• SCOSCIE
n. a starfish …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOT AND LOT
n. a just proportion of taxes; a contribution …1733 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCOT
n. 1. any black cattle; a name for a horse …1787 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a Scotchman as distinguished from a Shetlander …1900 Sc.
n. 3. the amount of a bill; an alehouse reckoning …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to pay taxes; to tax or rate …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOTCH
adj. 1. stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1932 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. strict, straitlaced …1932 Amer. dial.
n. 1. a block under a wheel, etc. to keep it from moving …1847 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a prop, support …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. an ant …Bk1904 Sc. obs.
n. 4. a stingy person; one who is greedy in money matters …1965 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to prevent from moving by use of a chock, esp. the wheel of a vehicle, to put a block under a wheel to keep it from rolling …1860 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to injure partially …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to mark with stripes …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to scorch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to stop, to give up; to hinder; to hesitate; to deduct, to curtail …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to assist one in an undertaking; to help out in a minor way …1909 Amer. dial.
vb. 7. to hold oneself immobile …1949 Amer. dial.
vb. 8. to block, to obstruct …1966 Amer. dial.
vb. 9. to act in a frugal or stingy way …1999 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCHBELL
n. the earwig …1915 Sc.
• SCOTCH BLESSING
n. a severe scolding or reprimand …1907 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCHBOLT
n. the earwig …1915 Sc.
• SCOTCH CLIPPER
n. a walking plough …1970 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCH-COLLOPS
n. 1. slices of beef stewed with onions, pepper, and salt …1887 Sc.
n. 2. potatoes sliced and fried in fat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOTCH CONVOY
n. the act of accompanying a visitor the whole way home …1896 Sc.
• SCOTCH CUDDY
n. a peddler; a travelling draper …1901 Sc.
• SCOTCH DEW
n. a mist …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOTCH DRAPER
n. a peddler; a travelling draper …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOTCH DRIZZLE
n. a mist …1896 Eng. dial.
• SCOTCH ELL
n. 37.0958 inches …1785 Sc.
• SCOTCH FIDDLE
n. the itch …1836 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCOTCH FOR ONE
vb. to help out …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCH GRAVAT
n. a hug or cuddle …1969 Sc.
• SCOTCH-HOB
n. the game of hopscotch …1892 Eng. dial.
• SCOTCH-HOP(S)
n. the game of hopscotch …1892 Eng. dial.
• SCOTCH HORSES
n. a formation of children with their arms linked behind their backs in running or skating; also jocularly of lovers linking arms …1916 Sc.
• SCOTCHIE
n. the earwig …1915 Sc.
• SCOTCH KISS
n. a kiss with the cheeks drawn between the jaws (teeth) …1916 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCH LICK
n. a very slight wash of the face or hands …Bk1904 N. Ireland
• SCOTCHMAN
n. 1. a peddler; a travelling draper …1879 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a florin …Bk1892 S. Afr. sl.
• SCOTCHMAN’S SHOUT
n. a round of drinks for which each individual buys their own drink; anything where people pay for themselves …1940s Aust. & NZ sl.
• SCOTCH MARK
n. some defect, physical or moral, which serves to distinguish some particular individual …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOTCH MARRIAGE
n. a common-law marriage …1966 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCH MILE
n. 1984 yards …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOTCH MIST
adj. tipsy, drunk …c1920 racing rhyming sl. for ‘pissed’
n. a drizzling rain or heavy fog …1844 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCH MOVIES
n. a passing scene that can be watched for nothing; people-watching …1978 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCH MUFFLER
n. 1. a drink of liquor, esp. of whisky, as keeping one warm …1969 Sc.
n. 2. a hug or cuddle …1969 Sc.
• SCOTCH ORDINARY
n. a privy …c1670 sl.
• SCOTCH PEG
n. 1. a leg …1857 rhyming sl.
n. 2. an egg …20C rhyming sl.
• SCOTCH PINT
n. a bottle holding two quarts …c1820 sl.
• SCOTCH PRIZE
n. a capture by mistake …19C chiefly nautical
• SCOTCH SHOUT
n. a round of drinks for which each individual buys their own drink; anything where people pay for themselves …1940s Aust. & NZ sl.
• SCOTCH THE PREACHER
vb. to say “Amen’ and grunt frequently during the sermon …1890 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCH WARMING-PAN
n. a chambermaid who lay in the bed a while to warm it for the intending occupant …1678 sl.
• SCOTCHY
adj. stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1965 Amer. dial.
• SCOTCH YOU!
int. an imprecation …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOTE
n. 1. a prop, support …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 2. the footmarks of horses, cattle, etc. …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOTIFY
vb. to translate into Scotch …1787 Sc. obs.
• SCOTLING
n. a young Scot, a Scottish child …1787 Sc.
• SCOTOPHOBIA
n. 1. 1828 – an intense aversion or hostility towards Scotland, its people, or its culture
n. 2. 1844 – an irrational fear or dislike of the dark
• SCOTS
n. the Scotch language …1790 Sc. obs.
• SCOTS ELL
n. 37.0958 inches …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOTS MILE
n. 1984 yards …1790 Sc.
• SCOTS ROOM
n. room to swing the arms to their full extent …1866 Sc.
• SCOTS WATERS
n. whisky …1698 Sc.
• SCOTTISH
adj. stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1965 Amer. dial.
• SCOTTISH-MIST
n. a heavy drizzle …1867 Eng. dial.
• SCOTTLE
vb. to cut badly or wastefully …1825 Eng. dial.
• SCOTTY
adj. 1. Scottish, bred in Scotland …1751 Sc. obs.
adj. 2. angry …1872 sl., orig. & chiefly Aust.
adj. 3. markedly or forthrightly Scottish in outlook or manner …1892 Sc.
• SCOTTY-KYE
n. Scotch cattle …1805 Eng. dial.
• SCOUCE
vb. to chastise; to beat with the hand; to box the ears …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOUCH
vb. 1. to crouch, to stoop, to bend down …1896 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to scrape the show awkwardly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOUDER
n. a burn, scorch, singe; a hasty toasting …1773 Sc.
vb. to burn, to scorch, to singe …1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCOUDRUM
n. chastisement …Bk1904 Sc. obs.
• SCOUF
vb. to run, to scamper …1960 Sc.
• SCOUFF
adj. blustering …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a male jilt; a low scoundrel …1898 Sc.
n. 2. a blusterer …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOUGE
n. a sharp singe or touch of burning …1880 Sc. obs.
• SCOUGIE
n. a boy or girl who cleans boots, or does the dirty work of the kitchen; a drudge …1820 Sc.
• SCOUK
adv. 1. secretly, in a hidden manner …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adv. 2. with a gloomy, scowling countenance; sulkily …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 1. a furtive look, a glance from under the brows or from the tail of the eye; a squint; a frown; a scowl; a sour, gloomy aspect; an evil look …c1715 Sc.
n. 2. shade, shadow; shelter, protection, surveillance …1866 Sc.
n. 3. a skulking, cowardly fellow; a sneak; one with a downcast or hangdog look …1882 Sc.
n. 4. a place through which one looks furtively; a peephole, etc. …1949 Sc.
vb. 1. to scowl, to look from under the eyebrows balefully or furtively; to look angry, sulky, or furtive …c1715 Sc.
vb. 2. to skulk, to move in a stealthy, secretive way; to dodge or sneak about, to lurk; to conceal oneself, to hide; to seek shelter in hiding …1782 Sc.
vb. 3. to contract the brows; to draw the brows together in a frown …1804 Sc.
vb. 4. to flow under, as a stream under a bank …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUKAR
n. a loafing, lurking person …1928 Sc.
• SCOUKIN
adj. furtive, sullen; of a look: having a skulking, furtive, or hangdog look; of a person: scary …1825 Sc.
• SCOUKING-LIKE
adj. sullen, sulky in appearance; ill-looking; furtive …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUKING-LOOKING
adj. sullen, sulky in appearance; ill-looking; furtive …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUL
vb. 1. of the sky: to look red …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to burn fiercely …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOULE
n. rubbish …1884 Eng. dial. obs.
• SCOUNGE
vb. 1. to go about from place to place like a dog; to cadge for invitations …1891 Sc.
vb. 2. to pilfer …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUP
n. a blow; a sudden fall …1844 Sc.
vb. to run, to move hastily; to scamper; to leap, to skip …1721 Sc.
• SCOUR
adj. 1. relaxed as to the bowels …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. untidy …1917 Amer. dial.
n. 1. a hearty draught; a large dose of intoxicating liquor …1724 Sc.
n. 2. diarrhoea; a violent purging …1784 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. rate, pace; a quick walk, a race …1796 Sc.
n. 4. a rapid flow over shallows in rivers or brooks; a rapid turn in brooks; the shallow part of a river or brook …1865 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a race or run of water; a channel …1897 Sc.
n. 6. a cleansing …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 7. a noise, a tumult …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 8. a shower; a sudden gust of wind accompanied by rain …1895 Sc.
n. 9. severe reprehension …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to run quickly; to scamper, to hurry; of a horse: to rush off sideways …1725 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to plunge …1818 Sc.
vb. 3. to discover, to find, to lay hands on …1864 Sc.
vb. 4. to cause or to be afflicted with diarrhoea …1866 Sc.
vb. 5. to whip, to flog, to beat; to whip a top …1867 Sc.
vb. 6. to possess carnally …Bk1903 sl.
• SCOUREY
adj. smeared …1867 Eng. dial.
• SCOURGE
vb. 1. to become red and sore; to chap …1892 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to exercise great severity; to act as a hard taskmaster …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 3. to sweep with a besom …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOURGER
n. one employed to keep sturdy beggars out of a parish …Bk1904 Sc. obs.
• SCOURGING-HYRE
n. an executioner …1861 Sc. obs.
• SCOURIE
adj. showery, having intermittent showers and gusts of wind …1865 Sc.
n. the young of any kind of gull …1805 Sc.
• SCOURINESS
n. shabbiness in dress …1814 Sc.
• SCOURING
adj. purgative …1814 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 1. a difficult affair …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. a beating, a drubbing; severe reprehension …1678 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. diarrhoea in animals …Bk1904 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• SCOUR ONE’S WALLS
vb. to run away, to ‘scuttle’ off …1790 Sc.
• SCOUR OUT
vb. to drink off …1805 Sc.
• SCOURS
n. diarrhoea …1942 Amer. dial.
• THE SCOURS
n. diarrhoea …1942 Amer. dial.
• SCOUR-THE-BUGGIE
n. the youngest child of a family …Bk1898 Sc.
• SCOUR-THE-COUNTRY
n. a vagrant, a vagabond …1901 Sc.
• SCOUR-THE-GATE
n. a kind of ale causing diarrhoea …1870 Sc.
• SCOUR-THE-HUDDIE
n. a chimney-sweep …1857 Sc.
• SCOUR THE KETTLE
vb. to go to confession …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOURY
adj. 1. mean in conduct; niggardly; idle; disreputable …1721 Sc.
adj. 2. shabby in appearance, threadbare, ragged …1721 Sc.
adj. 3. having a dried, parched appearance; wasted …1802 Sc.
adj. 4. showery, having intermittent showers and gusts of wind …1865 Sc.
n. a mean, disreputable person; a blackguard …1721 Sc.
• SCOURY-LOOKING
adj. disreputable-looking …1833 Sc.
• SCOUSE
vb. 1. to frolic, to frisk about; to run fast …1842 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to cause to gallop, to ride hard …1883 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to drive out, to chase, to harry …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOUSED
adj. secluded, hidden …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOUSER
n. a person from Liverpool …1959 sl.
• SCOUT
n. 1. a high rock or hill; a projecting ridge; a precipice …1781 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. a cobbler …1824 Sc.
n. 3. a small boat …Bk1904 Sc. obs.
n. 4. a fielder at cricket …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a fellow or companion …1912 colloq.
vb. 1. to crouch in a corner …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to drive away, to chase …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to field at cricket …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to throw dirt or stones at; to pelt …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to elude arrest, to hide out …1913 Amer. dial.
• SCOUT CAR
n. a police patrol car …1933 Amer. dial.
• SCOUTER
n. a fielder at cricket …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOUTH
n. 1. room, freedom, liberty to range, scope …1742 Sc.
n. 2. plenty, abundance …1804 Sc.
• SCOUTH AND ROUTH
n. 1. abundance, plenty …1900 Sc.
n. 2. freedom, room to range …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUTHER
n. 1. a burn, scorch, singe; a hasty toasting …1773 Sc.
n. 2. confusion, bustle, disorder …1856 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a slight, flying shower; a storm of rain or wind …1868 Sc.
n. 4. a slight quantity of fallen snow …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to burn, to scorch, to singe …1810 Sc.
vb. 2. to rain or snow slightly, to drizzle …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUTHERIE
adj. of the weather: threatening, abounding in flying showers …1794 Sc.
• SCOUTHERIN
n. a slight quantity of fallen snow …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUTHERING
adj. threatening, rebuking, chastising …1874 Sc.
• SCOUTHERUM
n. a very light shower …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUTHIE
adj. capacious, of large size …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUTHRY
adj. of the weather: threatening, abounding in flying showers …1794 Sc.
• SCOUT-MOUTH
n. a pursed-up mouth …1685 Sc.
• SCOUT-MOUTHED
adj. having a pursed-up mouth …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUVER
n. confusion, scurry, disturbance …1860 Eng. dial.
• SCOVE
vb. 1. of a bird: to poise on the wings; to fly equably and smoothly …1885 Sc.
vb. 2. to run swiftly, to scour along …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOVER
n. a ramble with a view to discovery …1807 Eng. dial.
vb. to search; to discover; to ramble about ostentatiously …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOVIE
adj. foppish ..Bk1904 Sc.
n. a fop …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOVIE-LIKE
adj. having a foppish appearance …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOVIN
n. 1. the neck and breast of a lamb, the brisket …1873 Eng. dial.
n. 2. the crust which adheres to a vessel in which food has been cooked; generally in plural …19C Sc.
• SCOVY
adj. uneven in colour; blotched, streaky, mottled, smeary; of a rough, unclean appearance …1777 Eng. dial.
n. a bad fellow …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOW
n. 1. somebody or something tall, thin, and bony …1897 Sc.
n. 2. a barrel stave …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 3. a piece, a fragment, a bit …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 4. a stick; a small branch or twig …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 5. confusion, bustle, disturbance, esp. confused preparation for an event …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a foot, esp. a large one …1942 Amer. sl.
n. 7. in trucking: an especially large truck …1946 US sl.
n. 8. a square-toed shoe …1967 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to smash in pieces …1898 Sc.
vb. 2. to be in confusion, bustle, or disorder …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to loiter, to idle, to shirk work …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to plunge; to set to work without delay …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to trample …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to trim; to cut off rags or tatters …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOWB AND SCRAW
adj. all snug …1824 Sc.
• SCOW-BANG
vb. to search idly along a beach for anything edible or otherwise of value …1949 Amer. dial.
• SCOW-BANGERILL
n. a roisterer …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOW-BANK
adj. riotous, noisy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. an untidy, idle, lounging person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to loiter, to idle about; to shirk work …1868 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. of a child: to roll, to loll about …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOW-BANKER
n. a sneak, a thief, a rascal …1863 Eng. dial.
• SCOW-BANKING
adj. rude, ill-mannered; dishonest …1895 Eng. dial.
• SCOWDER
n. 1. a burn, scorch, singe; a hasty toasting …1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. confusion, bustle, disorder …1856 Eng. dial.
n. 3. the skin frayed with heat and friction during violent exercise …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to become overheated with work or exercise …1781 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to burn, to scorch, to singe …1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to whip severely …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWDER-DOUP
n. a ludicrous term for a smith …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOWDERING
n. confusion, bustle, turmoil …1881 Eng. dial.
• SCOWDERMENT
n. confusion, bustle, turmoil …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWE
n. a severe beating …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWEGIA
n. Scandinavia …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCOWEGIAN
n. a Scandinavian …1919 Amer. dial.
• SCOWER
vb. 1. to run quickly; to scamper, to hurry; of a horse: to rush off sideways …1725 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to glower or look impudently at a person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWF
n. a blusterer …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWING
adj. busy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWLE
n. rubbish …1884 Eng. dial. obs.
• SCOWL OF BROW
n. measurement by the eye; estimate by the eye instead of by rule or measurement …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to do anything by the judgement of the eye instead of by strict measurement …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWLY-BROW
n. measurement by the eye; estimate by the eye instead of by rule or measurement …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWOOGIA
n. Scandinavia …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCOWOOGIAN
n. a Scandinavian …1936 Amer. dial.
• SCOWRIE
adj. 1. mean in conduct; niggardly; idle; disreputable …1721 Sc.
adj. 2. showery, having intermittent showers and gusts of wind …1865 Sc.
n. a mean, disreputable person; a blackguard …1721 Sc.
• SCOWRY
adj. shabby in appearance, threadbare, ragged …1721 Sc.
n. the young of any kind of gull …1805 Sc.
• SCOWS
n. brushwood, firewood …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOWSH
vb. to plunge into water …1885 Eng. dial.
• SCOWTH
n. 1. room, freedom, liberty to range, scope …1742 Sc.
n. 2. plenty, abundance …1804 Sc.
• SCOWTHER
n. 1. a burn, scorch, singe; a hasty toasting …1773 Sc.
n. 2. a slight, flying shower; a storm of rain or wind …1868 Sc.
vb. 1. to burn, to scorch, to singe …1810 Sc.
vb. 2. to drive away …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOWTHERED
adj. spoilt by rain …1894 Sc.
• SCOY
adj. 1. thin, poor; small, insignificant …1846 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. askew, awry …Bk1904 Sc.
n. anything badly made …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. to make a thing thin or small …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCOY’D
adj. twisted, badly made or done …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOZZA
n. a rowdy person, esp. one who drinks a lot of alcohol …Aust. sl.
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