Glossary of Scottish Dialect Terms
- aye
- always
- bear'st the gree
- carriest off the palm
- birk
- birch
- birkie
- foolish young fellow
- braes
- slopes
- burnie
- small stream
- chiel
- fellow
- coof
- fool, ninny
- cranreuch cauld
- sharp hoarfrost
- daimen icker in a thrave
- an odd ear of corn
- dools
- sorrows
- doup
- posteriors
- een
- eyes
- fa'
- have as one's lot
- fash
- trouble
- fells
- upland fields
- foggage
- coarse grass
- frae
- from
- gaed
- went
- gang aft agley
- often go wrong
- gars
- makes
- gear
- wealth
- giglets keckle
- giddy creatures laugh
- gowan
- daisy
- gowd
- gold
- gree
- prize
- guide it cannie
- use it carefully
- guidman
- farmer
- hiney
- honey
- hing
- hang
- ilka
- every
- lave
- remainder
- laverocks
- larks
- linns
- steep rocks
- lintwhite
- linnet
- loup
- leap
- lugs
- ears
- merle
- blackbird
- mirk
- dark
- mools
- mould
- moorcock
- grouse
- no thy lane
- not alone
- pattle
- plow-stick
- rigs
- ridges
- shaws
- groves
- shill
- shrill
- snell
- bitter
- stang
- sting
- staw
- stole
- steeks his faulding slap
- shuts his fold-gate
- tentie
- attentive
- tentless
- careless
- thole
- endure
- towmond's
- twelvemonth's
- wauks
- wakes
- wist
- knew