Scottish Slang Term

English Translation

Abaideal

Colic

Arr

Cicatrix

Bellythra

Colic

Branks

The name in Scotland for the mumps. [Hooper1843] Cynanche Parotidea

Bruick

Furuncle

Buaicneach

Smallpox

Childill

Parturition

Crewels

Scrofula

Crying Out

Parturition

Dede

Death

Dismal

Melancholy

Doittrie

Senile Insanity. A form of insanity, in which there is a hopeless decadency or loss of the mental faculties. [Dunglison 1874].

Drow

Syncope

Ethik

Hectic Fever

Etick

Hectic Fever

Glengore / Grandgore

Syphilis

Glupad

Dropsy, Dropsy in throat of cattle and sheep.

Griùrach

Measles

Grandgore

In Scotland, syphilis was referred to as the Grandgore. [Wikipedia].

Gulschoch

Icterus

Gut

Gout

Hatrel

Abscess

Hasche

Pain. [Dunglison1968]

Hedeverk

Cephalalgia

Hoist

Tussis

Kibe

Chilblain

Kink-host

Pertussis

Lepyr

Lepra

Lipper

Lepra

Lòinidh

Rheumatism

Mirles

Rubeola

Ploic

Mumps

Pockarr

Pockmark

Poplesy

Apoplexy

Reif

Psora

Rig

Rachitis

Ripples

A popular term in Scotland for tabes dorsalis. [Thomas1875]

Sair

Ulcer

The Rose

Erysipelas in Scotland. [Erysipelas and Child-Bed Fever, Minor, 1874].

Scour

Diarrhea

Scrubie

Scurvey

Siatag

Rheumatism, Sciatica

Sibbens / Sivvens

A popular Scotch term for a disease resembling syphilis. [Thomas1875].

A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch. [CancerWEB]

Swalme

Tumor

Teasick

Phthisis

Water Brash

Pyrosis. An affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth. [Hooper1822]

Weam-Ill

Colic

Wodnes

Mania

Wud

Mad. [Tuke1892]

Woursum

Pus

Yecke

Psora

Youk

Popular Scotch term for scabies; also called, in some districts, yuck. [Thomas1875]

Yuck

Scabies