The Broad Scots Dictionary

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Gaberlunzie - "an old man"
Gadsman - "a plough boy, the boy that drives the horses in the plough"
Gae - "to go." Gaed "went" Gaen or gane "gone" Gaun "going"
Gailie - "pretty well"
Gairs - "triangler pieces of cloth sewed on the bottom of a gown, etc."
Gang - "to go, to walk"
Gangrel - "a wandering person"
Gar - "to make, to force to"
Gart - "forced to"
Garten - "garter"
Gashin - "conversing"
Gawsie - "jolly, large"
Gaud - "a plough"
Gaudsman - "one who drives the horses in ploughing"
Gaunted - "yawned, longed"
Gear - "riches, goods of any kind"
Ged - "a pike"
Gentles - "great folks, gentry"
Genty - "elegantly-formed, neat"
Geordie - "a guinea"
Get - "a child, a spoiled, petted young one"
Ghaist - "a ghost"
Gie - "to give" Gied "gave" Gien "given"
Giftie - "diminutive of gift"
Giglets - "playful girls"
Gillie - "diminutive of gill"
Gimmer - "a ewe from one to two years old"
Gin - "if, against"
Gipsey - "a young girl"
Girdle - "a-round iron plate to toast cakes"
Girn - "to grin, to twist the features in rage, agony, etc."
Girning - "grinning"
Gawky - "half-witted, foolish, romping"
Glaiket - "inattentive, foolish"
Glaive - "a sword"
Glaum - "to snatch greedily"
Glaum'd - "aimed, snatched"
Gleck - "sharp, ready"
Gleg - "sharp, ready"
Gleib - "glebe"
Glen - "a dale, a deep valley"
Gley - "a squint; to squint." A-gley "off at a side, wrong"
Gleyde - "an old horse"
Glib-gabbet - "smooth and ready in speech"
Glinted - "peeped"
Glintin - "peeping"
Gloamin - "the twilight"
Glowr - "to stare, to look; a stare, a look"
Goavan - "looking round with a strange, inquiring gaze, staring stupidly"
Gorcocks - "redgame, or moorcock"
Gowan - "the flower of the wild daisy, hawkweed, etc."
Gowany - "daisied, abounding with daisies"
Gowd - "gold"
Gowff - "the game of golf; to strike as the bat does the ball at golf"
Gowff'd - "struck"
Gowk - "a cuckoo; a term of contempt"
Gowl - "to howl"
Grain'd and Gaunted - "groaned and grunted"
Graining - "groaning"
Graip - "a pronged instrument for cleaning stables"
Graith - "accoutrements, furniture, dress, gear"
Grane or Grain - "a groan, to groan"
Grannie - "grandmother"
Grape - "grope"
Grapit - "groped"
Grat - "wept, shed tears"
Great - "intimate, familiar"
Gree - "to agree." To bear the gree"to be decidedy victor"
Gree't - "agreed"
Greet - "to shed tears, to weep"
Greetin - "crying, weeping"
Grien - "longing"
Grieves - "stewards"
Grippet - "catched, seized"
Groanin'-maut - "drink for gossips at a lying-in"
Groat - "to get the whistle of one's groat, to play alosing game"
Grozet - "a gooseberry"
Grumph - "a grunt, to grunt"
Grumphie - "a sow"
Grun' - "ground"
Grunstane - "a grindstone"
Grunzie - "mouth"
Gude - "the Supreme Being; good"
Guid - "good"
Guidfather, Guidmother - "fater-in-law, mother-in-law"
Guidman and guidwife - "the master and mistress of the house." Young guidman "a man newly married"
Guid-willie - "liberal, cordial"
Gumlie - "muddy"
Gully or gullie - "a large knife"
Gusty - "tasteful"
Gutcher - "grandsire"
Gut-scraper - "a fiddler"