A’body – everybody
Auld – old
Ayeways - always
Bannock – a round, flat cake, often flavoured with raisins.
Bairn - child
Biggin or bigging – building
Bogle – ghosts; things that go bump in the night
Bothy – a small building, in the context of the book, a building in which the unmarried farm workers live
Bothy-lads – the men and boys who live in the bothy
Brae, braes – hills, hillsides
Braw – good, fine
Brose – oatmeal mixed with boiling water, occasionally with salt or butter added.
Byre – barn in which cattle are kept
Cannae – can nae – can not
Canny – cautious, careful; to be not canny could also mean to be a bit silly, or strange
Couldnae- could not
Corbie – crow – a bird of ill omen
Dinnae – do not
Douce – sedate, respectable
Doup – the buttocks
Dreich - dreary
Dry
