n
(chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound
n
(Scotland) A strong trilling.
n
(Scotland) A fragment or lump.
n
(Scotland) The first shoots of grass or crops.
v
(Scotland) To prance; to caper.
n
(Scotland) A plunge, a violent movement.
v
(Scotland, transitive) To mark with a buist.
v
(chiefly Scotland) To form or cause a bumphle.
v
(Scotland, historical) To spear salmon by torchlight.
n
(Scotland) A set of questions to determine one's knowledge.
v
(Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
v
(Scotland, Tyneside, slang) To shiv (stab).
n
Alternative spelling of choccy [(informal, childish) chocolate]
n
(Scotland) A pebble or piece of gravel.
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way.
n
(Scotland) Alternative form of clough (“a ravine or gorge”) [(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.]
n
(Scotland, Northumbria) Alternative form of clough (“a ravine or gorge”) [(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.]
v
(transitive, Scotland) To clinch; to rivet.
v
(Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To fall heavily
v
(Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
n
(Scotland, archaic) Bad poetry; doggerel.
n
(Scotland) The scruff of the neck.
n
(chiefly Scotland) A cinder; (in the plural) the refuse of a furnace
n
(Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel [(Scotland) A hard blow.]
v
(Northern England, Scotland) To drizzle
adj
Alternative spelling of draggle-tailed [(of a person or other animal, or of clothing) Slatternly, untidy, unkempt.]
n
(Scotland, dialect) A droning tone.
n
Alternative form of droop snoot [An aeroplane nose which tends to lower or which can be lowered.]
v
(Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock.
n
(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
n
(Scotland) A morass or marsh.
n
Alternative spelling of frou-frou [(onomatopoeia) A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.]
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A ravine.
v
(Scotland) To grasp or snatch (at).
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A sudden fright.
n
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To drag along the ground.
n
A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing; broken wind.
n
(now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A cluster, small group of buildings, etc. set close together; a huddle.
v
(now chiefly Scotland) To swarm (with).
n
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Harm; hurt.
n
(Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
v
(Scotland, transitive) To suspect.
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A splash.
v
(Scotland, transitive) To pour out.
n
(Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.
n
(Scotland, archaic) A contest in work, etc.
v
(transitive, Scotland and Northern England) To tickle, to touch lightly.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To mire.
v
(Scotland, historical) To draw a hog's bristle through the mouth, as part of a ceremony of citizenship in Selkirk.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To become creased or wrinkled.
adj
(Scotland, Northern England) Webbed (of hands or toes).
v
(Scotland) To emit smoke.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To hack; slash; carve.
v
(Scotland, historical, transitive) To charge a multure on.
v
(Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.
v
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, dialect) To potter.
v
(Scotland) To shoot poults.
v
(Scotland, transitive, law, historical) To outlaw (a person) by three blasts of the horn at the Cross of Edinburgh.
n
(Scotland) A prop or shore.
n
A mixed bag, or indiscriminate collection.
v
(Scotland and Northern England) To separate combatants.
v
(obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK) To belch.
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
n
(Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
v
(Northern England, Scotland) To slit.
n
(Scotland) Injury; wound.
n
(Australia, slang) A weighbridge worker.
n
(Scotland) A slight wound.
n
(chiefly Scotland) A steep cliff or bank.
n
Alternative form of skaw (“promontory”) [A promontory.]
n
(Scotland) A slight blow; a slap; a soft fall; also, the accompanying noise.
v
(UK, dialect) To prop; to scotch.
n
(UK, slang) One who eats a large amount.
n
(Scotland, archaic) A kitchen drudge.
n
(uncountable, Oxford University slang) The activity of sconcing in general, as part of a meal or drinking game; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.
v
(Scotland) Alternative form of scug (“shelter; protect; hide; take shelter”) [(Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.]
v
(Scotland, transitive) To squirt.
n
Alternative form of scaurie [(Shetland) The young of any gull.]
v
(transitive) To make Scottish.
n
(UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) Rich, pure tin ore.
n
Cheap cut of mutton or lamb.
v
(slang, Liverpudlian, Manchester) to eat
n
(Scotland, countable) A screech.
n
A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
n
(Scotland) A coarse sieve.
v
(intransitive, Scotland) To become rent or torn.
n
(Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.
n
(UK, dialect, archaic) A small portion; a little bit; a scrap.
n
(countable) A small ornamental handicraft created by carving or engraving bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials, formerly produced by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
n
(obsolete) A chest or other box for storing valuables.
n
Alternative spelling of scrote [(informal) The scrotum.]
n
A groove in the rostrum of weevils, or on the outer side of the mandible.
n
(heraldry) The branch of a tree, especially one used as a blazon in Scotland.
adj
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Abounding in scrog.
adj
(slang, Scotland) Naked.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To wash or cleanse.
n
(Northern England, Scotland) Shade, shadow.
n
(rare, UK dialectal) A parting.
n
(UK, dialect, archaic) Any small coin.
n
(obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
n
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A scab.
n
(Scotland) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
v
(obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
v
(Scotland, transitive) To distort or deform.
v
(obsolete, by extension) To make merry.
adj
Alternative form of scaddle [(UK, dialectal or obsolete) Wild, mischievous, thievish.]
n
(obsolete, Scotland) scale
adj
(UK, Scotland, dialect) wild; timid; shy
adj
Alternative form of skar [(UK, Scotland, dialect) wild; timid; shy]
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A squint.
v
(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat or slap.
v
(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) To beg; to pilfer; to skelder.
n
Alternative form of scug [(Northern England, Scotland) Shade, shadow.]
v
(intransitive, Scotland) To slabber.
n
(Scotland) A sloppy mess.
n
(Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
v
(Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A draught; a gulp.
n
(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
v
(Scotland, transitive) To cover with fine rain.
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To gobble up.
n
(idiomatic, Britain) A cold reception, closing the door on a visitor
n
(UK, dialect) Alternative form of snig [(UK, dialect) A small eel.]
n
Obsolete form of sora (the bird) [A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America.]
n
(Scotland, obsolete) A vague rumour.
n
(Scotland) A bound or spring; a leap.
v
(Scotland) to ask, to inquire
v
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) To split.
v
(chiefly Scotland) To split apart.
n
(Scotland, colloquial) Chat, patter.
n
(Scotland, obsolete) Plunder, especially cattle taken as booty.
n
(Scotland, obsolete) A raid in order to steal cattle.
n
(Scotland) plunder; booty
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A bounce or rebound
v
(Scotland, dialect) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.
n
(UK, Scotland) Anything thrown or cast; a missile.
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A support.
adj
(Scotland) Lithe; nimble.
n
(Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
n
(UK, dialect) The song thrush.
n
(Orkney, Shetland, dated) A troll.
v
(Shetland, obsolete) To make dirty.
adj
Having whelks; whelky.
n
One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
n
(dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fold or a convolution; something bent or twisted; a twist or a bend.
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