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baldie boats
[bAHl-dee boahts]
fishing boat, type that Cromarty men took to the lochs
Word / Fishing
battry: pit the bucket oer the battry til me
[bAT-ree: pit the buk-het oer the bAT-ree til me]
sea-wall: hand the bucket to me over the sea wall
Phrase / Fishing
bannock-stane
[BAHNuck-stayn]
stone, a flat, used for baking
Word / Home
bauchles
[BOCH-ls]
shoes or slippers, old or ill-fitting
Word / Clothing
battle nose
[BAT-l-nohse]
whale, a bottle nose
Word / Nature
bavin
[BAY-veen]
bathing
Verb
beetyach
[BEE-tyach]
knife, a small, for mending nets
Word / Fishing
belwar
[bEL-wer]
tangles, layers of (as in nets)
Word / Fishing
beygin, bingin or binnen, o the teeset or teyset
[bee-AYE-gn, beeIN-gn or beeYIN-n o the TEEsut or TAYsut]
fishing line
Word / Fishing
binnen
[bINen]
binding
Word / Community
bladyach tang
[blAHd-ye-ach-tang]
sweet tongue
Word / Community
bleems
[bleemz]
tattie or potato (plant not tuber)
Word / Food
bleems
[bleemz]
tattie or potato (plant not tuber)
Word / Food
blockies
[BLAWHK-ee]
small cod
Word / Fishing
boatic or bottick
[BOHT-ee or BOHt-akh]
boat hook
Word / Fishing
bonnach faaly
[bOHnack fAAH-lee]
bannock, small, made from leftover dough
Word / Food
borack
[bOH-rak]
bradawl (a sharp tool for making holes)
Word
bot: az is zat bot?
[bOHt: az iz zat bOHt]
boat: whose boat is that?
Word / Fishing
brakwast
[brrAHK-vust]
breakfast
Word / Food
brimed
[brim-dt]
boats once timbers have been soaked with sea water
Word / Fishing
bruchtin
[brUH-ch-tin]
burping
Word
buckies
[bUCK-hees]
whelks (Latin: Buccinum undatum)
Word / Fishing
burden or burdeen
[bur-dun, bur-deen]
twigs or branches, bundle of, carried home on the back
Word / Home
burth
[bURRth]
distance between the boats when setting lines
Word / Fishing
byoch
[bye-och (also beeoch, not recorded)]
Boyo! A greeting, familiar, also used for children
Word / Greeting
beetyach: ah'll pit a beetyach in ye
[bEETch-ye-ach: ah'll pit a bEETchyeach in ya]
knife: I’ll stab you with a knife
Phrase/ Threat
bendin
[bEHN-din]
join between two pieces of long-line
Word / Fishing
bicht
[bihCHT]
turn taken by a boat, a (when shooting the lines)
Word / Fishing
black flan
[BLAHK-flun]
draught, down
Word / Home
blairack
[bLAY-ruk]
bee
Word / Nature
blessing: a blessing o sheds
[blESS-een: a blESS-een o sheds]
number: large number of sheds
Phrase / Farming
blether: away wi yer blether, moolachie
[bLAY-ther: away wi yer bLAYther, mOOlachie]
chatter: oh stop your chatter, wee plumpie!
Phrase
blussing: a blussing o tattas
[BLUSS-in: a BLUSS-in oh TAt-has]
potatoes: a large amount of potatoes
Word / Farming
boddach
[bOHdack]
an odd or old man
Word / Community
boorie
[booer-ee]
a heap
Word
boshach
[bOSH-achk]
ill-shaped person with turned out feet
Word / Community
bowg: bowg awa at
[bowg: bowg-awah-at]
work: work without making much progress, lazy, idle
Word / Community
breckans
[brEK-ns]
brackens for burning in the fire
Word / Home
brocht
[brOCHt]
surfeit, excess of drink
Word / Community
bubba
[bub-ba] (sometimes [boo-ba], not recorded)
grandfather (extended to mean the ‘devil’)
Word / Family
buird or boord
[burrd or bohrrd]
net shot, the last
Word / Fishing
burgat
[burr-git]
soup, made of black pease
Word / Food
buss
[buss]
the mouth
Word / Body
Byoch: ar thee gaein byoch?
[bOUY-ach: are thee goeen, bouyach?]
boy: where are you going, boy?
Phrase / QuestionÂ
belligut
[bEL-a-gut]
greedy-guts
Word / Community
beouch
[be-YOO-ch]
dear
Word / Greeting
biggar-man
[bEGgar-maan]
black flounder (fish)
Word / Fishing
bladyach
[blAHd-yach]
sweet-sounding
Word / Community
bleds
[blehds]
tea
Word / Food
blether-bus
[blAITH-er-bus]
chatterbox
Word / Community
bleyan
[blAY-an]
fish, damaged, that has been bitten/ sucked by another
Word / Fishing
boatackie: come ere an hae a squint at ma wee bit boatackie
[BOH-takee: cum’ere-an- hae-a-skwunt at ma wee bit BOH-takee]
boat: come here and have a look at my very small boat
Word / Fishing
bomie-wan
[bOH-me-wAHn]
punting pole or boat hook
Word / Fishing
boors: boors an boors
[bOOrsh: bOOrsh-an-bOOrsh]
lots and lots
Word
boshach-skeyter: ee's a boshach-skeyter
[bOHSH-ack: eez a bOHSH-ack skAYter]
miserable: a contemptuous expression for a miserable misshapen creature
Word / Community
brachtan
[brrACH-tun]
a young chaffinch
Word / Nature
brime
[brrihm]
salt water, to fill a boat with
Word / Fishing
bronyach
[brON-ye-ach]
a poor creature
Word
bubba: e's as prood as Bubba
[BOO-ba: eez as prood as bOO-ba]
proud: he’s as proud as the devil
Phrase / Community
bullat
[bOOlut]
large stone
Word / Nature
burrest: burrest o here
[bURR-est o heer]
further east of here
Phrase
bussack
[buss-ick]
slap, smack or thump
Word