Glossary: Gouk - Hinmaist
Gouk—a simpleton | Halesale—wholesale |
Gowk—a cuckoo | Hallan—the outer door |
Goustly—ghostly | Haly—holy |
Goud, gowd—gold | Hame—home |
Gowden—golden | Hamely—homely |
Gowan—the field daisy | Hammart, hameart—relating or belonging to home |
Graip—a dung fork | Han, haun—the hand |
Graith—working utensils | Hap—to cover, to hope |
Grane—groan | Happet—covered, wrapped |
Graned—groaned | Happin—hoping |
Grannie—grandmother | Harnishes—part of a weaver's working utensils |
Graped—groped | Harns—brains |
Grat, grutten—wept | Harl—to drag |
Gree—to agree | Harled—dragged |
Gree-praise, excellence; to bear the gree, to bear the bell | Hazel oil—a beating: so called from a hazel wand being often used as a rod of correction in the domestic circles |
Greeting, greetin—weeping | Hash—a sloven |
Groo—to shudder with loathing | Haud—to hold |
Groosome—loathingly,frightful | Hauds—holds |
Grouping—groping | Hault—drew, dragged |
Grun—ground | Havings—breeding |
Gude—the Almighty | Hawkie—a cow |
Guides!—Gods! God guide us | Hech!—a loud sigh |
Gude, guid—good | Hecht—promised |
Gudewife—a wife | Heapet—heaped |
Gude-for-naething—good for nothing | Hechin—using the exclamation hech! or sighing loudly |
Gurle—growl | Heeze—to lift up |
Gurled—gurgled | Hel'—held |
Help's—help us | |
Ha'—hall, a house | Herse—hearse |
Hade—did hide | Herdies—dim. of herds |
Hadna—had not | He's—he is |
Hae —have | Het—hot |
Ha'f— half | Heuk-an-creuk—by any means |
Haffets—the sides of the head | Hew—to cut |
Haith—faith! | Hie, heigh—high |
Halflins—half, nearly, partly | Himsel—himself |
Haill—whole | Hinee—honey |
Hainches—the sides of a person | Hingan, hingin—hinging |
Hairns—a person's inside | Hin'er-en—the latter end |
Hale—healthy | Hinmaist—the last |