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GLOSSARY
- Abin, above
- Ablow, below
- Auld, old
- Ava', at all
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- Ba', ball
- Bass, a door-mat
- Baun', band
- Bawr, a joke, a "lark"
- Begood, began
- Bew, blue
- Blate, backward, ashamed
- Blether, a talker (of nonsense)
- Breith, breath
- Buits, boots
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- Ca' (to), to call
- Ca' (to), to drive, to force
- Caim, comb
- Cairrit, carried
- Canny, careful
- Carvies, sugared caraway-seeds
- Cheuch jean, a toffy sweet
- Chief, friendly, "chummy"
- Claes, clothes
- Code-ile, cod-liver oil
- Coup (to), to upset
- Crack, conversation
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- Daud, lump (also blow)
- Daunee, stroll
- Dicht (to), to wipe
- Doo, dove, pigeon
- Dook (to), to bathe
- Dour, stubborn
- Drookit, soaked, drenched
- Dunt, knock
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- Ernin', ironing
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- Fash (to), to trouble, to worry
- File (to), to soil
- Fin (to), 'to feel
- Fit, foot
- Flannen, flannel
- Fou, full
- Frae, from
- Fricht, fright
- Furbye, also
- Furrit, forward
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- Gab, mouth
- Gab (to), to induce, to compel
- Gartnavel, a local asylum
- Gemm, game
- Girny, fractious, complaining
- Glaur, mud
- Goonie, a little gown
- Greet (to), to weep
- Grumphy, a pig
- Guid-sister, sister-in-law
- Gundy, candy
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- Hap (to), to cover cosily
- Haud (to), to hold
- Havers! Nonsense!
- Hoast, cough
- Hurl, ride (in a vehicle)
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- Intil, into
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- Jawbox, sink
- Joog, jug, mug
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- Keek (to), to peep
- Kirt, chest
- Kitly, tickly
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- Leevin', living
- Let bug (to), to show, to inform
- Louse (to), to loosen, to unlace
- Lum, chimney
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- Maun, must
- Muckle, much, great, big
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- Neb, nose, point
- Ne'erday, New Year's Day
- Nick (to get the), to be "run in"
- Nock, clock
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- Oarin', rowing
- Oose, Oosie, wool, woolly
- Ootbye, out-of-doors
- Ower, over, excessively
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- Partins, crabs
- Pechin', panting
- Pickle (a), a few
- Pooshun, poison
- Potty, putty
- Preen, pin
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- Quate, quiet
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- Rid, red
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- Sare, sore
- Sark, shirt
- Sate, seat
- Scale (to), to spill
- Scart (to), to scratch
- Sclates, slates, scales
- Sclim (to), to climb
- Scoot (to), to squirt
- Shin, soon
- Shoogly, shaky, insecure
- Shoogy-shoo (to), to rock
- Skelp (to), to whip
- Soom (to), to swim
- Soople, supple
- Speir (to), to inquire
- Speldron, a small dried fish
- Steerin', restless, energetic
- Stracht, straight
- Stravaygin, wandering
- Strippit, stripped
- Sumph, a lout
- Suree, soiree
- Syne, ago
- Syne (to), to wash out
- Sweirt, unwilling
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- Tae, toe
- Tate, a small portion
- Taurry-biler, tar-boiler
- Tawpy, a "softy"
- Tewky, a chicken
- Thole (to), to bear, to endure
- Thon, yon
- Til, to, unto
- Tim (to), to empty
- Toosie, untidy
- Torrie, tassel on bonnet
- Tosh up (to), to tidy up
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- Wake, weak
- Wannert, wandered
- Waur, worse
- Wean, child
- Wheen (a), few
- Whit wey, what way, why
- Whumle (to), to roll about
- Wice, wise
- Winda-sole, window-sill
- Wulk, whelk
- Wur, our
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- Yin, one
- Yinst, once
