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GLOSSARY
- Caum-staned, 169, pipe-clayed
- Cayshin, cayshner, 72, 103 (caution, cautioner), Sc. law
- Challenge, 87, 92, Sc. law
- Champet, 88, 129, mashed, champ from an original chamb, identical with jam and jumble, imitative of action of chewing.—N. E. D.
- Chapel of Ease, 144, quoad sacra, supplementary to parish church
- Chaps me! chops me! 102, 127, 173, from chap, chaup, to fix upon by selection; "Belg. kippen, to choose;" cog. with cheap, chapman. "Jam. I. 409, but chap only, not the phrase." (J. B. F.)
- Char, 78, for jar, by a Gaelic speaker
- Charlock, 64, E. Sinapis arvensis, O. E. cerlic; or. unknown
- Chattel, 71, E.
- "Cheatery's choket you," 127, cheating=Nemesis
- Cheef, 127, very friendly; chief, 136. Not in N. E. D.
- Cheesies, 186, Fi. cheese biscuits
- Chekis of the yett, 62, door-posts, cheeks (Barb.)
- "Che vor' ye," 38, Lear.
- Chield, 14, 68, generally bairn in Sc.; O. E. cild, Go. kilthei, womb, child, chiel, a variant
- Chiels, 175, fellows
- Childer, 102, children (O. Sc.)
- Chin, 17, Ga., kinnus, chin-cough=kin-cough, Sc. kink-hoast
- Chitterlings, 130, E. smaller intestines of pig, &c.; or. doubtful
- Chows, 102, 135, 140, small coal (Fi.); not in N. E. D.
- Chree, 83, Sc. dial. for three
- Chuck, 174, Cn., Lan.
- Chufty, 118, 173, Cu. chuffy, chaff, plump-cheeked, or. obs.; prob. a var. of chafts, the jaws and chew
- Chun, 174, Cu.
- Cip, 102, play truant, common Lan. and the West, also kip. Not in Jam. or N. E. D.
- Clabby-dhu, 116, black clab or mussel. In the 17th cent. they were sought for, under this name, in the bed of the Clyde opposite Glasgow Green.
- Clack, 102, 185
- Clagum, 130, treacle-toffee, clag; Da. klag, sticky mud, clay, clog, Klecks, a blot (Sc. blob) of ink, is a compar. modern usage in Ger.; clocks, milk boiled till it acquires a dark colour and peculiar taste (Shet.)
- Claise, 53, clothes
- Claith, 53, cloth
- Claty, 115, var. clarty, clorty, simpler forms clat, clot. "Gavell of house east side Saltmarket of catt (for clat) and clay."—"Gl. B. Recs.," 1692. A road-scraper is still called a clatt in Glasgow; klurt, a lump, also to daub (Shet.)
- Clashing, 137, gossip, an echoic word
- Cleckine, 32, 130, litter of rabbits or brood of birds, Fi., O. N. Klekja, Da. klackke, to hatch; cf. cletch, clutch, cleokin, "a brood of chickens, is given in Jam. but not clatchin, a common form." (J. B. P.)
- Cled, cleddit, 53, clothed
- Clerk, 4, 109, scholar
- Clet, clett, 152, O. N. klett-r, a sea cliff. Da. klint, a flinty rock
- Cliob, 147, Gael. cliobach, cliobag; cliobeag, a filly
- Clip, 147, Mo., a hoyden, Ab. clippy, Fi. pert
- Clippy, 128. See Clip.
- Clip-shears, 122, 149; O. N. klipp-a, to cut with scissors; "prob. ident. with L. Ger. klippen, to make a sharp sound, to clap."—N. E. D.
- Cloth, 94, idiom
- Cloor, 139, 152, a blow or its mark. O. N. klor, a scratch; klo-a, claw.
- Clooty, 152, clootie, the Devil as cloven-footed. Perh. from claw; Du. klauwtje, little claw, ankle bones, hoof
- Clüte, 152, 219, or. sense, firm lump, clump, ball; Du. kloot, a ball; Ger. Klosz
"Six guid fat lambs I sald them ilka clute."
"Gentle Shepherd."
- Clyaoh, 154, Gael. See caillach
- Clypes, 128, Lan. tittle-tattle; or. doubtful. (?) A. S. clypian, to speak
