List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Highland Scots.
Blackmail:A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations.
blatant
Bonspiel
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).
firth:Derived from Old Icelandic fjërdic (see fjord)
: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 title of the clan chief Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry (1771âÂÂ1828), who invented it.
gumption:Common sense or shrewdness.
halloween
:To talk nonsense. Scottish and North English dialect.
laddie:A boy.
lassie:A girl.
links:Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge).
pernickety:From pernicky.
minging: literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming".
: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 pullÃÂmen.
scone:Probably from Dutch schoon.
shinny:Pond or street hockey in Canada. From an alternative name for the Scots sport shinty.
:From Scots sculduddery
tweed:Cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from tweel
:Small, tiny, minute.
wow: Exclamation
wraith
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