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 |