A Feegle Glossary, adjusted forthose of a delicate disposition(A Work in Progress by Miss Perspicacia Tick)

Bigjobs: Human beings.

Big Man: Chief of the clan (usually the husband of the kelda).

Blethers: Rubbish, nonsense.

Boggin': To be desperate, as in "I'm boggin' for a cup of tea."

Bunty: A weak person.

Cack yer kecks: Er, to put it delicately…to be very, very frightened. As it were.

Carlin: Old woman.

Cludgie: The privy.

Crivens!: A general exclamation that can mean anything from "My goodness!" to "I've just lost my temper and there is going to be trouble."

Dree your/my/his/her weird: Face the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.

Een: Eyes.

Eldritch: Weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason.

Fash: Worry, upset.

Geas: A very important obligation, backed up by tradition and magic. Not a bird.

Gonnagle: The bard of the clan, skilled in musical instruments, poems, stories, and songs.

Hag: A witch of any age.

Hag o' hags: A very important witch.

Hagging/Haggling: Anything a witch does.

Hiddlins: Secrets.

Kelda: The female head of the clan, and eventually the mother of most of it. Feegle babies are very small, and a kelda will have hundreds in her lifetime.

Lang syne: Long ago.

Last World: The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in a past life and then died and ended up here. Appearing to die here means merely going back to the Last World, which they believe is rather dull.

Mudlin: Useless person.

Pished: I am assured that this means "tired."

Schemie: An unpleasant person.

Scuggan: A really unpleasant person.