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  • cognate with Scots hedder, hadder, heddir (“heather”), Saterland Frisian Heede (“heather”), West Frisian heide (“heather”), Dutch heide (“heather”), German...
    7 KB (360 words) - 23:53, 8 October 2024
  • brae-hag (category Scots compound terms)
    brae +‎ hag. (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈbreɪhæɡ/ brae-hag (plural brae-hags) (archaic) An overhang of turf or heather on a brae (hillside)....
    234 bytes (23 words) - 20:28, 21 May 2024
  • wasteland, wilderness, heath Strong ō-stem: Middle English: heeth, heth, hethe, hath, hathe, hoth, hothe English: heath, heather Scots: haithe (in compounds)...
    521 bytes (56 words) - 02:24, 6 July 2023
  • in every holt and heeth (please add an English translation of this quotation) (probably) hethen English: heath, heather Scots: haithe (in compounds)...
    691 bytes (64 words) - 21:26, 6 September 2023
  • red grouse (category Terms with Scots translations)
    medium-sized bird, Lagopus lagopus scotica, of the grouse family, found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. moorbird moorcock moorfowl Lagopus...
    1 KB (40 words) - 11:01, 27 September 2024
  • Railway Magazine, page 9: The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing...
    3 KB (136 words) - 23:12, 15 November 2024
  • wanst (category Scots lemmas)
    also: Wanst wanst (not comparable) (archaic) once 1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie: Being Poetical Pieces, Spiritual and Temporal...‎[1], page 167:...
    1 KB (152 words) - 12:59, 31 August 2023
  • bowk (category Scots lemmas)
    Northumbria University Press, →ISBN. From Old Scots bolk (“to belch”). Cognate with Geordie bowk and General Scots boak (but does not have quite the same meaning)...
    4 KB (480 words) - 06:09, 8 October 2024
  • bightsome (category Scots adjectives suffixed with -some)
    in the aftergait. Lively, dull, betwixt, between, / Paltry or in flood, / Completely dry through the heather-stems / Or buoyant through the outflow....
    858 bytes (95 words) - 01:33, 25 July 2023
  • yon (category Scots terms inherited from Middle English)
    influence of this, that) Scots: yon, thon yon (rare) that (over there), yonder (rare) afterwards, next (chronologically) English: yon Scots: yon, thon “yon, adv...
    7 KB (722 words) - 21:25, 6 October 2024
  • cry of a sheep or a goat. (sheep's cry): baa, baaing, bleating bleaty heather-bleat   cry of a sheep or a goat bleat (third-person singular simple present...
    7 KB (404 words) - 06:54, 16 December 2024
  • ferly (category Scots terms derived from Middle English)
    (uncountable) (obsolete) astonishment, surprise, wonder 1893, George MacDonald, Heather and Snow: “Weel, lassie, I reckon that wasna ony ferly (strange occurrence)...
    828 bytes (102 words) - 15:22, 6 September 2023
  • kirklike (category Scots lemmas)
    superlative maist kirklike) churchlike; churchly 1875, William Allan, Heather-bells: Or Poems and Songs, page 45: An' at oor village end there stood...
    660 bytes (90 words) - 01:12, 19 August 2024
  • From Welsh grug, Cornish grig. grig (plural grigs) (UK, dialect) Heath or heather. 1791, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce...
    2 KB (338 words) - 12:51, 27 September 2024
  • wheeze (category Terms with Scots translations)
    That's a real wheeze! A sound that resembles a human wheezing. 2016, Heather Hildenbrand, A Bet Worth Making‎[2]: At the same time I felt them fall...
    7 KB (556 words) - 10:33, 15 October 2024
  • county (category Terms with Scots translations)
    county, with Hilary's walk: she seemed to topple even when she sat. 2007, Heather Julien, Gender and Literacy in Britain, 1847--1987, →ISBN: The other two...
    11 KB (658 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2024
  • fuck (category Scots terms inherited from Middle Scots)
    Conjugation of "fuckする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.) fuk From Middle Scots fuk, from Early Scots *fuken (“to copulate”), from Middle English *fukken, *fuken,...
    51 KB (3,516 words) - 15:06, 20 December 2024
  • grouse (category English terms derived from Scots)
    Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles. [from 1530s] (red grouse): Synonyms: moorbird...
    14 KB (1,329 words) - 04:51, 11 November 2024
  • candelsticca (“candlestick”), equivalent to candle +‎ stick. Cognate with Scots candilsteke, candilstik (“candlestick”). Compare Old Norse kertastika, kertistika...
    9 KB (633 words) - 13:07, 22 November 2024
  • Railway Magazine, page 9: The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing...
    6 KB (718 words) - 06:34, 5 October 2024
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