A celebration of Scottish Dialect
Dialect – a form of speech peculiar to a district, class or person; subordinate variety of a language with distinguishable vocabulary, pronunciation or idioms.
| Scottish Dialect | Can have more than one meaning depending on the context |
| Besom | Obstreperous girl or woman |
| Birl | To spin around |
| Blether | Someone who talks a lot, or to have a conversation with someone |
| Bourach | A small hill or mound, a crowd or group of people, a mess |
| Braw | Fine, pleasant like the weather, scenery or someone who is an attractive, pretty person |
| Canny | Cautious, careful, hesitant, someone who does not like parting with money |
| Couthie | An amiable, social person, something that is pleasant |
| Crabbit | Someone who is bad tempered, grumpy, curt, or in a bad mood |
| Dreich | Drab, dreary, wet weather |
| Drookit | Drenched, soaked through |
| Eejit | An idiot |
| Fankle | To entangle, twist, to knot, to complicate |
| Fouter | A challenging task or job or someone who muddles through |
| Gallus | Self confident, cheeky, stylish, impressive |
| Glaikit | Stupid, silly, senseless |
| Greet | To cry or weep |
| Mauchit | Dirty, filthy, muddy |
| Scunner | To feel aversion, cannot be bothered |
| Skiver | Someone who avoids work |
| Stramash | Rowdy behaviour |
| Teuchter | A person who comes from The Highlands of Scotland |
| Thrawn | Twisted or mis-shapen |
| Wabbit | Out of breath or extremely tired |
| Wheesht | Asking someone to be quiet |