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clap To clap an animal, especially a dog or a horse, is to give it an affectionate pat: It likes ye to clap its wee head. A clap is such an affectionate pat.

clappy-doo (clap-pee-doo) or clabby-doo A clappy-doo is a large black mussel. [The word is from the Gaelic clab enormous mouth plus dubh black]

clapshot Clapshot is a dish consisting of potatoes and turnips which have been boiled and then mashed together in roughly equal quantities: Lunch is fillets of cod served with clapshot, roasted peppers, and chilli oil.

clarsach (klar-saCH) The clarsach was the ancient Celtic harp of Scotland and Ireland. Its use has been revived by folk musicians in both countries this century. [The word is Gaelic and means harp]

clart or clort A clart is a lump of mud or something else unpleasant. A clart is also a dirty mess. [The word is perhaps from the Middle English biclarten defile]

clarty, clatty, or clorty Something that is clarty is messy or dirty: The Tourist Board’s inspectors are encouraged to give clarty accommodation the bum’s rush.

clavie (clay-vee) A clavie is a tar-barrel traditionally set alight in Moray on Hogmanay to bring good luck in the ceremony known as burning the clavie.

claw To claw something is to scratch it: He winna claw an auld heid.

claymore A claymore is a large two-edged broadsword used formerly by Scottish Highlanders. The later single-edged baskethilted sword is often called a claymore. [The word is from the Gaelic claidheamh mòr great sword]

Clearances or Highland Clearances The Clearances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were the removal by landlords, often by force, of the inhabitants from some parts of the Scottish Highlands to make way for sheep and other more lucrative uses of the land. Many Highlanders were re-settled on poorer coastal land and encouraged to combine farming with fishing or kelp-gathering. Large numbers were driven off the land altogether and into emigration overseas or to the cities of the South.

cleek A cleek is a hook or any device shaped like a hook.

cleg or clegg A cleg is a horse-fly with a painful bite. [The word comes from the Old Norse klegge]

click If someone gets a click, they find themselves a person with whom they may establish an amorous relationship.

clint In Southwest Scotland, a clint is a cliff or crag. [The word is possibly from the Danish klint cliff]

clipe A variant spelling of clype.

clipshears or clipshear A clipshears is an earwig. [The name comes from the resemblance of the pincers at the tip of the creature’s abdomen to shears]

clishmaclaver (klish-ma-clay-ver) Clishmaclaver is a word meaning gossip or incessant chatter. [It is a combination of two Scots words, clish to repeat gossip, and claver to talk idly]

cloot Cloot is a Scots word for a piece of cloth or a cloth used as a duster, etc.: Dicht roon the sink wi a cloot.

clootie dumpling (rhymes with booty) A clootie dumpling is a rich dark fruitcake served as a dessert, like a Christmas pudding. It is boiled or steamed in a cloot or cloth. Until the recent past, clootie dumplings were made as a birthday treat for children and, like Christmas puddings, were often made containing sixpences.

clort A variant of clart.