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~ Monday, September 30, 2002
YAPPS Some more prize fruit stolen from the old Scots dictionary: 1 yaw - a child's name for an eel 2 yeddle - dunghill drainage 3 yule-kebbuck - special Christmas cheese 4 yeekie-yakie - a shoemaker's tool 5 yaavel - the second crop of grain after lea 6 yanker - a clever girl 7 yoornt - of a postman, going his round easily, because seasoned 8 yapps - apples stolen by boys from a garden 9 yaltoco - an expression of surprise or defiance 10 yabblock - a talkative person 11 yim - to become covered with a thin film 12 yaghies - the sound of a soft, heavy body falling 13 yirditams - small heaps of earth spread over a field 14 yarbin-carblin - a wordy fight 15 yachlin - one who shambles 16 yeery - afraid of goblins 17 yaup - the cry of a sickly bird 18 yair-haugh - a haugh on which a yair is built 19 yil-caup-een - 'saucer' eyes 20 yamps - garlic Source: The Scots Dialect Dictionary (1911) |