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A Glossary of the Scots Dialect |
| Tack | possesion, lease. |
| Tacket | shoe-nail. |
| Tackets | hob-nails. |
| Tae | to; toe. |
| Tae'd | toed. |
| Taed | a toad. |
| Taen | taken. |
| Taet | small quantity. |
| Tairge | to task severely. |
| Tak | to take. |
| Tald | told. |
| Tane | the one. |
| Tangs | tongs. |
| Tap | top. |
| Tap-pickle | the grain at the top of the stalk. |
| Tapetless | heedless, foolish. |
| Tapmost | topmost. |
| Tappet-hen | a crested hen-shaped bottle holding three quarts of claret. |
| Tappit | (tappit hen = quart measure). |
| Tapsalteerie | topsy-turvy. |
| Targe | to examine. |
| Tarrow | to murmur. |
| Tarry-beeks | a sailor. |
| Tassie | a goblet or cup. |
| Tauk | talk. |
| Tauld | told. |
| Tawie | that which allows itself to be handled. |
| Tawpie | a foolish woman. |
| Tawpies | foolish young people. |
| Tawted | matted. |
| Teats | small quantities. |
| Teen | sorrow. |
| Tell'd | told. |
| Tellin | telling. |
| Temper-pin | part of a spinning wheel that regulates its motion. |
| Tent | to take heed. |
| Tentie | heedful. |
| Tentier | more watchful. |
| Tentless | careless. |
| Tester | an old silver coin about sixpence in value. |
| Teugh | tough. |
| Teughly | toughly. |
| Teuk | took. |
| Thack | thatch. |
| Thae | these. |
| Thairm | fiddlestrings, intestines. |
| Theckit | thatched. |
| Theekit | thatched, covered. |
| Thegither | together. |
| Themsels | themselves. |
| Thick | v. pack an' thick. |
| Thieveless | objectless; trifling; impotent. |
| Thigger | beggar. |
| Thiggin | begging. |
| Thir | these. |
| Thirl'd | thrilled. |
| Thole | to suffer, to endure. |
| Thou's | thou art. |
| Thou'se | thou shalt. |
| Thowe | thaw. |
| Thowes | thaws. |
| Thowless | slack, lazy. |
| Thrang | busy; thronging in crowds. |
| Thrapple | the throat. |
| Thrave | two shocks (24 staves) of grain. |
| Thraw | to sprain or twist; to contradict. |
| Thrawin | twisting. |
| Thraws | throes. |
| Threap | to assert. |
| Three-tae'd | three-toed. |
| Threesome | trio. |
| Thretteen | thirteen. |
| Thretty | thirty. |
| Thril'd | thrilled; bound. |
| Thrissle | the thistle. |
| Thristed | thirsted. |
| Throu'ther(throughother) | pell-mell. |
| Through | mak to through = make good. |
| Throwther | mixed, pell-mell. |
| Thuds | that makes a loud, intermittant noise. |
| Thummart | the polecat. |
| Thumpit | thumped. |
| Thylane | alone. |
| Thysel' | thyself. |
| Tidin | tiding. |
| Tight | girt, prepared. |
| Till | to. |
| Till't | to it. |
| Timmer | timber. |
| Timmer-propt | timber propped. |
| Tine | to lose or be lost. |
| Tinkler | a tinker. |
| Tint | lost (tint as win = lost as won). |
| Tip | ram. |
| Tippence | twopence. |
| Tippenny | twopenny, cheap ale. |
| Tirl | to strip or uncover. |
| Tirl'd | rasped (knocked). |
| Tirlin | unroofing. |
| Tither | the other. |
| Tittlin | whispering and laughing. |
| To-fa' | the fall. |
| Tocher | marriage portion. |
| Tocher-gude | marriage portion. |
| Tod | fox. |
| Todlin | toddling. |
| Toom | empty. |
| Toop | a ram. |
| Topsalteerie | topsy-turvy. |
| Toss | the toast. |
| Toun | a hamlet; a farmhouse. |
| Tousie | shaggy. |
| Tout | toot (horn or trumpet). |
| Touzie | rough or shaggy. |
| Touzle | to rumple. |
| Tow | a rope. |
| Towmond | a year (from a twelvemonth). |
| Towsing | rumpling (equivocal). |
| Toy | a fashion of female head dress. |
| Toyte | to totter. |
| Tozie | flushed with drink. |
| Trams | shafts. |
| Transmogrify | change. |
| Transmogrify'd | metamorphosed. |
| Transmugrify'd | metamorphosed. |
| Trashtrie | trash. |
| Treadin | treading. |
| Trews | trousers. |
| Trickie | tricky. |
| Trig | spruce, neat. |
| Trin'le | the wheel of a barrow. |
| Trinklin | trickling. |
| Trogger | packman. |
| Troggin | wares sold by itinerant merchants or peddlars. |
| Troke | to exchange, to deal with. |
| Trottin | trotting. |
| Trouse | trousers. |
| Trow't | belived. |
| Trowth | truth, in truth. |
| Trump | a jew's harp. |
| Tryste | a fair; a cattle-market. |
| Trysted | appointed. |
| Trysting | meeting. |
| Tulyie | tulzie, a squabble; a tussle. |
| Tulzie | a quarrel. |
| Tup | a ram. |
| Twa | two. |
| Twa-fauld | twofold. |
| Twa-three | two or three. |
| Twafauld | twofold, double. |
| Twal | twelve. |
| Twal' | twelve. |
| Twalpennieworth | a penny worth (English money). |
| Twalt | the twelfth. |
| Twang | twinge. |
| Tway | two. |
| Twin | twine, to rob; to deprive; bereave. |
| Twined | reft, separated from. |
| Twistle | a twist. |
| Tyke | a vagrant dog. |
| Tyne | to lose. |
| Tysday | Tuesday (Tysday 'teen = Tuesday at evening). |
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