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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Here are just a few quick ones: jackanapes, siller, clachan, bouman, cushat-dove, nainsel, muirs, possets, gillie, collops, driegh, drammach, braw, brose, and sporran. There are many, many more such examples to be found, including just about all the ones defined by Paul in the appendix.
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OK, so it's mainly Scots dialect words. Understandable that they wouldn't be familiar to you; most of the words on your list wouldn't be understood by the majority of British people, either, although a few would. I'd say that "jackanapes", "gillie", and "sporran" are relatively common words, but the rest assuredly aren't.