The Broad Scots Dictionary

C

Cadger - "a carrier"
Cadie or Caddie - "a person, a young fellow"
Caff - "chaff"
Calf-ward - "a small inclosure for calves"
Callan or Callant - "a boy"
Caller - "fresh, sound, refreshing"
Cannie - "gentle, mild, dexterous"
Cannilie - "dexterously, gently"
Cantie or canty - "cheerful, merry"
Cantraip - "a charm, a spell"
Careerin' - "cheerfully"
Carl or Carle - "an old man"
Carlin - "a stout old woman"
Cartes - "cards"
Castock or custock - "a stalk of cabbage"
Caudron - "a caldron"
Cauk or keel - "chalk and red clay"
Cauld - "cold"
Caup - "a wooden drinking vessel"
Cesses - "taxes"
Chauter - "a part of a bagpipe"
Chap - "a person, a fellow, a blow"
Chaup - "a stroke, a blow"
Cheekit - "Cheeked"
Cheep - "a chirp, to chirp"
Chiel or cheal - "a young fellow"
Chimla or chimlie - "a fire-grate, a fire-place"
Chimla-lug - "the fireside"
Chittering - "shivering, trembling"
Chockin' - "choking"
Chow - "to chew. Cheek for chow, side by side"
Clachan - "a small village about a church, a hamlet"
Claise or claes - "clothes"
Claith - "cloth"
Claithing - "clothing"
Clap - "clapper of a mill"
Clarkit - "wrote"
Clash - "an idle tale, the story of the day"
Clatter - "to tell idle stories, an idle story"
Claught - "snatched at, laid hold of"
Claut - "to clean, to scrape"
Clauted - "scraped"
Clavers - "idle stories"
Claw - "to scratch"
Cleed - "to clothe"
Cleeds - "clothes"
Cleekit - "having caught"
Clinkin' - "jerking, clinking"
Clinkumbell - "he who rings the church bell"
Clips - "shears"
Clishmaclaver - "idle conversation"
Clock - "to hatch, a beetle"
Clockin' - "hatching"
Cloot - "the hoof of a cow, sheep, etc."
Clootie - "an old name for the devil"
Clour - "a bump or swelling after a blow"
Cluds - "clouds"
Coaxin' - "wheedling"
Coble - "a fishing boat"
Cockernony - "a lock of hair tied upon a girl's head, cap"
Coft - "bought"
Coggie - "diminutive of cog"
Collieshangie - "quarrelling, an uproar"
Commaun' - "command"
Cood - "the cud"
Coof - "a blockhead, a ninny"
Cookit - "appeared and disappeared by fits"
Coost - "did cast"
Corbies - "a species of the crow"
Core - "corps, party, clan"
Corn't - "fed with oats"
Cottar - "the inhabitant of a cot-house, or a cottager"
Couthie - "kind, loving"
Cove - "a cave"
Cowe - "to terrify, to keep under, to lop, fright, a branch of furze, broom, etc."
Cowp - "to barter, to tumble over, a gang"
Cowpit - "tumbled"
Cowrin' - "cowering"
Cowt - "a colt"
Cozie - "anug"
Cozily - "snugly"
Crabbit - "crabbed, fretful"
Crackin' - "conversing"
Craft or croft - "a field near a house (in old husbandry)"
Craiks - "cries or calls incessantly, a bird"
Crambo-clink or crambo-jingle - "rhymes, doggrel verses"
Crap - "a crop, to crop"
Craw - "a crow of a cock, a rook"
Creel - "a basket. To have one's wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be fascinated."
Creeshie - "greasy"
Crood or Croud - "to coo as a dove"
Crooning - "humming"
Crouse - "cheerful, courageous"
Crowdie - "a composition of oatmeal and boiling water, sometimes from the broth of beef, mutten, etc."
Crowdie-time - "breakfast time"
Crummock or crummet - "a cow with crooked horns"
Crump - "hard and brittle (spoken of bread)"
Crunt - "a blow on the head with a cudgel"
Cuif - "a blockhead, a ninny"
Curchie - "a courtesy"
Curler - "a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling"
Curlie - "curled, who's hair falls naturally in ringlets"
Curling - "a well-known game on the ice"
Curmurring - "murmuring, a slight rumbling noise"
Cushat - "the dove, or wood-pigeon"
Cutty - "short, broken in the middle"