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Scottish Borders Folk Tales

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by James P. Spence


  GUID……………

  good

  HAME……………

  home

  HANKED……………

  hooked or caught, usually accidentally

  HA’PENNY……………

  half-penny

  HEELSTERGOWDIE ……………

  head over heels

  HEID……………

  head

  HEUCH……………

  here, as in ‘have this’

  HINDEREND……………

  finish

  HIRPLED……………

  limped

  HOLLAND SHIRT……………

  made from linen or cotton from Holland, noted for its quality

  HOOSE……………

  house

  HOWF……………

  pub

  HOWK……………

  dig

  HOWTS……………

  an exclamation like ‘jings’

  HUNDER……………

  hundred

  JETHART……………

  name for Jedburgh before being made a royal burgh

  KEEK……………

  glance

  KEN……………

  know

  KENT……………

  knew, known

  KIRK……………

  church

  KIRN……………

  harvest festival in lowland Scotland

  KIRTLE……………

  a long gown with a pleated skirt

  KIST……………

  a chest, often used for storing clothes or linen

  LEAF-LANE……………

  as in ‘alone’

  LEATHERING……………

  a thumping, often with a belt

  LOWP……………

  leap

  LUG……………

  ear

  LUM……………

  chimney

  MAIR……………

  more

  MAIST……………

  most

  MASEL……………

  myself

  MANKY……………

  stinking

  MEX-TAE-MEY……………

  an exclamation like ‘jings’

  MUCKLE……………

  big

  OORSELS……………

  ourselves

  OOTLANDISH……………

  outlandish

  OWER……………

  over

  PECHIN……………

  puffing, out of breath

  PEELIE-WALLIE……………

  pale complexion

  PICKLE……………

  a number of items

  PLAID……………

  length of tartan worn around the shoulders

  REEKIE……………

  smoky

  REIVING……………

  going over the border to raid and steal livestock

  REIVER……………

  one who reives over the opposing border

  ROOND……………

  round

  ROOSED……………

  roused, angry

  SCLIM……………

  climb

  SCRIEVE……………

  scrape

  SCUDDED……………

  slapped, move quickly

  SCUNNER……………

  disgust

  SERK……………

  shirt

  SERRED……………

  served

  SILLER……………

  silver, or money in general

  SHAIR……………

  sure

  SHOOGLE……………

  shake/shook

  SKELP……………

  smack

  SLAIRGIT……………

  covered in messy substance

  SLAIVERS……………

  slobber, saliva, dribble

  SLEEKIT……………

  devious

  SMIDDY……………

  blacksmith’s workshop

  SNECK……………

  lock or catch for door, window, chest etc.

  SNELL……………

  bitterly cold

  SNOOTIE……………

  snobbish

  SNOOZLED……………

  snoozed

  SPAE-WIFE……………

  woman with the gift of prophesy

  SPRIGGOT……………

  water tap

  STANE……………

  stone

  STEEKED……………

  shut as in door, gate or window

  STOOR……………

  dust

  STOTTING……………

  bouncing

  STRAMASH……………

  disturbance, argument, fight

  SWITHER……………

  state of indecision

  TAPSALTEERIE……………

  upside-down, topsy-turvy

  TARADIDDLE……………

  nonsense

  THRAWN……………

  stubborn

  THREID……………

  thread

  THON……………

  that, yon

  TOON……………

  town

  TRAUCHLED……………

  troubled

  THRAPPLE……………

  throat

  TOORLED……………

  delighted

  TOOSLIE……………

  windswept or untidy hair usually

  TOTTIE……………

  small

  TWAE……………

  two

  UNKENT……………

  unknown

  WEEL……………

  well

  WHEECH……………

  for something or someone to move at great speed, often through air

  WHEESHT……………

  quiet, as in ‘keep quiet’

  WHIGMALEERIE……………

  ornament, a nick-nack

  WHIN……………

  gorse bush

  YERSEL……………

  yourself

  YIN……………

  one

  YINCE……………

  once

  YOWE……………

  ewe, female sheep or you

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Brander, Michael, Tales of the Borders (Mainstream Publishing, 1991)

  Finlay, Winifred, Tales from the Borders (Kaye & Ward, 1979)

  Ker Wilson, Barbara, Fairy Tales from Scotland (Oxford, 1954)

  MacLaren, Calum, Strange Tales of the Borders (Lang Syne Publishers Ltd, 1975)

  Montgomerie, Normah and William, The Folk Tales of Scotland (Birlinn, 1975)

  Platt, William and Susan, Folktales of the Scottish Borders (Senate, 1919)

  Robertson, Stanley, Reek Roon a Campfire (Birlinn, 2009)

  Westwood, Jennifer and Kingshill, Sophia, The Lore of Scotland (Random House Books, 2009)

  Wood, Wendy, Legends of the Borders (Impulse Books, 1973)

  ABOOT THE AUTHOR

  JAMES P. SPENCE was brought up in Jethart, but now lives in the shadow o Arthurs Seat, where hae flies paper-airplanes with his son. Hae was inspired by the stories o his father, an has been telling stories on a professional basis since 2002, visiting care-homes, schools, an festivals. As weel as providing storytelling workshops hae has devised the Liars Tour o the Storytelling Centre, in Edinburgh, which hae still leads when requested. James has had three books o poems published an is working on a new yin. Hae provided the Scots translation for the graphic novel Unco Case o Dr Jekyll an Mr Hyde. James recently completed a Scots translation o his favourite novel Far From the Madding Crowd, entitled Ferr Frae the Dirlin Thrang, which hae hopes will find its way intae print in 2016.

  COPYRIGHT

  First published in 2015

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