List of English words of Scots origin

List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Highland Scots.

Blackmail: A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations.
blatant
Bonspiel
caddie or caddy
canny: Also Northern English. From English can in older sense of "to know how."
clan: Borrowed from Gaelic clann (family, stock, off-spring).
cosy
firth: Derived from Old Icelandic fjǫrdic (see fjord)
glamour: Meaning magic, enchantment, spell. From English grammar and Scottish gramarye (occult learning or scholarship).
gloaming: Middle English (Scots) gloming, from Old English glomung "twilight", from OE glom
golf
glengarry: (or Glengarry bonnet) A brimless Scottish cap with a crease running down the crown, often with ribbons at the back. Named after the title of the clan chief Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry (1771–1828), who invented it.
gumption: Common sense or shrewdness.
halloween
haver or haiver: To talk nonsense.^[1] Scottish and North English dialect.
laddie: A boy.
lassie: A girl.
links: Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge).
pernickety: From pernicky.
minging: literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming".
plaid: From Gaelic plaide or simply a development of ply, to fold, giving plied then plaid after the Scots pronunciation.
pony: Borrowed from obsolete French poulenet (little foal) from Latin pullāmen.
raid
scone: Probably from Dutch schoon.
shinny: Pond or street hockey in Canada. From an alternative name for the Scots sport shinty.
skulduggery: From Scots sculduddery^[2]^[3]
tweed: Cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from tweel
wee: Small, tiny, minute.
wow: Exclamation^[4]^[5]^[6]
wraith

References

^ Mairi Robinson, ed. (1985). Concise Scots Dictionary (1987 ed.). Aberdeen University Press. p. 260.
^ "skulduggery - definition of skulduggery in English from the Oxford dictionary". oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
^ "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Sculduddery n." dsl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
^ "wow - Definition of wow in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries - English. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
^ "Americanize!: Why the Americanisation of English Is a Good Thing, Seriously... - BBC Radio 4". BBC. 26 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
^ "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Wow interj". www.dsl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

[CSD-1] Mairi Robinson, ed. (1985). Concise Scots Dictionary (1987 ed.). Aberdeen University Press. p. 260.

[2] "skulduggery - definition of skulduggery in English from the Oxford dictionary". oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

[3] "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Sculduddery n." dsl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

[4] "wow - Definition of wow in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries - English. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

[5] "Americanize!: Why the Americanisation of English Is a Good Thing, Seriously... - BBC Radio 4". BBC. 26 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

[6] "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Wow interj". www.dsl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

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