bourach

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'Saw ye ever sic a bourach (heap)?

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  • 'Saw ye ever sic a bourach (heap)? —  Robert Falconer
  • Awbrahawm, Abraham, aweel, ah well; well then; well, awfu ', awful, awpron, apron, ay, yes; indeed, exclamation of surprise; wonder aye, yes; indeed, ayont, beyond; after, bade, did bide, badena, did not bide, bagonet, bayonet, bailey, civic dignitary; magistrate, bairn, child, bairnie, little child, diminutive bairns, children, baith, both, bakehoose, bakery, baneless, insipid; without pith, banes, bones, barfut, barefoot, barrin', barring, barrowfu ', wheelbarrow full, baubee, halfpenny, baubees, halfpennies, bauchles, old pair of shoes, also shoes down at the heel baukie, bat, beggit, begged, beginnin', beginning, begud, began, behaud, withhold; wait; delay, also behold behavin ', behaving, bein', being, beir, bear, beirer, bearer, beirs, bears, bejan, first year's student, at a Scottish university belangs, belongs, believin ', believing, ben' leather, thick leather for soling boots/shoes, bena, be not; is not, bend-leather, thick leather for soling boots/shoes, benn, in; inside; into; within; inwards, also inner room benn the hoose, in/into the parlour, best room of the house beowty, beauty, beuks, books, beyon ', beyond, bide, endure; bear; remain; live, also desire; wish bides, endures; bears; remains; lives, also stays for biggit, built, bilin', boiling, also the whole quantity bin ', bind, binna, be not, birse, bristle; hair; plume of hair, bit, but; bit, also small; little -- diminutive bitch, ,term of contempt usually applied to a man bitin', biting, bittie, little bit, diminutive bittock, a little bit; a short distance, blaeberries, blueberries, blastit, blasted, blate, over-modest; bashful; shy, blaud, spoil; injure; soil, blaudit, spoiled; injured; soiled, blaw, blow, blecks, nonplusses; perplexes; beats, blessin ', blessing, blether, talk nonsense; babble; boast, bletherin', talking nonsense; babbling; boasting, blethers, talks nonsense; babbles; boasts, nonsense; foolish talk blin ', blind, blink, take a hasty glance; ogle, also shine; gleam; twinkle; glimmer blinner, blinder, blude, blood, bluidy, bloody, boasom, bosom, boatles, bottles, boddom, bottom, body, person; fellow, also body boglet, bamboozled; terrified, bonnet, man's cap, bonnetfu', bonnetful; capful, bonnets, man's caps, bonnie, good; beautiful; pretty; handsome, bonniest, best; most beautiful; prettiest, also considerable bonny, good; beautiful; pretty; handsome, boodie, ghost; hobgoblin, booin ', bowing, bools, marbles, boon', bound, boord, board (i.e. room and board), bothie, cottage in common for farm-servants, boucht, bought, bourach, heap; cluster; mound, bowat, stable-lantern, bowie, small barrel or cask, boxie, little box, diminutive brae, hill; hillside; high ground by a river, braid, broad; having a strong accent, brak, break, brakfast, breakfast, brat, child, term of contempt braw, beautiful; good; fine, also lovely (girl); handsome (boy) brawly, admirably; very; very much; well, breedth, breadth, breeks, breeches; trousers, breid, bread, breist, breast, breists, breasts, breith, breath, breme-bush, broom-bush, also simpleton brewin ', brewing, brig, bridge, brither, brother, brithers, brothers; fellows, brithren, brethren; brothers, brocht, brought, broo, brow; eyebrow, broucht, brought, browst, brewage; booze, also the consequences of one's own acts bruik, broke, brunt, burned, bude, would prefer to; behoved, also must; had to budena, must not; could not; might not, buff, nonsense, buik, book, also Bible buiks, books, bund, bound, burd alane, quite alone, also the only surviving child of a family burn, water; stream; brook, burnin', burning, burnside, along the side of a stream, buss, bush; shrub; thicket, butes, boots, butt, main room in a croft; outside, includes kitchen and storage butt the hoose, into the house; into the kitchen, by ordinar, out of the ordinary; supernatural, also unusual by ordinar ', out of the ordinary; supernatural, also unusual by-ordinar, out of the ordinary; supernatural, also unusual byous, exceedingly; extraordinary; very, ca, drive; impel; hammer, ca', call; name, ca'd, called, cadger, carrier; pedlar, ca'in ', calling, cairds, cards, cairriage, carriage, cairriet, carried, cairry, carry, cairryin', carrying, calfie, little calf, diminutive callant, stripling; lad, term of affection cam, came, cam ', came, camna, did not come, camstairie, unmanageable; wild; obstinate, camstairy, unmanageable; wild; obstinate, camstary, unmanageable; wild; obstinate, can'le, candle, canna, cannot, also cotton-grass canny, cautious; prudent; shrewd; artful, cap, wooden cup or bowl, capt'n, captain, carena, do not care, carldoddies, stalks of rib-grass, also term of endearment carritchis, catechism, ca's, calls, cast up, taunt; reproach, catchin', catching, cattle, lice; fleas, used contemptuously of persons cauld, cold, caure, calves, —  Robert Falconer
 

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  1. Scots (cf. borra, borradh, a heap of stones), from Gaelic borrach, a projecting bank; cf. borra, borr, a knob or bunch, borradh, a swelling. Cf. bourach.
 

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