red-fisher, a salmon-fisher (27) reed flannen, ne.Sc. term for salmon, used in fishing districts as a taboo synonym, sometimes also of trout (Ags., Edb. (1) (26) red-fish, (i) the male salmon at spawning time when it assumes a reddish colour (w. See also Etin (25) reid face, see Face, I. Haliburton For Puir Auld Scotland's Sake 212) (24) red etin, -eitin, -aiten, a giant, a mythical monster fig. (7), and (23) (22) red-early, of grain: sprouting in the stack from being imperfectly dried (23) red-end, a bee with red markings behind, polite variant for (2) or (21). (21) red-doup, a bee with red markings behind (Rxb. (3) (20) red curldoddy, red clover, Trifolium pratense.
= fire raised maliciously, arson (18) Red cowl, = (12) (19) red-cross, the fiery cross. 1968) †(16) red-clout, a derogatory name for a red-coat or soldier (17) red cock, used fig. Milne Eppie Elrick xxvi.), (i) a red coat worn by a town officer or †a golfer (ii) a name for the ladybird (Rxb. See Redcoll (15) red-coat, reed-cuyte, ¶ -kite (Abd. (18) and Capie-Dossie (13) red-close, the gullet (wm.Sc. (12) red cap, also Redcapie-dossie, a fairy or goblin supposed to haunt old buildings. a species of alga, underlying a growth of Sphagnum palustre on the surface of a bog (10) red brae, the gullet (Ags., Rnf., Ayr., Gall. slang (9) red-bog, a red-coloured substance, phs. The reference may be to a somewhat notorious and lawless Irishwoman prominent in the Glasgow Riots of 1848. by the Irish in Gsw., from Biddy, pet form of the common Irish female name Bridget. (2), (21) and (23) (8) red biddy, a mixture of cheap red wine with methylated spirit or other alcohol, also any cheap red wine, phs. (76) (7) red beltie, a bee with red striped markings. 1968) (6) red bellie, a trout of the genus Salvelinus, a char. 1968) (5) reid-back, the ladybird, Coccinella (Slk. 3 1920) (4) rid-baa, the yolk of an egg (Sh. (7), (21) and (23) (3) red-avised, having a ruddy complexion, red-faced (Sh., Slk. and phrs., where reid has sometimes come to have a merely intensive force, e.g. 1997 Tom Watson Dark Whistle 54: His lineage hings Aff breist-bane rid, His neb an' claws Wi' ran-dan bluid aye clagged, Yet wi' rumgumption Tholes yon coinage o' Bad cess, the cleck Ablow.ġ. Hingin thro the sinnons O its hin haughs Harrigals fleitin in watter The swine swayed And the bern bauks creaked. 1997 Liz Niven Past Presents 14: The skillet skailed, bluid struled Sutherland cursed tae hae Sic reid hauns. Like ah sais, beetroot rid, my auld man laughed, jabbing fork into space. 1995 Irvine Welsh Marabou Stork Nightmares (1996) 141: Went beetroot rid, so eh did. 1994 John Burns in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 25: He watcht the fire grow reidder an reidder as he caad the haunnle. Weel it's no fair, is it? Feel a right twit. 1991 Janet Paisley in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 127: Ah go rid tae the roots o ma hair.
1991 William Neill in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 50: Poother tae mak ye whiter, lipstick tae mak ye ridder, a hunner assortit smells tae droon oot the stink o common humanity. 1991 William Montgomerie in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 18: Aroon me are the reid leaves the reid rose leaves the reid rose leaves m.Sc. 1988 William Neill Making Tracks 62: Whan the rid lowe hits Loch Grannoch's mirror atween the Fell an Craiglowrie Hill, syne bid fareweel tae the dour winter, tae dowie lift an the crannreuch's chill. 1987 Sheena Blackhall in Joy Hendry Chapman 49 57: A mirey, dubby, tapsalteerie burn Teirin alang a bank o' reidest thorn Nae tinklin puil, o' tranquil blessed calm Twar better sic a thing war niver born! m.Sc. Wi' his rid, plooky grunzie - is he no quite it! Abd. 1985 Liz Lochhead Tartuffe 21: That's no tae be sniffed at, he's - so the world's heard - The Big Aristocrat - in his ain back-yerd. 1983 John McDonald in Joy Hendry Chapman 37 44: A reid dawin. When I liftit ma heid his e'en to meet a flegsome fear was in ma wame. 1979 Ian Bowman in Joy Hendry Chapman 23-4 (1985) 40: They coost me doon at the Maister's feet: ma chaffs were burnin an reid wi shame. Includes material from the 19 supplements. Show Show Browse Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)įirst published 1968 (SND Vol.
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