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strunt, strunted, struntit, strunts,
strunt [strʌnt]
n. A fit of pique or pettishness. The huff, the sulks. Strife, enmity, hostility. A person of sulky disposition, a surly person. A haughty or dignified gait, a firm assured stride.
v. To offend, pique, affront someone. To sulk, to go about in a huff. To walk about in a stately or affected manner. To stalk, strut with a bouncing self-confident air.
pt. pp. struntit
Compounds and phrases etc.
tak the strunts: To be in a huff.
scaughey, skahy, skyaghie, skyaghy, stachie, stachies, staghey, staughie, staughie, stuchie, stuchies, stughie, styachie, styachie, styaghie, styughy,
stuchie [ˈstʌxe]
n. U. Solid, substantial or satisfying food.
pl. stuchies Coarse greasy stews, a mixture of leavings cooked together.
adj. U. Of food: substantial, satisfying.
steckie, stookie, stooky, stoukie, stuckie, stucky, stukie,
stuckie [ˈstʌke]
n. WC. EC. The starling Sturnus vulgaris.
steekie, stuckie, stukki,
stuckie [I.Sh. ˈstʌkɪ]
n. A big half-grown cod Gadus morhua or thick codling.
stiddies, studdied, studdiet, studie, studied, studies, studiet, studit, study, stuidie,
study [ˈstʌdɪ]
n. Study.
pl. studies
v. To study.
pt. pp. studied
stiff, stouf, stoufie, stoufy, stowf, stowfie, stowfy, stowie, stuff, stuffie, stuffy,
stuff [stʌf, stʌuf]
n. Stuff. Material. Provisions. A store of food, eatables. Corn, grain, a crop.
stuffie [ˈstʌfi, ˈstʌufi]
adj. In good health, sturdy, robust, full of vigour, spirited, plucky, sturdily-built, stocky, stout, solid.
stig, stigg, stiggisom, stiggit, stoag, stoagg, stug, stugg, stuggisome, stuggit,
stug [I.Sh. stʌg]
n. A feeling of repulsion or disgust, an aversion at food etc. thought to presage a death of a member of one's family.
stuggit
adj. Averse or full from food.
Compounds and phrases etc.
stuggisome: Disgusting.
steug, stewg, stoag, stog, stogg, stoug, stug, stuggie, stuggie, stuggy, stuggy, stugs,
stug [stʌg, SEC. stog]
n. A jagged or uneven cut, anything left rough and stumpy by careless cutting. The stump of a tree, or bush. A lump, a stiff congealed mass. A stocky coarse-built person. A prick, a stab with some pointed object, the object itself. A dart. A rough, hasty stitch in sewing. A thrusting, prodding motion, a jab.
pl. stugs Unevenly-cut stubble.
dim. stuggie
v. To cut with a rough, stumpy edge, to cut the stubble unevenly. To walk in a blundering heavy-footed manner, to plod or stump. To stab, pierce with a sharp-pointed weapon or the like, to prick, jab, to stitch, sew lightly and roughly. To probe with a stick.
stuggy
adj. Uneven, with an irregular outline. Of cloth: of a coarse rough texture.
back-stool, back-stuil, buffet-stool, buffet-stuil, buffet-stule, buffy-stool, creepie-stool, creepie-stuil, creipie-stuil, cuttie_stool, cuttie-stuil, cutty-stool, cutty-stuil, daub-at-the-stuil, fitsteel, fitstuil, fuitstuil, futestule, heidstail, heidstail, heidstaill, heid-stall, heidsteel, heidsteil, heid-steil, heidstool, heidstuil, steel, steelie, steul, stoels, stöels, stöl, stole, stole, stuiels, stuil, stuilie, stuils, stül, stule,
stuil [støl, C. U. stɪl, U. stel, U. N. stil]
n. A stool. A trestle, a repentance stool or small bench. A chair with a back. A luster of new shoots from a cut stem. A matted bed or sole of vegetation.
dim. stuilie
Compounds and phrases etc.
back-stuil: A chair.
buffet-stuil: A square stool with leaves which can be folded down like a table.
creepie-stuil: A child's stool.
daub-at-the-stuil: Salt and pepper.
cutty-stuil: A low stool. The stool of repentance in a kirk.
fitstuil: A footstool.
heidstuil: A headstall, the headpiece of a bridle, part of a halter.
steul, stol, stöl, stoll, stuil, stül,
stuil [I.Sh. støl]
v. To make secure or stable, to provide a firm basis for.
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