My Favorite Scots Words, from A to Z…
Argle-bargle—dispute,
argument
Blether—babble,
gossip
Clachan—village,
hamlet
Dreich—bleak,
dismal
Eeksie-peeksie—of
one kind, much alike
Flindrikin—flirtatious
Gaberlunzies—beggars
Heartsome—merry
Ill-deedie—mischievous,
undisciplined
Jalouse—imagine,
presume
Kenspeckle—conspicuous,
familiar
Loosome—lovely
Meikle—great,
much
Neeps—turnips
Oo aye!—yes!
(from the French oui)
Pernickitie—cantankerous,
touchy
Querty--lively
Roarie—noisy
Sonsie—substantial,
appealing
Tattie-bogle—ragamuffin
Ugsome—gruesome,
horrible
Vennel—alley
Weatherful—stormy
X—according
to the Concise Scots Dictionary, no Scots words
begin with X
Yestreen—yesterday, last night
Zickety—the
first word in a children’s rhyme
My Favorite Bible Verses in Scots…
“For God sae luved the warld at he gied
his ae an ane Son, at ilkane at believes in him mayna perish but
hae eternal life.” John 3:16
“But Christ died for us—an that is
what shaws hou sair God luves us—whan we war ey sinners.
Muckle mair, than, nou at we hae been juistified throu his bluid,
can we be certain at we will be saufed frae God’s wraith.”
Romans
5:8-9
“I thenk my God ilka time I mind on ye,
an ilka prayer at I pit up for ye aa I pit up wi joy, because o
aa ye hae dune tae forder the Gospel frae the first day ontil
nou.”
Philippians 1:6-7
“Nou, faith is the warrantie o our howps,
the pruif at things at downa be seen is rael.”
Hebrews
11:1
“For as muckle, than, as we hae sae
michtie a clud o witnesses round about us, lat us cast by ilka
cummer an the taiglin garment o sin an, takkin a stout hairt,
rin the race at God hes gien us tae rin, our een stelled on
Jesus, the paittren of perfyte faith, at for the joy at wis
bidin him dree’d the Cross, nane heedin the shame o it, an nou
has leaned him doun on the richt haund o the throne o God.”
Scots, Wha Hae:
The Language