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List of English words of Scots origin is a list of
English language words of
Lowland Scots origin. See also "
List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains words borrowed via Lowland Scots
Blackmail:A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations.
;caddie or caddy
canny:Also Northern English. From English can in older sense of "to know how."
;clan:Borrowed from Gaelic clann (family, stock, off-spring), originally form Latin planta (sprout, root, scion).
convene :Borrowed from French convenir, from Latin convenire.
;cosy
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
;golf
glengarry:(or Glengarry bonnet) a brimless Scottish cap with a crease running down the crown, often with ribbons at the back. Named after the town of the clan chief Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry (1771-1828), who invented it.
;gumption:Common sense or shrewdness.
haver:to babble or talk nonsense, or to dither. Scottish & North English dialect.
;links:Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge).
pernickety:From pernicky.
;minging:From Scots "mingin". revolting, stinking, putrid, rancid etc
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.
raid
;rampage
scone:Probably from Dutch schoon.
;tweed:cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from tweel
wee:small, tiny, minute.
;wraith
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