Violet Jacob > Songs of Angus

GLOSSARY
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 cherry-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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