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language

Scottish Words


B

Bailie - a Scottish municipal magistrate

Besom - a term of contempt applied to a woman of unworthy character

Bothy - a primitive dwelling or shelter


Braw - brave, fine, excellent

Burn - a watercourse, often a small stream but can also refer to a river

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C

Canty - lively, cheerful, pleasant, brisk, in good spirits 

Caurry-fisted - left handed. The word 'caurry' is also spelt 'corry' or 'corrie' and derives from the word for left handed which can be spelt as kerr, ker or kere. Clan Kerr is so named because of the high number of left handers in that clan, and the term 'kerr-fisted' or 'caurry-fisted' refers to the genetic trait of the Kerrs to be left handed

Clishmaclaver - gossip, chatter

Close - a courtyard or enclosed space adjoining a house

Clot-heid - idiot

Clout - a piece of cloth. It is also spelt cloot.

Cockernonny - a type of hairstyle, usually on a woman, where the hair is gathered up and wrapped in a snood, but in Outlander, chapter 31, Jenny tells Jamie she will make him a proper cockernonny and she plaits his hair into a queue.

Collop - a thickish slice of meat

Coof - fool


Corbie - a raven

Corrie - a hollow on the side of a hill

Crag/Craig - either a cliff or a hill with a steep rock face at one end

Croodle - to nestle close together for warmth or protection
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D

Doit - a small copper Scottish coin

Doiter - blundering fool

Dunbonnet - a dull brown bonnet. A bonnet is a head-covering including all kinds of caps, but not hats.

Dunt - a dull blow or knock

F

Fiddle-ma-fyke - a fussy, over fastidious person

Firth - an arm of the sea or inlet

Fricht - fright

G

Gaberlunzie - a licenced beggar

Garbeled - made a lot of noise

Girdle - a flat, circular iron plate with a hooped handle which is placed over the fire and the heated surface used for cooking things like scones & oatcakes


Gomerel - a fool or stupid person

Gowk - fool

Gralloch - the entrails of a dead deer and also the act of disembowelling a dead deer

Guid - good

H

Hiddie-pyke - miser, skinflint

Hogmanay - New Year's Eve

Hough - the leg or shin of an animal

Hurdies - buttocks

K

Kailyard - a small plot of land or kitchen garden. Named so because kale, or cabbage, was usually the main vegetable grown there

Kebbie-lebbie - altercation

Ked - a sheep tick

Kine - cows

Kittle-hoosie - a brothel

Knivvle - to beat or thrash
​

L

Laird - equivalent of the English word lord, a nobleman

Lang-nebbit - literally long-nosed, but used metaphorically to mean a nosy person


Luckenbooth - a lockable booth or shop. These were Edinburgh's first permanent shops, situated on the ground floor of tenement buildings

M

Mozie auld pout-worm! - mouldy old grub!

Mumper - someone who gums their food because they have no teeth

My jo - my dear friend

N

Neffit - pygmy

Nettercap - a spider or a bad-tempered person

Numpty - stupid person, idiot
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O

Oxter - an armpit
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P

Pibroch - the classical music of the Scottish bagpipe, sometimes used to refer to pipe music in general, or to the pipes themselves

Poolie - a louse. Also spelt poulie

Poutworm - a grub

Proddle - to poke, goad or stab

Q

Qurd - a lump of excrement
​

S

Saft - a thaw or wet weather, mild not frosty

Sark - a man's shirt

Sasine - a legal term referring to the act of giving possession of property

Shag - To have sex. When Roger asks Brianna if she has picked up any Scottish turns of phrase, she tells him that there is a dance in the States called the Shag, but she understands that she shouldn't ask him to do it with her here. Roger replies, 'Not unless you mean it" (DIA, chapter 48)

Skelloch - shriek, scream, cry

Skoot - a conceited boaster

Skrae-shankit - having thin, spindly legs

Silkie - seal. Also spelt as selkie

W

Wame - belly

Wynd - a narrow lane or alley off a main thoroughfare, often following a sinuous or curving course

Y

Yeuk - itch

Yin - one



























































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