Glossary: Chirt - Deuks
Chirt—to squeeze, to press | Coups—tumbles, overturns |
Chimly—the grate, fire-place | Core—a party, a gang |
China—a kind of silk used for webs | Cowl—a night-cap |
Chirle—a cock's comb | Cozie—warm, comfortable |
Chucky—a hen | Crack—to convene |
Ciners—cinders | Cracky—talkative |
Claes—clothes | Craft—a field near a house |
Clachan, claughin—a village | Craws—crows |
Claith—cloth | Crawing—crowing |
Clam—climbed | Creeshy—greasy |
Clauts—the hands | Cronie, crony—a companion |
Clautet—scraped, cleaned | Croon—to moan, to hum a tune |
Clashing—wet with water | Crump—to chew any hard bread |
Clash—a heap, a large quantity | Crumpin—hard, brittle |
Clod—turf, sod | Cuffets—dim. of cuffs, blows |
Closes—passages through houses from front to back | Cuist—did cast |
Clootie, cloots—the devil | |
Cloots—the feet | Dab—a proficient |
Cloited—tumbled | Dading, daudin—clanking |
Cloorin—striking, murdering | Dads—fathers, a familiar term |
Clinch—to halt, walk lamely | Daft—foolish, merry, having little of reason |
Clashes—scandle (scandal?), on dits | Daffin—merriment |
Clink—a blow, a knock; a cant term for money | Daidlin—tippling |
Clinket—snatched quickly | Daized—stupified |
Clung—empty | Dang—beat, surpassed |
Cluds—clouds | Darna—dare not |
Cluded—clouded | Daud, dawd—a large piece |
Clues—balls of yarn | Daudron—slovenly, dirty |
Clinking—clanking | Dautit—fondled, carressed |
Cowins—fragments of bread | Dauner—to wander |
Cockin—perched up, comequentially | Daunert—wandered |
Cockernonies—caps, the gathering of a woman's hair, when it is tied up with a snood | Daunering—wandering |
Cog—a wooden dish | Daughty—well, able |
Co'ert—covered | Dean—dying |
Co'ering—covering | Deil, deel—the devil |
Coof—a stupid fellow | Deil-be-licket—nothing |
Couped—tumbled | Deil-mak-matter—let the devil make matter for that now |
Cork—a manufacturer (cant term) | Dementit—stupid |
Cou'd—could | Devore—devour |
Couldna, coudna—could not | Deuks—ducks |