1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 129: ’Tis now come till our hand what Bydby tauld: / We’ll naething be afore yon bangsters bauld.at bangster, n.1
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 65: She heard a weerd-wife tell, / That thro’ the cuintray telling fortunes yeed, An’ at babees an’ placks came wond’rous speed.at baubee, n.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 15: Now Lindy is as canty as a midge.at canty, adj.1
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 114: An’ never a look wi’ Lindy did let fa’, / But chaw’d her cood on what she heard an’ saw.at chew the cud, v.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 99: I hear by far she dy’d like Jenkin’s hen.at die like Jenkin’s hen (v.) under die, v.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 38: She’ll nae be lang her lane: / Her rigs’ll gar the wooers come ding-dang.at ding-dong, adv.1
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 37: Black, hairy wrats [sic], about an inch between, / Out-throw her fiz, were like mustaches seen.at fiz, n.1
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 37: An’ o’er her gab hang down a sneevling snout.at gab, n.1
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 9: Tho’ I be auld, but I’ll yet gather gear.at gear, n.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 5: Ye shak your head; but o’ my fegs, / Ye’ve set auld Scota on her legs.at i’fecks!, excl.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 96: Sae we had better jouk until the jaw / Gang o’er our heads, than stand afore’t.at juke, v.1
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 40: ‘I think,’ quo aunt, ‘ye’re fairly nicked now.’.at nick, v.1
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 87: Her in her oxter hard an’ fast she grips.at oxter, n.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 12: Jean’s paps wi’ sa’t and water washen clean.at paps, n.1
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 99: The squire some short account I give, / Who to his aunt returning miss’d his pout, / An’ was in unko rage, ye wad na doubt.at pout, n.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 84: Right cheerfully the road they did tak in.at right, adv.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 7: They need not try thy jokes to fathom, / They want rumgumption.at rumgumption, n.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 57: They turs’d the baggage an’ awa’ they scour.at scour, v.2
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 12: A sonsie pair of lad an’ lass was found.at sonsy, adj.
1768 A. Ross ‘The Rock & the Wee Pickle Tow’ Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 143: I’m as warm and as bra’, / As thrummy-tail’d Meg that’s a spinner o’t.at thrum, n.1
1768 A. Ross ‘To the Begging We Will Go’ Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 152: Then will I wallop out a dance, / Or tell some merry tale.at wallop, v.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 38: An’ for her dresses, wow, but they were fine!.at wow, n.
1768 A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 133: Chap out as monie yonkers frae your glen /As ilka horn an’ hoove o’ yours may ken.at younker, n.