Q.
- Quat, quit
- Quak, the cry of a duck.
- Quech, a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles.
- Quey, a cow from one to two years old, a heifer.
- Quines, queans.
- Quakin, quaking.
R.
- Ragweed, herb-ragwort.
- Raible, to rattle, nonsense.
- Rair, to roar.
- Raize, to madden, to inflame.
- Ramfeezled, fatigued, overpowered.
- Rampin’, raging.
- Ramstam, thoughtless, forward.
- Randie, a scolding sturdy beggar, a shrew.
- Rantin‘, joyous.
- Raploch, properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse.
- Rarely, excellently, very well.
- Rash, a rush; rash-buss, a bush of rushes.
- Ratton, a rat.
- Raucle, rash, stout, fearless, reckless.
- Raught, reached.
- Raw, a row.
- Rax, to stretch.
- Ream, cream, to cream.
- Reamin’, brimful, frothing.
- Reave, take by force.
- Rebute, to repulse, rebuke.
- Reck, to heed.
- Rede, counsel, to counsel, to discourse.
- Red-peats, burning turfs.
- Red-wat-shod, walking in blood over the shoe-tops.
- Red-wud, stark mad.
- Ree, half drunk, fuddled; a ree yaud, a wild horse.
- Reek, smoke.
- Reekin’, smoking.
- Reekit, smoked, smoky.
- Reestit, stood restive; stunted, withered.
- Remead, remedy.
- Requite, requited.
- Restricked, restricted.
- Rew, to smile, look affectionately, tenderly.
- Rickles, shocks of corn, stooks.
- Riddle, instrument for purifying corn.
- Rief-randies, men who take the property of others, accompanied by violence and rude words.
- Rig, a ridge.
- Rin, to run, to melt; rinnin’, running.
- Rink, the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice.
- Rip, a handful of unthreshed corn.
- Ripples, pains in the back and loins, sounds which usher in death.
- Ripplin-kame, instrument for dressing flax.
- Riskit, a noise like the tearing of roots.
- Rockin’, a denomination for a friendly visit. In former times young women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called “rockings.”
- Roke, distaff.
- Rood, stands likewise for the plural, roods.
- Roon, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth.
- Roose, to praise, to commend.
- Roun’, round, in the circle of neighbourhood.
- Roupet, hoarse, as with a cold.
- Row, to roll, to rap, to roll as water.
- Row’t, rolled, wrapped.
- Rowte, to low, to bellow.
- Rowth, plenty.
- Rowtin’, lowing.
- Rozet, rosin.
- Rumble-gumption, rough commonsense.
- Run-deils, downright devils.
- Rung, a cudgel.
- Runt, the stem of colewort or cabbage.
- Runkled, wrinkled.
- Ruth, a woman’s name, the book so called, sorrow.
- Ryke, reach.
S.
- Sae, so.
- Saft, soft.
- Sair, to serve, a sore; sairie, sorrowful.
- Sairly, sorely.
- Sair’t, served.
- Sark, a shirt.
- Sarkit, provided in shirts.
- Saugh, willow.
- Saugh-woodies, withies, made of willows, now supplanted by ropes and chains.
- Saul, soul.
- Saumont, salmon.
- Saunt, sauntet, saint; to varnish.
- Saut, salt.
- Saw, to sow.
- Sawin’, sowing.
- Sax, six.
- Scaud, to scald.
- Scauld, to scold.
- Scaur, apt to be scared; a precipitous bank of earth which the stream has washed red.
- Scawl, scold.
- Scone, a kind of bread.
- Sconner, a loathing, to loath.
- Scraich and Scriegh, to scream, as a hen or partridge.
- Screed, to tear, a rent; screeding, tearing.
- Scrieve, scrieven, to glide softly, gleesomely along.
- Scrimp, to scant.
- Scrimpet, scant, scanty.
- Scroggie, covered with underwood, bushy.
- Sculdudrey, fornication.
- Seizin’, seizing.
- Sel, self; a body’s sel’, one’s self alone.
- Sell’t, did sell.
- Sen’, to send.
- Servan’, servant.
- Settlin’, settling; to get a settlin’, to be frightened into quietness.
- Sets, sets off, goes away.
- Shachlet-feet, ill-shaped.
- Shair’d, a shred, a shard.
- Shangan, a stick cleft at one end for pulling the tail of a dog, &c., by way of mischief, or to frighten him away.
- Shank-it, walk it; shanks, legs.
- Shaul, shallow.
- Shaver, a humorous wag, a barber.
- Shavie, to do an ill turn.
- Shaw, to show; a small wood in a hollow place.
- Sheep-shank, to think one’s self nae sheep-shank, to be conceited.
- Sherra-muir, Sheriff-Muir, the famous battle of, 1715.
- Sheugh, a ditch, a trench, a sluice.
- Shiel, shealing, a shepherd’s cottage.
- Shill, shrill.
- Shog, a shock, a push off at one side.
- Shoo, ill to please, ill to fit.
- Shool, a shovel.
- Shoon, shoes.
- Shore, to offer, to threaten.
- Shor’d, half offered and threatened.
- Shouther, the shoulder.
- Shot, one traverse of the shuttle from side to side of the web.
- Sic, such.
- Sicker, sure, steady.
- Sidelins, sideling, slanting.
- Silken-snood, a fillet of silk, a token of virginity.
- Siller, silver, money, white.
- Sin, a son.
- Sinsyne, since then.
- Skaith, to damage, to injure, injury.
- Skeigh, proud, nice, saucy, mettled.
- Skeigh, shy, maiden coyness.
- Skellum, to strike, to slap; to walk with a smart tripping step, a smart stroke.
- Skelpi-limmer, a technical term in female scolding.
- Skelpin, skelpit, striking, walking rapidly, literally striking the ground.
- Skinklin, thin, gauzy, scaltery.
- Skirling, shrieking, crying.
- Skirl, to cry, to shriek shrilly.
- Skirl’t, shrieked.
- Sklent, slant, to run aslant, to deviate from truth.
- Sklented, ran, or hit, in an oblique direction.
- Skouth, vent, free action.
- Skreigh, a scream, to scream, the first cry uttered by a child.
- Skyte, a worthless fellow, to slide rapidly off.
- Skyrin, party-coloured, the checks of the tartan.
- Slae, sloe.
- Slade, did slide.
- Slap, a gate, a breach in a fence.
- Slaw, slow.
- Slee, sleest, sly, slyest.
- Sleekit, sleek, sly.
- Sliddery, slippery.
- Slip-shod, smooth shod.
- Sloken, quench, slake.
- Slype, to fall over, as a wet furrow from the plough.
- Slypet-o’er, fell over with a slow reluctant motion.
- Sma’, small.
- Smeddum, dust, powder, mettle, sense, sagacity.
- Smiddy, smithy.
- Smirking, good-natured, winking.
- Smoor, smoored, to smother, smothered.
- Smoutie, smutty, obscene; smoutie phiz, sooty aspect.
- Smytrie, a numerous collection of small individuals.
- Snapper, mistake.
- Snash, abuse, Billingsgate, impertinence.
- Snaw, snow, to snow.
- Snaw-broo, melted snow.
- Snawie, snowy.
- Snap, to lop, to cut off.
- Sned-besoms, to cut brooms.
- Sneeshin, snuff.
- Sneeshin-mill, a snuff-box.
- Snell and snelly, bitter, biting; snellest, bitterest.
- Snick-drawing, trick, contriving.
- Snick, the latchet of a door.
- Snirt, snirtle, concealed laughter, to breathe the nostrils in a displeased manner.
- Snool, one whose spirit is broken with oppressive slavery; to submit tamely, to sneak.
- Snoove, to go smoothly and constantly, to sneak.
- Snowk, snowkit, to scent or snuff as a dog, scented, snuffed.
- Sodger, a soldier.
- Sonsie, having sweet engaging looks, lucky, jolly.
- Soom, to swim.
- Souk, to suck, to drink long and enduringly.
- Souple, flexible, swift.
- Soupled, suppled.
- Souther, to solder.
- Souter, a shoemaker.
- Sowens, the fine flour remaining among the seeds, of oatmeal made into an agreeable pudding.
- Sowp, a spoonful, a small quantity of anything liquid.
- Sowth, to try over a tune with a low whistle.
- Spae, to prophesy, to divine.
- Spails, chips, splinters.
- Spaul, a limb.
- Spairge, to clash, to soil, as with mire.
- Spates, sudden floods.
- Spaviet, having the spavin.
- Speat, a sweeping torrent after rain or thaw.
- Speel, to climb.
- Spence, the parlour of a farmhouse or cottage.
- Spier, to ask, to inquire; spiert, inquired.
- Spinnin-graith, wheel and roke and lint.
- Splatter, to splutter, a splutter.
- Spleughan, a tobacco-pouch.
- Splore, a frolic, noise, riot.
- Sprachled, scrambled.
- Sprattle, to scramble.
- Spreckled, spotted, speckled.
- Spring, a quick air in music, a Scottish reel.
- Sprit, spret, a tough-rooted plant something like rushes, jointed-leaved rush.
- Sprittie, full of spirits.
- Spunk, fire, mettle, wit, spark.
- Spunkie, mettlesome, fiery; will o’ the wisp, or ignis fatuus; the devil.
- Spurtle, a stick used in making oatmeal pudding or porridge, a notable Scottish dish.
- Squad, a crew or party, a squadron.
- Squatter, to flutter in water, as a wild-duck, &c.
- Squattle, to sprawl in the act of hiding.
- Squeel, a scream, a screech, to scream.
- Stacher, to stagger.
- Stack, a rick of corn, hay, peats.
- Staggie, a stag.
- Staig, a two year-old horse.
- Stalwart, stately, strong.
- Stang, sting, stung.
- Stan’t, to stand; stan’t, did stand.
- Stane, stone.
- Stank, did stink, a pool of standing water, slow-moving water.
- Stap, stop, stave.
- Stark, stout, potent.
- Startle, to run as cattle stung by the gadfly.
- Staukin, stalking, walking disdainfully, walking without an aim.
- Staumrel, a blockhead, half-witted.
- Staw, did steal, to surfeit.
- Stech, to cram the belly.
- Stechin, cramming.
- Steek, to shut, a stitch.
- Steer, to molest, to stir.
- Steeve, firm, compacted.
- Stell, a still.
- Sten, to rear as a horse, to leap suddenly.
- Stravagin, wandering without an aim.
- Stents, tribute, dues of any kind.
- Stey, steep; styest, steepest.
- Stibble, stubble; stubble-rig, the reaper in harvest who takes the lead.
- Stick-an’-stow, totally, altogether.
- Stilt-stilts, a crutch; to limp, to halt; poles for crossing a river.
- Stimpart, the eighth part of a Winchester bushel.
- Stirk, a cow or bullock a year old.
- Stock, a plant of colewort, cabbages.
- Stockin’, stocking; throwing the stockin’, when the bride and bridegroom are put into bed, the former throws a stocking at random among the company, and the person whom it falls on is the next that will be married.
- Stook, stooked, a shock of corn, made into shocks.
- Stot, a young bull or ox.
- Stound, sudden pang of the heart.
- Stoup, or stowp, a kind of high narrow jug or dish with a handle for holding liquids.
- Stowre, dust, more particularly dust in motion; stowrie, dusty.
- Stownlins, by stealth.
- Stown, stolen.
- Stoyte, the walking of a drunken man.
- Straek, did strike.
- Strae, straw; to die a fair strae death, to die in bed.
- Straik, to stroke; straiket, stroked.
- Strappen, tall, handsome, vigorous.
- Strath, low alluvial land, a holm.
- Straught, straight.
- Streek, stretched, to stretch.
- Striddle, to straddle.
- Stroan, to spout, to piss.
- Stroup, the spout.
- Studdie, the anvil.
- Stumpie, diminutive of stump; a grub pen.
- Strunt, spirituous liquor of any kind; to walk sturdily, to be affronted.
- Stuff, corn or pulse of any kind.
- Sturt, trouble; to molest.
- Startin, frighted.
- Styme, a glimmer.
- Sucker, sugar.
- Sud, should.
- Sugh, the continued rushing noise of wind or water.
- Sumph, a pluckless fellow, with little heart or soul.
- Suthron, Southern, an old name of the English.
- Swaird, sword.
- Swall’d, swelled.
- Swank, stately, jolly.
- Swankie, or swanker, a tight strapping young fellow or girl.
- Swap, an exchange, to barter.
- Swarfed, swooned.
- Swat, did sweat.
- Swatch, a sample.
- Swats, drink, good ale, new ale or wort.
- Sweer, lazy, averse; dead-sweer, extremely averse.
- Swoor, swore, did swear.
- Swinge, beat, to whip.
- Swinke, to labour hard.
- Swirlie, knaggy, full of knots.
- Swirl, a curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in the wood.
- Swith, get away.
- Swither, to hesitate in choice, an irresolute wavering in choice.
- Syebow, a thick-necked onion.
- Syne, since, ago, then.
T.
- Tackets, broad-headed nails for the heels of shoes.
- Tae, a toe, three-taed, having three prongs.
- Tak, to take; takin, taking.
- Tangle, a sea-weed used as salad.
- Tap, the top.
- Tapetless, heedless, foolish.
- Targe, targe them tightly, cross-question them severely.
- Tarrow, to murmur at one’s allowance.
- Tarry-breeks, a sailor.
- Tassie, a small measure for liquor.
- Tauld, or tald, told.
- Taupie, a foolish, thoughtless young person.
- Tauted, or tautie, matted together (spoken of hair and wool).
- Tawie, that allows itself peaceably to be handled (spoken of a cow, horse, &c.)
- Teat, a small quantity.
- Teethless bawtie, toothless cur.
- Teethless gab, a mouth wanting the teeth, an expression of scorn.
- Ten-hours-bite, a slight feed to the horse while in the yoke in the forenoon.
- Tent, a field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed.
- Tentie, heedful, cautious.
- Tentless, heedless, careless.
- Teugh, tough.
- Thack, thatch; thack an’ rape, clothing and necessaries.
- Thae, these.
- Thairms, small guts, fiddle-strings.
- Thankit, thanked.
- Theekit, thatched.
- Thegither, together.
- Themsel’, themselves.
- Thick, intimate, familiar.
- Thigger, crowding, make a noise; a seeker of alms.
- Thir, these.
- Thirl, to thrill.
- Thirled, thrilled, vibrated.
- Thole, to suffer, to endure.
- Thowe, a thaw, to thaw.
- Thowless, slack, lazy.
- Thrang, throng, busy, a crowd.
- Thrapple, throat, windpipe.
- Thraw, to sprain, to twist, to contradict.
- Thrawin’, twisting, &c.
- Thrawn, sprained, twisted, contradicted, contradiction.
- Threap, to maintain by dint of assertion.
- Threshin’, threshing; threshin’-tree, a flail.
- Threteen, thirteen.
- Thristle, thistle.
- Through, to go on with, to make out.
- Throuther, pell-mell, confusedly (through-ither).
- Thrum, sound of a spinning-wheel in motion, the thread remaining at the end of a web.
- Thud, to make a loud intermittent noise.
- Thummart, foumart, polecat
- Thumpit, thumped.
- Thysel’, thyself.
- Till’t, to it.
- Timmer, timber.
- Tine, to lose; tint, lost.
- Tinkler, a tinker.
- Tip, a ram.
- Tippence, twopence, money.
- Tirl, to make a slight noise, to uncover.
- Tirlin’, tirlet, uncovering.
- Tither, the other.
- Tittle, to whisper, to prate idly.
- Tittlin, whispering.
- Tocher, marriage portion; tocher bands, marriage bonds.
- Tod, a fox. “Tod i’ the fauld,” fox in the fold.
- Toddle, to totter, like the walk of a child; todlen-dow, toddling dove.
- Too-fa’, “Too fa’ o’ the nicht,” when twilight darkens into night; a building added, a lean-to.
- Toom, empty.
- Toomed, emptied.
- Toop, a ram.
- Toss, a toast.
- Tosie, warm and ruddy with warmth, good-looking, intoxicating.
- Toun, a hamlet, a farmhouse.
- Tout, the blast of a horn or trumpet, to blow a horn or trumpet.
- Touzles, touzling, romping, ruffling the clothes.
- Tow, a rope.
- Towmond, a twelvemonth.
- Towzie, rough, shaggy.
- Toy, a very old fashion of female head-dress.
- Toyte, to totter like old age.
- Trams, barrow-trams, the handles of a barrow.
- Transmugrified, transmigrated, metamorphosed.
- Trashtrie, trash, rubbish.
- Trickie, full of tricks.
- Trig, spruce, neat.
- Trimly, cleverly, excellently, in a seemly manner.
- Trinle, trintle, the wheel of a barrow, to roll.
- Trinklin, trickling.
- Troggers, troggin’, wandering merchants, goods to truck or dispose of.
- Trow, to believe, to trust to.
- Trowth, truth, a petty oath.
- Trysts, appointments, love meetings, cattle shows.
- Tumbler-wheels, wheels of a kind of low cart.
- Tug, raw hide, of which in old time plough-traces were frequently made.
- Tug or tow, either in leather or rope.
- Tulzie, a quarrel, to quarrel, to fight.
- Twa, two; twa-fald, twofold.
- Twa-three, a few.
- Twad, it would.
- Twal, twelve; twalpennie worth, a small quantity, a pennyworth.—N.B. One penny English is 12d. Scotch.
- Twa faul, twofold.
- Twin, to part.
- Twistle, twisting, the art of making a rope.
- Tyke, a dog.
- Tysday, Tuesday.
U.
- Unback’d filly, a young mare hitherto unsaddled.
- Unco, strange, uncouth, very, very great, prodigious.
- Uncos, news.
- Unfauld, unfold.
- Unkenn’d, unknown.
- Unsicker, uncertain, wavering, insecure.
- Unskaithed, undamaged, unhurt.
- Upo’, upon.