List of English words of Scots origin

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List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Highland Scots.

Blackmail

A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations.

blatant

Bonspiel

caddie or caddy

canny

Also Northern English. From English can in older sense of "to know how."

clan

Borrowed from Gaelic clann (family, stock, off-spring).

cosy

firth

Derived from Old Icelandic fjǫrdic (see fjord)

glamour

Meaning magic, enchantment, spell. From English grammar and Scottish gramarye (occult learning or scholarship).

gloaming

Middle English (Scots) gloming, from Old English glomung "twilight", from OE glom

golf

glengarry

(or Glengarry bonnet) A brimless Scottish cap with a crease running down the crown, often with ribbons at the back. Named after the title of the clan chief Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry (1771–1828), who invented it.

gumption

Common sense or shrewdness.

halloween

haver or haiver

To talk nonsense.^[1] Scottish and North English dialect.

laddie

A boy.

lassie

A girl.

links

Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge).

pernickety

From pernicky.

minging

literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming".

plaid

From Gaelic plaide or simply a development of ply, to fold, giving plied then plaid after the Scots pronunciation.

pony

Borrowed from obsolete French poulenet (little foal) from Latin pullāmen.

raid

scone

Probably from Dutch schoon.

shinny

Pond or street hockey in Canada. From an alternative name for the Scots sport shinty.

skulduggery

From Scots sculduddery^[2][3]

tweed

Cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from tweel

wee

Small, tiny, minute.

wow

Exclamation^[4][5][6]

wraith

1. ^ Mairi Robinson, ed. (1985). Concise Scots Dictionary (1987 ed.). Aberdeen University Press. p. 260.
2. ^ "skulduggery - definition of skulduggery in English from the Oxford dictionary". oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
3. ^ "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Sculduddery n." dsl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
4. ^ "wow - Definition of wow in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries - English. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
5. ^ "Americanize!: Why the Americanisation of English Is a Good Thing, Seriously... - BBC Radio 4". BBC. 26 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
6. ^ "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Wow interj". www.dsl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

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