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. |