| Scots | English |
| sleekit | smooth |
| bickering brattle | hurrying scamper |
| laith | loath |
| pattle | plough-staff |
| whyles | sometimes |
| daimen icker | odd ear of corn |
| thrave | twenty four sheaves |
| lave | remainder |
| silly | feeble |
| wa’s | walls |
| big | build |
| foggage | coarse grass |
| snell | bitter |
| coulter | ploughshare |
| hald | holding |
| thole | endure |
| cranreuch | frost |
| cauld | cold |
| thy lane | alone |
| gang aft agley | often go wrong |
| e’e | eye |
















