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- waa = wall
- waaken = awake
- waand = (n) wand, fishing rod, (piltock waand)
- waar = (n) seaweed, kelp
- waar = aware
- waarblade = (n) a frond of seaweed
- waarbruk = seaweed piled on beach after storm
- waasim = pubic wig, firkin
- wabbit = tired
- wadder = weather
- wadder-head = cloud formation, build up of clouds; a band of cirrus passing through the zenith - if it lies north-east to south-west then good weather comes, if southeast to north-west then a gale is looked for
- wadder-mouth = streak of clouds across the sky
- waddergaets = anticlockwise, against the sun, unlucky way to turn a boat
- wadder lump = wave thrown up by interaction of wind against tide.
- Wadensday = (n) Wednesday
- wadmal, wadmel = (n) coarse, homespun woolen cloth, once used to pay skatt
- waeg = (n) kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
- wale = (v) select ( I'm waled oot twartree piltick livers fur dee)
- wan-earthy = (adj) unearthly
- wanliss = (adj), homeless, having no friends, solitary
- wantit = wanted
- wap = throw (wap yun fae dee), sudden gust of wind (a wap o wind)
- war = (adj) worse (he's gotten da war o hit)
- ward, ward-hill = (n) high hill provided with a stack of peat ready to be set afire as a warning of approaching enemy ships
- wark = work
- warn = warrant, (I warn du'll no ken dis..)
- warse = worse
- warsen = to become worse (Whit dusna warsen man better)
- wart = high point of ground, a watch hill, (Da wart o Bressay)
- wastard = (n) westward, westerly (dey sailed tae da wastard)
- wattir-bewitched = a weakly flavoured drink or thin weak soup etc
- wattir-wup = an ineffectual person. Usually male, scrawny and not particularly healthy looking, who by all appearances totally lacks energy and any sort of physical or mental prowess or talent.
- wattle = (n) a public obligation dating back to the Norse era and collected into the 19th century
- wauk = felting/matting of hair/wool or woollen goods
- wave = (also: waev) a simple mechanism to keep a door (usually on a cupboard) closed, comprising of a small rectangular piece of wood, attached to the doorframe by a centrally mounted screw which it rotates around.
- wecht = weight
- wecht = a premonition (usually used as fan a wecht or hed a wecht)
- weel = well
- week = a wick/bay. The corner of the mouth
- wemflit = (adj) insubstantial, not fit for purpose,
- wha = who
- whaal = (n) whale
- whaap = (n) curlew (Numenius arquata)
- whaas = (prep) whose
- whaasle = wheeze
- whaat = (prep) what (Unst)
- whalp = (n) puppy
- whale blobs = (n) jellyfish
- whan = when
- whark = the arch of a human foot or the part of the sole of footwear that is immediately beneath it
- wharve = (v) to turn new mown hay with a rake
- whaur = where
- whaurm = (n) the corner of an eye closest to the nose
- wheef = a fast speed
- wheek = remove an object from its location very quickly and without warning
- wheet flee = (n) a large white butterfly of the cabbage caterpillar
- whenk = an obvious physical mannerism of the upper body, particularly the face and head. Done intentionally it usually infers ill-grace and/or displeasure, a gesture indicating being in a minor huff
- whilk = to remove an object (usually small) from a very confined space or through an opening barely adequate in size
- whillie = (n) light, easily handled rowing boat, skiff
- whinge = complain
- whingin = complaining, whining
- whinkin = walking with a saucy air
- whirkabis = (n) ailment in cattle causing dropsical swelling in the throat, also referred to a bulga
- whirrick = a difficult to fully access corner, angle, line or fold
- whiskin = (n) palpatation of the heart
- whit = what
- white maa = (n) herring gull (Larus argentatus)
- whitna = what a, who is, (whitna craetir is yun)
- whitred, whitret = (n) a stoat
- whizzin = cross-questioning, quizzing
- whummel = turn upside down
- wi = by, with, of
- wi dat sam = at that moment, immediately
- wid = would
- widda = would have
- widdershins = counter-clockwise, the wrong or unlucky way to turn a boat
- widna = wouldn't (I widna wiss him nae ill)
- wife = woman
- wifie-craetir = a male who displays effiminate characteristics
- wicks = corners of the mouth (he was fu tae da wicks o' his mooth)
- wick = inlet, bay (Breiwick)
- wid = would (n) wood
- widna = would not
- wild pigeon = (n) rock dove (Columba livia)
- will = stray
- willcock, willock = (n) razor bill (Alca torda)
- willin = straying from path.
- wind-spael = weather vane. Typically made with a wooden two bladed propellor type tip which rotated faster/louder the stronger the wind became.
- wint = used to
- win = (v) to get, to earn
- wint wi = acquainted with
- winnish = pine, long for
- wime = (n) belly
- wime-girt = (n) the belly band that secures the clibber to a horse's back
- wir = our
- wird = word
- wires = knitting needles (makkin wires)
- wirk = work
- wirlie = gap in dyke (hill dyke), through which burn flows. Hence many crofts located near a hill dyke where the burn passes through are called "Wirlie"
- wirris = home (from wir hoose?? = our house)
- wirsit = yarn, wool for knitting
- wis = us
- wis = was
- wisna = wasn't
- wiss = wish
- wist = wished
- wista, wister = (n) an unsheltered, windswept spot (oot in da wister)
- wit = intelligence/common sense
- witter = (n) barb on fish hook
- wittered = caught, hooked
- wizzin = shrivel, wither
- woddram, wodrome = (n) disease of cattle which causes madness
- wrack = driftwood or other useful items driven ashore by the sea
- wrang = wrong
- wrassle = wrestle
- wrat = wrote
- wrocht = (he wrocht a lok o dirt)
- wup = (v) whip around with string
- wye = way
- wylk = whelk
