Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns: T-Words
T-Words
by Robert Burns
- Tackets
- Broad-headed nails for the heels of shoes.
- Tae
- A toe; three-taed, having three prongs.
- Tak
- To take; takin', taking.
- Tangle
- A sea-weed, used as salad.
- Tap
- The top.
- Tapetless
- Heedless, foolish.
- Targe
- Targe them tightly, cross question them severely.
- Tairge
- Target.
- Tarrow, tarrow't
- To murmur at one's allowance; murmured.
- Tarry-breeks
- A sailor.
- Tassie
- A small measure for liquor.
- Tauld or tald
- Told.
- Taupie
- A foolish, thoughtless young person.
- Tauted, or tautie
- Matted together (spoken of hair and wool).
- Tawie
- That allows itself peaceably to be handled (spoken of a cow, horse, etc.).
- Teat
- A small quantity.
- Tedding
- Spreading after the mower.
- Teethless bawtie
- Toothless cur.
- Teethless gab
- A mouth wanting the teeth, an expression of scorn.
- Ten-hours-bite
- A slight feed to the horse while in the yoke in the forenoon.
- Tent
- A field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed.
- Tentie
- Heedful, cautious.
- Tentless
- Heedless, careless.
- Teugh
- Tough.
- Thack
- Thatch; thack an' rape, clothing and necessaries, alluding to the covering of a corn rick.
- Thae, thir
- These.
- Thairms
- Small guts, fiddle strings.
- Thankit
- Thanked.
- Theekit
- Thatch'd.
- Thegither
- Together.
- Themsel'
- Themselves.
- Thick
- Intimate, familiar.
- Thigger
- Crowding, make a noise; a seeker of alms.
- Thirl, thirled
- To thrill, thrilled. vibrated.
- Thoom
- Thumb.
- Thole
- To suffer, to endure.
- Thowe
- A thaw, to thaw.
- Thowless
- Slack, lazy.
- Thrang
- Throng, busy, a crowd.
- Thrapple
- Throat, windpipe.
- Thraw
- To sprain, to twist, to contradict.
- Thrawin'
- Twisting, etc.
- Thrawn
- Sprained, twisted, contradicted, contradiction.
- Threap
- To maintain by dint of assertion.
- Threshin'
- Thrashing; threshin'-tree, a flail.
- Threteen
- Thirteen.
- Thristle
- Thistle.
- Through
- To go on with, to make out.
- Throu'ther
- Pell-mell, confusedly (throughither).
- Thrum
- Sound of a spinning-wheel in motion, the thread remaining at the end of a web.
- Thud
- To make a loud intermittent noise.
- Thummart
- Foumart, pole-cat.
- Thumpit
- Thumped.
- Thysel'
- Thyself.
- Till't
- To it.
- Timmer
- Timber.
- Tine, or tyne
- To lose; tint, lost; tint the late, lost the way.
- Tinkler
- A tinker.
- Tip
- A ram.
- Tippence
- Two-pence, money.
- Tirl, tirlin', tirlet
- To make a slight noise to uncover; uncovering.
- Tither
- The other.
- Tittle, tittlin'
- To whisper, to prate idly; whispering.
- Tocher
- Marriage portion; tocher bands, marriage bonds.
- Tod
- A fox.
- Toddle, toddlin'
- To totter, like the walk of a child; toddlen-dow, toddlen dove.
- Too-fa'
- When twilight darkens into night; a building added, a lean-to.
- Toom
- Empty.
- Toop
- A ram.
- Tosie
- Warm and ruddy with warmth, good-looking, intoxicating.
- Toss
- A toast.
- Toun
- A hamlet, a farmhouse.
- Tout
- The blast of a horn or trumpet, to blow a horn or trumpet.
- Touzles, touzling
- Romping; ruffling the clothes.
- Tow
- A rope.
- Towmond
- A twelvemonth.
- Towzie
- Rough, shaggy.
- Toy
- A very old fashion of female head-dress.
- Toyte
- To totter like old age.
- Trams
- Barrow-trams, the handles of a barrow.
- Transmugrified
- Transmigrated, metamorphosed.
- Trashtrie
- Trash, rubbish.
- Trews
- Trousers.
- Trickie
- Full of tricks.
- Trig
- Spruce, neat.
- Trimly
- Cleverly, excellently, in a seemly manner.
- Trinle, trintle
- The wheel of a barrow, to roll.
- Trinklin
- Trickling.
- Troggers, troggin'
- Wandering merchants' goods; to truck or dispose of.
- Trow
- To believe, to trust to.
- Trowth
- Truth, a petty oath.
- Tryste, trysts
- To make an appointment; appointments, love meetings, cattle shows.
- Try't
- Tried.
- Tumbler-wheels
- The wheels of a kind of low cart.
- Tug
- Raw hide, of which in old time plough traces were frequently made.
- Tug, or tow
- Either in leather or rope.
- Tulzie
- A quarrel, to quarrel, to fight.
- Twa
- Two; twa-fauld, two-fold.
- Twa three
- A few.
- Twad
- It would.
- Twal
- Twelve; twal pennieworth, a small quantity, a pennyworth. -- N.B. One penny English is twelve pence Scotch.
- Twal hundred
- A quantity of cloth.
- Twin
- To part.
- Twistle
- Twisting, the art of making a rope.
- Tyke
- A dog.
- Tysday
- Tuesday.
Source:
The Poetical Works Of Robert BurnsCopyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd