Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns: P-Words
P-Words
by Robert Burns
- Pack
- Intimate, familiar; twelve stone of wool.
- Paidle, Paidlen
- To walk with difficulty, as if in water.
- Painch
- Paunch.
- Pang
- To cram.
- Parishen
- Parish.
- Parle
- Courtship.
- Parritch
- Oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch dish.
- Pat
- Did put, a pot.
- Pattle, or Pettle
- A small spade to clean the plough.
- Paughty
- Proud, haughty.
- Pawky, Pawkie
- Cunning, sly.
- Pay't
- Paid; beat.
- Peat-reek
- The smoke of burning turf; a bitter exhalation; whiskey.
- Pech, Pechin'
- To fetch the breathe shortly, as in asthma, respiring with difficulty.
- Pechan
- The crop, the stomach.
- Pet
- A domesticated sheep, etc.; a favourite.
- Pettle
- To cherish.
- Philabeg, or Philibegs
- The kilt; short petticoats worn by Highlanders.
- Phrase
- Fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.
- Pibroch
- A martial air.
- Pickle
- A small quantity, one grain of corn.
- Pigmy-scraper
- A little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player.
- Pine
- Pain, uneasiness
- Pingle
- A small pan for warming children's sops.
- Pint-stoup
- A two-quart measure.
- Pit
- To put.
- Placad
- A public proclamation, to publish publically.
- Plack
- An old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.
- Plackless
- Penniless, without money.
- Plaidie
- Diminutive of plaid.
- Platie
- Diminutive of plate.
- Plew, or Pleugh
- A plough.
- Plisky
- A trick.
- Plumrose
- Primrose.
- Pock
- A meal-bag.
- Poind
- To seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland allow, for rent, etc.
- Poortith
- Poverty.
- Posie
- A nosegay, a garland.
- Pou, Pou'd, Pou't
- To pull, pulled.
- Pouk
- To pluck.
- Pouse
- To pluck with the hand.
- Poussie
- A hare or cat.
- Pout
- A polt, a chick.
- Pouthery, Pouther, of Powther
- Fiery, active, like powder; gunpowder.
- Pow
- The head, the skull.
- Pownie
- A little horse, a pony.
- Preclair
- Super-eminent.
- Pree'd
- Stealthily kissed.
- Preen
- A pin.
- Prent
- Printing, print.
- Prie
- To taste; prie'd, tasted.
- Prief
- Proof.
- Prig
- To cheapen, to dispute; priggin, cheapening.
- Primsie
- Demure, precise.
- Propone
- To lay down, to propose.
- Pund, Pund o' tow
- Pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.
- Pyet
- A magpie.
- Pyle, a pyles o' caff
- A single grain of chaff.
- Pystle
- Epistle.
Source:
The Poetical Works Of Robert BurnsCopyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd