Hen– being perhaps the most widely recognised. Not to be confused with the feathery fowl, but instead referring to a female, often a younger lady, used as a Scottish term of endearment, much like honey or sweetheart might be used further South.
A lass is a girl. Your Scottish folk dance teacher might announce, "Lads line up on that side, lasses on this side!"
Bonnie. Female | A quintessential Scottish name that will never go out of fashion, Bonnie is the Scots word for beautiful, pretty, stunning and attractive. Bonnies tend to have an inimitable personality.
Bairn is a Northern English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child.
Barry is a great word, meaning great! Lass/Lad (Lassie/Laddie) refers to girls and boys, respectively.
: a young woman : girl. a Scottish lass. : sweetheart.
bairn. / (bɛən, Scottish bern) / noun. Scot and Northern English a child.
Sadie: From the Hebrew word sarai meaning “queen” or “princess,” Sadie is most popular in Scotland as a pet name for Sarah. Sara or Sarah: Meaning “princess”.
Cailín. Finishing off this trio, next we have caílin—which is simply the Irish Gaelic word for girl. Today, in Irish English it has come to be a catch-all term for girls and women, though again it is most often used in regard to young women.
A lassie is a young woman or girl. [mainly Scottish, informal]
Cute, n. Also: cuit(t, coot; kute, kuitt.
Laddie is the word for boy in Scottish English.
Quine goes back to Old English cwen, meaning a woman, wife or, as in modern English, a queen. An obsolete spelling of this word, quean, shows more clearly the history of this word.
Sweetie-wife: n. purveyor of gossip.
Aoife. Aoife is a Gaelic women's name meaning “beautiful” or “radiant.”
Aoife (ee-fa) This name means beautiful, radiant or joyful, and likely derives from the Gaelic word 'aoibh' meaning 'beauty' or 'pleasure.
In Gaelic they're known as the sìth (pronounced 'shee'). There are many place names in Scotland named after the fairies such as Glen Shee (Fairy Glen) and Schiehallion (Fairy Hill of the Caledonians), one of our most famous mountains.
The Gaelic for 'queen' is banrigh, but the word is much less in evidence in the landscape than its masculine equivalent.
Seelie is a term for fairies in Scottish folklore, appearing in the form of seely wights or The Seelie Court.
luve: love. The Scottish Word: luve with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
Tha gaol agam ort (I love you)
Meaning: Baby, Small child. Example: 'Aw, look et the bonnie wee bairn' Translation: 'Aw, look at the beautiful little baby'