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1863–1946

GLOSSARY

Violet Jacob

Airt, point ( of compass ). Billies, cronies. Braws, finery. Bubbly-jock, turkey-cock.

Cankered, cross-grained. Causey, paved edge of a street. Chanter, mouth-piece of a bag-pipe. Clour, a blow.

Coup, to fall. Deaved, deafened, bewildered. Droukit, soaked. Dunt, a blow.

Fit, foot. Fleggit, frightened. Gean-tree, a wild cheerry-tree. Girnin’, groaning.

Gowk, a cuckoo. Grapes, gropes. Hairst, harvest. Happit, happ'd, wrapped.

Haughs, low-lying lands. Keek, peer. Kep, meet. Laigh, low.

Lane, his lane, alone. Loan, disused, overgrown road, a waste place. Loon, a fellow. Lowe, flame.

Lum, chimney. Mear, mare. Mill-lade, mill-race. Neep, turnip.

Poke, pocket. Puddock-stules, toadstools. Rodden-tree, rowan-tree. Rug, to pull.

Sark, shift, smock. Shaws, small woods. Sheltie, pony. Skailed, split, dispersed.

Smoors, smothers. Sneck, latch. Soom, swim. Sort them, deal with them.

Speels, climbs. Speir, to inquire. Steerin’, stirring. Sweir, loth.

Syne, since, ago, then. Tawse, a leather strap used for correcting children. Thole, to endure. Thrawn, twisted.

Tint, lost. Tod, fox. Toom, empty. Toorie, a knob, a topknot.

Traivel, to go afoot; literally, to go at a foot's pace. Warslin’, wrestling. Wauks, wakes. Waur, worse.

Wean, infant. Weepies, rag-wort. Whaup, curlew. Wildfire, summer lightning.

Writer, attorney. Yett, gate.

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