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Early 20th Century Fisherrow
A Brief Glossary of Scots Terms
Auld Hornie
Auld Reekie
bairnsn
bannock
bawbees
besom
birsed
boiler
bothie
brae
brattle
brother-bairns
buckies
bungfull
burn
but and ben
cairn
callan
caller
carlin
chapel
clarty
clash
clog-foot
coggie-cart
couthie
crack loofs
creashie-mealie
creel
cruive
dafferie
dang
daunder
dee
deep-plate
dominie
doomster
door-cheek
door-sole
douce
dover
dreich
droll
dulesome
dulse
efterins
eldritch
fain
fash
fettle
foond
flourish
gaen aboot body
Gansay
gar
gleek
gloaming
glower
gour
greet
grummie
hackit
haggis
hinder
hip and hoy
hoch
howes
hurdies
ilka
ilka body’s body
ilka-day dress
jaupled
jimp
jouk the schuil
keech
keek
kick-bonnety
kirk
kirstening
knappie
kyne
lane
lick-my-doup
linn
loofs
lown
lug
man muckle
manse
menseless
muckle
nebbiness
neep
nullifidian
orraster
oxter
partans
paunch
penny-jo
pewling
pickmaw
pirl
pirlie finger
pockful
pouk
reavel-raivel
reived
reek
rise
roup
rummlegumptio
saltire
sark
scarletina
scart
scauders
scauds
scotch-hoppers
screiving
seamaw
sepad
settle
siller
skirled
slip
sneck
squattled
steid
stravaiger
striffin
sunday braws
swage
swither
tackety-boots
take tent
tane
tawse
thirldom
thrapple
thrawn
thrawnie
thrums
tirry
toom
trauchle
trig
trojan
unco body
victualler
wand-chair
watterie
wean
wee folk
wee schuil
widdie-rope
wight
winnock
winnock-bole
winze
wulks
wynd
yestreen
-the devil
-Edinburgh (so called due to the large amount of factory smoke at the time)
-children
-a round flatbread baked on a griddle
-coins of small value
-broom
-bruised
-tea kettle
-primitive dwelling
-a hillock, particularly the slope of the hill side
-the physical feeling produced by thunder
-cousins
-edible mollusks of the Forth
-large quantity
-a small river or stream
-as a single phrase refers to a house
-a pyramid of stones acting as a monument to the dead
-a young man
-fresh
-elderly
-any non-Presbyterian church, particularly used to refer to the English church
-filthy, dirty
-to strike or slam
-an oversized or club foot
-a wooden push-cart often made from half of a barrel
-agreeable, friendly
-shake hands
-a dish comprised primarily of oatmeal fried in some form of fat
-a basket, usually wicker, for keeping fish in
-a fish trap placed in a river, figuratively means to confine many people in one place
-to fool around
-to strike
-to walk slowly or aimlessly without urgency
-die
-bowl
-a schoolmaster, sometimes used to refer to a clergyman
-the official who pronounced sentence in Scots courts of law
-door-post
-a door’s threshold
-quietly
-doze off
-protracted and wearisome
-somewhat crazed
-sorrowful, melancholy
-edible seaweed
-leftovers or after effects
-eerie, queer
-preference
-trouble or conflict, to fret or be or make angry
-physical strength or force of will
-foundation
-spring
-a vagrant
-Guernsey
-to urge on
-to jeer at
-twilight time near to dusk
-to stare at
-mucous
-to cry
-surly
-ugly
-a dish consisting of sheep organs minced and mixed with suet, oatmeal and onion and boiled in a sheep's stomach
-the posterior of a person
-to goad with excitement
-the thigh
-depression
-the buttocks and / or hips
-every
-a popular person
-everyday dress
-dandled about
-slender, thin
-to skip school
-defecate
-to peek at
-an abusive game in which a boy’s hat is snatched from his head and thrown on the ground to be kicked about
-church
-christening
-bumpy
-cattle
-lone
-“ass-kisser”
-waterfall
-the palm of the hand
-windless, calm, still
-ear
-a grown man
-parsonage
-lacking in manners
-much, many
-to be contradictory or nebbish
-short for turneep (turnip)
-agnostic or atheist
-a person who performs odd jobs as needed
-the armpit
-crabs
-stomach
-a cheap prostitute
-whining or complaining
-a black-headed gull
-to twist or to be coiled
-the little finger
-small bagfull
-to tug or pluck
-long-winded or senseless talk, figuratively means excessive disorder
-raided, robbed
-smoke
-a joke
-auction
-commotion or disturbance, figuratively refers to upset digestion
-a cross in the form of an X associated with Scotland’s patron saint Andrew who was martyred on a diagonal cross
-shirt
-scarlet fever
-to scratch out with the nails or an object (such as a tool like a rake or hoe)
-jellyfish
-something that floats on water, particularly suds
-archaic term (16th to 17th century) for hop-scotch
-writing
-seagull
-to uphold as being the truth
-a long wooden bench
-money
-something, usually a sound, that creates discord or clamor
-miscarriage
-to lock
-in a position of squatting
-foundation
-to wander
-membrane
-church clothes
-digest
-to act nervously or be nervous
-hob-nailed boots
-to pay attention to
-contraction of the + one
-a leather strap with two or more tails use for schoolhouse discipline
-servitude or subordination
-the throat
-twisted, crooked
-Mary’s word for “zombie”, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Thrawn Janet (1881)
-frayed fabric; the purring of a cat
-commotion, quarrelsome
-empty
-to drag
-neat or trim
-an overgrown person
-a stranger or an odd person
-a merchant
-a wicker chair
-the bathroom
-an infant or small child, contraction of wee + one
-the lower class
-pre-school or kindergarten
-willow branches interlaced to make a rope
-usually found in poetry to refer to a person
-window
-a recessed window
-curse
-whelks (sea mollusks)
-a narrow street or lane that typically winds about
-yesterday + evening