List of English words of Scots origin
# List of English words of Scots origin

List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Highland Scots.

## Blackmail

    A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations.

## canny

    Also Northern English. From English can in older sense of "to know how."

## clan

    Borrowed from Gaelic clann (family, stock, off-spring).

## convene

    Borrowed from French convenir, from Latin convenire.

## firth

    Derived from Old Icelandic fjǫrdic (see fjord)

## glamour

    Meaning magic, enchantment, spell. From English grammar and Scottish gramarye (occult learning or scholarship).

## gloaming

    Middle English (Scots) gloming, from Old English glomung "twilight", from OE glom

## glengarry

    (or Glengarry bonnet) A brimless Scottish cap with a crease running down the crown, often with ribbons at the back. Named after the title of the clan chief Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry (1771–1828), who invented it.

## gumption

    Common sense or shrewdness.

## haver or haiver

    To talk nonsense. Scottish and North English dialect.

## laddie

    A boy.

## lassie

    A girl.

## links

    Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge).

## pernickety

    From pernicky.

## minging

    literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming".

## plaid

    From Gaelic plaide or simply a development of ply, to fold, giving plied then plaid after the Scots pronunciation.

## pony

    Borrowed from obsolete French poulenet (little foal) from Latin pullāmen.

## scone

    Probably from Dutch schoon.

## shinny

    Pond or street hockey in Canada. From an alternative name for the Scots sport shinty.

## skulduggery

    From Scots sculduddery

## tweed

    Cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from tweel

## wee

    Small, tiny, minute.

## wow

    Exclamation
