164 Gaelic Language of the South of Scotland. 



To Skail : come out of a building in a crowd, Gaelic sgatll. 



To Kep : catch something falling, Gaelic word. 



To TooM : empty, Gaelic tumadh, clear out. 



Gkuzing : shivering, Gaelic gris, shiver. 



To Shouch : plant in a temporary way, Gaelic suidhe, to 

 plant, or bury, or sit. 



To Crine : shrink, Gaelic crion, very small, tiny. 



Stirk : for a young ox or cow, Irish sturk, meaning any 

 large animal. 



Some Words used is different parts of Scotland. 



Fank : a Gaelic word for sheepfold, used in Stirlingshire, 

 also in Galloway and Dumfriesshire. 



Mant : Gaelic for stammer, used in Fife. 



BoYN : a tub or barrel in Lanarkshire, etc. ; apparently 

 an Irish word for a wooden vessel. 



Schwank: smart, in use in Aberdeenshire, Gaelic seang. 



Grue : used for floating ice on the Tweed, is the Gaelic 

 word for curds. 



The Scotch Gully : for a large clasp-knife, seems to be 

 the Welsh cyllel knife. 



Kirn : for the harvest-home festival, seems equally related 

 to the Gaelic cuirm for a feast, and the Dutch and German 

 kirmesse for a fair. 



Clachan is still used for a small village in Dumfriesshire. 



I have heard a Roxburghshire woman use a word which 

 seems to explain one which puzzled Mr Campbell ; she called 

 the cat a jizmck for fondling her. At other times she called 

 her a sleekie, this being the common word, and fiznick seems 

 to be the same thiug, only more so ; she certainly was nearly 

 putting her head into her mouth. 



It seemed to me I had heard something like fiznick before, 

 and after a day or so it recurred to me that the conventional 

 salutations of the heroes of the West Highland Tales, in one 

 of them at least, are called fisniche fosniche : Mr Campbell 

 says he does not know the meaning of these words, and 



