Definitions

[gwynraven]

kebbock/kebbuck: (n) In Scots: A cheese: sometimes denoting a special kind, that is, made with ewe-milk mixed with cow's milk.

moidered: (adj) In Irish English and Northern Dialect: Confused, muddled, stupefied.

blate: (adj) In Scots and Northern Dialect: 1. Pale, ghastly

Comments

[6_bleen_7]

I love Huck's use of the word clack near the end of Huckleberry Finn, after Jim's escape is discovered and everyone is discussing it at Uncle Silas's house:

"And the place was plum full of farmers and farmers' wives, to dinner; and such another clack a body never heard."

[gwynraven]

Interesting - as is becoming rather obvious - most of the words I've been posting lately have come from a book written almost entirely in Scots English, which was driving me round the bend. It is interesting to see which words travelled where, however :)

[6_bleen_7]

When I read it I assumed it was short for "clacking of tongues." I'm surprised it has a Scottish etymology.

[gwynraven]

It is indeed related to that sense. And I think it's less Scottish and more British colloquial, although it seems to have survived longer in some of the regional dialects.