_Jirt_, a jerk, the
emission
of water, to squirt.
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_Gizz_, a periwig, the face.
_Glaikit_, inattentive, foolish.
_Glaive_, a sword.
_Glaizie_, glittering, smooth, like glass.
_Glaumed_, grasped, snatched at eagerly.
_Girran_, a poutherie girran, a little vigorous animal; a horse rather
old, but yet active when heated.
_Gled_, a hawk.
_Gleg_, sharp, ready.
_Gley_, a squint, to squint; _a-gley_, off at the side, wrong.
_Gleyde_, an old horse.
_Glib-gabbit_, that speaks smoothly and readily.
_Glieb o' lan'_, a portion of ground. The ground belonging to a manse is
called "the glieb," or portion.
_Glint_, _glintin'_, to peep.
_Glinted by_, went brightly past.
_Gloamin_, the twilight.
_Gloamin-shot_, twilight musing; a shot in the twilight.
_Glowr_, to stare, to look; a stare, a look.
_Glowran_, amazed, looking suspiciously, gazing.
_Glum_, displeased.
_Gor-cocks_, the red-game, red-cock, or moor-cock.
_Gowan_, the flower of the daisy, dandelion, hawkweed, &c.
_Gowany_, covered with daisies.
_Goavan_, walking as if blind, or without an aim.
_Gowd_, gold.
_Gowl_, to howl.
_Gowff_, a fool; the game of golf, to strike, as the bat does the ball
at golf.
_Gowk_, term of contempt, the cuckoo.
_Grane_ or _grain_, a groan, to groan; _graining_, groaning.
_Graip_, a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses.
_Graith_, accoutrements, furniture, dress.
_Grannie_, grandmother.
_Grape_, to grope; _grapet_, groped.
_Great_, _grit_, intimate, familiar.
_Gree_, to agree; _to bear the gree_, to be decidedly victor; _gree't_,
agreed.
_Green-graff_, green grave,
_Gruesome_, loathsomely, grim.
_Greet_, to shed tears, to weep; _greetin'_, weeping.
_Grey-neck-quill_, a quill unfit for a pen.
_Griens_, longs, desires.
_Grieves_, stewards.
_Grippit_, seized.
_Groanin-Maut_, drink for the cummers at a lying-in.
_Groat_, to get the whistle of one's groat; to play a losing game, to
feel the consequences of one's folly.
_Groset_, a gooseberry.
_Grumph_, a grunt, to grunt.
_Grumphie_, _Grumphin_, a sow; the snorting of an angry pig.
_Grun'_, ground.
_Grunstone_, a grindstone.
_Gruntle_, the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise.
_Grunzie_, a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig.
_Grushie_, thick, of thriving growth.
_Gude_, _guid_, _guids_, the Supreme Being, good, goods.
_Gude auld-has-been_, was once excellent.
_Guid-mornin'_, good-morrow.
_Guid-e'en_, good evening.
_Guidfather_ and _guidmother_, father-in-law, and mother-in-law.
_Guidman_ and _guidwife_, the master and mistress of the house;
_young guidman_, a man newly married.
_Gully_ or _Gullie_, a large knife.
_Gulravage_, joyous mischief.
_Gumlie_, muddy.
_Gumption_, discernment, knowledge, talent.
_Gusty_, _gustfu'_, tasteful.
_Gut-scraper_, a fiddler.
_Gutcher_, grandsire.
H.
_Ha'_, hall.
_Ha' Bible_, the great Bible that lies in the hall.
_Haddin'_, house, home, dwelling-place, a possession.
_Hae_, to have, to accept.
_Haen_, had, (the participle of hae); haven.
_Haet_, _fient haet_, a petty oath of negation; nothing.
_Haffet_, the temple, the side of the head.
_Hafflins_, nearly half, partly, not fully grown.
_Hag_, a gulf in mosses and moors, moss-ground.
_Haggis_, a kind of pudding, boiled in the stomach of a cow, or sheep.
_Hain_, to spare, to save, to lay out at interest.
_Hain'd_, spared; _hain'd gear_, hoarded money.
_Hairst_, harvest
_Haith_, petty oath.
_Haivers_, nonsense, speaking without thought.
_Hal'_, or _hald_, an abiding place.
_Hale_, or _haill_, whole, tight, healthy.
_Hallan_, a particular partition-wall in a cottage, or more properly a
seat of turf at the outside.
_Hallowmass_, Hallow-eve, 31st October.
_Haly_, holy; "haly-pool," holy well with healing properties.
_Hame_, home.
_Hammered_, the noise of feet like the din of hammers.
_Han's breed_, hand's breadth.
_Hanks_, thread as it comes from the measuring reel, quantities, &c.
_Hansel-throne_, throne when first occupied by a king.
_Hap_, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c. ; to wrap, to cover, to hap.
_Harigals_, heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
_Hap-shackled_, when a fore and hind foot of a ram are fastened together
to prevent leaping he is said to be hap-shackled. A wife
is called "the kirk's hap-shackle. "
_Happer_, a hopper, the hopper of a mill.
_Happing_, hopping.
_Hap-step-an'-loup_, hop, step, and leap.
_Harkit_, hearkened.
_Harn_, very coarse linen.
_Hash_, a fellow who knows not how to act with propriety.
_Hastit_, hastened.
_Haud_, to hold.
_Haughs_, low-lying, rich land, valleys.
_Haurl_, to drag, to pull violently.
_Haurlin_, tearing off, pulling roughly.
_Haver-meal_, oatmeal.
_Haveril_, a half-witted person, half-witted, one who habitually talks
in a foolish or incoherent manner.
_Havins_, good manners, decorum, good sense.
_Hawkie_, a cow, properly one with a white face.
_Heapit_, heaped.
_Healsome_ healthful, wholesome.
_Hearse_, hoarse.
_Heather_, heath.
_Hech_, oh strange! an exclamation during heavy work.
_Hecht_, promised, to foretell something that is to be got or given,
foretold, the thing foretold, offered.
_Heckle_, a board in which are fixed a number of sharp steel prongs
upright for dressing hemp, flax, &c.
_Hee balou_, words used to soothe a child.
_Heels-owre-gowdie_, topsy-turvy, turned the bottom upwards.
_Heeze_, to elevate, to rise, to lift.
_Hellim_, the rudder or helm.
_Herd_, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.
_Herrin'_, a herring.
_Herry_, to plunder; most properly to plunder birds' nests.
_Herryment_, plundering, devastation.
_Hersel-hirsel_, a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort.
_Het_, hot, heated.
_Heugh_, a crag, a ravine; _coal-heugh_, a coal-pit, _lowin heugh_,
a blazing pit.
_Hilch_, _hilchin'_, to halt, halting.
_Hiney_, honey.
_Hing_, to hang.
_Hirple_, to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.
_Histie_, dry, chapt, barren.
_Hitcht_, a loop, made a knot.
_Hizzie_, huzzy, a young girl.
_Hoddin_, the motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse, humble.
_Hoddin-gray_, woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one
black fleece with a dozen white ones.
_Hoggie_, a two-year-old sheep.
_Hog-score_, a distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a
stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of "A hog, a hog! "
and it is removed.
_Hog-shouther_, a kind of horse-play by justling with the shoulder; to
justle.
_Hoodie-craw_, a blood crow, corbie.
_Hool_, outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk.
_Hoolie_, slowly, leisurely.
_Hoord_, a hoard, to hoard.
_Hoordit_, hoarded.
_Horn_, a spoon made of horn.
_Hornie_, one of the many names of the devil.
_Host_, or _hoast_, to cough.
_Hostin_, coughing.
_Hotch'd_, turned topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved.
_Houghmagandie_, loose behaviour.
_Howlet_, an owl.
_Housie_, diminutive of house.
_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.
