Shetland Words:C
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- caa = (v) gather sheep
- caa'in hwal = (n) pilot whale, (delphinidae globicephala)
- caald, cauld, cawld = (n) cold
- caavie = (n) blizzard
- caddy lamb = (n) a lamb raised in the house
- calafine = (n) pencil
- calishang = (n) boisterous commotion
- calloo, calaw = (n) Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis)
- can = (n) measure of oil, one gallon
- canna = can't
- cant = fall or be knocked over so as to lie on one side
- cappie, stockie = large sinker stone, usually perforated so the rope may be attached, used at the ends and at intervals across the middle of long lines
- carl = (n) a loose or licentious song
- carlsum = of difficult/quarrelsome nature (most commonly used in reference to a child)
- carvie = (n) caraway
- cash = tobacco pouch, typically made from sealskin
- cassen = warped (of wood or similiar), thrown
- cassie = (n) straw basket for corn, to weigh one half setten on the malt pundlar or 8 marks on the bere pundlar
- cast =(v) to cut peats
- castin =(n) the amount of peats cut
- cast oot = disagree, fall out with
- catmoogit = (n) sheep colouring, light with dark belly
- catched = (v) caught (we wir fair catched in yun last doontöm)
- catt-crammacks = (n) cirrus clouds appearing like hairs streaming from an animal's tail
- cavie = (n) blizzard
- cavil = (v) to take the fish off the hook
- cavlin tre = (n)length of wood with notched end used to push hook backwards, freeing the barb.
- cenga = (n) a cat
- channel = (n) the very bottom of a peat bank, where peat meets rock. Also used as a term for where bedrock commences in general.
- chimeri = (n) heaven
- cinny = (n) small, oblong kiln used to dry half a barrel of grain at a time
- claag =(v) cackle, 'song' of gulls, (claagin maas)
- clacht = grip, grasp, clutch (of hand(s))
- claes = (n) clothing
- claed = (adv) dressed (in)
- clag = (v) stick
- claggit = stuck, in a sticky mess, grasped firmly
- claggy = (adj) sticky
- claith = (n) woollen cloth home produced (until late 19th century)
- clatch = Splatch, mess, as in 'clatch of gutter'
- clave = (n) steep slope (Da Clave o Urafirth wisna guid wi sna)
- cleek = hook
- clert = (v) spread messily
- clester = (v) smear; (n) muddle, mess
- clett = (n) a rock broken from a cliff
- clew = Typically a ball of knitting yarn/wool, but can be applied to any wound ball of string/twine/rope etc
- cline = spread deliberately (cline some butter upo yun bread)
- clink = (v) hammer rivet head
- clinker = pebbles or fragments of non-combustible material among ash or remaining in a firebox after use.
- clinkin = (adj) superb
- clipper-lip = old descriptive nick name for someone with a protruding lower lip (Clipper ship's bow)
- cliv = (n) An animal's hoof.
- clivin = (n) the tongs
- clod = (n) small broken peat
- clockin = broody, (A clockin hen)
- clocks = (n) new milk boiled until it becomes thick, brown and clotted
- cloot, clout = cloth. Also a headscarf of the type formerly worn by many Shetland women
- clow = (n) clove
- coarn = small amount
- cob = (n) a young seal (Foula)
- cockiloorie = (n) daisy
- cole = (n) small haystack
- coll = (n) coal, a burning ember, (a lowin coll)
- collie = (n) a double-panned oil lamp
- combustible = (n) marine life not used as food
- coom = smithereens, (Da gless guid i coom upo da floor)
- coodna = (v) could not
- corbie = (n) raven, (Corvus corax) (v) manner of saying R back on the throat
- corka coust = oat bread (Low 1774)
- corn teind = (n) a tithe, originally paid as every tenth sheaf, but later collected in butter and oil, half to the patron and half to the parish minister
- cot = (n) coat
- coust = (n) bread (Low 1774)
- cow teind = (n) a tithe paid in butter
- craa = (n) crow (Corvus corone cornix)
- craa maa = (n) kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
- craetir = (n) creature
- craggacks = (n) the knees in a boat
- craig = (n) throat
- craigs = (n) rocks, good fishing spots.
- craig-saet (n) suitable location for rock fishing
- craig-stane = (n) popular fishing rock
- cran = (n) a measure of capacity for fresh herrings before cleaning, fixed by the Fishery Board at 37½ Imperial Gallons, roughly the contents of four baskets or, more precisely, one barrel. (v) to measure out
- crang = (n) carcase
- crawback - Cloth/clothes or similar which have become badly discoloured/faded due to exposure to sunlight
- crawpim = of crooked or bowed stature
- creeks = muscle and joint stiffness and aching as a result of unaccoustomed and/or excessive exercise
- creepie = (n) stool
- creks =(v) persistently clearing the throat
- cring = (n) a rope tether for two animals (typically young sheep) using a single overall anchor point. From single anchor point to swivel/swill there is a single rope as per a conventional tether, two seperate neck tethers exist from seperate swivel/swill points to the individual animals.
- criplin = being caused pain or having pre-existing pain increased as a result of movement, posture or the actions of a third party
- cripple = having any sort of deficency of leg or foot movement and use
- croe = (n) sheep pen
- crook = (n) hook above open fire to hang kettle on
- crook = (n) a type of sheep marks cut on the ears (Shortened form of crook-bit, an approx 1cm or thereby square, cut from either the leading or following edge of either ear)
- croos = in an over severe or heavy-handed manner
- crop = (v) to crush
- cross-trees =(n) mast spreaders, allowing (stroods) a more vertical angle
- crubbit = (adj) lacking space, tightly enclosed
- cruder = (n) a rumor
- crule, crüll = (n) a small thick round oatmeal or barleymeal cake or bannock
- crumpin = crunching (da soond o da sna crumpin anunder me feet gluffed da dyucks)
- crunter = (n) gurnard
- cruttle = gurgle
- cruttled = gurgled (Eftir yun beans he cruttled an farted aa nicht)
- cruttlin = gurgling
- cry-reck = within easy reach, near enough to be a called to.
- cubby-hol = a small, usually enclosed space used for storage. Usually considered relatively safe and semi-secret due to it's existence and/or extent being inconspicious
- cuddie = small straw basket
- cuff o' da nek = back of the neck
- cuit = cud
- cullick = (n) a shellfish
- cullit = an animal of a normally horned species which does not grow any naturally. (Most commonly used when referring to cattle).
- curkie = (n) lichen Lecanora tartarea used as red dyestuff, ususually collected in May and June
- curlie = (n) sea word for a pig, from its curly tail
- curlie dodie = (n) wild orchid
- curly-hed-a-craw = head over heels
- custell-pennie = (n) a due claimed by the bailiff out of the goods of the deceased
- cut the shores = (v) to cut and harvest kelp
- cutch = (n) a mixture of oak bark and catechu (acacia wood extract) used as a preservative/waterproofer
- cutch = (v) to treat fishing nets, lines, sails, clothing etc by immersing in a solution of cutch powder and boiling water, resulting in a brown colour.
- cutch-kettle =(n) large metal vat, fired from below, in which nets etc were treated.
- cuth = (n) immature coal-fish
- cuttell = (n) a measure of wadmal or a rod used for measuring
- cutting the string = crossing over tideways in a boat
- cüt = cud (yun coo is showin da cüt)
- cütlin = walking with short low steps, often in a slow and unenthusiastic manner
- cüts = (n) ankles
