Category:Scots terms by usage
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Scots terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Scots archaic terms: Scots terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Scots colloquialisms: Scots terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Scots dated terms: Scots terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Scots derogatory terms: Scots terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Scots dialectal terms: Scots terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Scots higher register terms: Scots terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Scots humorous terms: Scots terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
- Category:Scots informal terms: Scots terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Scots nonstandard terms: Scots terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Scots obsolete terms: Scots terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Scots poetic terms: Scots terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Scots slang: Scots colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Scots terms with archaic senses: Scots terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Scots terms with historical senses: Scots terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Scots terms with obsolete senses: Scots terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Scots terms with rare senses: Scots rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Scots terms with transferred senses: Scots terms with transferred senses.
- Category:Scots vulgarities: Scots terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
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C
- Scots colloquialisms (0 c, 6 e)
D
- Scots dated terms (0 c, 4 e)
- Scots derogatory terms (0 c, 25 e)
- Scots dialectal terms (0 c, 5 e)
H
- Scots humorous terms (0 c, 4 e)
I
- Scots informal terms (0 c, 4 e)
N
O
- Scots obsolete terms (0 c, 4 e)
P
- Scots poetic terms (0 c, 17 e)
S
- Scots slang (0 c, 24 e)
T
- Scots terms with archaic senses (0 c, 111 e)
- Scots terms with historical senses (0 c, 13 e)
- Scots terms with rare senses (0 c, 13 e)
- Scots terms with transferred senses (0 c, 1 e)
V
- Scots vulgarities (0 c, 11 e)