The Broad Scots Dictionary

W

Wa' - "wall" Wa's "walls"
Wabster - "a weaver"
Wad - "would; to bet; a bet, a pledge"
Wadna - "would not"
Wadset - "a mortgage"
Wae - "woe, sorrowful"
Waefu' - "woful, sorrowful, wailing"
Waefu'-woodie - "hangman's rope"
Waesucks or waes me! - "alas!" "Oh the pity!"
Waft - "the cross thread that goes from the shuttle through the web; woof"
Wale - "choice; to choose"
Waled - "chose, chosen"
Walie - "ample, large, jolly; also an interjection of distress"
Wame - "the belly"
Wamefu' - "a bellyfull"
Wanchancie - "unlucky"
Wanrestfu' - "restless"
Wark - "work"
Wark-lume - "a tool to work with"
Warl or Warld - "world"
Warld's Worm - "a miser"
Warlock - "a wizard"
Warly - "worldly, eager on amassing wealth"
Warran' - "a warrant; to warrant"
Warst - "worst"
Warstl'd or warsl'd - "wrestled"
Wastrie - "prodigality"
Wat - "wet" I wat "I wot, I know"
Wattle - "a twig, a wand"
Waught - "a draught"
Waukin' - "waking"
Waukrife - "not apt to sleep"
Waur - "worse, to worst"
Waur't - "worsted"
Wean or weanie - "a child"
Weary or wearie - "many a weary body, many a different person"
Weason - "Weasand"
Wee - "little" Wee things "little ones" Wee bit "a small matter"
Weeder-clips - "tool for removing weeds"
Weel - "well" Weelfare "welfare"
Weet - "rain, wetness"
Weird - "fate"
We'se - "we shall"
Wha - "who"
Whalpit - "whelped"
Whang - "a leathern string; a piece of cheese, bread, etc.; to give the strappado"
Whare - "where" Whare'er "wherever"
Whase - "whose"
Whatreck - "nevertheless"
Wheep - "to fly nimbly, jerk" Penny-wheep "small beer"
Whid - "the motion of a hare, running but not frighted; a lie"
Whiddin' - "running as a hare or cony"
Whigmeleeries - "whims, fancies, crotchets"
Whingin' - "crying, complaining, fretting"
Whirligiums - "useless ornaments, trifling appendages"
Whisht - "silence" To hold one's whisht "to be silent"
Whiskin' - "sweeping"
Whiskit - "lashed"
Whissle - "a whistle; to whistle"
Whitter - "a hearty draught of liquor"
Whittle - "a knife"
Whunstane - "a whinstone"
Whyles - "Whiles, sometimes"
Wi' - "with"
Wicht - "wight, powerful, strong; inventive, of a superior genius"
Wick - "to strike a stone in an oblique direction; a term in curling"
Wicker - "willow" (the smaller sort)"
Widdifu - "twisted; one who deserves hanging"
Wifie - "a diminutive or endearing term for wife"
Wilyart - "bashful and reserved; avoiding society, or appearing awkward in it; wild, strange, timid"
Wimple - "to meander"
Whimpl't - "meanered"
Wimplin' - "waving, meandering"
Win - "to win, to winnow"
Win't - "winded as a bottom of a yard"
Win' - "wind" Win's "winds"
Winna - "will not"
Winnin' thread - "putting thread into hanks"
Winnock - "a window"
Winsome - "hearty, vaunted, gay"
Wiss - "to wish"
Withouten - "without"
Wizen'd - "hide-bound, dried, shrunk"
Wons - "dwells"
Woo' - "wool"
Woo - "to court, to make love to"
Woodie - "a rope, more properly one made of withes or willows"
Wordy - "worthy"
Worset - "worsted"
Wow - "an exclamation of pleasure or wonder"
Wraith - "a spirit or ghost; an apparition exactly like a living person, whose appearance is said to forbode the person's approaching death"
Wrang - "wrong; to wrong"
Wreeth - "a drifted heap of snow"
Wud - "mad, distracted"
Wumble - ""wimble"
Wyle - "to beguile"
Wyliecoat - "a flannel vest"
Wyte - "blame, to blame"