List of English words of Scots origin


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.
;convene :Borrowed from French convenir, from Latin convenire.
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;firth:Derived from Old Icelandic fjǫrdic
;:Meaning magic, enchantment, spell. From English grammar and Scottish gramarye.
;gloaming:Middle English gloming, from Old English glomung "twilight", from OE glom
;golf
;glengarry: 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, who invented it.
;gumption:Common sense or shrewdness.
;:To talk nonsense. Scottish and North English dialect.
;laddie:A boy.
;lassie:A girl.
;links:Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc.
;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 from Latin pullāmen.
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;scone:Probably from Dutch schoon.
;:From Scots sculduddery
;tweed:Cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from tweel
;:Small, tiny, minute.
;wow: Exclamation
;wraith