Glossary: A - Blash
A'— all | Awsome—frightfully |
Ablins—perhaps | Ayont—beyond |
Aboon—above | |
Ae, ane—one | Bairns—children |
Aff—off | Baith—both |
Aft—oft | Bane—bone |
Aften—often | Bannock—a thick round oat-meal cake |
Afore—before | Bardie—diminutive of bard |
Ain—own | Basht—bruised |
Air—early, soon | Bashfu'—bashful |
Airt—to direct | Batter'd—bruised, pasted |
Airns—irons | Bauld—bold |
Aith—oath | Bauchels—old shoes worn as slippers |
Ait-farle—third part of an oat-meal cake | Bauldly—boldly |
Aiken—oaken | Bawbies— money, halfpennies |
Ajee—wrong, to one side, out of the ordinary path | Beating—part of a weaver's web |
Alake—alas | Beden—immediately |
Alang—along | Beekin—basking |
Alangst—alongst | Bedding—bed clothes, |
Amaist—almost | Behin, behint—behind |
Amang—among | Begoud—began |
An'—and, if | Ben—into |
Ance—once | Belang—belong |
Aneath—beneath | Belly-flaught—tanting; with out-stretched arms, suddenly, in great haste |
Anither—another | Bethanket—praise be for it |
An's—and has | Beuk—a book |
Antrin—occasional | Bield—a house, shelter |
Araise—arose | Bigging—a building, a dwelling house |
Aroun'—around | Bien—comfortable, wealthy |
Asteer—afoot, abroad, moving | Billies—young fellows |
Athort—athwart | Birky—a clever fellow |
Atween—between | Birring—whirring |
Aul', auld—old | Birslt—burned brown |
Auld-farrant—ingenious, sly, crafty | Binna—be not |
Aweel, atweel—indeed, truly | Bizzan—a bee, a fly |
Awa—away | Blae—of a livid colour |
Awat—I wot | Blate—bashful |
Awee—for a short time | Blattert—rattled |
Awfu'—awful | Blatterin—rattling |
Awse—ashes | Blash—the fall of any heavy substance into water |