Category:Scots terms by usage

Scots terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Scots terms with archaic senses: Scots terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Scots archaic terms: Scots terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Scots colloquialisms: Scots terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Scots dated terms: Scots terms that are no longer fashionable and thus are anachronistic, but still sometimes in use, especially by older speakers.
• Category:Scots derogatory terms: Scots terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Scots dialectal terms: Scots terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Scots higher register terms: Scots terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Scots humorous terms: Scots terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Scots informal terms: Scots terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Scots nonstandard terms: Scots terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Scots terms with obsolete senses: Scots terms with individual senses that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Scots obsolete terms: Scots terms that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Scots poetic terms: Scots terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Scots terms with rare senses: Scots terms with individual senses that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Scots slang: Scots colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Scots terms with historical senses: Scots terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Scots terms with transferred senses: Scots terms with transferred senses.
• Category:Scots vulgarities: Scots terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.