ague

From Middle English agu, ague, from Middle French (fievre) aguë (“acute (fever)”). Cognate with English ague.


shackle

From Old English sċacul, sċeacel, sċeacul (“fetter, shackle”), from Proto-Germanic *skakulaz (“shackle”), possibly from *skakaną (“to shake; to swing; to escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeg-, *skek- (“to shake; to stir”). However, compare the Oxford English Dictionary which doubts that English shackle is derived from *skeg-, *skek- as these roots lack the meaning of attaching or fastening.


bane

From Middle English bane, from Old English bān, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

rickle o banes

an emaciated, broken-down person or animal


yill

From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu; cognate with English ale.


cauf

From Middle English calf (“young cow”), from Old English cealf, from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷolbʰo (“womb, animal young”).


cauf

From Middle English calf (“area behind the shin”), from Old Norse kalfi.


cauf

From Middle English caf, caff, kaf, kaff, alternative forms of chaf.


pow

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"). Cognate with English poll ("scalp").

Three times the carline grain'd and rifted, / Then frae the cod her pow she lifted. Three times the old woman groaned and belched, then from the pillow her head she lifted. (Allan Ramsay, ‘Lucky Spence's Last Advice’)


mouser

Apparently an extended usage of English mouser (“a cat”), hence a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings, possibly with influence from moustache.


heid

From Middle English heid, heifd, northern forms of heed, heved, from Old English hēafod (compare English head), from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (compare Dutch hoofd, German Haupt, Swedish huvud), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput- (“head”) (compare Latin caput), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *kapōlo (“head, bowl”).


tae

From Middle English to, from Old English tā, from Proto-West Germanic *taihā. Cognates include English toe and Faroese tá.


drow

(medicine) A fit of illness or a qualm (compare dree)


bawbag

(vulgar, slang, derogatory) ballbag; scrotum.


rump

From Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). The ultimate origin could be related to Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to wrinkle”) (Dutch rimpel and German rümpfen (“to wrinkle”)); outside of Germanic, compare Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “crooked beak”).


rumple

(anatomy) rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat


snoot

From Middle English snowte. Cognate with English snout.


hurkle

Unknown. May come from Old Norse, possibly related to Dutch hurken (“to squat”).

(anatomy) the upper part of the thigh, the hip


lith

From Middle English lyth, from Old English liþ, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.


luif

Inherited from Northern Middle English lufe, luf, from Old Norse lófi, from Proto-Germanic *lōfô.


wame

From Middle English wambe, wame, wamb, forms of womb (“belly, womb”), from Old English wamb (“belly”).


warkand

head

warkand (comparative mair warkand, superlative maist warkand)

mair warkand (comparative)
maist warkand (superlative)

From Middle English warkande, werkande, warchond, present participle of warken, werken, warchen (“to pain”), from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”), from wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”) (English wark).


elbuck

From Early Scots elbok, from Middle English elbohe, from Old English elboga, elnboga, from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô.


dirlie-bane

dirl (“cause to tingle with emotion or pain”) + bane (“bone”)


hausebane

hause (“neck, throat, gullet”) + bane (“bone”)


breest

From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”).


rumple-bane

rumple (“rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat”) + bane (“bone”)


spaul-bane

spaul (“limb, shoulder”) + bane (“bone”)


spaul

From Middle English spawde, spaude, spalde, from Old French espalde (French épaule), from Latin spatula.


elbi

(Hawick, anatomy) Elbow. Cf. General Scots elbae.


ackie-peevie

Evidently a hybrid formed on the model of aqua vitæ, peeve = whisky, among Gypsies of Gall., Per., Arg.