v
(transitive, Scotland) To shield; hide.
adj
Tending to crouch; hunched over.
v
(Scotland) To hide; to skulk.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To be sluggish or lazy.
n
(Scotland, Northern England, slang, dated) A cellar, basement, or underground passage.
n
(dialect, Scotland, Northumbria) A porpoise.
adv
(Scotland, Ireland) Busily, industriously, diligently.
v
(UK dialectal, Scotland) To pain; torture.
adj
limping, lame, with crippled legs.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To nestle closely; take shelter.
adj
Characteristic of a huddle or huddling
n
(dialectal, Scotland) Idleness.
n
(Scotland, slang, derogatory, offensive) A person, usually a youth, of low social standing and education, a violent disposition and with a particular style of dress (typically sportswear or Burberry), speech and behaviour.
n
(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) (anatomy) Kidney.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
adj
(archaic, rare, chiefly literary) farther down; lower
v
(transitive, Scotland) To keep down or under.
n
Alternative form of nether [(UK dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.]
n
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) breath
v
(obsolete, transitive) To ransack.
adj
(dialect, Southern Britain) Of a person, cold (in temperature); shrivelled with cold.
adj
(dialectal or obsolete) Slippery.
n
A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
adj
(informal) Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
adj
(UK, dialect) Shrivelled; lean, lank.
adj
(Northern England, Scotland) Niggardly.
adj
(rare or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Empty; bare.
v
To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
adj
(of a person) having disheveled hair blown about by the wind.
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