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Scots Dictionary
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Ca'
call, knock, drive.
ca(w)
call
ca(w) canny
be careful
caber
a log used in the traditional game of ?tossing the caber?
cadger
peddlar; hawker; tinker
Cadger
a hawker (especially of fish).
Cadie
caddie, a fellow.
Cafefy
Careful
Caff
chaff.
caird
card; chart
Caird
a tinker.
cairn
a pile of stones marking a burial place
cairn
heap of stones; monument
cairrie-on
piece of bad behaviour
cairt
cart
caist-out
disagree
Caitrin stone
a soft shale found in the coal-pit near Cambeltown, used in place of an ordinary slate pencil
Calf-ward
grazing plot for calves (i.e.churchyard).
callan
boy; lad
Callan
callant a stripling.
caller
cool; fresh; refreshing
Caller
cool, refreshing.
Callet
a trull.
Cam
came.
cam
came
camsteerie
giddy ; unruly ; wild
Canie, cannie
gentle, tractable, quiet, prudent, careful.
cankert
irritable
Cankrie
crabbed.
canna
cannot
Canna
can not.
Cannae
Can't
Canniest
quietest.
Cannilie
cannily, quietly, prudently, cautiously.
canny
cautious
canny
careful
cantie
cheerful; contented; comfortable; bouyant; cordial; merry
Cantie
cheerful, lively, jolly, merry.
cantle
the metalwork clasp on a dress sporran
Cantraip
magic, witching.
Cants
merry stories, canters or sprees or merry doings.
capernoitit
perverse; sour-tempered
Cape-stanc
copestone.
Capon
castrate
Care na by
do not care.
Carl, carle
a man, an old man.
Carl-hemp
male-hemp.
Carlie
a manikin.
Carlin
carline a middle-aged or old woman; a beldam, a witch.
carline
old woman
carlish
boorish; churlish
Carmagnole
a violent Jacobin.
carnaptious
crabbed; bad-tempered
carritch
the catechism
Cartes
playing-cards.
Cartie
dim. of cart.
cast up
accuse; recall spitefully
Catch-the-plack
the hunt for money.
caudron
cauldron
Caudron
a caldron.
Cauf
calf.
cauf kintra
birth-place; native district
Cauf-leather
calf-leather.
Cauk
chalk.
Cauld
cold.
cauld
cold
Cauld
Cold
Caulder
Colder
Cauldron
caldron.
Caup
a wooden drinking vessel.
caurrie-haundit
left handed
Causey-cleaners
causeway-cleaners.
Cavie
a hen-coop.
caw
drive, turn (e.g. rope, wheel)
ceety haw
city hall
ceilidh
dance, social gathering. A Scottish Gaelic word for ?visit?, as these began as informal gatherings in individual?s homes.
ceilidh dancing
informal, cheerful, lively dancing to Celtic music played on the fiddle, flute, tin whistle, accordion, bodhran, small bagpipes, usually performed in lines of 2 or more dancers.
Celtic knots
decorative knots that are interwoven with no beginning and no end
certes
assuredly; certainly
ceud mile failte
a familiar Celtic greeting, translated as a hundred, thousand welcomes
chaft
cheek; jaw
chaipel
a wedding chapel
chairge
charge; cost; expense
Chamer, chaumer
chamber.
Change-house
tavern.
Chanter
bagpipes; the pipe of the bag-pipes which produces the
chantie
chamber pot, used in Bridal hazing
chantie
chamberpot
Chanty Rastler
Plumber
chap
hammer; knock; stroke of clock or bell
Chap
a fellow, a young fellow.
Chap
to strike.
Chapman
a pedler.
Charred
Drunk
Chaup, chap
a stroke, a blow.
Chear
cheer.
Chearfu'
cheerful.
Chearless
cheerless.
Cheary
cheery.
Cheek-for-chow
cheek-by-jowl (i.e. close beside).