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~ Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Q UP 20 Scots words beginning with Q: 1 queerikens - the hips 2 querny - of honey, abounding in granules 3 quitchie - scalding hot 4 quaking-qua - a quagmire 6 quhult - anything big of its kind 7 quisquous - difficult to discuss 8 quarrant - shoe made of untanned leather 9 queedie - small wooden chamber-pot 10 quee-beck - the cry of a startled grouse 11 qwyte - to play at curling 12 quill-fatt - a vat having a bung 13 quaw - a hole from which peats have been cut 14 quinter - a ewe in her third year 15 queem - fitting exactly 16 qurd - a clot of excrement 17 quirklum- a little arithmetical puzzle 18 queeth - the coal-fish in the second year 19 quhawp - a goblin said to haunt house eaves 20 quinkins - the scum of any liquor source: The Scots Dialect Dictionary (Warrack 1911) |