kailyard

English

Alternative forms

• kailyaird
• kaleyard

Etymology

kail +‎ yard

Noun

kailyard (plural kailyards)

1. (Scotland) A kitchen garden.
   • 1860–62, J.F. Campbell, "The Widow and Her Daughters", Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II:

     There was formerly a poor widow, and she had three daughters, and all she had to feed them was a kailyard. There was a great gray horse who was coming every day to the yard to eat the kail.

2. A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister

Derived terms

• kailyarder
• kailyardism
• Kailyard school