Glossary : W
Wa': waw: a wall
Wab: a web
Wabster: a weaver
Wad: to wager
Wad: to wed
Wad: would: would have
Wad'a: would have
Wadna: would not
Wadset: a mortgage
Wae: woful: sorrowful
Wae: wo; wae's me = wo is to me
Waesucks: alas!
Wae worth: wo befall
Wair: v ware
Wale: to choose
Wale: choice
Walie: wawlie: choice: ample:
large
Wallop: to kick; to dangle; to gallop; to dance
Waly fa': ill befall!
Wame: the belly
Wamefou: bellyful
Wan: won
Wanchancie: dangerous
Wanrestfu': restless
Ware: wair: to spend; bestow
Ware: worn
Wark: work
Wark-lume: tool
Warl': warld: world
Warlock: a wizard
Warl'y: warldly: worldly
Warran: warrant
Warse: worse
Warsle: warstle: wrestle
Wast: west
Wastrie: waste
Wat: wet
Wat: wot: know
Water-fit: water-foot (the river's mouth)
Water-kelpies: v kelpies
Wauble: to wobble
Waught: a draft
Wauk: to awake
Wauken: to awaken
Waukin: awake
Waukit (with toil): horny
Waukrife: wakeful
Waulie: jolly
Waur: worse
Waur: to worst
Waur't: worsted: beat
Wean (wee one): a child
Weanies: babies
Weason: weasand
Wecht: a measure for corn
Wee: a little; a wee = a short space or time
Wee things: children
Weel: well
Weel-faured: well-favored
Weel-gaun: well-going
Weel-hain'd: well-saved
Weepers: mournings (on the steeve or hat)
Werena: were not
We'se: we shall
Westlin: western
Wha: who
Whaizle: wheeze
Whalpet: whelped
Wham: whom
Whan: when
Whang: a shive
Whang: flog
Whar: whare: where
Wha's whose
Wha's: who is
Whase: whose
What for: whatfore: wherefore
Whatna: what
What reck: what matter; nevertheless
Whatt: whittled
Whaup: the curlew
Whaur: where
Wheep: v penny-wheep
Wheep: jerk
Whid: a fib
Whiddin: scudding
Whids: gambols
Whigmeleeries: crotches
Whingin: whining
Whins: furze
Whirlygigums: flourishes
Whist: silence
Whissle: whistle
Whitter: a draft
Whittle: a knife
Wi': with
Wick a bore: hit a curling-stone obliquely and send
it through an opening
Wi's: with his
Wi't: with it
Widdifu': gallows-worthy
Widdle: wriggle
Wiel: eddy
Wight: strong: stout
Wighter: more influential
Willcat wildcat
Willyart: disordered
Wimple: to meander
Win: won
Winn: to winnow
Winna: will not
Winnin: winding
Winnock: window
Winnock-bunker: v bunker
Win't: did wind
Wintle: a somersault
Wintle: to stagger; to swing; to wriggle
Winze: a curse
Wiss: wish
Won: to dwell
Wonner: a wonder
Woo': wool
Woodie: woody: a rope (originally of withes);
a gallows rope
Woodies: twigs: withes
Wooer-babs: love-knots
Wordy: worthy
Worset: worsted
Worth: v wae worth
Wraith: ghost
Wrang: wrong
Wud: wild: mad
Wumble: wimble
Wyliecoat: undervest
Wyte (weight): blame
Wyte: to blame; to reproach
