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Scots Glossary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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A	A
acquaint acquainted	B
ae one	C
aff off	D
afore before	E
a'gate everywhere	F
ain own	G
aince once	H
ang bang pang embonpoint	B
argy bargy argument	B
attour out over	I
auld old	B
ava' at all	J
awa' away fair awa' wi' it fairly done for	E
awyte an affirmative exclamation	C
ayont beyond	B
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B	-
Ba' ball to get on the ba' to go on a jollification to get drunk	K
bade stayed	B
bairnie child	B
baith both	L
bane doctorin' bone setting	M
banned cursed	B
barley bree whisky	-
bathered bothered	B
bauchles old shoes slippers	N
bedfast bed ridden	C
beelin' suppurating	-
beerit buried	B
besom broom a woman of loose character	I
bide stay	B
biggin' building	-
biled boiled	B
billy fellow	O
birled moved quickly	-
birr vigour force	P
birse bristle to get one's birse set up to get in a rage	Q
bit at the bit at the finish	R
bleeze blaze fire	I
blude blood	B
body person beast or body beast or man	S
bogie roll Irish twist tobacco	O
bonnet laird small proprietor	I
braw beautiful	T
breeks breeches	P
brithers brothers	P
brizzin' pressing	-
brose oatmeal mixed with water	I
bubbly jock turkey	-
Buchan Buchan's Domestic Medicine	C
bude behoved	B
buits boots	P
bullerin' roaring	-
buskit dressed	B
but an ben two roomed cottage	U
byordnar extraordinary	-
	-
C	-
ca' call work	-
cahoochy india rubber	I
cankert ill natured	B
canny like gently	-
carle old man	S
chappit struck	-
cheeky on sideways	P
cheenge change	V
cheep whisper faint noise	P
chiel fellow	O
chowed chewed	B
clachan hamlet	B
claes clothes	P
clarty dirty	-
cloot mend patch	W
clour dint caused by a blow	O
cockernony woman's hair twisted up	X
cod pillow	O
coorse coarse	P
crack talk	-
craigie throat	B
crambo clink rhyme doggerel	T
crap crop	Y
cratur creature	I
creishy fat	B
crockaneetion smithereens bits	P
croochin' crouching	-
cry bear a child	B
cryin' accouchement	B
cuits shins	P
cutty pipe	Z
	-
D	B
daddin' knocking	-
dae do	B
dandrin' sauntering	-
dang broke driven	C
darkenin' darkness	P
daur dare	F
Daylicht has mony een daylight reveals many things	P
explains mysteries	P
deaved deafened	B
dee die	B
deevil deil the Devil	T
deid dead	B
deleerit delirious	P
denners dinners	P
devauled ceased	B
dichtit wiped	B
dingin' dingin' on falling	-
dinna do not	B
dirk dagger	I
distrackit distracted	B
dizzen dozen	C
doobled doubled	B
doon settin' settlement start in life	A2
doo's cleckin pigeon's hatch two of a family	B
doot doubt	B
dootna do not doubt	B
dour obstinate hard severe	B2
dree suffer	I
drogues drugs	P
drooth thirst	B
droothy thirsty	B
drumlie like showing a sediment	B
druve drove	C2
duds clothes	P
dune done	C
dunt a stroke causing a hollow sound	B
dwalt dwelt	B
dwam faint turn	D2
dwinin' wasting fading	-
	-
E	B
Eck contraction for Alexander	I
e'e eye	B
een eyes	P
e'en even	E2
e'enins evenings	P
efterhan' afterwards	P
eident diligent	B
elbuck elbow	O
eneuch enough	F2
ense otherwise	P
ettlin' inclined to	B
expeckin' expecting enceinte	B
	-
F	-
fa' fall	J
fand found	B
fash trouble	T
faurer farther	I
fearsome frightful	T
fecht fight	B
feckless weak spiritless worthless	P
fegs an affirmative exclamation a corruption of Faith	G2
fell hot acute	B
ferlies wonders	P
fesh fetch	H2
fin' find feel	I2
finger't fingered palpated	B
fire in his e'e a foreign body	B
firin' fire wood	B
firstlins first products	P
fish hake a wooden frame on which to hang fish	R
flang flung	-
flannen flannel	T
flee fly flee out on scold	B
fleechin' wheedling	-
fleg frighten	C
fleggit frightened	B
forbye over and above besides	P
forcy forceful	T
forebears ancestors	P
fore handit paid in advance	P
fore nune forenoon	C
forfaughen exhausted	B
forrit forward even forrit straight on	C
fosh fetched	B
fowk folk	-
fowre four weel on fowre nearly four o'clock	-
freen's relations	P
fricht fright	B
fu' full	J2
	-
G	-
gae go	-
gaed went gaed owre went beyond the power of	K2
gaffer foreman overseer	I
gait way	B
gaithrin' crowd	B
gang go	-
gangrels wanderers tramps	P
gant yawn	C
gar make cause	P
gaun going	-
gaun aboot wandering	-
gey very	-
ghaistly ghostly	-
gibbles tools	P
gie give gie him the name name the child after him	L2
gillie callum a variety of Scots dance	P
gin if	M2
girnin' whining complaining	-
gloamin' twilight	B
glow'red stared	B
govy dick govy ding an exclamation of surprise	P
gowpin' throbbing	-
granes groans	P
granin' groaning	-
gree agree	-
greenin' longing for	E
greet cry weep	N2
grew shiver	I
grewsin' shivering	-
grup grip	O2
gruppit gripped	B
gude good	B
gude gaun good going	-
gude mither mother in law	P2
guff smell	Q2
gully large pocket knife	A2
	-
H	-
hae have	R2
Hae Here	S2
hail pour down	C
haill whole haill apotheck whole affair	F
hame home the nicht that the bairnie cam' hame the night that	B
the child was born	C
hame owre homely	-
hantle a considerable number	I
harns brains	P
haud hold	B
hauf half	T2
heedin' paying attention to	B
heicher higher	I
heicht height	B
heid head	B
heidin' heading	-
heirskep heredity inheritance	P
herts hearts gart the hert rise made one sick	-
het hot	B
hielant Highland	B
hin'er hinder	I
hinna have not	B
hirplin' limping	-
hives bowel trouble of children	C
hoast cough	U2
holin' cutting coal	V2
hoodie craws hooded crows	P
hoor hour	I
hoose house	P
hornie fair hornie fair exchange	V
howdie mid wife	A2
howk dig	-
humoursome humorous	P
hungert hungry starved	B
hunner hundred	B
hurdies buttocks	P
hurl a lift a drive in a conveyance	P
	-
I	B
ilk ilka each	W2
ingans onions	P
ingle fire	I
intil into	B
I'se I	B
iver ever	I
	-
J	B
joukery pawkery trickery	-
jucks ducks	P
juist just	B
	-
K	B
kebbuck cheese	P
keepit kept	B
kens knows	P
kent knew	B
kentna did not know	-
keppit met	B
kilmarnock a night cap	X2
kimmer gossip Fr commere	-
kin' kind	B
kinkhoast whooping cough	U2
kin'liest kindliest	B
kintraside countryside	B
kirk church	Y2
kist chest	B
kists o' whistles organs	P
knock clock	-
	-
L	Q2
langer longer	-
lang leggit long legged	B
lappers clots	P
lat let	B
lauchin' laughing	-
lave the rest	B
law wer lawyer	-
lear lore knowledge	U
learnin' teaching	-
leear liar	-
leech physician	C
lees lies	P
leggit legged	B
leuch laughed	B
libel label	T
licht light	B
lichtsome cheerful	T
lilt a cheerful air	-
linkit linked united	B
littlens children	C
losh an exclamation corruption of Lord	B
losh keep's Lord keep us	P
loup jump	Z2
loupin' jumping	-
lowsed stopped working loosened	B
lum hat silk hat	B
lum hattit silk hatted	B
	-
M	-
maist most	B
makar poet	B
mannie diminutive of man	C
mells mallets mauls	P
menners manners	P
middenheid top of the dunghill	T
miracklous miraculous very drunk	-
mirk darkness	P
mischanters misfortunes	P
mischeef mischief	F2
morn's morn to morrow morning	-
mou mouth	A3
mows jest nae mows no joke	-
muckle big	-
mune moon	C
	-
N	C
naethin' nothing	-
narra' narrow narra' i' the swalla' narrow throated	B
neeps turnips	P
neist next	B
nesty nasty	B
nice particular	-
nieves fists	P
nirled shrunken with age	Q
nocht naught	B
nosey wax a nobody expression of contempt	B
nott needed	B
no weel unwell	T
	-
O	-
Ony any	B
orra odd	B
owre over	-
oxter the armpit	B
	-
P	B
palmer to wander	-
parritch porridge	U
pawky shrewd	B
pechin' panting	-
pen gun pop gun to crack like a pen gun to be very loquacious	P
pit put	B
pleugh plough	B3
pooched pocketed	B
poopit pulpit	B
poother powder	-
precentor leader of psalmody	B
pree taste	B
puddens bowels	P
pu'in' pulling	-
	-
Q	B
quate quiet	B
	-
R	-
rackit stretched sprained	B
rale real	T
ravel't confused	B
reid red	B
reid heidit red headed	B
richt right	B
rife common widespread	B
riggin' ridge of a house	P
rivin' tearing	-
rizzon reason	C
roondit rounded	B
roup sale	T
row roll wrap up	X
rout roar	-
rubbin' post post for cattle to rub against	B
ruggit pulled roughly	B
runt an old hag	-
	-
S	P
sair sore	-
sair'd served	B
sark shirt	B
sassenach Saxon Southron	C
saugh willow	-
saut salt	B
sax six	P
scartit scratched	B
scunnert disgusted to the verge of nausea	P
shakers pit the shakers on me set me trembling with fear	-
shauchle shamble walk in a shuffling manner	-
shoon shoes	P
shouther shoulder	-
sib related like	-
sic such	C3
siccar sure	-
sicht sight	B
sichtit sighted	B
siller money	C
sin since	P
sinon sinew wi' a gey teuch sinon in your neck possessed of good	B
stamina	P
skaith harm	D3
skeely skilful	-
sklimmin' climbing	-
slocken quench allay	-
smeddum spirit mettle	-
smiddy smithy	A3
smirr slight fall of rain or snow	-
smoor smoort smother smothered	B
snappit snapped	B
snaw snow	-
snell piercing	-
socht sought	B
soo sow	B3
sookeys suckers sookers for bairns children's so called	B
comforters	P
soondin' sounding examination with a stethoscope	E3
soopled suppled	B
sooth South	A3
sough rushing sound to sough awa' to breathe his last	B
spails splinters shavings	P
spak spoke	-
spate flood	B
specks spectacles	P
sporran pouch worn with the kilt	B
spunks matches	P
stappin' stepping	-
starns stars	P
staw'd surfeited	B
steer disturbance	P
stiddy steady	B
stoundin' aching	-
stour dust	B
strae straw in the strae in child bed	B
straught straight	B
stude stood	B
sutten doon habitual chronic settled	B
swat sweated	B
swatch portion specimen	C
sweer unwilling obstinate	B
sweerin' scolding	-
switin' sweating	-
syne since ago	-
sypes oozes	P
	-
T	B
tack lease	P
taed toad used affectionately or otherwise of a person	C
tapsalteerie head over heels topsy turvy	B
tastin' small quantity	B
tatties potatoes	P
tauld told	B
tel't told	B
teuch tough	F2
thae those	P
thee thigh	B
thocht thought worry care	-
thole endure	-
thowless thewless inactive feeble	-
thrang busy	B
tick credit	B
till to	B
timmer timber	-
tinkler tinker	-
tint lost	B
tirravee fit of passion	C
tow rope	E3
trailin' walking slowly	B
traivelled walked	B
trampin' walking	-
tribbles troubles	P
trokit done business in a small way	-
tryst appointment make an appointment	B
tuggit tugged	B
tuilzie quarrel fight skirmish	R
twa fauld bent nearly double	-
tyne lose	P
	-
U	B
ugsome ugly	B
unco very	B
unctioneer auctioneer	-
upbye at a little distance higher	-
usquebae whisky	B
	-
V	B
verra very	B
	-
W	-
waddin' wedding	-
waesomely woefully	B
wag at the wa' wall clock with long pendulum	F3
wale choose	P
wame belly	B
wark work	-
warl world	B
warsled wrestled	B
warslin' wrestling	-
warst worst	B
wat wet wat his whustle took a drink	-
wauken waken	C
waur worse	P
wean child	B
weel well	-
weel a wat I think truly	B
weel on well on fairly drunk	-
weet wet to weet the bairnie's heid to drink the health of the	A3
new born child	B
weird fate	B
wersh insipid	B
wey way	-
whaur where	-
whiles sometimes	P
whilk which	G3
whustle whistle	-
widdy gallows	P
winnock window	B
won'er wonder	-
wow I exclamation of surprise	P
wrang wrong	-
wreetin' writing	-
wricht carpenter	-
wrocht worked	B
wud mad	B
wull will	-
wullin' willing	-
	-
Y	-
yaird yard	B
yarkit jerked	B
yokit started keenly	B