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alane alone
auld old
auld lang syne a long
time ago
bairn child
blether (idle)
chatter
bickerin quarreling
bide stay
bonnie bonny
beautiful
braw good or
handsome
cairn a loose
heap of stones (often constructed near hill and mountain tops by
hillwalkers)
canny cautious
chitterin shivering
with the cold
crabbit
ill-tempered
dram small
quantity of whisky
dreich miserable,
cold and wet (weather)
drookit dripping wet
fling to throw
frae from
gane gone
gang go
glaikit
stupid, glazed (expression)
gloamin' half-dark -
twilight
glower scowl
grannie grandmother
greet to cry
hae have
haiver talk
nonense
ken know
laddie boy
lang long
lassie girl
merrit married
mickle much
midge a gnat
mocket dirty
neep turnip
onie any
palaver fuss
poke to prod
Sassenach an Englishman
('Saxon')
scunner nuisance
shoogle shake
skelp smack
sleekit sly
smirr fine rain
(noun and verb)
sonsie jolly
spurtle wooden
spoon
stoat bounce
stourie dusty
stramash commotion
tattie potato
unco strange
wean child
wearie exhausted
wee little
yon yonder
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