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).
convene
Borrowed from French
convenir, from Latin
convenire.
cosy
firth
Derived from Old Icelandic fjǫrdic (see fjord)
glamour
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 (1771–1828), who invented it.
gumption
Common sense or shrewdness.
haver or haiver
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
From Scots "mingin". revolting, stinking, putrid, rancid etc.
plaid
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
pullāmen.
raid
scone
Probably from Dutch
schoon.
skullduggery
From Scots
sculduddery
tweed
cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from
tweel
wee
small, tiny, minute.
wraith
