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A Glossary of the Scots Dialect |
| Ca' | to drive, call. |
| Ca'd | named, driven, called. |
| Ca't | called. |
| Ca'throu' | push forward. |
| Cadger | a carrier or travelling dealer. |
| Cadie | a fellow. |
| Caff | chaff. |
| Caird | a tinker. |
| Cairds | tinkers. |
| Calf-ward | enclosure for calves. |
| Callan | boy. |
| Caller | fresh. |
| Callet | a trull. |
| Cam | came. |
| Canie | cannie, gentle, tractable, quiet, prudent, careful. |
| Cankert | cankered. |
| Cankrie | cankered. |
| Canna | cannot. |
| Cannie | carefully, softly. |
| Canniest | quietest. |
| Cannilie | cannily, quietly, prudently, cautiously. |
| Cantie | cheerful, lively. |
| Cantraip | magic, witching. |
| Cantrip | a charm, a spell. |
| Cants | merry stories, canters or sprees or merry doings. |
| Canty | cheerful, lively, jolly, merry; tipsy |
| Cape-stane | cap stone. |
| Capon | castrate. |
| Carenaby | do not care. |
| Carl | a man. |
| Carl-hemp | male-hemp. |
| Carlie | a manikin. |
| Carlin | an old woman. |
| Carmagnole | a violent Jacobin. |
| Cartes | cards for playing. |
| Cartie | a cart. |
| Catch-the-plack | the hunt for money. |
| Caudron | cauldron. |
| Cauf | a calf. |
| Cauf-leather | calf-leather. |
| Cauk | chalk. |
| Caukandkeel | chalk and ruddle. |
| Cauld | cold. |
| Cauldron | caldron. |
| Caup | a wooden drinking vessel. |
| Caups | wooden bowl. |
| Causey | causeway. |
| Causey-cleaners | causeway-cleaners. |
| Cavie | chicken coop. |
| Chamer | chamber. |
| Change-house | a tavern. |
| Chanter | bagpipes; the pipe of the bag-pipes which produces the melody; song. |
| Chap | a fellow, a young fellow; to strike |
| Chapman | a peddlar. |
| Chaumer | chamber. |
| Chaup | a blow. |
| Chear | cheer. |
| Chearfu' | cheerful. |
| Chearless | cheerless. |
| Cheary | cheery. |
| Cheek-for-chow | cheek-by-jowl (i.e. close beside). |
| Cheekforchow | cheek to jowl. |
| Cheep | peep, squeak. |
| Chiel | young lad. |
| Chimla | chimney. |
| Chittering | shivering. |
| Chows | chews. |
| Christendie | Christiandom. |
| Chuck | a hen, a dear. |
| Chuckie | dim. of chuck, but usually signifies mother hen, an old dear. |
| Chuffie | fat faced. |
| Chuse | to choose. |
| Cit | the civet; a citizen, a merchant. |
| Clachan | a hamlet. |
| Claeding | clothing. |
| Claes | claise, clothes. |
| Claise | clothes. |
| Claith | cloth. |
| Claithing | clothing. |
| Claiver | to chatter. |
| Clamb | climbed. |
| Clankie | sharp stroke. |
| Clap | the clapper of a mill. |
| Clark | scholarly. |
| Clarkit | wrote. |
| Clarty | dirty. |
| Clash | to gossip. |
| Clatter | to chatter. |
| Claught | clutched. |
| Claughtin | grasping, greedy. |
| Claut | a clutch, a handful; to scrape. |
| Clautt | to snatch at. |
| Claver | clover; idle story. |
| Clavers | gossip, nonsense. |
| Claw | scratch. |
| Clay-cauld | clay-cold. |
| Claymore | a two-handed Highland sword. |
| Cleckin | a brood. |
| Cleed | to clothe. |
| Cleeding | chlothing. |
| Cleek | sieze. |
| Cleekit | linked. |
| Cleg | gad fly. |
| Clink | to rhyme, money. |
| Clinkin | sitting neatly. |
| Clinkum | clinkumbell, the beadle, the bellman. |
| Clinkumbell | bell ringer. |
| Clips | shears. |
| Clish-ma-claver | gossip, taletelling; non-sense. |
| Clishmaclaver | chatter. |
| Clockin-time | hatching time. |
| Cloot | hoof. |
| Clootie | Satan. |
| Clour | a bump or swelling after a blow. |
| Clours | bruises. |
| Clout | patch. |
| Clouts | clothes. |
| Clud | a cloud. |
| Clunk | to make a hollow sound. |
| Co'er | to cover. |
| Coble | fishing boat. |
| Cock | to erect; a chap. |
| Cockie | dim. of cock (applied to an old man). |
| Cocks | fellows, good fellows. |
| Cod | a pillow. |
| Coft | bought. |
| Cog | a wooden dish. |
| Coggie | a wooden dish. |
| Coil | Coila, Kyle (one of the ancient districts of Ayrshire). |
| Coila | from Kyle (in Ayrshire). |
| Collieshangie | an uproar. |
| Comman | commandment. |
| Compleenin | complaining. |
| Cood | cud. |
| Coof | fool. |
| Cookit | appeared and disappeared. |
| Coor | cover. |
| Cooser | a courser, a stallion. |
| Coost | did cast. |
| Cootie | large spoon or spade; feathered at the ankle. |
| Corbie | crow. |
| Corbies | ravens, crows. |
| Core | corps. |
| Corn't | fed with oats. |
| Corse | corpse. |
| Corss | the market cross. |
| Cou'dna | couldna, couldn't. |
| Couldna | could not. |
| Countra | country. |
| Coup | to capsize. |
| Cour | to cover. |
| Couthie | kindly. |
| Cow'rin | cowering. |
| Cowe | to scare, to daunt. |
| Cowp | to tumble over. |
| Cowpit | tumbled. |
| Cowr | to cower. |
| Cowrin | cowering. |
| Cowte | a colt. |
| Crack | a harangue. |
| Crackin | conversing. |
| Craft | a croft. |
| Craft-rig | croft-ridge. |
| Craig | the throat; a crag. |
| Craigie | dim. of craig, the throat. |
| Craigy | craggy. |
| Craik | the corn-crake, the land-rail. |
| Crambo-clink | doggerel. |
| Crambo-jingle | rhymes. |
| Cran | the support for a pot or kettle. |
| Crankous | fretful. |
| Cranks | creakings. |
| Cranreuch | hoar frost. |
| Crap | crop. |
| Craw | to crow. |
| Creel | a basket. |
| Creepie-chair | chair of repentence, dunce stool. |
| Creeshie | greasy. |
| Crocks | old sheep. |
| Cronie | intimate friend. |
| Crooded | cooed. |
| Croods | coos. |
| Croon | moan, low; to toil. |
| Crooning | humming. |
| Croose | crouse, cocksure, set, proud, cheerful. |
| Crouchie | crooked-backed. |
| Crouse | cold. |
| Crousely | confidently. |
| Crowdie | porridge. |
| Crowdie-time | breakfast. |
| Crowlin | crawling. |
| Crreshie | greasy. |
| Crummie | a horned cow. |
| Crummock | crooked staff. |
| Crump | crisp or crumbly. |
| Crunt | a blow to the head. |
| Cuddle | to fondle. |
| Cuif | blockhead. |
| Cummock | crooked staff (see Crummock). |
| Curch | female headdress. |
| Curchie | a curtsy. |
| Curler | one who plays at curling. |
| Curmurring | rumbling. |
| Curpin | horse's rump· |
| Curple | horse's rump. |
| Cushat | the wood pigeon. |
| Cushats | wood pigeons. |
| Custock | the heart of a cabbage. |
| Cutes | feet, ankles. |
| Cutty | short (cutty sark=a short shift or dress). |
| Cutty-stools | stools of repentance. |
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