FIELD PHILOLOGY
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Thou'rt not a hochlan scleurach, dear,
As many trooshlach be;
Nor I a claty skybal, thus
To sclaffer after thee;
Yet haing the meishachan, where first
I felt love's mainglin' smart,
And haing the boosach dyvour too.
Who spoong'd from me thine heart!
O! rhane a Yolus Cronie—quick—
Across this rumpled brain!
Bring hickery-pickery—bring wallink,
Droshachs, to sooth my pain!
Fire water—fire a spoucher full—
These frythan stouns to stay!
For like a sparrow's scaldachan
I'm gosping night and day!
- Scorlins, slimy, cord-like seaweed.
- Thowl pins=rowlocks.
- Hochlan, slack in dress, walking clumsily. Cf. hobble.
- Scleurach, untidy in dress and gait. Celt, sgliurach, slut, gossip, young sea-gull.
- Trooshlach, worthless thing. Cf. trash.
- Claty, dirty. Sc. clarty.
- Skybal, worthless fellow. Celt, gioball, chap, odd fellow. Banffsh. Glossary—Skypal, not having a sufficiency, e.g. "A'll be some skypal o' seed corn."
- Sclaffer, go slipshod, to sclaff.
- Haing, a small swear. Hang.
- Meishachan, subscription dance. Cf. minsh, a change-house.
- Mainglin', crushing, mangling.
- Boosach, drinking, boozing.
- Dyvour, poor looking individual. Lat. debtor. Fr. devoir.
- Sponged, stole deceitfully.
- Rhane, rhyme. Orcadian reen, to roar vehemently; exclusively of a pig in distress: reening, squeaking as a pig.
- Yolus Cronie, a charm (in words). Celt, eolas, knowledge, eoisle, a charm.
- Rumpled, confused.
- Hickery-pickery, tonic bitters, Ἱερός, sacred. πικίς, a bitter herb. See Chamb. Encyc., Art. "Hiera Picra."
- Wallink, brooklime speedwell.
- Droshachs, doctors' drugs.
