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Glossary
Словарь английских эквивалентов шотландских слов и диалектизмов
See Also/См. также:
Scots Glossary
Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
Scottish |
English |
Русский эквивалент |
A |
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A |
see hae |
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A’ |
all |
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A–back |
behind, away |
сзади, позади, в отдалении |
Aback |
away, aloof, backwards, in the rear |
в отдалении, поодаль, в стороне, назад, обратно |
Abeigh |
at a shy distance, aloof, off, aside |
в отдалении, поодаль, в стороне |
Aboon |
above, up, over |
выше |
Ablins |
v. aiblins |
возможно, может, может быть |
Abread |
abroad, in sight, to publish |
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Abreed |
in breadth, wide |
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acquaint, acquent |
familiar; acquainted with each other |
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advisement |
thought, deliberation |
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Ae |
one, a certain; one of two; only; emphatic before a superlative |
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Aff |
off, away |
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Aff-loof |
off-hand, extempore, without premeditation, at once |
без подготовки, сразу |
A-fiel |
afield, in the field; outside |
вдалеке |
Afore |
before; in front of |
до, перед |
Aft |
oft |
часто |
Aften |
often |
часто |
aft(en)-times |
often |
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again |
ready for, before |
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Agee |
on one side |
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Agley |
off the right line, wrong, awry |
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Ahin |
behind |
за, позади |
Ahint |
behind |
за, позади |
Aiblins, Ablins, Aiblens |
perhaps |
возможно, может, может быть |
Aidle |
foul water |
грязная вода |
Aik |
oak |
дуб |
Aiken |
oaken |
дубовый |
Ain |
own |
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Air |
early |
рано, ранний |
Airles |
earnest money |
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Airl-penny |
a silver penny given as erles or hiring money, payment made in token of employment |
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Airn |
iron, a tool of that metal, a mason’s chisel, pl. — fetters |
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Airt |
quarter of the heaven, point of the compass, direction, to direct |
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Aith |
oath |
клятва |
Aits |
oats |
овес |
A-jee |
ajar; to one side |
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Aith |
an oath |
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Aits |
oats |
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Aiver |
an old horse |
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Aizle |
a hot cinder, an ember of wood |
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aix |
axe |
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Akwart |
awkward, athwart |
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Alake |
alas |
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Alane |
alone |
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Alang |
along |
вдоль |
Amaist |
almost |
почти |
Amang, ’mang |
among |
среди |
An, An’ |
and, if |
и, если |
an't |
if it |
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Ance |
once |
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Ane |
one, a(n) |
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Anes |
ones |
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Aneath |
beneath |
под |
Anent |
over-against, concerning, about |
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Aneuch, eneuch, eneugh, enow |
enough |
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Anither |
another |
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an's |
and am; and is; and his |
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Aqua-fontis |
spring water |
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Aqua-vitae |
whiskey |
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Aqueesh |
between |
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Arle |
v. airle |
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Ase |
ashes of wood, remains of a hearth fire |
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Asklent |
askew, askance, on the side |
косо |
Aspar |
aspread, with legs apart |
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Asteer |
abroad, stirring in a lively manner, astir |
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A'thegither |
altogether |
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Athort |
athwart |
поперек |
Attour |
moreover, beyond, besides, see by (bye) attour |
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Atweel |
in truth, certainly, indeed |
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Atween |
between |
между |
Aught |
eight, eighth; possession, possessed of, as “in a’ my aught,” in all my possession, see ought |
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Aughten |
eighteen |
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Aughtlins |
at all |
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Auld |
old |
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Auld-farran’, auld farrant, auldfarrant |
sagacious, prudent, cunning, shrewd, old-fashioned |
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Auld-shoon |
old shoes literally, a discarded lover metaphorically |
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Auld Reekie |
Edinburgh |
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Auld-warld |
old-world |
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Aumos, Aumous |
gift to a beggar, alms |
милостыня |
Aumos-dish |
a beggar’s dish in which the aumos is received |
тарелка нищего для сбора милостыни, подаяний |
Ava |
at all, of all |
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Awa |
away, begone |
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Awald |
backways and doubled up, in a state of drunkenness |
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Awauk |
awake |
будить |
Awauken |
awaken |
будить |
Awe |
owe |
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awee |
for a moment |
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Awfu’ |
awful |
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Awkart |
awkward |
неудобный |
Awn |
the beard of barley, oats, &c |
ость (колоса) |
Awnie |
bearded |
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Ayont |
beyond, past |
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B |
Top - Наверх |
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Ba’ |
ball |
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Babie-clouts |
child’s first clothes |
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Backet |
bucket, box |
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Backets |
ash-boards, as pieces of backet for removing ashes |
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Backit |
backed |
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backlins |
backwards |
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Backlins comin’ |
coming back, returning |
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back-style, back-yett |
the stile, gate in the rear fence of the house |
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Back-yett |
private gate, gate at the back |
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Bade |
asked ( 1 – past t. of bid; 2 – past t. of bide ) |
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Baide |
endured, did stay |
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Baggie |
the belly, stomach |
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Baig'nets, baiginets |
bayonets |
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Baillie |
magistrate of a Scots burgh |
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Bainie, Banie |
bony, big-boned |
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Bair |
uncover, clear |
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Bairn |
a child |
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Bairn-time, Bairntime |
a family of children, all the offspring of one mother, a brood |
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Baith |
both |
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Bakes |
biscuits |
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Ballets, Ballants, Ballats |
ballads |
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Balou |
lullaby |
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Ban |
curse, to swear |
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Ban' |
band (of the Presbyterian clergyman) |
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Bane |
bone, bone-comb |
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Bang |
to beat, to strive, to excel, an effort, a blow, pain, thrash, to thump, a large number |
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Banie |
v. bainie |
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Bannet |
bonnet |
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Bannock, bonnock |
flat, round, soft cake, a thick oatmeal cake, flat girde-baked cake of oatmeal barley, or flour |
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Bardie |
diminutive of bard |
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Barefit |
barefooted |
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Barket |
barked |
облаять |
Barley-bree, Barley-brie, barley-broo, blood of barley |
malt liquor or barley-brew-ale or whiskey |
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Barm |
yeast |
дрожжи, дрожжевой |
Barmie |
fermenting with ideas |
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Barmie, of, or like barm |
yeasty |
пенистый, бродящий, дрожжевой |
Barn-yard |
stackyard |
гумно |
Bartie |
the Devil |
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Bashing |
abashing, abashed, confused |
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Batch |
a crew, a gang, a number, set |
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Batts, botts |
the colic |
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Bauckie-bird |
the bat |
летучая мышь |
Baudrons, Baudrans |
a cat |
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Bauk |
cross-beam |
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Bauk |
v. bawk |
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Bauk-en' |
beam-end |
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Bauld |
bold |
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Bauldest |
boldest |
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Bauldly |
boldly |
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Baumy |
balmy |
ароматный, душистый, мягкий, нежный, успокаивающий, целительный |
Bawbee |
a half-penny |
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Bawdrons |
v. baudrons |
кот, кошка |
Bawk |
a field path |
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Baws’nt |
having a white stripe down the face, white-streaked |
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Be |
to let be, to give over, to cease |
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Beets |
boots |
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Bear, beir |
allow, suffer, admit |
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Bear, Beir |
barley |
ячмень |
Bearded-bear |
barley with its bristly head |
ячменный колос |
Bearers |
legs |
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Beas' |
beasts, vermin |
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Beastie |
diminutive of beast |
зверёк |
Beat, Beet |
kindle, add fuel to fire |
подбрасывать дрова в огонь, разжигать |
Beck |
a curtsy |
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Beet, beek |
to add fuel to a fire, feed, kindle, to bask |
подбрасывать дрова в огонь, разжигать, нежиться, греться (на солнце, у огня) |
befa' |
befall |
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behin(t) |
behind |
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Beild, Bield, Biel |
protection, shelter, cover |
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Beir |
see bear |
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Belang |
belong |
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Beld |
bald |
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Bellum |
assault |
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Bellys |
bellows |
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belted |
with the distinctive belt of an earl or a knight |
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Belyve |
by and by, presently, quickly, soon |
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Ben |
a parlor (i.e., the inner apartment); into the spence or parlour; indoors, within |
гостиная, в гостиной |
Be-north |
to the northward of |
на север, к северу |
Be-south, |
to the southward of |
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Benmost |
inmost, furthest in, innermost |
глубочайший, сокровенный |
Benmost-bore |
the remotest hole, the innermost recess |
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Bestead |
placed, circumstanced |
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Bethankit |
grace after meat, (God) be thanked |
спасибо (после еды) |
Beuk, Pictur'd beuk |
a book, a book: |
книга |
pictur'd beuks, devil's pictur'd beuks |
playing-cards |
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bewaure |
beware |
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beyont |
beyond, on the far side of |
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Bicker |
a kind of wooden dish or cup, a short rapid race; to flow swiftly and with a slight noise; rush, scurry, short rush, stagger |
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Bickerin |
noisy contention |
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Bickering |
careering, hurrying, hurrying with quarrelsome intent |
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Bid |
to ask, to wish, to offer, to desire |
спрашивать, желать, предоставлять |
Bide |
abide, endure, remain, await |
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Bie, or bield |
shelter, a sheltered place, the sunny nook of a wood |
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Biel, bield, Beild |
a shelter; a sheltered spot; comfortable |
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Bien |
wealthy, plentiful |
богатый, обильный |
Bien, bienly |
comfortably, warmly |
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Big |
to build; elated, passionate |
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Biggin |
building, a house |
строение, здание, дом |
Biggit |
built |
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Bike, byke |
hive, swarm, crowd |
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Bill |
a bull |
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Billie, billy |
a brother, a young fellow, a companion, friend, comrade, fellow, lad |
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Bing |
a heap of grain, potatoes, &c |
куча зерна, картофеля и т.д. |
Birdie, bird(ie), burd(ie) |
diminutive of bird; also maidens, lass |
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Birdie-cocks, young cocks |
still belonging to the brood |
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Birk |
birch |
берёза |
Birken |
birchen |
берёзовый |
Birkie |
a clever, a forward conceited fellow; lively, spry fellow |
умный, тщеславный, самодовольный, большого мнения о себе парень |
birlie-man |
valuer of crops, parish arbiter |
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Birnie |
birnie ground is where thick heath has been burnt, leaving the birns, or unconsumed stalks, standing up sharp and stubley |
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Birr |
force, vigor |
сила, энергия, бодрость |
Birring |
the noise of partridges when they rise, whirring |
шум, издаваемый куропатками, жужжание |
Birses |
bristles |
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Birth |
berth |
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Bit |
crisis, nick of time, place; small (e.g., bit lassie) |
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Bitch-fou |
completely drunk |
напившийся до бесчувствия |
Bizz |
a bustle, to buzz, a flurry |
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Bizzard |
the buzzard |
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Bizzie |
busy |
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blackguarding |
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Black’s the grun’ |
as black as the ground |
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Black-bonnet |
the Presbyterian elder |
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Black-nebbit |
black-beaked |
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Blad |
v. blaud |
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Blae |
blue, livid |
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Blastet, Blastit, Blastiet |
blasted, accursed; dwarfish |
разрушенный, проклятый, пришедший в упадок |
Blastie |
a shrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt, full of mischief; a blasted (i.e., damned) creature, ill-tempered creature; a little wretch |
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Blate |
bashful, sheepish, modest |
застенчивый, скромный |
Blather |
bladder |
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Blaud |
a flat piece of anything, to slap, pelt, a large quantity |
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Blaudin-shower |
a heavy driving rain; signifies a beating |
сильный дождь; |
a blauding |
биение |
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Blaw |
to blow, to boast, to brag; “blaw i’ my lug,” to flatter, get breath back |
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Blawing |
blowing |
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Blawn |
blown |
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Bleer |
to blear, watery-eyed, bleary |
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Bleer my een |
dim my eyes |
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Bleer't |
bleared |
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Bleerit |
bedimmed, eyes hurt with weeping, watery-eyed, bleary |
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Bleeze |
blaze |
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Bleezing, bleeze |
blazing, flame |
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Blellum |
idle talking fellow; a babbler; a railer; a blusterer |
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Blether |
to talk idly, talk foolishly, babble, blethers, nonsense |
говорить чепуху |
Bleth’rin, Bletherin' |
talking idly, talking nonsense |
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Blin' |
blind |
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Blink |
a little while, a smiling look, to look kindly, to shine by fits, a glance, a moment, short time, to glance, to shine, glance fondly, leer flirtatiously |
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Blinker |
a term of contempt: it means, too, a lively engaging girl |
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Blinkers |
spies, oglers |
следить, подглядывать, строить глазки |
Blinkin’ |
smirking, smiling with the eyes, looking lovingly, leering |
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Blin't |
blinded |
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Blirt and blearie |
out-burst of grief, with wet eyes |
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Blitter |
the snipe |
бекас |
-gown |
one of those beggars who get annually, on the king’s birth-day, a blue cloak or gown with a badge, the livery of the licensed beggar |
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Blude, Bluid |
blood; semen |
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Bluidy |
bloody |
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Blume |
to bloom |
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Bluntie |
a stupid |
тупой, глупый |
Blype |
a shred, a large piece |
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Bobbit, Bobbed |
the obeisance made by a lady, curtsied |
реверанс |
Bock |
to vomit, to gush intermittently |
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Bocked |
gushed, vomited |
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Boddle |
a farthing; copper coin (1/6 of an Eng. penny) |
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Bode |
look for, expect |
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Bodkin |
tailor's needle |
иголка |
Bodle |
a copper coin of the value of two pennies Scots |
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Body, bodie |
a person, fellow, pl. folk |
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a body's sel |
oneself |
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Bogie, Boggie |
a small morass, diminutive of bog |
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Bogle, a bogie |
a hobgoblin, ghost, spectre, goblin |
домовой |
Bole |
a hole, or small recess in the wall |
дыра, небольшое углубление, в стене, ниша |
Bonnie, Bonie or bonny |
handsome, beautiful, pretty, fair, fine |
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Bonilie |
prettily |
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Bonnock |
a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannock or loaf made of oatmeal. See Bannock |
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Boon, 'Boon |
above (see Aboon) |
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Boord |
a board, surface |
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Boord-en' |
board-end, end of a table |
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Bore |
a hole in the wall, a cranny |
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Boortree |
the shrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards and gardens |
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Boortress |
elders |
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Boost |
must, needs, ought, behoved, wilfulness |
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Boot |
payment to the bargain |
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Bore |
a chink, recess, crevice, crack |
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Botch |
blotch, an angry tumour |
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Bouk |
a human trunk, body, carcass; bulk |
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Bountith |
bounty |
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Bousing |
drinking, making merry with liquor |
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'Bout |
about, around, in |
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Bow |
bend |
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Bowk |
body |
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Bow-hough'd |
bandy-thighed |
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Bow-hought |
out-kneed, crooked at the knee joint |
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Bow-kail |
cabbage |
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bowse |
drink heavily |
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bowse about |
drink in turn |
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Bow't |
bent |
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Bowt, bowlt |
bended, crooked |
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Bra', Braw |
fine, handsome, splendid |
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Brachens |
ferns |
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Brackens |
fern |
папоротник |
Brag |
challenge |
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Brae |
a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill, hillside, high ground by a river |
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Braid |
broad, plain |
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Braid, Braid money |
gold money |
Золотая монета достоинством в 20 шиллингов, бывшая в обращении при последних Стюартах (1658 – 1688), была шире и тоньше, чем золотой того же достоинства более поздней чеканки (после Реставрации) |
Braid-claith |
broad-cloth |
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Braik |
an instrument for rough-dressing flax, a harrow |
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Brainge |
to run rashly forward, to churn violently, plunge, draw unsteadily |
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Braing’t |
“the horse braing’t,” plunged end fretted in the harness |
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Brak |
broke, became insolvent |
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Brak's |
broke his |
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Brankie |
gaudy, gay, fine, finely dressed |
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Branks |
a kind of wooden curb for horses, a bridle, halter |
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Bran'y, Brany |
brandy |
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Brash |
a sudden illness, short attack |
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Brat |
(contemptuous) child |
(презрительно) ребёнок |
Brats |
coarse clothes, rags, &c; small children, small pieces |
грубая одежда, тряпьё |
Brattle |
a short race, hurry, fury, a scamper, noisy onset |
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Braw, bra' |
fine, handsome, gaily dressed |
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brawds |
ruffians |
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Brawly or brawlie |
very well, finely, heartily, bravely, perfectly, admirably, very (much) |
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Braxies |
diseased sheep; sheep that have died of braxie (a disease) |
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Breastie |
diminutive of breast |
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Breastit, breastet |
did spring up or forward, pulled forward; the act of mounting a horse |
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Brechame |
a horse-collar |
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Brechan |
ferns |
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Breckens |
fern |
папоротник |
bree |
whisky |
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Breef |
an invulnerable or irresistible spell |
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Breeks |
breeches, trousers |
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Breer, brier |
brier |
шиповник |
Brent |
bright, clear, smooth, unwrinkled; “a brent brow,” a brow high and smooth; branded, brand; straight, steep (i.e., not sloping from baldness) |
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Brewin’ |
brewing, gathering |
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brewn |
brewed |
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Bree |
juice, liquid |
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Brie |
v. barley-brie |
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Brief |
writ |
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Brier |
briar |
шиповник |
Brig |
a bridge |
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Brisket |
the breast, the bosom |
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Brither |
a brother |
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Broad-claith |
broad-cloth |
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Brock |
a badger |
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Brogue |
a hum, a trick |
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Broo |
broth, soup, liquid, water; liquid in which anything is cooked |
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Broose |
broth, a race at country weddings; he who first reaches the bridegroom’s house on returning from church wins the broose; wedding races from the church to the home of the bride |
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Brose |
a thick mixture of meal and warm water, oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk; also a synonym for porridge |
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Browst |
ale, as much malt liquor as is brewed at a time |
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Browster |
brewer |
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Browster wives |
ale wives, alewives, landladies |
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Brugh |
a burgh, borough |
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Bruilsie |
a broil, combustion |
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brulsie |
uproar, quarrel |
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Brulzie, brulyie |
a brawl |
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Brunstane |
brimstone |
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Brunt |
did burn, burned, burnt |
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Brust |
to burst, burst |
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Buchan-bullers |
the boiling of the sea among the rocks on the coast of Buchan |
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Buckie |
diminutive of buck; a smart younker, gag debauchee |
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Buckle |
a curl |
локон |
Buckskin |
an inhabitant of Virginia; the buckskin kye, negroes |
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Budget |
tinker's bag of tools, leather bag |
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Buff our beef |
thrash us soundly, give us a beating behind and before |
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Buff and blue |
the colours of the Whigs |
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Buff |
to bang, to thump |
ударять, колотить |
Bughtin |
folding |
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Buirdly |
stout made, broad built, stalwart; stately |
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Bum |
the buttocks; to hum |
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Bum-clock |
the humming beetle that flies in the summer evenings, cockchafer, Junebug |
майский жук |
bummil |
hum, mumble, stutter clumsily |
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Bummin |
humming as bees, buzzing |
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Bummle |
to blunder, a drone, an idle fellow, a useless fellow |
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Bummler |
a blunderer, one whose noise is greater than his work |
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Bunker |
a window-seat, a seat |
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Bunters |
harlots |
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bur-thistle |
sprear-thistle |
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Burdies |
diminutive of bird or burd (a lady); maidens |
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Bure |
did bear, bore |
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Burn |
burnie, water, a rivulet, a small stream which is heard as it runs |
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Burnewin, Burniewin’ |
burn this wind, the blacksmith (i.e., burn the wind) |
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Burnie |
diminutive of burn, a rivulet |
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Burr-thistle |
the thistle of Scotland, spear-thistle |
чертополох - символ Шотландии |
Busk |
to dress; to garb; to dress up; to adorn |
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Buskit |
dressed |
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Buskit-nest |
an ornamented residence |
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Busle |
a bustle |
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Buss |
a bush |
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But, bot |
without; but that; other than that; lacking, less |
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butching |
butchering |
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butt, but |
out, to the outer room |
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Butt and ben, but and ben |
the country kitchen and parlour; in the kitchen or outer room, and in the inner room of a cottage |
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By |
past, aside, beside; concerning, about; over |
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Bye attour (i.e., by and attour) |
beside and at a distance, in addition |
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By himself |
lunatic, distracted, beside himself |
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Byke, bike |
a bee-hive, a wild bee-nest, a bees' nest; a hive; a swarm; a crowd |
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Byre |
a cow-house, a sheep-pen |
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C |
Top - Наверх |
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Ca’ |
to call, to name, to drive, knock, blow; plod on |
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Ca’t |
called, driven, calved |
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Cadger |
a carrier, a hawker (especially of fish), travelling hawker |
развозчик, разносчик (главным образом рыбы) |
Cadie or caddie |
a person, a young fellow, a public messenger |
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Caff |
chaff |
мякина |
Caird |
a tinker, a maker of horn spoons and teller of fortunes, gipsy |
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Cairn |
a loose heap of stones, a rustic monument |
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calces (pl. of calx) |
powder |
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Calf-ward |
a small enclosure for calves; the churchyard |
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Calimanco |
a certain kind of cotton cloth worn by ladies |
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Callan, callant |
a boy, a stripling |
мальчик, юноша |
Caller, callor |
fresh, cool, refreshing |
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Callet |
a loose woman, a follower of a camp, wench, a trull |
проститутка |
Cam |
came |
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Canie, Cannie |
gentle, mild, dexterous, tractable, quiet, prudent, careful |
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canker |
become peevish |
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can(n)nie, can(n)ny |
knowing, shrewd; careful |
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Canniest |
quietest |
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Cankrie |
crabbed |
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Canna |
can not |
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Cannilie, cannily |
dexterously, gently, quietly, prudently, cautiously, kindly, quiet; lucky; comfortably; skilfully |
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cant |
song, merry tale |
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Cantie or canty |
cheerful, merry, lively, cheerfully, jolly |
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Cantraip |
a charm, a spell, magic, witching |
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Cants |
merry stories, canters or sprees or merry doings |
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Cape-stane, Cap-stane, cape-stone |
copestone, coping-stone, cope-stone, topmost stone of the building |
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Capon |
castrate |
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cap'ring |
capering |
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Car |
a rustic crude cart with or without wheels, carriage |
деревенская повозка с или без колес |
Card |
chart |
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Care na by |
do not care |
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caretna by |
cared nothing, not at all |
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Careerin’ |
moving cheerfully |
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Castock |
the stalk of a cabbage |
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caritch |
catechism |
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Carl, Carlie |
an old man, a man |
старик |
Carl-hemp |
the male stalk of hemp, easily known by its superior strength and stature, and being without seed |
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Carlie |
a manikin |
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Carlin, carline |
a stout old woman; a middle-aged, or old, woman; a beldam, a witch |
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Carmagnole |
a violent Jacobin |
революционер – якобинец |
Cartes |
cards, playing-cards |
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Cartie |
diminutive of cart |
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Catch-the-plack |
the hunt for money |
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Caudron |
a cauldron |
котёл |
Cauf |
calf |
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Cauf-leather |
calf-leather |
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Cauk |
chalk |
мел |
Cauk and keel |
chalk and red clay |
мел и красная глина |
Cauld |
cold |
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Caup |
a wooden drinking vessel, a cup, wooden bowl |
деревянная чашка |
Causey, causeway |
cleaners |
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Cavie |
a hen-coop |
курятник |
Cess |
land-tax |
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chainet |
adorned with chains |
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Chamer, chaumer |
chamber |
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Change-house |
tavern, ale-house |
таверна, пивная |
chantan |
singing |
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Chanter |
bagpipes; drone of a bagpipe, the pipe of the bag-pipes which produces the melody; song; pastoral pipe |
волынка, звуки издаваемые волынкой; песенка; дудочка пастуха |
Chap |
a person, a fellow, a young fellow; to strike |
молодой парень |
Chapman |
a pedler, pedlar |
коробейник, разносчик; разносчик сплетен, сплетник |
Chaup, chap |
a stroke, a blow, to strike |
удар, наносить удар |
Chear |
cheer |
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Chearfu' |
cheerful |
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Chearless |
cheerless |
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Cheary |
cheery |
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Cheek |
side-piece |
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Cheek-for-chow, Cheek for chow |
close and united, brotherly, side by side, cheek by jowl |
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Cheekit |
cheeked |
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Cheep |
a chirp, to chirp, peep, squeak |
щебет, чирикание, щебетать, чирикать |
Chiel, chield or cheal, cheel |
a young fellow, lad, chap |
молодой парень |
Chimla, or chimlie |
a fire-grate, fire-place, hearth, chimney |
камин, труба |
Chimla-lug |
the fire-side |
очаг |
Chirps |
cries of a young bird |
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Chittering |
shivering, trembling |
дрожжание |
Chockin |
choking |
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Chow, Chows |
chews, to chew; a quid of tobacco |
жевать; кусок табака |
Chuck |
a hen, a dear, sweet-heart |
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Chuckie |
diminutive of chuck, but usually signifies mother hen, an old dear, a brood-hen |
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Chuffie |
fat-faced, portly |
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Chuse |
to choose |
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Cit |
the civet, a citizen, townsman, a merchant |
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Clachan |
a small village about a church, a hamlet; ale-house |
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Claeding |
clothing |
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Claise or claes |
clothes |
одежда |
Claith |
cloth |
ткань |
Claithing |
clothing |
одевать, одежда |
Clamb |
climbed |
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Clankie |
a severe knock |
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Clap, Clapper-claps |
the clapper of a mill; it is now silenced |
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Clap-clack |
clapper of a mill |
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Clartie, Clarty |
dirty, filthy |
грязный |
Clark |
a clerk, clerkly, scholarly |
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Clarkit |
wrote, clerked |
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Clash |
an idle tale; gossip, to tattle, chatter, the story of the day; talk scandal |
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Clatter |
to tell little idle stories, an idle story; noise, tattle, talk, disputation, babble; to make a noise by striking; to babble; to prattle, chatter, gossip |
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Claught (past t. of cleek) |
snatched at, laid hold of, clutched, seized |
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Claughtin |
clutching, grasping |
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Claut |
to clean, to scrape; a clutch, a handful, lump |
чистить, очищать, скоблить |
Clauted |
scraped |
(вы)скоблить |
Claver |
clover |
клевер |
Clavers |
gossip, nonsense, idle talk, chatter |
сплетни, всякий вздор |
Clavers and havers |
agreeable nonsense, to talk foolishly |
чепуха, бессмыслица, говорить глупость |
Claw (past t. clew) |
to scratch, a blow, to strike |
царапать, ударять |
Clay-cauld |
clay-cold |
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Claymore |
a two-handed Highland sword |
старинный шотландский меч, палаш |
Clean |
comely, shapely; empty; utterly |
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clear |
quite tree |
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Cleckin |
a brood |
выводок |
Cleed |
to clothe |
одевать |
Cleek |
hook, snatch |
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Cleekit |
linked arms, clutch, lay hold of, pilfer; link arms in the dance |
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Cleekin |
a brood of chickens, or ducks |
выводок цыплят или уток |
Cleeks |
cramp in horses, which hooks up their hind legs |
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Cleg, Clegs |
gadfly, the gad flies |
оводы |
Clew |
past t. of claw |
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Clink |
a sharp stroke; money, coin, to chink, to rhyme, cash; jingle (of verse), ring; sit down smartly |
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Clinker |
lively rogue |
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Clinkin |
“clinking down,” sitting down hastily; with a smart motion |
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Clinkum, Clinkumbell |
the church bell; he who rings it, the bellman; a sort of beadle |
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Clips |
wool-shears, clippers |
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Clishmaclaver, Clish-ma-claver |
idle conversation, wordy discourse, gossip, taletelling; non-sense |
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Clock |
to hatch, a beetle |
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Clockin, Clockin-time |
hatching, clucking- (i. e., hatching-) time |
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Cloot |
the hoof of a cow, sheep, &c |
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Clootie, Clooty, cloots (i. e. cloven-footed, hoofie, hoofs) |
a familiar name for the devil |
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Close |
constant, unrelieved |
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Clour |
a bump, or swelling, after a blow |
опухоль после удара, шишка |
Clout |
a cloth, a patch |
лоскут, заплата |
Cloutin |
repairing with cloth |
ремонт одежды |
Clud, Cluds |
a cloud, clouds |
облако, облака |
Clunk |
the sound in setting down an empty bottle, to make a hollow sound, gurgle |
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Coatie |
petticoat, skirt |
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Coaxin |
wheedling |
|
Coble |
a fishing-boat, a broad and flat boat |
рыболовецкая лодка, широкая плоскодонка |
Cock |
the mark (in curling) |
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Cockie |
diminutive of cock (applied to an old man) |
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Cocks |
fellows, good fellows, chap |
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Cod |
a pillow |
подушка |
Coff (past t. coft) |
buy |
покупать |
Coft |
bought |
купить |
Cog |
a wooden dish, a wooden drinking vessel, a porridge dish, a corn measure for horses |
деревянное блюдо |
Coggie |
diminutive of cog, a little dish, wooden vessel for drinking liquor; womb |
небольшое деревянное блюдо, сосуд |
Coil, Kyle, Coila from Kyle |
a district in Ayrshire, so called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish monarch |
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Collie |
a general, and sometimes a particular name for country curs |
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Collieshangie, Collie-shangie |
a squabble, a quarrel among dogs, an Irish row, dispute, discord, strife |
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Command |
commandment |
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compleenin |
complaining |
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Convoyed |
accompanied lovingly |
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Cood |
the cud |
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Coof, v. cuif |
a blockhead, a ninny, fool, clown; lout |
тупица, болван, дуралей, простофиля; хам |
Cookit |
appeared and disappeared by fits, hid |
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Cool’d in her linens |
cool’d in her death-shift |
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Coor |
cover, protect |
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Cooser |
a stallion, a courser; lecher |
жеребец; развратник |
Coost (i. e., cast) |
did cast, looped, threw off, tossed, chucked |
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Coot |
the ankle, a species of water-fowl |
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Cootie |
a wooden dish, a small pail, rough-legged, leg-plumed |
деревянное блюдо, небольшое ведро |
Coran |
cringing, timid |
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Corbies |
blood crows, ravens |
вороньё |
Core |
corps, party, clan, band of dancers |
партия, клан |
Corn mou |
corn heap, stack, pile of corn |
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Corn’t |
fed with oats, corn |
накормить овсом, зерном |
Corse |
corpse |
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Corss |
cross |
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cot(-house) |
cottage; cot-folk-cottagers |
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cotter(-man) |
farm-tenant, cottager |
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Cou'dna, couldna |
couldn't, could not |
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Countra, kintra, koontrie |
country, rustic |
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Couthie, couthy |
loving, affable, cosy, comfortable |
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Cotter |
the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage |
житель домика или коттеджа |
Coup, cowp |
to capsize, upset, overbalance |
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Cour, cow'r |
lower, fold |
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Court-day |
rent-day |
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Couthie, couthy |
kind, loving |
добрый, любящий |
Cove |
a cave |
пещера |
Cowe |
to terrify, to keep under, to lop, to scare, to daunt, scold, humiliate |
устрашать, держать в подчинении, запугивать |
Cowp, Coup |
to barter, to tumble over, to capsize, upset, overbalance |
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Cowp the cran |
to tumble a full bucket or basket |
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Cowpit |
tumbled |
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Cowrin |
cowering |
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Cowt, cowte |
a colt, awkward fellow |
жеребёнок, новичок, неуклюжий паренёк |
Cosie, cozie |
snug, comfortable |
уютный |
Crabbet, Crabbit |
crabbed, fretful, ill-natured |
ворчливый, брюзгливый, раздражительный |
Crack |
conversation, to converse, to boast, tale; a chat; talk, to chat, to talk, gossip, story, scandalous tale |
разговор, разговаривать, беседовать, хвастать |
Crackin’ |
cracked, conversing, conversed |
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Craft or croft |
a field near a house, in old husbandry, laud adjoining farm-house |
поле рядом с домом |
Craft-rig |
croft-ridge |
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Craig |
neck, the throat, gullet; a crag |
шея, горло, скала, утес |
Craigie |
diminutive of craig, the throat |
|
Craigy |
craggy |
|
Craik |
the corn-crake, the land-rail |
|
Craiks |
cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail |
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Crambo-clink or crambo-jingle |
rhymes, rhyming, doggerel verses |
стишки, вирши |
Cran |
the support for a pot or kettle, crane, tripod for a pot |
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Crank |
the noise of an ungreased wheel – metaphorically inharmonious verse |
скрип несмазанных колёс; в переносном значении - негармоничное стихотворение |
Crankous |
fretful, captious, awkward |
раздражительный, капризный, придирчивый |
Cranks |
creakings |
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Cranreuch |
the hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale “frost-rhyme” |
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Crap |
a crop, to crop, top, head |
урожай, собирать урожай |
Craw |
a crow of a cock, a rook |
ворон, грач |
craw |
crow |
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crazy |
infirm |
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Creel |
a basket, an osier basket, wicker basket carried on the back |
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to have one’s wits in a creel |
to be crazed, to be fascinated |
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Creepie-chair |
stool of repentance in church |
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Creeshie, Creshie |
greasy, filthy |
сальный, жирный, грязный |
Creuks |
a disease of horses |
болезнь лошадей |
Crocks |
old ewe past bearing |
старая овца |
Cronie |
intimate friend |
близкий друг |
Crood or Croud (Crooded – cooed; Croods – coos) |
to coo as a dove |
ворковать как голубь |
crookit |
crooked, deformed |
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Croon |
a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the low roar of a bull; boom, to hum a tune |
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Crooning |
humming |
жужжание |
Crouchie |
crook-backed, hunchbacked |
горбун |
Croose, Crouse |
cocksure, set, cheerful, courageous, merry cocksure |
самоуверенный, энергичный, отважный, храбрый, смелый |
cross |
across |
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croud |
crowd |
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Crousely |
confidently |
уверенно |
Crously |
cheerfully, courageously |
бодро, смело |
Crowdie |
meal and cold water, meal and milk, porridge, a composition of oatmeal, boiled water and butter; sometimes made from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. &c. |
овсянка, с маслом, иногда сваренная на молоке или на говяжьем или бараньем бульоне и т.д. |
Crowdie time |
breakfast time, porridge-time |
время завтрака |
Crowlin, crawling |
a deformed creeping thing |
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Crummie |
a horned cow |
рогатая корова |
Crummie’s nicks |
marks on the horns of a cow |
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Crummock, Crummet |
a cow with crooked horns |
корова с кривыми рогами |
Crummock driddle |
walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head |
медленно прогуливаться, опираясь на посох, с понурой головой |
Crump |
crisp, hard and brittle (of bread), baked dry |
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Crump-crumpin |
hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow yielding to the foot |
чёрствый и хрустящий (о хлебе); хрустящий под ногами снег |
Crunt |
a blow on the head with a cudgel |
удар по голове дубинкой |
Cuddle |
to clasp and caress, to fondle |
ласкать |
Cuif, coof |
a dolt, a ninny; a dastard |
тупица, болван, дуралей; подлец, трусливый негодяй |
Cummer, kimmer |
gossip; woman, wife; lass, wench |
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Cummock (Crummock) |
a short staff, with a crooked head, a cudgel |
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Curch |
a covering for the head, a kerchief |
покрывало на голову, платок |
Curchie |
curtsy, a curtsey, female obeisance |
реверанс |
Curler |
a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling |
игрок (в кёрлинге) |
Curlie |
curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets |
кудрявый |
Curling |
a well-known game on the ice |
кёрлинг |
Curmurring, murmuring |
a slight rumbling noise, commotion |
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Curpin |
the crupper of a horse, the rump |
круп (лошади), крестец |
Curple |
the rear, the crupper (i. e., buttocks) |
зад |
Cushat |
the dove, or wood-pigeon, the wood pigeon |
голубь, сизый или лесной |
Custock |
the pith of the colewort |
кочерыжка |
Cute |
ankle |
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Cutes |
feet, ankles |
|
Cutty |
short, brief, a spoon broken in the middle |
|
Cutty Stool, Cutty-stools or Creepie Chair |
the seat of shame, stool of repentance |
стульчак; позорный стул в шотландских церквах |
D |
Top - Наверх |
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Dad, Daddie |
a father |
отец |
Daez't |
dazed |
ошеломленный |
Daffin |
merriment, foolishness, larking, fun, fooling, frolic, flirtation |
|
Daft |
merry, giddy, foolish, mad, silly, libertine, wild with excitement |
|
Daft-buckie |
mad fish |
|
dail |
deal, fir or pine-wood plank |
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Dails |
planks |
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Daimen |
rare, now and then |
редко, время от времени |
Daimen icker |
an ear of corn occasionally, an odd ear of corn |
|
Dainty |
pleasant, worthy, good-humored, agreeable, rare |
|
Dam |
pent-up water, urine |
|
Damie |
diminutive of dame |
|
Dandered |
wandered |
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Dang |
past t. of ding |
|
Danton |
v. daunton |
|
Darena |
dare not |
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Darg |
labor, task, a day's work |
|
Darklins |
darkling, without light, in the dark |
темнота, в темноте |
dashing |
cast down |
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date |
season, time of life |
|
Daud |
to thrash, to abuse, a large piece, to pelt |
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Daudin-showers |
rain urged by wind |
|
Daunder |
saunter |
прогуливаться |
Daunton |
to daunt, subdue, discourage, cast down |
запугивать |
Daur |
to dare |
|
Daurg or Daurk |
a day’s labour |
|
daurna |
dare not |
|
Daurt, Daur't |
dared |
|
Daut, dawt, dawte |
to fondle, caress |
|
Daviely |
spiritless |
|
Davoc |
diminutive of Davie, as Davie is of David |
|
Daw, dawin |
to dawn |
рассвет |
Dawd |
a large piece, lump, hunk |
|
Dawin |
dawning of the day |
рассвет |
Dawt, Dawte, Daut |
to fondle, caress |
|
Dawtingly |
prettily, caressingly |
мило, ласково |
Dawtit, dawtet |
fondled, caressed |
ласкать |
Dead |
death |
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Dead-sweer |
extremely reluctant |
отчаянно сопротивляющийся |
deal about |
divide, distribute |
|
Dearies |
diminutive of dears, sweethearts |
уменьшит. от дорогие, возлюбленные |
Dearthfu’ |
dear, expensive |
дорогой |
Deave |
to deafen |
оглушать |
Deil, Deevil, De'il, Diel |
devil |
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de'il a (ane) |
not a (one), no one at all (expressing strong negation) |
|
Deil-haet |
nothing (Devil have it), damn all |
|
Deil-ma-care |
Devil may care, no matter for all that |
|
de'il-mak-matter |
no matter |
|
Deleerit |
delirious, mad |
в бреду, бредовый, безумный, исступленный |
delver |
gardener, labourer |
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Delvin |
digging |
|
den |
dean, dingle |
лощина, долина |
Dern'd |
hid |
|
Descrive |
to describe, to perceive |
описывать, осознавать, постигать |
Deuk, Deuks |
duck, ducks |
утка, утки |
Devel |
a stunning blow |
ошеломляющий удар |
dibble |
pointed stick for planting seedlings |
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Diddle |
to move quickly, jig, move jerkily |
быстро двигаться, толчками |
Diel |
devil |
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Dight |
to wipe, to clean corn from chaff, winnowed, sifted, make ready, rub down |
молотить, очищать зерно от мякины, веять, просеивать |
dimpl't |
dimpled |
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Din |
dun, muddy of complexion, dark, dingy |
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dine |
dinner-time |
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Ding (past t. dang, p.p. dung) |
to worst, to push, to surpass, to beat, overcome, to excel |
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Dink |
neat, lady-like, trim |
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Dink—trim |
finely dressed |
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Dinna |
do not |
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dint |
occassion, chance |
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Dirl |
a slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion, to vibrate, to ring, shake, rattle, play vigorously, with a clatter |
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Distain |
stain |
пятно |
Diz'n, Dizzen |
a dozen; dozen 'cuts' of yarn, the standard of a day's spinning |
дюжина |
do |
put up with |
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Dochter |
daughter |
дочь |
Doit |
act foolishly, blunder |
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Doited |
stupefied, silly from age, muddled, doting; stupid, bewildered |
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Dolt |
stupefied, crazed; also a fool |
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Donsie |
unlucky, affectedly neat and trim, pettish, vicious, bad-tempered, hapless, ill-tempered, unmanageable; restive; testy |
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Doodle, |
to dandle |
качать (ребёнка) на руках или на коленях |
Dool |
sorrow, misery, to lament, to mourn; wo |
сожалеть, горевать, сокрушаться, оплакивать; тпру! |
Doolfu' |
doleful, woful |
жалобный, скорбный, горестный |
Doos |
doves, pigeons |
голуби |
Dorty |
saucy, nice; pettish; supercilious, haughty |
дерзкий, живой, бойкий, милый; обидчивый |
Doubt |
fear, think, suspect |
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Douce, do use |
sedate, prudent, kindly |
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Doucely |
decorously |
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Doudle |
dandle |
качать (ребёнка) на руках или на коленях, ласкать, баловать |
Doudl'd |
dandled |
качать (ребёнка) на руках или на коленях, ласкать, баловать |
Doucely, dousely |
soberly, prudently, sedately |
трезво, благоразумно, степенно |
Dought (pret. of dow) |
was or were able, could |
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Douk |
duck, dip |
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Douked |
ducked |
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Douna, downa |
cannot |
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Doup |
backside, the bottom, buttocks |
задний, низ, нижний, зад, ягодица |
Doup-skelper |
one that strikes the tail, bottom-smacker, lecher |
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Dour, doure, dowr, dowre |
stubborn, obstinate; cutting, harsh, severe |
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Dour and din |
sullen and sallow |
мрачный, угрюмый и болезненный |
Douse or douce |
sober, wise, prudent |
рассудительный, здравомыслящий, мудрый, предусмотрительный, благоразумный |
Douser |
more prudent |
более предусмотрительный, благоразумный |
Dow, dowe |
(past t. docht) am or are able, can, dare; a dove, pigeon |
мочь, быть в состоянии сделать что-л.; голубь |
Dowf, Dowff |
pithless, wanting force, dull |
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Dowie |
drooping, mournful, sad, dismal, melancholy, dejected, worn with grief, fatigue, &c., half asleep |
печальный, мрачный, траурный, изможденный от горя, усталый, и т.д., полусонный |
Dowilie |
drooping |
прич. от глаг. унывать, падать духом, увядать, изнемогать |
Downa |
am or are not able, cannot |
не смочь, не в состоянии сделать что-либо |
Downa-do |
can not do, lack of power |
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down-brae |
downhill |
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dowr, dowre, dour, doure |
stubborn, obstinate; cutting, harsh, severe |
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doxy |
beggar's wench |
подруга нищего |
Doylt |
wearied, exhausted; stupid, stupefied |
утомленный, истощенный, изнуренный, измученный, обессиленный; оцепенелый, отупелый, одурманенный |
Doytin |
doddering |
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Doytl |
dazed, muddled, stupid |
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Dozen, dozin |
stupified, the effects of age, to doze, to benumb, impotent |
немощный от старости, дряблый, парализованный, бессильный |
Dozen'd, Dozin |
torpid |
вялый, апатичный |
Drab |
a young female beggar; to spot, to stain |
молодой нищий, попрошайка; пятно |
Draigl't |
draggled |
испачканный |
Drant, drunt |
prosing, sulks |
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Drap |
a drop, to drop |
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Drapie |
a little liquor |
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Drapping |
dropping |
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Draunting |
drawling, tedious, speaking with a sectarian tone |
говорить протяжно, растягивать слова как на проповеди |
drave on |
drove on |
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Dree |
endure, suffer, put up with |
переносить, страдать |
Dreep |
to ooze, to drop |
сочиться, капать |
Dreeping |
driping (with gravy) |
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Dreigh, driegh, v. dreight |
tedious, slow, long about it, lingering, dull |
скучный, медлительный |
Dribble |
drizzling, trickling, drizzle |
моросить, накрапывать |
Driddle |
the motion of one who tries to dance but moves the middle only, to toddle, dawdle, saunter |
движения того, кто пытается станцевать, но только неумело двигается, ковылять |
Drift |
a drove, a flight of fowls, flock, herd; falling snow, snow moved by the wind, driven by the wind |
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drink (past t. drank) |
taste |
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Droddum |
the breech, backside |
зад |
Dress your droddum |
thrash you |
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Drone |
part of a bagpipe, the chanter; monotonous humming |
трубка волынки; монотонное гудение |
Droop rumpl’t |
that droops at the crupper, short-rumped; with drooping haunches |
подхвостник (часть сбруи); "отвислый зад" |
Drouk |
to wet, to drench |
мокнуть, промокать |
Droukit |
wet, wetted |
мокрый |
Drouth, Drouthy |
thirst, thirsty, drought |
жажда, засуха |
Drucken, Druken |
drunken, tipsy |
пьяный, подвыпивший |
Drumlie, Drumly |
muddy, turbid, cloudy, gloomy, thick-skulled |
грязный, мутный, неясный, мрачный, пустоголовый, тупоголовый |
Drummock or Drammock |
raw meal and water mixed |
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Drunt |
pet, sour humour, the huff |
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Dry |
thirsty |
пересохший, иссохший, томимый жаждой |
Dub |
a small pond, a hollow filled with rain water, puddle, slush, stagnant pool, mud, mire |
маленький пруд, яма наполненная дождевой водой, лужа |
Duds |
rags, clothes |
тряпьё, одежда |
Duddie |
ragged, tattered |
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Duddies |
diminutive of duds, rags, duds—clothes |
тряпки, тряпьё |
Due |
fittingly; readily |
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Dung - dang |
worsted, pushed, stricken |
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dung in |
beaten into |
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Dunt |
dull knock, blow |
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Dunted |
throbbed, beaten |
избитый |
Dunts |
blows |
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Durk |
dirk |
кинжал |
Dush - dunsh |
to push, or butt as a ram |
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Dusht |
overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly, pushed or thrown down violently |
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dwall |
dwell |
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Dwalling |
dwelling |
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Dwalt |
dwelt |
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Dyke |
a fence (of stone or turf), a wall, low dry-stone wall |
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Dyvor |
bankrupt, or about to become one |
банкрот или почти разорившийся |
E |
Top - Наверх |
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Ear' |
early |
рано, ранний |
Earn |
eagle |
орел |
Eastlin |
eastern |
восточный |
E’e |
the eye |
глаз |
Een, ein |
the eyes, the evening |
глаза; вечер |
E'en |
even, just, the evening |
даже, вечер |
E'er |
ever |
когда-либо |
Eebree, E'ebrie |
the eyebrow |
бровь |
Eenin’, E'enin' |
the evening |
вечер |
Eerie, irie |
apprehensive; inspiring ghostly fear, frighted, haunted, dreading spirits |
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Eild |
old age, eld |
старость, стареть |
Eith |
easy |
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Eke |
also |
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Elbuck |
the elbow |
локоть |
Eldritch |
ghastly, frightful, fearsome, elvish, unearthly, uncanny, haunted |
жуткий, ужасный, страшный, волшебный, неземной, сверхъестественный, посещаемый духами, заколдованный |
Elekit |
elected |
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Elf |
dwarf, bewitching girl |
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Ell (Scots) |
thirty-seven inches |
Старинная единица длины; в шотландском эле около 37 дюймов |
Eller |
elder |
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Embro', Enbrugh |
Edinburgh |
Эдинбург |
En’ |
end |
конец |
Eneuch, Eneugh and aneuch |
enough |
достаточный |
Enfauld |
infold |
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Enow |
enough |
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Erse |
Highland, Gaelic |
гэльский |
Especial |
especially |
особенно |
Ether-stone |
stone formed by adders, an adder bead |
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Ettle |
to try, attempt, aim |
пытаться, попытка, цель |
Evermair |
evermore |
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Ev'n down |
downright, positive, sheer |
честный, прямой, откровенный, ясный |
expeckit |
expected |
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Eydent |
diligent, assiduous |
прилежный |
F |
Top - Наверх |
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Fa’ |
fall, lot, to fall, fate, fortune, portion, to get; suit; claim, lay claim to, befall; win, obtain |
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Fa’ that |
to enjoy, to try, to inherit |
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Factor |
steward, agent of an estate |
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Faddom’t |
fathomed, measured with the extended arms |
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Fae, Faes |
foe, foes |
противник, враг |
Faem |
foam of the sea |
морская пена |
Faiket |
forgiven or excused, abated, a demand, let off |
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Fain |
fond, glad, content |
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fain o' ither |
fond of each other |
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Fainness |
gladness, fondness, overcome with joy |
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Fair |
easy |
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Fairly |
clearly, indeed |
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Fair fa' |
good befall! welcome |
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Fairin, Fairin’ |
fairing, a present brought from a fair |
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give (get, take) a fairin |
reward, deserts, punishment |
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Fairy |
dwarfish |
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Fallow |
fellow, chap |
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Famous |
grand, fine |
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fank |
catch |
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Fa'n |
fallen |
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Fand |
did find, found |
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Far-aff |
far-off |
дальний, далёкий, отдалённый |
Farl |
a cake of bread, oat-cake; third part of a cake; quarter of the circular oatmeal cake |
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Fash |
bother, trouble, worry, care, to trouble, to care for, annoyance |
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Fash'd, fash't |
bothered; irked |
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Fasheous, Fashious |
troublesome |
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Fasht |
troubled |
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Fasten e’en, Fasten-e'en |
Fasten’s even (the evening before Lent) |
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Faught |
fight |
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Faugh |
a single furrow, out of lea, fallow |
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Fauld and Fald |
a fold for sheep, to fold, the sheep-fold, folded |
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Faulding |
sheep-folding |
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Faun |
fallen |
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Fause |
false |
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Fause-house |
hole in a cornstack |
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Faut, Faute, fau't |
fault, failing |
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Fauteor |
wrong-doer |
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Fautor |
transgressor |
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Fausont, Fawsont |
decent, seemly, well-doing, respectable, seemly; good-looking |
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Feal |
loyal, steadfast |
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fear |
frighten, scare |
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Fearfu’ |
fearful, frightful |
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Fear’t |
affrighted |
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Feat |
neat, trim, spruce, clever |
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Febarwar |
February |
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Fecht (past t. faught) |
to fight |
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Fechtin’ |
fighting |
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Feck |
the bulk, the most part, value, return |
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the feck |
the majority, most |
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Feck and fek |
number, quantity |
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Fecket |
an under-waistcoat, waistcoat; sleeve waistcoat (used by farm-servants as both vest and jacket) |
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Feckfu’ |
large, brawny, stout |
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Feckless |
puny, weak, silly, pithless, feeble |
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Feckly |
mostly, for the most part, almost |
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fee |
hire (as a servant); servant's (half-yearly) wages |
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Feg |
a fig |
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Fegs |
(an exclamation) faith, indeed, truly, faith! |
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Feide |
feud, enmity |
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Feint |
v. fient |
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Feirrie |
lusty, sturdy |
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Fell |
keen, potent, harsh, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin, the cuticle under the skin; level moor, cruel, dreadful, deadly; pungent |
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Felly |
relentless |
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Fen, Fen',Fend |
a shift, to make a shift, contrive to live, to look after; to care for; keep off, support |
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how do ye fen |
how do you do |
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Fenceless |
defenseless |
беззащитный |
Ferlie, ferly or ferley |
to wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt; to marvel |
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Fetch |
draw breath painfully, gasp, to pull by fits |
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Fetches |
catches, gurgles |
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Fetch’t |
pull’d intermittently, stopped suddenly |
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Fey |
strange; one marked for death, fated to death, doomed, predestined |
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Fidge |
to fidget, fidgeting, to wriggle, shrug, twitch, frisk |
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Fidge fu'fain |
twitch with excitement |
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Fidgin-fain |
tickled with pleasure, tingling-wild |
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Fiel |
well |
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Fient, Fint |
fiend, a petty oath, devil |
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Fient a |
not a, devil a |
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Fient haet |
nothing (fiend have it) |
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Fient haet o' |
not one of |
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Fient-ma-care, Fien ma care |
the fiend may care (I don't!), the devil may care |
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Fier, fiere |
sound, healthy, active; a brother, a friend, companion, hearty |
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Fierrie |
bustle, activity |
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Fin' (past t. fand) |
to find |
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fiscal |
procurator fiscal, attorney |
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Fissle |
to make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss, tingle, fidget with delight |
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Fit, fitt |
foot, step |
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Fittie-lan, Fittie-lan' |
the nearer horse of the hindmost pair in the plough |
Левая задняя лошадь в упряжке, тянувшей четырехконный плуг. Левая пара шла по целине (lan'=land), правая по пахоте (furrow) |
Fizz |
to make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance |
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Flae |
a flea |
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Flaff |
flap, flutter |
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Flaffen, Flaffin |
the motion of rags in the wind; of wings, flapping |
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Flainen, Flainin, flannen |
flannel |
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Flandrekins |
foreign generals, soldiers of Flanders |
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Flang |
threw with violence, flung |
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Flee |
to fly |
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fleet-wing |
fly swiftly |
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Fleech |
to supplicate in a flattering manner, wheedle, coax, flatter |
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Fleechin |
supplicating |
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Fleesh |
a fleece |
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Fleg |
a kick, a random blow, a fight, scare, jerk |
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Flether |
to decoy by fair words |
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Fleth'rin, Flethrin, flethers |
flattering — smooth wheedling words |
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Flewit |
a sharp lash |
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Fley |
to scare, to frighten, terrify |
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Flichter, Flichterin, flichtering |
to flutter as young nestlings do when their dam approaches, fluttering |
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flie |
fly; something of no value |
|
Flinders |
shreds, broken pieces |
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Fling (past t. flang) |
throw, kick, caper |
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Flinging |
kicking out in dancing; capering |
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Flingin-tree |
a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable; a flail |
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Flisk, flisky |
to fret at the yoke |
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Flisket, Fliskit |
fretted, capered |
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Flit |
to shift, move, go, depart |
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Flitter |
to vibrate like the wings of small birds |
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Flittering |
fluttering, vibrating, moving tremulously from place to place |
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Flunkie |
a servant in livery |
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Flyte, flyting |
scold: flyting, scolding |
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Fock, focks |
folk |
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Fodgel |
dumpy, plump and good-looking |
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Foggage |
rank grass |
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Foor (past t. of fare) |
hastened, fared (i. e., went); travelled |
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Foord |
a ford |
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Foorsday |
Thursday |
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For |
of |
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Forbears, forebears |
forefathers |
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Forby, Forbye, forebye |
besides, as well as |
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Forfairn |
distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute, undone |
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Forfoughten |
exhausted |
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Forgather |
to meet, to encounter with, to meet with, assemble, congregate |
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Forgather up with |
keep company with |
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Forgie |
to forgive |
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Forinawed |
worn out |
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Forjesket |
jaded with fatigue |
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Forrit |
forward |
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Fother |
fodder |
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Fou, Fow, Fou’ |
full, drunk; very, quite |
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Foughten, forfoughten |
troubled, fatigued, harassed, worn out |
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Foul-thief |
the devil, the arch-fiend |
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Foumart |
a polecat |
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Foursome |
a quartet |
|
Fouth |
plenty, enough, or more than enough, fulness, abundance |
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Fow |
a measure, a bushel; also a pitchfork; (also see Fou) |
Старинная мера кормов Шотландии |
Frae |
from |
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Frank |
generous, lavish |
|
Freak |
odd notion, fancy |
|
Freath |
froth, the frothing of ale in the tankard, foam |
пивная пена |
Free |
clear, leap over |
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Fremit |
estranged, hostile, strange, aloof, cold |
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Frien’ (pl. Freens) |
friend |
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Frosty-calker |
the heels and front of a horse-shoe, turned sharply up for riding on an icy road |
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Fu’ |
full |
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Fu'-han't |
full-handed |
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Fud |
a short tail (of a rabbit or hare), the scut or tail of the hare, coney, &c; backside |
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Fuff |
to blow intermittently |
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Fuff't |
puffed |
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Fu-hant |
full-handed; said of one well to live in the world |
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fun |
boisterous sport |
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funny |
sportive, whimsical, merry |
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Funnie |
full of merriment |
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Fur, furr |
a furrow |
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Fur-ahin |
the hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing, the hindmost plough-horse in the furrow |
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Furder |
further, success, succeed |
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Furm |
a form, a bench, a wooden form |
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Furr |
furrow, ditch |
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Fusion |
fluidity caused by heat |
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Fusionless |
spiritless, without sap or soul, pithless, tasteless |
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Fyke |
trifling cares, to be in a fuss about trifles, fret, to fuss, fidget, commotion |
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Fyte |
to soil, to dirty |
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Fyle |
to defile, to foul |
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Fylt |
soiled, dirtied |
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G |
Top - Наверх |
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ga' |
gall, pustule, sore |
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Gab |
the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly, to talk (readily, eloquently) |
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Gabs |
talk |
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Gaberlunzie |
wallet-man, or tinker |
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Gae (pres. p. gaun; p. p. gaen) |
to go |
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Gae |
gave |
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gaed |
went |
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gaiger, gauger |
gauge |
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gaillies |
well enough |
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gain' |
against |
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gait |
goat |
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gang—go |
depart, walk |
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gangrel |
vagrant, tramp |
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gane or gaen |
gone |
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gaun |
going |
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Gaet or gate |
way, manner, road |
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Gaets |
habits |
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Gairs |
parts of a lady’s gown, gores |
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Gang |
to go, to walk |
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Gangrel |
a wandering person, vagrant |
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Gar |
to make, to cause, to compel, to force to |
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garten |
garter |
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gar’t |
forced to |
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Garcock |
the moorcock |
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Garten |
a garter |
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Gash |
wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse, self-complacent (implying prudence and prosperity); chat volubly, prattle, shrewd, witty, smart |
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Gashing |
talking, gabbing |
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Gat (past t. of get) |
got, begot, conceived |
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Gate |
way-road, manner, road, way, fashion |
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Gatty |
failing in body, enervated |
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Gaucy, Gaucie, Gawsie |
jolly, large, plump |
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Gaud and gad |
a rod or goad, goad for driving cattle in the plough |
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Gaudsman, goadsman |
one who drives the horses at the plough (boy who goads the team) |
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Gauger, gaiger |
gauge |
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Gaun |
Going, Gavin; see gae |
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Gau'n |
gavin |
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Gaunt |
gape, gasp |
|
Gaunted |
yawned, longed, gaped |
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Gausie, gawsy |
ample, fine, showy, plump |
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Gawkie |
a thoughtless person, and something weak |
|
Gawky |
foolish, a foolish woman or lad, stupid, empty-headed |
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Gawsie |
buxom; jolly |
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Gaylies, gylie |
pretty well, rather |
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Gear |
riches, goods of any kind, money, wealth; stuff, gold of any kind |
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Geck |
to sport; to toss the head in wantonness or scorn |
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Ged |
a pike |
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Geek |
toss the head in scorn, scoff (at) |
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Gentles |
great folks, gentry |
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Genty |
elegant, trim and elegant |
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Gently |
dainty, graceful, slender |
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Geordie |
diminutive of George, a guinea, called Geordie from the head of King George |
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Get, Gett |
issue, offspring, breed, brat |
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Get and geat |
a child, a young one |
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Ghaist, ghaistis |
a ghost |
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Gie (past t. gae, gied, pres. p. giein, p.p. gien) |
to give |
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Gied |
gave |
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Gien |
given |
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Gif |
if |
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Gift, Giftie |
power, talent |
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Giglet |
giddy girl |
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Giglets |
laughing maidens, giggling youngsters or maids |
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Gill |
measure of capasity (= 1/4pint) |
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Gillie, gillock |
diminutive of gill (glass of whiskey) |
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Gilpey |
young girl, a half-grown, half-informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoyden |
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Gimmer, gimmer-pet |
an ewe two years old, a young ewe, yearling ewe kept as pet, a contemptuous term for a woman |
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Gimp, jimp |
to jump, slender in the waist, handsome, small, slender |
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Gin |
if, against, should, whether; before, by |
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Gipsey |
a young girl |
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Girdle |
a round iron plate on which oat-cake, bannock is fired, griddle for baking scones |
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Girn |
to grin, snarl, to twist the features in rage, agony, &c.; grinning; gapes; snarls, to twist the face (but from pain or rage, not joy) |
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Giz, Gizz |
wig, a periwig, the face |
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Glaiket, Glaikit |
inattentive, foolish, thoughtless, giddy, careless |
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Glaive |
a sword |
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Glaizie |
glittering, smooth, like glass, glossy, shiny |
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Glaum |
snatch, grab, lay hold of |
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Glaum'd, Glaumed |
grasped, snatched at eagerly |
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Girran |
a poutherie girran, a little vigorous animal; a horse rather old, but yet active when heated |
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Gled |
a hawk, a kite |
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Gleede |
a glowing coal |
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Gleesome |
cheerful, merry |
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Gleg |
sharp, quick, lively, ready, nimble, keen-witted, smartly |
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Gley |
a squint, to squint |
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a-gley |
off at the side, wrong |
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Gleyde |
an old horse |
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Glib-gabber |
smooth-tongued |
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Glib-gabbet, Glib-gabbit |
that speaks smoothly and readily, smooth-tongued |
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Glieb |
a portion of land |
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Glieb o’ lan’ |
a portion of ground. The ground belonging to a manse is called “the glieb,” or portion |
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Glimpse |
take (have) a look at |
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Glint, glintin’ |
to peep, sparkle |
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Glinted by |
went brightly past |
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Gloamin |
the twilight, dusk |
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Gloamin-shot |
sunset, twilight musing; a shot in the twilight |
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Glowr, Glow'r |
to stare, to look; a stare, a look, stare wide-eyed, gaze intently; scowl |
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Glowran |
amazed, looking suspiciously, gazing |
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Glum |
displeased |
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Glunch |
frown, growl, look sullen, scowl |
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Goavin |
looking dazedlyl; mooning |
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Goom |
gum |
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Gor-cock |
male of the red grouse |
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Gor-cocks |
the red-game, red-cock, or moor-cock |
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Gossip |
neighbour-woman |
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Gotten |
got |
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Gowan |
the wild, or mountain, daisy, the flower of the daisy, dandelion, hawkweed, &c |
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Gowany |
covered with daisies |
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Goavan |
walking as if blind, or without an aim |
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Gowd |
gold |
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Gowdie |
the head |
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Gowl |
to howl |
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Gowling |
lamenting (as a dog in grief) |
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Gowff, Gowff'd |
a fool; the game of golf, to strike, as the bat does the ball at golf |
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Gowk |
term of contempt, the cuckoo, a dolt, fool |
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Grace-prood |
smugly conscious of divine favour |
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gracious |
friendly, amiable |
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Graff |
a grave, tomb, a vault |
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Grain, grane |
groan |
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Grain'd |
groaned |
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Grane or grain |
a groan, to groan |
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graining |
groaning |
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Graip |
a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses, a dung-fork |
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Graith |
accoutrements, tool, ploughing gear, furniture, dress, implements, gear; attire, habit |
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Graithing |
gearing, vestments |
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Grannie, graunie |
grandmother |
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Grane |
groan |
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Grape |
to grope |
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grapet |
groped |
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Grat, greet |
wept |
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Great, grit |
intimate, familiar |
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Gree |
to agree, the prize (degree), social degree, supremacy |
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to bear the gree |
to be decidedly victor |
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carry the gree |
win first place |
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Green |
yearn |
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Green-graff |
green grave |
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gree’t |
agreed |
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Greet (past t. grat) |
to shed tears, to weep, cry |
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greetin’ |
weeping |
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Grey-neck-quill |
a quill unfit for a pen |
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Griens |
longs, desires |
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Grieves |
stewards |
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Grippit |
seized |
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Grip |
sharp pain |
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Groanin-Maut, Groanin maut |
groaning malt, brewed for a lying-in, drink for the cummers at a lying-in |
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Groat |
to get the whistle of one’s groat; to play a losing game, to feel the consequences of one’s folly; silver coin of small value |
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Groset, Grozet |
a gooseberry |
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Gruesome |
loathsomely, grim |
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Grumble |
begrudge |
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Grumph |
a grunt, to grunt |
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Grumphie, Grumphin |
a sow, the pig; the snorting of an angry pig |
свиноматка; фырканье рассерженной свиньи |
Grun’ |
ground |
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Grunstone, grustane |
a grindstone |
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Gruntle |
the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise, the face, diminutive of grunt |
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Grunzie |
a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig, growing |
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Grushie |
thick, of thriving growth, lusty, strong |
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Grutten |
wept |
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Gude, guid, guide, guids |
substitute for God, God, the Supreme Being, good, goods |
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Gude auld-has-been |
was once excellent |
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Gude-willy |
generous |
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Gude-willie-waught |
cordial drink |
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Guid-mornin’ |
good-morrow |
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Guid-e’en |
good evening |
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Guidfather, Guid-father and guidmother |
father-in-law, and mother-in-law |
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Guid-man |
husband |
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Guidman, guideman, Guid-man and guidwife, guidewife, Guid-wife |
the master and mistress of the house |
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young guidman |
a man newly married |
молодожён |
Guid-willie |
hearty, full of good-will |
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Gully or Gullie |
a large knife |
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Gulravage |
joyous mischief, riotous play |
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Gumlie |
muddy |
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Gumption |
discernment, wisdom, knowledge, common-sense, talent |
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gust |
relish, flavour |
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Gusty, gustfu’ |
tasteful, tasty |
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Gut-scraper |
a fiddler |
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Gutcher |
grandsire, goodsire, grandfather |
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Gutscraper |
fiddler |
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Gutty |
pot-bellied |
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Gyvel |
gable |
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H |
Top - Наверх |
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Ha’ |
hall |
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Ha’ Bible |
the great Bible that lies in the hall |
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Ha' folk |
the servants |
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Ha'd, Haud |
to hold, to keep |
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ha'd aff |
keep away |
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ha'd on |
persist |
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ha'd you |
stay |
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Haddin |
holding, inheritance |
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Haddin’ |
house, home, dwelling-place, a possession |
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Hae |
to have, to accept |
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Haen |
had, (the participle of hae); haven |
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Haerse |
hoarse |
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Hae't, Haet |
have it, a thing |
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fient haet |
a petty oath of negation; nothing |
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devil haet |
damn all, nothing |
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ha'f, haff, hauf |
half |
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Haffet, hauffet |
the temple, the side of the head |
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Haffets |
side-locks |
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Hafflins |
half, nearly half, partly, not fully grown |
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Hafflins-wise, Haflins-wise |
partly, nearly |
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Hag |
a gulf in mosses and moors, moss-ground, a moss, a broken bog |
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Haggis |
a kind of pudding, boiled in the stomach of a cow, or sheep, a special Scots pudding, made of sheep's lungs, liver and heart, onions and oatmeal, boiled in a sheep's stomach |
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hail, hale, heal |
healthy, sound, well; health |
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Hain |
to spare, to save, to lay out at interest |
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Hain’d |
spared, enclosed, kept for hay |
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hain’d gear |
hoarded money |
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hainch |
haunch, hip |
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Hair |
whit, trifle, trace |
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deil a hair, fien'a hair |
not a bit |
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Hairst, har'st |
harvest |
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hairun-scairum |
wild |
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Haith |
petty oath, faith (an oath) |
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Haivers, havers |
nonsense, gossip, speaking without thought |
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Hal’ or hald |
an abiding place, holding, possession, hold, dwelling, refuge |
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Hale, hail, haill or heal |
whole, tight, health, healthy, sound, well |
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Halesome, Healsome |
wholesome |
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Hallan |
a particular partition-wall in a cottage, or more properly a seat of turf at the outside, a partition wall, a porch, outer door, partition to divert the draught |
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Halloween, Hallow-eve |
All Saints' Eve (31st of October) |
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Hallowmas, Hallowmass |
All Saints' Day (1st of November) |
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Haly |
holy; “haly-pool,” holy well with healing properties |
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Hame |
home |
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Hamely |
familiar, plain, friendly |
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Hammered |
the noise of feet like the din of hammers |
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Han', haun |
hand |
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beside our han' |
at our own hand, by, for ourselves |
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han' daurk |
labour of the hands |
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Han’s breed |
hand’s breadth |
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Han-darg |
v. darg |
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Hand-wal'd |
hand-picked (i.e., choicest) |
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Hangie |
hangman (nickname of the Devil) |
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Hanker |
hang about, loiter |
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Hanks |
thread as it comes from the measuring reel, quantities, &c |
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Hansel |
the first gift, new-year or good-luck gift; earnest |
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Hansel-throne |
throne when first occupied by a king |
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Hap |
an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c.; to wrap, to cover, to hap, a wrap, a covering against cold, to shelter, to hop |
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Hap-shackled |
when a fore and hind foot of a ram are fastened together to prevent leaping he is said to be hap-shackled. A wife is called “the kirk’s hap-shackle” |
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Happer |
a hopper, the hopper of a mill |
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Happing |
hopping |
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Hap-step-an’-loup, Hap-step-an'-lowp |
hop, step, and leap, hop-step-and-jump |
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Harigals |
heart, liver, and lights of an animal |
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Hark |
listen |
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Harkit |
hearkened |
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Harn |
very coarse linen, coarse cloth, sackcloth |
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har'sts |
harvest |
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has been |
one past his best |
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Hash |
a fellow who knows not how to act with propriety, an oaf, hack, mangle, waste |
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Haslock woo |
the wool on the neck of a sheep |
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Hastit |
hastened |
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Haud, ha'd |
to hold, to keep |
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Hauf, ha'f |
half |
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Haugh |
fertile land by a river |
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Haughs |
low-lying, rich land, valleys, low-lying rich lands by a river |
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Haun, han' |
hand |
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Haurl |
to drag, to pull violently, to trail |
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Haurlin |
tearing off, pulling roughly |
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Hause |
cuddle, embrace |
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Haver-meal |
oatmeal |
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Haveril, haverel, hav'rel |
a half-witted person, half-witted, simpleton, one who habitually talks in a foolish or incoherent manner or talks nonsense |
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Havers |
nonsense |
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Havins |
good manners, decorum, good sense, manners, conduct, behaviour |
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Hawkie |
a cow, properly one with a white face, a white-faced cow, pet name for a cow |
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Heal, Hale, hail, haill |
whole, tight, health, healthy, sound, well |
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Heapit |
heaped, well-filled |
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Healsome, halesome |
healthful, wholesome |
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Hearse |
hoarse |
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Heather |
heath |
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Hech |
oh strange! an exclamation during heavy work, a sighing exclamation |
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Hecht |
promised, to foretell something that is to be got or given, foretold, the thing foretold, offered; threaten |
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Heckle |
a board in which are fixed a number of sharp steel prongs upright for dressing hemp, a flax-comb, flax, &c |
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Hee balou |
words used to soothe a child |
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Heels-o'er-gowdie |
v. gowdie |
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Heels-owre-gowdie |
topsy-turvy, turned the bottom upwards |
|
Heeze |
to elevate, to hoist, to rise, to lift, exalt |
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Heich, heigh |
high |
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held (awa, to) |
took my way |
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Hellim |
the rudder or helm |
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Hem-shin'd |
crooked-shin'd |
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hen |
a term of endearment for a girl |
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Herd |
to tend flocks, one who tends flocks, a herd-boy |
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Here awa |
hereabout; hither (and thither) |
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Herrin’ |
a herring |
|
Herry |
to plunder; most properly to plunder birds’ nests, to harry |
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Herryment |
plundering, devastation, spoliation |
|
Hersel |
herself |
|
Hersel-hirsel |
a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort |
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Het |
hot, heated, burning, excited |
|
Heugh |
a crag, a ravine, a hollow or pit; a steep bank |
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coal-heugh |
a coal-pit |
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lowin heugh |
a blazing pit |
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Heuk |
a hook, sickle |
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Hich, hie |
high |
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Hilch, hilchin’ |
to halt, halting, to hobble, lurch, limp |
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Hiltie-skiltie |
helter-skelter |
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Himsel |
himself |
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Hindmost |
last, final |
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Hiney, hinnie, hinny |
honey; sweetheart, sweet |
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Hing (past t. hang) |
to hang |
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Hirple |
to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep, to move unevenly; to limp, hobble |
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Hissels |
flock of sheep; so many cattle as one person can attend (R. B.) |
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Histie |
dry, chapt, barren, bare, stony |
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Hitcht |
a loop, made a knot |
|
Hizzie, huzzy |
a young girl, a hussy, a wench, whore |
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Hoast, Host |
cough |
|
Hoddan |
jogging along |
|
Hoddin |
coarse grey homespun cloth; the motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse, humble; the motion of a sage countryman riding on a cart-horse (R. B.) |
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Hoddin-gray, Hoddin-grey |
woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones, coarse gray woolen |
|
Hoggie |
a two-year-old sheep, diminutive of hog; a lamb |
|
Hog-score |
a distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of “A hog, a hog!” and it is removed |
|
Hog-shouther |
a kind of horse-play by jostling with the shoulder; to jostle |
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Holland |
holland cloth, fine linen |
|
hollow |
halloo |
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Hoodie-craw |
a blood crow, corbie, the hooded crow, the carrion crow |
|
Hoodock |
grasping, vulturish |
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Hooked |
caught |
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Hool |
outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk, the sheath |
|
Hoolie |
slowly, leisurely, softly, gently |
|
Hoord |
a hoard, to hoard |
|
Hoordet, Hoordit |
hoarded |
|
Horn |
a spoon made of horn, a horn spoon; a comb of horn |
|
Hornie |
the (horned) Devil, one of the many names of the devil |
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Host or hoast |
to cough |
|
Hostin |
coughing |
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Hotch |
hitch, jerk about |
|
Hotch’d |
turned topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved, jerked |
|
Hough |
disable, by cutting the tendons of the hough |
|
Houghmagandie |
loose behaviour, fornication |
|
Houlet, Howlet |
an owl |
|
Houpe |
hope |
|
Housie |
diminutive of house |
|
Hove, hoved |
to heave, to swell, rise, make swell, distend |
|
Howck |
dig, delve |
|
Howdie, howdy |
a midwife |
|
Howe |
hollow, deep, a hollow or dell, hollow valley, glen |
|
Howebackit |
sunk in the back, spoken of a horse |
|
Howff |
a house of resort |
|
Howk |
to dig |
|
Howkit |
digged |
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Howkin’ |
digging deep |
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Howlet, Houlet |
the owl |
|
Hoy, hoy’t |
to urge, urged (R. B.) |
|
Hoyse |
a pull upwards, a hoist. “Hoyse a creel,” to raise a basket; hence “hoisting creels” |
|
Hoyte |
move clumsily, waddle, to amble crazily (R. B.) |
|
Huff |
scold |
|
Hughoc |
diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is diminutive of Hugh |
|
Hullions |
slovens |
|
Hum |
1) hoax, take in, humbug; 2) mumble |
|
Hums and hankers |
mumbles and seeks to do what he cannot perform |
|
Hunder |
a hundred |
|
Hunkers |
hams, haunches, kneeling and falling back on the hams |
|
Hurcheon, hurchin |
a hedgehog |
|
Hurchin |
urchin |
|
Hurdies |
the loins, the crupper (R. B.) (i. e., the buttocks, backside) |
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Hurl |
to trundle |
|
Hushion |
a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot, a footless stocking |
|
Huchyalled |
to move with a hilch |
|
Hyte |
furious |
|
hyvie |
well-off |
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I |
Top - Наверх |
|
I' |
in |
|
i' |
in, into |
|
Icker |
an ear of corn |
|
Ieroe, Ier-oe |
a great-grandchild |
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Ilk or ilka |
each, every |
|
ill |
evil |
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Ill-deedie |
mischievous |
|
Ill o't |
bad at it |
|
ill-tach |
ill-taken, resented |
|
Ill-taen |
ill-taken |
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Ill-thief |
the Devil |
|
Ill-willie |
ill-natured, malicious, niggardly, ill-disposed, ungenerous |
|
in during |
during |
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in to |
within, to |
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Indentin |
indenturing, pledging, engaging |
|
Ingine |
genius, ingenuity, talent; wit |
|
Ingle |
fire, fire-place, the fireside, fire burning on a hearth |
|
Ingle-cheek |
fireside (properly the jamb of the fireplace) |
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Ingle-low, Ingle-lowe |
fire-light, light from the fire, flame from the hearth, flame of the fire |
|
I rede ye |
I advise ye, I warn ye |
|
I’se |
I shall or I will |
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Itsel' |
itself |
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Ither |
other, one another, another, further, otherwise else |
|
J |
Top - Наверх |
|
jacket |
coat of mail |
|
Jad |
jade; also a familiar term among country folks for a giddy young girl, mare, wench, hussy |
|
Janwar, Januar, Janwar' |
January |
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Jauk |
to dally, to trifle, waste time |
|
Jaukin’, jaukin |
trifling, dallying, delay |
|
Jauner |
talking, and not always to the purpose, gabber, idle chatter |
|
Jauntie |
diminutive of jaunt, journey |
|
Jaup |
a jerk of water; to jerk, as agitated water, splash |
|
Jaw |
coarse raillery, to pour out, to shut, to jerk as water, talk, impudence, to throw, to dash |
|
Jeeg |
to jog |
|
Jillet |
a jilt, giddy wench, a giddy girl |
|
Jimp, gimp |
to jump, slender in the waist, handsome, small, slender, graceful, neat |
|
Jimply |
neatly |
|
Jimps |
stays, skirts |
|
Jink |
to dodge, dart, slip aside, to turn a corner; a sudden turning, a corner, the slip, to frisk, to sport |
|
Jink an’ diddle |
moving to music, motion of a fiddler’s elbow. Starting here and there with a tremulous movement |
|
Jinker |
that turns quickly, a gay sprightly girl; dodger (coquette); a jinker noble; a noble goer |
|
Jinkin’ |
dodging, the quick motion of the bow on the fiddle |
|
Jirkinet |
bodice |
свитер в обтяжку |
Jirt |
a jerk, the emission of water, to squirt |
|
Jiz |
a wig |
|
Jo, joe |
a sweetheart, dear |
|
job |
intrigue |
|
Jocteleg |
a kind of knife, a clasp-knife |
|
Jorum |
drinking-vessel, punch-bowl |
|
Jouk |
to stoop, to bow the head, to conceal, to duck, to cover, to dodge |
|
Jow, to jow |
a verb, which includes both the swinging motion and pealing sound of a large bell (R. B.); also the undulation of water; toll |
|
Jowler |
heavy-jawed dog |
|
Jundie |
to jostle, a push with the elbow |
|
Jumpet, jumpit |
jumped |
|
Jurr |
a servant wench |
|
K |
Top - Наверх |
|
Kae |
a daw, a jackdaw |
|
Kail, kale |
colewort, cabbage, a kind of Scots' broth, borecole, green kale |
|
Kail-blade |
the leaf of the colewort |
|
Kail-gullie |
a cabbage knife |
|
Kailrunt, Kail-runt |
the stem of the colewort, stalk stripped of leaves |
|
Kail-whittle |
a cabbage knife |
|
Kail-yard |
a kitchen garden |
|
Kain, kane |
fowls, &c., paid as rent by a farmer, rents in kind |
|
Kane |
payment in kind |
|
Kame |
a comb |
|
Kebar |
long pine pole, rafter |
|
Kebars |
rafters |
|
Kebbuck |
a cheese, home-made cheese |
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a kebbuck heel |
the last crust of a cheese, the hard end of a cheese |
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Keckle |
joyous cry; to cackle as a hen, to cackle, to giggle |
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Keek |
a peer, to peep, look, glance |
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Keekin-glass |
the looking-glass |
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Keel |
red chalk |
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Kelpies |
river demons; a sort of mischievous water-spirit, said to haunt fords and ferries at night, especially in storms |
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Ken |
to know, learn, be acquainted with, recognize |
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Kenna |
know not |
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ken’d or ken’t |
knew |
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Kennin |
a small matter, a very little (merely as much as can be perceived), trifle |
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Kep |
to catch, keep |
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Ket, Ketty |
matted, hairy fleece of wool, the fleece on a sheep's body |
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Key |
quay |
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Kiaught |
carking, anxiety, to be in a flutter |
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Kilt |
to truss up the clothes, to tuck up |
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Kimmer, cummer |
a young girl, a gossip, a wench, a wife |
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Kin', kind |
nature, disposition |
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Kin’ |
kindred |
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Kin’ |
kind, kindly, agreeable |
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Kindly |
affectionate, loving |
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King’s-hood |
a certain part of the entrails of an ox, the 2d stomach in a ruminant (equivocal for the scrotum), paunch |
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Kintra, kintrie, koontrie, countra |
country |
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Kirk, kirn |
church |
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Kirk-hammer |
clapper of church bell |
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Kirn |
the harvest supper, merrymaking at the end of harvest, a churn, harvest home; church |
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Kirsen, kirs'n |
to christen, to baptize |
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Kist |
a shop-counter, chest, counter, coffer |
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Kitchen |
anything that eats with bread, to serve for soup, gravy, to relish, season, give relish to |
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Kittle |
to tickle, ticklish, difficult, delicate, fickle, excite, rouse, likely, difficult, tricky, dangerous, hard to resist |
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Kittlin, kittlin' |
kitten |
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Kittling |
a young cat. The ace of diamonds is called among rustics the kittlin’s e’e |
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Kiutlin |
cuddling |
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Knagg |
knot, spur |
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Knaggie |
like knags, or points of rocks, knobby, bony |
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Knappin-hammer |
a hammer for breaking stones |
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Knap |
to strike or break |
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Knoit |
knock |
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Knurl, Knurlin |
crooked but strong, knotty, dwarf |
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Knowe |
a small, round hillock, a knoll, mound |
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Kuittle |
to cuddle |
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kuitlin |
cuddling, fondling |
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Kye |
cows, cattle |
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Kyle |
a district in Ayrshire |
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kyles |
skittles |
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Kyte, Kytes |
the belly, bellies |
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Kythe |
to discover, to show one’s self, to show |
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L |
Top - Наверх |
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Labour |
thrash, belabour |
|
Lade |
a load |
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Laddie |
diminutive of lad |
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lae |
lie down (to, with) |
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laft |
loft |
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Lag |
backward, laggard |
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Laggen |
the angle between the side and the bottom of a wooden dish |
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laid upon (past t. lay upon) |
assailed |
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Laigh |
low |
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Laik, lake |
lack |
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Lair |
lore, learning, bed, grave |
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Laird |
landowner, landed proprietor, squire |
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Lairing, lairie |
wading, and sinking in snow, mud &c., miry, sticking or sinking in moss or mud |
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Laith |
loath, reluctant, impure |
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Laithfu‘ |
bashful, loathful, sheepish, abstemious |
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Lake, Laik |
lack |
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Lallan, Lalland |
lowland |
|
Lallans |
Scottish dialect, Scots Lowland vernacular, Lowlands |
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Lambie, Lammie |
diminutive of lamb |
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Lammas moon |
harvest-moon |
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Lampit |
kind of shell-fish, a limpet |
|
Lan‘ |
land, estate, country; untilled soil |
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Lan’-afore |
foremost horse in the plough |
Левая передняя лошадь в упряжке, тянувшей четырёхконный плуг |
Lan’-ahin |
hindmost horse in the plough |
Левая задняя лошадь в упряжке, тянувшей четырёхконный плуг |
Lane |
lone; (after poss. pron.) self |
|
my lane, thy lane, &c. |
myself alone, when I'm alone |
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thy lane |
on your own |
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Lanely |
lonely, solitary |
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Lang |
long |
долгий |
to think lang |
to long, to weary |
долгий, утомительный |
Lang syne |
long since, long ago |
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lank |
thin and languid |
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Lap |
did leap, leapt; enfolded, wrapped |
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Late and air |
late and early |
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Lave |
the rest, the remainder, the others |
|
Laverock, lav'rock |
the lark |
|
Law |
decree, determine |
|
Lawin |
the reckoning |
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Lawlan’ |
lowland |
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Lay |
ascribe, attribute; allay |
|
Lay, lea, lee |
untilled ground |
|
Lay my dead |
attribute my death |
|
Lea |
grass, untilled land, left fallow, pasture |
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lea'e |
leave |
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Leal |
loyal, true, faithful |
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Lear |
learning, lore |
|
Learn |
teach |
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least |
lest, for fear that |
|
lether |
hide skin; lining of the throat |
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Leddy |
lady |
|
Lee-lang |
live-long, whole |
|
Leesome |
lawful, dear, delightful |
|
Leesome luve |
happy, gladsome love |
|
Leeze me |
a phrase of congratulatory endearment; I am happy in thee or proud of thee |
|
Leeze me on |
dear is to me; blessings on; commend me to |
|
left-hand |
sinister |
|
Leister |
a three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish, a fish-spear, pronged spear used in salmon fishing |
|
Len' |
to lend, give, grant |
|
let |
allow |
|
Leugh |
did laugh, laugh'd |
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Leuk |
a look, to look, watch |
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Ley-crap |
lea-crop |
|
Libbet |
castrated |
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Lick |
measure, little bit |
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Lick, licket |
beat, thrashen |
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Licks |
a beating |
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liein |
telling lies |
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Lien |
lain |
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Lieve |
lief |
|
as lieve |
rather |
|
Lift |
sky, heavens, firmament; a load, large amount |
|
gie a lift |
give a helping hand |
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Light |
alight |
|
Lightly |
sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue, slight, to disparage, to scorn |
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like to |
likely to, as if |
|
Lilt |
a ballad, a tune, to sing |
|
Limmer |
a kept mistress, a strumpet, to jade; mistress; whore |
|
Limp’t |
limped, hobbled |
|
Link |
to trip along, trip, go briskly |
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linkin |
tripping along |
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Lin, Linn |
a waterfall, a cascade, cataract |
|
Lint |
flax, flax plant |
|
lint i’ the bell |
flax in flower |
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Lintwhite, Lint-white |
a linnet, flaxen, flax-colored |
|
Lippen'd |
trusted |
|
Lippie |
diminutive of lip |
|
list |
enlist |
|
Loan |
the place of milking |
|
Loan, Loaning |
lane, a strip of grass, serving as pasture, road |
|
Loanin |
the private road leading to a farm |
|
Locked |
closely fastened |
|
Lo'e, Loove |
love |
|
Lo'ed |
loved |
|
Lon'on |
London |
|
Loof (pl. looves) |
the palm of the hand |
|
Loon, loun, lown |
a fellow, a varlet, rascal, rogue, whore |
|
Loosome |
lovable, sweet, charming |
|
Loot |
did let, let, allow, palm |
|
Looves |
the plural of loof |
|
Losh |
Lord; a minced oath |
|
Losh man! |
rustic exclamation modified from Lord man |
|
Lough |
a pond, a lake, loch |
|
Loun, Lown, Loon |
a follow, a ragamuffin, a woman of easy virtue |
|
Loup, Lowp |
leap, jump, startled with pain |
|
Lour |
lock threateningly |
|
Louper-like |
lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character |
|
Louse, lowse |
to loose, to untie, let loose |
|
Low, Lowe |
a flame, blaze, rage |
|
Lowin, lowing |
flaming, burning |
|
lowin-drouth |
burning desire for drink |
|
Lowp, Loup |
leap, jump, startled with pain |
|
Lowrie |
abbreviation of Lawrence |
|
Lowse, louse |
to loose, to untie, let loose |
|
Lowsed |
unbound, loosed |
|
Lucky |
a grandmother, an old woman; an ale wife |
|
Lug |
the ear |
|
chimla lug |
side wall of chimney recess |
|
Lug of the law |
at the judgment-seat |
|
Lugget |
having a handle, having ears |
|
Luggie |
a small wooden dish with a handle, a porringer |
|
Lum |
the chimney |
|
lum-head |
chimney-top |
|
Lume |
a loom |
|
Lunardi |
a balloon bonnet |
|
Lunch |
a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c; large slice, thick piece |
большой кусок сыра, мяса и т.д. |
Lunches |
full portions |
|
Lunt |
a column of smoke or steam, to smoke, to walk quickly |
|
Luntin |
smoking |
|
Luve |
love |
|
Lyart |
of a mixed colour, gray, gray in general; discolored by decay or old age; grizzled, grey; streaked red and white |
|
Lynin |
lining |
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M |
Top - Наверх |
|
Mae and mair |
more |
|
Maggot’s-meat |
food for the worms |
|
Mahoun |
Satan, Devil |
|
Mailen, mailin |
a farm, piece of arable land held on lease |
|
Mailie |
Molly |
|
Mair |
more, greater |
|
mair for token |
especially, in particular |
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Maist |
most, almost |
|
Maistly |
mostly, for the greater part |
|
Mak, Mak‘ |
to make |
|
Mak o', make o' |
to pet, to fondle |
|
makin‘ |
making |
|
Mall |
Mally |
|
Mally |
Molly, Mary |
|
Mamie, Mither |
mother |
|
Mang, 'mang, amang |
among |
|
Manse |
the house of the parish minister is called “the Manse” |
|
Manteele |
a mantle, cape |
|
mantling |
foaming, creaming |
|
Mark |
marks. This and several other nouns which in English require an s to form the plural, are in Scotch, like the words sheep, deer, the same in both numbers |
|
Mark, merk |
a Scottish coin, value thirteen shillings and four-pence (13 sterling 4d.) |
|
Marled |
party-coloured |
|
Mar’s year |
the year 1715. Called Mar’s year from the rebellion of Erskine, Earl of Mar |
|
Martial chuck |
the soldier’s camp-comrade, female companion |
|
Mashlum |
mixed corn, of mixed meal |
|
Mask |
to mash, as malt, &c., to infuse |
|
maud |
shepherd's plaid |
|
Maskin-pot |
teapot |
|
Maukin |
a hare |
|
Maun |
must |
|
Mauna, Maunna |
mustn't, must not |
|
Maut, maute |
malt, ale |
|
groaning maute |
ale provided at a lying-in |
|
Mavis |
the thrush |
|
maun |
mowed |
|
Maw |
to mow, to reap |
|
Mawin |
mowing |
|
maw’d |
mowed |
|
Mawn |
|
mown |
Mawn |
a small basket, without a handle (or a large basket?) |
|
Mear, Meere |
a mare |
|
Meikle, mickle, muckle, mikle |
much, great, plentiful |
|
meikle corn |
oats |
|
Melancholious |
mournful |
|
Melder |
a load of corn, &c., sent to the mill to be ground, a grinding corn; quantity of meal given for a customer at one time |
|
Mell |
to be intimate, to meddle, consort, also a mallet for pounding barley in a stone trough |
|
Melvie |
to soil with meal, to powder with meal-dust |
|
Men‘ |
to mend |
|
Mense |
good manners, decorum, tact, sense, discretion, politeness |
|
Menseless |
ill-bred, impudent, unmannerly |
|
Merle |
the blackbird |
|
Merran |
Marian |
|
Mess John, Mass John |
the parish priest, the minister |
|
Messin, messen |
a small dog, lap-dog; a cur, a mongrel |
|
Middin |
a dunghill |
|
Middin-creels |
dung-baskets, panniers in which horses carry manure, manure-baskets |
|
Midden dub |
midden puddle |
|
Midden-hole |
a gutter at the bottom of the dunghill |
|
Milking shiel, Milkin-shiel |
the milking shed, a place where cows or ewes are brought to be milked |
|
Mim |
prim, affectedly meek, demurely |
|
Mim-mou’d |
gentle-mouthed, prim-lipped |
|
Min‘ |
to remember, mind, remembrance, recollection |
|
Minawae |
minuet |
|
Mind |
to remember, to bear in mind, remind |
|
Mind’t |
mind it, resolved, intending, remembered |
|
Minnie, minny, mither |
mother, dam |
|
Mirk |
dark, darkness |
|
mirk |
some dark |
|
Misca‘, miska |
to abuse, to call names, to miscall, malign |
|
misca’d |
abused |
|
Mischanter, mishanter |
accident, mishap, misadventure |
|
Misleard, Mislear'd |
mischievous, unmannerly |
|
Miss |
mistress, whore |
|
Mistak (past t. misteuk, p.p. mista'en) |
mistake |
|
Misteuk |
mistook |
|
Mite-horn |
horn on the harvest-bug |
|
Mither, mamie (dim.), minnie, minny (familiar) |
mother |
|
Mixtie-maxtie |
confusedly mixed, mish-mash, confused |
|
Modewurk, Moudiewart, Moudieworts, Moudiwort |
mouldwarp, a mole |
|
Moistify, moistified |
to moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked |
|
Monie, Mony |
many |
|
Mons-Meg |
a large piece of ordnance, to be seen at the Castle of Edinburgh, composed of iron bars welded together and then hooped |
|
Mool |
earth, clod, grave |
|
Mools |
earth |
|
Monie, Mony |
many |
|
Mools |
crumbling earth, grave |
|
Moop |
to nibble as a sheep, to nibble, to keep close company, to meddle, kiss |
|
Moorlan |
of or belonging to moors |
|
Morn |
the next day, to-morrow |
|
Moss |
swamp, peat-bog |
|
Mottie |
dusty, spotty |
|
Mou, Mou' |
the mouth |
|
Moudieworts, Moudiwort, modewurk, moudiewart |
moles, a mole |
|
Mousie |
diminutive of mouse |
|
Mow, mowe |
copulate (with a woman) |
|
Muckle, meikle or mickle |
great, big, much |
|
Muir |
moor |
|
Muscle |
mussel, mollusc |
|
Muses-stank |
muses-rill, a stank, slow-flowing water |
|
Musie |
diminutive of muse |
|
Muslin-kail |
broth, composed simply of water, shelled barley, and greens; thin poor broth, beefless broth, thin broth, of barley and greens |
|
Mutchkin |
an English pint, quarter pint |
|
Muve |
move |
|
Mysel |
myself |
|
N |
Top - Наверх |
|
'n |
and |
|
Na‘ |
no, not, nor |
|
Nae, Na |
no, not, not any; by no means |
|
Naebody, nabody |
nothing |
|
Naething, Nathing or naithing |
nothing |
|
Naig |
a horse, small horse, pony, a nag |
|
Nail, Nail't |
clinch, prove |
|
Nane |
none |
|
Nappy |
ale, liquor, to be tipsy |
|
Natch |
a notching implement; abuse, notch |
|
Naur |
near |
|
Near-hand |
almost |
|
Neebor, neibor, nibor |
neighbor, a neighbour |
|
Negleckit, negleket |
neglected |
|
Needna |
needn't |
|
Neuk, Newk |
nook, a corner |
|
New-ca'd |
newly driven, newly-calved |
|
Neist, niest |
next, nighest |
|
Nibor, Neebor, neibor |
neighbor, a neighbour |
|
Nice |
fine, precise |
|
Nick (Auld), Nickie-ben |
a name of the Devil |
|
Nick |
to sever; to slit; to nail, to seize away, cut |
|
Nickie-ben |
v. Nick - (familiar) Devil |
|
Nick-nackets |
curiosities |
|
Nicks |
cuts; the rings on a cow's horns |
|
Nidge |
push, thrust |
|
Niest, Neist |
next, nighest |
|
Nieve, neif |
the fist, clenched-hand |
|
Nievefu’, Nieve-fu' |
handful, fistful |
|
Niffer |
an exchange, to barter |
|
Niger |
a negro |
|
nightly |
appearing at night |
|
Nine-tailed cat |
a hangman’s whip |
|
to the nine, to the nines |
highest degree |
|
Nit |
a nut |
|
No |
not, not that |
|
Nocht |
nothing |
|
Noddle |
head, brain |
|
nor |
than |
|
nor ... nor |
neither ... nor |
|
Norland |
of or belonging to the north, northern, from the north |
|
Notic’t |
noticed |
|
Notion |
understanding, fancy, desire |
|
Nowt, Nowte |
black cattle, cattle, oxen |
|
Nyvel |
navel |
|
O |
Top - Наверх |
|
O’ |
of |
|
o'boot |
into the bargain, as well |
|
ochon, oh-hon |
alas |
|
O'er, oer, ower, owre |
over |
|
Oergang |
overcome, trample on |
|
O’ergang |
overbearingness, to treat with indignity, literally to tread |
|
O’erlay |
an upper cravat, necktie |
|
O'erword, ower-word |
the refrain, burden; catchword |
|
Offer |
promise, seem likely, to turn out |
|
Oh-hon, ochon |
alas |
|
Onie, Ony |
any |
|
Or |
is often used for ere, before |
|
Orra |
extra, odd, spare |
|
Orra-duddies |
superfluous rags, old clothes |
|
Ostler house |
hostelry, inn |
|
O’t |
of it |
|
Ought, aught |
anything |
|
Oughtlins |
aughtlins, aught in the least, anything in the least; at all |
|
Ourie |
drooping, shivering, poor, dreary |
|
Outcast |
quarrel |
|
Oursel, oursels |
ourselves |
|
Outler |
unhoused |
|
Outlers |
outliers; cattle unhoused |
|
out-owre |
over across, above, beyond |
|
outspark |
spoke out, up |
|
out-thro' |
right through |
|
Ower, owre |
over, too |
|
Owre-hip |
striking with a forehammer by bringing it with a swing over the hip |
|
Owsen |
oxen, cattle |
|
Owther, Owthor |
author |
|
Oxter'd, Oxtered |
carried or supported under the arm, held up under the arms |
|
P |
Top - Наверх |
|
Pack |
intimate, familiar; twelve stone of wool |
|
pack (aff) |
go packing, depart |
|
Pack an' thick |
confidential |
|
Paidle, paidlen |
to walk with difficulty, as if in water, to walk with a weak action; to wade, to paddle, nail-bag |
|
Painch |
paunch, belly |
|
Paitrick, paetrick |
partridge; used equivocally of a wanton girl |
|
Palaver |
idle chatter, nonsense |
|
Pang |
to cram, stuff |
|
Parle |
courtship, speech, language |
|
Parliamentin |
attending, serving in parliament |
|
Parishen, Parishon |
parish |
|
Parritch, pirratch |
oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch drink, porridge |
|
Parritch-pats |
porridge-pots |
|
Party-match |
card contest |
|
Pat |
did put, a pot |
|
Pattle, Pettle |
a plow-staff, a small spades to clean the plough, to cherish |
|
Paughty |
proud, haughty, insolent |
|
Paukie, pauky, pawkie |
cunning, sly, artful, crafty |
|
Pay |
give deserts, flog |
|
Pay’t |
paid, beat |
|
Pay't hollow |
beat thoroughly |
|
Peat-reek |
the smoke of burning turf, a bitter exhalation, whisky |
|
Peer |
equal, rank with |
|
Pech |
to fetch the breath shortly, as in an asthma |
|
Pechan, peghan |
the crop, the stomach |
|
Pechin |
respiring with difficulty, panting, blowing |
|
pell mell |
in violent disorder |
|
Pennie |
riches |
|
Pennie fee, Penny-fee |
wage in money, wages paid in money |
|
Penny-wheep |
small beer |
|
Perish |
make to perish, destroy |
|
Pet |
a domesticated sheep, &c., a favourite |
|
Pettle, pattle |
a plow-staff, a small spades to clean the plough, to cherish |
|
Philabeg, Philibeg |
the kilt, the Highlander's kilt |
|
phiz |
(slang) countenance, expression |
|
Phraise |
fair speeches, flattery, to flatter |
|
Phraisin |
flattering, wheedling |
|
Phrase |
to flatter, to wheedle |
|
Pibroch |
a martial air, classical bagpipe music |
|
Pickle |
a small quantity of smth., one grain of corn, a few, a little |
|
Pictur'd beuk, Beuk |
a book |
книга |
Pigmy-scraper |
little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player |
|
Pike, pyke |
pick (at) |
|
Pin |
skewer; gallows-peg |
|
Pine |
pain, sorrow |
|
Pint (Scots) |
three imperial pints |
|
Pint-stomp |
a two-quart measure |
|
Pine |
pain, uneasiness |
|
Pingle |
a small pan for warming children’s sops |
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Pirratch, Parritch |
oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch drink, porridge |
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Pish, Piss |
urinate |
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Pit |
put, made |
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Placads |
proclamations |
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Plack |
an old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny, four pennies (Scots), copper, nothing worth |
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Plackless |
pennyless, without money |
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Plaid, Plaidie |
long piece of tartan woollen cloth, used as a cloak |
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Plaiden |
coarse woolen cloth |
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Plaister |
plaster |
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Platie |
diminutive of plate |
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Play |
joy, pleasure |
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Plenish'd |
stocked |
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Pleugh, Plew |
a plough, a plow |
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Pliskie |
a trick |
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Pliver |
a plover, green plover, lapwing |
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Plumrose |
primrose |
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Plush |
a sort of velvet |
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Pock |
a meal-bag, a poke, a bag, a wallet |
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Poind |
to seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland allow, for rent, &c, to seize, to distrain, to impound; seize goods and sell them under warrant |
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Poorteth, Poortith |
poverty |
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Poosie, Poossie |
1) (pejorative) woman; 2) Puss, the hare |
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Poosion |
poison |
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Posie |
a nosegay, a garland |
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Pou, Pow, Pu', Pou’d |
to pull, pulled |
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Pouch |
pocket |
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Pouk |
to pluck, to poke |
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Poupit |
pulpit |
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Pouse |
to pluck with the hand, a push |
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Poussie |
a hare or cat |
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Pout |
a polt, a chick |
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Pou’t |
did pull |
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Pouther, powther |
powder |
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Poutherey |
fiery, active |
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Pouthery |
like powder |
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Pouts |
chicks |
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Pow, pou |
the head, the skull, the poll, to pull, pulled |
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Pownie |
a little horse, a pony |
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Pow't |
pulled |
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Powt |
poult, chicken |
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Powther or pouther |
gunpowder |
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Preclair |
supereminent |
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Pree, Prie |
to taste, try, kiss |
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Pree'd, pried (proved) |
tasted |
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Preen |
a pin, something of little value |
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Prent |
printing, print |
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Preses |
president |
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Prie, pree |
to taste, try, kiss |
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prie’d |
tasted |
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Prief |
proof, substance, quality |
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Prig |
to cheapen, to dispute |
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priggin |
cheapening, haggling |
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Primsie |
demure, precise; diminutive of prim |
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Proper |
handsome, elegant, fine |
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Propone |
to lay down, to propose |
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Proves, Proveses |
provost, provosts |
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Pu', pou, pow |
to pull |
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Puddock-stools |
toadstools, mushrooms |
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Puir |
poor |
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Pumps |
low-heeled shoes |
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Pun', Pund, pund o’ tow |
pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax |
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Pursie |
diminutive of purse |
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Pussie |
a hare (also a cat) |
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Pyet |
a magpie |
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Pyke, pike |
to pick |
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Pyle |
spike, blade; grain |
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Pyle, a pyle, o’ caff |
a single grain of chaff |
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Pyles |
grains |
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Pystle |
epistle |
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Q |
Top - Наверх |
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Quarrel |
dispute, challenge |
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Quat |
quit, quitted, leave, put by |
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Quak |
the cry of a duck |
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Quean, quine |
a young woman, a lass, young girl, sturdy lass, hussy |
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Quech |
a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles |
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Queer |
odd in appearance, roguish |
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Queir |
choir |
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Quey |
a cow from one to two years old, a young cow, a heifer |
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Quietlin-wise, quietlenswise |
quietly |
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Quine, quean |
a young woman, a lass, young girl, sturdy lass, hussy |
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Quakin |
quaking |
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Quo' (past t. of quethe), quod |
quoth, said |
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R |
Top - Наверх |
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Rab |
rob |
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Racked |
excessive, extortionate |
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Rade |
rode |
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Raep, Rape |
a rope |
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Ragged |
unkempt, shaggy |
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Ragweed |
herb-ragwort, ragwort |
Амброзия (трава) |
Raible |
to rattle, nonsense, gabble |
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Raibles |
recites by rote |
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Rair |
to roar, complain |
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Rairin |
roaring |
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Rair't |
roared |
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Raise, rase |
rose |
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Raise'd |
made get up |
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Raize |
to madden, to inflame, to excite, anger, provoke, rouse |
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Ramblan |
roving |
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Ramfeezl'd, Ramfeezled |
fatigued, overpowered, exhausted |
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Ramgunshoch |
surly, ill-tempered |
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Rampin’ |
raging |
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Ramstam, Ram-stam |
thoughtless, forward, headlong, headstrong, reckless |
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Randie, Randy |
a scolding sturdy beggar, lawless, obstreperous, a shrew, randy, a scoundrel, a rascal, rough, rude fellow, course-tongued, riotous |
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Rant |
to rollick, to roister, make merry |
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Ranter |
riotous fellow, merry singer |
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Rantin‘ |
joyous |
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Rants |
merry meetings; rows |
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Rape, raep |
a rope |
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Raploch |
properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse, homespun, homely |
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Rarely |
excellently, very well |
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Rash |
a rush |
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Rash-buss |
a bush of rushes, a clump of rushes |
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Rashy |
rushy |
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Rattlin, Rattlin', Rattlin'g |
lively in speech or manner |
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Rattan, ratton, rottan, rattoon |
a rat |
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Ratton-key |
the rat-quay |
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Raucle |
rash, stout, fearless, reckless, rough, bitter, sturdy, coarse, rudely strong |
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Raught |
reached |
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Raw |
a row, file |
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Rax |
to stretch, to extend |
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Ream |
cream, to cream, foam, to foam, froth |
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Reamin’ |
brimful, frothing |
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Reave |
take by force, to rob |
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Rebute |
to repulse, rebuke, rebuff, reproach |
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Reck |
to heed, regard, care for |
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Red, rede |
advised, afraid, to advise, to counsel, warn |
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Rede |
counsel, to counsel, to discourse |
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Red-peats |
burning turfs |
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Red-wat-shod |
red-wet-shod, walking in blood over the shoe-tops |
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Red-wud |
stark mad, violently distracted |
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Ree |
half drunk, fuddled |
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a ree yaud |
a wild horse |
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Reek |
smoke |
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Reekie, reeky |
smoky |
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Reekin |
streaming with warm blood |
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Reekin’ |
smoking |
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Reekit |
smoked, smoky |
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Reest |
stand restive |
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Reestet |
smoke-dried |
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Reestit |
stood restive; stunted, withered, scorched, refused to go |
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Remarkin |
observation, entertainment |
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Remead, Remeid |
remedy, redress |
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Reif |
thieving |
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Requite |
requited |
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Restricked |
restricted |
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Rew |
to smile, look affectionately, tenderly |
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Ribban |
riband, ribbon |
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Rice |
branch |
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Rickle |
pile of sheaves, stack |
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Rickles |
shocks of corn, stooks, small stacks of corn in the fields |
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Riddle |
instrument for purifying corn |
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Rief |
plunder, thieving, despoiling |
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Rief-randies |
men who take the property of others, accompanied by violence and rude words |
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Rig |
a ridge |
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Riggin |
the roof-tree, the roof |
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Rigwoodie, rig-woodie |
lean, withered, coarse, yellow |
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Rin |
to run, to melt |
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Rinnin’ |
running |
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Ring |
reign |
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Ringer |
circlet, binding |
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Rink |
the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice |
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Rip, Ripp |
a handful of unthreshed corn, a handful of corn from the sheaf |
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Ripple |
remove seed from flax |
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Ripples |
pains in the back and loins, sounds which usher in death |
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Ripplin-kame |
instrument for dressing flax, the wool or flax comb |
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Risk |
make a noise like the breaking of small roots with the plough |
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Riskit |
a noise like the tearing of roots, cracked |
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Rive |
to split, to tear, to tug, to burst, break up, part asunder |
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Roaring |
brisk, vigorous |
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Rock |
a distaff |
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Rockin, Rockin’ |
a denomination for a friendly visit, a social meeting. In former times young women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called “rockings” |
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Roke |
distaff |
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Rood |
quarter-acre, stands likewise for the plural, roods |
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Roon |
round, circuit, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth |
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Roose, rouse |
to praise, to commend, to flatter, reputation, stir up, agitate |
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Roosty |
rusty |
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Rottan, Rattan, Ratton |
a rat |
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Roun’ |
round, in the circle of neighbourhood |
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Round |
confidently |
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Roupet, rupit |
hoarse, as with a cold, exhausted in voice, husky |
говорить хриплым, простуженным, сиплым голосом |
Rouse, roose |
to praise, to commend, to flatter, reputation, stir up, agitate |
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Rousing |
outrageous |
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Rout |
road, course, way |
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Routh, rowth |
plenty, a store, abundance |
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Routhie |
well-stocked |
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Rove |
ramble |
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Row, rowe |
to roll, to rap, to roll as water; to flow, as a river; to wrap |
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Rowan (tree) |
mountain ash |
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Row’t |
rolled, wrapped |
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Rowte |
to low, to bellow, roar, cry loudly |
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Rowth, Routh |
plenty, a store |
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Rowtin’ |
lowing |
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Rozet |
rosin, resin |
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Rumble-gumption |
rough commonsense |
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Rumming |
drinking |
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Run-deils |
downright devils, complete devil |
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Rung |
a cudgel |
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Runt |
the stem of colewort or cabbage, a cabbage or colewort stalk, stunted |
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Runkl'd, Runkled |
wrinkled |
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Rupit, Roupet |
hoarse, as with a cold, exhausted in voice, husky |
говорить хриплым, простуженным, сиплым голосом |
Ruth |
a woman’s name, the book so called, sorrow, pity |
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Ryke (past t. raught) |
reach |
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S |
Top - Наверх |
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's |
shortened form of is, as, us, s(h)all, has |
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Sab |
to sob |
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Sae |
so |
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Saft |
soft, silly |
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Sair |
to serve, a sore, severe, strong, sorely, treat, suffice, sorry, sad, aching, hard, harsh |
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sair-wark |
hardship |
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sair-won |
hard won |
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sairie, sairy |
sorrowful, sorry, mean, wretched |
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Sairly |
sorely |
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Sair’t |
served |
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sald |
past t. of sell |
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Sall |
shall |
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sample |
example |
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Sandy, Sannack, Sannock, Sawnie |
diminutive of Alexander |
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Sang |
song |
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Sappy |
plump, succulent |
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Sark |
a shirt, chemise |
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Half sarket |
half-closed |
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Sarkit |
provided in shirts |
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Saugh |
willow, sallow |
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Saugh-woodies |
withies, made of willows, now supplanted by ropes and chains |
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Saul |
soul |
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Saumont, sawmont |
salmon |
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Saumont-coble |
rowing-boat |
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Saunt, sauntet |
saint, puritan; to varnish |
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Saut |
salt |
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Saut-backets |
v. backets |
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Saw |
to sow |
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Sawin’ |
sowing |
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Sawmont, Saumont |
salmon |
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Sawney |
v. sandy |
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Sax |
six |
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Scaith, Scathe, Skaith |
damage, hurt |
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Scandal-potion |
tea |
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Scant |
deficient, poor, scarce; dearth, poverty |
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Scar, Scaur |
cliff, bank, rock; scare, frighten off |
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Scathe, Scaith, Skaith |
damage, hurt |
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Scaud |
to scald |
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Scaul, Scauld |
to scold |
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Scaur, Scar |
apt to be scared, afraid; a precipitous bank of earth which the stream has washed red, a jutting rock or bank of earth |
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Scawl |
scold, scolding, abusive woman |
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Scho |
she |
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Schulin |
schooling |
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Sclates |
slates |
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Scone |
a kind of bread, a soft flour cake |
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Sconner |
a loathing, to loath, disgust, sicken, feel sick |
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score |
indentation |
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scow'r |
roister, run |
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Scraich and Scriegh |
to scream, as a hen or partridge |
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Scraichin |
calling hoarsely |
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Screed |
to tear, a rent, a rip, to repeat rapidly, to rattle |
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screeding |
tearing |
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Scraichan, Scriechin |
screaming, screeching |
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Skreegh, Scriegh, skriegh |
screech, shriek; to express (sth) in a screeching voice; make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door, cry shrilly, neigh |
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Scrieve, scrieven |
to glide softly, gleesomely along |
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Scrievin |
careering, writing |
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Scrimp |
to scant, be sparing of, cut down on |
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Scrimpet, Scrimpit |
scant, scanty |
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Scrimply |
scarcely, barely |
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Scroggie, scroggiey |
covered with underwood, bushy, covered with stunted bushes |
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Scroggie, scroggy |
scrubby |
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Sculdudrey |
fornication |
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Sculdudd'ry |
bawdry |
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seam'd |
sewn up |
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See'd |
saw (past t. of see) |
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far seen |
well versed |
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se'enteen |
seventeen |
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Seisins |
freehold possessions |
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Seizin’ |
seizing |
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Sel, sel', sell |
self |
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a body’s sel’ |
one’s self alone |
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Sell'd, Sell’t |
did sell, sold |
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Semple |
simple |
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Semple-folk |
humble, common folk |
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Sen, Sin |
a son |
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Sen’ |
to send |
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Servan’ |
servant |
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service |
toast in homage |
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Set |
to set off, set out; to start, sat |
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Settlin’ |
settling |
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to get a settlin’ |
to be frightened into quietness |
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Sets |
becomes |
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Sets, sets off |
goes away |
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Shachl't |
twisted by shuffling |
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Shachl'd |
shapeless |
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Shachlet-feet |
ill-shaped |
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Shaird, Shair’d |
a shred, a shard, fragment, remnant |
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Shanagan |
a cleft stick |
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Shangan |
a stick cleft at one end for pulling the tail of a dog, &c., by way of mischief, or to frighten him away |
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Shank-it |
walk it |
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shanks |
legs |
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Shanna, sha'na |
shall not |
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Shaul |
shallow |
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Shaver |
a humorous wag, a funny fellow, joker, a barber |
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Shavie |
to do an ill turn, trick |
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Shaw |
to show, reveal; a small wood in a hollow place |
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Shear |
reap with a sickle |
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Shearer |
a reaper |
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Sheep-shank |
a sheep's trotter |
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nae sheep-shank bane |
a person of no small importance |
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Sheep-shank, to think one’s self nae sheep-shank |
to be conceited |
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Sheerly |
wholly, entirely |
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Sheers |
scissors |
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Sherra-moor, Sherra-muir |
Sheriffmuir |
|
Sherra-muir |
Sheriff-Muir, the famous battle of, 1715 |
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Sheuch, Sheugh |
a ditch, a trench, a sluice, a furrow, gutter |
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Sheuk |
shook |
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Shiel, shealing |
a shed, hut, shanty, cottage, a shepherd’s cottage |
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Shill |
shrill |
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Shog |
a shock, a shake, jog, a push off at one side |
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Shoo |
ill to please, ill to fit |
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Shool |
a shovel |
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Shoon |
shoes |
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Short syne |
a little while ago |
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Shore |
to offer, to threaten |
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Shor’d |
half offered and threatened |
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Shouldna |
should not |
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Shouther, showther |
the shoulder |
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Shot |
one traverse of the shuttle from side to side of the web |
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Shure |
shore (did shear) |
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Sib |
akin, closely related |
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Sic |
such |
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Siccan |
such a, such like |
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Sicker |
sure, steady, certain, secure, safe |
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sicker score |
strict conditions |
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Sidelins |
sideling, slanting, sideways, obliquely |
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Silken-snood |
a fillet of silk, a token of virginity |
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Siller |
silver, money, white; money in general, wealth |
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Silly |
poor, pitiful; frail, sorry |
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Simmer |
summer |
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Sin, Sen |
a son |
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Sin, Sin', Sen |
since |
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Sin syne |
since then |
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Sindry |
sundry |
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Singet, singed |
shriveled |
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Sinn |
the sun |
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Sinny |
sunny |
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Sinsyne |
since then |
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Skair |
share |
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Skaith, Scaith, Scathe |
to damage, hurt, to injure, injury |
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Skeigh, skiegh |
proud, nice, saucy, mettled, skittish, fiery, disdainful |
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Skeigh |
shy, maiden coyness |
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Skellum |
to strike, to slap; to walk with a smart tripping step, a smart stroke, a good-for-nothing, rascal, scoundrel |
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Skelp |
a slap, a smack, to spank, strike, beat; hurry, rush |
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Skelpi-limmer |
a technical term in female scolding |
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Skelpie-limmer's-face |
a technical term in female scolding (R. B.) |
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skelpin at it |
driving at it |
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Skelpin, skelpit |
striking, walking rapidly, literally striking the ground |
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Skelvy |
shelvy |
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Skinking |
watery |
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Skinklin |
thin, gauzy, scaltery, glittering |
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Skirling |
shrieking, crying |
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Skirl |
to cry or sound shrilly, to shriek shrilly, yell |
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Skirl’t |
shrieked |
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Sklent |
a slant, a turn, to run aslant, to deviate from truth, to slant, to squint, to cheat, throw aslant; look aslant with malice |
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Sklented |
ran, or hit, in an oblique direction |
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Skouth |
vent, free action, scope |
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Skriech |
a scream |
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Skreigh |
a scream, to scream, the first cry uttered by a child; to whinny |
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skyre |
shine; bright-coloured |
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Skyrin |
party-coloured, the checks of the tartan, flaring |
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Skyte |
a worthless fellow, to slide rapidly off, squirt, lash, smart, sudden blow |
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Slade |
did slide, slid, stole away |
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Slae |
sloe, blackthorn |
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Slap |
a gate, a breach in a fence, cut, bring down, gap in a dyke or fence |
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Slaw |
slow |
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Slee, |
sly, ingenious, clever, wise, witty |
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sleest |
slyest |
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Sleeket, Sleekit |
sleek, sly, crafty, smooth, glossy |
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Slidd'ry, Sliddery |
slippery |
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Slight |
skill, dexterity, artifice |
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slip |
leash |
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Slip-shod |
smooth shod |
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Sloken |
quench, slake |
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Slype |
to fall over, as a wet furrow from the plough |
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Slypet |
slipped |
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Slypet-o’er |
fell over with a slow reluctant motion |
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Sma’ |
small, little, slight, narrow |
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Smeddum |
dust, powder, mettle, sense, sagacity, fine powder used as medicine or insecticide |
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Smeek |
smoke |
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Smiddy, smiddie |
smithy |
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Smirking |
good-natured, smiling, winking |
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smit |
smite |
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Smoor, Smoor'd, smoored |
to smother, smothered |
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Smoutie |
smutty, obscene, ugly |
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smoutie phiz |
sooty aspect |
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Smytrie |
a numerous collection of small individuals; a litter |
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Snakin |
sneering |
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Snap |
smart, quick |
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Snapper |
mistake, to stumble |
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Snash |
abuse, insolence, billingsgate, impertinence |
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Snaw |
snow, to snow |
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Snaw-broo |
snow-brew, melted snow |
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Snawie |
snowy |
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Sned |
to lop, to cut off, to prune |
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Sned-besoms |
to cut brooms |
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Sneeshin |
snuff |
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Sneeshin mill, Sneeshin-mill |
a snuff-box |
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Snell and snelly |
bitter, biting, keen |
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snellest |
bitterest |
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Snick |
the latchet of a door, a latch |
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Snick-drawing |
trick, contriving |
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snick-drawing |
scheming |
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he weel a snick can draw |
he is good at cheating |
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Snirt, snirtle |
concealed laughter, laugh quietly, to breathe the nostrils in a displeased manner, to snigger |
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Snood |
girl's hair-band |
|
Snoods |
fillets worn by maids |
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Snool |
one whose spirit is broken with oppressive slavery; to submit tamely, to sneak, to cringe, to snub |
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Snoove |
to go smoothly and constantly, to sneak, to go slowly, go steadily on |
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Snore |
snort |
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snowck |
snuff, poke about with the nose |
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Snowk, snowkit |
to scent or snuff as a dog, scented, snuffed |
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Snuff |
sniff |
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Sodger, soger |
a soldier |
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Sonsie, sonsy |
having sweet engaging looks, pleasant, good-natured, lucky, jolly |
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Soom |
to swim |
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Soor |
sour |
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sort |
meet together (with) |
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Sough, sugh |
sigh, moan, wail, swish, rushing sound of wind, deep breath |
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Souk |
to suck, to drink long and enduringly |
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Soupe, sowp |
sup, liquid, drink, mouthful |
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Souple |
flexible, supple, soften, soft, swift |
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Soupled |
suppled |
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Souther |
to solder |
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Souter, sowter, sutor |
a shoemaker, cobbler |
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Sowens |
the fine flour remaining among the seeds, of oatmeal made into an agreeable pudding, porridge of oat flour |
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Sowp |
a spoonful, a small quantity of anything liquid |
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Sowps |
sups |
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Sowth |
to try over a tune with a low whistle, to hum or whistle in a low tune |
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Sowther |
to solder, patch up |
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Spae |
to prophesy, to divine, to foretell |
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Spail |
splinter |
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Spails |
chips, splinters |
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Spaul |
a limb |
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spair |
spare restrained, reticent |
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Spairge |
to clash, to soil, as with mire, to splash; to spatter, bespatter |
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Spak |
spoke (past t. of speak) |
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spang |
spring, leap |
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span-lang |
small |
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Spates |
sudden floods, floods |
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Spavie |
the spavin, tumour caused by inflamation of a horse's shank cartilage |
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Spaviet |
having the spavin |
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Spavit |
spavined |
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Spean |
to wean |
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Speat |
a sweeping torrent after rain or thaw, a flood, spate |
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speed |
prosper, attain a desire |
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speedy |
quick, brief |
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Speel |
to climb |
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Speer, Spier |
to ask, to inquire |
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Speet |
to spit |
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spell |
study, contemplate |
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Spence |
the parlour of a farmhouse or cottage, the parlor, inner room |
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spier, speir |
ask, inquire |
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spiert |
inquired |
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spill |
destroy, waste |
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spin'le |
spindle, axe |
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Spinnin-graith |
wheel and roke and lint |
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Splatter |
to splutter, a splutter, sputter |
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Spleuchan, Spleughan |
a tobacco-pouch, pouch, purse |
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Splore |
a frolic, noise, riot; a carousal, uproar |
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sport |
spend in pleasure |
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spout |
spurt, dart |
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Sprachl'd |
clambered |
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Sprachled |
scrambled |
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Sprattle |
to scramble, struggle |
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Sprawl |
struggle, crawl |
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Spreckled |
spotted, speckled |
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Spring |
a quick air in music, a Scottish reel, a quick tune; a dance |
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Sprit, spret |
a tough-rooted plant something like rushes, jointed-leaved rush |
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Sprittie |
full of spirits, full of roots or sprouts (a kind of rush), rushy |
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Sprush |
spruce |
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Spunk |
fire, mettle, wit, spark, a match; spirit |
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Spunkie |
mettlesome, fiery; will o’ the wisp, or ignis fatuus; the devil, full of spirit, liquor, spirits |
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Spunkies |
jack-o'-lanterns, will-o'-wisps |
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Spurtle |
a stick used in making oatmeal pudding or porridge, a notable Scottish dish |
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Spurtle-blade |
the pot-stick |
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Squad |
a crew or party, a squadron, company |
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Squatter |
to flap, to flutter in water, as a wild-duck, &c |
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Squattle |
to sprawl in the act of hiding, to squat, to settle |
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Squeel |
a scream, a screech, to scream |
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Stacher |
to stagger, to totter, toddle |
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Stack |
a rick of corn, hay, peats; past t. of stick |
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Staggie |
a stag, diminutive of staig |
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Staig |
a two year-old horse, a young horse |
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Stalwart |
stately, strong |
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Stammer |
stumble (of a horse) |
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Stan’ |
to stand, stop, stick; pause, halt |
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stan’t |
did stand, stood |
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Stang |
sting, stung, goad |
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Stane |
stone (measure of weight) |
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Stank |
did stink, a pool of standing water, slow-moving water, a moat, a pond |
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Stap |
stop, stave |
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Stapple |
a stopper |
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stare |
express clearly; confront |
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Stark |
stout, potent, strong |
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starn |
star |
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Starnies |
diminutive of starn, star |
звёздочки |
Starns |
stars |
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Startin |
frighted, staggered |
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Startle |
to run as cattle stung by the gadfly; take fright, to course |
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Staukin |
stalking, walking disdainfully, walking without an aim, walking stealthily |
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Staumrel |
a blockhead, half-witted |
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Staw |
did steal, stole, to surfeit, to sicken, a stall, crept, over-feed, stuff |
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Stech |
to cram the belly |
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Stechin |
cramming |
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Steek |
to shut, a stitch, to touch, meddle with, to close, enclose |
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Steer |
to molest, to stir, rouse, affect; take one's way |
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Steeve |
firm, compacted, compact, strong |
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stegh |
cram the stomach with food |
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Stell |
a still |
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Sten |
to rear as a horse, to leap suddenly, a leap, a spring |
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Sten't |
sprang |
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Stented |
erected; set on high |
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Stents |
tribute, dues of any kind, assessments, dues |
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Stravagin |
wandering without an aim |
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stell |
apparatus for distillation |
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sten' |
leap, bound, turn aside |
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stent |
impost, duty |
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Stey |
steep, difficult |
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Steyest, styest |
steepest |
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Stibble |
stubble |
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Stibble-rig, stubble-rig |
the reaper in harvest who takes the lead, chief reaper |
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Stick |
cudgel fragment |
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Stick-an-stowe, Stick-an’-stow, a' to sticks |
totally, altogether, completely, utterly |
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Stilt |
limp (with the aid of stilts), lift the legs high, prance; plough handle |
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Stilt-stilts |
a crutch; to limp, to halt; poles for crossing a river |
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Stimpart |
the eighth part of a Winchester bushel, a quarter peck, measure of grain |
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stir |
sir |
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Stirk |
a cow or bullock a year old, a young bullock |
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Stock |
a plant of colewort, cabbages |
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Stockin’ |
stocking |
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throwing the stockin’ |
when the bride and bridegroom are put into bed, the former throws a stocking at random among the company,
and the person whom it falls on is the next that will be married |
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Stoited |
stumbled |
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Stoiter, stoyte |
lurch, stagger |
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Stoiter'd |
staggered |
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Stomach |
spirit, temper |
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Stook, stooked |
a shock of corn, made into shocks, set of corn sheaves |
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Stoor |
harsh, stern; see stoure |
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stop ... o' |
keep from, deprive of |
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Stot |
a young bull or ox |
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Stoun', Stound |
sudden pang of the heart, pang, throb, thrill of pleasure |
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Stoup or stowp |
a kind of high narrow jug or dish with a handle for holding liquids, tankard, measure |
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stoure, stoor |
battle, tumult, storm |
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like stoure |
swiftly |
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Stoure, Stowre |
dust, more particularly dust in motion |
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Stourie, stowrie |
dusty |
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Stown |
stolen |
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Stownlins |
by stealth |
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Stoyte, Stoiter |
the walking of a drunken man, to stagger |
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Strack, strak |
did strike, struck |
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Strade |
past t. of stride |
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Strae |
straw |
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Strae death, strae-death |
death in bed (i. e., on straw), natural death in bed |
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to die a fair strae death |
to die in bed |
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Straik |
to stroke |
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straiket |
stroked |
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Strak, strack |
struck |
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Strang |
strong |
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Strappan |
strapping, sturdy |
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Strappen |
tall, handsome, vigorous |
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Strath |
low alluvial land, a holm |
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Straught |
straight, to stretch (dead) |
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Streek |
stretched, to stretch |
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Streekit |
stretched |
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Striddle |
to straddle, stride |
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string |
string used as a measure |
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Stron't |
lanted |
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Stroan |
to spout, to piss |
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stroan't |
pissed |
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Stroup |
the spout |
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Strunt |
spirituous liquor of any kind; to walk sturdily, move with assurance, to swagger, to be affronted |
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stude |
past t. of stand |
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Studdie |
an anvil, stithy |
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Stuff |
corn or pulse of any kind, store of corn |
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Stump |
walk clumsily |
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Stumpie |
diminutive of stump; a worn quill, a grub pen |
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Sturt |
worry, trouble, to fret, to vex, to molest |
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sturt and strife |
quarrelling, violence |
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Styme |
a glimmer, the faintest trace |
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Sucker, sucke |
sugar |
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Sud |
should |
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Sugh, sough, sigh |
the continued rushing noise of wind or water, moan, wail, swish |
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summon |
sing. of summons |
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Sumph |
a pluckless fellow, with little heart or soul, churl, simpleton, sullen ass |
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Suthron |
Southern, southerners, an old name of the English and Englishmen |
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Sune |
soon |
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Sutor, Souter, sowter |
a shoemaker, cobbler |
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Swaird |
sword, sward |
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Swall’d |
swelled |
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Swank |
stately, jolly, limber, agile |
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Swankie or swanker |
a tight strapping young fellow or girl, strapping lad |
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Swankies |
strapping fellows |
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Swap |
an exchange, to barter, strike, strike a bargain |
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Swapped, swopped |
exchanged |
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Swarf |
to swoon |
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Swarfed |
swooned |
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Swat |
did sweat, sweated (past t. of sweat) |
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Swatch |
a sample |
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Swats |
drink, good ale, new ale or wort, new small beer |
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Sweer |
lazy, averse |
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dead-sweer |
extremely averse |
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Swoor |
swore, did swear |
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Swinge |
beat, to whip, flog |
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Swinke |
to labour hard |
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Swirl |
a curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in the wood, curl |
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Swirlie |
knaggy, full of knots, twisted |
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Swit |
(exclaim.) quickly, away |
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Swith |
get away, haste; off and away |
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Swither |
to hesitate in choice, an irresolute wavering in choice, state of agitation, doubt, hesitation |
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Swoom |
swim |
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Swoor |
swore (past t. of swear) |
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Sybow |
a young onion, spring onion |
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Syebow |
a thick-necked onion |
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syke |
small stream, ditch |
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Syne |
since, ago, then |
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lang syne |
long since, long ago |
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T |
Top - Наверх |
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't |
it |
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'tis |
it is |
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'twas |
it was |
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Tack |
possession, lease, leasehold, tenure |
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Tacket |
shoe-nail |
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Tackets |
broad-headed nails for the heels of shoes |
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Tae |
to, a toe |
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ta'en |
p. p. of tak (take) |
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three-taed |
having three prongs |
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Tae'd |
toed |
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Taed |
toad |
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Taen |
taken |
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Taet |
small quantity |
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Tairge, Targe |
to target, discipline, constrain |
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Tak |
to take, seize |
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tak the gate |
take to the road, get home |
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takin |
taking |
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Tald |
told |
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Tane |
one in contrast to other |
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tane ... tither |
one ... other |
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Tangle |
a sea-weed used as salad |
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Tangs |
tongs |
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Tap |
the top, head |
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Tapmaist, Tapmost |
topmost |
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taper |
tapering, slender |
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Tapetless |
headless, heedless, foolish, senseless |
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Tapmost, Tapmaist |
topmost |
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Tappet-hen |
a crested hen-shaped bottle holding three quarts of claret |
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Tap-pickle |
the grain at the top of the stalk |
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Tapsalteerie, Topsalteerie |
topsy-turvy, upside down, in disorder |
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Targe |
light shield |
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Targe, Tairge |
to examine |
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Targe, targe them tightly |
cross-question them severely |
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Tarrow |
to murmur at one’s allowance, to tarry, to be reluctant, to weary, hesitate |
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Tarry-breeks |
a sailor |
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Tassie |
a small measure for liquor, a goblet, silver goblet |
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Tastie |
elegant |
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Tauk |
talk |
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Tauld or tald |
told |
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Taupie |
a foolish, thoughtless young person |
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Tauted, tawtied or tautie |
matted together (spoken of hair and wool), shaggy |
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Tawie |
that allows itself peaceably to be handled (spoken of a cow, horse, &c.), tractable, easy to handle, groom (of ahorse) |
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Tawpie |
a foolish woman, senseless girl |
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Tawted, tawtied |
matted |
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Teat |
a small quantity |
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Teats |
small quantities |
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Teen |
vexation |
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Teethless bawtie |
toothless cur |
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Teethless gab |
a mouth wanting the teeth, an expression of scorn |
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Tell (past t. tell'd, tald, tauld) |
relate, enumerate, count the price out |
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Tell'd |
told |
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Temper-pin |
a fiddle-peg; the regulating pin of the spinning-wheel |
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Ten-hours-bite |
a slight feed to the horse while in the yoke in the forenoon |
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Tenpund |
the annual value of ten pounds |
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Tent |
a field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed, to tend; to heed; to observe, care, watch |
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Tentie |
heedful, cautious, watchful, careful |
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Tentier |
more watchful |
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Tentless |
heedless, careless |
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Tester |
an old silver coin about sixpence in value |
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Tether |
rope, noose |
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Teugh |
tough, hardy, violent |
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Teuk |
took |
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Thack |
thatch, thatching |
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Thack and rape, Thack an’ rape |
clothing and necessaries; the covering of a house, and so, home necessities |
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Thae |
these, those |
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Thairm, Thairms |
small guts; intestine, catgut, fiddle-strings |
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Thanket, Thankit |
thanked |
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Theckit |
thatched |
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Theekit |
thatched |
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Thegither |
together, at a time, continuously |
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Themsel’ |
themselves |
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Thick |
intimate, familiar, v. pack an' thick (confidential), going in quick succession |
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thie |
thigh |
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Thieveless |
forbidding, spiteful, cold, without warmth |
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Thig |
take, accept; beg |
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Thigger |
crowding, make a noise; a seeker of alms |
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Thiggin |
begging |
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Thir |
these |
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Thirl |
to thrill |
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Thirl'd, Thirled |
thrilled, vibrated |
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Thole |
to suffer, to endure |
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Thorter |
cross |
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Thou's, Thou'se |
thou shalt, thou art, thou hast |
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Thowe |
a thaw, to thaw |
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Thowless |
slack, lazy, useless |
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Thrang |
throng, busy, a crowd, crowding, thronging in crowds, press of people |
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Thrapple |
throat, windpipe |
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thrash |
flail, strike (sexually) |
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Thrave |
twenty-four sheaves of corn, a measure of straw |
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Thraw |
to sprain, a twist, to twist, to contradict, to turn, to thwart, frustrate |
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Thraws |
throes |
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Thrawin’ |
twisting, &c |
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Thrawn |
sprained, twisted, contradicted, contradiction |
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Threap |
to maintain by dint of assertion, argue, argue obstinately |
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Threesome |
trio |
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Thresh |
beat, belabour |
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Threshing |
beating |
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Threshin’ |
threshing |
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threshin’-tree |
a flail |
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Threteen |
thirteen |
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Thretty |
thirty |
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Thrissle, Thristle |
thistle |
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Thrist |
thirst |
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Thristed |
thirsted |
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Through |
to go on with, to make out |
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mak to through |
make good |
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Throuther, Throu'ther |
(through other) pell-mell, confusedly (through-ither) |
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Thrum |
sound of a spinning-wheel in motion, the thread remaining at the end of a web |
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Thy lane |
alone |
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Thud |
to make a loud intermittent noise |
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Thummart |
foumart, polecat |
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thump |
strike |
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thumping |
1) exceptionally large; 2) (colloq.) fine |
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Thumpit |
thumped |
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Thysel’, thysel |
thyself, yourself |
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tiched |
touched, affected |
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tickle |
rouse, please, amuse |
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Tight |
girt, prepared; neat, shapely; tidy, cosy, snug; capable, ready |
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Till |
to |
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Till’t |
to it |
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Timmer |
timber, material; wooden edge |
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Tine, tyne (past t. tint) |
to lose, to be lost |
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tint |
lost, get lost |
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Tinkler |
a tinker, itinerant mender of pots and pans, usually a gipsy; low rascal |
медник, бродячий лудильщик, обычно цыган; (перен.) подонок |
Tip, toop |
a ram, tup |
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Tippence |
twopence, money |
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Tippeny |
ale originally sold at 2d. a Scots pint |
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Tirl |
to make a slight noise, to uncover, unthatch, to strip, to knock for entrance, rattle at the door, by turning the latch |
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Tirlin’, tirlet |
uncovering |
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Tiseday |
Tuesday |
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Tither (the) |
the other |
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Tittle |
to whisper, to prate idly |
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tittie, titty |
(colloq.) sister |
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Tittlin, tittlan |
whispering, tattling |
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Tocher |
marriage portion, dowry, to give a dowry |
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tocher bands |
marriage bonds, marriage settlement |
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Tocher-gude |
marriage portion |
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Tod |
a fox |
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“Tod i’ the fauld,” |
fox in the fold |
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Toddlan, todlin |
toddling, walking unsteadily |
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Toddle |
to totter, like the walk of a child |
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todlen-dow |
toddling dove |
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Toddy |
whisky, hot water, and sugar |
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Ton |
fashion, mode |
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Too-fa’, Toofa’ |
beginning (of night); “Too fa’ o’ the nicht,” when twilight darkens into night; a building added, a lean-to, the fall |
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Toolzie, Tulyie, Tulzie |
a quarrel, to quarrel, to fight, a squabble, a tussle, contest |
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Toom |
empty |
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Toomed |
emptied |
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Toop, tip, tup |
a ram, tup |
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Toss |
a toast; beauty, belle |
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Tosie |
warm and ruddy with warmth, good-looking, intoxicating |
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Toun |
a hamlet, a farmhouse, farm steading; town |
|
Tour |
turf, sod |
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Tousie |
shaggy |
|
Tout |
the blast of a horn or trumpet, to blow a horn or trumpet, blast |
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Touzle |
ruffle, handle roughly |
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Touzles, touzling |
romping, ruffling the clothes |
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Tow |
a rope, flax, fibre of flax prepared for spinning |
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Towmond, towmont |
a twelvemonth, year |
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Towns-bodies |
village, farm |
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Towsing |
rumpling (equivocal), handling indelicately |
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Towzie |
rough, shaggy, unkempt |
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Toy |
a very old fashion of female head-dress |
|
Toyte |
to totter like old age, walk like old age, totter |
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Tozie |
flushed with drink, warm, cosy, tipsy |
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Trac'd |
harnessed |
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Tram |
cart of barrow shaft |
|
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Trams, barrow-trams |
the handles of a barrow, shafts |
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Transmogrify |
change |
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Transmugrified, transmugrify'd |
transmigrated, metamorphosed |
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Trashtrie |
trash, rubbish, small trash |
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Tread |
trod |
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Tree |
timber, wood |
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Trepan |
inveigle, beguile |
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Trews, trouse |
trousers, close-fitting trousers |
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Trick |
habit, turn |
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Trickie |
full of tricks, crafty, deceitful |
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Trig |
spruce, neat, trim, smart |
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Trimly |
cleverly, excellently, in a seemly manner |
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Trinle, trintle |
the wheel of a barrow, to roll |
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Trinklin |
trickling, flowing |
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Trin'le |
the wheel of a barrow |
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Trogger |
packman, pedlar |
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Troggers, troggin’ |
wandering merchants, goods to truck or dispose of |
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Troggin |
wares |
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Troke |
to barter |
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Trot |
run, bustle |
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Trouse, Trews |
trousers |
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Trow |
to believe, to trust to |
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Trump |
a jew's harp |
|
Tryste |
a fair; a cattle-market; meeting, assembly |
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Trysted |
appointed |
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Trysting |
meeting |
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Trysts |
appointments, love meetings, cattle shows |
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Trowth |
truth, a petty oath |
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Tumbler-wheels |
wheels of a kind of low cart |
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Tug |
raw hide, of which in old time plough-traces were frequently made |
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Tug or tow |
either in leather or rope |
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Tulyie, Tulzie |
a quarrel, to quarrel, to fight, a squabble, a tussle, contest |
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Tup, Toop, tip |
a ram, tup |
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Twa, tway |
two |
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Twafauld, twa-fald |
twofold, double, bent double |
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Twa faul |
twofold |
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Twa-three |
a few |
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Twad, 'twad |
it would |
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Twal |
twelve, midnight |
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the twal |
twelve at night |
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twalpennie worth |
a small quantity, a penny worth (English money), a pennyworth — R.B. One penny English is 12d. Scotch, shilling |
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Twang |
twinge |
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Twa-three |
two or three |
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Tway |
two |
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Twelt |
twelfth |
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Twin, twine |
to rob; to deprive; bereave |
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Twin |
to part, separate (from), deprive (of) |
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Twine |
thread |
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Twistle |
twisting, a twist; a sprain; the art of making a rope |
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Tyke |
a dog, cur, mongrel |
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Tyne, Tine |
to lose, to be lost |
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Tysday |
Tuesday |
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tyta |
pet name for 'father' |
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U |
Top - Наверх |
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Ulzie |
oil |
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Unback’d filly |
a young mare hitherto unsaddled |
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Unchancy |
dangerous, ill-omened |
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Unco |
strange, odd, uncouth, very, very great, prodigious, remarkably, uncommonly, excessively, remarkable, uncommon, terrible (sarcastic); strange tales |
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Uncos |
news, strange things, wonders |
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Unfauld |
unfold |
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Unkend, Unkenn’d |
unknown, unnoticed |
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Unsicker |
uncertain, wavering, insecure, unsure |
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Unskaithed |
undamaged, unhurt |
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Upo’ |
upon |
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up wi' |
here's to |
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up wi't a' |
here's to you |
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use't |
used, treated |
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Usquabae, usquebae |
whisky, Scotch whisky |
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V |
Top - Наверх |
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vapour |
fancy, whimsy |
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Vap’rin |
vapouring |
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Vaunte |
vain, proud |
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Vauntie |
joyous, delight which cannot contain itself, proud |
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Vend |
sell; advance; utter |
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Vera |
very, actual; true, real |
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Viewin |
view, sight |
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Virl |
a ring round a column, &c, band of metal or ivory |
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Virls |
rings |
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Vittle, vittel, vitte |
victual, grain, food, fodder |
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Vogie |
vain |
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Vow |
(interj.) wow |
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W |
Top - Наверх |
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Wa’, waw |
wall |
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wa’s |
walls |
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Wab |
a web |
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Wabster |
a weaver |
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Wad |
would, would have, to bet, to wager, a bet, a pledge, to wed, covenant |
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'twad, Twad |
it would |
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Wad'a |
would have |
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Wadna |
would not |
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Wadset |
land on which money is lent, a mortgage |
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Wae |
woe, alas; wo |
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Wae worth |
wo befall |
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waefu’, woful |
sorrowful, wailing, bringing misery |
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Waefu’-woodie |
hangman’s rope |
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waegae by |
may evil befall |
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wae's me |
wo is to me |
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Waesucks! Wae’s me! |
Alas! O the pity! |
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Wa’ flower |
wall-flower |
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Waff, Waft |
sea-trip |
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Waft |
woof; the cross thread that goes from the shuttle through the web |
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Waifs an’ crocks |
stray sheep and old ewes past breeding |
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Wail |
bewail |
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Wair, ware |
to lay out, to expend, worn, spend |
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Wale |
choice, to choose |
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Wal’d |
chose, chosen |
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Walie, wawlie, waule, wawly, waly |
ample, large, jolly, handsome, fine, also an exclamation of distress or grief; choice |
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Wallop |
to kick; to dangle; to gallop; to dance, kick the heels, be hanged; leap, violent beat |
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Wallow |
wither, fade, grow pale |
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Walth |
wealth |
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Waly fa' |
ill befall! |
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Wame |
the belly |
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Wamefou, Wamefu’ |
a bellyful |
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Wan |
won (past t., p. p. of win) |
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Wanchansie |
unlucky, dangerous |
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Wand |
branch, slender stem |
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Wanrest, wanrestfu’ |
restless, unrestful |
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Wap |
wrap |
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Ware, wair |
to spend; bestow, worn (p.p. of wear) |
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Wark |
work, labour, business |
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Wark-lum, Wark-lume |
a tool to work with, tool for work |
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Warl', Warl, Warle or warld |
world |
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Warld’s-worm |
a miser |
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Warlock |
a wizard, male witch |
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warlock-breef |
charter conveying magical powers |
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warlock-knowe |
a knoll where warlocks once held tryste |
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Warl'y, warldly, Warly |
worldly, eager in amassing wealth |
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Warp |
weave |
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Warran’, warran |
a warrant, to warrant, guarantee |
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Warse |
worse |
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Warsle, warstle |
wrestle, struggle |
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Warsl’d or warst’led |
wrestled |
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Wast |
west |
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Waste |
waist |
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Wastrie |
prodigality, waste, wastefulness, extravagance |
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Wat |
wet; wot, know, be aware of, be sure |
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I wat |
I wot, I know |
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Wat |
a man’s upper dress; a sort of mantle |
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Water-brose |
brose made of meal and water simply, without the addition of milk, butter, &c |
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Water-fit |
water-foot (the river's mouth) |
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Water-kelpies |
v. kelpies, river demons |
речные демоны |
watna |
don't know |
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Wattle |
a twig, a wand, stick |
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Wauble |
to swing, to reel, to wobble, move unsteadily |
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Waught |
a draft, draught, heavy drink |
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Wauk |
to awake, be or stay awake, wake up, arouse |
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Wauken |
to awaken |
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Waukin |
waking, watching, awake |
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Waukit |
thickened as fullers do cloth, (with toil), horny |
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Waukrife |
not apt to sleep, wakeful |
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Waulie, walie, wawly |
jolly |
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Waur, war |
worse, to worst; excel, surpass |
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Waur’t, warst, waurst |
worsted, beat |
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Wavering |
wandering, fluttering |
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Waw, wa' |
wall |
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Wean |
(wee one), a child |
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Weanies |
babies |
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wearing |
passing (of time) |
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weary |
tiring |
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weary-fa' |
a curse on |
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Weary-widdle |
toilsome contest of life |
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Weason |
weasand, windpipe, gullet |
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Weaven’ the stocking |
to knit stockings |
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Wecht |
a measure for corn, sieve |
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Weeder-clips |
instrument for removing weeds |
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Wee |
little, little bit, while; infant |
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a wee |
a short space or time |
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wee bits |
a small matter |
малозначительный |
wee things |
little ones, a little, children |
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wee touch |
a very little |
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Weel |
well, fine; welfare |
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weelfare |
welfare |
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Weel-faured |
well-favored |
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Weel-gaun |
well-going |
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Weel-hain'd |
well-saved |
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as weel's |
as well as |
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weel's me on |
a blessing on |
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Weepers |
mournings (on the steeve or hat), cuffs |
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Weet |
rain, wetness; to wet |
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Werena |
were not |
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We’se |
we shall, we'll |
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Westlin |
western, westerly, west country |
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Wether |
castrated ram |
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Wether-haggis |
haggis made in wether's stomach |
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Wha, whaever |
who |
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Whaizle |
to wheeze |
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Whalp |
whelp |
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Whalpet, Whalpit |
whelped |
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Wham |
whom |
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Whan |
when |
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Whang |
a leathorn thing, a piece of cheese, bread, &c; a shive, flog, thick slice of cheese |
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Whar, Whare, whaur |
where |
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whare’er |
wherever |
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Wheep |
to fly nimbly, to jerk, penny-wheep, small-beer |
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Wha's |
who is, whose |
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Whase |
whose |
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What for, whatfore |
wherefore |
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whatfore no |
why not |
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What reck |
nevertheless, what matter |
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Whatna |
what |
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Whatt |
whittled |
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Whaup |
the curlew |
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Whaur, Whar, Whare |
where |
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Wheep, penny-wheep |
jerk, jig |
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Whid |
the motion of a hare running but not frightened, move nimbly and noiselessly (of a hare), a lie, a fib, word |
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Whidden, Whiddin |
running as a hare or coney, scudding |
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Whids |
gambols |
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Whig |
puritan, hypocrite |
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Whigish |
rigid |
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Whigmeleerie |
whimsical ornament |
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Whigmeleeries |
whims, fancies, crotchets |
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whiles, whyle |
at times, sometimes |
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Whilk |
which |
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Whin |
gorse, furze-bush |
дрок (род кустарников и полукустарников семейства бобовых) |
Whinge |
whine, complain |
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Whingin’ |
whining, crying, complaining, fretting |
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Whins |
furze |
заросли дрока (род кустарников и полукустарников семейства бобовых) |
Whin-rock, whunstane |
whinstone, hard dark rock |
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Whipper-in |
huntsman responsible for keeping the hounds in pack |
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Whirl |
rush, rapid trip |
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Whirligigums |
useless ornaments, trifling appendages |
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Whirlygigums |
flourishes |
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Whirry |
hurry, drive |
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Whissle |
a whistle, to whistle |
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Whisht |
silence |
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to hold one’s whisht |
to be silent |
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Whisk, whisket |
to sweep, to lash |
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Whiskin’ beard |
a beard like the whiskers of a cat |
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Whiskit |
lashed, the motion of a horse’s tail removing flies |
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Whitter |
a hearty draught of liquor, draught of liquor, a draft |
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Whittle |
a knife; knife used as a weapon; clasp-knife; surgical knife |
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Whunstane, whin-rock |
a whinstone |
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whyle, whiles |
at times, sometimes |
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whyle ... whyle |
at times ... at times |
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Wi’ |
with |
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wi'm |
with him |
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Wi's |
with his |
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Wi't |
with it |
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Wick |
to strike a stone in an oblique direction, a term in curling |
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Wick a bore |
hit a curling-stone obliquely and send it through an opening |
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widdefu' |
deserving hanging, rascally |
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Widdifu |
twisted like a withy, one who merits hanging |
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Widdifu' |
gallows-worthy |
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Widdle |
wriggle |
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Wiel |
a small whirlpool, eddy |
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wierd |
fate, fortune |
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Wifie, wifikie |
a diminutive or endearing name for wife |
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Wight |
stout, enduring, strong, creature, fellow |
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Wighter |
more influential |
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Willcat, wil-cat |
wildcat |
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Willie |
willow |
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Willyart |
disordered, awkward |
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Willyart-glower |
a bewildered dismayed stare |
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Wimple |
to meander; twisting, turning |
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Wimple-womplet |
to meander, meandered, to enfold |
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Wimplin |
waving, meandering |
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Win |
live, won, reach, gain, get; earn |
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Win‘ |
to wind, breath, to winnow |
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win't |
(past t.) wind |
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winkers |
eye-lashes, eyes |
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Winn |
to winnow |
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Winna |
will not, won't |
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Winnin |
winding |
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Winnock |
window |
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Winnock-bunker |
window-seat, v. bunker |
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Winnin’-thread |
putting thread into hanks |
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Winsome |
hearty, vaunted, gay |
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Win’t |
winded as a bottom of yarn, did wind |
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Wintle |
a staggering motion, to stagger, to reel, a somersault, to swing; to wriggle, swing from side to side, roll |
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Winze |
a curse or imprecation |
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Wiss |
wish, to wish |
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wit |
know |
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Withouten, withoutten |
without |
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Witty |
jocular, merry |
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Wizened |
hide-bound, dried, shrunk |
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Won |
to dwell |
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Wonner |
a wonder, marvel, a contemptuous appellation, (contemptuous) fine specimen |
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wonted |
accustomed |
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Woo‘, woo |
wool |
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Woo |
to court, to make love to |
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Woodie, Widdie, woody |
a rope, more properly one of withs or willows, a rope (originally of withes); a gallows rope, withy, rope, halter for hanging |
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Woodies |
twigs, withes |
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wooer-bab |
garter at the knee worn by a suitor |
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Wooer-babs |
love-knots |
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Woer-bobs |
the garter knitted below the knee with a couple of loops |
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Wordie, Wordy |
worthy |
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Worset |
worsted, woolen fabric |
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Worth, Wae worth |
wo befall |
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Wrack |
to tease, to vex, torment, punish |
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Wraith |
a spirit, a ghost, an apparition exactly like a
living person, whose appearance is said to forbode the person’s
approaching death; also wrath |
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Wrang |
wrong, to wrong |
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Wreeth |
a drifted heap of snow |
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Wud |
wild, mad, enraged, angry |
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wud-mad |
distracted |
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Wumble |
a wimble |
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wyle, wlyle |
lure |
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Wyliecoat |
a flannel vest, undervest |
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Wyte |
(weight), blame, to blame, to reproach |
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Y
| Top - Наверх |
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Yad |
mare, old horse |
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Yard, yerd |
a garden; a stackyard |
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Yaud |
an old mare |
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Ye |
this pronoun is frequently used for thou |
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Yealing |
contemporary in age |
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Yealings |
born in the same year, coevals |
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Year |
is used both for singular and plural, years |
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Yearn |
eagle |
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Yearns |
longs much |
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Yearth |
a garden; a stackyard; earth |
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Yell |
barren, that gives no milk, dry (milkless) |
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Yerd |
earth |
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Yerk |
to lash, stir up, to jerk |
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Yerket, Yerkit |
jerked, lashed |
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Yerl |
earl |
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Ye'se |
ye shall – you shall |
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Yestreen |
yesternight, last night, yesterday evening |
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Yett, yet |
a gate |
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Yeuk |
to itch |
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Yeukin' |
itching |
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Yeuk’s |
itches |
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Yill |
ale |
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Yill-Caup |
ale-stoup |
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Yird, yirth |
earth |
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yirded |
earthed, buried |
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Yirr |
lively, bark |
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Yokin, Yokin‘, yoking |
a spell; a day's work, contest, turn |
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Yon |
yonder |
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Yont, 'Yont |
ayont, beyond, on the far side of |
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Youngkers |
young folk |
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Yoursel |
yourself |
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Yowe |
an ewe |
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Yowie |
diminutive of Yowe; a pet ewe |
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Yule |
Christmas |
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