| Scottish Word | Phonetic | Meaning | Word in Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scottish Word | Phonetic | Meaning | Word in Context |
| pack | pak | pack, an initial stock of goods, a means of making a living | |
| packman | a travelling merchant | ||
| paction | packtion | bargain, deal | ||
| pad | footpath, a narrow unpaved way | ||
| paddok-lok | a portable lock | ||
| paewae | ˈpeˈwe | pallid, sickly, drooping | |
| paffle | a croft, small bit of land | ||
| paidle | ˈpedl | paddle, toddle | |
| paidle | leather nail-bag or flat leather pouch | ||
| paigle | the messy housework, chores | ||
| paik | beat, thrash, tramp | ||
| get one's paiks | get one's just deserts | ||
| pail | pel | canopy for a bed, drape for a coffin or corpse | |
| pail | pel | a bucket | in context |
| painch | penʃ | paunch, entrails | |
| paip | fruit kernel or stone, the pope | ||
| paircel | partial | persell | ˈpersəl | parcel, a band of people or animals (thems a paircel of rogues) | |
| pairish | parioch | ˈperɪʃ | parish | |
| pairk | perk | pairt | pɛrk | public park, or an area of enclosed farm ground | |
| parkie | any public park official who used to lock the pairk gates at night and would forever chase off children who ignored the signs to keep off the grass and instead enjoyed themselves playing football on it. Features in many an oor wullie adventure. | ||
| pair | puir | pure | pur | poor | in context |
| pairls | perlz | paralytic tremors | |
| pairt | pert | part, a parcel of land | in context |
| pairtial | partial | ||
| pairtie | pairty | perty | ˈpertɪ | party | in context |
| pairtner | ˈpertnər | partner | |
| pairtrick | paitrick | partrick | ˈpetrɪk | a partridge | |
| pal | friend, befriend, insouciant term of address to a male stranger - if you're gallus enough | in context | |
| palaiver | pəˈlevər | palaver, a fuss, a fussy person | |
| pale | pointed stake used in a fence, a paling fence, a small shovel or scoop for taking samples | ||
| palfurner | man in charge of horses | ||
| palie | pally | paulie | ˈpɑlɪ | thin, pale, sickly-looking, stunted | |
| pall | paal | pɑl | a pole, strong post, mooring post | |
| pally-jeukit
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left handed | in context | |
| pally-handed | pallie-fitted | having a damaged hand, or foot | in context | |
| pallalls | ˈpaˈlals | hopscotch, peevers | |
| pallawa | small edible crab | ||
| palmie | paumie | pawmie | ˈpɑmɪ | a stroke with the lochgellie (the school punishment strap (wristie - bad form of hitting the pupil's wrist with the strap (from the pupil's point of view))) | |
| pan | the toilet pan, a cooking vessel | in context | |
| pan | head, skull, cranium, solid soil, a purlin | in context | |
| pan-drop | the preferred sweetie of my grannie, round white and hard with a peppermint flavour | ||
| pan-jotrals | a dish made from odds and ends of food, offal | ||
| pan-loaf | white bread baked in a tin with a smooth crust as opposed to plain bread which has a rough crust - and a coarser texture as I remember - I'm a wholemeal bakery goods person myself | ||
| pan-scone | pancake | ||
| knock one's pan in | work very hard to the point of puggledness | ||
| pandie | stroke of a cane or belt - from a headmaster | ||
| pang | paŋ | ache, pain, cram full | |
| pannie | kindling | ||
| pannie-bread | bread baked in a pan over a fire | ||
| panse | pans | pense | pans | reflect, ponder seriously | |
| pant | fun, a prank | ||
| pap | pape | pap | a teat, bosom, a conical hill, | in context |
| pap | quick touch, strike lightly, throw, aim, sound of a tooter or horn | ||
| pap | pop | in context | |
| paparap | three hooks tied together on weighted line used for poaching fish | ||
| papple | flow, bubble up, sizzle, the corn-cockle, sweat profusely | in context | |
| paraud | parawd | pəˈrɑd | parade, procession, march | |
| pardoos | pərˈdus | a resounding whack | |
| pairin-meal | course meal or flour made from grain husks | ||
| pargen | ˈpardʒən | daub with plaster, to plaster | |
| parpen | parpan | stone which passes through the entire thickness of a wall | ||
| parr | a young salmon before it becomes a smolt | ||
| parrie | parry | waste time, dawdle, delay | ||
| parritch | paritch | parridge | poritch | porridge, made from oatmeal, water, and salt simmered until it reaches the texture and consistency you desire, posh porridge can be made with milk and include raisins. Serve with milk or cream and for a pitiful few a sprinkling of sugar and/or swirl of honey or Lyle's golden syrup. Made well this is tasty, filling, warms and heartens, and is extremely healthy for you minus the sugary additions. | in context | |
| parrititch-drawer | this is not a lie, the bothy practice of having a scrubbed drawer that the porridge, made to the correct consistency, is poured into and left to cool and set, wherupon you can slice it up and remove slabs when needed to carry in one's piece box to work to eat later that day or the next. I was never told how long it kept in the drawer but my experience of porridge says it'd easily manage two days, probably more, with no problem | ||
| parritch-pats | porridge-pots | ||
| Save yer braith tae cool yer parritch! | What you're saying is not worth hearing; be quiet. | ||
| parrymauk | ˈparɪˈmjɑk | an exact replica, clone | |
| partan | edible crab | ||
| parteeclar | parteicular | parteiclar | pərˈtikɪlər | particular, confidential, worthy of note | in context |
| pat | pot, pate, the head, the cranium - sometimes the cranium minus the rest of the skull | ||
| patie | ˈpetɪ | the puffin | |
| pattie | clay or earthen ware (marble) | ||
| pauchle | pochle | ˈpɑxl | small bundle, a small load, to steal a small thing furtively, mild theft | in context |
| pauchtie | supercilious, self conceited, arrogant | in context | |
| paum | pawm | palm of hand | ||
| paut | pawt | ˈpɑt | strike the ground with the foot | |
| paveelion | paveilion | paˈvɪljun | pavilion | |
| pavey-waveys | ˈpevɪˈwevɪz | girls skipping game | |
| paw | pa | dad (father), a feeble gesture | ||
| pawk | pɑk | a trick, wile | |
| pawkie | pɑkɪ | a mitten | |
| pawky | cunning, sly, roguish | in context | |
| pawkery | pawkerie | paukery | paukerie | packerie | pokerie: most commonly in combination as; joukerie-pawkery | trickery, slyness, double dealing | in context | |
| pawl | make clutching movements | ||
| pawnd | a pawn, a pledge, a pawnshop | ||
| pea | pi | pea, small marble, a knob of coal next size up from dross - lumps of coal were graded in size from steam (for steamships), to broken, to egg, to stove, to chestnut, and down to pea or purl, what's left is the dross | |
| peace | paice | peace | ||
| pearl | purl | a stitch in knitting, a knob of coal the next size up from dross size | ||
| pease | piz | pizz | pea, peas | in context | |
| peasie | pizɪ | a small marble | |
| peat | pit | peat the compressed wet vegetable material that lies under the surface of a peat bog, slabs of which were dug up, dried, then burnt for heat and cooking | |
| peat-creel | basket for carrying dried peats | ||
| peat-fire | dry peat burning on the hill | ||
| peat-greeshoch | red hot smouldering peat | ||
| peat-hag | hole or pit left by old peat workings | ||
| peat-reek | pitˈrik | pungent smoke of a peat fire | |
| peat-rickle | pitˈrɪkl | three or four peats set on end together to dry | |
| pech | pɛx | pant, breathing hard after running, puff | |
| a sair pech | aˈserˈpɛx | an exhausting struggle | |
| pechan | ˈpɛxan | the stomach as a receptacle for food | |
| pechie | pechy | short winded, out of puff | ||
| pechin | pɛxən | panting, puffing | in context |
| pecht | pikt | out of breath, puffed out | ||
| peck | pɛk | a measure of dry weight = quarter of a firlot | |
| peedgie | ˈpidʒɪ | small glass marble | |
| peedie | small tiny, weedy | in context | |
| peefer | pifər | moan, whine | |
| peek | peik | tiny point of light, tongue of flame | ||
| peel | peil | pil | an equal match (a draw, in curling), also a stockade | |
| peeler | a small crab at shell casting time | ||
| peelie-wallie | peilie-wallie | peely-wally | pilɪˈwalɪ | pale | in context |
| peen | hammer metal out flat and thin | ||
| peener | ˈpinər | a mason's peen hammer (tends to be big) - you get cross, straight or ball peen hammers, one head is flat as per normal the other is rounded (the ball) or wedge shaped (either parrallel (straight) with the handle or across it (cross)) - you've used a small cross peen if you've ever used a hammer with the narrow wedge face to tap a pin which was held gingerly twixt your finger and thumb till it grips - then finished the job off, with your fingers out of the way, with the flat face. That was a cross peen hammer. | |
| peend | pein | peen | sloping point at the end of a roof | ||
| peenge | peinge | pindʒ | whine | |
| peengie | peingie | pindʒi | peevish, whining | in context |
| peenie | peinie | pinafore | in context | |
| peeoy | peioy | schoolchild's home-made firework - Haw! them were the days - take it from me domestic fireworks are tame compared to what they were - bangers were louder and we had others that are no longer sold, the price you are payin for less fun than us is a damn sight less injuries. My grown up mates still have the odd mark left from those bonfire nights. | ||
| peep | peip | small flame from a gas cooker | ||
| pit his/her gas at a peep | put someone in their place | in context | |
| peer | peerie | a short-sighted | ||
| peerie | small, tiny, minuscule, a tiny creature | in context | |
| peerie | peirie | a small fircone, a child's spinning top | ||
| peerie ee'd | a short-sighted small eyed peering person, a mysterious, slightly sinister person, a “dark horse”. | in context | |
| peerie-heidit | peirie-heidit | a state of mental confusion | in context | |
| peerie weary | a mysterious, slightly sinister person, a “dark horse”. | ||
| peesie | ˈpizɪ | excellent, first rate | |
| peesweep | peewee | peeweet | the lapwing, "Peese-weet, peese-weet, harry my nest, and gar me greet" in Victorian times the eggs were a delicacy | ||
| peetie | peety | peity | pity | ||
| peetifu | pitɪˈfu | pitiful | in context |
| peever | the flat stone used in hopscotch | ||
| peg-oot | die, pass on, expire, shuffle off one's mortal coil | in context | |
| peh | ˈpɛ | pie | in context |
| peil | peel | pill, a tablet | ||
| peir | peer | pear | ||
| pelsh | pish | a drenching shower of rain | in context | |
| pen | a pointed conical hill | ||
| pend | pɛnd | an arch, a vaulted or arched passage into the back court of a house or tennements | |
| pennie | penny | ||
| penny-fee | wage in money | ||
| penny-wheep | small beer | ||
| pent | pint | pɛnt | paint | in context |
| pented | pɛntəd | painted | in context |
| peper | pepper | ˈpɛpər | paper | in context |
| perfaission | profession | ||
| perfit | perfeck | perfect | ||
| pergaddus | pərˈgadəs | a heavy blow or fall | |
| perjink | pərdʒɪŋk | neat, smart, trim | |
| perk | a pole or rod, a park | ||
| perlaig | disgusting trash | ||
| perlicket | pərˈlɪkɪt | an iota, the tiniest scrap | |
| permeession | permeision | permission | ||
| pernicketie | pernickity | particular, fastidious, obsessed by detail | in context | |
| peratt | pirate | in context | |
| perswad | pɛrswad | persuade | in context |
| pertin | pɛrtən | parting | |
| pervoo | forhoo | pərˈvu | bird abandoning its nest | in context |
| peth | pɛθ | path, a cleft running up and down the slope of a hill, ravine | |
| peuch | pyoch | pjux | imitating a gust of wind, expressing disgust | |
| peuchle | pyochle | pyocher | pjuxl | work ineffectually, a cough | |
| peul | pewl | pjul | while, complain, weak animal, | |
| peuther | pewter | ˈpjuθər | a fuss about doing nothing | |
| peutherin | pewterin | The action of soliciting (for a favour) or of currying favour | in context | |
| pue | pew | pju | the cry of a bird | |
| pey | pəi | pay | in context |
| peyzart | ˈpəizərt | skinflint | |
| philabeg | kilt - but originally meant the whole plaid which formed the kilt and with enough spare to wrap the torso and at night the whole thing could double as a wrap to act as a sleeping bag | ||
| phisik | ˈfɪzɪk | having treatment | |
| photie | ˈfotɪ | photograph | in context |
| phrase | frase | fraise | elaborate flowery speech, flattery, look of surprise | ||
| phrasie | fraisie | frezɪ | gushing, too fussy | |
| pibroch | ˈpibrox | bagpipe compositions - avoid the laments, marches are good | |
| picher | ˈpixər | a flap, a confusion, useless person | in context |
| pick | pitch, spade in playing cards | ||
| pickant, picken | piquant, biting, tart | in context | |
| pickerel | pikkerel | the dunlin, any small wading birds | ||
| pickle | puckle | a grain (measure) of oats, barley and such, a few, tiny amount - it might be that the well known term "mony a mickle maks a muckle" was originally "mony a pickle maks a muckle" since mickle and muckle are the same word that has the meaning; a large amount, huge | in context | |
| pickman | a miner | ||
| pickmaw | black-headed gull | ||
| pictarnie | ˈpɪkˈtarnɪ | common or arctic tern, thin | |
| pictur | picter | picture, film | ||
| pictur-hoose | picturs | picters | pɪktʃərˈhus | cinema | |
| piece | pis | a sandwich, food and drink for a work break | in context |
| piece box | lunch box | in context | |
| pig | pigg | pot, jar, earthenware | ||
| pike | pyke | pəik | pointed tip, spike, thorn, quill | in context |
| pike | pyke | pəik | an amount (of something) snatched, a picking | in context |
| pikie | pəikɪ | spiked, jagged, barbed | |
| pikit weir | pikit weer | barbed wire | ||
| pile | increase speed by moving the body or parts thereof (e.g. on a swing), a heap, post | ||
| pilk | pick out, shell, top and tail, peel, steal | in context | |
| pillae | pilla | pillie | pillow | ||
| piller | small crab at shell casting time | ||
| pilleurichie | pɪˈlurəxɪ | hullaballoo, uproar | |
| pilliewinkis | pılıˈwınkıs | torture instrument for squeezing and crushing the fingers | |
| pilpert | cold and ill fed child | ||
| pinch | spend or give meanly, stint, move something heavy by lever | ||
| pinch | pinch-bar | pointed iron bar for making post holes or using as a lever | ||
| pinchers | pɪnʃərs | tweezers, crowbar, pliers | |
| pincil | pencil | ||
| pingle | ˈpɪŋl | strive, compete, quarrel | |
| pink | primrose, anything very small, short tinkling sound | ||
| pinkie | little finger, a weak beer | ||
| pint (Scots) | three imperial pints | ||
| pint stowp | pəintˈstʌup | a mug or tankard that holds a Scots pint | |
| pintle | ˈpɪntl | penis | |
| piper | ˈpəipər | one who plays the pipes (bagpipes) | |
| piper's bidding | a belated last minute invite | ||
| pirk | sharp point, thorn | ||
| pirl | purl | prod, thrust, twist, twirl, coil, roll, spin | in context | |
| pirn | pirm | bobbin, reel of sewing thread | ||
| pirr | a common tern | ||
| pirr | sudden sharp breeze, flow, tremble with anger | ||
| pirr-maw | pɪrˈmɑ | black-headed gull | |
| pish | gush, splash out, urinate, urine | ||
| pit | pit, also one's bed | in context | |
| pit | pitt | put | in context | |
| pit by | set aside, savings | ||
| pitcaithly bannock | a shortbread containing chopped almonds and citron peel - spent a great deal of my youth at Pitkeathly (the modern spelling) and got my first bicycle from the man that lived in the Spa house on the hill. | ||
| pitcher | ˈpɪtʃər | hopscotch | |
| pith | the strength giving quality of food, the vibrancy of a person | ||
| pitten | put | ||
| placads | proclamations. | ||
| plack | a small coin, very little | in context | |
| catch-the-plack | grubbing for money, greed | in context | |
| plackless | hard-up | ||
| plackless | penniless. | ||
| plaid | plaidie | plaiden | pled | a long rectangular length of twilled woolen cloth usually in tartan worn as an outer cover wrap or as a shawl by women - now mostly seen on band pipe majors worn like a sash | |
| plaiden | coarse woolen cloth | ||
| plain | featureless ground | ||
| plainstane | flagstone, pavement | ||
| plaister | ˈplestər | plaster, go about things in a slapdash slovenly way | in context |
| plait | pleased | ||
| plane-tree | sycamore | ||
| plat | plet | flat, clear, plain, very, | ||
| platch | plotch | ˈplatʃ | a splashing, stamping movements in water or mud | |
| plaunt | plant | ||
| playock | a toy | ||
| please | pleise | pliz | to relish, like, please | |
| pleen | formal complaint | in context | |
| pleisant | pleesant | pleasant | ||
| pleisur | pleesure | pleasure | ||
| plenish | ˈplɛnɪʃ | furnish | |
| plenish'd | stocked | ||
| plenishins | furniture | ||
| plert | heavy fall into soft ground, mud etc. | ||
| plett | pleat | plait, pigtail, fold, twist | ||
| plettie | ˈplɛtɪ | (Dundee) balconies running the length along the back of tennements giving access to the entrance doors | in context |
| plettie-stanes | pavement | ||
| plicht | plɪxt | plight | |
| pliskie | prank, escapade, trick | ||
| pliver | plivver | ˈplɪvər | plover | |
| plodge | plodʒ | squelch along on wet ground | |
| plot | plout | plot | scald, very hot | |
| plottin | overheated state | in context | |
| plou | plew | ploo | pleu | plough | in context | |
| plooboy | ploughboy | ||
| plooman | ˈpluˈmən | ploughman | |
| Pieter's Plou | The Big Dipper | in context | |
| plouk | plook | pluke | pluk | pimple | in context |
| plookit | covered in spots | ||
| ploum | ploom | plum | plum | |
| plowt | plunge something, fall heavily into liquid, pelt down | ||
| plowter | ploiter | ˈplʌutər | dabble in water, a messy worker, heavy rain | |
| ploy | venture, scheme | ||
| pluffie | pluffy | plʌfɪ | plump, puffy, well padded, toffee type of puff candy | |
| plug | plʌg | play truant, the ugly school child in the Bash St Kids from the Beano | |
| plunk | plank | dull heavy sound, a heavy short fall, set down heavily, a game of marbles, flick off the marble, play truant | ||
| plunker | heavy glass or clay marble | ||
| plype | pləip | sudden heavy short rain shower, plunge into, walk on squelchy ground | |
| poacket | pokəʔ | a pocket | |
| poatch | potch | potʃ | catch game illegally, poach, stir, poke, push, prod | |
| poch | pox | slightly unwell, not at one's best | |
| podger | podʒər | sexual intercourse | in context |
| podle | podl | tadpole | |
| poind | to seize | ||
| poke | pock | poak | pok | bag, sack, paper bag for sweets or flour or chips etc, to prod | in context |
| denner-poke | ˈdɛnər-pok | lunch bag | in context |
| plastipoke | plastic carrier bag | in context | |
| polis | ˈpolɪs | police | in context |
| pollywag | ˈpolɪˈwag | tadpole | |
| pooch | pootch | putʃ | pocket, purse, affectionate name for a dog | in context |
| poond | poun | ˈpund | pound sterling, Scottish RBS one pound notes were still in circulation and legal when I looked in 2016 but rarely seen in the wild. The English pound note was withrrawn in 1988 in favour of the pound coin | in context |
| poor | pooer | pour, flow out through a spout or pipe | in context | |
| poor doon | pooer doon | downpour, heavy shower of rain | ||
| poor | pooer | pour, flow out through a spout or pipe | in context | |
| poorie | purɪ | a jug | |
| poortith | purtɪð | poverty, lean from malnourishment | |
| pork | prod, poke, push | ||
| pose | poz | place an object to hide it | |
| poseetion | poseition | poziˈʃʌn | position | |
| posie | collection, hoard of valuables | ||
| possibill | possible | in context | |
| postie | postman | in context | |
| potted heid | potted hoch | ˈpotədˈhid | Potted heid, my dads favourite, a cold meaty jelly made from boiling the meat off of the skull of a cow or pig. Hoch if you use a hock, the ankle bit of the beast. After boiling the head until the meat starts coming off remove and discard the bones, teeth, eyes, snout, workings of the nasal cavity and inner ear and anything hairy – then remove and shred up and keep the meat that's left. Reduce the remaining brew by boiling it to concentrate the gelatin. When that's done add back in the shredded meat and some vegetables like onions, carrot, swedes, leek etc. and cook for a bit. Season well and then allow it to set and cool in small pots - waste not want not - spreads well on toast. If you like living off the land stories here's Brixton's Bounty's Blog who has a proper recipe and makes this stuff for real and speaks from actual experience. |
in context |
| pottie | made of earthenware a babies pot for pooing into | ||
| pou | pu | poo | pu | pull | in context |
| pou tab | ring pull, zipper pull, light cord pull | in context | |
| poud | pood | pʌud | pulled | |
| pouder | ˈpudər | powder | in context |
| pouer | pooer | power | in context | |
| pouk | pook | puk | pluck, pull, moulting condition in birds | in context |
| poukie | dejected and thin looking person | ||
| poukit | pookit | pukɪt | plucked, puny, meagre | |
| poup | poop | pup | defecate | in context |
| poupit | poopit | puˈpɪt | pulpit | |
| pouskered | ˈpuskərd | exhausted | in context |
| pouss | pooss | pouse | pʌʃ | push, incite | |
| poussie | pussie | pusɪ | a hare (also a cat). | in context |
| poust | poost | strength, power, force | in context | |
| pout | powt, poot | pʌut | a young game bird | |
| pouter | pooter | ˈputər | poke, stir up | |
| pouther | poother | pooder | ˈpuðər | powder | in context |
| pouther | pouder | pudder | puther | ˈpuðər | (curling) the power behind the delivery of a stone, the impetus delivered to the stone | |
| potterneeshin | ˈpotərˈniʃən | a state of ruin, go to the dogs | |
| pow | pʌu | the head of a person, the crown, the end part of inanimate objects | in context |
| pow | slow moving ditch like stream in carse lands | ||
| powheid | poweheid | ˈpʌuhid | tadpole | |
| powie | ˈpʌuɪ | a smiths flat headed hand hammer with the head ends worn to rounds | |
| powk | ˈpʌuk | dig in a careless way, walk making a dull thudding sound with the feet | |
| powt | ˈpʌut | poke or prod with a long stick | |
| powl | pʌul | pole, walking stick | |
| pownie | powny | pony | ||
| powsowdie | powsodie | ˈpʌuˈsʌudɪ | sheep's head thick broth. “the first Scottish dish encountered by the Wordsworths and Coleridge on their Scottish tour.” Dorothy Wordsworth wrote that they “ate heartily of it.” – Ferguson the Scottish poet wrote that “A gude sheep’s Heid/Wha’s hide was singeit, never fleed.” (that is, not ‘flayed,’ in other words cooked whole). – Information in depth and referenced on this British Food in America Web site. | in context |
| powter | ˈpʌutər | prodding repeatedly with the long stick, paddle or poke about in a liquid | in context |
| pozie | alley between buildings | ||
| practicall | prezənt | pertaining to practice, engaged in practice | in context |
| praisent | prezənt | present | |
| praisentlie | praisently | presently, at this moment | ||
| pram | press down, squeeze | ||
| pran | crush, reduce to pulp, pound | ||
| prap | prop | ||
| prat | trick, jape | ||
| preach | preich | praitch | preach | in context | |
| preceese | preceise | prəˈsɪz | precise, exactly, precisely | |
| pree | prie | pri | try out, sample | |
| preein | a small quantity, a tiny taste | ||
| preen | prein | a metal pin | in context | |
| prent | |||
| prentice | apprentice | in context | |
| preses | preeses | preises | ˈprisez | president, chairperson | |
| press | prɛs | large wall cupboard | |
| press bed | bed built into a wall recess with wooden doors | ||
| pridefu | prydefu | prəidˈfu | snobbish | |
| prig | haggle, importune, plead | ||
| prime | pryme | fill, stuff, load | ||
| primp | dress-up, over-neat | ||
| prinkle | tingle, prickling of the skin | ||
| privie hedge | privy hedge | privet hedge | ||
| proadge | prodʒ | poking or prodding movement with a long stick or such | in context |
| prog | a piercing weapon or missile, probe, goad | ||
| proke | poke about | ||
| prood | proud | prud | proud | |
| propine | money for drink | ||
| propone | proˈpon | propose | |
| proven | proved | ||
| provost | provest | ˈprovəst | similar to the english term mayor but better | |
| pruif | prufe | proof | ||
| pruve | pruive | pruv | prove | |
| pudden | puddin | types of sausage made from usually mainly edible mixtures containing such as oatmeal, suet, blood, offal, onions, herbs etc, stuffed into and cooked in a stomach lining or entrails - keeps well, a stupid clumsy person | in context | |
| pudden | puddin | the sweet course in a meal, pudding as in prunes and custard | in context | |
| puddie doo | pudɪˈdu | pet pigeon | in context |
| puddock | paddock | frog, toad | in context | |
| puddock stuil | ˈpʌdəkˈstul | mushroom, toadstool | |
| puddock's cruddles | frogspawn | ||
| pudge | pʌdʒ | short and fat person or animal | |
| pudget | a heavy eater | ||
| puff | pʌf | to brag | |
| puffed-oot | pʌfdˈut | out of breath | in context |
| puffle | puff up | ||
| puggelt | puggle | exhausted, done for and at a stand still | in context | |
| puggie | pʌgɪ | monkey, a hole or ring into which marbles are rolled (game), - which brings me to the term 'freezing the balls off a brass monkey' which refers to cannon ball amunition that if stacked pyramid wise on a brass puggie tends to roll off if the brass shrinks enough due to a low temperature | in context |
| puidge | sty, pig-sty, a very dirty or untidy place, house or room | in context | |
| puil | pule | pøl | pool | |
| puirtith | poverty | ||
| puist | pøst | cram, stuff full | |
| pulloch | pulox | a small edible crab | |
| pult | a short stout person | ||
| pump | pʌmp | break wind, fart | in context |
| punce | pʌns | pounce or a nudge or a poke | |
| puncheon | pʌnʃɪun | stilletto, dagger | |
| punct | punt | pʌŋkt | a point, a speck | |
| pund | pun | pʌnd | pound weight or value | |
| pund | a single rustle of animals by rustlers, a pound, enclosure for animals | ||
| pundie | pʌndɪ | a strong beer or liquor | |
| punkie | pʌnkɪ | a game of marbles played in three scoops in the ground | |
| punse | to emboss | ||
| puppie | poppy flower, a puppet | ||
| purfle | purfled | purfelt | ˈpʌrfɪt | fat and asthmatic or wheezy | |
| purls | pʌrls | pearls, small balls of dung from rabbits or sheep | in context |
| purpie | purple | ||
| purry | brose stirred in with chopped up kail or other vegetables, once made it on a penniless day in my student flat and hated it, but the flatmates and pals after a cold Sunday morning of football loved it - so they said | ||
| pursepenny | a coin or other item of high value kept permanently as it is felt to bring good luck | in context | |
| pushion | pooshin | ˈpuʒən | poison | in context |
| puslick | ˈpʌʃlək | dried droppings of a sheep or cow | |
| puss | ˈpʌs | one's face | in context |
| putt | put | pʌt | push, thrust, nudge gently, a butt from an animal, a Scottish golf stroke | |
| puttock | the buzzard | ||
| pyauve | pyauvin | pjɑv | ailing, suffering from the heat, a fit of nausia | |
| pye | from a counting out nonsense ryme - hytum, pytum, peni, pye, pop a lorie, jinkie jye, an, tan, toap, stall ye oot by | ||
| pyke | pəik | steal, pilfer, to pick | |
| pyle | pile | a snowflake | ||
| pyles | pəilz | grains, piles as of in the bottom | |
| pynt | ˈpəint | point | in context |
| pyrn | ˈpɪrn | a bobbin | |
| pyot | pyet | ˈpaɪət | the magpie, irresponsible person, other things with a pied plumage or coat |
Scottish Words Glossary: P from A-Z