Monday 10 November 2008

SCOTTISH DIALECT TRANSLATION PART 2.

SCOTTISH DIALECT TRANSLATION PART 2.

SCOTTISH DIALECT TRANSLATION PART 2 is covering the letter "B".
Like most countries Scotland has many different dialects depending on which part of Scotland you live. For example;
In Aberdeenshire the word beets has the same meaning in Ayrshire as bits, which in English reads as boots. The translations listed do not apply to all of Scotland but in some parts of Scotland;
B;
Bairn - a child
Baith - both
Bane - bone
Bannock - a pancake or round flat cake.
Barley bree - whisky
Bauk en - beam end
Bauks - rafters
Bauld - bold
Bear - barley
Beastie - beast
Beck - to curtsey
Beet - boot, fan, feed, warm
Befa - befall
Behin - behind
Beldams - old woman
Belyve - by and by
Ben - in
Ben end - inner end, parlour
Beuk - book
Bicker - wooden dish, short quick race
Bickerin - argue, hurrying
Bield - shelter
Biggin - house
Billies - male companions
Birkie - smart
Bizz - bustle
Black bonnet - elder
Blastet - worthless
Blate - shy
Blaw - boast
Blawn - blown
Bleeze - blaze
Bleezin - blazing, flaming
Blellum - babbler
Blether - talk, idle chatter
Blink - a moment
Bluid - blood
Bock - to vomit
Boddle - small coin
Bogle - hobgoblin
Bonnie - beautiful
Boord - board
Botch - angry tumour
Bousing or boozing - drinking
Bow kail - cabbage
Bowse - to drink
Brachen - fern
Brae - small hill
Braid claith - broad cloth
Brak - break
Branks - bridle
Brash - short illness
Brattle - short quick race
Braw - handsome
Brawly - very well
Brawny - brawn and muscle
Braws - fine cloth
Breastie - breast
Breeks - breeches, trousers
Brent - polished
Brig - bridge
Brither - brother
Brock - badger
Brunstane - brimstone
Brunt - burnt
Buirdly - broad made
Burn - stream, rivulet
Busk - dress smart
Buskit - tastefully dressed
But and Ben - kitchen and parlour, small cottage
By - past, beside
Byke - wild bees nest

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