Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns: L-Words
L-Words
by Robert Burns
- Labour
- Thrash.
- Laddie
- Diminutive of lad.
- Laggen
- The angle between the side and the bottom of a wooden dish.
- Laigh
- Low.
- Lairing, lairie
- Wading, and sinking in snow, mud, etc., miry.
- Laith
- Loath; impure.
- Laithfu'
- Bashful, sheepish, abstemious.
- Lallans
- Scottish dialect, Lowlands.
- Lambie
- Diminutive of lamb.
- Lammas moon
- Harvest moon.
- Lan'
- Land, estate.
- Lan'-afore
- Foremost horse in the plough.
- Lan'-ahin'
- Hindmost horse in the plough.
- Lane, lanely
- Lone; my lane, thy lane, etc., myself alone; lonely.
- Lang
- Long; to think lang, to long, to weary.
- Lap
- Did leap.
- Late and air
- Late and early.
- Lathefu'
- Hesitating.
- Lave
- The rest, the remainder, the others.
- Laverock
- The lark.
- Lawin'
- Shot, reckoning, bill.
- Lawlan'
- Lowland.
- Lay my dead
- Attribute my death.
- Lays
- Fields.
- Lea-rig
- Grassy ridge.
- Leal
- Loyal, true, faithful.
- Lear
- Learning, lore.
- Lee-lang
- Live-long.
- Leesome luve
- Happy gladsome love.
- Leeze me
- A phrase of congratulatory endearment; I am happy in thee, of proud of thee.
- Leister
- A three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish.
- Leugh
- Did laugh.
- Leuk
- A look, to look.
- Libbet
- Castrated.
- Lichtly, lightly
- Sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue.
- Lick, licket
- Beat, thrashed.
- Lift
- Sky, firmament.
- Lilt
- A ballad, a tune, to sing.
- Limmer
- A mistress, a strumpet.
- Limpit
- A kind of shell-fish.
- Limp't
- Limped, hobbled.
- Link
- To trip along; linkin', tripping along.
- Linn
- A waterfall, a cascade.
- Lint
- Flax; lint i' the bell, flax in flower.
- Lint-white
- A linnet, flaxen.
- Loan
- The place of milking.
- Loaning
- Lane.
- Loof, looves
- The palms of the hands.
- Loot
- Did let.
- Losh-man!
- Rustic exclamation, modified from Lord man.
- Loun
- A fellow, a ragamuffin; a woman of easy virtue.
- Loup
- Jump, leap; startled with pain.
- Louper-like
- Lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character.
- Lowe, lowin'
- A flame; flaming; lowin-drouth, burning desire for drink.
- Lowrie
- Abbreviation of Lawrence.
- Lowse
- To loose.
- Lug
- The ear, a handle.
- Lug of the law
- At the judgment seat.
- Lugget
- Having a handle.
- Luggie
- A small wooden dish with a handle.
- Lum
- The chimney; lum-head, chimney top.
- Lunch
- A large piece of cheese, meat, etc.
- Lunt, lunting
- A column of smoke, to smoke; to walk quickly; smoking.
- Lyart
- Of a mixed colour, grey.
Source:
The Poetical Works Of Robert BurnsCopyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd