Ill-willie, which comes from the Scots dialect of Middle English was formed by the ingenious method of adding an -ie to the existing ill-will. It should not be confused with the word from the Older Scots language, evil-willy, which means “malevolent, wishing harm or evil to others.”
Evil(l, Ewil(l, a. Also: evile, evyl, eivil, eivell; ewile, ewyll, ewell; ivill, ivyle, iwyll, ywill.
MIRK adj dark; n darkness.
Rocket (Rocket) Scottish slang for crazy. Ronan is a rocket.
New Word Suggestion. Scottish, slang (noun): a foolish person, one who has committed an act of stupidity.
FANDAN. A pretentious or arrogant person.
adj. 1. Dusky, dim, obscure, in phr. grim day, first dawn (Ork. 1929 Marw.).
The definition of 'pawk' is as follows: “Scots. A trick, an artifice, a cunning device. Obsolete”.
You're most likely to encounter the word pawky in Scotland, but it's a good way to describe someone who's got a sardonic wit, wherever you happen to be.
Dreich. Meaning dreary, gloomy, bleak, miserable, grey, depressing, devoid of sunshine… you get the picture! The mothership of all Scottish weather words and used more times that cans of Irn-Bru are opened, it's no shocker that 'dreich' was voted by Scots as the nation's most favourite word in a government poll.
A Dobber/AFud/A Walloper/A Tadger. These four are pretty interchangeable. Various forms of words for genitals, these are usually used as a way to describe people who are annoying. "I canny be arsed with him just now, he's being a wee tadger."
olc (comparative miosa) evil, wicked, bad.
FEARDIE, Feartie, n. A coward, timorous person.
British slang, offensive : vulva.
Thrawn adj. twisted, crooked, distorted; (of people) obstinate, intractable, etc.
Nashgab is one such word, as it describes not only gossip, but gossip of a lower level than idle chitchat. The word comes from the Scots words for “impertinence” (nash) and “mouth” (gab). In addition to “rude gossip,” nashgab may be used to refer to “an impertinent oaf.”
A poll of 2,000 Scots commissioned by the hospice charity Marie Curie found that “passed away” and “kick the bucket” were the most popular euphemisms.
Partridge is a full-time ghillie – a Gaelic word whose meaning lies somewhere between “manservant” and “attendant” – who inhabits another Scotland from the one that most travellers see.
Nicneven, Nicnevin or Nicnevan is a witch or fairy queen from Scottish folklore.
(countable, UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) A woman of loose morals.
cack, kach, keech: excrement.
NUMPTY n. a foolish person. Numpty was included in the 2005 Supplement to the Dictionary of the Scots Language with the following definition: “a stupid person, an idiot”.