List of English words of Scots origin

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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 (family, stock, off-spring).

;cosy

;firth:Derived from Old Icelandic fjǫrdic (see fjord)

;glamour:Meaning magic, enchantment, spell. From English grammar and Scottish gramarye (occult learning or scholarship).

;gloaming:Middle English (Scots) gloming, from Old English glomung "twilight", from OE glom

;golf

;glengarry:(or Glengarry bonnet) 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 (1771–1828), who invented it.

;gumption:Common sense or shrewdness.

;halloween

;haver or haiver:To talk nonsense.{{cite book|title=Concise Scots Dictionary|year=1985|publisher=Aberdeen University Press|page=260|edition=1987|editor=Mairi Robinson}} Scottish and North English dialect.

;laddie:A boy.

;lassie:A girl.

;links:Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge).

;pernickety:From pernicky.

;minging: literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming".

;plaid: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 (little foal) from Latin pullāmen.

;raid

;scone:Probably from Dutch schoon.

;shinny:Pond or street hockey in Canada. From an alternative name for the Scots sport shinty.

;skulduggery:From Scots sculduddery{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/skulduggery?q=skullduggery|title=skulduggery - definition of skulduggery in English from the Oxford dictionary|work=oxforddictionaries.com|access-date=2020-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200904/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/skulduggery?q=skullduggery|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sculduddery|title=Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Sculduddery n.|work=dsl.ac.uk|access-date=2020-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200504/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sculduddery|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=live}}

;tweed:Cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. from tweel

;wee:Small, tiny, minute.

;wow: Exclamation{{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wow|title=wow - Definition of wow in English by Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries - English|access-date=2020-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321063039/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wow|archive-date=2018-03-21|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053y31m|title=Americanize!: Why the Americanisation of English Is a Good Thing, Seriously... - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC|date=26 May 2017 |access-date=2020-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401161906/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053y31m|archive-date=2019-04-01|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/wow_interj|title=Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Wow interj.|website=www.dsl.ac.uk|access-date=2020-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320230609/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/wow_interj|archive-date=2018-03-20|url-status=live}}

;wraith