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cadger
[cAH-djar]
a hawker
Word / Community
caisie
[kay-see]
sack for carrying corn on horse
Word / Farming
callach
[cAHLach]
an old woman
Word / Community
carcle
[cAR-kil]
count or calculate
Word
causie stanes
[cAH-zee stayns]
cobble-stones
Word
channel
[chAH-nul]
angle between end of staves and bottom of cask or barrel
Word
chielachie
[chEEL-ack-ee]
boy, very small
Word / Community
clabberd
[clAH-burdt]
covered with mud or dirt
Word / Home
clocker
[clOHKher]
black beetle, cockchafer
Word / Nature
collumsaw
[COL-m-saw]
coalfish
Word / Fishing
cootyach or coutyach
[cOOtyack or cOOtyack]
family group, company or clan (often used contemptously)
Word / Community / Threat
cown
[COWn]
to weep
Verb
crockan
[crOCH-an]
beetle
Word / Nature
cross gang
[crohs-gaang]
straw, bundle of to support the bait
Word / Fishing
cullumsa
[cullOOMza]
coalfish
Word / Fishing
carcle: she's hardly fit'll carcle!
[KAR-kl: she's hardly fit'll KARkl!]
count: she can barely count!
Phrase / Community
caws: e's the caws o mornin
[kaahz: e's the kaahz o mornehn]
mourning: he’s the cause of mourning (black sheep of the family?)
Phrase/ Community
chatters
[chAT-hers]
iron staples in rudder post into which rudder is fixed
Word / Fishing
chielie
[chEELEE]
boy, small
Word / Community
clever: the clever yawlie
[yeeaw-lee: the clever yeeaw-lee]
boat: first motor fishing boat to appear in Cromarty (clever here meaning ‘fast’)
Word / Fishing
coolan
[cOOL-un]
youngest in a breed
Word / Farming
cosfeet, cosfit, cosset or cossits
[cohs-feet, COSfit, COSset or COSsits]
starfish
Word/ Fishing
creenie
[crEEn-ee]
little finger
Word
crockums or crockuns
[crOHKums or crOHkans]
fish-livers after oil is extracted
Word / Fishing
crotyach
[cROYt-ee-ach]
person, small and stout
Word / Community
culyach
[cUHL-ye-ach]
old woman
Word / Community
cutyach: whit a kinna cutyach he's come outa?
[KUT-ye-ach: whit a keen-a KUTyeach he's cum ootya?]
Where’s he from? (derogatory. Literally, what family does he belong to?)
Word / Community
caulkers
[cOH-kers]
boots studded with large tacks
Word / Clothing
chacher
[cee-AACHer]
angler fish, smaller
Word / Fishing
cheeks
[cheekz]
sides
Word
chirls
[churls]
wood shavings
Word
clevie
[cLAY-vee]
stick on which hook is placed
Word
cockie-paidles
[cOCK-ee-pAY-dulls]
lumpfish or lumpsuckers
Word / Fishing
coopan or coupan
[cOOpun or COOpun]
hen’s stomach
Word / Farming
cosie
[coh-see]
small tub
Word / Home
creish
[crEEsh]
persuade into action
Verb
crogs
[crOHgs]
fingers
Word
culla
[cooh-la]
seagull
Word / Nature
cuttye
[cUHTyeh]
Word / Nature
cutyach: ah ken the cutyach ye belang taeah kens at thee sayin
[cut-ye-ach: ah ken the cut-ye-ach ye belang tae kens at thee sayin]
I know the folk you belong to will know what you’re on about (meaning I don’t know where you’re from – derogatory)
Word / Community