Wiktionary:Requested entries (Scots)

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A

• a dee (Doric expression meaning "to do" as in "fit's a dee wi ye" meaning "what's to do with you" i.e. "what's wrong with you")
• a wiy (Doric expression meaning "everywhere", literally translated as "all way")
• abody (Doric for "everybody")
• aboots (Doric for "abouts" as in "far aboots ye fae" meaning "whereabouts are you from")
• affa (Doric for "awfully" or "very" but used in a different sense from, for example, "gey")
• ah (Doric for "I")
• ah da care sut (Doric expression meaning "I don't care at all")
• ah'll (Doric for "I'll")
• ahind (Doric word meaning "behind")
• aifterneen (Dorc word meaning "afternoon")
• aikea-guinea a musician in the Scottish band Cocteau Twins claims this means "seashell" and wrote a notable song of this title, see http://www.cocteautwins.com/html/history/history07.html
  • Found in Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (p. 31). My speculation, the guinea may refer to a coin as dollar does in sand dollar. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 03:14, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
• almichty (Doric word meaning "almighty")
• amoont (Doric word, amount)
• an a (Doric/Scots expression meaning "as well", literally translated as "and all", famously used in the phrase "ah'll hae an ingin ane an a!")
• appairently (Doric word for "apparently")
• at (Doric word meaning "that")
• athegither (Doric word meaning "altogether")
• athing (Doric for "everything")
• aul (Doric variant of Scots "auld" meaning "old")
• ayewis (Doric word meaning "always")

B

• ba (Doric/Scots word meaning "ball")
• bas (Doris/Scots word meaning "balls")
• barra (Doric word meaning "barrow" or "wheelbarrow")
• barrafae (Doric word meaning "barrowful")
• beet (Doric word meaning "boot")
• beets (Doric word meaning "boots")
• Bertie Auld, short: Bertie - rhyming slang for cauld
• blaa (Doric word meaning "blow")
• bile (Scots word meaning "boil", used as a verb)
• bin (Doric word meaning "been")
• bocht (Doric/Scots, "bought")
• bosker (Doric/Scots, roughly meaning "bruiser")
• brak (Doric word meaning "to break", used as a verb)
• brig (Scots word for bridge)
• bug (Doric word meaning "bag")
• bugs (Doric word meaning "bags")
• bunk (Doric word meaning "bank")

C

• caul (Doric variant of Scots "cauld" meaning "cold")
• cha (Doric word meaning "chew")
• chad (Doric word meaning "chewed")
• chuckies (Doric/Scots word meaning crushed stone)
• claes (Doric word meaning clothes, strangely listed as an English word for some reason!)
• clipe (Doric word meaning to tell tales about someone to another person)
• copey (Doric word meaning a small convenience store)
• cowp (Doric word, verb meaning to tip [something] over or empty it)
• craa (Doric word, meaning "crow")
• cried (Doric word meaning "called", as in "at's fit at loon's cried?")

D

• da (Doric/Scots word meaning "don't")
• dame (Doric/Scots word meaning a young woman, can be seen as synonymous with "quine" to an extent)
• the day (Doric expression meaning "today")
• deen (Doric word meaning "done")
• dis (Doric word meaning "does")
• disna, disnae (Doric word meaning "does not")
• divna (Doric word meaning "do not")
• doot (Scots/Doric word meaning "doubt")
• dose (Doric word, meaning a small amount, similar to "puckle")
• drap (Doric word, drop)
• dump (Doric word for "damp")

E

• eese (Doric word for "use")
• em (Doric word meaning "them")
• en (Doric word meaning "then")

F

• -fae (Doric suffix meaning "-ful", as in barrafae, moofae, etc)
• faimily (Doric word for family)
• fairm (Doric word meaning "farm")
• fairmer (Doric word meaning "farmer")
• faa (Doric word meaning "fall", the verb, to fall)
• faain (Doric word meaning "falling")
• fan (Doric word for "when")
• far (Doric word meaning "where")
• fauk
• ficht (Doric word meaning "fight")
• fecht (Doric word meaning "fight")
• fillum (Doric word meaning "film" - possibly also common in Highland English)
• fin (Doric word for "when")
• fit's a dee wi ye (Doric expression meaning "What's wrong with you?")
• fince (Doric word meaning "fence")
• fingurs (Doric word meaning "fingers" - pronounciation is notably different from English word "fingers" as the "g" is pronounced like the "g" in "stingers", not like the "g" in "lingers" as with the English word "fingers")
• fis (Doric/Scots word meaning "face")
• fleas (Doric word meaning "flies", as in the insects)
• flee (Doric word meaning "fly", needs to be added as a verb also)
• fleein (Doric word meaning "flying", as in the expression "fleein on" meaning "flying on" as in to do something quickly)(or very drunk)
• flooer (Doric word for "flower")
• flooers (Doric word for "flowers")
• footer (Doric/Scots word meaning a difficult or tiresome task)
• fou (Doric word meaning "how" - current usage listed in Scots is an unrelated term from Central Belt Scots)
• founder, foonder - https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/founder
• fowk (Doric word for "people")
• fug (Doric word meaning "fag", as in cigarette)
• fur (Doric word for "for")
• funcy (Doric word meaning "fancy" - found in expressions such as "funcy pieces" meaning biscuits or cakes)

G

• gairden (Doric word meaning "garden")
• glaiss (Doric word, "glass")
• glaisses (Doric word meaning "glasses")
• grape (Doric word meaning garden fork)
• grun (Doric word meaning "ground")

H

• haimmer (Doric word, "hammer")
• hairt (Doric word, "heart")
• hale (Doric word meaning "whole")
• haud gan (Doric expression meaning "keep going")
• heidlichts (Doric word for "headlights")
• het (Doric word meaning "hot")
• hid (Doric word meaning "had")
• hidna (Doric word meaning "had not")
• hinna (Doric word meaning "have not")
• hiv (Doric word meaning "have")
• hivna (Doric word meaning "have not")
• hooer (Doric word meaning "whore", also used in expressions like "hooer o a job" which translates to "whore of a job" meaning a task that the speaker does not relish the prospect of doing)
• horny golloch (Doric/Scots word meaning an earwig or beetle, also horny-golloch)
• how (Doric word meaning garden hoe)
• hut (Doric word for "hit", used as a verb)

I

• ile (Doric word meaning "oil")

J

• jaicket (Doric word meaning "jacket")
• jine (Doric word meaning "join")
• jist (Doric/Scots word meaning "just")

K

• keigh (Doric word referring to faeces)

L

• leeze (as in "leeze me on", seen in Robert Burns and elsewhere)
• lowse (Doric word meaning time to go home)
• lugs (Doric/Scots for ears, listed in English but not in Scots)

M

• mairried (Doric word for "married")
• mebbe (Doric/Scots word for "maybe")
• meikle (Doric word meaning a small amount)
• michty (Doric word meaning "mighty")
• min (Doric word meaning "man" but only used normally in greeting someone - is not used as a noun)
• mink, also minker (Scots slang referring to an unhygienic, smelly, or dirty person)
• minky, also minking (Scots slang referring to something that is unhygienic, smelly, or dirty)
• mintie (Doric word for "minute" - the noun, not the adjective)
• moo (Doric word meaning "mouth")
• moofae (Doric word meaning "mouthful")
• the morn (Doric expression meaning "tomorrow")
• the morn's morn (Doric expression meaning tomorrow morning)
• muckle (Doric word meaning a large amount, also synonymous with "much" - thus used in phrases like "nae muckle" meaning not much, and "nae ower muckle" meaning not too much)
• moul

N

• naewiy (Doric word for "nowhere")
• nurr (see w:sco:nurr)

O

• ony (Doric word meaning "any")
• onywiy (Doric word meaning "anyway")
• Ouse baw( Word meaning (" wee/small piece of fluff")

P

• pairk (Doric word meaning "park")
• pairty (Doric word meaning "party")
• pathie (Doric word meaning a path)
• pey (Doric word for pay, same as South Scots usage already listed)
• peysin (Doric word for "poison")
• pince (Doric word meaning "pence")
• pinshion (Doric word meaning "pension")
• pint (Doric word meaning "paint" - pronounced to rhyme with "mint", not as with the word "pint" as in a pint of milk or beer)
• pinter (Doric word meaning "painter" - pronounced to rhyme with "splinter")
• pipper (Doric/Scots word meaning "paper", usually as in "newspaper")
• pirn (English already listed) SND (here, including a link in list on RHS to another entry) gives noun and verb (scroll to bottom) senses; pirnit (past participle?) is used here (The Buik of the Cronicles of Scotland).— Pingku^dimmi 06:21, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
• pooder (Doric word meaning "powder")
• poond (Doric word meaning "pound")
• poor (Doric/Scots word meaning "pour" as in the verb, to pour)
• puckle (Doric word meaning a small amount [of something])
• pucklie (Doric variant of 'puckle', mentioned above)
• po-yem (Doric word for 'poem')

R

• raa (Doric word meaning "row")
• rang (Scots/Doric word meaning "wrong")
• reef (Doric word meaning "roof")
• reet (Doric word meaning "root")
• reets (Doric word meaning "roots")
• roost (Doric word meaning "rust")
• rubbit (Doric word meaning "rabbit")
• rubbits (Doric word meaning "rabbits")

S

• sae (Doric word meaning "so")
• sassage (Doric word, "sausage")
• scutter (Doric/Scots word meaning a difficult or tiresome task)
• selt (Doric word for "sold")
• Setterday (Doric word for Saturday)
• shak (Doric word meaning "to shake", used as a verb)
• shooder (Doric word meaning "shoulder")
• shooer (Doric word meaning "shower")
• shooerie (Doric word, variant of above)
• shuffle (Doric for "shovel")
• sintral (Doric word, "central")
• sintre (Doric word, "centre")
• sma (Doric/Scots word meaning small)
• snaa (Doric word meaning "snow")
• sook (Scots word meaning "suck")
• soor (Scots word meaning "sour")
• spad (Doric for "spade")
• spik (Doric word meaning "speak")
• splooter (Doric/Scots word meaning to make a mess, as with food or drink)
• spoot (Doric word for "spout")
• suhhin (Doric word meaning "something")
• sup (Doric/Scots word meaning "sip", usually used only as a noun[?])

T

• tak (Doric word meaning "to take", used as a verb)
• tamata (Doric word, "tomato")
• tap (Scots word meaning "top")
• teem (Doric word, a verb meaning to empty [something])
• teen (Doric word, meaning "taken")
• telt (Doric/Scots word, identical to Geordie usage listed)
• teuchter (listed in Scots as meaning a Gaelic-speaking Highlander, whereas in the north-east of Scotland it more commonly means a rural Doric speaker)
• tooel (Doric word, "towel")
• toon (Doric/Scots word meaning "town")
• toonser (Doric word meaning a city-dweller)
• toot (Slang word in Scotland for a baby, child, as in "wee toot")
• tow (Doric word meaning rope or string)
• troot (Doric/Scots word for trout, the fish)
• til (Doric word, meaning "to")

W

• weet (Doric word meaning "wet")
• whilie (Doric/Scots word meaning "while", used as a noun only as in "a wee whilie")
• wid (Doric word meaning "would", also meaning "wood")
• widna, widnae (Doric word meaning "would not")
• wifie (Doric word, used in an identical fashion to the Geordie dialect usage already listed)
• wik (Doric word meaning "week")
• wint (Doric word meaning "want")
• wisna or wisnae (Doric/Scots word meaning "was not")
• withoot (Doric/Scots for "without")
• wiy (Doric word meaning "way")

Y

• yankie: H. L. Mencken claims that it is a Scotch word meaning "a gigantic falsehood". [1]

Not in big OED. Does anyone have a dictionary of Scottish slang? Dbfirs 07:42, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

The Scottish National Dictionary includes it as a diminutive of Scots yank (tremendous lie). I would not be surprised to find it in/called English, as the line between the languages is hazy. Cnilep (talk) 04:42, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Preceding request moved from Requested entries (English). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:14, 5 August 2020 (UTC)