GLOSSARY.
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Aboon, above.
A deed, indeed.
Ae, one.
Aft, oft, often.
Ain, own.
Ance, once.
Aneugh, enough.
Bare-fit, barefooted.
Baudy, evil.
Bawk, crossbeam in roof of house.
Bin nor ha’d, bind nor hold.
Boul-horned, obstinate.
Braid, broad.
Braw, beautiful.
Brogit, pierced.
Canker’d, ill-natured.
Canty, happy.
Chappin, knocking.
Chirtin, pressing.
Clap, pat.
Clung, empty.
Cog, basin.
Contrair, contrary.
Coupt, emptied.
Cow’d, trimmed.
Creesh, grease.
Creims, stalls.
Cumstrarie, perverse.
Curits, curates.
Dauts, fondles.
Dwal, dwell.
Elshinirons, shoemakers’ tools.
Fallow, fellow.
Flaes, fleas.
Forjeskit, disreputable.
Forfaughten, exhausted.
Fow, full.
Frae, from.
Gade, went.
Gar, make.
Gin, if.
Girning, grumbling.
Gude, good.
Gudis, goods.
Graithed, clothed.
Gule-fitted, yellow-footed.
Halesome, wholesome.
Hantle, lot.
Harled, pulled.
Haud, hold.
Heckle, a weaver’s comb.
Hizey, a girl, a huzzy.
Hoddle, waddle.
Hoiting, following, running after.
Ilk, every.
Keek, glance slyly.
Kend, knew.
Kirnan-rung, “That long staff with a circular frame on the head of it, used anciently for agitating the cream, when upstanding kirns were fashionable.”—Gall. Encycl.
Kist, chest.
Lufe, hand.
Maist, most.
Mair, more.
Makar, poet.
Maumier, sweeter, pleasanter.
Maun, must.
Mou, mouth.
Muckle, much.
Munanday, Monday.
Murgully’d, mismanaged, abused.
Nayther, neither.
Neb, nose.
Neist, next.
Neits, nits.
Ouk, week.
Outhir, either.
Paepery, Popery.
Preed, tasted.
Prent, printing-press.
Prins, pins.
Redd, separate.
Ripples, a weakness in the back.
Rive, burst.
Rumple, the rump.
Saep, soap.
Saut, salt.
Sen, since.
Shaws, shows.
Shune, shoes.
Sic, such.
Siccan, such-like.
Skaith, harm.
Snites, wipes.
Socht, sought.
Sowp, sup.
Stap, put.
Staw, stole.
Steer, stir.
Stively, stoutly, firmly.
Sumf, a blockhead.
Supple, the part of a flail that strikes the grain.
Sykin, sighing.
Tane, tuther, one, other.
Tangs, tongs.
Tod-lowrie, a name given to the fox.
Toom, empty.
Trykle, treacle.
Unco, very.
Wab, web.
Waefu’, woful.
Wames, bellies.
Wan, got.
Wat, wet.
Weir-men, war-men.
Whang, piece.
Wheens, lots.
Whilly’d, cheated.
Wud, mad, distracted.
Yeal, old, barren.
Ye’se, you will.