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) |