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