The Broad Scots Dictionary

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Ba' - "ball"
Backets - "ash boards"
Backlins - "coming back"
Back-yett - "private door"
Baggie - "belly"
Baide - "endured"
Bairn - "a child"
Bairntime - "a brood"
Baith - "both"
Ballets - "ballants, ballads"
Ban - "swear"
Bane - "bone"
Bang - "to beat, strive, excel"
Bannock or bonnock - "a flat cake"
Bardie - "diminutive of bard"
Barefit - "bare-footed"
Barley-bree - "juice of barley"
Barmie - "yeasty, volatile, passionate"
Batch - "a gang"
Batts - "botts"
Bauckie-bird - "the bat"
Baudrons - "a cat"
Bauld - "bold"
Bawk - "a cross-beam, a rafter"
Bear - "barley"
Beastie -"diminutive of beast"
Beet - "to bask, to add fuel to fire"
Beld - "bauld"
Belyve - "by and by, quickly"
Benmost - "remotest, innermost"
Bethankit - "grace after meat"
Beuk - "book"
Bicker - "a kind of wooden dish, a short quick race"
Bickering - "careering, hurrying"
Bien - "wealthy, plentiful"
Big - "biggit, build, built"
Bill - "bull"
Billie - "a brother, a young fellow, a companion"
Bing - "a heap of grain, potatoes, etc."
Birdie-cocks - "young cocks of the brood"
Birk - "birch"
Birken Shaw - "a birch wood"
Birkie - "a clever fellow"
Birring - "the noise of partridges rising"
Birses - "bristles"
Bit - "crisis, nick of time"
Bizz - "a bustle, to buzz"
Blastie - "a shrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt"
Bladd or Blaud - "a flat piece of anything, to slap"
Blate - "bashful, sheepish"
Blaw - "to blow, to boast, to flatter"
Bleerit - "bleared, sore with rheum"
Bleer't or blin' - "bleared and blind"
Bleeze - "blind"
Bleezing - "blazing"
Blellum - "an idle talking fellow"
Blether - "to talk idly, nonsense"
Bleth'rin' - "talking idly"
Blinker - "a term of contempt"
Blinkin' - "smirking"
Blue-gown - "one of those beggars who got annualy, on the king's birth-day, a blue cloak or gown, with a badge"
Bluid - "blood"
Bluntie - "a sniveller, a stupid person"
Bobbit - "made obeisance"
Bock - "to vomit, to bush intermittently"
Bocked - "gushed, vomited"
Bodle - "a small gold coin"
Bogie - "a morass"
Bogles - "spirits, hobgoblins"
Bonnie - "handsome, beautiful"
Boord - "a board"
Boortree - "the shrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn- yards, etc."
Bore - "a hole in the wall"
Botch or Blotch - "an angry tumour"
Bouk or Bowk - "body"
Bousing - "drinking"
Bow-kail - "cabbage"
Bowt - "bended, crooked"
Brackens or Breckan - "fern"
Brae - "declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill"
Braid - "broad"
Braik - "a kind of harrow"
Braing't - "reeled forward"
Brak - "broke, made insolvent"
Brankie - "gaudy"
Branks - "a kind of wooden curb for horses"
Brattle - "a short race, hurry, fury"
Braw - "fine, handsome"
Brawly or Brawlie - "very well, finely, heartily"
Breastie - "diminutive of breast"
Breeks - "breeches"
Brent - "smooth"
Brewin' - "brewing"
Brie or Bree - "juice, liquid"
Brig - "a bridge"
Brisket - "the breast, the bosom"
Brither - "a brother"
Brock - "a badger"
Broo - "broth, liquid"
Broose - "a race at country weddings, who shall first reach the bridegroom's house on returning from church"
Brose - "a kind of pottage"
Browster-wives - "ale-house wives"
Brugh - "a burgh"
Bruilzie - "a broil, a combustion"
Brunstane - "brimstone"
Brunt - "did burn, burnt"
Brust - "to burst, burst"
Buchan-bullers - "the boiling of the sea among the rocks of Buchan"
Bught - "a pen"
Bughtin'-time - "the time of collecting the sheep in the pens to be milked"
Buirdly - "stout made, broad built"
Bum-clock - "a humming bettle that flies in the summer evenings"
Bumming - "humming as bees"
Bummle - "to blunder"
Bummler - "a blunderer"
Bunker - "a window-seat"
Burdies - "diminutive of birds"
Bure - "did bear"
Burn - "a rivulet"
Burnie - "diminutive of burn"
Burr-thistle - "the thistle of scotland"
Buskie - "bushy"
Buskit - "dressed"
Busks - "dresses"
Buss - "shelter"
Bussle - "a bustle to bustle"
But an' ben - "the country kitchen and parlour"
But - "bot, with, without"
By himsel - "lunatic, distracted"
Byke - "a bee-hive"
Byre - "a cow-stable, a sheep-pen"