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https://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/ On-line Scots!English /English!

Scots
dictionary: includes definitions and a
pronunciation guide using the IPA as well
as variants of the same word.

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/ Electronic edition of 2 major Scots English


dictionaries: Dictionary of the Scots
Language (DSL), and Dictionary of the
Older Scottish Tongue (DOST). Excellent
etymological dictionary giving word origin
and usage through the centuries. Also
includes variants of the same word.

See p.38 for more online resources

Glossary: Asterix and the Pechts (p.49)

aff off
afore before
aw all, everything
awa get going, away you go!
way off, a long way off
aye [in this context it’s an emphatic usage – “but yes there are oysters”]
one; always, still, all the same
blythe happiness, happy, glad, happily
bothy small cottage or hut
bubblie bubble gum [reference to transfers found in packets of bubble bum]
chiel fella, bloke
chist chest
chynes chains
clachan hamlet, small village
craitur creature
daud (big) lump of
deil devil
doof dive
faur far, furthest, remote
favour
fitba football
foostie mouldy, fusty
fush fish
haddix haddock (abadejo)
haiver nonsense, gossip
hame home
heid head
hen dear (term of endearment)
hoast, coaff [sound of clearing his throat and coughing to get everyone’s attention]
jalouse figure out, suspect
ken know
luck look
muckle adv. to a great degree, greatly
large, of quantity or degree
naw no
ower excessive, too much
oxter armpits
partan crab
peeliewally pale, grey
pokey pointed
puir poor
radgie wild (as in harsh)
rare strange,
roch rough, crude.
sair hard, oppressive, extreme
shair sure
skitey slippery.
staun stand
stookie statue
stravaigin wandering about, strolling around.
syne (lang) [long] since
teuchter n. a highlander, bumpkin (contemptuous) [playing on “the spy who came in from the cold”].
thae those
thole endure, suffer
unco strange or unusual
adv. very, exceedingly, extremely, to a marked degree. strangely, peculiarly
unner under
wean small children
wha who
wheech in exclamation of disgust on smelling a stench.
n. a stench.
whit what
whut what

Notes
The Roman official’s speech imitates the posh Edinburgh accent

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