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[deur]
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“Chan eil an sin ach an deur ga iarraidh air a’ chàt.” – used about someone who would not share or give what was his own to anyone else like the saying says the cat does not leave a drop for anyone else.
Location: North Uist, Lochportan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[smùdan]
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Tha smudan fein á ceann gach foid. “Ilka blade of grass has its ain drop of dew.” [NOTE in second hand: Dug. Buchanan.]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[strideag]
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’Bleoghan gu na strideig mu dheireadh – [milking to the last drop].
Origin: Leodhas [Lewis], Uig
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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[traoighte]
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Tha a bhotul traoighte. The bottle is drained to the last drop.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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a bleodhan gus an deur mo dhearadh
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[milking to the last drop.]
Origin: [Islay, Ballygrant]
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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a’ tioramachadh
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milking to the last drop.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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boinne taig
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Notes: persistent drop of rain. Also used in an erotic sense of fluid appearing from penis in state of sexual arousal.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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boinne-snithe
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drop of soot water falling from the rafter of a ‘black house’.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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boinneachan
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Notes: sometimes used for “a drop”.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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boinneag
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[bonʹɑɡ] Notes: drop.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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boinnean
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Quotation: 2. boinnean tea. 3. Bha e déigheil air a’ bhoinnein. Notes: 1. a drop. 2. a “drop” of tea. 3. He was fond of the “cratur”.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clibeach
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Notes: ‘clumsy’. My mother used it of hands especially, e.g. letting things drop (Keose). My father (Tong) tends to use it of feet as well. Dw. gives cliobach ‘clumsy, awkward’.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cliobach
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clumsy, tending to drop things.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cliobach
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clumsy in the sense of letting things drop from the hands.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cliobach
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clumsy-handed, inclined to let things drop.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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creutair
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Quotation: O chreutair! – O My dear! O My darling! Notes: Is it from this that a drop of whisky is referred to as Bonnaig dhe’n chreutair? Also used as a term of contempt: Na creutairean a tha sud!
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cruisgean
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Primitive oil lamp. Consisted of two open shells, an upper and a lower. The lower shell was a trifle larger and longer in spout to catch the drop of oil which at intervals fell from the wick (which terminated in spout of upper shell) when lit.
Origin: Skye
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
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cur
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used for a drop of the nets. “Rinn sinn a dhà neo trì chùran a raoir.”
Location: Eriskay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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drabhag
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hardly a drop.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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driosg
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a drop. Used negatively: “Chan eil driosg agam.” Driosgag (in positive) – “Fhuair mi driosgag.” ‘Driosg’ used by Iain Lom. Is it a co-incidental that the poems in question mention Chanonry and Caiplich – a place of this name in the Aird? (“Fògradh Raghnaill Oig” and “Tilleadh Raghnaill Oig”)
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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driosg
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a drop.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dripeid
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wee drop.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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driug
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[d̪ɾu̟ɡ] Quotation: Chaneil driug as a’ bhotul. Notes: There isn’t a drop in the bottle. (Prob. from driùdhag.)
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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driùdhadh
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Quotation: Chaneil driùdhadh ann. Notes: There isn’t a drop left in it.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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driùth
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[d̪ɾu̟] Quotation: Chaneil driùth anns a bhotul. Notes: There isn’t a drop in the bottle.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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druthag
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wee drop.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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dròcan (m)
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a small drop, or quantity.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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fasgadair
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follows other birds till they drop what they’ve got. Skua.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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figheadair
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Note: applied to an insect (spider?) which used to be put on the palm of the hand by kids. It had to leave a drop of liquid before it was released. Children thought it was honey.
Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ga blodhain tirim
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[milking to the] last drop.
Location: Lewis, Arnol
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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glugan
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sound indication of a wee drop of liquid in a bottle, diminutive. [SLIP: Sound of water coming out of a bottle.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gus
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Quotation: Gus am bris an là. – until … Thainig e gus an abhainn. – to … Gus a bhoinneag ma dheireadh. – unto the last drop. Chaidh e gus a faigheadh e mach. – so that he would find out.
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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iughrag
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a drop. “Cha robh iughrag air tonn a’ bhòtuil.” [NOTES: ‘tonn’ corrected to ‘tòn’.]
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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shirc
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smallest drop. Cha do dhol [sic] e shirc an diugh.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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siabanadh
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[milking to the last drop.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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siganaich
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as in a calf suckling its mother to its last drop of milk. “Shiganaich e a mhàthair.”
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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silc
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a drop. An tug thu bainne o’n bhoin: cha tug silc.
Location: Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sile
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a drop.
Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sileag
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drop.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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siocanaich
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to milk to the very last drop.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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siopanaich
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to milk to the very last drop.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sniug (v)
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drain to last drop (as milking).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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spannadh
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a drop of milk or water. Usually heard as – “Cha robh spannadh bainne aice.”
Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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spriotag
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Notes: Not in Dw. Splash (of the order of a drop or two). Pl. spriotagan. Vn. spriotagaich, spriotagraich. Source: Lewis usage recalled (D.S.T.). Date: March, 1973.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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spriotag
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[spɾıt̪ɑɡ] Note: small drop of liquid flying, e.g. from a frying pan, etc.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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striodadh
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[milking to the last drop.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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striopadh
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milking to the last drop (stripping).
Origin: ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Victoria Co.)
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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togail
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the hanging part of twine and netting – in Eng. drop – once set up.
Location: [Harris], Scalpay
Category: Iasgach an Sgadain / Herring-Fishing
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’ga tioramachadh
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milking to last drop.
Origin: Mull, Bunessan, Ardtun or Mull, Tobermory
Category: Crodh / Cattle
