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 (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. 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

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

;wee:Small, tiny, minute.

;wow: Exclamation

;wraith