Glossary

A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-begotten Daughter

Sources: John Cuthbertson, Complete Glossary to the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns (1886);
Robert Burns; a Glossary of Scottish Terms

wean> child

mischanter fa’>misfortune befall

daunton> daunt

Tit-ta>?

tease>pull apart

kintra clatter > country tattle

clash > chatter

feckless> silly

gie ane fash > be disturbed by

queir> choir

daut> fondle

dint>occasion

no a’ tint > not all a waste, lost

asklent> askew, aslant

in my last plack…> in my last farthing you’ll have a share be the waur bestead> become worse off

braw> handsome

bienly> comfortably

stockit > well-stocked

mailins>mailens, farms