winter

From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.


spring

head

tae spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springin, simple past sprang, past participle sprung)

tae spring (canonical)
springs (present singular third-person)
springin (participle present)
sprang (past)
sprung (participle past)


fuck

fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fuckin, simple past fucked, past participle fucked)

fucks (present singular third-person)
fuckin (participle present)
fucked (past)
fucked (participle past)

From Middle Scots fuk, from Early Scots *fuken (“to copulate”), from Middle English *fukken, *fuken, probably of North Germanic origin: possibly from Old Norse *fukka, from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną.

He clappit fast, he kist and chukkit, / As with the glaikis he wer ouirgane, / Ȝit be his feirris he wald have fukkit; / ‘Ȝe brek my hart, my bony ane!’

c. 1510, William Dunbar, A Brash of Wowing:


hail

From Old English hæġl, hæġel, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”), or from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”).


yill

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


haaf

From Old Norse haf (“the sea”). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).

(archaic, Northern Isles) the deep sea beyond coastal waters


feu

(Scots law, property law) feud, tenure, piece of land held by that tenure


wast

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

mair wast (comparative)
maist wast (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros. Cognate to English west.


adduce

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducin, simple past adduced, past participle adduced)

adduces (present singular third-person)
adducin (participle present)
adduced (past)
adduced (participle past)

Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”).

(transitive, Scots law) to adduce (produce in proof)


waw

From Old English wagian (“wave, undulate”).


simmer

From Middle English sumer, from Old English sumor, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz.


drow

(weather) A cold mist or a severe squall.


bawbag

(vulgar, slang, derogatory) ballbag; scrotum.


mora

(Scots law) mora (a delay in bringing a claim)


chloroform

Afore I kent where I was I got a smeek o' chloroform.

1935, Joe Corrie, chapter 7, in The Income:

Before I knew where I was I got a puff of chloroform.


sooth

From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ.


broon

From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz.


broon

broon (comparative mair broon, superlative maist broon)

mair broon (comparative)
maist broon (superlative)


voar

From Norn vår, from Old Norse vár, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥.


blae

blae (comparative mair blae, superlative maist blae)

mair blae (comparative)
maist blae (superlative)

Middle English bla, blo, from Old Norse blár (“livid, blue”). More at blue.

bluish, bluish-gray (blue-gray), intermediate between blue and gray


yelli

yelli (comparative mair yelli, superlative maist yelli)

mair yelli (comparative)
maist yelli (superlative)

yelli:


reid

reid (comparative mair reid, superlative maist reid)

mair reid (comparative)
maist reid (superlative)

reid:


bleck

bleck (comparative blecker, superlative bleckest)

blecker (comparative)
bleckest (superlative)

bleck:


bleck

A challenge to a feat of exceptional skill; a baffle in reaction to such a feat.


watter

watter (countable and uncountable, plural watters)

From Middle English water, from Old English wæter, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥..
cognates
Cognate with English water, North Frisian weeter (“water”), Saterland Frisian Woater (“water”), West Frisian wetter (“water”), Dutch water (“water”), Low German Water (“water”), German Wasser, Norwegian Bokmål vann (“water”), Swedish vatten (“water”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic vatn (“water”), Old Irish coin fodorne (“otters”, literally “water-dogs”), Latin unda (“wave”), Lithuanian vanduõ (“water”), Russian вода́ (vodá, “water”), Albanian ujë (“water”), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), Armenian գետ (get, “river”), Sanskrit उदन् (udán, “wave, water”), Hittite 𒉿𒀀𒋻 (wa-a-tar).

cog

Can A hae a gless o watter, please?


watter

head

watter (third-person singular simple present watters, present participle watterin, simple past wattert, past participle wattert)

watters (present singular third-person)
watterin (participle present)
wattert (past)
wattert (participle past)

From Old English wæterian, from Proto-Germanic *watrōną, *watrijaną, from *watōr (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”).
cognates
Cognate with English water, Saterland Frisian woaterje (“to water”), West Frisian wetterje (“to water”), Dutch wateren (“to water”), German Low German watern (“to water”), German wässern (“to water”), Danish vande (“to water”), Swedish vattna (“to water”), Icelandic vatna (“to water”).

A'm gaunae watter thae flouers.


saft

saft (comparative safter, superlative saftest)

safter (comparative)
saftest (superlative)


umwhile

(archaic) erstwhile, former, late, deceased


hairst

From Early Scots harvist, herwist, hervist, hervest, from Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn; harvest”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist. Cognate with English harvest, German Herbst (“autumn”).


ablach

Akin to Old Irish ablach (“carcass, corpse, carrion”).


birsie

head

birsie (comparative birsier, superlative birsiest)

birsier (comparative)
birsiest (superlative)

birse (“bristle, hair; anger, temper”) + -ie


ackie-peevie

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