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114 the common conversational idiom of the dear old town half a century ago.


 * Buitie, must be. Sc. bude, behoved.
 * Mougres, creeps over.
 * Scrabed, scratched. Celt, sgrob, a scratch, furrow. Cognate Lat. scribo, I write. Eng. scrape.
 * Bab, close, Ayrsh.
 * Muilins, bread crumbs; minched, Go. mins = small.
 * Brye, pounded sandstone. Cf. briz, bruise, bray, snaw-bree.
 * Smuirach, very small coal. Sc. and Celt. cf. smoor, smore, smother.
 * Daps, for dabs, small flounders.
 * Gum, coal dust. Fifesh. coom.
 * Cruichach, crooked and bent. Cf. cruck, crook.
 * Spalyin' flat-footed, splay.
 * Scrae, skinny fellow, a shrivelled old shoe. In the Boer "Tarn o' Shanter " the witches are skraal, lean.
 * Horts, hurts.
 * Soun=sound, or Strait of Sanna.
 * Rouchled, tossed about. Cf. roch, rough.
 * Shougie-shoo, cf. Ger. Sheuchel-stuhl, a rocking-chair.
 * Ralliach, slightly stormy.