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