V.
- Vap’rin, vapouring.
- Vauntie, joyous, delight which cannot contain itself.
- Vera, very.
- Virl, a ring round a column, &c.
- Vogie, vain.
W.
- Wa’, wall; wa’s, walls.
- Wabster, a weaver.
- Wad, would, to bet, a bet, a pledge.
- Wadna, would not.
- Wadset, land on which money is lent, a mortgage.
- Wae, woe; waefu’, sorrowful, wailing.
- Waefu’-woodie, hangman’s rope.
- Waesucks! Wae’s me!, Alas! O the pity!
- Wa’ flower, wall-flower.
- Waft, woof; the cross thread that goes from the shuttle through the web.
- Waifs an’ crocks, stray sheep and old ewes past breeding.
- Wair, to lay out, to expend.
- Wale, choice, to choose.
- Wal’d, chose, chosen.
- Walie, ample, large, jolly, also an exclamation of distress.
- Wame, the belly.
- Wamefu’, a bellyful.
- Wanchansie, unlucky.
- Wanrest, wanrestfu’, restless, unrestful.
- Wark, work.
- Wark-lume, a tool to work with.
- Warld’s-worm, a miser.
- Warle, or warld, world.
- Warlock, a wizard; warlock-knowe, a knoll where warlocks once held tryste.
- Warly, worldly, eager in amassing wealth.
- Warran’, a warrant, to warrant.
- Warsle, wrestle.
- Warsl’d, or warst’led, wrestled.
- Wastrie, prodigality.
- Wat, wet; I wat—I wot—I know.
- Wat, a man’s upper dress; a sort of mantle.
- Water-brose, brose made of meal and water simply, without the addition of milk, butter, &c.
- Wattle, a twig, a wand.
- Wauble, to swing, to reel.
- Waukin, waking, watching.
- Waukit, thickened as fullers do cloth.
- Waukrife, not apt to sleep.
- Waur, worse, to worst.
- Waur’t, worsted.
- Wean, a child.
- Weary-widdle, toilsome contest of life.
- Weason, weasand, windpipe.
- Weaven’ the stocking, to knit stockings.
- Weeder-clips, instrument for removing weeds.
- Wee, little; wee things, little ones, wee bits, a small matter.
- Weel, well; weelfare, welfare.
- Weet, rain, wetness; to wet.
- We’se, we shall.
- Wha, who.
- Whaizle, to wheeze.
- Whalpit, whelped.
- Whang, a leathorn thing, a piece of cheese, bread, &c.
- Whare, where; whare’er, wherever.
- Wheep, to fly nimbly, to jerk, penny-wheep, small-beer.
- Whase, wha’s, whose—who is.
- What reck, nevertheless.
- Whid, the motion of a hare running but not frightened.—a lie.
- Whidden, running as a hare or coney.
- Whigmeleeries, whims, fancies, crotchets.
- Whilk, which.
- Whingin’, crying, complaining, fretting.
- Whirligigums, useless ornaments, trifling appendages.
- Whissle, a whistle, to whistle.
- Whisht, silence; to hold one’s whisht, to be silent.
- Whisk, whisket, to sweep, to lash.
- Whiskin’ beard, a beard like the whiskers of a cat.
- Whiskit, lashed, the motion of a horse’s tail removing flies.
- Whitter, a hearty draught of liquor.
- Whittle, a knife.
- Whunstane, a whinstone.
- Wi’, with.
- Wick, to strike a stone in an oblique direction, a term in curling.
- Widdifu, twisted like a withy, one who merits hanging.
- Wiel, a small whirlpool.
- Wifie-wifikie, a diminutive or endearing name for wife.
- Wight, stout, enduring.
- Willyart-glower, a bewildered dismayed stare.
- Wimple-womplet, to meander, meandered, to enfold.
- Wimplin, waving, meandering.
- Win‘, to wind, to winnow.
- Winnin’-thread, putting thread into hanks.
- Win’t, winded as a bottom of yarn.
- Win‘, wind.
- Win, live.
- Winna, will not.
- Winnock, a window.
- Winsome, hearty, vaunted, gay.
- Wintle, a staggering motion, to stagger, to reel.
- Wiss, to wish.
- Withouten, without.
- Wizened, hide-bound, dried, shrunk.
- Winze, a curse or imprecation.
- Wonner, a wonder, a contemptuous appellation.
- Woo‘, wool.
- Woo, to court, to make love to.
- Widdie, a rope, more properly one of withs or willows.
- Woer-bobs, the garter knitted below the knee with a couple of loops.
- Wordy, worthy.
- Worset, worsted.
- Wrack, to tease, to vex.
- Wud, wild, mad; wud-mad, distracted.
- Wumble, a wimble.
- Wraith, a spirit, a ghost, an apparition exactly like a living person, whose appearance is said to forbode the person’s approaching death; also wrath.
- Wrang, wrong, to wrong.
- Wreeth, a drifted heap of snow.
- Wyliecoat, a flannel vest.
- Wyte, blame, to blame.
Y.
- Ye, this pronoun is frequently used for thou.
- Yearns, longs much.
- Yealings, born in the same year, coevals.
- Year, is used both for singular and plural, years.
- Yell, barren, that gives no milk.
- Yerk, to lash, to jerk.
- Yerket, jerked, lashed.
- Yestreen, yesternight.
- Yett, a gate.
- Yeuk’s, itches.
- Yill, ale.
- Yird, yirded, earth, earthed, buried.
- Yokin‘, yoking.
- Yont, ayont, beyond.
- Yirr, lively.
- Yowe, an ewe.
- Yowie, diminutive of yowe.
- Yule, Christmas.