BING n, v heap, pile
on 31st Aug 2009
The word ‘bing’ comes from Old Norse ‘bingr’. Many things can be piled into a bing. In the early sixteenth Gavin Douglas used it in the context of a funeral pile. In the twentieth century hot b...
DEIL n devil
on 24th Aug 2009
“Some say the deel’s dead And buried in Kirka’dy” according to a manuscript by David Herd (1776). Unfortunately, this does not seem to be borne out by the many references in Scottish Literature ...
CRY v call
on 16th Aug 2009
Although this Scots verb shares many of its senses with English, some are distinctively Scots. Both languages have cry in the sense of making a public proclamation. A merchant may cry his wares...
POKE, POCK n a bag
on 11th Aug 2009
The unwary buy pigs in them. The indiscrete let cats oot o them. Picnickers carry their pieces in them. Dated 1501, an entry in the Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland: “For ij pokis to put la...
DOUP, DOWP n bottom
on 03rd Aug 2009
The earliest recorded use is in the compound ‘e-dolp’ meaning eye-socket. This first aid example appears in Gavin Douglas’s translation of the Aeneid (1513) “Off his E dolp the flowand blude and...
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