
_Melancholious_, mournful.
_Melder_, a load of corn, &c. , sent to the mill to be ground.
_Mell_, to be intimate, to meddle, also a mallet for pounding barley in
a stone trough.
_Melvie_, to soil with meal.
_Men_', to mend.
_Mense_, good manners, decorum.
_Menseless_, ill-bred, impudent.
_Merle_, the blackbird.
_Messin_, a small dog.
_Middin_, a dunghill.
_Middin-creels_, dung-baskets, panniers in which horses carry manure.
_Midden-hole_, a gutter at the bottom of a dunghill.
_Milkin-shiel_ a place where cows or ewes are brought to be milked.
_Mim_, prim, affectedly meek.
_Mim-mou'd_, gentle-mouthed.
_Min_', to remember.
_Minawae_, minuet.
_Mind't_, mind it, resolved, intending, remembered.
_Minnie_, mother, dam.
_Mirk_, dark.
_Misca_', to abuse, to call names; _misca'd_, abused.
_Mischanter_, accident.
_Misleard_, mischievous, unmannerly.
_Misteuk_, mistook.
_Mither,_ mother.
_Mixtie-maxtie_, confusedly mixed, mish-mash.
_Moistify_, _moistified_, to moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked.
_Mons-Meg,_ a large piece of ordnance, to be seen at the Castle of
Edinburgh, composed of iron bars welded together and then
hooped.
_Mools_, earth.
_Mony_, or _monie_, many.
_Moop,_ to nibble as a sheep.
_Moorlan_, of or belonging to moors.
_Morn_, the next day, to-morrow.
_Mou_, the mouth.
_Moudiwort_, a mole.
_Mousie_, diminutive of mouse.
_Muckle_, or _mickle_, great, big, much.
_Muses-stank_, muses-rill, a stank, slow-flowing water.
_Musie_, diminutive of muse.
_Muslin-kail_, broth, composed simply of water, shelled barley, and
greens; thin poor broth.
_Mutchkin_, an English pint.
_Mysel_, myself.
N.
_Na_', no, not, nor.
_Nae_, or _na_, no, not any.
_Naething_, or _naithing_, nothing.
_Naig_, a horse, a nag.
_Nane_, none.
_Nappy_, ale, to be tipsy.
_Negleckit_, neglected.
_Neebor_, a neighbour.
_Neuk_, nook.
_Neist_, next.
_Nieve, neif_, the fist
_Nievefu'_, handful.
_Niffer_, an exchange, to barter.
_Niger_, a negro.
_Nine-tailed cat_, a hangman's whip.
_Nit_, a nut.
_Norland_, of or belonging to the north.
_Notic't_, noticed.
_Nowte_, black cattle.
O.
_O'_, of.
_O'ergang_, overbearingness, to treat with indignity, literally to tread.
_O'erlay_, an upper cravat.
_Ony_, or _onie_, any.
_Or_, is often used for ere, before.
_Orra-duddies_, superfluous rags, old clothes.
_O't_, of it.
_Ourie_, drooping, shivering.
_Oursel, oursels_, ourselves.
_Outlers_, outliers; cattle unhoused.
_Ower, owre_, over.
_Owre-hip_, striking with a forehammer by bringing it with a swing over
the hip.
_Owsen_, oxen.
_Oxtered_, carried or supported under the arm.
P.
_Pack_, intimate, familiar: twelve stone of wool.
_Paidle, paidlen_, to walk with difficulty, as if in water.
_Painch_, paunch.
_Paitrick_, partridge.
_Pang_, to cram.
_Parle_, courtship.
_Parishen_, parish.
_Parritch_, oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch drink.
_Pat_, did put, a pot.
_Pattle_, or _pettle_, a small spades to clean the plough.
_Paughty_, proud, haughty.
_Pauky_, cunning, sly.
_Pay't_, paid, beat.
_Peat-reek_, the smoke of burning turf, a bitter exhalation, whisky.
_Pech_, to fetch the breath shortly, as in an asthma.
_Pechan_, the crop, the stomach.
_Pechin_, respiring with difficulty.
_Pennie_, riches.
_Pet_, a domesticated sheep, &c. , a favourite.
_Pettle_, to cherish.
_Philabeg_, the kilt.
_Phraise_, fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.
_Phraisin_, flattering.
_Pibroch_, a martial air.
_Pickle_, a small quantity, one grain of corn.
_Pigmy-scraper_, little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player.
_Pint-stomp_, a two-quart measure.
_Pine_, pain, uneasiness.
_Pingle_, a small pan for warming children's sops.
_Plack_, an old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.
_Plackless_, pennyless, without money.
_Plaidie_, diminutive of plaid.
_Platie_, diminutive of plate.
_Plew_, or _pleugh_, a plough.
_Pliskie_, a trick.
_Plumrose_, primrose.
_Pock_, a meal-bag.
_Poind_, to seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland
allow, for rent, &c.
_Poorteth_, poverty.
_Posie_, a nosegay, a garland.
_Pou, pou'd_, to pull, pulled.
_Pouk_, to pluck.
_Poussie_, a hare or cat.
_Pouse_, to pluck with the hand.
_Pout_, a polt, a chick.
_Pou't_, did pull.
_Poutherey_, fiery, active.
_Pouthery_, like powder.
_Pow_, the head, the skull.
_Pownie_, a little horse, a pony.
_Powther_, or _pouther_, gunpowder.
_Preclair_, supereminent.
_Preen_, a pin.
_Prent_, printing, print.
_Prie_, to taste; _prie'd_, tasted.
_Prief_, proof.
_Prig_, to cheapen, to dispute; _priggin_, cheapening.
_Primsie_, demure, precise.
_Propone_, to lay down, to propose.
_Pund, pund o' tow_, pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.
_Pyet_, a magpie.
_Pyle, a pyle, o' caff_, a single grain of chaff.
_Pystle_, epistle.
Q.
_Quat_, quit
_Quak_, the cry of a duck.
_Quech_, a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles.
_Quey_, a cow from one to two years old, a heifer.
_Quines_, queans.
_Quakin_, quaking.
R.
_Ragweed_, herb-ragwort.
_Raible_, to rattle, nonsense.
_Rair_, to roar.
_Raize_, to madden, to inflame.
_Ramfeezled_, fatigued, overpowered.
_Rampin'_, raging.
_Ramstam_, thoughtless, forward.
_Randie_, a scolding sturdy beggar, a shrew.
_Rantin_', joyous.
_Raploch_, properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse.
_Rarely_, excellently, very well.
_Rash_, a rush; _rash-buss_, a bush of rushes.
_Ratton_, a rat.
_Raucle_, rash, stout, fearless, reckless.
_Raught_, reached.
_Raw_, a row.
_Rax_, to stretch.
_Ream_, cream, to cream.
_Reamin'_, brimful, frothing.
_Reave_, take by force.
_Rebute_, to repulse, rebuke.
_Reck_, to heed.
_Rede_, counsel, to counsel, to discourse.
_Red-peats_, burning turfs.
_Red-wat-shod_, walking in blood over the shoe-tops.
_Red-wud_, stark mad.
_Ree_, half drunk, fuddled; _a ree yaud_, a wild horse.
_Reek_, smoke.
_Reekin'_, smoking.
_Reekit_, smoked, smoky.
_Reestit_, stood restive; stunted, withered.
_Remead_, remedy.
_Requite_, requited.
_Restricked_, restricted.
_Rew_, to smile, look affectionately, tenderly.
_Rickles_, shocks of corn, stooks.
_Riddle_, instrument for purifying corn.
_Rief-randies_, men who take the property of others, accompanied by
violence and rude words.
_Rig_, a ridge.
_Rin_, to run, to melt; _rinnin'_, running.
_Rink_, the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice.
_Rip_, a handful of unthreshed corn.
_Ripples_, pains in the back and loins, sounds which usher in death.
_Ripplin-kame_, instrument for dressing flax.
_Riskit_, a noise like the tearing of roots.
_Rockin'_, a denomination for a friendly visit. In former times young
women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to
sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called "rockings. "
_Roke_, distaff.
_Rood_, stands likewise for the plural, roods.
_Roon_, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth.
_Roose_, to praise, to commend.
_Roun'_, round, in the circle of neighbourhood.
_Roupet_, hoarse, as with a cold.
_Row_, to roll, to rap, to roll as water.
_Row't_, rolled, wrapped.
_Rowte_, to low, to bellow.
_Rowth_, plenty.
_Rowtin'_, lowing.
_Rozet_, rosin.
_Rumble-gumption_, rough commonsense.
_Run-deils_, downright devils.
_Rung_, a cudgel.
_Runt_, the stem of colewort or cabbage.
_Runkled_, wrinkled.
_Ruth_, a woman's name, the book so called, sorrow.
_Ryke_, reach.
