Ken
Ken is to know or understand it comes from middle English kennen meaning to give instructions to, be aware, know, have knowledge of, know how to, recognize by sight. It was a very common verb, from Old English meaning to cause to know, make to know, it is the causative of cunnan which means, to become acquainted with, to know. Cognate with the German kennen, the Danish kjende and the Swedish känna.
Drouth
The word Drouth also has variations that include drugab and drugob. It means to have continuous dry weather which may have may cause damage to the vegetation of the area. It originates from the Proto-Germanic drugothaz, , from Germanic root *dreug- “dry” with itho, the Germanic suffix for forming abstract nouns. Drouth was a Middle English version that continued in Scotland and Northern England.
Auld
Old English ald (Anglian), eald (West Saxon, Kentish) “antique, of ancient origin, belonging to antiquity, primeval; long in existence or use; near the end of the normal span of life; elder, mature, experienced,” from Proto-Germanic *althaz “grown up, adult” (source also of Old Frisian ald, Gothic alþeis, Dutch oud, German alt), originally a past-participle stem of a verb meaning “grow, nourish”
Bairn
“child” (of either gender or any age), “son or daughter,” Old English bearn “child, son, descendant,” from Proto-Germanic *barnan (source also of Old Saxon barn, Old Frisian bern, Old High German barn “child;” lost in modern German and Dutch)
Drookit
It means extremely wet; drenched early 16th century: origin uncertain; cf. Old Norse drukna ‘to be drowned’
Coorie
Coorie means to nestle or snuggle in, Diminutive of coor, from Middle English cowre (“to crouch, cower”).
Haver
Borrowed from Scots haver, from Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”). Cognate with Dutch haver (“oats”), cognate with German Hafer (“oat”).
Peelie-Wally
It’s from an Old English verb meaning to fade. So somebody wally-like was as pale as china. Chambers Dictionary suggests the paleness might be that of old-fashioned dentures, which were once made of porcelain and were commonly called wallies
Blather
“talk nonsense,” 1520s, blether, Scottish, probably from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse blaðra “mutter, wag the tongue,” which is perhaps of imitative origin, or from Proto-Germanic blodram “something inflated” (the source of bladder)
Outwith
The earliest known use of the word outwith is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED’s earliest evidence for outwith is from around 1175, in Ormulum. Outwith is formed within English, by compounding.
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