Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns: C-Words
C-Words
by Robert Burns
- Ca', ca't
- To call, to name, to drive.
- Called, driven, calved.
- Cadger
- A carrier
- Cadie, or caddie
- A person, a young fellow, a public messenger.
- Caff
- Chaff.
- Caird
- A tinker, a maker of horn spoons, and teller of fortunes.
- Cairn
- A loose heap of stones, a rustic monument.
- Calf-ward
- A small enclosure for calves.
- Calimanco
- A certain kind of cotton cloth worn by ladies.
- Callan
- A boy.
- Caller
- Fresh, sound, refreshing.
- Callet
- A loose woman, a follower of a camp.
- Cannie
- Gentle, mild, dexterous.
- Cannilie
- Dexterously, gently.
- Cantie, or canty
- Cheerful, merry.
- Cantraip
- A charm, a spell.
- Cap-stane
- Cope-stone, topmost stone of the building.
- Car
- A rustic cart with or without wheels.
- Careenin'
- Moving cheerfully.
- Carl, carle
- An old man.
- Carl-hemp
- The male stalk of hemp, easily known by its superior strength and stature, and being without seed.
- Carlin
- A stout old woman.
- Cartes
- Cards.
- Castock
- The stalk of a cabbage.
- Caudron
- A cauldron.
- Cauk and keel
- Chalk and red clay.
- Cauld
- Cold.
- Caup
- A wooden drinking vessel, a cup.
- Cavie
- A hen-coop.
- Cesses
- Taxes.
- Chanter
- A part of the bagpipe, the drone.
- Chap
- A person, a fellow.
- Chaup
- A stroke, a blow.
- Cheek for chow
- Close and united, brotherly, side by side.
- Cheekit
- Cheeked.
- Cheep
- A chirp, to chirp.
- Chiel, or cheal
- A young fellow.
- Chimla, or chimlie
- A fire-grate, fire-place.
- Chimla-lug
- The fire-side.
- Chirps
- Cries of a young bird.
- Chittering
- Shivering, trembling.
- Chockin'
- Choking.
- Chow
- To chew, a quid of tobacco.
- Chuckie
- A brood hen.
- Chuffle
- Fat-faced.
- Clachan
- A small village about a church, a hamlet.
- Claise, or claes
- Clothes.
- Claith, claithing
- Cloth, clothing.
- Clapper-claps
- The clapper of a mill; it is now silenced.
- Clap-clack
- Clapper of a mill.
- Clartie
- Dirty, filthy.
- Clarkit
- Wrote.
- Clash
- An idle tale, the story of the day.
- Clatter
- To tell idle stories, an idle story.
- Claught
- Snatched at, laid hold of.
- Claughtin't
- Gathering it.
- Claut, clauted
- To clean, to scrape, scraped.
- Clavers
- Idle stories.
- Clavers and havers
- Agreeable nonsense, to talk foolishly.
- Claw
- To scratch
- Cleckin
- A brood of chickens, or ducks.
- Cleed, cleads
- To clothe, clothes.
- Cleek, cleckit
- Hook, snatch; having caught.
- Clegs
- The gad-flies.
- Clinkin'
Jerking, clinking down,
sitting down hastily.- Clinkum-bell
- The church bell; he who rings it; a sort of beadle.
- Clips
- Wool-shears.
- Clishmaclaver
- Idle conversation.
- Clock, clocking
- To hatch, a beetle; hatching.
- Cloot
- The hoof of a cow, sheep, etc.
- Clootie
- A familiar name of the Devil.
- Clour
- A bump, or swelling, after a blow.
- Cloutin'
- Repairing with cloth.
- Cluds
- Clouds.
- Clunk
- The sound in setting down an empty bottle.
- Coaxin'
- Wheedling.
- Coble
- A fishing-boat.
- Cockernony
- A lock of hair tied up on a girl's head, a cap.
- Cod
- A pillow.
- Coft
- Bought.
- Cog, coggie
- A wooden dish.
- Coila
- From Kyle, a district in Ayrshire, so-called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish Monarch.
- Collie
- A general, and sometimes a particular name for country curs.
- Collie-shangie
- A quarrel among dogs, an Irish row.
- Commaun
- Command.
- Convoyed
- Accompanied lovingly.
- Cood
- The cud.
- Coof
- A blockhead, a ninny.
- Cookit
- Appeared and disappeared by fits.
- Cool'd in her linens
- Cool'd in her death-shift.
- Cooser, Coosser
- A stallion.
- Coost
- Did cast.
- Coot
- The ancle; a species of water-fowl.
- Coothie
- Agreeable.
- Cootie
- A wooden kitchen dish, rough-legged; also those fowls whose legs are clad with feathers are said to be cootie.
- Corbies
- A species or the crow, blood crows.
- Core
- Corps, party, clan.
- Corn't
- Fed with oats.
- Cotter
- The inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.
- Couthie
- Kind, loving.
- Cove
- A cave.
- Cowe
- To terrify, to keep under, to lop; a fright, a branch of furze, broom, etc.
- Cowp
- To barter, to tumble over.
- Cowp the cran
- To tumble a full bucket of basket.
- Cowpit
- Tumbled.
- Cowrin'
- Cowering.
- Cowte
- A colt.
- Cozie, cozily
- Snug, snugly.
- Crabbit
- Crabbed, fretful.
- Crack, crackin'
- Conversation, to converse, to boast; conversing.
- Craft, or croft
- A field near a house, in old husbandry.
- Craig, craigie
- Neck.
- Craiks
- Cries or calls incessantly, a species of bird, the corn-rail.
- Crambo-clink, or cramble-jingle
- Rhymes, doggerel verses.
- Crank
- The noise of an ungreased wheel -- metaphorically, inharmonious verse.
- Crankous
- Fretful, captious.
- Cranreuch
- The hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale
frost-rhyne.
- Crap
- A crop, to crop.
- Craw
- A crow of a cock, a rook.
- Creel
- A basket, to have one's wits in a creel, to be craz'd, to be fascinated.
- Creeshie
- Greasy.
- Creuks
- A disease of horses.
- Crocks
- Stray sheep, old ewes.
- Crood, or croud
- To coo as a dove.
- Croon, crooning
- A hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the continued roar of a bull; to hum a tune; humming.
- Crouchie
- Crook-backed.
- Crouse
- Cheerful, courageous.
- Crously
- Cheerfully, courageously.
- Crowdie
- A composition of oatmeal, boiled water, and butter; sometimes made from the broth of beef, mutton, etc.
- Crowdie time
- Breakfast time.
- Crowlin'
- Crawling, a deformed creeping thing.
- Crummie's nicks
- Marks on the horns of a cow.
- Crummock, crummet
- A cow with crooked horns.
- Crump, crumpin'
- Hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow, yielding to the foot.
- Crunt
- A blow on the head with a cudgel.
- Cuddle
- To clasp and caress.
- Cuif
- A blockhead, a ninny.
- Cummock
- A short staff with a crooked head.
- Cummock driddle
- Walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.
- Curch
- A covering for the head, a kerchief.
- Curchie
- A curtsey, female obeisance.
- Curler
- A player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling.
- Curlie
- Curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.
- Curling
- A well-known game on the ice.
- Curmurring
- Murmuring, a slight rumbling nose.
- Curpin
- The crupper, the rump.
- Curple
- The rear.
- Cushat
- The dove, or wood-pigeon.
- Cutty
- Short, a spoon broken in the middle.
- Cutty stool, or creepie chair
- The seat of shame, stool of repentance.
Source:
The Poetical Works Of Robert BurnsCopyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd