Glossary: Hinny-moon - Leatherin
Hinny-moon—honey-moon | Kent, kend—known |
Hirpling—walking lamely | Kentna—knew not |
Hog—shilling (a cant term) | Kepp—a cap |
Hogmenae—the last night of the year | Kill—a kiln |
Hools—husks | Kimmer—a woman |
Hotch—to move as if burdened with fatness | Kinle—kindle |
Hotching—moving | Kintra, kintry—country |
Howe—a hollow or dell | Kippled—married |
Howk—to dig | Kirnan-rung—churn-staff |
Hornings—the name of a Scottish law paper | Kist—a chest |
Hunkerin—crouching | Kittled—tickled |
Hunkert—crouched | Knolted—knocked |
Huggert-taes—toes covered with old stockings | Knowes—small round hillocks |
Huggers—old stockings, coarse stockings without feet | Knuckled—put up with, endured |
Hunners—hunders | Koots—the ankle bones |
Hurlan—hurling | Kusson—thrown |
Hurdies—the buttocks | Kyte—the stomach or belly |
Huthron—hurridly, confusedly | |
Hutch—an indefinite quantity of any heavy substance. varying in weight in different shires in Scotland | Lade—a load |
Lade—a canal for leading water to turn a mill | |
I'—in | Lad'ent—loadened |
Ilk—each | Laft—the loft |
Ilka—every | Lallan—lowland |
Ingle—fire, fire-place | Lam'ies—dim. of lambs |
Ingon—onion | Lam'ies—an affectionate term for young children |
Ither—other | Lampet—took long steps while walking |
I'se—I shall | Lamping—taking long steps |
Lan, laun—land, a building | |
Jaunering—talking idly | Lang—long |
Jink—to turn suddenly | Lang-syne—long since |
Jinking—turning suddenly | Lane—lone |
Lanely—lonely | |
Kail—broth | Lap—to leap, jumped |
Kame—a comb | Lapfu's—lapfuls |
Kechlin—cackling | Lave (the )—the rest, the others |
Kechan—yeast | Lavrocks—larks |
Keek—to peep | Lea'—leave |
Keekin—peeping | Lear—learning |
Keepet—kept | Leathing—the lath |
Ken—to know | Leatherin—a castigation |