| A body | a person |
| Airt | direction |
| Ahint | behind |
| Bairn | child |
| Baudrons | Scotch name for a cat |
| Ben | in towards an inner room |
| Ben | a mountain peak |
| Bicker | to argue in a petty way |
| Bonnet-piece | an old Scottish coin |
| Byre | cowhouse |
| Canty | kindly, cheerful |
| Cantrip | a freak, or wilful piece of trickery |
| Chuckie-stone | a small white pebble |
| Clout | a blow |
| Cloving | separating lint from its stalk |
| Clue | a ball of worsted |
| Creel | a large hand-made basket |
| Cutty-pipe | a short clay pipe |
| Daft | silly, weak-minded |
| Dander | to walk aimlessly |
| Darkening | the twilight |
| Divot | a sod |
| Doo | a dove |
| Douce | sedate |
| Dowie | dull, low-spirited |
| Dyke | a wall |
| Eldritch | weird |
| Emprise | an enterprise |
| Entry | a passage |
| Fain | gladly |
| Feared | afraid |
| Forbye | besides |
| Gang | go |
| Girnel | a meal-chest |
| Gled | a hawk |
| Gloaming | the twilight |
| Greeting | crying |
| Hantle | very much, a considerable number |
| Havers | nonsense |
| Heckle | to comb |
| Hinnie | a term of endearment |
| Hirple | to limp |
| Histie | "haste thee" |
| Inbye | inside |
| Ingle neuk | the corner by the fire |
| Joists | the beams in a roof |
| Kailyard | a kitchen garden |
| Ken | know |
| Kirn | a churn, to churn |
| Kist | a chest |
| Knowe | a little hillock |
| Lift | the sky, the air |
| Light | alight |
| Lintie | a linnet |
| Lout | to stoop |
| Lum | chimney |
| Louping-on-stane | a stone from which to mount a horse |
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| Malison | a curse |
| Meat | food |
| Migraine | a pain affecting one half of the head |
| Mutch | a cap |
| Onstead | farm buildings |
| Paddock | a toad or frog |
| Pirnie | a woollen nightcap |
| Poke | a bag |
| Rivlins | shoes made of cowhide |
| Sen' night | a week |
| Shoon | shoes |
| Siccan | such |
| Siller | money |
| Sinsyne | since |
| Smatchet | small boy |
| Sneck | to latch or shut a door |
| Snibbit | bolted, snib, a bolt |
| Thrapple | throat |
| Thole | to bear |
| Unchancy | uncanny |
| Wheen | a few |
| Wheesht | be quiet! |
| Wight | a person |
| Winnock | a window |
| Winnow | to separate the chaff from the grain by wind |
| Yestreen | yesterday |
| Yule | Christmas |
| Unicorns | Ancient Scottish coins |