In the country places

GLOSSARY
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Kittle =to tickle.
Kittle to ca’ = troublesome to
drive.
Lames = broken pieces of earth¬
enware.
Leamin’ = gleaming.
Ley =lea.
Lippen = trust.
Lochans = small lochs.
Luntin' = smoking.
Mason’s mear = trestle for scaf¬
folding.
Mislippened = deceived.
Mochie = muggy, misty.
Mowse — nae mowse =no matter
of jesting, not safe.
Onwal = annual.
Pig = earthenware jar or hot
water bottle.
Ploy = frolic, escapade.
Pooshan = poison.
Queet = ankle.
Ragie = raging, scolding.
Ree =fowl run.
Reest = roost.
Riddels = sieves.
Ringel e’en = wall-eyed.
Runts = withered old women.
Scrogs = stunted bushes.
Shank = stocking in process of
being knitted.
Sharger =a stunted person or
animal.
Sheet = shoot.
Shillans = grain freed from husks.
Shoggle =to shake.
Shouds = swings.
Skites = flies off quickly.
Soo = rectangular stack of hay or
straw.
Souder =to solder.
Spainyie =cane.
Stag-moss = alpine club moss.
Steen-chackert = stone-chat.
Stroop =a spout.
Swacker = nimbler.
Swye = pivoted rod in chimney
for hanging pots.
Teen = tune; ill teen = bad
humour.
Teemin’ his girns = emptying his
snares.
Theats = traces.
Wan' =wand, fishing-rod.
Wersh = tasteless.
Wyte = blame.
Wyver =a spider.
Youkie =itchie.
Yows, yowies = fir cones.
Yowes =ewes.
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