Oh aye, good point. I will try and get around to that when I can. Because it's quite old now a lot of the words have been lost in language and even I don't know some of them, but I'll do my best.


Here's some:


muckle= basically "big" (see "Muckle Black Tyke", the black dog).

stane= stone

feared= afraid (quite easy)

ayont= beyond

sweir= to be sweir to do something is to be reluctant (basically pronounced "swear")

frae whaur he bides= (from where he stays)

My bed-claes up to my lugs I tak'= basically saying "I take my bed-clothes up to my ears (lugs)"

yon (or thon)= is that/those etc

Sawbath= dialect for Sabbath.

It's cannie I'll hae to gang An' keep frae fecthin' an' sic-like ways= cannie I suppose is like wise or kosher or something. gang is go (so "it's best/wise that I have to go and stop fighting, and such-like ways)

Gine I'm not sure, but gin (and prounounced like that, not like the beverage) means when.

maun is must. Dree? not sure. Possibly endure or dread or something.