| Shapes and general appearance |
| duine deanta | well built. |
| duine caileanta | well built. |
| duine foghainteach | well built. |
| gaisgeach | giant. |
| cuile bhìd | midget. |
| meagalan | duine beag. |
| duine meangach | thin person. |
| duine meadhte | thin, delicate person. |
| (N) |
| seang | thin. |
| cruchaill | |
| glugaire | daoine mor cliobach. |
| d sgairteil | [uine] |
| d deas | [uine] duine direach, mor, tapaidh. |
| fuamhair | giant. |
| ciuraidh | [?] giant. |
| troich | |
| doiteach | [?] duine deanta gun a bhi ro àrd, ‘stocky’. |
| cnagan | duine beag tabaidh. |
| nighean gnùic | “nach ann orra [sic] tha a gnùig [sic]” – a sullen looking girl; also bashful. |
| Deformities, blemishes, scars |
| (n) eitig, tha eitig ann | duine truagh nach eil fallain. |
| giùig | hunchback, duine air a bheil giùig. |
| gàileach | roof of mouth. |
| gaileach ribeach | [sic] (a chaileach ribeach) craicean a tighinn sios bho’n gaileach. |
| (N) |
| duine crotach | hunchback. |
| d ciorramach | [uine] disabled person. |
| aodann plugach | pock marked face. |
| niosgaid | boil, carbuncle, usually on back of neck. |
| guirean | pimple. |
| fiaranaich | cross-eyed, “fiaranaich na shùil”. |
| duine cam | one-eyed person. |
| failmean | knee cap. |
| iosgaidan | [sic] tendons behind knee and thigh, cùl na coiseadh. |
| caoldrum | narrowing of back. |
| clàragan | front teeth. |
| cùlagan | back teeth. |
| Beauty and ugliness |
| duine iargalta | ugly man. |
| (N) |
| nighean snasail | well dressed girl. |
| duine grìnn | well dressed man. |
| aileagan | [aiteagan?] good looking girl. |
| duine deas | handsome man. |
| nighean chumachdail | shapely girl. |
| duine dreachail | duine ruadh as an adhaigh. |
| droch dhreach | poorly looking. |
| duine le “dath a bhais” | deathly appearance. |
| sgraing | a scowl. |
| sturaichd | a scowl. |
| “chaidh e cho geal ris an anart” | his face turned white as a sheet. |
| daorach | “nach ann air a tha an daorach” – someone very drunk, “air an daoraich”. |
| misgear | drunkard. |
| camagan | curls. |
| falt camagach | curly hair. |
| Strength, fitness and the opposite |
| Ways of walking, sitting, lying |
| [Norman MacLeod] |
| coiseachd le ceum goirid | |
| coiseachd le ceum fada | |
| duine spagach | a clumsy, gangly man. |
| Pulling faces, frowns, other expressions |
| [Norman MacLeod] |
| “dreun air aodann” | pulling a face. |
| Clean and untidy |
| (Norman MacLeod) |
| duine sgiobalta | |
| boireannach luideach | untidy woman. |
| rinn e gulm dhe | rinn e bùrach dhe. |
| cearbach | ragged, clumsy, untidy. |
| rapach | ragged. |
