What do Those Scottish (and other) words mean, exactly?
batard: French for bastard
Beinn Tulaichean: (ben too-lay-keen) beinn is Scottish Gaelic for mountain, and tulaichean means "of the hillocks" or "small green knoll". Beinn Tulaichean is one of the taller mountains edging Loch Katrine in the Trossach region of the southern Highlands.
breugadair: (brew-geh-dare) Scottish Gaelic for a liar
byre: (bye-urr) a small stable usually connected to a Highland cottage or croft (farm) house
ceilidh: (kay-lee) Scottish Gaelic for a Scottish celebration, a large party
chair de poule: French for goosebumps
ciamar a tha thu?: (ki-mar a-ha-oo) traditional Scottish Gaelic greeting meaning "how are you?"
claymore: a Scottish long sword, also known in Scottish Gaelic as the claidhheamh da laimh (clay-him-da-lav), was held with both fists; also a double edged blade, very long and heavy, so long it was carried strapped the back of Highland warriors.
co-shersach: (co-she-or-sak) Scottish Gaelic for homosexual
co thusa: (co-oo-sa) Scottish Gaelic for "who is that?" or "who goes there?"
daft: Scots for stupid
d'n t-ainm a th'oribh?: (je-an ta-nim ah or-iv) Scottish Gaelic for "what is your name?" or, literally, "what is the name that is on you?"
dirk: a large knife; usually the blade is more than twelve inches long. Worn in a sheath strapped to a belt at the hip or tucked into wool, fur, or leather, wrapped about the calves.
dubh: (doob) Scottish Gaelic for dark or black; often attached to a person's name or a place name.
fardel: a bundle of sticks
fortnight: two weeks
fripon: French for rogue
haud yer wheesht: Scots for "be quiet", or used in the short form, simply, "wheesht!"
keek: Scots for "peek" or a "quick glance"
king's evil: a form of tuberculosis, scrofula; supposedly cured by the touch of the reigning monarch
maiseach: (my-seh-k) Scottish Gaelic for "handsome", would most commonly be added to a name to describe the person
nowt: Scots for "nothing"
outeral: derogatory Scots for "outsider"
portmanteaux: French, a large chest, usually sporting decorative carvings and gilding
quim: a most indiscreet Scottish and English word meaning female genitalia
rach air muin: (rak air moo-een) Scottish Gaelic curse meaning essentially "oh, shit"
score: means twenty or twenty years
shieling: a small hut built in remote places in the Highlands for the shepherd to live in while his flock grazed on the spring and summer mountain grass
sporran: Scots, a purse or small sack of leather or fur skin usually carried from the belt in front of the kilt
tirlie-whirlie: vulgar Scots for vagina
trencher: a large plate or platter, usually made of pewter or wood
waulk, waulked, or waulking: Scots for the process of tightening and strengthening the woven wool cloth or plaid. Women gathered to have waulking parties and placed recently boiled and dyed wool on long waulking tables. The women would sing songs--often bawdy and of gossip--as they pulled and tightened the cloth with their hands and feet.
