The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to SCOT

 

APRIL FOOL		Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand, on the first of April; which day it is the custom among the lower people, children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully doubled up, sending persons on absurd messages, and such like contrivances, to impose on every one they can, and then to salute them with the title of April Fool. This is also practised in Scotland under the title of Hunting the Gowke.
BAWBEE		A halfpenny. Scotch.
BUBBLY JOCK		A turkey cock. SCOTCH.
CAGG		To cagg; a military term used by the private soldiers, signifying a solemn vow or resolution not to get drunk for a certain time; or, as the term is, till their cagg is out: which vow is commonly observed with the strictest exactness. Ex. I have cagg'd myself for six months. Excuse me this time, and I will cagg myself for a year. This term is also used in the same sense among the common people of Scotland, where it is performed with divers ceremonies.
CLAN		A family's tribe or brotherhood; a word much used in Scotland. The head of the clan; the chief: an allusion to a story of a Scotchman, who, when a very large louse crept down his arm, put him back again, saying he was the head of the clan, and that, if injured, all the rest would resent it.
COURSER		The verb TO COSE was used by the Scots, in the sense of bartering or exchanging.
CURSE OF SCOTLAND		The nine of diamonds; diamonds, it is said, imply royalty, being ornaments to the imperial crown; and every ninth king of Scotland has been observed for many ages, to be a tyrant and a curse to that country. Others say it is from its similarity to the arms of Argyle; the Duke of Argyle having been very instrumental in bringing about the union, which, by some Scotch patriots, has been considered as detrimental to their country.
FULL MARCH		The Scotch greys are in full march by the crown office; the lice are crawling down his head.
GILLY GAUPUS		A Scotch term for a tall awkward fellow.
GRIMALKIN		A cat: mawkin signifies a hare in Scotland.
HANGMAN'S WAGES		Thirteen pence halfpenny; which, according to the vulgar tradition, was thus allotted: one shilling for the executioner, and three halfpence for the rope, - N. B. This refers to former times; the hangmen of the present day having, like other artificers, raised their prices. The true state of this matter is, that a Scottish mark was the fee allowed for an execution, and the value of that piece was settled by a proclamation of James I. at thirteen pence halfpenny.
ITCHLAND, or SCRATCHLAND		Scotland.
LEATHER		To lose leather; to be galled with riding on horseback, or, as the Scotch express it, to be saddle sick. To leather also meant to beat, perhaps originally with a strap: I'll leather you to your heart's content. Leather-headed; stupid. Leathern conveniency; term used by quakers for a stage-coach.
LOUSE LAND		Scotland.
MAGNUM BONUM		A bottle containing two quarts of wine. See SCOTCH PINT.
MESS JOHN		A Scotch presbyterian teacher or parson.
MOW		A Scotch word for the act of copulation.
PONTIUS PILATE		A pawnbroker. Pontius Pilate's guards, the first regiment of foot, or Royal Scots: so intitled from their supposed great antiquity. Pontius Pilate's counsellor; one who like him can say, Non invenio causam, I can find no cause. Also (Cambridge) a Mr. Shepherd of Trinity College; who disputing with a brother parson on the comparative rapidity with which they read the liturgy, offered to give him as far as Pontius Pilate in the Belief.
PRINCOD		A pincushion. SCOTCH - Also a round plump man or woman.
RED SHANK		A Scotch Highlander.
SAWNY or SANDY		A general nick-name for a Scotchman, as Paddy is for an Irishman, or Taffy for a Welchman; Sawny or Sandy being the familiar abbreviation or diminution of Alexander, a very favourite name among the Scottish nation.
SCOT		A young bull.
SCOTCH BAIT		A halt and a resting on a stick, as practised by pedlars.
SCOTCH CHOCOLATE		Brimstone and milk.
SCOTCH FIDDLE		The itch.
SCOTCH GREYS		Lice. The headquarters of the Scotch greys: the head of a man full of large lice.
SCOTCH MIST		A sober soaking rain; a Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin.
SCOTCH PINT		A bottle containing two quarts.
SCOTCH WARMING PAN		A wench; also a fart.
SCRATCH LAND		Scotland.
SHANKS NAGGY		To ride shanks naggy: to travel on foot. SCOTCH.
STAGGERING BOB, WITH HIS YELLOW PUMPS		A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are yellow.
TRAY TRIP		An ancient game like Scotch hop, played on a pavement marked out with chalk into different compartments.
WARMING-PAN		A large old-fashioned watch. A Scotch warming-pan; a female bedfellow.
WELCH FIDDLE		The itch. See SCOTCH FIDDLE.
WHISKY		A malt spirit much drank in Ireland and Scotland; also a one-horse chaise. See TIM WHISKY.