G.
- Gab, the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly.
- Gaberlunzie, wallet-man, or tinker.
- Gae, to go; gaed, went; gane or gaen, gone; gaun, going.
- Gaet or gate, way, manner, road.
- Gairs, parts of a lady’s gown.
- Gang, to go, to walk.
- Gangrel, a wandering person.
- Gar, to make, to force to; gar’t, forced to.
- Garten, a garter.
- Gash, wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse.
- Gatty, failing in body.
- Gaucy, jolly, large, plump.
- Gaud and gad, a rod or goad.
- Gaudsman, one who drives the horses at the plough.
- Gaun, going.
- Gaunted, yawned, longed.
- Gawkie, a thoughtless person, and something weak.
- Gaylies, gylie, pretty well.
- Gear, riches, goods of any kind.
- Geck, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn.
- Ged, a pike.
- Gentles, great folks.
- Genty, elegant.
- Geordie, George, a guinea, called Geordie from the head of King George.
- Get and geat, a child, a young one.
- Ghaist, ghaistis, a ghost.
- Gie, to give; gied, gave; gien, given.
- Giftie, diminutive of gift.
- Giglets, laughing maidens.
- Gillie, gillock, diminutive of gill.
- Gilpey, a half-grown, half-informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoyden.
- Gimmer, an ewe two years old, a contemptuous term for a woman.
- Gin, if, against.
- Gipsey, a young girl.
- Girdle, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.
- Girn, to grin, to twist the features in rage, agony, &c.; grinning.
- 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.