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Jacob, Violet, 1863-1946

"Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus"


_Gean-tree_, a wild cheerry-tree.
_Girnin'_, groaning.
_Gowk_, a cuckoo.
_Grapes_, gropes.
_Hairst_, harvest.
_Happit, happ'd_, wrapped.
_Haughs_, low-lying lands.
_Keek_, peer.
_Kep_, meet.
_Laigh_, low.
_Lane, his lane_, alone.
_Loan_, disused, overgrown road, a waste place.
_Loon_, a fellow.
_Lowe_, flame.
_Lum_, chimney.
_Mear_, mare.
_Mill-lade_, mill-race.
_Neep_, turnip.
_Poke_, pocket.
_Puddock-stules_, toadstools.
_Rodden-tree_, rowan-tree.
_Rug_, to pull.
_Sark_, shift, smock.
_Shaws_, small woods.
_Sheltie_, pony.
_Skailed_, split, dispersed.
_Smoors_, smothers.
_Sneck_, latch.
_Soom_, swim.
_Sort them_, deal with them.
_Speels_, climbs.
_Speir_, to inquire.
_Steerin'_, stirring.
_Sweir_, loth.
_Syne_, since, ago, then.
_Tawse_, a leather strap used for correcting children.
_Thole_, to endure.
_Thrawn_, twisted.
_Tint_, lost.
_Tod_, fox.
_Toom_, empty.
_Toorie_, a knob, a topknot.
_Traivel_, to go afoot; literally, to go at a foot's pace.
_Warslin'_, wrestling.
_Wauks_, wakes.
_Waur_, worse.
_Wean_, infant.
_Weepies_, rag-wort.
_Whaup_, curlew.
_Wildfire_, summer lightning.
_Writer_, attorney.
_Yett_, gate.


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