List of English words of Scots origin
- List of English words of Scots origin
List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Lowland Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Lowland Scots.
;Blackmail:A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations.;caddie or caddy;canny:Also Northern English. From English "can" in older sense of "to know how.";clan:Borrowed from Gaelic "clann" (family, stock, off-spring).;convene :Borrowed from French "convenir", from Latin "convenire".;cosy;firth:Derived from Old Icelandic fjǫrdic (see fjord);glamour:Meaning magic, enchantment, spell. From English "grammar" and Scottish "gramarye" (occult learning or scholarship).;gloaming:Middle English (Scots) "gloming", from Old English "glomung" "twilight", from OE "glom";golf ;glengarry:(or Glengarry bonnet) a brimless Scottish cap with a crease running down the crown, often with ribbons at the back. Named after the town of the clan chief Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry (1771-1828), who invented it.;gumption:Common sense or shrewdness.;haver:to babble or talk nonsense, or to dither. Scottish & North English dialect.;links:Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English "hlinc" (ridge).;pernickety:From "pernicky".;minging:From Scots "mingin". revolting, stinking, putrid, rancid etc ;plaid:From Gaelic "plaide" or simply a development of "ply", to fold, giving "plied" then "plaid" after the Scots pronunciation.;pony:Borrowed from obsolete French "poulenet" (little foal) from Latin "pullāmen".;raid;rampage;scone:Probably from Dutch "schoon".;tweed:cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from "tweel";wee:small, tiny, minute.;wraith
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