Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns: F-Words
F-Words
by Robert Burns
- Fa', fa's
- Fall, lot, to fall, fate; does fall.
- Fa' that
- To enjoy, to try, to inherit.
- Faddom't
- Fathomed; measured with the extended arms.
- Faem
- Foam of the sea.
- Faes
- Foes.
- Faiket
- Forgiven or excused, abated, a demand.
- Fainness
- Gladness, overcome with joy.
- Fairin'
- Fairing, a present brought from a fair, deserts.
- Fallow
- Fellow.
- Fand
- Did find.
- Farl
- A cake of bread; third part of a cake.
- Fash, fasht
- Trouble, care, to trouble, to care for, troubled.
- Fasheous
- Troublesome.
- Fasten e'en
- Fasten's even.
- Fatt'rils
- Ribbon-ends.
- Faught
- Fight.
- Faugh
- A single furrow, out of lea, fallow.
- Fauld, faulding
- A fold for sheep, to fold; folding.
- Faut
- Fault.
- Fawsont
- Decent, seemly.
- Feal
- Loyal, steadfast; a field; smooth.
- Fearfu'
- Fearful, frightful.
- Fear't
- Affrighted.
- Feat
- Neat, spruce, clever.
- Fecht, fechtin'
- To fight, fighting.
- Feck
- Number, quantity.
- Fecket
- An under waistcoat.
- Feckfu'
- Large, brawny, stout.
- Feckless
- Puny, weak, silly.
- Feckly
- Mostly, weakly.
- Feg
- A fig.
- Fegs
- Faith, an exclamation.
- Feide
- Feud, enmity.
- Fell
- Keen, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin; a field pretty level, or the side or top of a hill.
- Felly
- Relentless.
- Fend
- To make a shift, to contrive to live.
- Ferlie, or ferley
- To wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt.
- Fetch, fetch't
- To pull by fits; pulled intermittently.
- Fey
- Strange; one marked for death, predestined.
- Fidge
- To fidget, fidgetting.
- Fidgin'-fain
- Tickled with pleasure.
- Fiel
- Soft, smooth.
- Fien-ma-care
- The devil may care.
- Fient
- Fiend, a petty oath.
- Fier, fiere
- Sound, healthy; a brother, a friend.
- Fissle
- To make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.
- Fit
- Foot.
- Fittie-lan
- The nearer horse of the hindmost pair in the plough.
- Fizz
- To make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance.
- Flaffen
- The motion of rags in the wind; of wings.
- Flainen
- Flannel.
- Flang
- Threw with violence.
- Fleech, fleechin'
- To supplicate in a flattering manner; supplicating.
- Fleesh
- A fleece.
- Fleg
- A kick, a random blow, a fight.
- Flether
- To decoy by fair words.
- Flethrin, flethers
- Flattering; smooth wheedling words.
- Fley
- To scare, to frighten.
- Flichter, flichtering
- To flutter as young nestlings do when their dam approaches; fluttering.
- Flinders
- Shreds, broken pieces.
- Flingin-tree
- A piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable; a flail.
- Flisk, flisky, fliskit
- To fret at the yoke, fretted.
- Flitter
- To vibrate like the wings of small birds.
- Flittering
- Fluttering, vibrating, moving tremulously from place to place.
- Flunkie
- A servant in livery.
- Flyte, flyting
- Scold; scolding.
- Foord
- A ford.
- Forbears
- Forefathers.
- Forbye
- Besides.
- Forfairn
- Distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute
- Forfoughten, foughten
- Troubled, fatigued.
- Forgather
- To meet, to encounter with.
- Forgie
- To forgive.
- Forinawed
- Worn out.
- Forjesket
- Jaded with fatigue.
- Fother
- Fodder.
- Fou', Fu'
- Full, drunk.
- Fouth
- Plenty, enough, or more than enough.
- Fow
- A measure, a bushel; also a pitchfork.
- Frae
- From.
- Freath
- Froth; the frothing of ale in the tankard.
- Frien'
- Friend.
- Frosty-calker
- The heels and front of a horseshoe, turned sharply up for riding on an icy road.
- Fud
- The scut or tail of the hare, coney, etc.
- Fuff, fuff't
- To blow intermittently; did blow.
- Fu-hant
- Full-handed; said of one well to live in the world.
- Fumble
- Make a fuss.
- Funnie
- Full of merriment.
- Fur
- A furrow.
- Fur-ahin
- The hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing.
- Furder
- Further, succeed.
- Furm
- A form, a bench.
- Fyke
- Trifling cares; to be in a fuss about trifles.
- Fyle, fyl't
- To soil, to dirty; soiled.
Source:
The Poetical Works Of Robert BurnsCopyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd