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 * skelp, slap.
 * skirling, screaming.
 * skriegh-o'day, daybreak.
 * snash, abuse.
 * sneisty, supercilious.
 * sooth, to hum.
 * sough, sound, murmur.
 * spec, The Speculative Society, a debating Society connected with Edinburgh University.
 * speir, to ask.
 * speldering, sprawling.
 * splairge, to splash.
 * spunk, spirit, fire.
 * steik, to shut.
 * stockfish, hard, savourless.
 * suger-bool, suger-plum.
 * syne, since, then.
 * tawpie, a slow foolish slut, also used playfully = monkey.
 * telling you, a good thing for you.
 * thir, these.
 * thrawn, cross-grained.
 * toon, town.
 * two-names, local soubriquets in addition to patronymic.
 * tyke, dog.
 * unchancy, unlucky.
 * unco, strange, extraordinary, very.
 * upsitten, impertinent.
 * vennel, alley, lane. The Vennel, a narrow lane in Edinburgh running out of the Grassmarket.
 * vivers, victuals.
 * wae, sad, unhappy.
 * waling, choosing.
 * warrandise, warranty.
 * waur, worse.
 * weird, destiny.
 * whammle, to upset.
 * whaup, curlew.
 * whiles, sometimes.
 * windlestae, crested dog's-tail, grass.
 * wund, wind.
 * yin, one.