| laomadh | Quotation: Tha ’m buntàta air laomadh. Notes: used of any crop that has fallen with wind and/or rain. |
| mac-làmhais | Notes: monk-fish. (Applecross) |
| minnean (p. -an) | Notes: pellet of sheep’s dung. |
| rothainn | Quotation: Cuiridh an rud as lugha dhe a rothainn e. Notes: ‘The least thing will disconcert him, or make him lose his mental equilibrium.’ |
| cradhfaidh | Notes: makeshift pen in which, e.g. new-born calf was held. |
| ìm-èiginn | Notes: cream boiled and reduced to make an ointment used in treating burns. |
| pitheagraich | Notes: tittering. |
| poisean | Quotation: Thoir dhomh poisean. Notes: request for a kiss, addressed to a child. |
| poisean | Quotation: “Thoir dhomh poisean.” Notes: term for “kiss” when speaking to a child. |
| prodhan | Notes: any kind of ‘mash’ fed to a cow. |
| saoghalta | Quotation: Duine saoghalta. Notes: ‘wordly, materialist.’ |
| sgobadh | Notes: nibbling of fish at hook. |
| sìoch | Quotation: Tha sìoch ’na bhroilleach. Tha sìoch ’na mo bhroilleach. Notes: wheeze in the chest; a bronchial wheeze. |
| smògail | Notes: crawling on all fours. |
| smùdan | Quotation: Smùdan uisge. Notes: ‘drizzle.’ |
| snagaireachd | Notes: whittling. |
| s(t)reanaidh | Notes: the ‘whoop’ in whooping-cough. |
| sùgh | Quotation: Sùgh air a’ chladach. Notes: sea-swell. |
| spéur | Notes: ‘fly’ of trousers. Sc. ‘spare’, v. SND. Used by Rob Donn: ‘Bha toll air a speathar ’s bha tuathas air.’ |
| steocair | Notes: to suck (a lollipop or something similar). |
| tamaill | Quotation: Chan eil mòran tamaill aca. Notes: ‘gumption’. |
| tàth | Quotation: Bha mi cho beag tàth… Notes: ‘lacking in energy’. |
| tighinn-beò | Notes: the turn of the tide after neaps. |
| turrcadaich | Notes: the nodding and jerking of the head when one is involuntarily falling asleep. |
| acfhuinneach | Notes: energetic; having a capacity for hard work. |
| àrd | Quotation: Bha mo stamag àrd fad an là. Notes: to describe a squeamish feeling. |
| boighlean | Notes: broken fragment of pottery/china. |
| boilich | Quotation: Tha boilich air. Notes: delirium. Short, close vowel in 1st syllable. |
| briost | Notes: stone wall, next the sea. Cf. SND, s.v. breist, 4 (a) ‘The cobbled slipway forming the front of a harbour’. |
| buigealag | Notes: Applecross word for a ‘softy’. |
| colmaigeadh | Notes: mixing of dyes. (Reporting usage of his mother who came from Harris.) |
| cuthaigeadh | Notes: mixing of dyes. (Reporting usage of his mother who came from Harris.) |
| dorgan | Quotation: Cha chluinn thu aige ach an aon dorgan. Notes: monotonous harangue. |
| fine | Quotation: Dé ’n fhine th’aige? Notes: surname. |
| floisean | Quotation: Bha floisean aige air. Notes: used, e.g., of a baby enthusiastically sucking a drink. |
| giomach tuathal | Notes: prawn. (Applecross) |
