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- t'aen = the one
- ta = to
- taand = (n) a fire-brand
- taandstick = (n) a match
- taas = (n) plant roots encountered whilst digging
- taatie = (n) potato
- tabnab = (n) a sweet pastry or cake eaten at a tea-break
- tack = the extent of the land pertaining to one croft name
- tacksman = (n) a person who leases land to sublet, sometimes extending to rights to fish or the collection of teinds
- tae = tea, also a toe
- taek = (n) straw for thatching roof
- taekit = (adj) thatched
- taft = (n) seat in boat
- taing = headland
- tak = (v) take
- tak-aff = (v) mimic
- tammie = secure/protect to excess
- tammy noddy (n) sleep, cf Wee Willie Winkie
- tammie norie = (n) puffin (fratercula arctica)
- tane = one (tane fornenst da tidder), also taken
- tang = (n) seaweed
- tang-fish = (n) common seal (Phoca vitulina)
- tang sparrow = (n) rock pippit (Anthus obscurus)
- tang whaup = (n) whimbrel (Numenius phoeopus)
- tansy = (n) ragwort
- tantle = annoy, rile (he'd tantle a saint)
- tanyiks = (n) teeth
- tap-peat = (n) peat cut from the upper layer of a peat bank
- taring, tarret, tarrock = (n) common tern (Sterna fluviatilis)
- targits = in shreds
- tarrock = (n) arctic tern (Sterna macrura)
- tattie-bannie, tattie-bannock = (n) a potato scone
- tattie cruse = (n) a hollowed out potato, stuffed with fish livers and oatmeal
- tattie hol = (n) a pit for storing potatoes
- taund = a dully smouldering fire ember, or a tiny wisp of smoke emitting from same
- tautit = badly tangled (or hair/wool)
- teed = (adj) a cow in full milk
- teelie = (adj) encouraging
- teetan, teetuck = (n) rock pippit (Anthus obscurus)
- tellna me = (interj) you don't say, don't tell me ( Na, tellna me, yun canna be richt !)
- tengs = (n) tongs
- tengs-a-fire = the term used in the time before matches and lighters become commonly available, for the common practice of carrying a red hot ember in a pair of tongs from one fireplace to another for the purposes of lighting a fire in the second fireplace
- tevrdin = (n) thunder
- thigger = (n) a beggar
- third-peat = (n) peat from the deepest part of a bank, the best quality, almost like coal
- thirl = (v) to bind, to enthrall, to impose an obligation. Crofters who overdrew their accounts with the merchant-curers were thirled, or bound to work, the following year.
- tidder, tither = other
- tietick = (n) meadow pippit (Anthus pratensis)
- tieves geit, tieves nicket = (n) lapwing (Vanellus vulgaris)
- tift = throb
- tifter = erect penis
- Tiftin Simmond = A piece of rope mounted at the head of a box-bed, used to pull oneself ahead, improving forward thrust during sexual intercourse (see also dröltin tree and simmerin toms)
- til = (prep) to
- tilfer = (n) flooring boards in boat
- tilly-spoot - extremely quickly
- timper = walking very slowy and with careful selection of foot placement, so as to minimise getting unsuitable footwear wet or dirty in difficult conditions
- tink = (v) think
- Tinkie = Tinker
- tipper = (v) walk with sprightly gait
- tirl = water wheel, mounted horizontally, which drives mill.
- tirn = (adj) angry (He hed a tirn look upo his face)
- tirpan = an extended period of vocal cajoling and persuading
- tirrick = (n) arctic tern (Sterna paradisea)
- tirse = to tease through and/or shake up sufficently so as to achieve a completely altered state of being
- tise = persuade, entice
- Tiseday = (n) Tuesday
- tissil = thistle
- tocht = (v) thought (west-side)
- toilter = (v) walk with peculiar gait
- tome = (n) (1) line on piltock waand, the lighter line attaching the hook to the main line; (2) fishing line made of horsehair
- tom noddy, tommie norie = (n) puffin (Fratercula arctica)
- toodery = tousled, disheveled
- toog = small/insignificant. Mostly used to describe a tiny mound of earth, small tuft of grass, small smoundering fire or tiny wisp of smoke.
- toomie = (n) individual hook line attached as part of the fishing line, 3/4 fathom in length
- toon = a collective term for anything and everything that is within a defined area of land. Can be applied to anything from the smallest croft to the largest city. Eg. Wir toon = our croft. Da toon o' Lerrik, da toon o' London, etc
- toorlie = kitted woolen hat
- tow = rope, string
- towe = thaw
- towt = (v) thought (north)
- tö = too, also
- tön = tune
- töm = (adj) empty, (v) to pour (tömin wi rain)
- tömalt = heavy rain
- tö-tak = stupid person
- töve = (n) a short, cross, heavy sea
- traa = (v) twist, strangle
- traan = (adj) twisted, akward
- trachle = (v) work hard (hit wis a trachle gettin da paets cast)
- track = period, spell (an ill track o wadder)
- trackie = (adj) sticky (dis paint is awfil trackie wi da cold day) tchakie in some areas
- traivle = (v) walk
- transe = (n) open-ended covered passage through a building, also the narrow lanes leading up the hill from Commercial Street
- trap = (n) ladder, stairs
- trath = troth
- travf = a slow moving run or hanging drop of slowly moving semi-liquid material.
- trave = (n) twenty four sheaves
- tree = three
- treed = thread (A pirm o treed)
- trift = drive (usually used in a negative manner) (Nivver spaek aboot im, he nivver haes da trift t' win trowe we onythin)
- trig = to present an impressive outward appearance with dress/decoration (geen an trig upoa dee afore du geens furt among fok)
- trigit = having an impressive outward appearance (dir new hoose is weel trigit oot)
- trimlin = (adv) trembling
- trinkie = passage, gap between rocks
- trist = twist
- trivle = fondle, feel
- trooker = naughty person/child
- trow = elf, imp. Little people who lived in the hill and who were never seen in daylight
- trowe = through
- trowe-bawnd = a stone which reach fully across the width of the wall in to which it is built, thereby tying both outside skins of the wall together, to increase wall strength and stability/durability/longevity
- trowe-pit = effort, achievement.
- trowie-glove = (n) a sponge
- trowling = (n) a baby trow
- trows' cairds = ferns
- trows' hadds = places where trows lived, often in the nooks and crannies of rocks, shielded by cairds.
- tröni = snout, nose
- truck = trample, also be involved or do businnes with (dir prices ir juist swickery, nivir truck wi dem)
- trulla-scud = (n) a witch
- truncher = large plate
- truss = oddments
- trussit = (adj) untidy (shü's a aafil trussit lipper)
- tröttle = (v) mutter
- tud = (n) A sudden squall
- tuell = tool
- tuh haulin = at once, instantly. (From the weather phenomena where storm cloulds gather in the lee sky for some time on a pleasant day, until the wind direction suddenly changes to behind the storm causing to it descend rapidly.
- tuk = (v) took (n) fold, layer
- tulie = (n) quarrel, scuffle, skirmish
- tully = (n) a large knife
- tumalt = (adj) heavy rain
- turbot = (n) halibut (hippoglossus hippoglossus)
- turkasöt = (n) animal disease causing the skin to adhere to the back
- tushker = (n) peat cutting device
- tussip = a relatively small amount of any solid material, but most often applied to hair, grass etc
- twa = two
- twall = twelve, midday, morning tea-break
- twartbaak = (n) cross beam in roof (Also known variously as a crossbak/krawsbak/krawsbauk from area to area)
- twartird = of a difficult, twisted or thwarted nature
- twartree = two or three, a few, or any number from three and up (he haes a twartree sheep), Also expressed as (a peerie twartree) and (a bra twartree)
- twasper = walking at maximum speed (he wis gyaan aest da rod juist it da twasper)
- tweet = (v) carve wood with knife
- twig = catch on, understand
- twilt = (n) quilt, duvet
- tyoch = (adj) tough (a tyoch bit o maet)
- tystie = (n) black guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
