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Scottish English and Scots words still heard across Scotland. 1,059 words and meanings, most familiar first.

WordMeaning
skeely adjectiveSkilful.
skelloch verbTo cry out with a shrill voice.
skilly adjectiveSkilled, skilful.
skirling nounA shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
slaister nounMess
slaistery adjectiveUnctuous
sleck verbTo groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.
sleekit adjectiveSpecious, flattering; cunning.
slive verbTo sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.
slock nounA draught; a gulp.
sloom verbTo sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
smatchet nounA small, nasty or insignificant person.
snabby nounThe chaffinch.
snash nounVerbal abuse; insolence; guff.
sneck nounA latch or catch.
sned nounA cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning.
snelly adverbQuickly; sharply; acutely; coldly
snib nounA latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
snirt verbTo give a suppressed laugh or sharp intake of breath.
snotter nounSnot; mucus.
solidum nounA complete sum.
sorner nounOne who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
sorra nounSorrow
sosh nounA co-op.
souter nounA shoemaker or cobbler.
sowens nounA food item made from the husk of the oat by a process similar to that by which common starch is made; flummery.
spae verbTo divine; foretell
spaeman nounProphet; diviner
spaer nounOne who spaes or foretells; a diviner.
spald verbTo split.
spale nounA chip or splinter of wood.
spauld nounThe shoulder.
speering nounAn enquiry; an asking about something.
speldring nounA split dried haddock or other small fish.
spleuchan nounA pouch, as for tobacco or money.
sprattle verbTo scramble.
sprauchle verbTo move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty.
sprent verbTo leap; bound; move quickly; dart
sprug nounHouse sparrow
sprunt verbTo make romantic advances to; to flirt.
spuggy nounSparrow
squattle verbTo squat or sprawl; to duck into concealment.
stacket nounA stockade.
stanchel nounA stanchion.
starn nounA star.
starnie nounA small star.
steamie nounA public area for washing clothes.
steek nounA stitch.
stellionate nounAny fraud not distinguished by a more special name; chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.
stewartry nounThe jurisdiction of a steward, or the lands under such jurisdiction.
stoater nounA beautiful girl or woman.
stog verbTo stab; to probe; to thrust
stookie nounPlaster of Paris
stotter verbTo stagger; totter; stumble
stramash nounA tumult or disturbance.
strath nounA wide, flat river valley.
straught adjectiveStraight
stravage verbTo wander aimlessly.
stravaig verbTo stroll, meander
streeker nounOne who lays out a dead body; a professional attendant of the dead
striddle verbTo straddle.
stut verbTo support, prop up.
suddenty nounSuddenness; a sudden
sumph nounA dunce; a blockhead.
sumphish adjectiveStupid; blockheaded
sunket nounA dainty or delicacy.
surfaceman nounA platelayer; one who maintains a railway track.
swankie nounAn active and clever young fellow.
swedge nounThe drug MDMA.
sybo nounA spring onion.
taciturnity nounFailure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.
tacksman nounA person who holds a tack from another; a tenant.
tailzie nounAn entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
tass nounA cup or cupful.
tassie nounA cup or goblet for drinking wine.
WordMeaning
tatie nounPotato
tawie adjectiveDocile or tractable to the extent of allowing itself to be handled without complaint.
teind nounA tithe.
teindable adjectiveSubject to the payment of a teind or tithe.
terce nounA widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
teugh adjectiveTough, stubborn
tewit nounA northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.
thereanent adverbConcerning that; relating to that; thereabout.
thrang adjectiveBusy, preoccupied.
thrapple nounThe throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.
thrawcrook nounAn instrument for twisting straw into ropes.
thring verbTo thrust; crowd; press; squeeze.
thunderplump nounA sudden rainy thunderstorm.
timeously adverbIn a timely manner.
timmer nounTimber
timorsome adjectiveEasily frightened; timorous.
tinchel nounA circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.
tind nounA branch of a deer's antler; the horn of a unicorn; a tooth of a harrow; a spike.
tirma nounA bird, the oystercatcher.
torfel verbTo fall; decine; pass away; die.
troak verbTo barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.
trooz nounShort trousers, trews
trouse nounTrousers (or similar garments)
twistle nounA wrench.
tystie nounThe black guillemot.
ugsome adjectiveUgly; horrible; disgusting; offensive, loathsome, repellent.
umbethink verbTo recall to mind; remember; recollect.
unbidable adjectiveNot to be borne; intolerable; unbearable.
uncoly adverbStrangely, weirdly.
unfeued adjectiveNot held in feudal tenure.
unkenned adjectiveUnknown.
unsonsy adjectiveNot fortunate.
unspeered adjectiveUnasked.
untenty adjectiveInattentive; clumsy; incautious.
upsend verbTo ascend; climb up.
upsun nounThe time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.
vamper verbTo swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
virl nounFerrule
vogie adjectiveProud; conceited; vain.
wadsetter nounA person who holds tenure by wadset.
wae nounWoe
wame nounThe belly.
wameful nounA bellyful.
wankle adjectiveWeak; unstable; unreliable; not to be depended on.
wark nounPain; ache.
warkloom nounA tool; an implement.
warple verbTo wrestle; tumble; wriggle.
wastry nounExtravagance, wastefulness.
waucht nounA large draught of any liquid.
waugh adjectiveInsipid; tasteless.
waw nounA wall.
weaky adjectiveMoist; damp; clammy.
wecht nounA form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents.
weeness nounSmallness
wersh adjectiveInsipid; tasteless; delicate; having a pale and sickly look.
whank nounA strike with the fist; a blow; a knock.
wharve verbTo turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
whaup nounThe curlew, Numenius arquata.
wheen nounA quantity; a goodly number.
whillywha nounA flattering deceiver
whippy adjectiveActive, nimble.
whitely adjectiveWhite; pale.
whitret nounA weasel or stoat.
widdy nounA rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.
windlestraw nounA grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.
wingle verbTo bend or twist.
witherweight nounA counterbalancing weight; counterweight.
withset verbTo set (a place) with an ambush.
worricow nounAn imp or hobgoblin.
wrongous adjectiveWrongful; not right; unjust; illegal.
wrongously adverbWrongfully; in a wrongous (wrongful) manner.
wurly adjectiveGnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.
wyliecoat nounA heavy vest that is worn to provide warmth.
yair nounAn enclosure for catching salmon as the tide ebbs.
yanker nounA brazen lie

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