Glossary : C
Ca': call: knock: drive
Cadger: a hawker (especially of fish)
Cadie: caddie: a fellow
Caff: chaff
Caird: a tinker
Calf-ward: grazing plot for calves (ie:
churchyard)
Callan: callant: a stripling
Caller: cool: refreshing
Callet: a trull
Cam: came
Canie: cannie: gentle: tractable:
quiet: prudent: careful
Cankrie: crabbed
Canna: can not
Canniest: quietest
Cannilie: cannily: quietly:
prudently: cautiously
Cantie: cheerful: lively:
jolly: merry
Cantraip: magic: witching
Cants: merry stories: canters or sprees
or merry doings
Cape-stanc: copestone
Capon-castrate
Care na by: do not care
Carl: carle: a man: an old
man
Carl-hemp: male-hemp
Carlie: a manikin
Carlin: carline a middle-aged: or old:
woman; a beldam: a witch
Carmagnole: a violent Jacobin
Cartes: playing-cards
Cartie: dim of cart
Catch-the-plack: the hunt for money
Caudron: a caldron
Cauf: calf
Cauf-leather: calf-leather
Cauk: chalk
Cauld: cold
Cauldron: caldron
Caup: a wooden drinking vessel
Causey-cleaners: causeway-cleaners
Cavie: a hen-coop
Chamer: chaumer: chamber
Change-house: tavern
Chanter: bagpipes; the pipe of the bag-pipes which
produces the melody; song
Chap: a fellow: a young fellow
Chap: to strike
Chapman: a pedler
Chaup: chap: a stroke: a blow
Chear: cheer
Chearfu': cheerful
Chearless: cheerless
Cheary: cheery
Cheek-for-chow: cheek-by-jowl (ie close beside)
Cheep: peep: squeak
Chiel: chield (i e: child):
a fellow: a young fellow
Chimla: chimney
Chittering: shivering
Chows: chews
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
Cit: a citizen: a merchant
Clachan: a small village about a church
Claeding: clothing
Claes: claise: clothes
Claith: cloth
Claithing: clothing
Clankie: a severe knock
Clap: the clapper of a mill
Clark: a clerk
Clark: clerkly: scholarly
Clarkit: clerked: wrote
Clarty: dirty
Clash: an idle tale; gossip
Clash: to tattle
Clatter: noise: tattle: talk:
disputation: babble
Clatter: to make a noise by striking; to babble; to
prattle
Claught: clutched: seized
Claughtin: clutching: grasping
Claut: a clutch: a handful
Claut: to scrape
Claver: clover
Clavers: gossip: nonsense
Claw: a scratch: a blow
Claw: to scratch: to strike
Clay-cauld: clay-cold
Claymore: a two-handed Highland sword
Cleckin: a brood
Cleed: to clothe
Cleek: to snatch
Cleekit: linked arms
Cleg: gadfly
Clink: a sharp stroke; jingle
Clink: money: coin
Clink: to chink
Clink: to rhyme
Clinkin: with a smart motion
Clinkum: clinkumbell: the beadle:
the bellman
Clips: shears
Clish-ma-claver: gossip: taletelling;
non-sense
Clockin-time: clucking- (i e: hatching-)
time
Cloot: the hoof
Clootie: cloots: hoofie: hoofs
(a nickname of the Devil)
Clour: a bump or swelling after a blow
Clout: a cloth: a patch
Clout: to patch
Clud: a cloud
Clunk: to make a hollow sound
Coble: a broad and flat boat
Cock: the mark (in curling)
Cockie: dim of cock (applied to an old man)
Cocks: fellows: good fellows
Cod: a pillow
Coft: bought
Cog: a wooden drinking vessel: a porridge
dish: a corn measure for horses
Coggie: dim of cog: a little dish
Coil: Coila: Kyle (one of the ancient
districts of Ayrshire)
Collieshangie: a squabble
Cood: cud
Coof: v cuif
Cookit: hid
Coor: cover
Cooser: a courser: a stallion
Coost (i e: cast): looped:
threw off: tossed: chucked
Cootie: a small pail
Cootie: leg-plumed
Corbies: ravens: crows
Core: corps
Corn mou: corn heap
Corn't: fed with corn
Corse: corpse
Corss: cross
Cou'dna: couldna: couldn't
Countra: country
Coup: to capsize
Couthie: couthy: loving: affable:
cosy: comfortable
Cowe: to scare: to daunt
Cowe: to lop
Crack: tale; a chat; talk
Crack: to chat: to talk
Craft: croft
Craft-rig: croft-ridge
Craig: the throat
Craig: a crag
Craigie: dim of craig: the throat
Craigy: craggy
Craik: the corn-crake: the land-rail
Crambo-clink: rhyme
Crambo-jingle: rhyming
Cran: the support for a pot or kettle
Crankous: fretful
Cranks: creakings
Cranreuch: hoar-frost
Crap: crop: top
Craw: crow
Creel: an osier basket
Creepie-chair: stool of repentance
Creeshie: greasy
Crocks: old ewes
Cronie: intimate friend
Crooded: cooed
Croods: coos
Croon: moan: low
Croon: to toll
Crooning: humming
Croose: crouse: cocksure:
set: proud: cheerful
Crouchie: hunchbacked
Crousely: confidently
Crowdie: meal and cold water: meal and
milk: porridge
Crowdie-time: porridge-time (i e: breakfast-time)
Crowlin: crawling
Crummie: a horned cow
Crummock: cummock: a cudgel:
a crooked staff
Crump: crisp
Crunt: a blow
Cuddle: to fondle
Cuif: coof: a dolt: a ninny;
a dastard
Cummock: v crummock
Curch: a kerchief for the head
Curchie: a curtsy
Curler: one who plays at curling
Curmurring: commotion
Curpin: the crupper of a horse
Curple: the crupper (i e: buttocks)
Cushat: the wood pigeon
Custock: the pith of the colewort
Cutes: feet: ankles
Cutty: short
Cutty-stools: stools of repentance
