ye're a run deil.

That is, "Jock," although very mischievous, is a quiet and
well-behaved person compared to you.

Joke at leisure; ye kenna wha may jibe yoursel.

Jouk, and let the jaw gang by.

Literally, stoop, and let the rush of water go over your head;
meaning, yield to adverse circumstances, and their effects will pass
away.

"Just as it fa's," quo' the wooer to the maid.

"A courtier went to woo a maid: she was dressing supper with a drop
at her nose. She asked him if he would stay all night; he answered,
'Just as it falls:' meaning, if the drop fell among the meat, he
would be off; if it fell by, he would stay."--_Kelly._

Just enough and nae mair, like Janet Howie's shearer's meat.

Just, father, just; three half-crowns mak five shillings; gie me the
money and I'll pay the man.

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Kail hains bread.

Kame sindle, kame sair.

If the hair is seldom combed it soon becomes a difficult and painful
operation to perform. Proverbially applied when simple but necessary
matters of business are neglected to such an extent that they become
troublesome.

Kamesters are aye creeshy.

"Kamesters," or wool-combers, are always greasy. People are always
like their work.

Katie Sweerock, frae where she sat, cried, "Reik me this, and reik me
that."

"Applied to lazy people, who ask others to do this or that for them
which they ought to do for themselves."--_Kelly._

Keek in the stoup was ne'er a gude fellow.

"Spoken when one peeps into the pot to see if the liquor be out;
whereas a jolly good fellow should drink about, and when the pot's
empty call for more."--_Kelly._

Keep a calm sough.

That is, keep your own counsel on matters of danger or delicacy.

"'Thir kittle times will drive the wisest o' us daft,' said Neil
Blane, the prudent host of the Howff; 'but I'se aye keep a calm
sough.'"--_Old Mortality._

Keep aff and gie fair words.

Or promise much, but perform little.

"The assets he carried off are of nae mair use to him than if he
were to light his pipe wi' them. He tried if MacVittie & Co. wad gie
him siller on them--that I ken by Andro Wylie; but they were ower
auld cats to draw that strae afore them--they keepit aff and gae
fair words."--_Rob Roy._

Keep a thing seven years, and ye'll find a use for't.

Keep gude company, and ye'll be counted a