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WEIR OF HERMISTON

* skelp, slap.
  • skirling, screaming.
  • skriegh-o'day, daybreak.
  • snash, abuse.
  • sneisty, supercilious.
  • sooth, to hum.
  • sough, sound, murmur.
  • spec, The Speculative Society, a debating Society connected with Edinburgh University.
  • speir, to ask.
  • speldering, sprawling.
  • splairge, to splash.
  • spunk, spirit, fire.
  • steik, to shut.
  • stockfish, hard, savourless.
  • suger-bool, suger-plum.
  • syne, since, then.
  • tawpie, a slow foolish slut, also used playfully = monkey.
  • telling you, a good thing for you.
  • thir, these.
  • thrawn, cross-grained.
  • toon, town.
  • two-names, local soubriquets in addition to patronymic.
  • tyke, dog.
  • unchancy, unlucky.
  • unco, strange, extraordinary, very.
  • upsitten, impertinent.
  • vennel, alley, lane. The Vennel, a narrow lane in Edinburgh running out of the Grassmarket.
  • vivers, victuals.
  • wae, sad, unhappy.
  • waling, choosing.
  • warrandise, warranty.
  • waur, worse.
  • weird, destiny.
  • whammle, to upset.
  • whaup, curlew.
  • whiles, sometimes.
  • windlestae, crested dog's-tail, grass.
  • wund, wind.
  • yin, one.

Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty,
at the Edinburgh University Press.

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