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[tubaist]
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Is trom na tubaistean air na sliobaistean. Frequent the accidents to the clumsy.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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amhlair
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one who does not know how to behave, cannot help behaving so; clumsy one.
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ath-mhoin
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large clumsy pieces [of peat] usually very wet and laid aside (cuir air leth).
Origin: Sgìre na Pàirc an Leódhas [Lewis, the Park district]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
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bacagach
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unsteady or clumsy with your feet.
Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bachaill
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clumsy, untidy, unkempt man – ’Se sàr bhachall [sic] a th’ann.
Origin: [South Uist]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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briumal
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clumsy.
Origin: [Note: From North Uist, information from Alex O’Henley / RÓM 4 Dec 2023]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buaic
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stupid, clumsy.
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buathannta
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clumsy in action or speech.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bumalair
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a raw clumsy person.
Location: [Harris], Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cailleach de dhuine
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clumsy man, scary.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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calleachail
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clumsy.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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cearbach
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ragged, clumsy, untidy.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Horgabost
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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clabaisteir
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large, clumsy person (male) rather than brawler as used by Dwelly.
Origin: [South Uist]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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clabhdach
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[kɫ[ɤu̟]d̪ɑx] Notes: clumsy. (In Dw. for Wester Ross.)
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clabhdach
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Notes: clumsy, awkward.
Location: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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claidsear
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[kɫɑḏʃɑð] Notes: a big, clumsy man.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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claidsear
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[kɫɑdʹʃɑð] Note: big clumsy, ungainly man.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clamhrach
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[kɫɑ̃ũ̜ɾɑx] Notes: clumsy.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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claob (m)
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a clumsy dolt (E. and S.W.).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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claobach
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clumsy-handed.
Location: Tummel and Rannoch
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cleitreach
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Quotation: cleitreach (Tong), cleidreach (Keose). Notes: Clumsy woman (also used in Tong in sense of an old horse). Not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clibeach
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Notes: clumsy.
Location: Applecross
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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clibeadair
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Note: a clumsy person.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clibire
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Notes: clumsy person.
Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clibisdeach
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clumsy on the feet.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
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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cliobach
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clumsy.
Origin: Tiriodh [Tiree]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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cliobaire, cliobairean (pl)
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a clumsy man, clot.
Origin: Tiriodh [Tiree]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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cliùd
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[klu̟:d̪] Notes: clumsy or useless hand.
Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clobhd
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[kɫ[ɤu̟]d̪] Note: a clumsy person.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clobhdach
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[kɫ[ɤu̟]d̪ɑx] Note: clumsy.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clugaire
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a baggy person in dress, or ‘talk’, speech and movement; wobbling. [SLIP: ‘A person of baggy dress, or clumsy in speech or movement’.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cluidseach
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[kɫu̜dʹʃɑx] Note: clumsy, ungainly.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clìobach
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clumsy. Duine clìobach – a clumsy man.
Origin: Muile (ceann a tuath) [Mull (the north side)]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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clòcsach
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clumsy.
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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craoileach
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large, clumsy person.
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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criamhal mor de dhuine
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a clumsy big man.
Location: Harris, Sgarastamhor
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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cruchail (f)
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Notes: large clumsy person (usually [?] woman).
Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cruinneach
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a large clumsy animal.
Location: Harris, Sgarastamhor
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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duine leipideach
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a clumsy person.
Location: South Uist, Iochdar, Baile Gharbhaidh [Balgarva]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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duine spagach
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a clumsy, gangly man.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Horgabost
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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geobhlair
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big clumsy person (slender ‘l’).
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gigealtach
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a tall clumsy male. Gigealtach mór fada.
Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gleadhaire (m)
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Notes: big clumsy boy.
Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gliogaid (I)
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Duine mór, gliogach. Faic MacGhillfh. “a thin clumsy man”. 6' suas agus sìos [?]:
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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gliogaire (m)
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Notes: long clumsy person.
Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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glogaire
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[ɡɫɔɡəðə] Note: a big, clumsy type.
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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glogaire
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[ɡɫɔɡəðə] Note: a big clumsy-looking type.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gugalach
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clumsy, well into youth. Bha gugalach mór de ghille stigh.
Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gugallach
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clumsy, awkward.
Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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laibstear
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Notes: ‘a clumsy woman’ (Keose). Not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lethbheist
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[ˈlʹɛviʃt] Quot.: “Bu tu a lethbheist!” Note: applied to a clumsy person, or a person who does something wrong because of carelessness. Like “leibid”. (Also lethbheisteach – adj.)
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ludanda
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clumsy.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ludarra
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clumsy.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ludonda
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clumsy.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lugais
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Quotation: lugais de dhuine. Notes: a clumsy, ungainly man.
Location: Skye, Sleat, Calligary
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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luid
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[ɫu̜dʹ] Quotation: “Bu tu a’ luid!” Notes: clumsy person.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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luid
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clumsy housewife.
Origin: Barra
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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luid
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Note: a clumsy fellow.
Origin: Swainbost
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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luid
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clumsy woman.
Origin: [Harris]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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luid
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[ɫu̜dʹ] Note: big clumsy woman. “Phòs mi luid airson a cuid, Dh’fhalbh a’ chuid ’s dh’fhuirich a’ luid.”
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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luideach
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clumsy.
Origin: [South Uist]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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luidsear
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Notes: ‘a clumsy (shabby?) man’. Dw. gives luidsear, see luidse ‘clumsy fellow’ etc. (No reference to ‘shabby’.)
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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luidsear
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[ɫudʹʃɑð] Note: a clumsy person who is always dropping things.
Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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luireach (m), luirichean (pl)
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a large clumsy person.
Origin: Tiriodh [Tiree]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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luspach
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clumsy, not alert female. A luspach a bha thu ann. – what a slow person you were when you did act (lit. meaning).
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lùrach
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[ɫu̜:ɾɑx] Notes: a slow, clumsy person.
Location: Skye, Harlosh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lùrachail
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[ɫu̜:ɾɑxɑl] Notes: clumsy, slow-moving.
Location: Skye, Harlosh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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mogur
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bulky, clumsy.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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màraisgeach
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heavy, clumsy person.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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plangaid
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‘blanket’. ’S e plangaid de dhuine th’ann – clumsy, as a person moving with a blanket around him etc.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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reamhal
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clumsy.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Cluer
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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rianach
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clumsy woman.
Origin: [Harris]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sgeòlaichean
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[sɡʹɔ:ɫiçəṉ] Notes: clumsy clothing, usually trailing behind.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sgliugach
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[sɡlu̟ɡɑx] Quot.: “bonaid sgliugach”. Note: used in connection with a cap – clumsy, coming down over the eyes.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sgloidseach
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flabby and clumsy (applied to a person).
Origin: Applecross [mother]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sgonn (fem.)
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[sɡɔ̃:n] clumsy person, [cf. sgonnarach.]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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sgonnarach (masc.)
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[sɡɔnərəx] clumsy person. Bha sgonnarach mun cuairt. [SLIP: clumsy person, cf. ‘sgonn’.]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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slaodaire
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large clumsy person.
Origin: Muile (ceann a tuath) [Mull (the north side)]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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sleòpach
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clumsy trailing long clothes.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sliopach
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clumsy, awkward.
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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stioclach
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Notes: (Keose) clumsy (esp. in walking; used perhaps of a person with stilt-like feet). (l as in Eng. lady) Not in Dw., in forms stioclach or sticleach. Dw. has stiocach ‘crippled, limping’; stiocair ‘one who limps in walking, etc.’ sticil used of beam (some large, some small) laid across a corn-kiln.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sìliche (E)
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Lìogaire [q.v.] de dhuine. (Faic lìogach aig MacGhillfh.) Duine a bhios a’ deanamh rudan lìogach, ’s mar sin; sly, cunning, ’s nach tig air uachdar aig an toiseach ’s mar sin. [SLIP: Sly, clumsy person.]
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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tuaireabadh
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[t̪uɤðɑbəɣ] Quotation: ’S e tuaireabadh de dhuine a th’ann. Notes: He is a clumsy fellow – always doing the wrong thing.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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àibheis
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large, clumsy person.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
