Jack and the Devil's Purse

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by Duncan Williamson

hae

  have

  haen

  had

  haet

  thing

  hame

  home

  hap

  cover

  heids

  heads

  hev

  have

  hissel(f)

  himself

  job (a wee)

  urination

  keeked

  peeped

  ken

  know

  kent

  knew

  loor

  money

  lum

  chimney

  lunaries

  auras of light

  mair

  more

  mak

  make

  messages

  groceries

  mort

  woman; wife

  nae

  no

  naebody

  nobody

  no

  not

  onybody

  anybody

  onything

  anything

  ower

  over

  oxter

  the underarm

  puckle

  small amount

  reek

  smoke

  sair

  sorely

  sarks

  shirts

  seen

  saw

  set sail

  started a journey

  shaked

  shook

  sheet apron

  a large canvas sheet made into an apron

  smiddie

  blacksmith’s

  souter

  cobbler

  stotted

  bounced

  tackety

  hobnailed (boots)

  tak

  take

  tatties

  potatoes

  tellt

  told

  theirself

  themselves

  the morn

  tomorrow

  there

  there’s; there’re

  they

  there

  thocht

  thought

  thon

  that

  tooken

  taken

  toorie

  peaked, close-fitting cap

  two-three

  a few

  umperant

  impudent

  weans

  children, wee ones

  wi

  with

  wir

  our

  wis

  was

  wise (ye’re)

  unwise, not knowing

  wonst

  once

  worl

  world

  wreft

  apparition of a dead person, wraith

  yer

  your

  ye’re

  you’re

  yersel

  yourself

  yese

  you (pl)

  yin

  one

  yinst

  once

 

 

 


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