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 Burns
Copyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd