Shetland Words:F
ShetlandDictionary.com - The Online Shetland Dictionary - The free, online, Shetland Dictionary that anyone can edit.
To make edits on ShetlandDictionary.com, users must be logged in.
Search the Shetland Dictionary
- faa = (v) fall (n) afterbirth (Is onybody spokin fur de faa ?)
- faader = (n) God (Mercifil Faader)
- faar = (n) sea word for boat
- faase = False
- faase-face = (n) face mask
- faat = ill, harm (I ment nae faat)
- face lik a torn smuk = (description) having a very ugly face
- face lik a skelpit erse = (description) having a red and blotchy face
- faddom = fathom (six feet)
- fae = (prep) from
- Faerdie-maet = Food taken on a journey
- faidir = father
- faigr = (n) the sun
- fairlock = (n) a ship
- fairly = a pleasing or beneficial outcome that was unexpected or thought highly unlikely
- fairt = afraid
- fan = found (I fan a coin....) (n) snowdrift
- fant = be hungry
- fantation = a state of hunger
- fantin = hungry
- fardest = farthest
- farlin = (n) wooden trough containing herring to be gutted
- farr = (n) a boat
- fash = work with, attend to, become involved with something that is time consuming/fiddly to handle or achieve the desired result, and probably isn't worth the effort expended.
- fasti = mooring for boat. (Stern fasti)
- fastibaand = (n) cross beam linking the baands (frames)fitted unter the taft (thwart)
- fatgude = the quantity of butter or oil paid as a tax
- faw/fell a liftin, also, gud a liftin = A term usually only applied to cattle, describing their inability to stand up from lying down, or remain standing even when assisted to rise due to malnutrition.
- faxin = (n) a baa threatening to break
- fedder = (n) feather; cutting blade of tushkar.
- fedder-peat = (n) the top layer of peats in a peat daek, stabilises the daek as it is laid at a different angle to the main daek
- fedmill = (n) a clumsy woman
- feerie = (n) contagious ailment, diarrhoea, also an epidemic sickness affecting dogs
- feidelands = rich cattle pastures
- feint ae wird = not a word
- ferdamel = provision for the day
- feth = faith?, (Bi feth, dis'll be da death o me)
- fey = (adj) ominous
- feyadin = (n) the whale
- fiddack = (n) a small wooden water-pail
- fidder = (n) a sheep lug mark, an incision cut from the edge downward toward the center of the ear
- fie = (n) sheep; see sedvite (Low 1774)
- filsket = (adj) Frisky, high spirited. (Shetland Games Mascot "Filskit" {dat wis spelt wrang})
- fin = (v) find
- fin da laand ageen = to arrive back home
- finnie or funa = (n) the fire
- fiorin = (n) foreshore, ebb shore
- fir, fur = for
- fir-fother = (n) four-footer, sea name for a cat (Foula)
- fish and gree = (n) a dish of cod cooked in its own oil
- fish hawk, fishing hawk = (n) osprey (Pandion halioetus)
- Fisherman's Foy = (n) a celebration held at Lammas before the fishermen left their fishing stations at the end of the season.
- fisk = (n) a fish (Low 1774)
- fistin = (n) the chimney crook
- fit = (n) foot
- fit laek = liable to, in danger of, (Da flans wir hittin we siccan waps dey wir fit laek ta caa me ower)
- fitlinn = wood laid across baands of boat to give rower a purchase point for his feet. Often these were the same pieces of wood that were used to draw the boat over on the beach, See Linn
- fitting = (n) the cat
- fjaedin = (n) sea word for a whale
- fjandin = (n) sea word for the devil
- flaaki = (n) bed-covering, sheet, bedspread, a winnowing mat
- flaas = (n) turf used for roofing
- flachter = (v) flutter (Recent Shetland usage {A Flachter o weemin/A Gossip of women/A group of excited women})
- flachter spade = a spade like tool used to cut divots which were dried and used as underlay on a thatched roof. The iron comprising a thin crescent cutting edge attached to a centre shaft resembling the shape of a mushroom cut in half vertically. The iron was attached to a wide flat shafted handle, with a top crosspiece which extended far enough beyond the wide flat shaft to serve as operating handles.
- flae = (v) remove top turf prior to cutting peat. Also, to remove the skin from a corpse.
- flais = (n) divots of turf used for roofing
- flan = (n) gust of wind, sudden squall (Da flan raeve da roof aff)
- flannie = gusty
- flankers = (n) thigh-length rubber boots
- flatch = (v) squash
- flay = (v) to prepare moorland for peat cutting
- flech = (n) flea
- flechy = (adj) infested with fleas
- flecket = (adj) sheep markings, white with large black or brown patches
- fleckit = (adj) spotted with different colours
- fleet = set of drift nets, or lines carried by a fishing boat.
- flesh = meat
- flinderkin = (n) a weak person or thing
- flinter = flit and flutter about
- fliss = (n) slice,
- flistrick = (n) a ledge of flat rock rising to the level of the water
- flit = (v) move house, move tethered animal, the area of ground within the reach of a tethered animal at any one given time
- flite = (v) scold
- flitten = scolded
- flittin = moving house, or tethered animal
- flooer = (n) flower
- floss = (n) common rush
- flör = (n) sea floor
- fluckra = (n) large slowly fallin flakes of snow
- flukner = (n) sea word for a hen
- flux = a state of mild panic and/or confusion in reaction to current events or circumstances
- foch = to carry out a physical task quickly and productively, usually one requiring considerably more continious movement than physical strength, and often used with sarcastic undertones of suggestion that the person concerned is overdoing the amount of movement required to add effect
- fock, fok = (n) folk. (Whit will fok tink)
- fogrie = (n) the mackeral
- foo = how (Foo is du?)
- foo, fou = full (Foo as a troot)
- foodin = (n) a cat (Tudor 1883)
- fool = (n) fowl
- foonder = a thin dusting/light coating, a minimal amount (Yun bit a shoor juist left a foonder a snaw )
- footh = (n) large quantity (I hed a footh o beer da streen)
- footik = (n) sea word for a mouse
- forbye = (prep) also, as well as, (Da bairns wir dere forbye her)
- forcop = (n) odal tax for the lawman's salary
- forebears = ancestors
- foreroom = (n) fish hold before mast in boat
- forgie = forgive
- forgeen = forgiven
- forkietail = (n) earwig. (also spurrietail)
- fornenst = (prep) against (Tane fornenst da tidder)
- forrard = forwards, front of boat
- forrit = the forward section of a boat (boy, ging forrit wi da bowe)
- forrow = (adj) a cow in second year's milk, without having a calf. Also refers to a cow which has previously given milk, but no longer is.
- fors = (n) the rough hairs found on sheep
- forsing = the process of separating fors from wool after rooing
- fortigue = (v) to fatigue
- fortyfitter = centipede
- Foud, Foude, Fowde = (n) prior to the 17th century, the Great Foud was the chief civil official appointed by the Scandinavian king to maintain law and order, carry out judgements and collect revenues for the Crown.
- fourareen = (n) a four-oared boat (Tudor 1883)
- foy = celebration. As in Uyea Foy, & Johnsmass Foy.
- föger = (n) sea word for the sun
- fracht = the amount of water carried by one person from a well in one journey
- fram = far away, far out at sea, to seaward
- frame = (n) an emaciated person or beast
- fremd = (n) stranger
- fremmed = (adj) strange, unknown
- freshed fish = whole fish packed on ice
- froad = (n) froth
- fronet = (adj) sheep markings, black spotted with white head and black spots around eyes
- frö = (n) sea word for wife
- frush = splutter
- frut = a superstition or phobia (usually minor), only held by one individual or shared by a very small (usually family) group. Fruit.
- Fuersday, Fuirsdey = Thursday
- fun = (v) found, (Hit wis fun i da ebb..)
- fur = (adv) until
- furt = outdoors (Pit da cat furt)
- furr = boundary line, furrow (as ploughing), algal or mineral growth caused by fresh water to it's storage container (Da wattir fae Huesbrek wis wint ta furr up da Ness kettles wi lime)
