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.