_Groat_, to get the whistle of one's groat; to play a losing game, to
feel the consequences of one's folly.
feel the consequences of one's folly.
Robert Burns
_Gowk_, term of contempt, the cuckoo.
_Grane_ or _grain_, a groan, to groan; _graining_, groaning.
_Graip_, a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses.
_Graith_, accoutrements, furniture, dress.
_Grannie_, grandmother.
_Grape_, to grope; _grapet_, groped.
_Great_, _grit_, intimate, familiar.
_Gree_, to agree; _to bear the gree_, to be decidedly victor; _gree't_,
agreed.
_Green-graff_, green grave,
_Gruesome_, loathsomely, grim.
_Greet_, to shed tears, to weep; _greetin'_, weeping.
_Grey-neck-quill_, a quill unfit for a pen.
_Griens_, longs, desires.
_Grieves_, stewards.
_Grippit_, seized.
_Groanin-Maut_, drink for the cummers at a lying-in.
_Groat_, to get the whistle of one's groat; to play a losing game, to
feel the consequences of one's folly.
_Groset_, a gooseberry.
_Grumph_, a grunt, to grunt.
_Grumphie_, _Grumphin_, a sow; the snorting of an angry pig.
_Grun'_, ground.
_Grunstone_, a grindstone.
_Gruntle_, the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise.
_Grunzie_, a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig.
_Grushie_, thick, of thriving growth.
_Gude_, _guid_, _guids_, the Supreme Being, good, goods.
_Gude auld-has-been_, was once excellent.
_Guid-mornin'_, good-morrow.
_Guid-e'en_, good evening.
_Guidfather_ and _guidmother_, father-in-law, and mother-in-law.
_Guidman_ and _guidwife_, the master and mistress of the house;
_young guidman_, a man newly married.
_Gully_ or _Gullie_, a large knife.
