Some of these are duplicated from Death in a Scarlet Gown, but there we are: this maybe makes it easier!
Ashet: a large serving dish
Birl: spin round or over
Brose: usually barley broth, sometimes oatmeal in water.
Athol Brose is whisky, cream and oatmeal as a pudding and can be very fine (and
indeed very alcoholic)
Corbie: crow
Craik: croak
Creepie stool: a small stool made usually by amateur
carpenters, suitable for kitchens http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/woodbgood/index.asp?pageid=1045
Crusie lamp: a wall-hanging oil lamp with a wick, cheaply
made and used often in cottages http://www.ramshornstudio.com/early_lighting_4.htm
Dominie: schoolmaster (this time from Latin, dominus)
Feart: afraid
Gar me grue: give me the creeps
Gey: very
Girdle: griddle
Gob: mouth, or more generally face
Greet: cry, sob
Guddle: confusion, mess
Hapeth: halfpennyworth (that is, not much)
Heidyin: head one, chief
Hirple: to limp
Howff: a low drinking establishment
Ken: know
Kirk: church
Kist: chest. In the National Archives of Scotland in
Edinburgh, there’s a group of Episcopalian Church papers known temptingly as
the Jolly Kist – but it’s just a chest of papers that once belonged to Bishop Jolly.
Ah, well.
Lum: chimney
Midden: dungheap
Neep: turnip, swede
Nyerps, give you the: annoy you, bother you, disturb you
Precentor: in the Scottish church, one who leads the singing
of the psalms
Rammy: scrap, fight
Skelp: slap, spank, cane, generally for disciplinary
purposes
Unchancy: unlucky
Wean: child, infant
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