SWICK n a cheat; v to cheat
on 28th Sep 2009
The Old English verb ‘swican’ and its associated noun ‘swica’ had disappeared from Southern English by 1400. In Older Scots, the noun meant deceit or treachery. We find it used by John Barber ab...
INGLE n fire, hearth, fireside
on 21st Sep 2009
As the nights draw in, we spend more time by our own ingle. This word came into Scots around 1500 from the Gaelic word ‘aingeal’, meaning fire, itself a borrowing from Old Irish ‘aingeal’ meanin...
BIG v to build
on 14th Sep 2009
The Old Norse verb ‘byggja’ means to inhabit or build. Traces of the first of these carry on into Older Scots but it is to build that is the most common meaning of the descendant this word in Mo...
DICHT v wipe, clean, put in good order
on 08th Sep 2009
Nowadays, dicht is usually used in the sense of to wipe. The Aberdeen Makar, Sheena Blackhall uses it frequently. In The Bonsai Grower(1998) we read of mothers dichtin “bibbly snoots”. It is sti...
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