v
To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
v
(Scotland, dated) to cover (something) (both literally and figuratively).
v
(transitive, Scotland) To lay wait for; overpower by means of some base stratagem.
v
(Scotland) To lurch or set to spinning.
v
(intransitive) To roll slowly.
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To lunge forward, to dash ahead, to move recklessly.
v
(dialectal) To poke around, especially poke around in a hole with a stick.
v
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
adj
(informal, of shoes etc.) Of a heavy kind that might make clomping noises; stompy.
v
(intransitive) To run, go, or trail oneself through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
v
(transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To screw; twist; tighten or loosen by screwing.
adj
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
n
(obsolete, dialect) The bark obtained from young oak trees.
v
(intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
v
(Scotland, dated, transitive) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as when putting on or taking off a stocking.
v
(transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
v
(colloquial) To manoeuvre; to move around.
v
(obsolete) To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.
v
(dialect, north, UK) To grope.
v
(intransitive) To crawl.
v
(transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shelter (in one's arms).
n
(archaic, informal) A difficult situation; a scrape.
v
(Scotland, Northern England) To dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away.
n
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To crease; rumple; cause to hang in loose folds.
v
(Scotland, obsolete, intransitive) To move oneself; to stir.
v
(obsolete) To hang loosely.
n
(countable) One who, or that which, plops.
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
adj
(humorous) Strongly supportive of skub.
v
(Scotland, US, dialect, transitive) To prick; to goad.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
n
(countable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A chain.
v
(Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
v
(transitive, chiefly Scotland) To roam or wander through (somewhere).
v
(UK, dialectal, chiefly Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.
n
(anatomy, archaic) The belly; the bowels.
v
(transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To concern; affect.
v
(Northern England, Scotland) To tear, rip, rend.
v
(UK, dialect) To creep, as ivy.
n
Obsolete spelling of rummage [A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.]
v
Alternative form of rutch (“squirm, move around”) [(US, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.]
v
(transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
v
(intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
v
(transitive) To steal (cattle or other livestock).
v
(especially Pennsylvania Dutch English) To squirm; to move around frequently.
v
Alternative form of rutch (“squirm”) [(US, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.]
v
(dated) To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.
v
(Scotland, obsolete) To reflect on; to consider.
v
(Scotland) To scuff or shuffle along.
v
(intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To be suffocated or stifled.
v
Alternative spelling of scooch [(US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.]
v
(transitive, Scotland, also figuratively, dated) To read or repeat from memory fluently or glibly; to reel off.
v
To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.
v
(UK, military, slang) To shirk duty.
v
(transitive, informal) To seek or find despite a lack of apparent resources or availability.
n
(UK, dialect, Northern England) A scuffle; a physical fight or struggle.
v
(intransitive, Scotland) To drudge.
v
(slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
v
To slink about; to sneak, to insinuate.
v
(Britain) Thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
n
(Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
v
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To hobble or limp; to shuffle.
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To shamble.
v
Alternative form of chivvy [(transitive, Britain) To coerce or hurry along, as by persistent request.]
v
(dialectal) To shrug (the shoulders).
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To crawl; to sneak.
v
(intransitive, Scotland) To move briskly along.
v
(dialectal, of rain or snow) Synonym of skiff (“fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground”)
n
(Scotland, Northern England, uncountable) Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.
v
Alternative spelling of scooch [(US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.]
v
Alternative spelling of scooch [(US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.]
v
Alternative form of sprauchle [(Scotland, intransitive) To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty.]
n
(Scotland) An awkward or struggling movement; stumble.
v
(intransitive, Scotland) To squat or sprawl; to duck into concealment.
v
(Scotland, obsolete, intransitive) To move on crutches.
v
(transitive, Scotland and Northern England) To make bounce, rebound or ricochet.
v
(dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To straddle.
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To climb.
v
To make a repeated swishing action or sound.
n
(chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.
adj
(rare) Having a thrapple (“throat”) of the kind specified.
n
Alternative form of thrushel [(UK, dialect) The song thrush.]
v
(transitive, Scotland, obsolete, rare) To cause (someone) damage or loss; also, to impose a fine on (someone); to mulct.
v
(mining, transitive) To wash (tin ore, etc.) with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.
v
(obsolete, Scotland) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
v
(UK, dated, dialect, Devon) To flap; to blow in the wind.
v
(Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
v
(intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
v
(obsolete) To roll; to spout; to boil up.
v
(Scotland) To move quickly.
v
(obsolete, Scotland, intransitive) To tell a lie.
v
(now dialectal) Alternative form of wrixle [(obsolete) To exchange.]
adj
(Scotland) gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.
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