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English Scottish Dictionary
English
..Scottish
A
alert/spry
.gleg
always
.aye
armpit
.oxter
auction
roup
B
bag (paper)
..poke
bagpipe music(a form of..)
.pibroch
barrister
..advovate
beautiful
..braw
besides
forbye
big
muckle/meikle
bind
..thirl
birch
.birk
blackberry
bramble
boat(for Salmon fishing)
..coble
bolt/catch(on window)
.snib
bounce
..stot
branch (of a clan)
.sept
bread roll
..bap
break (at school)
..interval
brew/make tea
..mask
bridge
brig
brook/stream
.burn
broom
besom
building
.biggin
bun
cookie
borough
.burgh
busy/crowded
thrang
butcher
..flesher
C
call(as in what do you call him?)
..cry
careful
cannie
cheese(cream)
crowdie
chest/coffin
kist
Chief Herald of Scotland
Lord Lyon
child
bairn/wean
chimney
..lum
church
.kirk
clerk/typist(female)
.clerkess
cosy
.couthy
cottage (farm)
.bothy
cows
kye
cow shed
..byre
crab
..partan
crow
.corbie
cry/weep
..greet
cup (for drinking whisky toasts)
..quaich
cupboard (wall)
press
curlew
..whaup
curling match
..bonspiel
D
daft/crazy
gyte
dagger (highland)
dirk
daisy
gowan
dark
..murky
day-break/cock-crow
skreich of day
days of long ago
auld lang syne
deafen
deave
dear
hen (West Coast)
dig
..howk
direction/quarter/point of the compass
airt
dirty
..clarty
dither
haver
door-catch
sneck
dovecote
..doocot
dropped scone
..pancake
dry/wanting rain/thirsty
drouthy
dust/dirt
stoor
E
each/every
.ilka
ear
..lug
Edinburgh
..Auld Reekie
elder tree
bourtree
endure
thole
Englishman/Lowlander
..Sassenach
errands, to do the
messages, do the
estuary/strait
firth
exercise book
..jotter
exhausted
wabbit
F
few/ a good many
..wheen,a
field
loaning
football
..fitba
freckles
..fernitickles
friendly terms
.far ben
frog
.puddock
from
frae
fruit loaf(spiced eaten at new year)
black bun
full stop
period
G
gate
..yett
gentle/sweet
.douce
girl
lassie
girl
quean(Aberdeen)
go
..gang
golf course (on the coast)
.links
good
..guid
gooseberry
.grossart
gormless/stupid
.glaikit/glaichit
gorse
..whin
greasy
creeshie
griddle
girdle
ground rent
feu duty/tack duty
guess
..jalouse
gutter (rainwater)
..rone/rhone
H
haddock(smoked)
.finnan haddie
haddock(smoked to a sooty coppery colour)
.. Arbroath smokie
half penny
.bawbee
hard/obstinate/grim
..dour
harp on
.craik
haunt/resort
..howff
headmaster(academy)
..rector
high school
..academy
hill
brae
hit/deal a blow
..ding
hold
..haud
hopscotch
.peevers
house(2 roomed)
..but and ben
horse/nag
.cuddie
humorous
pawky
I
ice-cream cornet
cone
ice-cream between wafers
.slider
if
gin
in (inside the house)
..ben the hoose
intend/aspire
..ettle
K
know
.ken
L
labourer(farm)/odd job man
orraman
lad
loon
lake
..loch
land (for which feu duty is payed)
..feu
lane
..wynd
lawyer/solicitor
writer(in aberdeen advacate)
let(in perpetuity)
..feu
little finger
pinky/pinkie
live
..stay(eg. "where do you stay")
long legged
..lang shankit
look/observe furtively
.keek
lord of the manor/squire
.laird
low
..laigh/laich
M
magistrate
baillie
make a mess
.slaister
manager(estate)
factor
mayor/Lord Mayor
provost/Lord Mayor
meadow (water)
haugh
mend
.sort/fix
mist(off east coast)
haar
mittens
..pawkies
moor
..moss/muir
morning
forenoon
mouldy/musty
..foosty
mountain
..ben
mud
..glaur
mutton (leg of )
gigot
N
neat/trim
..dink
New Years Day
Ne'erday
New Years Eve
Hogmanay
night
.nicht
nose
..neb
nuisance/sicken/disgust
scunner
O
oatmeal cake
.bannock
odd
orra
office bearer (in Presbyterian Church)
.elder
one
yin/ane/wan
overturn
coup
owl
hoolit
P
pale/wan/out of sorts
peely wally
passage between buildings
close
passage (vaulted)
..pend
pattern (in Tartan)
sett
person in disguise
guiser
plate(meat)
..ashet
pocket
..pouch
potatoes(mashed)
.champot tatties
potato picker
tattie howker
pretty
.bonny
Q
quite
..fair
R
ram
.tup
rain(fine)
smirr
reel/bobbin
.pirn
remember
mind
representative at Uni elected by students
.rector
ride (in car bus etc)
hurl
rinse
syne
roll(breakfast)
buttery
rubbish/rabble
clamjamphrie
rubbish tip
..coup
rugby (border country)
..fitba
S
scare crow
.tattie bogle
School Leaving Certificate
highers
Scotch
dram, a
Scottish College of Arms
..Lyon Court
shepherd
herd
shake
.shack/shoogle
shoe(badly worn)
..bauchle
shoemaker
.souter
shriek
skreich
shriek/sing shrilly
.skirl
slack(coal)
dross
slap
skelp
slow/backward/shy
blate
slut
.besom
sly/cunning/smooth
sleekit
small
..wee
small farm (highlands)
..croft
smoke/smoky
reek/reekie
snarl/whimper/grumble
girn
sore
sair
spin round
.birl
Game keeper
ghillie
stealer/rustler(sheep/cattle)
..riever
steward
.factor
stick for stirring porridge
.spirtle
stones(marking spot or path)
cairn
stream(mill)
..lade
street
.gate/gait
stroll/saunter
.stravaig
squint - eyed
.skelly - eyed
squirt
.skoot
sweet
.boiling
swoon
dwam
T
talk nonsense
.blether
tape measure
.inch tape
tell tales/sneak
..clype
throat
thrapple
thump/bump
.dunt
tight-fitting
nippet
tired/bothered
trauchled
townhall (often with prison)
.tolbooth
trail along
..trauchle
tramp
.gangin' body
tribe(bearing same name)
.clan
trinket/knick-knack
..whigmaleerie
trouble/annoy
fash
trout(young sea)
finnock
turkey
bubblyjock
turnip
neep
turnips and potatoes(mashed together)
..clapshot
turn partly inside out(socks)
flype
two
twa
U
undergraduate(1rst year)
..fresher
undergraduate(1rst year St Andrews)
bejant
upside down
.tapsalteerie
V
valley
glen
valley/plain beside river
strath
verger
beadle
vibrate
..dirl
vicarage
manse
village
..clachan
W
weak/timid
shilpit
weir
cauld
wheel along
hurl
worn out
.furfochen
worse
..waur
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