GLOSSARY
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- Bubbly jock, 130, the turkey, Sc. bubble, to blubber
- Bu'd to be. See boost
- Bugjan, 12, Go. to buy
- Buicht, 65, Border, sheep-pen
"O, the ewe buchts are bonnie,
Baith e'enin' and morn."
- Bull-baiting, 188, "Shak t' bull-ring," Cu.
- Bull Ring, 189
- Bullerin out, 149, 150, O. Fr. bullir, to boil.—N. E. D. M. E. bolne. Da. bolne, to swell. See bolner
- Bultong, 207, C. Du.
- Bun—bunach, boon, 124; Gael. bun tata, potato, from E. MacB. says it contains folk-etym. in bun, a root. A. S. bune, stalk, reed, prob. cog.; root bbu, to grow, φύω; Ger. Beule, a swelling
- Bunker, 102, cog. with bunk, bank, bench; not in Jam.
- Bun-wed, -wede -weed, 123, 148
- Burg, broch, burgh, 25, Go. baurgs, bairgan
- Burneywin, 173, burn-the-wind, the blacksmith
- Burr on the Borders, 111, 171
- †Bush, 207, box in centre of a wheel in which the axle works, Sw. hjul-bössa, wheel-bush; not conn. with boss.—N. E. D.
- But and ben, 176, for be-out and be-in; cf. Du. Buiten-hof and Binnen-hof, at The Hague
- "Butter and bread," 92
- By, 90, Sc. after comps.
- By ordinar thrang, 127
- Byspel, 182, Cu.
C
- C. Dutch, affinities with German, 195, 215, 216
- Caber, 67, MacB.—cabar, a rafter.
- Caddle, 102. Not in Jam. or N. E. D.
- Cailleach, 154, Gael. old wife, nun, the "veiled one;" cog. Lat. pallium, a pall. Caillie, cowl, Lat. cucullus, Sc. cool
- Caird, 153, 154, a gipsy, tinker, Gael. Sc., in borrowing, has debased the orig. sense of art, craft; var. kyaird
- Cairl, carle, 163, O. N. karl. Go. kêrel, a man, churl
- Cairneedy, 133, Bu. carneed, crine, to shrivel. Not in Jam. or N. E. D. MacB. has crannadh, withering, shrivelling, Ir. crannda, decrepit, from cran, tree, running to wood. Jam. has a var.—cranshach
- Cairrit, 91, var. of carried, fig. used
- Caker, 104, Forf.; not in Jam. or N. E. D.; prob. from cake
- Callow spyugs, 176, unfledged sparrows
- Calm souch, 216, sigh, with guttural sounded
- Camanachd, 127, Ga., the "crooked thing," cam, bent; camag, a club, camas (Cambus), a bay
- Candlemass cock fight, 151
- Cannas, cannis, 70, 148, Bu.
- Cannis-breid, 148, from canvas
- Cantertup, 159, for cantrips, charm, trick
"Here Mausy lies, a witch that for sma' price,
Can cast her cantrips, an' gie me advice."
"Gentle Shepherd."
- Cappie, 204, dim. of cup; Bu. "He's as fou's cap or stoup'll mak him."—Gregor
- Carblin, 102, from carble, carb, O. N. karpa, to brag; cf. carp; Bu. wrangling, followed by wi', if a person, and, aboot, if a thing.
- Carcidge, 102, carcase
- Carl-doddy, 154, the plaintain; carl, in sense of "male" in plant names; dod, anything ball-like; carl-hemp, hemp, 163, male flower of; curl-doddy, naturally clever (Shet.). See also ourly-doddy
- Carn, 133, to soil, Bu. Not in Jam. or N. E. D.
- Carrick, 99, 127, 140, Fi. shinty or hockey stick, form of crook
- "Carrick for a man," 107
- Carsackie, cirsackie, 102, workman's coarse blouse; cirrseckie (Fi.)
- Cast up, 92, 178, to rake up the past, to throw
- Cattle beass, 35, 71, 167, cattle beast, cf. bees, Cu.
- Cauf, 21, calf. Go. kalbo; chaff is similarly sounded in Sc.