| a’ | all |
| a-benua | except |
| abide | tolerate |
| ablow | below |
| aboot | about |
| aff | off |
| afore | before |
| ahint | behind |
| aiblins | perhaps |
| ain | own |
| aince | once |
| aipple | apple |
| air | early |
| airt and pairt | closely connected with |
| a-kennin | a little, somewhat |
| alane | alone |
| a-lunt | on fire |
| an’ | and |
| ane | one |
| aneath | beneath |
| anent | opposite |
| aneu, aneuch | enough |
| An’ra | Andrew |
| arles | earnest money to bind a bargain |
| argie-bargie | dispute |
| arhort | across |
| auld | old |
| Auld Hornie | a familiar name for the devil; from the vulgar idea of his having horns |
| Auld Reekie | jesting name for Edinburgh; see reeky |
| aumry | cupboard |
| ava | at all |
| awa | away |
| aweel | well |
| awesome | fearsome awful |
| aye | always |
| ayont | beyond |
| ayther | either |
| baggonets | bayonets |
| bairn | child |
| baisoned | having a long white mark on the face, said of an animal |
| baith | both |
| bauchle | a slipper |
| bauks | rafters |
| bawbee | halfpenny |
| bawdrons | a cat |
| bees-byke | bees’ nest |
| beetle | mallet of wood used for various domestic purposes |
| begrutten | exhausted with crying |
| begunk | cheat, trick |
| behove | obliged |
| belike | perhaps, probably |
| belly-flaught | falling flat forward |
| ben | inner apartment |
| bena | besides |
| bensel, bensil | bleak, cold (as of wind) |
| bent | a coarse grass |
| berried | hurt |
| besom | contemptuous term for a woman; a broom |
| bestial | cattle |
| betheral | inferior church officer |
| bicker | wooden bowl |
| bide | remain, stay |
| bide-a-wee | stop a little |
| bidin | staying |
| bield | shelter |
| bieldest | most sheltered |
| bien | flourishing, wealthy |
| big | build |
| bigging | a building |
| billie | brother, companion |
| billied | bellowed |
| birk | birch |
| birkies | lively fellows |
| birl | quick motion in walking |
| birling | drinking spirits, etc.; making a sound like falling water |
| birses | bristles |
| bite and sup | refreshments |
| black-affrontit | greatly affronted |
| black-a-vised | dark complexioned |
| blae | blue |
| blaff | downcome |
| blastie | an ill-disposed person; a term of contempt; from blasted |
| blate | shy, bashful |
| blateness | shyness |
| blawin | blowing |
| bleeze | blaze |
| bletherin’ | foolish language |
| blythe | merry, happy |
| bobbit | curtsied |
| bocht | bought |
| bogle | to play a romp or game in a stackyard |
| bonnet-laird | small landed proprietor |
| bonny | pretty |
| bonny hand o’ write | pretty handwriting |
| bood | must |
| booin | bowing |
| bool | handle of pot or bucket |
| bothy | hut, small house for single male farm-servants |
| bouroch | a small knoll, a small house children build in play, often among bushes |
| bracken | fern, generally Pteris Aquilina |
| brae | rising ground, hillock |
| braid | broad |
| brandered | broiled on a gridiron |
| braw | fine |
| brawly | finely |
| breeks | trousers, breeches |
| brew | juice, infusion |
| briers | briars |
| brig | bridge |
| brocht | brought |
| brock | badger |
| brogan | a light kind of shoe |
| brogues | shoes of half-dressed leather |
| broken-men | outlaws |
| broo | forehead, brow |
| brose | a kind of pottage made by pouring boiling water on meal, etc. |
| brownie | a domestic goblin |
| brulzie | broil, disturbance |
| bubbly-jock | turkey cock |
| bucht | sheepfold |
| buckie | any spiral shell |
| Buik, the | the Bible used of family worship; book |
| bumbees | humble bees |
| bum-clock | cockchaffer |
| bummelin’(g) | buzzing |
| buriet | buried |
| burnie | dim. of burn, a small stream |
| buss, pl. busses | bush |
| but | and ben outer and inner apartments |
| by | past |
| byne | tub |
| by-ordinar | uncommon |
| byous | very, in a great degree |
| byre | cow-house |
| caa’, ca | call |
| caa our cracks | to converse together |
| ca-the-crack | keep up the conversation |
| cadge | to act as a pedlar |
| caird | sturdy rascal |
| calf-conceit | the conceit of youth |
| callant | lad, young man |
| caller | fresh |
| callevine | lead pencil |
| calm-sough | quiet |
| camsteery | unmanageable |
| cankered carles | cross old folks |
| can’le | candle |
| canna | cannot |
| canny | careful, cautious |
| canty | lively, cheerful |
| carle | gruff old person |
| car (r) itches | catechisms |
| cast on | commencement of a piece of knitting |
| cast-up | upbraid |
| catheran | freebooter |
| cauld | cold |
| cauldrife | chilly |
| certes | faith, my certes, by my faith |
| chancy | not safe, dangerous |
| chapping | knocking |
| cheat-the-wuddy | defrauding the gallows, a term of reproach |
| cheep | creak; kiss |
| cheeper | a slight kiss |
| cheeping | chirping |
| chief | intimate |
| chiels | young fellows |
| chirt | squeeze |
| chucky | a fowl |
| chucky-stanes | pebbles |
| chunnered | laughed internally |
| clachan | small village |
| claes, | claiths clothes |
| clamperson | awkward |
| clap | lie down |
| clash | tittle-tattle |
| clatter | talk |
| clattering | noisy talk |
| clavers | idle talk |
| cleckin’ | talk |
| cleg | horse-fly |
| clickie | crooked head on staff |
| clinkum-clank | beating strongly |
| clocks | beetles |
| clod | to pelt, to throw clods |
| cloddin’ | throwing clods, stones, etc. |
| cloot | hoof |
| clottered | mixed up |
| clour | a knock, a blow |
| coaties | petticoats |
| cobble-stanes | stones rounded by the action of water |
| cogfu’, vessel fu’ | cog, a wooden vessel for holding milk, etc. |
| coggle | to move unsteadily |
| cole | a haycock |
| collieshangie | quarrel, row |
| comy-tee | committee |
| conceit o’ themselves | an opinion of themselves |
| coo | cow |
| coom | dust of peat or coals |
| coort | to pay one’s addresses |
| cooshairn | cow dung |
| corbie | raven |
| corklit | a kind of lichen |
| corp | corpse |
| corpse-clout | winding-sheet |
| cosy | comfortable |
| cowt | colt |
| craig | the neck |
| craw | crow |
| creel | wicker basket |
| creepie | a low stool |
| cries | proclamation of marriage |
| crony | intimate friend |
| croose and canty | lively and cheerful |
| crown o’ the causeway | middle of the street |
| cuddy | donkey |
| cuif | simpleton |
| cuist | cast |
| cuttit | cut |
| cutty | short clay-pipe |
| cutty-sark | a short shift |
| daffin’ | thoughtless gaiety, joking |
| daft | insane, foolish |
| daich | dough |
| dam-brod | draught-board |
| darned | concealed |
| daudin | dangling |
| daurna | dare not |
| davert | dumbfounded (exclamation) |
| dawtie | darling |
| deave | deafen |
| deavin’ | deafening |
| dee | die |
| ’deed | indeed |
| deein’ | dying |
| deeved | deafened |
| deil | devil |
| denty | dainty |
| deray | disorder |
| dichting | wiping, dusting |
| ding | strike a blow, drove |
| dinna | do not |
| dinnle | tingling caused by a stroke |
| disjeestion | digestion |
| div | do |
| dodderin’ | walking unsteadily |
| doer | agent, steward |
| doited | stupid |
| dominie | schoolmaster |
| donnart | stupid |
| doo | dove |
| dook | to bathe, swim |
| doon | down |
| door-cheek | side of door |
| doot | doubt |
| dottle | in a stage of dotage |
| douce | sedate, not frivolous |
| doup, dowp | the bottom, butt-end |
| dour | morose, stubborn |
| dourest | severest, hardiest |
| dowie | depressed |
| dowsed | beat, conquered |
| draft-sack | bag for holding grains; also used as a term of contempt |
| drappie | a small quantity |
| drappit | dropped |
| dreel | drill |
| drookit | drenched |
| droon | drown |
| drovin’ | driving cattle |
| dune | done down |
| dung | beaten |
| dung-doon | knocked down |
| dunt | a blow; stroke |
| dwam | fainting fit |
| dwine | decay |
| dyke | wall |
| earn | an eagle |
| een | eyes |
| eery | dreary, ghost-like |
| eidently | attentively |
| eined | a meeting of lad and lass by appointment or otherwise |
| elbuck | elbow |
| elricht | weird, unearthly |
| elshin | an awl |
| Enbra’ | Edinburgh |
| erne | eagle |
| establisher | belonging to the Established Church |
| ether | adder |
| etten | eaten |
| ettled | intended |
| even | compare, equal |
| faain’ | falling |
| faceable | likely |
| fair hornie | fair play; from a children’s game called Hornie |
| fairings | presents given at fairs |
| faither | father |
| fand | found |
| fannin’ | falling |
| far-ben | as far away as possible |
| farer | further |
| farls | properly |
| fash | trouble |
| faulds | folds |
| fause | false |
| faut | fault |
| favour | to be like in features |
| feared | afraid, frightened |
| fearsome | fearful |
| fecht | fight |
| fechter | fighter |
| feck | part of anything, a considerable number |
| feckless | feeble |
| fegs | a mincing oath (interj.) |
| feint-a-bit | ‘devil a bit’ |
| fell | strong, sometimes used as very: e.g. ‘It’s fell cauld’ |
| fend | provide |
| fess | fetch |
| fettle | to put in order |
| file | to dirty |
| fit | foot |
| flaf | puff |
| flafferin’ | fluttering |
| flee | a fly |
| fleechin’ | coaxing, cajoling |
| fleeing | flying |
| fley | startle, frighten |
| fleyed | frightened |
| flichterin’ | fluttering |
| flichtmafeathers | romping, ‘goings on’ |
| flinders | splinters |
| flunky | footman, manservant |
| flyte | to scold |
| flyting | scolding |
| foo | drunk, full |
| forbears | ancestors |
| forbye | besides |
| forefit | toe end of stocking |
| forenicht | early in the evening |
| forethocht | foresight |
| forgathered | met |
| forrit | forwards |
| forritsome | forward |
| foul-thief | the devil |
| fower-’oors | meal taken at four o’clock |
| frae | from |
| freen’ | relation, friend |
| freets | superstitions |
| freit | observance |
| fu’ | drunk, lit., full |
| fule | fool |
| fushionless | pithless, weak |
| fyke | fidget |
| gae, gaed | went |
| gae awa’ wi’ ye | go away with you |
| gait, gate | road, way |
| gang | go |
| gar | make, compel |
| garron | a small horse |
| gaun | going |
| gaun-bodies | travelling folk |
| gaunting | yawning |
| gawsy | jolly, plump |
| gean | wild cherry |
| gear | goods of any kind |
| ged | a pike |
| gellock | an earwig, sand jumper |
| gentle people | fairies |
| gentrice | gentry, gentility |
| gibin’ | taunting |
| gie | give |
| gied | gave |
| giff gaff | give and take |
| gilravagin | going about in a riotous way |
| gin, gif | if |
| girnin’ | grinning |
| girse | grass |
| glaur | mud |
| gled | hawk, kite |
| gleg | handy, smart, quick |
| glet, glit | oily, sticky matter |
| glint | glance |
| glinting | glancing, shining |
| glisk | glance |
| gloamin’ | twilight |
| gollying | bawling |
| gomeril | fool, idiot |
| go-off | beginning |
| goons | gowns |
| gorroch | mix, spoil, trample |
| gotten | got |
| goved | stared stupidly |
| gowd | gold |
| gowk | fool |
| gowpenfu’ | two hands full |
| granny | grandmother |
| grat | cried |
| greet | cry |
| greetten, greetin | crying |
| greybeard | an earthen bottle |
| grieschoch | hot embers |
| grieve | farm manager, overseeer |
| grooing | desire |
| gruesome | horrible |
| grupped, gruppit | seized |
| grutten over | wept over |
| guddle | to catch fish with the hands under stones, etc. |
| guid | good |
| guid-e’en | good evening |
| gumption | common sense |
| gye | tolerably, shortly |
| gyte | mad |
| hadna | had not |
| hae | have |
| haena | have not |
| hag-clog | block for cutting wood on |
| hagg | slough, pit in moss |
| hain | to save, preserve |
| hale | whole |
| halewar | whole |
| hallan | partition between the door and fireplace |
| hame | home |
| hankit | entangled |
| hantle | a considerable number |
| harns | brains |
| harry | rob |
| haud | hold |
| haudin’ | holding |
| haud yer wheesht | hold your tongue |
| hauf | chief place of resort |
| haun’ | hand |
| havers | nonsense |
| heatherbleat | snipe |
| heather-cat | wild cat |
| heid | head |
| hellicat | wild, wicked |
| hempie | roguish girl |
| hen-bauks | rafters on which hens roost |
| hence, henchin’ | to throw stones by jerking the hand along the haunch |
| hench-bane | hip bone |
| herryin’ and berryin’ | robbing and breaking |
| heuch | a ragged steep cliff |
| heuk | reaping hook |
| hilt and hair | the whole of anything |
| hind | farm servant |
| hinderend | afterwards |
| hint | behind |
| hirple | walking lame |
| hirsled | moved about restlessly |
| hoast | cough |
| hoised | assisted, pushed up |
| hoo | how |
| hoolet | owl |
| hoos | how is |
| hoose | house |
| hoots, hoot awa | expressing unbelief (interj.) |
| hope | a hollow between two hills |
| hos (h) en | stockings without feet, used as a term of reproach |
| howe | hollow |
| howk | to dig |
| howkit | dug |
| hullion | sloven |
| hunkers | posteriors |
| hurcheon | hedgehog |
| hurdies | buttocks |
| hurkle-backit | bent back |
| ilk, ilka | every, each |
| ilk auld boy | the devil |
| ill | bad |
| ill bit | hell |
| ill body | the devil |
| ill-thief | the devil |
| income | bodily infirmity |
| ingle | fire in a room |
| ingle-cheek | fireside |
| ingle-nook | fireside-corner |
| intil | into |
| ither | other |
| jabble | a noisy motion of water |
| jaloosin’ | suspecting |
| jaud | jade |
| jock-my-jo | a romping game of young men and women |
| jockteleg | a large clasp knife |
| jookin’, juikin’ | shifting, turning actively |
| jooky | readily |
| kail yard | cabbage garden |
| kaim | a hill fort, crest of a hill resembling a cock’s comb |
| kale | broth |
| kame | comb |
| kamed | combed |
| kane | tribute paid in kind |
| keek | look |
| keel | red chalk, ruddle |
| ken | know |
| kenna | know not |
| kenned | known |
| kennin’ | knowing |
| kenning a | a little |
| kenspeckle | conspicuous |
| kent | a rough stick |
| kep | cap |
| keppin’ | catching |
| Killing Time | time of the persecution of the Covenanters |
| kilted | tucked up |
| kin’ | kind |
| kintry | country |
| kirk | church |
| kirn | church; the festival of harvest home |
| kist | chest |
| kitchen | something to give food a relish |
| kittle | nice, difficult |
| knapping | knocking |
| knoit | a smart stroke |
| knowe | hillock |
| kuitled | tickled |
| kye | cows |
| laigh | low |
| laired | stuck in a bog |
| lairin’ | being bogged |
| landlouper | one who flits from one place to another; an intruder |
| landloupin’ | rambling (used as term of reproach) |
| lang | long |
| lang-nebbit | long-nosed |
| langsyne | long since |
| lapper | to beat gently (as water) |
| lave | the rest |
| leal | loyal |
| lear | learning |
| leer | liar |
| lees | lies |
| let on | acknowledge |
| licht | light |
| lichtlied | slighted |
| lick | beat, a blow |
| lift | sky, firmament |
| liftin’ | stealing |
| lilt | a song |
| limmer | a slighting term (used of a woman) |
| lingtow | a rope used by smugglers |
| link | a division, a piece |
| linking | walking quickly |
| linn | a waterfall |
| lintie | a linnet |
| lippened | trusted |
| lirk | a hollow in a hill |
| loaden | load |
| loan, loanin’ | a lane, broad roadway between fields |
| loathly-dogs | ghostly hounds |
| loch | lake |
| lochan | a small lake |
| loon | rogue, boy |
| loup | jump, leap |
| lowe | flame |
| lowed | blazed |
| lown | calm, sheltered |
| lowse | loose |
| luckie | term applied to an elderly woman |
| lug | the ear |
| luik | look |
| lumtap | chimney top |
| lunt | fire |
| lunted | smoked |
| luntin’ | blazing and smoking |
| mails | rents, tribute |
| mair, mae | more |
| maist | most |
| mak | make; manner |
| manse | parsonage |
| march-dyke | a fence dividing two properties |
| marriet | married |
| maun | must |
| mavis | a thrush |
| mawk | a maggot |
| maybes | perhaps |
| mensefu’ | polite, mannerly |
| mess john | a jocular term for a priest or minister of a parish |
| micht | might |
| midden | dung heap |
| mind | remember |
| minister’s man | church officer |
| minnie | mother |
| mint | to declare, hint |
| mirk | darkness |
| misca’ | abuse |
| miscannin’ | calling names |
| mischance | accident |
| misdoot | doubt, doubting |
| misdooted | doubted |
| misleared | ill-bred, evil-intentioned |
| mislippen | to overlook, mismanage |
| mistrysted | deceived |
| mither | mother |
| moderator | president of an ecclesiastical court |
| moiderd | dazed, stupid |
| mony | many |
| moo | mouth |
| mools | earth |
| morrows-morn | tomorrow morning |
| moss-hag | deep gully, or pit in a moss |
| muckle | large, much |
| muckle-moo’d | large-mouthed |
| muils | churchyard earth |
| muirburn | burning heather |
| mutch | woman’s cap |
| na, nae | no |
| nane | none |
| napkin | handkerchief |
| natheless | nevertheless |
| neb | nose, beak |
| neffy | nephew |
| neist | next |
| neuk | corner |
| nicht | night |
| nicky ben | old familiar term for the devil |
| no | not |
| nocht | nothing |
| noo | now |
| noos and thans | now and then |
| nor | than |
| no that ill | not so bad |
| notour | notorious |
| nowt | cattle |
| on-ding | noise, turmoil, heavy fall of rain or snow |
| onsonsy | unlucky |
| onstead | farm buildings |
| on the back o’t | immediately afterwards |
| ony | any |
| ony-gate | any way |
| oo | wool |
| oor | our |
| oot | out |
| or | before |
| orra | odd, not matched |
| o’t | of it |
| ower | over, over to |
| ower-by | over the way |
| ower-fauld | over-fold |
| oxter | armpit, arm |
| pack | intimate |
| paddock | frog |
| paidled | to walk with short irregular steps, to dabble |
| pairtrick | partridge |
| parritch | porridge |
| parritch-time | supper-time |
| partan | crab |
| pawky | sly, wily |
| pech | pant |
| peching | panting |
| peep | a feeble sound |
| peepin’ | chirping like a bird |
| pelloch | porpoise |
| pent | paint |
| pentit | painted |
| pick | offence; choice, selection; tar |
| pickle | a small quantity |
| pike | pick |
| pit, pitten | put |
| pitawta | potato |
| pit-mirk | pitch dark |
| plenished | furnished |
| plenishing | household furnishings, etc. |
| pliskies | mischievous tricks |
| ploy | employment |
| poke | a bag, pouch |
| pooch | |
| poo’d | pulled |
| pook | pluck |
| preein’ | tasting |
| preen | pin |
| professor | religious |
| provost | mayor of a burgh |
| puggie | monkey |
| puir | poor |
| pund | a pound |
| pur sang | poor blood |
| put-on | dressed |
| quag | bog |
| quakkin-quas | dangerous bogs |
| quat | quit |
| quate | quiet |
| quean | wench |
| quey | heifer |
| rade | rode |
| rale | real, rally |
| rampagin’ | raging |
| ramshackle | ruinous, tumbledown |
| randy | scolding, disorderly |
| rape | rope |
| rave | tore |
| reamin’ | foaming, frothing |
| red-cock, craw, to gar the | fire-raising |
| red oot | find out |
| red-up | settle, tidy; cleaned, tidied |
| reddin’, -up | cleaning up |
| ree | a stone enclosure for sheep |
| reek | smoke |
| reeky | smoky |
| reesled | wrestled |
| reived | taken by force, stolen |
| reivers | robbers |
| remead | remedy |
| richt | right |
| rig | a wild adventure |
| rig | and fur ridge and furrow in ploughing or weaving |
| rigs | ridges |
| rin | run |
| rive | a worthless lot; to tear |
| rogueit | driven by force |
| roon | round |
| routed | bellowed |
| routh | plenty |
| routin’ | bellowing |
| sabbit | sobbed |
| sae | so |
| sain | to bless against evil influences |
| sair | sore |
| sant | saint |
| sark | shirt |
| saugh, -ch | willow |
| sayin’ | cheep, keeping silence |
| scale | dispersed; e.g. ‘The kirk’s scaled’, the congregation has dispersed |
| scarfit | scratched |
| scart | scratch |
| schule | school |
| scone | a thin cake of wheat or barley meal |
| scoup | to run off with |
| scraichin’ | screaming hoarsely |
| scrauchlin’ | scrambling |
| screed | a piece torn off, a rag |
| screevin’ | moving swiftly |
| scrive | piece of writing |
| scroggie | stunted |
| scrunt | meagre |
| scunner | disgust |
| ser | serve |
| serk | shirt |
| shapin-claes | best outfit |
| shapit | shaped |
| shauchelt | twisted, distorted |
| sheltie | small pony |
| sherra | sheriff |
| sheuch | a trench, ditch |
| shippen | cow-house, byre |
| shoother | shoulder |
| shootin’-airns | firearms |
| shune | shoes |
| sib | related to |
| sic | such |
| siccan | such |
| siccar | safe |
| sicht | sight |
| siller | money |
| sin | since |
| sindry | sundry, asunder |
| singin’ | singeing |
| sirce-me | dear me (exclamation) |
| skaith | harm |
| skarauchlin’ | screaming |
| skarrow | shadow, reflection |
| skartin’ | scratching |
| skelloch | scream, squall |
| skelp | a sharp slap, a blow |
| skelpin’ | beating |
| skillet | a drinking cup |
| skirling-pan | frying-pan |
| slap | an opening in a wall, also a narrow pass between two hills |
| slecked | miry |
| sleekit | smooth, shining |
| sleeky | sly, deceitful |
| slithering | sliding |
| sloyt | a lazy dirty fellow |
| sma’ | small |
| smoor | smother; smoke, dust |
| snaw | snow |
| sneeshin’ | snuff, from sneezing |
| snod | neat, in good order |
| snore-up | ascend |
| snowkin’ | smelling about |
| sonsy | fat, comfortable |
| soo | a sow |
| soon’in board | sounding board |
| soop | sweep |
| sorn | to sponge on one; to live meanly on others |
| sorning | sponging |
| sough | a sound |
| soughin’ | sighing of wind |
| souter | cobbler, shoemaker |
| sowens | flummery (a common Scottish dish) |
| spang | to spring up |
| spate | a flood |
| speaned | weaned |
| sped | exhausted |
| speer | ask |
| speerin’ | asking |
| speldron | awkward |
| spence | parlour |
| sprigget | sprigged |
| spulzie | spoil |
| spunkie | will-o’-the-wisp |
| spurtle | stick for stirring porridge, etc. |
| stance | station |
| stane | stone |
| stannin’ | standing |
| stap | stave. (‘A stap oot o’ yer bicker’, i.e. a reduced quantity) |
| stark | strong |
| stead | a place, as in homestead |
| steading | farm buildings |
| sted | place |
| steer | disturbance |
| steeve | strong, stiff |
| stirk | a steer or heifer between one and two years old |
| stock | fore part of a bed |
| stookit | put up in shocks (stooks) |
| stoor | dust in motion |
| stot | a bullock |
| stouthrief | robbery |
| straikin’ | laying out a corpse |
| strake | sharpening strop for scythes, etc. |
| strang | strong |
| straucht | straight |
| streekin’ | going in the direction of |
| streekit | laying out a corpse |
| sumph | a soft stupid fellow |
| sumphin’ | sulking |
| swap | exchange |
| swarf | faint |
| swither | hesitate |
| syne | then, since (see langsyne) |
| tae | to |
| taes | toes |
| taid | toad |
| taigle | detain |
| tairger | tiger |
| tak-tent | take care |
| tale-pyet | tell-tale |
| tangs | tongs |
| tap | top |
| tarry-breeks | term for sailors |
| taws | leather strap for punishing schoolboys |
| tawties | potatoes |
| tellin’ mair | more to the purpose |
| teuch | tough |
| thack, theek | thatch |
| thae | those |
| thole | endure |
| thoom | thumb |
| thoucht | thought |
| thraw | twist |
| thrawn | distorted, cross-grained |
| threap | to assert pertinaciously |
| threepit | to aver pertinaciously |
| threesome | three together |
| thruch-stone | flat gravestone |
| thunner | thunder |
| till | to |
| tinkler | pedlar, tinker |
| tirlin’ | at the pin twirling at the door-latch |
| tocher | dower |
| tod | fox |
| toom | empty; place for shooting rubbish |
| toon | town; in Scotland farm-buildings are called a ‘toon’ |
| toor | tower |
| toorock | little tower |
| tow | rope |
| town | farmhouse and buildings |
| tow-rope | halter |
| towrow | noise, confusion |
| traiking | following closely |
| troking | dealing |
| troot | trout |
| tryst | appointment |
| trysted | betrothed |
| tuck | beat |
| twa | two |
| twal | twelve |
| twine | to separate |
| tyke | a dog |
| ugsome | ugly |
| uncanny | dangerous, ill-boding |
| unco | strange, unusal |
| unkempt | in disarray |
| unsonsy | bad-looking, unlucky |
| uptak | understand, -ing |
| victual | grain |
| wa, waa | wall |
| wad | would; a pledge, wager |
| waddin’ | wedding |
| wae | sorry |
| waefu’ | sorrowful |
| waes-me | woe is me (exclamation) |
| waft | a hasty glance |
| wakkin’ | awake |
| wale | choice, the remainder |
| wall-e’e | spring in a bog |
| wame | the belly |
| wan | obtained, got |
| wanchancy | unlucky |
| war | was |
| warl’ | world |
| warrandice | warrant |
| warst | worst |
| wasna | was not |
| wasterfu’ | wasteful |
| wat | know |
| waur | worse; vanquish, destroy |
| wean | child |
| weared | bestowed |
| Wee Wee German Lairdie | His Majesty King George |
| weel-faured | good-looking |
| weight o’t | blame of it |
| weir | war |
| wersh | insipid, raw |
| wha | who |
| whalp | whelp |
| whalpit | brought forth |
| whammilt | overturned |
| what for no | why not |
| whaulpie | puppy |
| whaup | curlew |
| whaur | where |
| wheen | few |
| whigamore | a contemptuous term applied by Episcopalians to Presbyterians |
| whiles | sometimes |
| whilk | which |
| whinger | a short sword |
| whish | a buzzing sound |
| whud | a lie |
| whurlies | whorls |
| Whussandy | Whitsunday |
| wi | with |
| wicket | back door of a barn or byre |
| wile | to entice, to force |
| win | get |
| wirricows | bugbears, devils |
| wraith | apparition |
| wud | wood |
| wuddy | gallows |
| wull | will |
| wullcat | wild cat |
| wun | wind |
| wunda | window |
| wuss | wish |
| wuss to peace | wish to goodness |
| wutterick | weasel |
| wyte | blame |
| yae | one, a |
| yammer | incessant talk |
| yammering | making a loud outcry |
| ye | you |
| yer | your |
| yerk | jerk |
| yestreen | last night |
| yett | gate |
| yeukin | itching |
| yin | one |
| yince | once |
| yirds | caves, hiding-places (said of ‘fox-earths’) |
| yon | that, yonder |
| yowching | barking |
| yowes | ewes |