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a hantle
o' = a number of ?
abune
= above
aiblins = perhaps
airn
= iron (Nor. jern)
airt
= quarter, direction
aith = oath (Nor. 'ed ')
aits = oats
ane = ain,
own, one
aucht = eighth
auld = old
back-cast
= setback ?
barley kail
= kail, greens, broth
bauchle
= shoe
baulk = stand back from, won¹t face up to
bawbee
= money, coin (old Scots = 6 pence)
beal = fester
begowked = (stymied?)
bent = grass |
bield (as
in bield of the trees) = shelter
bielded
= sheltered
bien = ?
bien
doun-setting = good establishment ?
biggit
= built (Nor/. 'bygget)
bit = nick of time, timeous
black-avised = ?
blate
= bashful
blaw = blow (Nor. blåse)
blithe = glad (Nor. blid)
bogles = demons, goblins
bolls = (measure of corn?)
boskage
= (Fr.bocage ?)
braid = broad
brandering = (roasting?)
braw = brave, fine, handsome
braw time = good time |
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breeks =
trousers
brig = bridge
brock = badger
browst
(of yill) = mischief, brew
bruit of it = (noise
of it?)
buirdly chiel = ?
buts-and-bens = buts
= kitchen, bens = room
byke = wasp's nest, crowd
caddis-worm = (glowworm??)
caller
= cool, fresh
callout = ?
camsteery
lad = ?
cantrip = spree?
canty = cheerful, jolly
carls = old men (Nor. Karl)
cartes = playing cards |
caterans
= kind of folk
cauld = cold (Nor. kalt)
certes = for sure
change-houses = ale houses, pubs
chief = friendly
chirugeon = surgeon (Nor. kirurg)
chuckie o' tipyet = mother
hen of 'young'
clachan = hamlet
clamgamphried
= made nonsense of
clamjamphrie = rubbish, nonsense,
rabble clary
= ?
clatter-vengeance = revengeful talk?
clavers
(old wives' clavers) = tales
cleading = clothing
(Nor. kleder)
cleus =
?
clouts = bandages (Nor. klut = cloth) |
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| clypes
= telling tales (already told in confidence)
clyping
with = chattering with
cockaree = person
chocket
on a grossart =choking on a berry
colloque
= confer
coup = (coups the crans) upset, knock over
couthy = loving, kindly
cowes
=goblins, demons
cracks = talks, conversations
craig
= crag
crans = tripods for cooking pots
craw
= crow (Nor. kråke)
creel = basket
creepie
= stool, chair, settle?
crouse
= cocksure
crow a pyke = pick a bone
crusie
= lamp/candle? | cupples
= beans ?
cushats = cushant = wood pigeon
cutty-stool
= stool of repentence (church)
daffin'
= fooling about, flirting
dang down = overcame, did down (Nor. deng = bash)
daunder = stroll
deas
= (as in 'turf deas')
deave
with = unbearable noises - deafen
deid thraws
= death throes
delations = deletions, removals
denty = ?
ding (out ) = knock (out) (Nor. deng =
bash)
dirl = shake (Nor. 'dirre')
dirlin' = rattling
dittay
= reproof, ground of indictment
divot = piece of turf
doer = man of business
doit = small coin (Nor. døyt = trifle) |
| doited
= to be crazed, enfeebled, bemused
dook = duck (as
to duck someone)
doomster = hangman
doorcheeks
= cheek = side piece
doorstraw = door stone?
dorts = sulks
douce
= sedate, sober
doucer = more docile?
dowie
job = dowie = gloomy, sad
downsetting
= a settling down
dowp = (body part)
dredgies
= funeral feast
dreich = dreary
drumly
= muddy
duds = old clothes
dwaibly = ?
dwam
= swoon/ unconsciousness |
dwine =
?
een = eyes (Nor. øyne)
eident = careful
eidently = prudently?
elbuck
= elbow
engage = confirm
ensample = example
ettle
(verb) = aim, purpoes (noun)
ettles
= plural
ettling = intending ?
fand
= found (Nor. fant)
fash = bother
fashious
way = tricky, awkward
fause = false
fechting
= fighting, quarrelling (Nor. fekting = fencing)
feck
o' = ?
ferlies = marvels
fernitickles
= freckles |
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fickles
= puzzles
fleyed = frightened
fleyed
out 'o the shiels = ?
floorish
& nesty green busses = buss = bush
flyte
on = scold (fly at)
flyting = scolding
foumarts
= polecats
fower-room = ?
frae
that airt = from that direction/place?
freit
= omen
fremd = foreign (Nor. fremmed)
froth on the pat ='head' on a beer (tankard)
fuff
(noun) = puff of smoke
fushion = melting
gait
= walk (a gait from a to b)
gant = yawn |
gar (verb) = make, cause or compel
gardee (verb) = to put down ?
garred
= forced
garrons = horses
gash = ghastly
gaun = going
gey gash
= shrewd, witty
gey goods = ?
gillyflowers
= ?
gilpie = young woman
girnel = (house? building? meal container?)
glebe
= portion of land
gleed = squinting
gleg
=sharp, smart (Nor. 'gløgg')
glegg
as a maukin = smart as a hare
glisk
of = glimpse of |
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gowk = dolt,
fool
graip = fork (Nor. greip)
granin' = crying (Nor. grining)
grieve = farm manager (Nor. greve = count)
grippy
=?
grosarts = gooseberries?
grue= grave (as in cauld grue)
guddle
trout = tickle trout
guisyard = ?
gyte
= deranged, daft?
hadden
down = smitten by ?
haill
= whole (Nor. hel)
hairst = harvest (Nor.
autumn = høst)
hankin'
= snagging
hantl = (collection?)
hauds
to himself = keeps or holds to himself |
haughs =
river plains
haverel = halfwit, simpleton
havers
= tales
hellicat = shrew
hirpling
= limping, hobbling
hirsel = (hissel
= flock of sheep)
hoast = cough (Nor. host)
hoastin' = coughing (Nor. hoste)
homologate = agree /endorse previous action
hooghed
his shelty = ?
hoots, toots
=
hotching = jerking, twitching
howdie
= midwife
howes = howes
howkit out = dragged out, extracted
howns
= (fields?)
hyperion of bourtree
& rue = medicine |
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ilka = every, any
incomer = one
from outside
ingeminating = repeating
inraxed
= unstretched
islaff of
= a touch of (eg. the sun)
jaloused
= guessed
jauds = portions
jaw = throw, pour
jimp = scarcely
joe =
sweetheart
jowk = dodge, duck, evade
kail
= cabbage (Nor. kål)
kail-runt = cabbage stalk
kain meal = tax?
kebbuck
= a cheese
keekit out = peered out (Nor. kikke
ut)
kenna = know (Nor.
kjenne)
kenspeckle = conspicuous
kerns = soldiers/troops/ fellows ? |
kimmer =
gossip
kirkton = church
kirn-milk
= (Nor. kjern = a churn for making butter)
kittle
= excite, tickle, tune-up
kittled = tickled
knowes=
knolls
kyn = cattle
laigh
= low
lameter (noun) = ?
lauch
at = laugh at
lave = others/(the) rest
leal-hearted
= loyal, true
lees = ?
lichtit = lighted
limmer = scoundrel, jade, whore
linns
= waterfalls
linsey-wolsey = linen wool
lippen
= listen
loan = lane |
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louping
= leaping, jumping (Nor. løping)
loupit
like the lave = jumped like the rest
lowe (noun)
= flame, blaze
lown downsetting
= ?
lown = mild (as of
weather)
lugs = ears
lum = chimney
mailin'
= small-holding, farm (mailin)
marmoreal =
marrow
= mate
maud = plaid (man's garment)
maukin
= hare
maun ye?= must you (Nor. må
De)
maut = malt, barley
mealark
= ?
mense or sense = tact, good manners
messam
= messan = cur, lapdog |
messan duz = ?
michty
= mighty
mimmou' = affectedly modest
mooles
= (mool = earth, clod, grave)
muckle
= much, many (Swedish = mykke)
muir fowl = moor
grouse
mutchkin = quarter Scots pint (measure)
naut = ?
neb
= nose (Nor. nebb)
neist = next to (Nor.
neste ?)
nettie
wives = ?
nievefu' = fistful
(Nor. neve full)
niffer = bargain
nowt & wedders = ?
nutriment = nourishment
ongaein
= goings on ?
ouercome = overcome |
| ower
puir = overly pure
oxter =
armpit
oy = grandson
paiks
= punishment/desserts
pawky (pawky
bodies) = pauky = cunning, sly
peesweeps
= birds
phylacteris = (type of medicine?)
placks,
doits, bodles = old coins
plashing bog = wet bog
plenishing = (supplies?)
plew = plough
pow
(wags his pow) = head
preen = pin
press = cupboard
press-bed = cupboard or alcove beds
prickers =
?
prie = try or taste
prie
= try
printit lear = printed learning, lore |
puddock
= frog or toad
pyets = magpies
ran-dan
= rangling (Nor. å rangle)
randan
=
randies = ?
rax
your legs = stretch
recusancy = refusal
redd
up = clear up (Nor. rydde opp)
redd (verb) = right/save (Nor. å
redde)
redder's straik
= the peacemakers blow
reddings = ?
rede
= advise (Nor. råd)
reek = smoke
rickle
(mere rickle of bones)= pile of sheaves (corn)
riddled
it out = figured it out
rig = ?
ripe (verb) =
?
roupit = roupet = husky,
hoarse |
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rowk = fog
(Nor. røyk = smoke)
rudas wives = ?
run
like jukes =
saft een
= saft = soft, silly
saft =
soft, silly, lax
sair = sore, very - satisfy
sair tuilzie = (sour ?)
sark = shirt?
sarkfo'
= sachful
saugh = willow
saut = salt
scaith = ?
scart (with a pen) = stroke?,
signature?
scaurs = scars
screed = tear, rattle off
scunner = take a dislike
to
sea-maw = coastal bay?
sectaries & antinomians
= secretaries? & ?
seisun
of = knowledge of?
shaws = woods
sheiling
= cottage | shilpit
= ?
siccan = such an (Nor.
'slik en'?)
siccar = sure
(Nor. 'sikkert')
skailed
= spilled, poured?
skellies
= squints
skellochs = yells?
skilly
= skilled ?
smeddum = dust,
fine powder
smoor (verb) = to smother
snaw
= snow (Nor. snø)
sned
them = lop off, prune
snell = keen, bitter wind
snowk up = breath in (Nor. snork = snore)
sodgers
= soldiers
sowens = sour pudding (oats and water)
speel a tree = climb
spleuchan
= tobacco pouch (scrotum, vagina)
staunchtit oot
= stretched out?
steekit
doors = shut, (barred/locked) doors?
stench lees
= ?
stound = thrill of pleasure |
| stoup
(take a stoup) = tankard, measure
stour = dust
straucht = straight (?Nor. strak)
stravaiging = wandering (Nor. streife)
straw (verb) = sicken (one)?
strawsome
= ?
swatch o' = sample
sweir
= hard (Nor. svær)
syne
= ago, since
tack = lease, tenure
take tent of = take note of
targes
& spears = targets & shields/spears
teetotom
= spinning top?
temd =
fealty
tent = heed, care
teugh = tough, hardy
the bejaunts = ?
the feck
of = the whole of | the
get of = the way of
thirled = pierced, penetrated
thole = tolerate, endure
thrang
= busy, crowd, jostle (eg.thrang body)
thrang
, the Deil's = devil of a crowd
thrapple
= throat
thrawn heids
= unshaken, unchangeable heads (opinion)
thraws
= pangs, throes
threshes = thrashes, flails
thrissels
= thistles
tirrivee = generally upset (various causes)
to lowse = to loose
to speir
= to ask (Nor. spør)
tod
= fox
toom = empty (Nor. tom)
tramash
= confusion, likened to tirrivee
traunched
by = ?
trokings = dealings (troke
= to barter) |
| tykes
= dogs, mongrels, curs
unco = strange
usquebaugh
= whisky (Burns = usquabae)
wabster
= weaver
wale = pick, choice, select
wame =
belly, womb (Nor. vom = belly, gut)
wan = won (Nor. vant = won)
wanchancy
thing = dangerous, unlucky
wastry = extravagance,
wastefulness
wauf = feeble
waukrife
= wakeful, vigilant
weans = children, infants
wedder
= sheep?
wergh = ?
wershland = sour land, rank soil
whaup
= curlew | wheen
= many
whilk = which
whinstone screes
=
whittle at the King's perogative = reduce it?
whittle = knife
widdershins = anticlockwise
windy
= window (Nor. vindu )
wirriecowgin
=
wuddy = hangman's rope
wysed
= deceived
wyte = blame
yestreen
= yesterday
yett = gate
yill
= ale (as of beer?)
yirth = earth |