| dab |
dab |
peck, strike lightly |
in context |
| dab |
|
ordinary or unpretentious |
|
| dabbitie | dabbity |
ˈdabıtı |
ornament, a picture game of chance |
|
| dacker | daker |
|
walk slowly or aimlessly, grapple, search for stolen goods |
|
| dad | daud | dod |
ˈdɑd |
a large lump of something, strike heavily, beat, jolt, a heavy blow, pelt with large lumps of something |
in context |
| dae | dui |
ˈde |
do |
in context |
| daein |
ˈdeˈın |
doing |
in context |
| daeless |
ˈdeˈlɛs |
helpless, useless |
in context |
| be deen wi it |
|
dying |
|
| daez't |
dezt |
dazed |
|
| daff |
daf |
act playfully, or foolishly |
|
| daffin |
|
larking |
in context |
| he that chates in daffin winna be leal in eernest |
|
he that cheats in fun will not be honest in earnest |
|
| daft |
|
foolish, crazy, an imbecile |
in context |
| daft aboot |
daft abut |
besotted |
|
| daftlike |
|
foolish |
|
| dag |
|
thin drizzling rain |
|
| dagie |
|
marbles game |
|
| daich | daigh |
dex |
dough |
|
| daidle |
|
dawdle, dirty one's clothes, dandle a child |
|
| dails |
|
planks |
|
| daik |
dek |
adorn, smooth down hair etc |
|
| daimen | demmin |
ˈdemən |
rare |
|
| dais | dase |
dez |
daze, become spoiled by age or damp etc |
|
| daith | deeth | deith |
deθ |
death |
in context | |
| dale |
|
deal, portion, a sharing out, a plank |
|
| dambrod |
|
draughts board |
|
| dams, damss |
|
game of draughts |
|
| dammish |
|
stupefied |
|
| dander |
|
refuse of a smith's fire |
|
| his dander's up |
|
to become riled, angry |
|
| dandrum |
|
whim |
|
| dane | din |
den |
done |
|
| dang |
daŋ |
to hit with a blunt object |
in context |
| daover | dover |
|
numeral eleven from a counting out rhyme |
|
| darena |
|
dare not |
|
| darg |
|
a day's work, work |
in context |
| a guid day's darg can aye be duin wi a blunt spade |
|
a good day's work can always be done with a blunt spade, it's a bad workman that blames his tools |
|
| darger |
|
casual labour |
|
| darklins |
|
in the dark |
|
| dauchie |
ˈdɑxɪ |
dull and sticky curling ice |
|
| daunder | dander | dauner |
ˈdɑndər |
stroll |
in context |
| daunle |
|
dandle |
|
| dauntonly |
|
bravely |
|
| daupit |
|
slow witted |
|
| daur |
dɑr |
dare |
|
| daurk | dawrk |
|
dark |
|
| daurna | darena | darenae |
|
daren't |
|
| daursay |
|
suppose |
|
| daut | dawt |
|
pet, fondle |
|
| dautie |
|
a pet, a pet name, darling |
in context |
| daver | dever |
ˈdevər |
wander aimlessly |
|
| daviely |
|
spiritless. |
|
| daw | daa |
|
dawn |
|
| dawds |
|
big lumps of something |
|
| dawk |
|
drizzle |
|
| dawin |
|
dawn |
|
| dawk |
|
drizzle |
|
| dawly |
|
physically or mentally slow |
|
| dawtingly |
|
prettily |
|
| daylicht |
deˈlixt |
daylight |
in context |
| dear |
|
term of endearment |
in context |
| dear |
|
expensive, costly, |
in context |
| dear pity me | dearie me |
|
an expression of sorrow |
in context |
| deave | deive | dieve |
div |
deafen, annoy with noise or talk, bore |
in context |
| dee |
|
die |
in context |
| deein |
rindʒ |
dyeing |
in context |
| deed |
|
indeed, to be sure |
|
| deef | deaf | deif |
dif |
deaf |
in context |
| deek | deik |
|
a glimpse, a look |
|
| deem | deim |
|
dame |
|
| deemster | deimster |
|
judge |
|
| deevil | deivil | deil |
dil |
devil |
in context |
| defait | defett |
|
defeated, exhausted |
|
| defender |
|
defendant |
|
| deg |
|
piercing blow |
|
| deid |
did |
dead |
in context |
| like a deid dug |
|
out of sorts |
|
| mind yer a long time deid… |
|
may I remind you that you’ve got an eternity to (whine, complain, dilly-dally, prevaricate, procrastinate etc) after you are dead, how much time have you got to be living? |
|
| deil-haet |
|
nothing (Devil have it) |
|
| del | dell |
|
delve |
in context |
| deleerit | deleirit |
|
delirious, mad |
in context |
| delf |
|
hole or pit made by digging |
in context |
| delicht | delite | delyte |
dɪˈlɪxt |
delight |
|
| delvin |
|
digging |
in context |
| dementit |
|
demented |
in context |
| den |
|
narrow valley - especially with trees, a base in a game |
in context |
| denner | dainer | dainner |
ˈdɛnər |
dinner |
in context |
| dentielion | dentylion |
ˈdɛntɪˈlaɪən |
dandelion |
|
| depairt |
dɪˈpert |
depart |
|
| depone |
|
testify |
|
| derf | darf |
|
difficult, bold, daring, unbending |
in context |
| dern |
|
secret, serving to hide or conceal, darn |
|
| dert | dairt |
|
dart |
|
| descrive |
dɪˈskraɪv |
to describe |
|
| deuch | dyoch |
djux |
an intoxicating drink |
|
| deugend |
|
wilful, obstinate, litigious |
in context |
| deuk | jouk | jeuk |
djuk |
a duck or to duck out of the way |
in context |
| deval | devall |
|
sink, fall away |
|
| devel | davel |
ˈdɛvl |
a severe and stunning blow |
|
| deyd, deydie |
|
grandfather, grandmother |
|
| dibber-dabber |
|
argue, wrangle |
|
| diced | dyced |
|
chequered |
|
| dicht | decht | dight |
dɪxt |
wipe |
in context |
| dichter |
|
wiper |
in context |
| dichtie |
|
dirty |
|
| did | duid | daed |
|
did |
|
| didna | didna, didny | didnie, daedna | didnae |
|
did not |
in context |
| didder |
|
quake |
|
| didderums |
|
half daft notions, bees in one's bonnet |
in context |
| diddle |
|
dance with a jigging movement |
in context |
| diddle | deeble |
|
sing without words |
|
| diddle-daddle |
|
great activity with little result |
|
| difeecult | difeecwalt | dificwalt |
dfikwəltɪ |
difficult |
|
| differ |
|
quarrel, dispute |
|
| dill |
|
soothe, quieten down |
|
| dilp |
|
slovenly woman |
|
| dilse |
|
dulse (seaweed) |
|
| din |
|
make a loud noise or outcry |
in context |
| din |
|
dun, dark complexion, sallow |
|
| dingin | dangin | dungin |
dɪŋɪn |
striking, hitting like you'd hit a bell |
in context |
| Stourie, stouchie, gaudie brierie! Dinging a' things tapsalteerie |
|
bustling, fussing, prankish, prickly! Knocking all things up and over |
|
| go one's dinger |
|
go at something very vigorously |
|
| dinge |
|
dent, bruise |
|
| dingle |
ˈdɪŋl |
tingle - with cold or pain |
|
| dink | dinkie |
|
spruce, neat, trim |
|
| dinna | dinny | dinni | dinnie | dinnae |
|
don't, do not |
in context |
| dinnle |
|
shake, vibrate, peal |
|
| dint |
ˈdɪnt |
affection, liking, a blow, an opportunity, a deep impression |
|
| dird |
|
a hard blow, severe strike, |
|
| dirdum, durdrum |
|
tumult, a mighty noise, altercation |
in context |
| dirdy-lochrag |
ˈdɪrdɪ-ˈloxrag |
lizard |
|
| dirk | durk |
|
long stabbing dagger worn hung from the belt, often with a ragged edge to cause a satisfactorily messy wound, I'm told that sometimes a knife and fork are fitted into the sheath - the sgian dubh is the smaller dagger tucked into the sock |
in context |
| dirl |
|
cause to tingle with emotion or pain, reverberate, ring when struck |
in context |
| dirl |
|
a knock or blow causing recipient or thing to dirl |
|
| dirlie-bane |
|
funny bone |
|
| dirlit |
noxtɪ |
Struck with a ringing blow. |
in context |
| dirr |
dɪr |
buzzing humming sound |
|
| dis | diz | daes |
|
does |
in context |
| dischairge |
dɪsˈtʃerdʒ |
discharge |
|
| dish | pish |
|
rain heavily |
|
| dishclout, dishcloot |
|
dish cloth |
|
| get a dish o want |
|
get nothing at all |
|
| disjaskit |
dɪsˈdʒaskɪt |
dejected, downcast |
|
| diskiver | discuiver | diskivver |
|
discover |
|
| disna | daesna | disni |
|
doesn't |
in context |
| whit fizzes in the mooth disni aye fill the wame |
|
what fizzes in the mouth does not always fill the belly |
in context |
| dispone |
|
arrange, set in order |
|
| disrespeckfu |
|
disrespectful |
in context |
| disreul |
|
to disorder, pervert, disgrace |
in context |
| dit |
|
shut your mouth, obstruct, close, block (the light) |
|
| div |
|
do |
|
| divna |
|
don't |
in context |
| divot | divvot | divett |
|
turf, sod, a thick clumsy slice of whatever |
in context |
| dixie |
|
a sharp scolding |
|
| dizzen |
|
dozen |
in context |
| docher |
ˈdoxər |
injury, rough handling |
|
| docht |
|
could |
|
| dochter |
doxtər |
daughter |
|
| dochtna |
|
cannot |
|
| docken | doaken | docket | dockety |
|
dock plant, also as insult as in of no significance, for bum wiping |
|
| docknail |
|
the nail that fixes firmly the blade to the scythe, a person that is indespensable to a job well done |
in context |
| dod |
|
dodder, the sulks |
|
| doddie |
|
hornless bull, cow or sheep |
|
| doddle |
|
something attractive, easy to do, toddle |
|
| doddles |
|
male genitals, or the hard pellets of dirt on tails of sheep |
in context |
| dogging |
|
dodging school |
in context |
| doilt |
doilt |
dazed, confused, wearied |
|
| doit |
|
act foolishly, be crazed |
|
| doited |
|
muddled |
|
| doiter |
|
stumble |
|
| doitert |
|
witless |
in context |
| dominie |
|
schoolmaster, clergyman |
in context |
| donnert |
|
stupid, dazed |
|
| donsie |
|
unfortunate, luckless |
|
| doo | dou |
du |
dove |
|
| puddie doo |
|
pet pigeon |
in context |
| dooble |
ˈdubl |
double |
|
| doocot | doucot |
|
dovecote |
in context |
| dook | deuk |
|
dip, submerge briefly |
in context |
| dook | douk |
duk |
dip, bathe, swim |
|
| dooken | doukin |
|
dipping, swimming |
in context |
| dookers | doukers |
|
swimming costume |
in context |
| douked |
|
ducked |
|
| dool | doul | dule |
|
woe, distress, grief |
in context |
| dool tree | doul tree |
|
term for the gallows |
in context |
| doolfu' |
|
doleful |
|
| doolie |
|
hobgoblin |
|
| door | dure | doar |
|
door |
|
| doozie |
|
a flame |
|
| dorbie |
|
delicate, weak |
in context |
| dorlach |
ˈdorləx |
quiver for arrows, a soldier's bundle - pre backpacks |
|
| dort |
|
sulk, huff |
|
| dorty |
|
pettish |
|
| dosinnit | dossinit | dozened |
ˈdozənt |
stupefied, dazed |
in context |
| doss |
|
tidy, spruce |
|
| dossach |
ˈdosəx |
fondle, fuss over needlessly |
|
| dottelt |
|
senile |
|
| dotterel, dottled |
|
in a state of dotage, confused, witless - it comes to us all |
in context |
| dottered |
|
stupid, bemused, in one's dotage |
in context |
| dottle |
|
a particle, jot |
in context |
| douce, douse |
dus |
sweet gentle loveable, respectable |
in context |
| douchty |
ˈdoxtɪ |
powerful, strong |
in context |
| doudle |
|
play a wind instument, sing or hum to a tune |
|
| dought |
dʌut |
could |
|
| doun | doon |
dun |
down |
in context |
| dounby |
|
down there |
|
| dounfaa |
|
downfall, downward slope |
|
| dounhauden |
|
oppressed |
in context |
| doun-moued |
|
sad expression, sad |
|
| dounsittin |
|
sitting |
|
| doup |
dʌup |
the bottom |
in context |
| doup-skelper |
|
bottom-smacker |
|
| dour | dure |
dur |
sullen, hard, stern, rellentless, dogged, sullen, gloomy |
in context |
| dout | doot |
dut |
doubt |
in context |
| doutfu | dootfu |
|
doubtful |
in context |
| douth | dooth |
|
depressed, gloomy |
|
| dove | dovey |
dovɪ |
become sleepy, |
|
| dover |
|
doze off |
|
| dovie |
|
stupid, a dopy dozy person |
in context |
| dow | docht |
dʌu |
of no value or use |
|
| dow |
|
a dove, fade away, wither |
|
| dowe | dow |
|
to be able to |
|
| dowe |
|
fade away, wither |
|
| dowf | duff |
dʌuf |
gloomy, spiritless, weary, feeble person, dullard |
in context |
| dowie |
|
sad, dismall |
|
| dowie | dowilie |
dʌuɪ |
drooping |
|
| dowie | dowilie |
dʌuɪ |
drooping |
|
| dowless |
|
Feeble, lacking in strength or energy |
in context |
| dowp |
|
bottom, buttocks |
|
| dows |
|
dares |
|
| dowt | dowp | doup |
|
cigarette-end |
|
| doxy | doxie | duxy |
|
lazy, slow, lethargic |
in context |
| doylt |
|
stupid |
|
| doytin |
|
doddering |
|
| doze |
|
stupefy, stun |
|
| dozen | dozin |
ˈdozn |
become cold or numb |
|
| dozen't |
|
confound it |
|
| dozent |
|
stupefied, dazed, stupid |
|
| dozie |
|
stupid |
in context |
| drade | dreid | dreed |
|
dread, dreaded |
in context |
| draff |
|
draff, dregs after brewing |
|
| draible | drabble |
ˈdrebl |
besmear, dribble |
|
| draig | drag |
|
motion of the tide |
|
| draigle | draggle |
|
bedraggle, dirty, mix |
|
| draiglet | draggled | draigelt |
|
soaked, drenched, bedraggled, besmeared, wet |
in context |
| draik | drack |
|
soak, drench |
|
| dram |
|
a small drink of whisky - Be careful as a guest in a house. Scots are obliged to be generous to guests and unlike pubs measures are generally gauged in finger thicknesses. So the fatter the finger and the broader the glass the more you are going to get and thus so be affected. |
in context |
| drant |
|
drawl, whine |
|
| drap |
|
drop, (a wi drap; a drink of spirits) |
in context |
| drappit |
|
dropped |
|
| draucht | dracht |
drɑxt |
draught, a load |
|
| draunt |
|
drone, whine |
|
| draunting |
|
tedious |
|
| drave |
|
drove |
|
| draw | draa |
|
draw, the aim in curling to get the stone to curve to the target |
|
| drawn length |
|
the force needed to get a stone just to the tee |
|
| drawlie |
drɑˈli |
slow and slovenly |
|
| dree | drie |
|
endure |
|
| dreel | driel | dreil |
|
drill |
|
| dreep | dreip |
|
drip |
in context |
| dreepin |
|
dripping |
|
| dreg | draig |
|
dredge, drag |
|
| dreglins |
|
dregs |
|
| dreich |
drix |
tedious, dull and long lasting, hard to bear |
|
| dreich (of weather) |
|
gloomy,damp dull and long lasting |
in context |
| dreivin |
|
driving |
in context |
| drib |
|
a drop (liquid), beat thrash |
|
| dribble |
|
drizzle |
|
| dribs |
|
dregs |
|
| driddle |
ˈdrɪdl |
to toddle, saunter |
|
| drien |
|
driven |
|
| driffle |
drɪfl |
drizzle, rain or snow lightly |
|
| dring |
|
loiter, delay, poor miserly person, sing droningly |
|
| drink-siller |
|
a gratuity given to be spent on alcohol |
|
| drint |
|
drenched |
|
| drive | dryve |
|
drive, strke the ball for a distance (golf) |
|
| drob |
|
prick |
|
| drochel | drochle |
ˈdroxl |
a short dumpy person |
in context |
| droddum |
|
the buttocks, the backside, arse |
|
| drog | droag |
|
drug |
|
| drone |
|
bass pipe of the bagpipe |
|
| droner |
|
bumblebee |
|
| droogle |
|
soak, drench, involved in wet messy work |
in context |
| droop-rumpl't |
|
short-rumped |
|
| dross |
|
coal dust, what's left after you've shovelled up all the lumps of coal - lumps of coal were graded in size from steam (for steamships), to broken, to egg, to stove, to chestnut, and lastly down to pea size, then there's the dross - which is sometimes compressed into briquets - my family used to throw dross over the fire's glowing red embers at night wherupon it would smoulder all night long and only burst into life when poked with the poker in the morning and air and more fuel was added |
|
| drouchtit |
druxət |
parched |
|
| drouk | drook |
druk |
drench |
|
| droukit | drookit |
|
soaked, wet through |
in context |
| droun, droon |
drun |
drown |
in context |
| drount | drint |
|
drowned, drenched |
|
| drouth | drooth | droucht |
druθ |
drought, dry, in need of a nip |
in context |
| drouthie | drouthy |
|
thirsty |
|
| drove |
|
drive cattle or sheep |
|
| drove road |
|
tracks used to drive cattle to markets |
|
| drow |
drʌu |
cold wet mist, drizzle, attack of illness |
|
| drucken | druken |
|
inclined to be drunken, drunk |
|
| drum |
|
hillock,long narrow ridge |
|
| drumlie | drumle | drumble |
|
make or be muddy, disturbed water |
in context |
| drumlin |
|
long whaleback mound or ridge created by glacial deposit |
|
| drummock |
|
raw meal and cold water |
|
| drunkart |
|
drunk |
|
| drunt |
|
the huff, sulks |
|
| dry | dray |
|
dry, thirsty |
|
| dry stane dyke |
|
boundary wall of stones built to last without mortar |
|
| dryte | drite |
|
defecate, dirt |
in context |
| dub | dib |
|
a puddle, a pool |
in context |
| dubskelper |
dʌbskɛlpɪr |
one who travels rapidly regardless of the state of the roads |
in context |
| dubs |
|
mud |
|
| duds |
|
ragged clothes, clothes |
in context |
| duddie |
|
worn out, ragged |
in context |
| dug | dowg |
dʌg |
dog |
in context |
| duin | dune | din |
dʌn |
ready ,done, finished |
in context |
| dule | dool |
|
grief |
|
| dumfoond | dumfoon |
|
dumfound, amaze |
|
| dumfoundered | dumfoundert | dumfoonert |
dʌmˈfunərt |
dumfounded, amazed, flabbergasted |
in context |
| dumpie |
|
depressed |
|
| dumplin |
|
dumpling |
|
| dun |
dʌn |
small stone walled defensive structure of the iron age |
|
| dunderheid |
|
a stupid person |
in context |
| dunner |
|
thunderous noise |
|
| dungstead |
|
midden, dunghill |
|
| dunniwassal |
ˈdunɪˈwasl |
of a rank below the clan chief |
|
| dunk |
|
dank, moist, damp |
in context |
| dunner | dunder |
|
rumble |
|
| dunt |
dʌnt |
a heavy dull sounding blow, a blow to one's fortunes or feelings (a sair dunt) |
in context |
| dunter |
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the common porpoise, or dolphin |
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| dunny |
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cellar or underground passage of old tenements |
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| durk |
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something big and clumsy, large clumsily built person |
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| durst |
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dared |
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| durstna |
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dared not |
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| dusht |
dʌʃ |
pushed or thrown down violently. |
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| dwaible | dwabble |
ˈdwebl |
feeble weak person |
in context |
| dwall | dwal |
dwal |
dwell, remain in the possession of a specified person, in thrall |
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| dwalling |
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dwelling |
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| dwalt |
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dwelt |
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| dwaum | dwam |
dwɑm |
swoon, faint |
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| dwaumie | dwamie |
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sickly, feeble, dreamy |
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| dweeble |
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flexible, flabby or weak, shaky (legs) |
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| dwyne | dwine |
dwəin |
dwindle, waste away |
in context |
| dyke | dike |
dəik |
a ditch |
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| dyke |
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a boundary wall (of stone or turf) |
in context |
| dyker |
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a builder of dykes |
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| dykie |
dəikɪ |
hedge sparrow |
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| dyst | doist |
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a blow, a thud, fall or |
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| dyte | dite |
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writing, compose, indite |
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| dyte | doit |
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act foolishly, be crazed enfeebled or confused |
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| dyvor | dyvour | dyour |
ˈdaɪvər |
a bankrupt, a rogue |
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Scottish Words Glossary: D from A-Z