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GLOSSARY
OF
WILTSHIRE WORDS
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OXFORD
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
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A
GLOSSARY
OF
WORDS USED IN THE COUNTY OF WILTSHIRE
BY
GEORGE EDWARD DARTNELL
AND THE
REV. EDWARD HUNGERFORD GODDARD, M.A.
London:
PUBLISHED FOR THE ENGLISH DIALECT SOCIETY
BY HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AMEN CORNER, LONDON, E.C.
1893.
(All rights reserved.)
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PREFACE
THE following pages must not be considered as comprising an exhaustive
Glossary of our Wiltshire Folk-speech. The field is a wide one, and though
much has been accomplished much more still remains to be done. None but those
who have themselves attempted such a task know how difficult it is to get
together anything remotely approaching a complete list of the dialect words
used in a single small parish, to say nothing of a large county, such as
ours. Even when the words themselves have been collected, the work is little
more than begun. Their range in time and place, their history and etymology,
the side-lights thrown on them by allusions in local or general literature,
their relation to other English dialects, and a hundred such matters, more or
less interesting, have still to be dealt with. However, in spite of many
diffi- culties and hindrances, the results of our five years or more of
labour have proved very satisfactory, and we feel fully justified in claiming
for this Glossary that it contains the most complete list of Wiltshire words
and phrases which has as yet been compiled. More than one-half of the words here
noted have never before appeared in any Wiltshire Vocabulary, many of them
being now recorded for the first time for any county, while in the case of
the remainder much additional information will be found given, as well as
numerous examples of actual folk-talk.
The greater part of these words were originally collected by us as rough
material for the use of the compilers of the
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projected English Dialect Dictionary, and have been appearing in instalments
during the last two years in the Wilts Archao- logical Magazine (vol. xxvi,
pp. 84-169, and 293-314; vol. xxvii, pp. 124-159), as Contributions towards a
Wiltshire Glossary. The whole list has now been carefully revised and much
enlarged, many emendations being made, and a very considerable number of new
words inserted, either in the body of the work, or as Addenda. A few short
stories, illus- trating the dialect as actually spoken now and in Akerman's time,
with a brief Introduction dealing with Pronunciation, &c., and Appendices
on various matters of interest, have also been added,- so that the size of
the work has been greatly increased.
As regards the nature of the dialect itself, the subject has been fully dealt
with by abler pens than ours, and we need only mention here that it belongs
to what is now known as the South- Western group, which also com- prises most
of Dorset, Hants, Gloucester, and parts of Berks and Somerset. The use of
dialect would appear gradually to be dying out now in the county, thanks,
perhaps, to the spread of education, which too often renders the rustic half-ashamed
of his native tongue. Good old English as at base it is, for many a word or
phrase used daily and hourly by the Wiltshire labourer has come down almost
unchanged, even as regards pronunciation, from his Anglo- Saxon fore- fathers,
it is not good enough for him now. One here, and another there, will have
been up to town, only to come back with a stock of slang phrases and
misplaced aspirates, and a large and liberal contempt for the old speech and
the old ways. The natural result is that here, as elsewhere, every year is
likely to add considerably to the labour of collecting, until in another
generation or so what is now difficult may become an almost hopeless task. No
time should be lost, therefore, in noting down for permanent record every
word and phrase, custom or superstition, still current among us, that may
chance to come under observation.
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The words here gathered together will be found to fall mainly under three
heads ; (i) Dialect, as Caddie, (2) Ordinary English with some local shade of
meaning, as Unbelieving, and (3) Agricultural, as Hyle, many of the latter
being also entitled to rank as Dialect. There may also be noted a small number
of old words, such as toll and charm, that have long died out of standard
English, but still hold their own among our country people. We have not
thought it advisable, as a general rule, to follow the example set us by our
predeces- sors in including such words as archet and deaw, which merely represent
the local pronunciation of orchard and dew; nor have we admitted
cantankerous, tramp, and certain others that must now rank with ordinary
English, whatever claim they may once have had to be considered as
provincial. More leniency, however, has been exercised with regard to the agricultural
terms, many that are undoubtedly of somewhat general use being retained side
by side with those of more local limitation.
The chief existing sources of information are as follows : (i) the Glossary
of Agricultural Terms in Davis's General View of the Agriculture of Wilts, 1
809 ; reprinted in the Archaeological Review, March, 1888, with many valuable
notes by Prof. Skeat; (a) The Word-list in vol. iii. of Britton's Beauties of
Wilts, 1825; collated with Akerman, and re- printed in 1879 for the English
Dialect Society, with ad- ditions and annotations, by Prof. Skeat; (3)
Akerman's North Wilts Glossary, 1842, based upon Britton's earlier work; (4)
HalliwelFs Dictionary, 1847, where may be found most (but not all) of the
Wiltshire words occurring in our older literature, as the anonymous
fifteenth-century Chronicon Vilo- duneme, the works of John Aubrey, Bishop
Kennett's Parochial Antiquities, and the collections by the same author,
which form part of the Lamdowne MSS. ; (5) Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete
and Provincial English, 1859, which is mainly a con- densation of Halliweirs
work, but contains a few additional Wiltshire words ; (6) a Word-list in Mr.
E. Slow's Wiltshire
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Poems, which he has recently enlarged and published separ- ately; and (7) the
curious old MS. Vocabulary belonging to Mr. W. Cunnington, a verbatim reprint
of which will be found in the Appendix.
Other authorities that must here be accorded a special mention are a paper On
some un-noted Wiltshire Phrases, by the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath, in the Wilts
Archaeological Magazine ; Britten and Holland's invaluable Dictionary of English
Plant-names, which, however, is unfortunately very weak as regards Wilts
names ; the Rev. A. C. Smith's Birds of Wiltshire; Akerman's Wiltshire Tales;
the Flower-class Reports in the Sarum Diocesan Gazette ; the very scarce Song
of Solomon in North Wilts Dialect, by Edward Kite, a work of the highest
value as regards the preservation of local pro- nunciation and modes of
expression, but containing very few words that are not in themselves ordinary
English; the works of Richard Jefferies; Canon Jackson's valuable edition of Aubrey's
Wiltshire Collections ; and Britton's condensation of the Natural History of
Wilts. In Old Country and Farming Words, by Mr. Britten, 1880, much
information as to our agricultural terms may be found, gathered together from
the Surveys and similar sources. Lastly, the various Glossaries of the
neighbouring counties, by Cope, Barnes, Jennings, and other writers, should
be carefully collated with our Wiltshire Glossaries, as they often throw
light on doubtful points. Fuller particulars as to these and other works
bear- ing on the subject will be found in the Appendix on Wiltshire Bibliography.
We regret that it has been found impossible to carry out Professor Skeat's
suggestion that the true pronunciation should in all doubtful cases be
clearly indicated by its Glossic equivalent. To make such indications of any
practical value they should spring from a more intimate knowledge of that system
than either of us can 'be said to possess. The same remarks will also apply
to the short notes on Pronunciation, &c., where our utter inexperience as
regards the modern
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scientific systems of Phonetics must be pleaded as our excuse for having been
compelled to adopt methods that are as vague as they are unscientific.
To the English Dialect Society and its officers we are deeply indebted for
their kindness and generosity in under- taking to adopt this Glossary, and to
publish it in their valuable series of County Glossaries, as well as for the courtesy
shown us in all matters connected with the work. We have also to thank the
Wilts Archaeological Society for the space afforded us from time to time in
their Magazine, and the permission granted us to reprint the Word-lists therefrom.
In our Prefaces to these Word-lists we mentioned that we should be very glad
to receive any additions or suggestions from those interested in the subject.
The result of these appeals has been very gratifying, not only with regard to
the actual amount of new material so obtained, but also as show- ing the
widespread interest felt in a branch of Wiltshire Archaeology which has
hitherto been somewhat neglected, and we gladly avail ourselves of this
opportunity of repeating our expression of thanks to all those who have so
kindly responded. To Dr. Jennings we owe an extremely lengthy list of
Malmesbury words, from which we have made numerous extracts. We have found it
of special value, as showing the influence of Somersetshire on the vocabulary
and pronunciation of that part of the county. To Sir C. Hobhouse we are
indebted for some interesting words, amongst which the survival of the A.S.
attercop is well worth noting. We have to thank Mr. W. Cunnington for
assistance in many ways, and for the loan of MSS. and books, which we have found
of great service. To Mr. J. U. Powell and Miss Kate Smith we owe the greater
part of the words marked as occurring in the Deverill district. Mr. E. J.
Tatum has given us much help as regards local Plant-names : Miss E. Boyer-Brown,
Mr. F. M. Willis, Mr. E. Slow, Mr. James Rawlence, Mr. F. A. Rawlence, Mr. C.
E. Ponting, Mr. R. Coward, the
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X PEEFACE.
Rev. W. C. Plenderleath, Mr. Septimus Goddard, Mrs. Dart- nell, the Rev. C.
Soames, and the Rev. G. Hill must also be specially mentioned. We are
indebted to Mr. W. Gale, gardener at Clyffe Pypard Vicarage, for valuable
assistance rendered us in verifying words and reporting new ones.
We take this opportunity of acknowledging gratefully the assistance which we
have throughout the compilation of this Glossary received from H. N. Goddard,
Esq., of the Manor, Clyffe Pypard, to whose wide knowledge and long
experience of Wiltshire words and ways we owe many valuable sugges- tions ;
from the Rev. A. Smythe-Palmer, D.D., who has taken much interest in the
work, and to whose pen we owe many notes ; from Professor Skeat, who kindly
gave us permission to make use of his reprints ; and last, but by no means
least, from the Rev. A. L. May hew, who most kindly went through the whole
MS., correcting minutely the etymologies suggested, and adding new matter in
many places.
In conclusion, we would say that we hope from time to time to publish further
lists of Addenda in the Wilts Archao- logical Magazine or elsewhere, and that
any additions and suggestions will always be very welcome, however brief they
may be. The longest contributions are not always those of most value, and it
has more than once happened that words and phrases of the greatest interest
have occurred in a list whose brevity was its only fault.
GEORGE EDWARD DARTNELL,
Abbottsfield, Stratford Road, Salisbury.
EDWARD HUNGERFORD GODDARD,
The Vicarage, Clyffe Pypanl, Wootton Basselt.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
GLOSSARY
ADDENDA TO GLOSSARY
SPECIMENS OF DIALECT :
EXTRACTS FROM THE REMAINS OF WILLIAM LITTLE THE HARNET AND THE BITTLE ....
THE VARGESES .
THOMAS'S WIVES
MANSLAUGHTER AT 'VizE ' SIZES .... How OUR ETHERD GOT THE PEWRESY
GWOIN' RAYTHUR TOO VUR Wl' A VEYTHER NOTHEN AS I LIKES WUSSER ....
PUTTEN' UP TH' BANNS
THE CANNINGS VAWK
LUNNON AVORE ANY WlFE
KITCHIN' TH' INFLUENZY . . .
APPENDICES :
I. BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. CUNNINGTON MS
III. MONTHLY MAGAZINE WORD-LIST
PAGE xiii-xix
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1-186
187-204
205-208 208-209
210 210-211
211
211-212 212-213 ^213-214
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INTRODUCTION
THE following notes may perhaps serve to give some slight indication as to
pronunciation, &c., but without the aid of Glossic it is impossible
accurately to reproduce the actual sounds.
A is usually lengthened out or broadened in some way or other.
Thus in hazon and haslet it would be pronounced somewhat as in baa, this
being no doubt what the "Monthly Magazine means by saying that ' a is
always pronounced as r.'
When a is immediately followed by r, as in ha'sh, harsh, and paa'son, parson,
the result is that the r appears to be altogether dropped out of the word.
Aw final always becomes aa, as laa, law, draa, draw, thaa, thaw.
In saace, sauce, au becomes aa.
A is also broadened into ea.
Thus garden, gate, and name become gedrden, gedt, and neame.
These examples may, however, be also pronounced in other ways, even in the
same sentence, as garne, ydt, and naayme, or often ne-um.
A is often softened in various ways.
Thus, thrash becomes draish, and wash, waish or weish.
It is often changed to o, as zot, sat, ronk, rank.
Also to e, as piller, pillar, refter, rafter, pert, part.
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INTRODUCTION.
In vur, far, the sound is u rather than c.
The North Wilts version of the Song of Solomon gives fre- quent examples of
oi for ai, as choir, chair, fair, fair, moyden, maiden ; but this is probably
an imported letter-change, chayer or chai-yer, for instance, being nearer the
true sound.
E is often broadened into aa or aay.
Thus they gives us thaay, and break, braayke.
In marchant, merchant, and eartin, certain, the sound given is as in tar.
Ei takes the sound of a in fate, as desave, deceive.
Left, smell, and kettle become lift, smill, and kiddle.
In South Wilts e in such words as egg or leg becomes a or ai, giving us aig
and laig or lag. Thus a Heytesbury Rosalind
would render
' Jupiter, how weary are my legs ! '
by ' 0-my-poor-vit'n-laigs ! ' uttered all in one gasp. In N. Wilts the e in
these words is not perceptibly so altered.
The e in such words as linnet usually takes the u sound, giving us linnut. In
yes it is lengthened out into eece in S. Wilts, and in N. Wilts into cez.
Long e or ee is shortened into i, as ship, sheep, kippur, keeper, wick, week,
fit, vit, feet, the latter word sometimes being also pronounced as ve-ut.
Heat becomes het, and heater (a flat-iron), hetter ; while hear is usually
hire in N. Wilts.
I short becomes e, as breng, bring, drenk, drink, zet, sit, pegs, pigs.
Occasionally it is lengthened into ee, as leetle, little.
In hit (pret.) and if it usually takes the sound of u, as hut and w/or wt; ;
but hit in the present tense is het, and if is often sounded as e/in N.
Wilts.
At the beginning of a word, im, in, and un usually become on, as onpossible,
ondacent, oncommon.
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In present participles the sound given varies between un', en 9 , and in',
the g almost invariably being dropped.
very commonly becomes a, as archet, orchard, tharn, thorn, vant, font, want,
from, earn, corn.
Quite as commonly it takes the au or aw sound, as hawp, hope, aupen, open,
caivls, coals, hawle, hole, smawk, smoke.
In such words as cold and four, the sound is ow rather than aw, thus giving
us coivld and vower.
Moss in S. Wilts sometimes takes the long e, becoming mesh, while in N. Wilts
it would merely be mawss.
Know becomes either knaw or Jcneow.
is often sounded oo, as goold, gold, cwoort, court, mwoor'n or moor'n, more
than, poorcfi, porch.
00 is sometimes shortened into u, as shut, shoot, sut, soot, tuk, took.
Very commonly the sound given to 6 is wo or wod. Thus we get twoad. toad
(sometimes tivo-ad), pwoast, post, bwoy, boy, rwoas, a rose, bwodn, bone, spwoke
(but more usually spawft in N. Wilts), spoke.
Oa at the beginning of a word becomes wu, as wuts, oats.
01 in woise and rejoice is sounded as a*.
In ointment and spo$ it becomes I or wra, giving intmeni and spife or spwile.
Ow takes the sound of er or #, in some form or other, as vollur and volly, to
follow, winder and windy, a window.
ET in sucK words as /W5fi/ and dust becomes ow, as fowsty, dowst.
D when followed by a liquid is often dropped, as veeV, field, vine, to find,
dreshol, threshold, gmm', ground.
Conversely, it is added to such words as miller, gown, swoon, which become
millard, gownd, and zotvnd.
In orchard and Richard the d becomes t, giving us archet
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and Richut or Rich't; while occasionally t becomes d, linnet being formerly
(but not now) thus pronounced as linnard in N. Wilts.
D is dropped when it follows n, in such cases as Swinnun, Swindon, Lunnon,
London.
Su sometimes becomes Shu, as Shusan, Susan, shoot, suit, shewut, suet,
shower, sure, ShuJcey, Sukey.
Y is used as an aspirate in yacker, acre, yarm, arm, yeppern, apron,
yerriwig, earwig. It takes the place of h in yedd, head, yeldin, a hilding ;
and of g in yeat or yat, a gate.
Consonants are often substituted, chimney becoming chim- bley or chimley,
parsnip, pasmet, and turnip, turmut.
Transpositions are very common, many of them of course representing the older
form of a word. For examples we may take ax, to ask, apcrn, apron, girt,
great, wopse, wasp, aps, the aspen, claps, to clasp, cruds, curds, childern,
children.
F almost invariably becomes v, as vlower, flower, vox, fox, vur, far, vail,
fall, vlick, flick, vant, font.
In such words as afterclaps and afternoon it is not sounded at all.
L is not sounded in such words as amwoast, almost, and a'mighty, almighty.
N final is occasionally dropped, as lime-Mi, lime-kiln.
P, F, V, and B are frequently interchanged, brevet and privet being forms of
the same word, while to bag peas becomes fag or vag when applied to wheat.
R is slurred over in many cases, as e'ath, earth, foc'd, forced, ma'sh,
marsh, vwo'fh, forth.
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It often assumes an excrescent d or t, as cavaltry, horsemen, crockerty,
crockery, scholard, scholar.
H has the sound of wh in whoam, home. This word, however, as Mr. Slow points
out in the Preface to his Glossary
Bob. Drat if I dwon't goo worn to marrer. Zam. Wat's evir waant ta go wimm.
var.
Bob. Why, they tell's I as ow Bet Stingymir is gwain to be caal'd whoam to
Jim Spritely on Zundy.
is variously pronounced as worn, wimm, and whoam, even in the same village.
As stated at page 72, the cockney misuse of h is essentially foreign to our
dialect. It was virtually unknown sixty or seventy years ago, and even so
late as thirty years back was still unusual in our villages. Hunked for
urikcd is almost the only instance to be found in Akerman, for instance. But
the plague is already fast spreading, and we fear that the Catullus of the
next generation will have to liken the Hodge of his day to the Arrius (the
Roman 'Arry) of old :
C/iommoda dicebat, si quando commoda vellet Dicere, et ftinsidias Arrius
insidias . . .
lonios fluctus, postquam illuc Arrius isset, lam non lonios esse, sed
Jffionios.
Touching this point the Rev. G. Hill writes us from Harn- ham Vicarage as
follows : 'I should like to bear out what you say with regard to the use of
the letter h in South- West Wilts. When I lived in these parts twenty years
ago, its omission was not I think frequent. The putting it where it ought not
to be did not I think exist. I find now that the h is invariably dropped, and
occasionally added, the latter habit being that of the better educated.'
H becomes y in yead, head.
K is often converted into t, as ast, to ask, mast, a mask, bleat, bleak.
b
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T is conversely often replaced by k, as masking, acorn- gathering, from
'mast,' while sleet becomes sleek, and pant, parik.
S usually takes the sound of z, as zee, to see, zaa, a saw, zowl, soul, zaat
or sate, soft, zider, cider, sound, to swoon.
Tlir usually becomes dr, as dree, three, droo, through, draish, to thrash.
In afurst, athirst, and fust, thirst, we still retain a very ancient
characteristic of Southern English.
T is always dropped in such words as kept and slept, which become Jeep' and
slep'.
Liquids sometimes drop the next letter, as kill, kiln ; but more usually take
an excrescent t or d, as varmint, vermin, steart, a steer, gownd, gown.
W as an initial is generally dropped in N. Wilts in such cases as 'oont, a
want or mole, 'ooman, woman, 'ood, wood.
Occasionally in S. Wilts it takes the aspirate, 'ood being then hood:
Final g is always dropped in the present participle, as singin', livin,
living ; also in nouns of more than one syllable which end in ing. It is,
however, retained in monosyllabic nouns and verbs, such as ring and sing.
Pre becomes pur, as purtend, pretend, purserve, preserve.
Sometimes a monosyllabic word will be pronounced as a dissyllable, as we have
already mentioned, ne-um, ve-ut, ve-us, and ke-up being used concurrently
with naayme, vit or fit, veace, and kip or keep.
The prefix a is always used with the present participle, as a-gwain', going,
a-zettin' up, sitting up.
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The article an is never used, a doing duty on all occasions, as ' Gie I a
apple, veyther.'
Plurals will be found to be dealt with in the Glossary itself, under En and
Plurals.
Pronouns will also be found grouped together under Pronouns.
As is used for who, which, and that. Active verbs govern the nominative case.
Verbs do not agree with their nominative, either in number or person.
The periphrastic tenses are often used in S. Wilts, as ' I do mind un,' but
in N. Wilts the rule is to employ the simple tenses instead, merely altering
the person, as ' I minds un.' In S. Wilts you might also say 'It be a vine
night,' whereas in N. Wilts * 'Tes a vine night ' would be more correct.
In conclusion we would mention that we hope in the course of the next year or
two to be able to deal with the grammatical and phonological sides of our
Dialect in a somewhat more adequate manner than it has been possible to do on
the present occasion.
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A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS
USED.
[For full titles of works see Appendix.]
(A.) Words given for Wilts in Akerman.
(B.) Britton.
(C.) Cunnington MS.
(D.) Davis.
(G.) Grose.
(H.) Halliwell,
(K.) Kennett.
(M.) ,. Monthly Magazine.
(S.) Slow.
(Wr.) Wright.
N. & S.W. North and South Wilts, the place-names following being those of
localities where the word is reported as being in use.
* An asterisk denotes that the word against which it is placed has not as yet
been met with by ourselves in this county, although given by some authority
or other as used in Wilts.
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WILTS GLOSSARY
A. He ; she. See Pronouns.
A, pi. As or Ais. n. A harrow or drag (D.) ; probably from A.S. egethe, M.E.
eyflie, a harrow (Skeat). S.W., obso- lete. This term for a harrow was still
occasionally to be heard some thirty years ago, in both Somerset and Wilts,
but is now disused. Davis derives it from the triangular shape of the drag,
resembling the letter A.
A-Drag. A large heavy kind of drag (Agric. of Wilts). Still used in South
Wilts for harrowing turnips before the hoers go in.
Abear. To bear, to endure (S.). 'I can't abear to see the poor theng killed.'
N. & S.W.
Abide. To bear, to endure. l l can't abide un nohow.' N. & S.W.
About. (i) adv. Extremely. Used to emphasize a state- ment, as ' 'T'wer just
about cold s'marnin'.' N. & S.W. (2) At one's ordinary work again, after
an illness. ' My missus were bad aal last wick wi' rheumatiz, but she be about
agen now.' N. & S.W.
Acksen. See Axen,
Adder's-tongue. Listera ovata, Br., Twayblade. S.W.
Adder wort. Polygonum Bistorta, L., Bistort. S.W. (Salis- bury, &c.)
Afeard, Aveard. Afraid (A.B.S.). N. & S.W.
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*Agalds. Hawthorn berries. (English Plant Names.) Aggies in Devon.
Agg. (i) To hack or cut clumsily (A.B.H.S.Wr.) ; also Aggie and Haggle. N.
& S.W. (2) To irritate, to pro- voke. N. & S.W.
Ahmoo. A cow ; used by mothers to children, as * Look at they pretty ahmoos
a-comin' ! 'S.W. (Som. bord.)
Ailes, Eyles, lies, &c. The awns of barley (D.) ; cf. A.S. egle, an ear
of corn, M.E. eile. Hail in Great Estate, ch. i. N. & S.W. -
Aisles of wheat. See Hyle.
AH-a-hoh. All awry (A.B.C.H.Wr.) ; also All-a-huh. Un- evenly balanced,
lop-sided. A.S. awdh. ' That load o' earn be aal-a-hoh.' N. & S.W.
All-amang, Allemang, AU-o-mong. Mingled together, as when two flocks of sheep
are accidentally driven together and mixed up (A.B.G.H.S.Wr.). Seldom heard
now. N. & S.W.
All one as. Just like. ' I be 'tirely blowed up all one as a drum.' N.W.
Compare
' 'Twere all as one to fix our hopes on Heaven As on this vision of the
golden year.' TENNYSON.
All one for that. For all that, notwithstanding, in spite of, as ' It medn't
be true all one for that/ N.W.
Aloud. 'That there meat stinks aloud,' smells very bad. N.W.
*A-masked. Bewildered, lost (MS. Lansd., in a letter dated 1697: H.Wr.).
Obsolete.
* Leaving him more masked than he was before/
FULLER'S Holy War, iii. 2.
Amead. Aftermath. See note to Yeomath. N.W. (Cherhill.)
*Anan, 'Nan. What do you say? (A.B.) ; used by a labourer
who does not quite comprehend his master's orders. 'Nan
(A.B.) is still occasionally used in N. Wilts, but it is almost
obsolete. N. & S.W.
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Anbye. adv. Some time hence, presently, at some future time. * I be main busy
now, but I '11 do 't anbye.' N.W.
Anchor. The chape of a buckle (A.B.). S.W.
And that. And all that sort of thing, and so forth. * Well, he do have a drop
tide-times and that.' S.W.
Aneoust, Aneust, Anoust, Neust, or Noust. Nearly, about the same (A.B.G.), N.
& S.W.
Anighst. Near (A.S.). 'Nobody's bin anighst us since you come.' N. & S.W.
Anneal. A thoroughly heated oven, just fit for the batch of bread to be put
in, is said to be nealded, i.e. annealed.-^- S.W.
Anoint, 'Nint (i long). To beat soundly. ' I '11 'nint ye when I gets home !
' See Nineter. N.W.
*Anont, Anunt. Against, opposite (A.B.H.Wr.).
Any more than. Except, although, only. * He 's sure to come any more than he
might be a bit late.' Usually contracted into Moor'n in N. Wilts. N. &
S.W.
Apple-bout. An apple-dumpling. (Cf. Hop-about.) N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Apple-owling. Knocking down the small worthless fruit, or ' griggles,' left
on the trees after the apple crop has been gathered in. See Howlers, Owlers,
and Owling. N.W,
Aps. Populus tremula, L., Aspen ; always so called by wood- men. This is the
oldest form of the word, being from A.S. ceps, and is in use throughout the
south and west of England. In Hound About a Great Estate, ch. i. it is
misprinted asp.
N.W.
Arg. To argue, with a very strong sense of contradiction implied (S.). *
Dwoan't 'ee arg at I like that ! I tell 'ee I zeed 'un ! ' See Down-arg. N.
& S.W.
Arms, 'The arms of a waggon,' such parts of the axle-tree
as go into the wheels (Cycl. o/Agric.). N.W. Arra, Arra one, Arn, See
Pronouns*
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Array, 'Bay. To dress and clean corn with a sieve (D.). N. W. Arsmart.
Polygonum Hydropiper, L., and P. Persicana, L. S. W. Ashore, Asjhar, Ashard.
Ajar. 'Put the door ashard when
you goes out.' N. & S.W.
Ashweed. Aegopodium Podagraria, L., Goutweed. N. & S.W. *Astore. An
expletive, as ' she 's gone into the street astore '
(H.). Perhaps connected with astoor, very soon, Berks, or
astore, Hants :
'The duck's [dusk] coming on; I'll be off in astore.*
A Dream of the Isle of Wight.
It might then mean either 'this moment ' or 'for a moment.'
At. (i) 'At twice,' at two separate times. 'We'll ha' to vetch un at twice
now.' N.W. (2) 'Up at hill/ uphill. ' Th' rwoad be all up at hill.' N.W.
Athin. Within (A.B.). N. & S.W.
Athout. Without; outside (A.B.S.). N. & S.W.
*Attercop. A spider. A.S. atter-coppa. N.W. (Monkton Farleigh), still in use.
Mr. Willis mentions that Edderlcop is still to be heard in Denmark.
*Attery. Irascible (A.B.).
Away with. Endure. This Biblical expression is still com- monly used in
Wilts. 'Her's that weak her can't away with the childern at no rate ! '
Ax. To ask (A.B.S.).-N. & S.W.
*Axen. Ashes (A.B.); Acksen (M8. Lansd. : G.H.Wr.). Obsolete.
Babies'-shoes, Ajuga reptans, L., Common Bugle. S.W.
Bachelor's Buttons. (i) Wild Scabious (A.B.), Scabiosa arvensis, L., S.
Columbaria, L., and perhaps S. suctisa, L. N.W. (2) Corchorus Japonica
(Kerria Japonica, L.) N.W. (Huish.)
Back-friends. Bits of skin fretted up at the base of the finger-nails. N.W.
*Backheave. To winnow a second time CD.).
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Backside. The back-yard of a house (A.B.). N. & S.W., now obsolete.
Backsword. A kind of single-stick play (A.H. Wr.). Obsolete, the game being
only remembered by the very old men. For an account of it see The Scouring of
the White Horse, ch. vi. N,W.
Bacon. To ' strick bacon/ to cut a mark on the ice in sliding ; cf, to strike
a * candle/ N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Bacon-and-Eggs. Linaria vulgaris, Mill., Yellow Toadflax, Also called
Eggs-and-Bacon. N. & S.W.
*Bad, Bod. To strip walnuts of their husks (A.B.H.Wr.) ; cf. E. pod. N.W.,
obsolete.
*Badge. v. To deal in corn, &c. See Badger. Obsolete.
' 1576. Md. that I take order of the Badgers that they do name the places
where the Badgers do use to badge before they resieve their lycens. . . . Md.
to make pees [process] against all the Badgers that doe badge without
licence.' Extracts from Records of Wilts Quarter Sessions, Wilts Arch. Mag.
xx. 327.
*Badger. A corn-dealer (A. B. ) ; used frequently in old accounts in N.
Wilts, but now obsolete.
1 1620. Itm for stay em ge Badgers & keepinge a note of there names viijd.'
F. H. Goldney, Records of Chippenham, p. 202.
Compare lodger, a travelling dealer (Harrison's Description of England,
1577), and logging, peddling, in Murray. (Smythe- Palmer).
Bag. (i) v. To cut peas with a double-handed hook. Cf. Vag.
* They cannot mow it with a sy the, but they cutt it with such a
hooke as they bagge pease with.' Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 51, ed. Brit.
(2) n. The udder of a cow (A.B.). N.W.
Bake, Beak. (i) v. To chop up with a mattock the rough surface of land that
is to be reclaimed, afterwards burning the parings (Agric. of Wilts, ch.
xii). See Burn-beak. *(2) n. The curved cutting mattock used in * beaking '
(Ibid. ch. xii). (3) n. The ploughed land lying on the plat of the downs near
Heytesbury, in Norton Bavant parish, is usually known as the Beak, or Bake,
probably from having been thus
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reclaimed. In the Deverills parts of many of the down farms are known as the
Bake, or, more usually, the Burn- bake. S.W.
Bake-faggot. A rissole of chopped pig's-liver and seasoning, covered with
'flare.' See Faggot (2). N.W.
Ballarag, Bullyrag. To abuse or scold at any one (S.). N. & S.W.
Balm, of Gilead, Melittis Melissophyllum, L., Wild Balm.
Bams. Rough gaiters of pieces of cloth wound about the legs, much used by
shepherds and others exposed to cold weather. Cf. Vamplets. N. & S.W.
' The old man . . . had bams on his legs and a sack fastened over his
shoulders like a shawl.' The Story of Dick, ch. xii. p. 141.
Bandy, (i) A species of Hockey, played with ~bancly sticks and a ball or
piece of wood. N. & S.W. (2) A crooked stick (S.).
Bane. Sheep-rot (D.). Baned. Of sheep, afflicted with rot (A.B.). N.W.
Bang-tail, or Red Fiery Bang-tail. Phoenicurus ruticilla, the Redstart. N.W.
(Wroughton.)
*Bannet-hay. A rick-yard (H.Wr.).
Bannis. Gasterosteus trachurus, the Common Stickleback (A.B.H.Wr.). Also
Bannistickle (A.B.), Bantickle (A. Wr.), and *Bramstickle (S.). ' Asperagus
(quoedam piscis) a ban- stykyll.' Ortus Vocab. A.S. Mn, bone, and sticels,
prickle. (See N.E.D.). -S.W.
*Bannut. Fruit of Juglans regia, L., the Walnut (A.B.). Bantickle. See
Bannis.
*Barber's Brushes. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel (Flower's Flora of
Wilts). Also Brushes. N.W.
Bargain. A small landed property or holding. * They have always been
connected with that little bargain of land.' N.W., still in use. Sir W. H.
Cope, in his Hants Glossary, gives 'Bargan, a small property; a house and
garden; a small piece of land,' as used in N. Hants.
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Barge. (i) n. The gable of a house. Compare architectural Barge-boards. N.W.
(Clyffe Pypard.) (2) v. Before a hedge can be 'laid,' all its side, as well
as the rough thorns, brambles, &c., growing in the ditch, must be cut
off. This is called l barging out ' the ditch. N.W.
Barge-hook. The iron hook used by thatchers to fasten the straw to the
woodwork of the gable. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Barge-knife. The knife used by thatchers in trimming off the straw round the
eaves of the gable. N. W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Bargin. The overgrowth of a hedge, trimmed off before ' laying.' N. &
S.W.
Barken. The enclosed yard near a farm-house (A.B.) ; Rick- Barken, a
rick-yard (A.), also used without prefix in this sense (Wilts Tales, p. 121).
* Barken, or Bercen, now commonly used for a yard or backside in Wilts . . .
first signified the small croft or close where the sheep were brought up at
night, and secured from danger of the open fields.' Kennett's Parochial
Antiquities.
Barton was formerly in very common use, but has now been displaced by Yard.
N. & S.W.
*Barley-bigg. A variety of barley (Aubrey's Wilts MS.,
p. 304). *Barley-Sower. Larus canus, the Common Gull (Birds of
Wilts, p. 534)- Barm. The usual Wilts term for yeast (A.B.M.S.). N. &
S.W.
* Barn-barley. Barley which has never been in rick, but has been kept under
cover from the first, and is therefore per- fectly dry and of high value for
malting purposes (Great Estate !, ch. viii. p. 152).
Basket. In some parts of S. Wilts potatoes are sold by the ' basket,' or
three-peck measure, instead of by the 'sack' or the 'bag.'
Baskets. Plantago lanccolata, L., Ribwort Plantain. S.W. (Little Langford.)
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Bat-folding net. The net used in 'bird-batting,' q. v. (A.): more usually '
clap-net.'
Bat-mouse. The usual N. Wilts term for a bat. N. & S.W.
Batt. A thin kind of oven-cake, about as thick as a tea-cake, but mostly
crust. N.W.
*Battledore-lbarley. A flat-eared variety of barley (Aubrey's Wilts MS., p. 304
: H.Wr.).
Baulk. (i) Corn-baulk. When a 'land' has been acci- dentally passed over in
sowing, the bare space is a ' baulk,' and is considered as a presage of some
misfortune. N.W. (2) A line of turf dividing a field. N.W.
1 The strips [in a " common field "] are marked off from one
another, not by hedge or wall, but by a simple grass path, a foot or so wide,
which they call "balks" or "meres." ' Wilts Arch. Mag.
xvii. 294.
Bavin. An untrimmed brushwood faggot (A.B.S.) : the long ragged faggot with
two withes, used for fencing in the sides of sheds and yards ; sometimes also
applied to the ordinary faggot with one withe or band. N. & S.W.
*Bawsy, Borsy, or Bozzy. Coarse, as applied to the fibre of cloth or wool. t
Bozzy-faced cloth bain't good enough vor I.' S.W. (Trowbridge, &c.)
Bay. (i) n. A dam across a stream or ditch. N.W.
(2) v. 'To bay back water,' to dam it back. N.W.
(3) n. The space between beam and beam in a barn or cows' stalls. N.W.
*Beads. Sagina procumbens, L., Pearlwort. N.W. (Lyneham.) Beak. See Bake and
Burn-bake. Bearsfoot. Hellebore. N.W. (Huish, &c.) Beat. ' To beat
clots,' to break up the hard dry lumps of old cow-dung lying about in a
pasture. N.W.
Becaa To abuse, to call names. ' Her do becall I shameful.' N. & S.W.
Bed-summers. See Waggon.
Bedwind, Bedwine. Clematis Vitalla, L., Traveller's Jov.
S.W.
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Bee-flower. Ojphrys apifera, Huds., Bee Orchis. S.W. Bee-pot. A bee-hive.
S.W.
'Lore ta zee zom on'ms hair, Like girt bee pots a hanging there.' SLOW'S
Poems, p. 43.
Been, Bin. Because, since ; a corruption of "being (B.S.). ' Bin as he
don't go, I won't.' N.W.
Bees. A hive is a Bee-pot. Bee-flowers are those purposely grown near an
apiary, as sources of honey. Of swarms, only the first is a Swarm, the second
being a Smart, and the third a Chit. To follow a swarm, beating a tin pan, is
Hinging or Tanging. N.W.
*Beet. To make up a fire (A.B.C.G.). A.S. Ulan, to better ; to mend a fire
(Skeat). N.W., obsolete.
Beetle, (i) The heavy double-handed wooden mallet used in driving in posts,
wedges, &c. Bittle (A.H.). Bwytle (S.). Also Bwoitle. N. & S.W.
'On another [occasion] (and July, 25 Hen. VIII) . . . William Seyman was
surety ... for the re-delivery of the tools, "cuncta instrumenta
videlicet Beetyll, Ax, Matock, and Showlys." ' Stray Notes from the
Marlborough Court Books, Wilts Arch. Mag. xix. 78.
(2) The small mallet with which thatchers drive home their ' spars. ' S.W.
*Beggar-weed. Cuscuta Trifolii, Bab., Dodder; from its destructiveness to
clover, &c. (English Plant Names).
Bellock. (i) To cry like a beaten or frightened child (A. B.). N.W., rarely.
(2) To complain, to grumble (Dark, ch.
x.). N.W.
*Belly vengeance. Very small and bad beer. N.W.
' Beer of the very smallest description, real "belly vengeance." '
Wilts Tales, p. 40.
Cf.:
4 1 thought you wouldn't appreciate the widow's tap . . . Eegular whistle-belly
vengeance, and no mistake ! ' Tom Brown at Oxford, xl.
Belt. To trim away the dirty wool from a sheep's hind- quarters. N.W.
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*Bennet. v. Of wood-pigeons, to feed on bennets (A.). 4 They have an old
rhyme in Wiltshire "Pigeons never know no woe Till they a-benetting do
go;"
meaning that pigeons at this time are compelled to feed on the seed of the
bent, the stubbles being cleared, and the crops not ripe.'
Akerman.
Bennets, Bents. (i) Long coarse grass or rushes (B.). N. W. (2) Seed-stalks
of various grasses (A.) ; used of both withered stalks of coarse grasses and
growing heads of cat's- tail, &c. N. & S.W. (3) Seed-heads of
Plantain, Plantago major, L., and P. lanceolata, L. N. & S.W.
Bents. See Bennets.
Bercen (c hard). See Barken. ' This form of the word is given in MS. Gough,
Wilts, 5, as current in Wilts' (H.K.Wr.).
Berry. The grain of wheat (D.) ; as ' There 's a very good berry to-year,' or
'The wheat's well-berried,' or the reverse. See Old Country Words, ii. and v.
N.W.
Berry-moucher. (i) A truant. See Blackberry-moucher and Moucher (A.). N.
& S.W. (2) Fruit of Eubus fru- ticosus, L., Blackberry. See Moochers.
N.W. (Huish.) Originally applied to children who went mouching from school in
blackberry season, and widely used in this sense, but at Huish and
occasionally elsewhere virtually confined to the berries themselves : often
corrupted into Penny- moucher or Perry-moucher by children. In English Plant Names
Mochars, Glouc., and Mushes, Dev., are quoted as being similarly applied to
the fruit, which is also known as Mooches in the Forest of Dean. See Hal.,
sub. Mich.
Besepts. Except. N. & S.W.
' Here's my yeppurn they've a'bin and searched, and I've a-got narra 'nother
'gin Zunday besepts this ! 'Wilts Tales, p. 138.
Besom, Beesom, Bissom, &c. A birch broom (A. B. S.). N. & S.W.
*Betwit. To upbraid (A.B.).
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Bide. (i) To stay, remain (A.S.). 'Bide still, will'ee.' N. & S. W. (2)
To dwell (A.). ' Where do 'ee bide now, Bill?' ' Most-in-general at 'Vize.'
N. & S.W.
BiU Button. Geum rivale, L., Water Avens. S.W. Bin. See Been.
Bird-batting. Netting birds at night with a ' bat-folding ' or clap-net
(A.B., Aubrey's -Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 15, ed. Brit.). Bird-battenen (S.). N.
& S.W.
Bird's-eye. (j) Veronica Cliamaedrys, L., Germander Speed- well. N, &
S.W. (2) Anagallis arvensis, L., Scarlet Pimpernel. S.W. (3) Veronica
officinalis, L., Common Speedwell. S.W. (Barford.)
Bird's-nest. The seed-head of Daucus Carota, L., Wild Carrot.
N. & S.W.
1 The flower of the wild carrot gathers together as the seeds mature, and
forms a framework cup at the top of the stalk, like a bird's-nest. These
" bird's-nests," brown and weather-beaten, endured far into the winter/
Great Estate, ch. vii. p. 137.
* The whole tuft is drawn together when the seed is ripe, resembling a bird's
nest.' Gerarde.
Bird-seed. Seed-heads of Plantain. N. & S.W. Bird-squoilin. See Squail
(S.). Bird-starving. Bird-keeping. N. W.
' This we call bird-keeping, but the lads themselves, with an appre- ciation
of the other side of the case, call it " bird-starving." ' Village Miners.
Birds'-wedding-day. St. Valentine's Day. S.W. (Bishop- stone.)
Bishop-wort. Mentlia aquatica, L., Hairy Mint. S.W. (Hants bord.)
Bissom. See Besom.
Bittish. -adj. Somewhat. ' 'Twer a bittish cowld isterday.'-
N. & S.W.
Bittle. See Beetle.
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Biver. To tremble, quiver, shiver as with a cold or fright (S.). Cp. A.S.
Ufian, to tremble. N. & S.W.
' Bless m' zoul, if I dwon 't think our maester *s got the ager ! How a
hackers an bivers, to be zhure ! ' Wilts Tales, p. 55.
Bivery. adj. Shivery, tremulous. When a baby is just on
the verge of crying, its lip quivers and is 'bivery.' N.W. Blackberry-moucher.
(i) A truant from school in the
blackberry season (H.). See Berry-moucher, Mouch, &c.
N. W. (Huish, &c.) <A blackberry moucher, an egregious truant.' Dean
Milks' MS.,
p. 180.
(2) Hence, the fruit of Rubus fruticosus, L., Blackberry.
See Berry-moucher, Moochers, &c. N.W. (Huish, &c.)
*Blackberry-token. Ttulus caesius, L., Dewberry (English
Plant Names). Black-Bess. See Black-Bob.
Black-Bob. A cockroach (S.). Black-Bess on Berks border.
S.W. Black-boys. (i) Flower-heads of Plantain. N.W. (Huish.)
(2) TypJia latifolia, L., Great Keedmace. N.W. (LyneKam.)
*Black Couch. A form of Agrostis that has small wiry blackish roots (D).
Agrostis stolonifera.
Black Sally. Salix Caprea, L., Great Round-leaved Sallow, from its dark bark
(Amateur Poacher, ch. iv). Clothes-pegs are made from its wood. N.W.
*Black Woodpecker. Picus major, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Birds of Wilts, p.
253). Also known as the Gray Wood- pecker.
Blades. The shafts of a waggon (S.). S.W.
Blare, Blur. To shout or roar out loudly (S.). N. & S.W.
Blatch. (i) adj. Black, sooty (A.B.). N.W. (2) *.
Smut, soot. ' Thuc pot be ael over blatch.' N. W. (3) v.
To blacken. 'Now dwon't 'ee gwo an' blatch your veiice
wi' thuc thur dirty zoot.' N.W.
Bleachy. Brackish. S.W. (Som. bord.)
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Bleat. Bleak, open, unsheltered. 'He's out in the bleat, 5 i. e. out in the
open in bad weather. See K for examples of letter-change. N.W. (Clyffe
Pypard.)
Bleeding Heart. Cheiranthus Cheiri, L., the red Wallflower (A.B.). N.W.
Blind-hole, n. A rabbit hole which ends in undisturbed soil, as opposed to a
Pop-hole, q.v. (Gamekeeper at Home, ch. vi. p. 120). N.W.
Blind-house. A lock-up.
* 1629. Item paied for makeing cleane the blind-house vijd.' Records of
Chippenham, p. 204.
Blind-man. Papaver Rhoeas, L., &c., the Red Poppy, which is locally
supposed to cause blindness, if looked at too long. S.W. (Hamptworth.)
*Blink. A spark, ray, or intermittent glimmer of light (A.B.). See Plunk.
*Blinking. This adjective is used, in a very contemptuous sense, by several
Wilts agricultural writers.
4 A short blinking heath is found on many parts [of the downs].' Agric. of
Wilts, ch. xii.
Compare :
* Twas a little one-eyed blinking sort o* place.' Tess of the
D'Urb&rviUes, vol. i. p. 10.
*Blissey. A blaze (A.H.Wr.). A.S. Uysige, a torch.
Blobbs, Water Blobs. Blossoms of NupharMea, Sm., Yellow Water Lily (A.B.) ;
probably from the swollen look of the buds. Cf. Blub up.
Blood-alley. A superior kind of alley or taw, veined with deep red, and much
prized by boys (S.). N. & S.W.
Bloody Warrior. The dark-blossomed Wallflower, Cheiranthus Cheiri, L.
(A.B.S.). N. & S.W.
Blooens. See Bluens.
Bloom. Of the sun ; to shine scorchingly (B.) ; to throw out heat as a fire.
'How the sun do bloom out atween the clouds ! ' N. W.
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Blooming. Very sultry, as "Tis a main blooming day.'- S.W. (Salisbury.)
Bloomy. Sultry. Bloomy -hot. Excessively sultry (A.B.). S.W.
Blooth, Blowth. Bloom or blossom. S.W.
Blossom. A snowflake. 'What girt blossoms 'twer to the snow isterday ! ' N.
& S.W.
'Snow-flakes are called "blossoms." The word snow-flake is un- known.'
Village Minwrs.
Blow. Sheep and cattle 'blow' themselves, or get 'blowed,' from over-eating
when turned out into very heavy grass or clover, the fermentation of which
often kills them on the spot, their bodies becoming terribly inflated with
wind. See the desciiption of the 'blasted' flock, in Far from the Madding
Crowd, ch. xxi. N. & S.W.
Blowing. A blossom (A.B.H.Wr.). See Bluen. N.W.
Blowth. See Blooth.
Blub up. To puff or swell up. A man out of health and puffy about the face is
said to look 'ter'ble blubbed up.' Cf. Blobbs. N.W. Compare :
'My face was blown and blub'd with dropsy wan.' Mirror for
Blue Bottle. Scillanutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth. S.W. Blue Buttons. (i)
Scdbiosa arvensis, L., Field Scabious.
S.W. (2) S. Columbaria, L., Small Scabious. S.W. Blue Cat. One who is
suspected of being an incendiary.
' He has the name of a blue cat.' See Lewis's Cat. S.W.
(Salisbury.)
Blue Eyes. Veronica Chamaedrys, L., Germander Speedwell.
N.W. Blue Goggles. Scilla nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth. Cf.
Greygles or Greggles. S.W.
Bluen or Blooens. pi Blossoms (S.). Also used in Devon. N. & S.W.
Blue-vinnied. Covered with blue mould. See Vinney. Commoner in Dorset as
applied to cheese, &c. N. & S.W.
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Blunt. ' A cold blunt/ a spell of cold weather. See Snow- blunt. Compare
BlunJc, a fit of stormy weather, which is used in the East of England. N.W.
Blur. See Blare. In Kaleigh's account of the fight in Cadiz Bay, he says that
as he passed through the cross-fire of the galleys and forts, he replied '
with a blur of the trumpet to each piece, disdaining to shoot.'
Board. To scold, to upbraid. ' Her boarded I just about.' S.W.
(occasionally.)
Boar Stag. A boar which, after having been employed for breeding purposes for
a time, is castrated and set aside for fattening (D.). Cf. Bull Stag. N.W.
Boat. Children cut apples and oranges into segments, which they sometimes
call ' pigs' or ' boats.'
Bob. In a timber carriage, the hind pair of wheels with the long pole or
lever attached thereto. N.W. In Canada * bob-sleds ' are used for drawing
logs out of the woods.
*Bobbant. Of a girl, romping, forward (AB.H.Wr.). N.W.
Bobbish. In good health (A.B.S.). 'Well, an' how be 'ee to-day?' 'Purty
bobbish, thank 'ee.' N. & S.W.
Bob-grass. Bromus mollis, L. S.W.
*Bochant. The same as Bobbant (A. B. G. H. Wr. ).
Bod. See Bad.
Boistins. The first milk given by a cow after calving (A.). See N.E.D. (s. v.
Beestings). N.W.
Bolt. In basket-making, a bundle of osiers 40 inches round. (Amateur Poacher,
ch. iv. p. 69).
Boltin, Boulting. A sheaf of five or ten 'elms,' prepared beforehand for
thatching. * Elms ' are usually made up on the spot, but are occasionally
thus prepared at threshing- time, and tied up and laid aside till required,
when they need only be damped, and are then ready for use. Cf. Bolt. N.W.
Bombarrel Tit. Parus caudatus, the Long-tailed Titmouse (Great Estate, ch.
ii. p. 26). Jeiferies considers this a corrup- tion of 'Nonpareil.' N.W.
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Book of Clothes. See Buck (Monthly Mag., 1814).
Boon Days. Certain days during winter on which farmers on
the Savernake estate were formerly bound to haul timber for
their landlord. *Boreshore. A hurdle-stake (S.). S.W.
1 This is a kind of hurdle stake which can be used in soft ground
without an iron pitching bar being required to bore the hole first for
it. Hence it is called bore-shore by shepherds/ Letter from Mr. Slow.
*Borky. (Baulky?) Slightly intoxicated. S.W.
*Borsy. See *Bawsy.
Bossell. Chrysanthemum segetum, L., Corn Marigold (D.).
Bozzell (Flowering Plants of Witts). N. & S.W. Bossy, Bossy-calf. A young
calf, whether male or female.
N.W. Bottle. The wooden keg, holding a gallon or two, used for
beer in harvest-time (Wild Life, ch. vii). N. & S.W.
Bottle-tit. Parus caudatus, L., the Long-tailed Titmouse.
N.W.
Bottom. A valley or hollow in the downs. N. & S.W. Boulting. See Boltin. Bounceful.
Masterful, domineering. See Pounceful. N.W.
Bourne. (i) n. A valley between the chalk hills ; a river in such a valley ;
also river and valley jointly (D.). N. & S.W. ' In South Wilts they say,
such or such a bourn : meaning a valley by such a river.' Aubrey's Nat. Hist.
Wilts, p. 28. Ed. Brit.
(2) v. In gardening, when marking out a row of anything with pegs, you
'bourne' them, or glance along them to see that they are in line. N.W.
Box or Hand-box. The lower handle of a sawyer's long pit-saw, the upper
handle being the Tiller. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Boy's-love. Artemisia Alrotanum, L., Southernwood (A.B.).
N. & S.W.
Boys. The long-pistilled or ' pin-eyed ' flowers of the Primrose, Primula
vulgaris, Huds. See Girls. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
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Bozzell. See Bossell. *Bozzy. See *Bawsy. Brack, n. A fracture, break, crack
(S.). * There's narra
brack nor crack in 'un.' N. & S.W. Brain-stone. A kind of large round
stone (Aubrey's Nat. Hist.
Wilts, p. 9, ed. Brit., H. Wr.). Perhaps a lump of water-worn
fossil coral, such as occasionally now bears this name among
N. Wilts cottagers. *Bramstickle. See Bannis (S.). Brandy-bottles. Nupliar
lutea, Sm. , Yellow Water-lily. S.W.
(Mere, &c.)
Brave, adj. Hearty, in good health (A.B.). N.W.
Bread-and-Cheese. (i) Linaria vulgaris, Mill., Yellow Toad- flax. N. &
S.W. (2) Fruit of Malva sylvestris, L., Common Mallow (S.). S.W. (3) Young
leaves and
shoots of Crataegus Oxyacantba, L., Hawthorn, eaten by children in spring
(English Plant JVames). S.W. (Salisbury.)
Bread-board. The earth-board of a plough (D.). Broad- board in N. Wilts.
Break. To tear. ' She'll break her gownd agen thuc tharn.' You still brealc a
bit of muslin, but to tear a trace or a plate now grows obsolete. N.W.
Similarly used in Hants, as
* I have a-torn my best decanter . . . have a-broke my fine cambrick aporn.'
COPE'S Hants Glossary.
Brevet, Brivet. (i) To meddle, interfere, pry into. N.W.
' Who be you to interfere wi' a man an' he's vam'ly ? Get awver groundsell,
or I'll stop thy brevettin' for a while.' Dark, ch. xix.
(2) To brevet about, to beat about, as a dog for game (A.). N.W. Also Privet.
N.W. (Clyffe Pypard ; Castle Eaton, &c.)
' Brivet, a word often applied to children when they wander about aimlessly
and turn over things.' Leisure Hour, Aug. 1893.
*(3) To pilfer. * If she 11 brevet one thing, she '11 brevet another.' N.W.
(Mildenhall.)
Bribe. To taunt, to bring things up against any one, to scold. ' What d 'ye
want to kip a-bribing I o' that vur ? 'N.W,
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Brit, Brittle out. (i) To rub grain out in the hand. N.W. (2) To drop out of
the husk, as over-ripe grain (D.). N.W.
Brivet. See Brevet.
Brize. To press heavily on, or against, to crush down (S.),
A loaded waggon 'brizes down' the road. N. & S.W. Broad-board. See
Bread-board. Broke-bellied. Kuptured. N.W.
Brook-Sparrow. Salicaria phragmitis, the Sedge Warbler ; from one of its
commonest notes resembling that of a sparrow (Great Estate, ch. vii ; Wild
Life, ch. in). N.W.
'At intervals [in his song] he intersperses a chirp, exactly the same as that
of the sparrow, a chirp with a tang in it. Strike a piece of metal, and
besides the noise of the blow, there is a second note, or tang. The sparrow's
chirp has such a note sometimes, and the sedge- bird brings it in tang, tang,
tang. This sound has given him his country name of brook-sparrow.' JEFFERIES,
A London Trout.
Brow. (i) adj. Brittle (A.B.C.H.Wr.) ; easily broken. Vrow at Clyffe Pypard.
Also Prow. N.W. *(2) n. A fragment (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109). N.W.
(Cherhill.)
Brown. ' A brown day,' a gloomy day (H.Wr.). N.W.
Bruckle. (Generally with off or away.) v. To crumble away, as some kinds of
stone when exposed to the weather (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109) ; to
break off easily, as the dead leaves on a dry branch of fir. Compare
~brickle= brittle (Wisdom, xv. 13), A.S. 6mcoZ=apt to break. N.W.
Bruckley. adj. Brittle, crumbly, friable, not coherent (S.).
N. & S.W. Brush. The brush of a tree/ its branches or head. N.W.
Brushes. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel. See Clothes- brush. N. &
S.W.
Bubby-head. Cottus gobio, the Bullhead. N. & S.W. Buck. A < buck,' or
'book,' of clothes, a large wash. N.W. Bucking. A quantity of clothes to be
washed (A.). N.W.
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*Buddle. To suffocate in mud. ' There ! if he haven't a bin an' amwoast
huddled hisel' in thuck there ditch I ' Also used in Som. N.W. (Malmesbury.)
Budgy. Out of temper, sulky. A softened form of buggy, self-important,
churlish, from the Old English and provincial budge, grave, solemn, &c.
See Folk-Etymology, p. 42 (Smythe- Palmer). N.W. Cp. Milton,
1 Those budge doctors of the stoic fur/ Comus.
Bullpoll, Bullpull. Aira caespitosa, L., the rough tufts of tussocky grass
which grow in damp places in the fields, and have to be cut up with a heavy
hoe (Great Estate, ch. ii ; Gamekeeper at Home, ch. viii). N.W.
Bull Stag. A bull which, having been superannuated as regards breeding
purposes, is castrated and put to work, being stronger than an ordinary
bullock. Cf. Boar Stag. N.W., now almost obsolete.
Bulrushes. Caltha palustris, L., Marsh Marigold ; from some nursery legend
that Moses was hidden among its large leaves. S.W., rarely.
Bumble-berry. Fruit of Rosa canina, L., Dog-rose. N.W. Bunce. (i) n. A blow.
'Gie un a good bunce in the ribs.' N.W. (2) v. To punch or strike. N.W.
Bunch. Of beans, to plant in bunches instead of rows (D.). N. & S.W.
Bunny. A brick arch, or wooden bridge, covered with earth, across a ' drawn '
or ' carriage ' in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-waggon to
pass over. N.W.
Bunt. (i) v. To push with the head as a calf does its dam's udder (A.); to
butt ; to push or shove up. (Bevis, ch. x.)N.W.
(2) n. A push or shove. N.W. (3) n. A short thick needle, as a ' tailor's
bunt.' (4) n. Hence sometimes applied to a short thickset person, as a
nickname. S.W.
Bunty. adj. Short and stout. N.W.
Bur. The sweetbread of a calf or lamb (A.). N.W.
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Bur% Burrow, or Burry. (i) A rabbit-burrow (A.B.). N. & S.W. (2) Any
place of shelter, as the leeward side of a hedge (A.C.). 'Why doesn't thee
coom and zet doon here in the burrow ? ' N. & S. W.
Burl. (i) 'To burl potatoes/ to rub off the grown-out shoots in spring. N.W.
. (2) The original meaning was to finish off cloth or felt by removing knots,
rough places, loose threads, and other irregularities of surface, and it is still
so used in S. Wilts (S.).
Burn. l To burn a pig,' to singe the hair off the dead carcase. N. & S.W.
*Burn-bake (or -beak). (i) To reclaim new land by paring and burning the surface
before cultivation (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii). See Bake. (2) To improve old
arable land by treating it in a similar way (Ibid. ch. xii). Burn-beke (Aubrey's
Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 103. Ed. Brit., where the practice is said to have been
introduced into S. Wilts by Mr. Bishop of Merton, about 1639). (3) n. Land so
reclaimed. See Bake. S.W.
Burrow. See Bur'.
Burry. See Bur*.
'Buseful. Foul-mouthed, abusive. N.W.
Bush. (i) n. A heavy hurdle or gate, with its bars interlaced with brushwood
and thorns, which is drawn over pastures in spring, and acts like a light
harrow (Amateur Poacher, ch. iv). N.W. (2) v. To bush-harrow a pasture. N.W.
Butchers' Guinea-pigs. Woodlice. See Guinea-pigs. S.W.
Butter-and-Eggs. (i) Narcissus incomparaUlis, Curt., Prim- rose Peerless. N.
& S.W. (2) Linaria vulgaris, Mill, Yellow Toadflax (Great Estate, ch. v).
N. & S.W.
Buttercup. At Huish applied only to Ranunculus Ficaria, L., Lesser Celandine,
all other varieties of Crowfoot being ' Crazies ' there.
Butter-teeth. The two upper incisors. N.W. Buttons. Very young mushrooms. N.
& S.W.
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Buttry. A cottage pantry (A. B. ). N. W. , now almost obsolete.
Butt-shut. (i) To join iron without welding, by pressing the heated ends
squarely together, making an imperceptible join (Village Miners). See Shut.
(2) Hence a glaringly inconsistent story or excuse is said * not to butt-shut'
(Village
Miners}.
Butty. A mate or companion in field-work (S.). N. & S.W.
*By-the-Wind. Clematis Vttalba, L., Traveller's Joy. S.W. (Farley.)
*Caa-vy (? Calfy). A simpleton (S.). S.W. Cack. See Keck.
* Cack-handed, * Gag-handed. Extremely awkward and un- handy : clumsy to the
last degree ( Village Miners). Other dialect words for 'awkward' are Dev.,
cat-handed, Yorks., gawJc-Jianded, and Nhamp., Jceck-Jianded. Cf. Cam-handed.
Caddie. (i) n. Dispute, noise, row, contention (A.) ; seldom or never so used
now. N. & S.W,
* What a caddie th' bist a makin', Jonas ! ' Wilts Tales, p. 82.
' If Willum come whoam and zees two [candles] a burnin', he'll make a
vi-vi-vine caddie.' Wilts Tales, p. 42.
(2) n. Confusion, disorder, trouble (A. B.C. S.). N. & S.W.
' Lawk, zur, but I be main scrow to be ael in zich a caddie, alang o* they
childern.' Wilts Tales, p. 137.
(3) v. To tease, to annoy, to bother (A. B.C.). See Cad- dling. * Now dwoan't
'e caddie I zo, or I '11 tell thee vather o' thee ! ' ' I be main caddled up
wi' ael they dishes to weish.' N. & S.W.
' 'Tain't no use caddlin I I can't tell 'ee no more.' Greene^ Feme Farm, ch.
viii.
(4) v. To hurry. i To caddie a horse,' to drive him over- fast. N.W. (5) v.
To loaf about, only doing odd jobs. ' He be allus a caddlin' about, and won't
never do no'thin' reg'lar.' N. & S.W. (6) v. To mess about, to throw into
disorder. * I don't hold wi' they binders [the binding machines], they do
caddie the wheat about so.' N. & S.W.
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Caddlesome. Of weather, stormy, uncertain. ' 'T 'ull be a main
caddlesome time for the barley.' S.W.
Caddling, (i) adj. Of weather, stormy, uncertain. N. & S.W. (2) adj.
Quarrelsome, wrangling (C.). N. & S.W. 'His bill was zharp, his stomack
lear, Zo up a snapped the caddlin pair/ Wilts Tales, p. 97. <A cadling
fellow, a wrangler, a shifting, and sometimes an un- meaning character.'
Cunnington MS.
(3) adj. Meddlesome (S.), teasing (Monthly Mag., 1814); troublesome,
worrying, impertinent (A.B.). N. &S.W.
1 Little Nancy was as naisy and as caddlin' as a wren, that a was.' Wilts
Tales, p. 177-
*(4) Chattering (Monthly Mag., 1814): probably a mistake. Gaffing rudder. See
Caving rudder. *Cag-handed. See Cack-handed. Cag-mag. Bad or very inferior
meat (S.). N. & S.W. Cains-and- Abels. Aquilegia vulgaris, L., Columbine.
S.W.
(Farley.)
* Calf-white. See White.
Call. Cause, occasion. ' You've no call to be so 'buseful '
[abusive]. N. & S.W. Call home. To publish the banns of marriage (S.).
S.W.
' They tells I as 'ow Bet Stingymir is gwain to be caal'd whoam to
Jim Spritely on Zundy.' SLOW.
* Callow- wablin. An unfledged bird (A.). S.W. Callus-stone. A sort of gritty
earth, spread on a board for
knife-sharpening (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109). N. & S.W.
(Cherhill, &c.)
Calves'-trins. Calves' stomachs, used in cheese-making. A.S. trendel. See Trins.
Halliwell and Wright give l Calf-trundle, the small entrails of a calf.' N.W.
*Cam. Perverse, cross. Welsh cam, crooked, wry. N.W. ' A 's as cam and as
obstinate as a mule.' Wilts Tales, p. 138. * They there wosbirds [of bees]
zimd rayther cam and mischievul.' Springtide, p. 47.
Cam-handed. Awkward. N. W.
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*Cammock. Ononis arvensis, L., Eestharrow (D.).
Cammocky. Tainted, ill-flavoured, as cheese or milk when the cows have been
feeding on camniock. See Gammotty (2). S.W.
Canary-seed. Seed-heads of Plantain. N. & S. W.
Candle. 'To strike a candle,' to slide, as school-boys do, on the heel, so as
to leave a white mark along the ice. S.W.
Cank. To overcome (H.Wr.) : perhaps a perversion of conquer.
The winner * canks ' his competitors in a race, and you ' cank'
a child when you give it more than it can eat. N.W, Canker. Fungus, toadstool
(A.B.). N. & S.W. Canker-berries. Wild Rose hips. Conker-berries (S.).
S.W. (Salisbury, &c.). Canker-rose. The mossy gall on the Dog-rose,
formed by
Cynips rosae ; often carried in the pocket as a charm against
rheumatism (Great Estate, ch. iv). N.W. *Cappence. The swivel-joint of the
old-fashioned flail, Capel
in Devon. N. & S.W. Carpet. To blow up, to scold ; perhaps from the scene
of the
fault-finding being the parlour, not the bare-floored kitchen.
'Measter carpeted I sheamvul s'marning.' 'I had my man
John on the carpet just now and gave it him finely.' N.W.
Carriage. A water-course, a meadow-drain (A. B. Gr. H. Wr. ). In
S. Wilts the carriages bring the water into and through the
meadow, while the drawn takes it back to the river after its
work is done. N. & S.W. Carrier, Water-carrier. A large water-course (
Wild Life, ch. xx).
N. & S.W. Carry along. To prove the death of, to bring to the grave.
' I be afeard whe'er that 'ere spittin' o' blood won't car'n
along.' N.W. Cart. 'At cart,' carrying or hauling, as 'We be at wheat cart
[coal-cart, dung-cart, &c.] to-day.' N.W. Casalty. See Casulty. Cass'n.
Canst not (A.S.). N. & S.W.
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Cassocks. Couch-grass. S.W. (Som. bord.).
Casulty. (i) adj. Of weather, unsettled, broken (Green
Feme Farm, ch. i). Casalty (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii.
p. I0 p). N. & S.W. (2) Of crops, uncertain, not to be
depended on. Plums, for instance, are a ' casalty crop,' some
years bearing nothing. N.W. * Cat-gut. The ribs of the Plantain leaf; so
called by children
when drawn out so as to look like fiddle-strings (Great
Estate, ch. ii). Cat-Kidney. A game somewhat resembling cricket, played
with a wooden 'cat' instead of a ball. N.W. (Brinkworth. ) Cat's-ice. White
ice, ice from which the water has receded.
N. & S.W. (Steeple Ashton, &c.).
' They stood at the edge, cracking the cat's-ice, where the water had
shrunk back from the wheel marks, and left the frozen water white
and brittle/ The Stoi-y of Dick, ch. xii. p. 153.
Cats'-love. Garden Valerian, on which cats like to roll. S.W. *Cats'-paws.
Catkins of willow while still young and downy.
S.W. (Deverill.) Cats'-tails. (i) Equisetum, Horse-tail (Great Estate, ch.
ii).
N.W. (2) The catkin of the willow. N.W. (Lyneham.)
(3) The catkin of the hazel.- N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) Catch. (i) Of water, to
film over, to begin to freeze. Keach,
Keatch, Kitch, or Ketch (A.B.C.H.Wr.). N. & S.W.
' A bright clear moon is credited with causing the water to " catch
"
that is, the slender, thread-like spicules form on the surface, and,
joining together, finally cover it.' Wild Life, ch. xx.
Also see Bevis, ch. xl. (2) To grow thick, as melted fat when setting again.
N. & S.W. "(3) ' To catch and rouse,' to collect water, &c.
* In the catch-meadows . . . it is necessary to make the most of the water by
catching and rousing it as often as possible.' Agric. of Wilts,
ch. xi.
*/
n. The same as Catch-meadow (Ibid. ch. xii). * Catch-land. The arable portion
of a common field, divided into equal parts, whoever ploughed first having
the right to first choice of his share (D.). Obsolete.
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* Catch-meadow, Catch- work meadow, or Catch. A meadow on the slope of a
hill, irrigated by a stream or spring, which has been turned so as to fall
from one level to another through the carriages (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii).
Catching, Catchy. Of weather, unsettled, showery (Agric. of Wilts, ch. iii.
p. n). N. & S.W.
Caterpillar. A cockchafer. N.W.
Cattikeyns. Fruit of the ash. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Cave. (i) n. The chaff of wheat and oats (D.) : in thresh- ing, the broken
bits of straw, &c. Gavin, Cavings, or Keavin in N. Wilts. N. & S.W.
(2) v. To separate the short broken straw from the grain. N. & S.W.
Cavin, Cavings. See Cave (i),
*Caving-rake. The rake used for separating cavings and grain on the
threshing-floor.
Caving (or Caning) rudder, or rudderer. *(i) The win- nowing fan and tackle
(D.). S.W. (2) A coarse sieve used by carters to get the straw out of the
horses' chaff. N. & S.W.
Cawk, Cawket. To squawk out, to make a noise like a hen when disturbed on her
nest, &c. ' Ther 's our John, s' naw [dost know?] allus a messin' a'ter
the wenchin, s'naw cawin' an' cawkettin' like a young rook, s' naw, 'vore a
can vly, s' naw, boun' to coom down vlop he war ! ' Caa-kinn (S.). N. &
S.W. (Clyffe Pypard ; Seagry, &c.)
*Centry. Anagallis tenella, L., Bog Pimpernel. S.W. (Barford.)
Cham. To'chew (A. B. C. S. ). ' Now cham thee vittles up well. ' An older
form of Champ. N. & S.W.
Champ. To scold in a savage snarling fashion. l Now dwoan't 'ee gwo an' champ
zo at I ! ' Used formerly at Clyffe Pypard. N.W.
Chan-Chider. See Johnny Chider. S.W.
Chap. r (i) v. Of ground, to crack apart with heat. N & S.W. (2) n. A
crack in the soil, caused by heat. N. & S.W.
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Charm. (i) n. t All in a charm,' all talking loud together. A.S. cyrm,
clamour (A.H.S.), especially used of the singing of birds. See Kingsley's Prose
Idylls, i. Also used of hounds in full cry. N. & S.W.
1 Thousands of starlings, the noise of whose calling to each other is indescribable
the country folk call it a "charm," meaning a noise made up of
innumerable lesser sounds, each interfering with the other.' Wild Life, ch.
xii.
Cp, Milton,
' Charm of earliest birds.' P. ., ii. 642.
(2) v. To make a loud confused noise, as a number of birds, &c.,
together. N. & S.W. (3) v. ' To charm bees,' to follow a swarm of bees,
beating a tea-tray, &c. N.W. (Marlborough).
Chatter-mag, Chatter-pie. A chattering woman. N. & S.W. Chawm, Chawn. A
crack in the ground (A.). N.W. Cheese-flower. Malva sylvestris, L., Common
Mallow. S.W. Cheeses. Fruit of Malva sylvestris, L., Common Mallow. N. &S.W.
*Chemise. Convolvulus sepium, L., Great Bindweed. S.W. (Little Langford.)
This name was given us as Chemise, but would probably be pronounced as
Shimmy.
Cherky. Having a peculiar dry taste, as beans ( Village Miners).
N. & S.W.
Cherry-pie. Valerima officinalis, L., All-heal, from its smell. S.W.
Cheure. See Choor.
Chevil (or Chevril) Goldfinch. A large variety of goldfinch,
with a white throat. See Birds of Wilts, p. 203, for a full
description of the bird. N. & S.W. Chewree. See Choor.
Chib. 'Potato-clubs, ' the grown-out shoots in spring. See Chimp. S.W.
Chiddlens, Chiddlins. Pigs' chitterlings (H.S.Wr.). N,
&S.W. Children of Israel. *(i) A small garden variety of
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Campanula, from the profusion of its blossoms (English Plant Names). (2)
Malcolmia maritima, Br., Virginian Stock, occasionally.
Chilver, Chilver-lamb. A ewe lamb (A.). N.W.
Chilver-hog. A ewe under two years old (D.). The word hog is now applied to
any animal of a year old, such as a hog bull, a chilver hog sheep. l Chilver
' is a good Anglo-Saxon word, 'cilfer,' and is related to the word 'calf.' A
chilver hog sheep simply means in the dialect of the Vale of Warminster, a
female lamb a year old. See Wilts Arch. Mag. xvii. 303. N. & S.W
Chimney-sweeps. Flowering-heads of some grasses. N.W. (Lyneham.)
Chimney-sweepers. Luzula campestris, Willd., Field Wood- rush. N.W.
Chimp. (i) n. The grown-out shoot of a stored potato (S.) ; also Chib. S. W.
(2) v. To strip off the ' chimps ' before planting. S.W.
Chink. Fringilla coelebs, the Chaffinch ; from its note. S.W.
Chinstey. n. The string of a baby's cap. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) A horse's
chin-strap. S.W. Compare :
* Oh ! Mo-ather ! Her hath chuck'd me wi' tha chingstey [caught me by the
back-hair and choked me with the cap-string].' Tfte Exmoor Scolding, p. 17.
Chip. The fore-shoot of a plough. S.W.
Chippies. Young onions grown from seed. Cf. Dibbles and Cribbles. S.W.
Chisley. adj. Without coherence, as the yolk of an over- boiled egg, or a
very dry cheese. When land gets wet and then dries too fast, it becomes
chisley. Compare : ' Chtezly, hard, harsh and dry : East, 9 in Hal. S.W.
Chism. To germinate, to bud (A. B.C.). 'The wheat doesn't make much show yet,
John.' 'No, zur, but if you looks 'tes aal chisming out ter'ble vast.' N.
& S.W.
Chit. (i) n. The third swarm of bees from a hive. N.W. (2) v. To bud or
spring (A. B.C.). 'The whate be chitting a'ter thease rains.' N.W.
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Chitchat. Pyms Aucuparia, Gaertn., Mountain Ash. S.W.
Chitterlings. Pigs' entrails when cleaned and boiled (A.B.) ; Chiddlens
(H.S.Wr.). N. & S.W.
Chivy. Fringitta coelebs, the Chaffinch. S.W. (Som. bord.).
Choor. (i) v. To go out as a charwoman (A.); Cheure, Chewree-ring (H.Wr.) ;
Char (A.S.). Still in use. N.W. (2) n. A turn, as in phrase 'One good choor
deserves another' (A.). Still in use.-N.W.
Chop. To exchange (A.B.S.). l Wool ye chop wi' I, this thing forthuck?'(B.).
N. & S.W.
*Chore. A narrow passage between houses (MS. Lansd. 1033, f. 2) ; see N.E.D.
(s.v. Chare).
Christian Names. The manner in which a few of these are pronounced may here
be noted : Allburt, Albert ; Allfurd, Alfred ; Chart or Chas, Charles ;
Etherd, Edward ; Rich't or Richet, Kichard ; Robbut, Eobert ; &c.
Chuffey. Chubby. t What chuifey cheeks he 've a got, to be showr ! 'S.W.
Chump. A block of wood (A.B.) ; chiefly applied to the short lengths into
which crooked branches and logs are sawn for firewood (Under the Acorns}. N.
& S.W.
Ciderkin, 'Kin. The washings after the best cider is made.
N. & S.W.
Clacker. The tongue (S. ). S. W. Clackers. A pair of pattens (S.). S. W.
Clangy, Clengy, or Clungy. Of bad bread, or heavy ground, clingy, sticky. N.W.
Claps, n. and v. clasp (A.). N. & S.W. Clat. See Clot.
Clattersome, Cluttersome. Of weather, gusty. S.W. (Hants bord.)
Claut. Cdltha palustris, L., Marsh Marigold (A.H. Wr.). N. W. (Clyffe Pypard,
&c.)
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Clavy, Clavy-tack. A mantelpiece (A. B.C.). N.W., now
almost obsolete. Strictly speaking, clavy is merely the beam
which stretches across an old-fashioned fireplace, supporting
the wall. Where there is a mantelpiece, or clavy-tack, it comes
just above the clavy. Clean. 'A clean rabbit,' one that has been caught in
the nets,
and is uninjured by shot or ferret, as opposed to a ' broken,'
or damaged one. (Amateur PoacJier, ch. xi. p. 21 2). N. &
S.W. Cleat, Gleet. (i) The little wedge which secures the head
of an axe or hammer. N.W. ^(2) n. A patch (A. B.C.).
N.W. *(s) v. To mend with a patch (A.B.C.) N.W.
*(4) Occasionally, to strengthen by bracing (C.). N.W. Cleaty. Sticky,
clammy; applied to imperfectly fermented
bread, or earth that will not work well in ploughing. N.W. Gleet. See Cleat. Clengy.
See Clangy. Clim. To climb (A.S.). A cat over-fond of investigating the
contents of the larder shelves is a 'clim-tack,' or climb-shelf.
N. & S.W. Clinches. The muscles of the leg, just under the knee-joint,
N. & S.W.
Clinkerbell. An icicle. S.W. (Som. bord.) occasionally. Glitch. The groin.
N.W. Clite, Clit. (i) n. 'All in a elite,' tangled, as a child's hair.
A badly groomed horse is said to be *aal a clit.' N. & S.W.
(2) v. To tangle. 'How your hair do get clited !' N.
&S.W. elites, Clytes. G-alium Aparine, L., Goosegrass (A.). Usually
pi., but Jeiferies has sing., Clite, in Wild Life, ch. ix.
N. & S.W.
Clitty. Tangled, matted together. S.W. Clock. A dandelion seed-head, because
children play at
telling the time of day by the number of puffs it takes to
blow away all its down. N. & S.W, Cloddy. Thick, plump, stout (H.Wr.). S.W.
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Clog-weed. Heracleum Sphondylium, L., Cow-parsnip (Amateur
Poacher, ch. vi). N.W.
Clot. A hard lump of dry cow-dung, left on the surface of a pasture. See
Cow-clat. N.W.
* On pasture farms they beat clots or pick up stones.' E. JEFFERIES, Letter
to Times, Nov. 1872.
' 1661. Itm p d Richard Sheppard & Old Taverner for beating clatts in
Inglands, oo. 04. 08.' Records of Chippenham, p. 226.
*Clote. n. Verbascum Thapsus, L., Great Mullein (Aubrey's
Wilts MS.). Obsolete. Clothes-brush. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel.
Cf.
Brushes. S.W. Clottiness. See Cleaty. Clottishness (Agric. Survey}.
'The peculiar churlishness (provincially, " clottiness ") of a
great
part of the lands of this district, arising perhaps from the cold nature
of the sub-soil.' Agric. of Wilts, ch. vii. p. 51.
Clout. (i) n. A box on the ear, a blow (A.B.C.S.). See Clue. ' I'll gie thee
a clout o' th' yead.' N. & S. W. (2) v. To strike. N. & S.W.
Clue. 'A clue in the head,' a knock on the head (Village Miners). A box on
the ear. Cf. clow, Winchester College. See Clout. N.W.
Clum. To handle clumsily (A.B.), roughly, boisterously, or indecently
(a).-N.W.
Clumbersome. Awkward, clumsy. N.W.
dumper, Clumber. A heavy clod of earth. N.W. (Marl- borough.)
Clums. pi Hands. * 1 11 keep out o' thee clums, I '11 warnd I will ! ' N.W.
Clumps is used in S. Wilts in a similar way, but generally of the feet (S.),
and always implies great awkwardness, as ' What be a treadin' on my gownd vor
wi' they girt ugly clumps o' yourn ? '
Clungy. See Clangy.
*Cluster-of-five. The fist. Cluster-a-vive (S.). S.W.
Clutter, n. Disorder, mess, confusion. ' The house be ael in a clutter to-day
wi 1 they childern's lease-earn.' N. & S.W.
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Cluttered. ( i ) ' Caddled, ' over-burdened with work and worry. -N. &
S.W.
1 "Cluttered up" means in a litter, surrounded with too many things
to do at once/ JEFFEBIES, Field and Hedgerow, p. 189.
* (2) Brow-beaten. Said to have been used at Warminster
formerly.
Cluttersome. See Clattersome. Cluttery. Showery and gusty. S.W. *Clyders.
Gdlium Aparine, L., Goosegrass. S.W. *Clyten. *(i) n. An unhealthy
appearance, particularly in
children (A. B.C.). N.W., obsolete. *(2) n. An unhealthy
child (C.). N.W., obsolete.
*Clytenish. adj. Unhealthy-looking, pale, sickly (A.B.C.H.
Wr.). N.W., obsolete. Clytes. See elites. *Coath. Sheep-rot (D.S.). N. &
S.W. Cobbler's-knock. ' To do the cobbler's knock,' to slide on one
foot, tapping the ice meanwhile with the other. S.W.
* Cob-nut. A game played by children with nuts (A.B.). S.W. Cockagee, Cocky
gee (g hard). A kind of small hard sour
cider apple. Ir. cac a' gheidh, goose-dung, from its greenish- yellow colour
(see N.E.D., s.v. Coccagee). S.W. (Deverill, &c.)
Cocking-fork. A large hay-fork, used for carrying hay from the cock into the
summer-rick. S.W.
* Cooking-poles. Poles used for the same purpose. N.W. Cockles. Seed-heads of
Arctium Lappa, L., Burdock. N.W.
(Clyffe Pypard). Cock's Egg. The small eggs sometimes first laid by pullets.
N. & S.W. Cock-shot. A cock-shy : used by boys about Marlborough and
elsewhere. ' I say, there 's a skug [squirrel] let 's have
a cock-shot at him with yout squailer.' N. & S.W.
* Cock's-neckling. 'To come down cock's-neckling,' to fall
head foremost (H.Wr.). Obsolete.
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Cock's-nests, The nests so often built and then deserted by
the wren, without any apparent cause. N.W. *Cock-sqwoilin. Throwing at cocks
at Shrovetide (A.Wr.).
See Squail. N.W., obsolete.
< 1755. Paid expenses at the Angel at a meeting when the By Law
was made to prevent Throwing at Cocks, o . 10 . 6.' Records of Chippen-
ham, p. 244.
Cocky-warny. The game of leap-frog. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard. ) * Cod-apple. A
wild apple (Wilts Arch. Mag. xiv. 177). Codlins-and-cream. EpiloUum hirsutum,
L., Great Hairy
Willow-herb ; from its smell when crushed in the hand.
Cf. Sugar-Codlins. S.W. *Coglers. The hooks, with cogged rack-work for
lifting or
lowering, by which pots and kettles were formerly hung
over open fire-places. Now superseded by Hanglers. N.W.,.
obsolete. Colley. (i) A collar. N. & S.W. "(2) Soot or grime
from a pot or kettle (A.B.). Compare :
'Brief as the lightning in the collied night/ Midsummer Night's
Dream.
'Thou hast not eollied thy face enough.' JONSON'S Poetaster.
Colley-maker. A saddler. See Colley (i). N. & S.W. Colley-strawker. A
milker or 'cow-stroker.' N.W. (Clyffe
Pypard.) Colt's-tail. A kind of cloud said to portend rain. N.W.
'The colt's tail is a cloud with a bushy appearance like a ragged
fringe, and portends rain.' Great Estate, ch. viii.
*Comb, Coom. (i) n. The lower ledge of a window (Ken- nett's Paroch.
Antig>.). (2) n. Grease from an axle-box, soot, dirt, &c. Koomb (S.).
S.W.
Comb-and-Brush. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel. S.W.
Combe, Coombe. (i) The wooded side of a hill (D.) ; used occasionally in this
sense in both Wilts and Dorset. N. & S.W. (2) A narrow valley or hollow
in a hillside. This is the proper meaning. N. & S.W. Used of a narrow
valley in the woodlands in Gamekeeper at Home, ch. i.
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Come of. To get the better of, to grow out of. * How weak that child is about
the knees, Sally ! ' ' Oh, he '11 come o' that all right, Miss, as he do grow
bigger.' N. & S.W.
Come to land. Of intermittent springs, to rise to the surface and begin to
flow (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii). S.W.
Comical. (i) Queer-tempered. 'Her's a comical 'ooman.' N. & S.W. (2) Out
of health. ' I 've bin uncommon comical to-year.' N. & S.W. (3) Cracky,
queer. 'He's sort o' comical in his head, bless 'ee.' N. & S.W. ' A cow he
's a comical thing to feed ; bin he don't take care he 's very like to choke
hisself.' N.W. (Marlborough.) It should be noted that Marlborough folk are
traditionally reputed to call everything lie but a bull, and that they always
call she!
Coney-burry. A rabbit's hole. S.W. (Amesbury.)
Coniger, Conigre. This old word, originally meaning a rabbit- warren, occurs
frequently in Wilts (as at Trowbridge) as the name of a meadow, piece
of" ground, street, &c. See Great Estate, note to ch. ix.
Conker-berries. See Canker-berries.
Conks, Conkers (i. e. conquerors). (i) A boy's game, played with
horse-chestnuts strung on cord, the players taking it in turn to strike at
their opponent's conk, in order to crack and disable it. N.W. (Marlborough.)
(2) Hence, the fruit of Aesculus Hippocastanum, L., Horse-chestnut. N.W.
Coob. A hen-coop (H.) : invariably so pronounced. N. & S.W. Cooby. A snug
corner. See Cubby-hole, N. & S.W. Coom. See Comb. *Coombe-bottom. A
valley in a hillside (Great Estate, ch. iv).
See Combe. Coom hedder. (A.S.). See Horses.
Coop! Coop! The usual call to cows, &c., to come in. N. &S.W.
Coopy-house. A very small house or cottage (S.). See Cubby- hole. S.W.
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*Cooted. Cut slanting, sloped off, as the ends of the upper part of an oblong
hay-rick (D.).
1 Hayricks are usually made round ; sometimes oblong with cooted ends, not
gable ends.' Agric. of Wilts.
Cord. 'A cord of plocks,' a pile of cleft wood, 8ft. long and 4 ft. in girth
and width (D.). N.W.
Corn-baulk. See Baulk (i).
Corndrake. Crex pratensis, the Landrail ; almost invariably so called about
Warminster and in some parts of N. Wilts. N. & S.W.
*Corn-grate. The Cornbrash formation (Agric. of Wilts, p. 1 64).
*Corn Grit. Quarrymen's term for one of the building stone beds of the
Portland series (Britton's Beauties of Wilts, vol. iii).
*Corn Pop. Silene inflata, Sm., Bladder Campion. N.W. (Enford.)
Corruptions. Some of these are curious, and perhaps worth recording, as
Eainball, rainbow (always used at Huish) ; Lattiprack, paralytic ;
Nuffin-idols, Love-in-idleness ; Polly Andrews, Polyanthus. Also see
Nolens-volens. Bronchitis is always Brantitus, and Jaundice always The
Janders, plural. Persuade is always Suade. The crab-apple is usually Grab in
N. Wilts. At Etchilhampton we find Plump for pump, and Moth for moss, while
at Huish and elsewhere proud flesh is always Ploughed flesh. Pasmet, parsnip,
and the universal Turmut, turnip, may be noted as illustrating a curious
letter- change. Varley-grassey, gone green, is evidently from verdi- gris. In
Great Estate, ch. iv, Jefferies traces Meejick ( ( a sort of a Meejick'= any
thing very strange or unusual) back to menagerie. Cavalry becomes Cavaltry,
meaning horsemen, and crockery is usually Crockerty. Other more or less common
perversions of words are Patty Carey, Hepatica ; Chiny Oysters, China Aster ;
Turkemtime, turpentine ; Absence, abscess (Cherhill) ; Abrupt, to approve
(Huish) ; Tiddle, to tickle ; Cribble, a cripple ; Strive (of a tree), to
thrive (Steeple Ashton) ; Hurly-gurly, a hurdy-gurdy (S.W.) ; Midger, to measure
; Cherm, to churn (Slow, S.W.) ; Eumsey-wosey, to
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rendezvous, as 'He went a rumsy-voosing down the lane to meet his sweetheart
' ; Dapcheek, a dabchick ; Drilly-drally, to hesitate, to dawdle over
anything ; Kiddle, a kettle.
Couch, Cooch. Couch-grass in general. N. & S.W. Black Couch, Agrostis
stolonifera (D.) ; White Couch, Triticum repens (D.) ; Couchy-bent, Agrostis
stolonifera (D.) ; Knot Couch, Avena elatior.
Couchy-bent. See Couch.
Count. To expect or think. 'I don't count as he'll come.' N.W.
*Coventree. Viburnum Lantana, L., Mealy Guelder rose. S.W., obsolete.
* Coven-tree common about Chalke and Cranbourn Chase ; the carters doe make
their whippes of it.' AUBREY'S Wilts, p. 56, Ed. Brit.
* Co ward. adj. Pure : used of unskimmed milk. Cf. t cowed
milk,' Isle of Wight (Wilts Areh. Mag. vol. xxii. p. no). N.W. (Cherhill.)
* Cow-baby. A childish fellow, a simpleton (S.). S.W. Cow-clap. A form of
Cow-clat, q.v. N.W. Cow-clat, Cow-clap. A pat of cowdung (A.). N.W. *Cow-down.
A cow-common (Agric. Survey]. Obsolete.
Cows-and-Calves. (i) Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint.
S.W. (2) When a saw has alternately long and short
teeth, they are known as cows and calves respectively.
N.W.
Cowshard. Cow-clat. N.W. *Cowshorne. Cow-clats. Obsolete.
'The poore people gather the cowshorne in the meadows.' JACKSON'S
Aubrey, p. 192.
* Cow- white. See White.
*Crab. To abuse (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. no). Com- pare North Eng.
crab, to provoke, and crol), to reproach. Originally a hawking term, hawks
being said to crab when they stood too near and fought one with another. See
Folk- Etymology, p. 8 1 (Smy the- Palmer). N.W. (Cherhill.)
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*Crandum. The throat (S.). N.W.
1 1 first heard this word near Hungerford, where some farm hands were having
a spree. There was a six-gallon jar of beer on the table, which they were
continually smacking with their hands, whilst they sang in chorus :
"Let it run down yer crandum,
An' jolly will we be," &c.
I have only heard it applied to the human throat, never to that of an animal/
Letter from Mr. Slow.
*Crap. Assurance (H.Wr.). There is probably some mistake here.
Craw. The crop of a bird ; hence, the bosom (A.). 'A spelt th' drenk down's
craw/ he spilt it down his bosom (A.). N.W.
Crazy, Craisey, Craizey. The Buttercup (A. B. H.Wr.). But- tercups in
general, Ranunculus acris, E. lulbosus, E. repens, and often E. Ficaria also,
but at Huish never applied to the last-named. In Deverill the term Crames is
restricted to the Marsh Marigold. See N. E. D. (s.v. Crayse). N. & S.W.
Crazy Bets. The general name all over Wilts for Caliha palustris, L., Marsh
Marigold ; apparently always pi. in form. Crazy Betties (Great Estate, ch.
ii) and Crazy Betseys are occasionally used, the latter at Little Langford,
S.W. Cf. 'Pretty Bets,' Oxf. and Nhamp., for Ked Spur Valerian and London
Pride, and 'Sweet Betsey,' Kent, for the former. In Glouc. Marsh Marigold is
merely a Crazy. N. & S.W. *(2) Mr. Slow says that 'Crazy bets' is applied
to the * buttercup ' in South Wilts. *(3) Chrysanthemum leucan- themum, L.,
the Ox-eye Daisy. S.W. (Hampworth.)
Crazy-more, Crazy-mar, or Crazy-moir. (i) Ranunculus repens, L., Creeping
Buttercup. More = root or plant. N.W. (Devizes ; Huish.) (2) At Clyffe
Pypard, N.W., and probably elsewhere, Crazy-mar means a plant of any kind of
buttercup.
Crease. A ridge-tile. N.W.
' From the top of Aland's house ... a slate ridge-crest (or crease, as it is
provincially termed) . . . was carried northwards about 40 yards.' The Great
Wiltshire Storm, Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. vi. p. 378.
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Creed. Lemna minor, L., Duckweed (Great Estate, ch. ii).
N.W.
*Creeny. Small (A.B.H.Wr.). * Creeping Jack. Sedum, Stonecrop. N.W.
(Lyneham.)
Creeping Jenny. (i) Linaria Cymbalaria, Mill., Ivy-leaved Toadflax. S.W.
(Salisbuiy.) (2) Lysimachia Nummularia, L., Moneywort. N. & S.W.
*Cresset, Cressil. SeropJiularia aquatica, L., Water Figwort (Great Estate,
ch. iv).
Crew. The tang of a scythe-blade, fastening into the pole-ring. N.W.
Cribble about. To creep about as old people do. N. & S.W.
Cribbles. Onions grown from bulbs. See Gibbles and Chippies. S.W. (Som.
bord.)
Crick crack. People who try to talk fine language, and can- not, are said to
use ' crick crack ' words. Crick crach : words not understood (S.). N. &
S.W.
1 Crink-crank words are long words verba sesquipedalia not properly understood.
See Proceedings of Phil. Soc. v. 143-8.' COPE'S Hants Gloss.
Crink. A crevice or crack. N.W.
*Crippender. Crupper harness. S.W. (Bratton.)
Critch. A deep earthen pan (S.). Also used in Hants. Fr.
cruche. S.W.
Crock. A pot ; especially an earthen one (A.B.S.). N. & S.W. Croud. See
Crowdy.
Croup y down. To crouch down (S.) as children do when playing hide-and-seek.
N. & S.W.
Crow-bells (pi. used as sing.). Scilla nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth ^H.Wr.).
S.W. This is probably the flower referred to in Aubrey's Wilts, Roy. Soc. MS.,
p. 126 (p. 52, ed. Brit.), under the same name :
' In a ground of mine called Swices .... growes abundantly a plant called by
the people hereabout crow-bells, which I never saw any where but there. Mr.
Rob. Good, M.A., tells me that these crow-bells have blue flowers, and are
common to many shady places in this county.'
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Crowdy. A kind of apple turnover (S.). Croud (H.Wr.).
N. & S.W. Crow-flower. Sdlla nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth. S.W.
(Hants bord.) Crow-hearted. Young cabbage and broccoli plants that have
lost their eye or centre are said to be ' crow-hearted.' N.W.
(Clyffe Pypard.) Crowpeck. (i) Scandix Pecten, L., Shepherd 's-needle (D.).
S.W. (2) Ranunculus arvensis, L., Corn Crowfoot.
N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
*Crow's-legs. Scilla nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth. N.W. Crump. To crunch or
munch. N.W. Crumplings, Crumplens. Small, imperfectly grown apples.
N. & S.W. Cubby-hole. A snug corner, a sheltered place (A.S.). Also
Cooby ; cf. Coopy-house. N. & S.W.
Cuckoo. About Salisbury Saxifraga granulata is known as Dry (or Dryland)
Cuckoo, and Cardamine pratensis as Water Cuckoo, from their respective habitats.
The use of Cuckoo in a plant-name always implies that it flowers in early
spring.
Cuckoo-flower. (i) Cardamine pratensis, L., Lady's Smock. N. & S.W. (2)
Anemone nemorosa, L., Wood Anemone. S.W.
Cuckoo fool. Yunx torquilla, the Wryneck. N.W. (Broad- town.)
Cuckoo-gate. A swing-gate in a V-shaped enclosure. N. & S.W.
Cuckoos. Anemone nemorosa, L., Wood Anemone. S.W.
(Hamptworth. ) * Cuckoo's bread-and-cheese. The young shoots of the
Hawthorn (Great Estate, ch. iii). N.W. Cuddickwaay ! Order to a horse to *
Come this way.' Cue (i), n. An ox-shoe (A.). Only used on flinty lands.
N. & S.W. (2) v. To shoe an ox. N. & S.W. Cull, or Tom Cull. Cottus
gobio, the Bullhead (A.B.).
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Culls. Sheep or lambs picked out of the flock, as inferior in size or in any
other way, and sold. Fairs at which they are sold are called i Cull Fairs.'
N.W.
Curdle. A curl of hair (S.). N. & S. W.
Curly-buttons. Woodlice. S.W.
Curly-cob. The Bullhead, Coitus golio.S.W. (Bishopstone.)
Curry-pig. A sucking pig (H.Wr.). Also Cure-pig.
Cushion-pink. Armeria maritima, Willd., Thrift ; the garden
variety. N.W. * Cushions. Scdbiosa arvensis, L., Field Scabious. N. &
S.W.
(Enford, &c.) *Cusnation. An expletive (A.).
4 Ha' done, Jonas ! Dwon't 'e be a cussnation vool ! I'll call missus ! '
Wilts Tales, p. 83.
Cut-finger-leaf. Valeriana, All-heal. The leaves are good for application to
sluggish sores, whitlows, &c. Mr. Cunnington quotes it as V. dioica. N.W.
(Huish, &c.)
Cutty. Troglodytes vulgaris, the Wren (S.). S.W.
D. (i) In comparatives, &c., d is frequently added to liquids, as
coolder, cooler ; thinder, thinner ; feeldins, feelings ; and scholard,
scholar. In Chronieon Vilodunense, fifteenth century, we find jaylarde, a
gaoler. (2) It is also used for thj as draish, thresh ; droo, through ; dree,
three. (3) D not sounded after a liquid ; examples : veel) field ; vine, to find
; dresliol, threshold.
Daak. See Dawk.
Dab. An expert at anything ; sometimes used ironically, as 1 He 's a perfect
dab at gardening,' he knows nothing what- ever about it. N. & S.W.
Dabster. A proficient (A.). See Dapster. S.W.
Dack. See Dawk.
Daddick, Daddock. n. Kotten wood (A.B.G.). N.W.
Daddicky. adj. Of wood, decayed, rotten (A.B.S.). Cf. Dicky. N. & S.W.
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*Daddy's Whiskers. Clematis Vitalla, L., Traveller's Joy.
S.W. (Farley.)
Daffy. The usual name in N.W. for the wild Daffodil. Daggled. See Diggled.
Daglet. An icicle (A.H.S.Wr.). See Daggled. N. & S.W. * Thatched roofs
are always hung with " daglets " in frost.' Village
Miners.
Dain. Noisome effluvia (A.B.C.H.Wr.). Formerly applied mainly to infectious
effluvia, as ' Now dwoan't 'ee gwo too nigh thuck there chap ; he've a had
the small-pox, and the dain be in his clothes still.' (See Cunnington MS.).
Now used of very bad smells in general. N.W.
Dainty. Evil-smelling. 'That there meat's ter'ble dainty.'
N.W. Dall. An expletive (S.). N.W.
' 'Od dal th' vor'n ungrateful varment ! ' Wilts Tales, p. 50.
Dandy-goshen. See Dandy-goslings.
Dandy-goslings. (i) Orchis mascula, L., Early Purple Orchis. See
Gandigoslings, &c. N.W. (2) 0. Morio, L., Green-winged Meadow Orchis.
Dandy-goshen at Salisbury (English Plant Names), also at Little Langford.
S.W.
*Dane, Daner. In Kingston Deverill there was an old man who called red-haired
men 'Danes,' or 'Daners,' as 'Thee bist a Dane.' This being in the centre of
the Alfred district, the term may be a survival. In Somerset red- haired men
are often said to be 'a bit touched with the Danes.'
*Dane's Blood. Sawibucus Ebulus, L., Dwarf Elder (Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts,
p. 50, ed. Brit.). It is popularly believed only to grow on the ancient
battle-fields, and to have sprung originally from the blood of the slain
Danes.
Dap. (i) v. To rebound, as a ball. N. & S.W. (2) n. The rebound of a ball
N. & S.W.
Dap on. To pounce down on, to take unawares. N. &
S.W.
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Daps. (i) * He 's the daps on his feyther,' the very image of him (S.). S.W.
(2) < He got the daps o' he's feyther/ he has the same tricks as his
father. N.W.
1 Dap, a hop, a turn. The daps of any one would therefore be his habits,
peculiarities, &c.' JENNINGS, Somerset Gloss.
Dapster. *(i) A nimble boy. S.W. (Deverill). (2) A proficient (S.). See Dab.
S.W.
*Dar. n. 'To be struck in a dar, to be astonished or con- founded.'
Cunnington MS. Apparently from O.E. dare, to frighten birds. N.W., obsolete. 'Never
hobby so dared a lark.' BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy.
*Daver. To fade, fall down, droop, as flowers or leaves on a hot day. N.W.
(^Malmesbury.)
Dawk, Dack, Daak, Dank. To incise with a jerk, or insert a pointed weapon
with rapidity (H.Wr.). To stab and tear together as a cat's claw does. To
puncture. N.W.
1 Should a savage cat tear out a piece of flesh from the hand, she is said to
"dawk" it out. Dawk expresses a ferocious stab and tear combined/
Village Miners.
Also used of a baker marking loaves :
' Prick it and dack it and mark it with T, And put it in the oven for baby
and me.' Nursery Rhyme.
This seems to be identical with A.S. dale, dole, Dutch and
Danish dolk, Icel. ddlkr, Germ, dolch, all meaning a sharp
piercing instrument, a skewer, a dagger, &c. (Smythe-Palmer). Dead hedge.
A wattled fence (Agric. of Wilts, ch. x). N.W. Dead pen. A sheep pen is
occasionally so called in S. Wilts. Dead-roof. A skilling roof made of bavins
and thatched over.
N.W Dead year. Often used with possessive pronoun, as ' his dead
year,' the year immediately following his death (Wilts Arch.
Mag. vol. xxii. p. in). A widow should not marry again
* afore the dead year 's up.' N.W. Deaf-nettle. Lamium album, L., the Dead
nettle. Of. Dunch-
nettle. S.W. Deaf-nut. A rotten or empty nut. Deaf useless, inactive.
S.W.
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Deedy. (i) Industrious, busy, as 'He's a deedy man.'-
N.W. (2) Intent, as 'What bist looking so deedy at?'
N.W.
*Dee-gee. Mr. William Cunnington writes us as follows : ' " Twas a
Dee-gee " was the name of a kind of dance, which our old
nurse taught us as children, mostly performed by moving sideways
and knocking the feet together.'
This would seem to be a survival of the Elizabethan
heydeguies. See Spenser, Shepherd's Calendar, June. N.W. ,
obsolete. *Densher. To prepare down-land for cultivation by paring
and burning the turf (Aubrey's Wilts Nat. Hist., p. 103,
ed. Brit.). See Bake and Burn-bake. Desight, Dissight. An unsightly object
(H.Wr.). N.W. Devil-daisy. Matricaria Parthenium, L., Common Feverfew,
and Anthemis Cotula, L., Stinking Camomile, from their
daisy-like flowers and unpleasant odour. S.W. Devil-in-a-hedge. Nigella
damascena, Love in a mist. N.W.
Devil-screecher. Cypselus opus, the Common Swift. N. &
S.W. Devil's-ring. A kind of hairy caterpillar which curls up on
being touched (Wild Life, ch. xvii). N.W.
' Devyls-gold-rynge, the coleworfc worme.' Huloet. 1 Oak-egger and fox moths,
which children call " Devil's Gold Kings." ' KINGSLEY, Chalk-stream
Studies.
Dew-beater. A man who has large feet, or who turns out his toes, so that he
brushes the dew oif the grass in walking
(A.S.). N. & S.W. Compare :
' The dew-beaters [early walkers, pioneers] have trod their way for those
that come after them.' RACKET'S Life of Williams, i. 57.
Dew-bit. A very early breakfast (A.). N. & S.W.
Dew-pond. A pond on the downs, not fed by any spring, but kept up by mist,
dew, and rain. Such ponds rarely fail, even in the longest drought. Also
Mist-pond. N.W.
*Dewsiers. The valves of a pig's heart (A.B.G.) ; a corruption of O.F.
jusier.
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Deyhus, Da'us, Day'us. A dairy, a cheese-room (A.B.). From deye, a dairymaid
; Icel. deigja (Skeat). In this and similar words, as Brewhouse, Woodhouse,
&c., house is always pronounced as A.S. hus (Akerman), the h, however,
not being invariably sounded. N.W.
Dibs. A game played by boys with sheep's dibs or knuckle- bones (S.). N.
& S.W.
*Dick-and-his-team. The Great Bear. N.W. Compare Jack- and-his-team.
' I know the north star ; there it is ... And the Great Bear ; the men call
it Dick and his Team.' Greene Feme Farm, ch. vi.
Dicker. (i) To bedeck. ' Gels be allus a dickerin' therselves up now-a-days.'
N.W. (Huish.) (2) 'As thick as they can dicker,' very intimate. S.W.
(Amesbury.) 'All in a dicker (or l digger '),' very close together. S.W.
Dicky. (i) Of vegetables, decayed. (2) Of persons or plants, weakly or in
ill-health (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 1 10). Cf. Daddicky. N.W.
Dicky-birds. Fumaria officinalis, L., Common Fumitory. S.W.
Diedapper. Podiceps minor, the Dabchick ; Divedapperin. Shake- speare. In
common use at Salisbury until quite recently. Before the streams running
through the city were covered over, it was an every-day occurrence to see a
dripping urchin making for home, with an escort of friends at his heels yelling
'Diedapper, Diedapper, Diedapper, die!' S.W.
*Diggle. v. To grow thickly together. 'They weeds be a coming up agen as thick
as ever they can diggle.' See Dicker. N. W. (^Potterne. ).
Diggled, Daggled. Covered over or hung thickly with any- thing. Compare
Daglet. ' Thick may-bush be aal diggled wi' berries.' S.W. (Salisbury.)
Diggles. n. Abundance, plenty (S.). ' Let 's go a blackberryin' ; there's
diggles up Grovely.' See Diggle. S.W.
DiU, Dill Duck. A young duck. N. & S.W.
Dillcup. Kanuncuhts Ficar'm, L., Lesser Celandine (S.). S.W.
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Diller. The shaft-horse (H.Wr.). See Thiller. N.W.
Dills. See Thills.
Dimmets. Dusk, twilight. S.W.
Ding. To strike violently (Dark, ch. xv). N.W.
Dishabille. A labourer's working clothes. The word is not used in Wilts, in
its ordinaiy sense of undress or negligent costume, but a common excuse for
not appearing at church is that a man has nothing but his dishabille to wear.
Fr. deshabille. N.W.
Dishwasher, (i) M otacilla flava, the Yellow Wagtail (A.S.). N. & S.W.
(2) M. Yarrellii, the Pied Wagtail (A.S.). N. & S.W.
Do. ' To do for any one,' to manage or keep house for him.
N. & S.W.
*Dock. Malva sylvestris, L., Common Mallow (A.). Now restricted to Eumex.
Dodder, Dudder, Duther,&c. (i) v. To bewilder, to deafen with noise
(A.B.H.S. Wr. ). ' I be vinny doddered, they chil- dern do yop so.' N. &
S.W. (2) n. 'All in a dudder,' quite bewildered (H.). N. & S.W. (3) v. To
deaden anything, as pain. 'It sort o' dudders the pain.' N.W. (Clyffe
Pypard.)
*Doddle-grass. Briza media, L., Quaking Grass (English Plant Names).
Doddler. ' A bit of a doddler,' a small boy. N. & S.W.
Dog, how beest? This phrase seems worth noting. At Clyffe Pypard a person
complaining of loneliness, or the want of sociability or kindness amongst the
neighbours, will say, ' There isn't one as '11 so much as look in and say,
"Dog, how beest ? " '
Dog-Cocks. Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint. Compare Dogs-
dibbk in N. Devon. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) Dog-daisy. Any large daisy-like
white flower, such as Gliry-
santhemum leucanthemum, L., Ox-eye Daisy. N. & S.W.
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Dogged. (2 syl.) Very, excessively ; as dogged cute (A.). N. & S.W.
' Maester was dogged deep, but I was deeper ! ' Wilts Tales, p. no.
*Dog out. To drive out anything, as a sheep out of a quagmire, by setting the
dog furiously at it (Great Estate, ch. viii).
Dog's-mouth. Linaria vulgaris, Mill. , Yellow Toadflax. N. W. *Dom. A door
case (H.Wr.) : probably a mistake for Dorn or
Doom.
Domel. See Bumble. Doner. A man, animal, &c., 'done for' and past hope
(S.).
' Thuck old sow be a dunner ; her '11 be dead afore night.'
N. & S.W.
*Donnings. Clothes (A.B.). *Dooke. (2 syl.) Do ye, will ye. 'Be quiet, dooke'
(H.M.Wr.).
' Obsolete, having been superseded by do'ee. It was pronounced as
a dissyllable.' SKEAT.
Door-Drapper (i.e. Dropper or Dripper). The piece of wood fastened to the
bottom of cottage doors to shoot the water off the 'Dreshol' (threshold).
N.W.
*Doorn. A door frame (H.Wr.). Also Burn (S.). At War- minster applied only to
the sides of a door-frame. S.W.
Double. 'He is a double man,' i.e. bent double with age or
infirmity. S.W. *Double-Dumb-Nettle. Ballota nigra, L., Black Horehound.
S.W. (Charlton.) *Double-ladies'-fingers-and-thumbs. Anihyllis vulneraria,
L.,
Kidney Vetch. N.W. (Enford.)
Double-mound. A double hedge (Amateur Poacher, ch. xi ; Wild Life, ch. ix. p.
152). See Mound. N.W.
*Double Pincushion. Antliyllis vulneraria, L., Kidney Vetch.
S.W. (Barford.)
Doublets. Twin lambs (Annals ofAgric.). N.W. Dough-fig. The same as Lem-feg.
A Turkey Fig, N.W,
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Dout. To put out, as ' Dout the candle ' (A.B.S.) : to smother or extinguish
fire by beating. N. & S.W.
' An extinguisher " douts " a candle ; the heel of a boot "
douts " a match thrown down, But the exact definition of " dout
" is to smother, or extinguish by beating.' Village Miners.
Dowl. The fine down of a bird. N.W.
* Coots and moor-hens must be skinned, they could not be plucked because of
the " dowl." Dowl is the fluff, the tiny featherets no fingers can
remove.' Bevis, ch. vii.
Down. To tire out, to exhaust. 'That there 'oss's downed.'
N.W. (Wroughton.) Down-along. l He lives down-along,' a little way down the
street (S.), as opposed to 'up-along.' S.W. Down-arg. To contradict in an
overbearing manner (A.B.S.),
to browbeat N. & S.W. Down-dacious. Audacious (S.). l Her 's a right
downdacious
young vaggot, that her is ! ' S.W.
*Down-haggard. Disconsolate (S.). S.W.
Down-hearten. To feel disheartened. ' A be vurry bad, but
I don't down-hearten about un.' N.W. Dowse. A blow (A.B.C.S.), as 'a dowse in
the chops.'
N. & S.W. Dowst. (i) Chaff or cave. Dust (D.). (2) 'To go to
dowst,' go to bed, perhaps from dowst (chaff) being used to
fill mattresses. Heard at Huish occasionally, but not traced
elsewhere.
Dowst-coob. The chaff cupboard in a stable. N. & S.W. Drag. A harrow
(D.). N. & S.W.
Drail. (i) In a plough, the iron bow from which the traces draw, and by which
the furrow is set (D.). N.W. (2) Crex pratensis, the Landrail. N.W.
*Drainted. Of dirt, ingrained (H.Wr.).
Drang, Drangway, Drung. (i) A narrow lane. Drun (H.Wr.). S.W. (2) A narrow
passage between walls or houses. Drun (H.Wr.). S.W.
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Drangway. See Drang (S.).
Drashel, Dreshol, &c. A flail (!).) The correct term for a flail is a
drashel, but ' a pair o' drashells ' (or * dreshols ') is more commonly used,
as two men generally work together. N. & S.W.
*Drattle. Much talk (S.). S.W.
Draught. A cart-shaft. Draats (S.). S.W.
Draughts. Hazel-rods selected for hurdle-making (D.). A ' draught ' is not a
rod, but a bundle of long wood suitable for hurdles or pea-sticks, bound with
a single withe. N.W.
Drave. ' I be slaving an' draving (i. e. working myself to death) for he,
night and day.' N. & S.W.
Draw. (i) A squirrel's dray or nest. N.W. (Marlborough. ) (2) Karely applied
to a large nest, as a hawk's. Compare : 'Draw, to build a nest (Berners)^ an
old hawking term. N.W. (Marlborough.)
Drawing. See Drawn.
Drawn. In a water-meadow, the large open main drain which carries the water
back to the river, after it has passed through the various carriages and
trenches. S.W. In every-day use about Salisbury, and along the Avon and Wiley
from Downton to Codford, but rarely heard else- where.
' Many of the meadows on either length [near Salisbury] abound in ditches and
" drawns." ' Fishing Gazette, July 18, 1891, p. 40, col. 2.
'I ... descried three birds, standing quite still [at Britford] by the margin
of a flooded " drawing." ' Wilts Arch, Mag. xxi. 229.
Dredge, Drodge. Barley and oats grown together. S.W.
Dribs-and-Drabs. Odds and ends. * All in dribs and drabs, '
aU in tatters. N. & S.W. Drieth. See Dryth.
Drift. A row of felled underwood (D.). N.W. Dripple. See Waggon.
Drive. Of manure, to stimulate growth. ' Thur, that '11 drive th' rhubub, I
knaws I '-N. & S.W.
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Drock. (i) A short drain under a roadway, often made with a hollow tree. N.
& S.W. (2) A broad flat stone laid as a bridge across a ditch (Amaryllis
at the Fair). N.W. (Castle Eaton, &c.)
1 Drock, a water-way, or sometimes the stone slab over a narrow ditch.'
Leisure Hour, Aug. 1893.
* 1674. Item Paid Eichard Serrell for a Stone to make a Drocke.' Records of
Chippenham, p. 230.
"(3) A water-course (H.Wr.). A water-way (Leisure Hour,
Aug. 1893). N.W. (Castle Eaton, &c.)
' Where meaning a water way, it is usually spoken of as a Crock- way,
"drock" alone being the passage over the ditch.' Miss E.
BOYER-BKOWN.
*(4) Used in compounds such as Well-drock, windlass. Drockway. See Drock (3).
Drodge. See Dredge. * Dromedary. (i) Centaurea nigra, L., Black Knapweed.
S.W. (Barford St. Martin.) (2) Centaurea Scaliosa, L.,
Hardheads. S.W. (Barford St. Martin.) Dropping. 'A dropping summer,' one when
there is a shower
every two or three days (Wild Life, ch. ii). N.W. Drove. A green road- way on
a farm. N. & S.W. Drown. To turn the water over the meadows. S.W. Drowner.
The man who attends to the hatches, managing
the supply of water, and turning it on and off the meadows
at the proper times. S.W. *Drowning-bridge. A water-meadow sluice-gate
(A.B.G.H.
Wr.).
Drowning-carriage. A large water-course for drowning a meadow. See Carriage.
S.W.
*Droy. A thunderbolt (Aubrey's Wilts MS., H. Wr.). Obsolete.
*Drucked. Filled to overflowing (S.). S.W.
Drug. (i) 'To drug timber,' to draw it out of the woods under a pair of
wheels (D.). N.W. (2) * To drug a wheel,' to put on some kind of drag or
chain. N.W.
*Druid's-hair. Long moss (H.Wr.),
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Drun. See Drang (H.Wr.).
Drunge. (i) n. A crowd or crush of people (H.Wr.) N.W.
(2) v. To squeeze (S.). S.W. Drunkards. Flowers of Caltlia palustris, L.,
Marsh Marigold ;
probably from the way in which they suck up water when
placed in a vase. The reason assigned by children for the
name is that if you look long at them you will be sure to
take to drink. S.W. (Som. bord.) Dry Cuckoo, or Dryland Cuckoo. Saxifraga
granulata, L.,
White Meadow Saxifrage. See Cuckoo. S.W. Dryth, or Drieth. Dryness, drought.
N.W.
' 1633. The cryer ... to give warninge to the inhabitants to sett
payles of water at their doores in the late tyme of drieth and heate.' -
Records of Chippenham, p. 206.
Dub. To pelt with stones. ' Just dub that apple down out of
the tree, will 'ee ? ' See Prog- dubbing. S.W. Dubbed. Blunt, pointless
(A.B.). * Dubbing. 'A dubbin' o' drenk,' a pint or mug of beer
(A.B.H.Wr.). Dubby. Oily. N.W. Duck's-frost. A very slight white frost. N.W.
'That kind of frost which comes on in the early morning, and is
accompanied with some rime on the grass a duck's frost, just sufficient
to check fox-hunting.' Gamekeeper at Home, ch. vii.
Duckstone. A game played by boys with stones (S.). S.W.
Dudder. See Dodder.
Dudge. (i) A bundle of anything used to stop a hole.
N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) "(2) 'Peg the dudge,' tap the
barrel (A.B.G.H.Wr.).
Dudman. A scarecrow. N.W. (Malmesbury.) Dumb-Ague. A kind of ague which is
not accompanied by
the usual shaking fits. ' 'Tis what 'ee do caal the dumb-
agey.' N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) Dumble. Stupid, dull (A.B.H.Wr.) ; also Domel,
Dummel, &c.
N.W.
1 Severe weather . . . makes all wild animals " dummel" in
provincial phrase, i.e. stupid, slow to move/ Gamekeeper at Home, ch. vii.
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Dumbledore, or Bumble. The Humble-bee (A.B.S.). N. & S.W.
<f Th' mak'st a noise like a dumbledore in a pitcher.' Wilts Tales, p. 68.
Dumb Nettle. Lamium album, L., White Dead-nettle. S.W. (Charlton.)
Dump. (i) n. * A treacle dump,' a kind of coarse sweet- mea t. g.W. (2) v. To
blunt, as 'I've dumped my scythe against a stone.' N.W. (3) A pollard tree,
as * Ash-dump,' or 'Willow-dump.' N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Dum-put. See Dung-pot.
Dunch. (i) Deaf (A. B.C.); now rarely so used. In Gun- nington MS. said to be
at that time the usual N. Wilts term for to/ -N. &S.W.
' Ah ! Molly, ye purtends to be as dunch as a bittle, but I kneows 'e hears
ev'ry word I zays.' Wilts Tales, p. 81.
(2) Stupid, heavy ; now the common use. ' The wapses gets dunch ' in late
autumn. A labourer who can't be made to understand orders is ' dunch.' N.
& S.W. (3 /Of bread, heavy (Wild Life, ch. vii). Cf. Dunch-dumpling. N.
& S.W. Dunchy is frequently used in S. Wilts instead of Dunch, but
usually means deaf.
Dunch-dumpling. A hard-boiled flour-and-water dumpling (A.B.C.) See Dunch
(3). N.W.
Dunch-nettle, Dunse-nettle, (i) Lamium purpureum, L., Red Dead-nettle. Dunch
= stupid, inactive. Cf. Deaf-nettle. S.W. (2) Lamium album, L., White
Dead-nettle. S.W. (Barford.)
Dung-pot. A dung-cart (D.) ; rarely Dum-put. See Pot. N. & S.W.
*Dup. To dup the door,' to open or unfasten it (Lansd. MS. I0 3 3)- Obsolete.
Cf. :
'Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, And dupp'd the chamber-door.'
Hamlet, iv. 5.
The word now means the very reverse.
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Dutch Elder. Aegopodium Podagraria, L., Gout- weed. S.W.
(Farley, &c.) Duther, Dutter. See Dodder.
Ea-grass. After-grass (D.) ; Lammas grass as well as after- math. S.W.
Eass (sometimes Yees). An earthworm. S.W.
*Edge-growed. Of barley, both growing and ripening irregu- larly ; the result
of a want of rain after it is first sown (D.).
Eel-scrade. A kind of eel-trap. S.W.
' A trap used to catch eels, placed near a weir. The water is turned into the
scrade when high, and the fish washed up to a stage through which the water
finds an outlet, the fish, however, being retained on the platform by a piece
of sloping iron.' F. M. WILLIS.
Eel-sticher. An eel-spear. S.W.
' Wishing to secure [a Little Grebe] in summer plumage, I asked the old
"drowner" in our meadows to look out for one for me >and this he
very soon did, fishing one out from under the water between the spikes of his
eel-sticher, as it was diving under the water.' Wilts Arch. Mag. xxii. 193.
Effet, Evet. Lissotriton punctatus, the Newt (A.S.) N. & S.W.
'She . . . sometimes peered under the sage-bush to look at the " effets
" that hid there/ Great Estate, ii.
Eggs-and-Bacon. Linaria vulgaris, Mill., Yellow Toadflax.
Cf. Bacon-and-Eggs. N. & S.W. *Eggs-eggs. Fruit of the hawthorn. S.W.
(Farley.) *Elet. Fuel (H.Wr.). *Ollit (Aubrey's Wilts MS.). N.W.,
obsolete. Elm, Helm, or Yelm. (i) v. To make up 'elms.' N. &
S.W.
'Two or three women are busy " yelming," i.e. separating the
straw, selecting the longest and laying it level and parallel, damping
it with water, and preparing it for the yokes.' Wild Life, ch. vi.
(2) n. (Almost invariably pi., ' elms ' being the usual form). Small bundles
or handfuls of fresh straw, damped and laid out straight for the thatcher's
use (Wild Life, ch. vi). See Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. in. According to
Prof.
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Skeat yelm, seldom now used in Wilts, is the correct form, from A.S. gilm, a
handful. About Marlborough it is usually pronounced as Yclms, but at-Clyffe
Pypard there is not the slightest sound of y in it. Elsewhere it is
frequently pronounced as Ellums. N. & S.W.
Eltrot. Heradeum Sphondylium, L., Cow-parsnip (S.). *Altrot at Zeals. S.W.
Emmet. The Ant (S.). 'Ant' is never used in Wilts. N. &S.W.
Emmet-heap. An anthill. N. & S.W.
En. (i) pi termination, as Housen, houses; Hipsen, rose- berries ; Keyn, keys
; Pacen, faces ; Wenchen, girls ; Bluen, blossoms ; ISTaas'n, nests (rarely
heard, Nestises being the usual form) ; Pigs'-sousen, pigs'-ears. N. &
S.W.
' In North Wilts . . . the formation of the Plural by affixing en to the Noun
is almost universal, as house housen, &c.' Cunnington MS.
(2) adj. term., as Harnen, made of horn ; Stwonen, of stone ; Elmin, of elm
wood, &c. ' Boughten bread/ baker's bread, as opposed to home-made. 'A
dirten floor,' a floor made of earth, beaten hard. 'A tinnin pot.' 'A glassen
cup.' Boarden, made of boards ; Treen-dishes, wooden platters, &c. '
There 's some volk as thinks to go droo life in glassen slippers.' N. &
S.W. '
' Almost as universal too is the transformation of the Substantive into an
adjective by the same termination as ... a Leatheren Shoe, an el men Board,
&c.' Cunnington MS.
(3) See Pronouns.
' The pronoun Possessive too is formed in the same way, as hisn hern Ourn
theirn.' Cunnington MS.
English Parrot. Pious viridis, the Green Woodpecker (Birds
of Wilts, p. 251). S.W. (Salisbury.)
Ether, Edder. The top-band of a fence, the wands of hazel, &c., woven in
along the top of a 'dead hedge,' or wattled fence, to keep it compact (A.B.).
A ' stake and ether ' fence. A.S. edor. N.W.
1 Mughall [Midghall] had nothing to doe withought [without] the Eyther
[hedge] between Bradene Lane and Shropshire Marsh.' 1602,
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MS., Perambulation of the Great Park of Fasterne, N.W., in Devizes Museum.
'An eldern stake and blackthorn ether Will make a hedge to last for ever/
Wilts Saying (A.).
Eve. See Heave.
Even-ash. Ash-leaves with an equal number of leaflets, carried by children in
the afternoon of the 2pth May (Wild Life, ch. v). See Shitsac. N.W.
Evet. See Eflet.
Ex, pi. Exes. An axle (S.). N. & S.W.
Eyles. See Ailes.
F. (i) F for th. Examples: Fust, thirst; afust, athirst. An old
characteristic of the Western and South- Western groups of dialect. (2) F, at
the beginning of a word, is frequently sounded as v, as fall, vail ; flick,
vlick ; font, vant.
Fadge. See Fodge. Fag. See Vag.
Faggot, Fakket. (i) A woman of bad character is 'a nasty stinking faggot (or
vaggot).' Often used in a milder sense, as ' You young vaggot ! [you bad
girl] what be slapping the baby vor?' N. & S.W.
' Damn you vor a gay wench, vor that 's what you be, an' no mistake, about it
; a vaggot as I wun't hae in my house no longer.' Dark, ch. xii.
(2) A rissole of chopped pig's-liver and seasoning, covered with ; flare' :
also known as Bake-faggot. N. & S.W.
'Tripe an mince meat,
Vaggots an pigs veet, An blackpuddins stale, on which to regale.' BLOW'S
Poems, p. 26.
Falarie. Disturban&e, excitement, commotion. N. & S.W.
'"Look'ee here, there 've bin a fine falarie about you, Zur." He meant
that there had been much excitement when it was found that Bevis was not in
the garden, and was nowhere to be found.' Wood Magic, ch. ii.
' Used about Wilton, but not so extensively as its synonym rumpus.' Letter
from Mr. Slow.
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Fall about, v. Of a woman : to be confined. ' His wife bin
an' fell about laas' night.' N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) Fall down. Of arable land
: to be allowed to relapse of itself
into poor rough pasture. N.W.
'Some of the land is getting "turnip-sick," the roots come stringy
and small and useless, so that many let it " vail down." ' Great
Estate,
ch. i. p. 6. Falling, n. A downfall of snow. i I thenks we shall have
some vallen soon.' Only used of snow. N. & S.W. Falling-post. The front
upright timber of a gate. Occasionally
heard at Huish ; Head, however, being the more usual term
there. N.W. Falsify. Of seeds, young trees, &c. : to fail, to come to
nought.
N.W. Fancy man. A married woman's lover. ' He be Bill's wife's
fancy man, that's what he do be.' N.W. *Fang. To strangle ; to bind a wounded
limb so tightly as to
stop the flow of blood (A.B.H.Wr.). Fantag, Fanteague, &c. (i) n.
Fluster, fuss. Fantaig (S.).
N. & S.W. (2) Vagaries or larks, as 'Now, none o'
your fantaigs here!' At Clyfte Pypard, N.W., 'a regular
fantaig ' would be a flighty flirting lad or girl, a ' wonder-
menting or gammotty sort of a chap.' N. & S.W.
*Fardingale. A quarter of an acre (H.Wr. Lansd. MS.). The old form is
Farding-deal (Wr.). Compare Thurindale, &c. Obsolete.
' 1620. Itm, to the same Thomas & Nicholas Lea for theire helpe to laye
the Acres into ffarendells.' Records of Chippenham, p. 202. ' 1649. Twoe
ffarthendels of grasse.' Ibid. p. 217.
Farewell Summer. The Michaelmas Daisy. N. & S.W. Fashion. The farcey, a
disease in horses (A. H.Wr.). Fr.
farcin. N.W.
'An old Wiltshire farmer, when his grand-daughters appeared before him with
any new piece of finery, would ask what it all meant. The girls would reply,
"fashion, gran'vather ! " when the old man would rejoin, " Ha
! many a good horse has died o' th' fashion ! " '
Akcrman.
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Favour. To resemble in features, &c. ' He doesn't favour you, Sir ... He
is his mother's own boy.' N. & S.W.
Featish. Fair, tolerable (A.B.). Used of health, crops, &c. ' How be 'e ?
' ' Featish, thank 'e.' * There 's a featish crop o' grass yander ! ' (A.). M
E. fetis (in Chaucer), O.F. fetis, faitis.X.W.
' The worthy farmer proceeded to ask how the children got on at the
Sunday-school. " Oh, featish, zur . . . Sally, yander . . . her 's gettin*
on oonderful.' Wilts Tales, pp. 139-140.
* " How 's your voice ? " " Aw, featish [fairish]. I zucked a
thrush's egg to clear un." ' Greene Ferns Farm. ch. i.
* " Ees, this be featish tackle," meaning the liquor was good.'
Ibid. ch. vii.
* A' be a featish-looking girl, you.' Ibid. ch. i.
*Fern Buttercup. Potentilla Anserina, L., Silverweed. S.W. (Zeals.)
Fess. (i) Of animals : bad-tempered, fierce. A cat with its back up looks 'ter'ble
fess.' N. & S.W. (2) Cocky, impudent, confident. Also used in Hants.
S.W., occasion- ally. (3) Proud, stuck-up (S.). S.W. Fet. See Preterites.
Fevertory. Fumaria, Fumitory, from which a cosmetic for removing freckles
used to be distilled. S.W. * If you wish to be pure and holy, Wash your face
with fevertory.' Local Rhyme.
Few. 'A goodish few,' or ' a main few,' a considerable quan- tity or number.
N. & S.W.
' I ferrets a goodish few rabbits on bright nights in winter.' Amateur
Poacher, ch. vii.
Fiddle-strings. The ribs of the Plantain leaf, when pulled out. See Cat-gut.
N.W.
*Field. The space, or bay, between beam and beam in a barn, as ' a barn of
four fields ' (D.).
Figged (two syll.), Figgedy, Figgetty, Figgy. (i) Made with a few 'figs/ or
raisins, as 'viggy pudden.' Figged Pudding, Plum pudding (Monthly Mag.,
1814). Figgetty Pooden (S.). N. & S.W. (2) Figged. Spotted all over,
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as a pudding is with plums. S.W. A true-born Moon- raker, describing his
first night in ' Lunnon,' where he made the acquaintance of numerous members
of the ' Nor- folk-Howard' family (Cimex lectularius), spoke of his face as
being * vigged aal auver wi' spots an' bumps afore marning.'
Fighting-cocks. Plantago media, L., and other Plantains. Children ' fight '
them, head against head. N.W.
Piltry. Kubbish. ' Ther 's a lot o' filtry about this house.' N.W.
Fine. Of potatoes, very small. N.W.
Fingers-and-Thumbs. Blossoms of Ulex Europaeus, L., Com- mon Furze (S.).
-S.W.
*Fire-deal. A good deal (H.Wr.).
Fire-new, Vire-new. Quite new (A.) N.W.
Firk. (i) To worry mentally, to be anxious; as 'Don't firk so,' or 'Don't
firk yourself.' A cat does not firk a mouse when ' playing' with it, but the
mouse firks grievously. N.W. (Marlborough). (2) To be officiously busy or
inquisitive, as * I can't abear that there chap a-comin' firkin' about here.'
A policeman getting up a case firks about the place, ferreting out all the
evidence he can. N.W.
*Fitten. A pretence (A.B.). Obsolete. Compare :
'He doth feed you with fittons, figments, and leasings.' Cynthia's
Revels.
Fitty. In good health. 'Howbe'ee?' < Ter'blefitty.' N.W. *Flabber-gaster.
n. Idle talk (S.).- S.W. Flag. The blade of wheat. N.W.
' The wheat was then showing a beautiful flag . . . The flag is the long
narrow green leaf of the wheat.' Great Estate, ch. i. p. 8.
Flake, n. (i) A frame, barred with ash or willow spars, somewhat resembling a
light gate, used as a hurdle where extra strength is needed (Bevis, ch. xii ;
Wild Life, ch. iv). * Flake ' hurdles are used to divide a field, or for cattle,
the ordinary sheep hurdles being too weak for the purpose. N.W. (2) v. To
make 'flakes.' N.W.
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Flam tag. A slatternly woman. N.W. (Huish, &c.)
Flare. (i) The flick, or internal fat of a pig, before it is melted down to
make lard. N. & S.W. (2) The caul, or thin skin of the intestines of
animals, used for covering 'bake-faggots,' &c. N. & S.W.
Fleck. See Flick.
Flews. A sluice is occasionally so called. See Flowse. S.W.
Flewy. Of a horse, troubled with looseness. l He 's what we calls a flewy
'oss, can't kip nothing in 'im.' Cf. North of Eng. Flewish, morally or
physically weak. In Hants a horse of weakly constitution is said to be flue
or fluey (Cope). N.W.
Flick, Fleck. (i) n. The internal fat of a pig (A.B.C.S.). N. & S.W. *
(2) v. To flare (S.). S.W.
Flig-me-jig. A girl of doubtful character. 'Her's a reg'lar
flig-me-jig. ' N. W. Flirk. To flip anything about (H.Wr.), as a duster in
flicking
a speck of dust off a table (Village Miners). Flirt is the
S. Wilts form of the word. N.W.
*Flitch. (i) Pert, lively, officious (A.B.H.Wr.).
1 Eight flygge and mery.' Paston Letters, iv. 412.
*(2) To be flick or flitch with any one, to be familiar or intimate (C.).
N.W., obsolete.
Flitmouse. The bat. A shortened form of Flitterm(wse. N.W. (Marlborough.)
Flitters. Pieces. A cup falls, and is broken ' aal to vlitters.' N.W.
* Floating or Flowing meadow. A meadow laid up in ridges with water-carriages
on each ridge and drains between (D.). A lowland meadow watered from a river,
as opposed to Catch-meadow (Annals of Agric.). Floted meadowes (Aubrey's Nat.
Hist. Wilts, p. 51, ed. Brit.).
Flod. See Preterites.
Flop-a-dock. Digitalis purpurea, L., Foxglove. S.W. (Hants bord.)
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Ploppetty. adj. Of a woman, untidy, slatternly in dress or person. Flopperty
(S.). S.W.
Plowing Meadows. See Floating Meadows.
Flowse. (i) v. act. You 'flowse,' or splash, the water over you in a bath. N.
& S.W. (2) v. neut. Water is said to be 'flowsing down' when rushing very
strongly through a mill hatch. A horse likes to ' flowse about ' in a pond.
S.W. (3) n. The rush of water through a hatch. S.W. (4) n. Occasionally also
applied to the narrow walled channel between the hatch gate and the pool below.
S.W.
Flucksey. adj. 'Aflucksey old hen,' i. e. a hen who makes a great fuss over
her chickens. S.W. (Bishopstrow, &c.) Cope's Hants Glossary has: '
Flucks, to peck in anger like a hen/
Flump. 'To come down flump, like a twoad from roost, '.to fall heavily
(A.B.S.); also used alone as a verb, as 'Her vlumped down in thic chair.' N.
& S.W.
Flunk. A spark of fire ; probably a form of Blink, q.v. Vlonker (S.). S.W.
Flush. *(i) n. Of grass, a strong and abundant growth (Agric. of Wilts, ch.
xii). (2) adj. Of grass, &c., luxu- riant. N.W. (3) adj. Of young birds,
fledged (A.B.). N. & S.W.
Flustrated. (i) Taken aback, flustered. N.W.
' A didn't zay anything . . . but a looked a leetle flustrated like.' Wilts
Tales, p. 119.
(2) Tipsy. N.W.
Fluttery. Of weather, catchy, uncertain, showery. "Tull
be a main fluttery hay-making to-year, I warnd.' N.W. (Huish.)
*Fodder. A labourer 'fodders' his boots stuffs soft hay into them to fill up,
when they are too large for him (Village Miners).
*Fodge (rarely Fadge). In packing fleeces of wool, when the quantity is too
small to make up a full 'bag' of 240 Ibs.,
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the ends of the bag are gathered together as required, and the sides skewered
over them, thus forming the small package known as a 'fodge.' N.W.
Fog. v. To give fodder to cattle. Gf. Welsh ffwg, dry grass. N. & S.W.
1 Fogging , the giving of fodder . . . from a Middle English root ... is common
in Mid- Wilts.' Leisure Hour, Aug. 1893.
Fog off. To damp off, as cuttings often do in a greenhouse.
N.W. (Marlborough.) Fogger. A man who attends to the cows and takes them
their fodder morning and evening (My Old Village, &c.).
A groom or man-servant (H.Wr.), the duties of groom and
fogger being usually discharged by the same man on farms
about Marlborough. N. & S.W. *Foldsail, Fossel. A fold-shore (D.). See
Sails.- N.W.
'A fold stake, locally called a "fossle." ' Wilts Arch. Mag. xxi.
132. 'The "fossels" means the -fold-shores, or the stakes to which
the
hurdles are shored up, and fastened with a loose twig wreath at the
top.' Ibid. xvii. 304.
Fold-shore. A stake pitched to support a hurdle (D.H.). S. W. Follow or
Follow on. To continue. N.W.
' If you do want a good crop, you must follow on a hoeing o' the
ground ; but you can't do no hoeing so long as it do follow raining.'
Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. in.
Folly. A circular plantation of trees on a hill, as * Harnham Folly,' or ;
The Long Folly ' on Compton Down. This seems quite distinct from its more general
use as applied to a tower or other building which is too pretentious or
costly for its builder's position and means. N. & S.W.
' " Every hill seems to have a Folly," she said, looking round.
" I mean a clump of trees on the top." ' Greene Feme Farm, ch. vi.
* Foot-cock. The small cock into which hay is first put (D.). Footy. Paltry
(A.B.), as a present not so large as was expected
(Village Miners). N.W. For. Often affixed to the verbs say and think. i
'Tean't the
same as you said for ' ; * I bean't as old as you thinks for.'
N.W.
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Fore-eyed. Fore-seeing, apt to look far ahead (S.). S.W.
Fore-spur. A fore-leg of pork (S.). S.W.
Forefeed, Vorfeed. To turn cattle out in spring into a pasture
which is afterwards to be laid up for hay. N.W. Foreright, Vorright. (i) adj.
Headstrong, self-willed. 'He's
that vorright there's no telling he anything.' N. & S.W.
(2) adj. Blunt, rude, candid. N.W. (Malmesbury.) (3)
Just opposite. * The geat 's vorright thuck shard.' N.W. *Forel. The actual
cover of a book, not the material in which
it is bound. This is the usual term in Som. Old Fr. fourrel,
a sheath, case. N.W. (Malmesbury.) Fork. The apparatus used by thatchers for
carrying the elms
up to the roof. N.W. Forester. (i) A New Forest horse-fly. S.W. (2) Any
very tall thistle growing among underwood.-^- N.W. (Marl- borough.)
*Fossel. See Foldsail. Fot. See Preterites. Frame. A skeleton. * Her 's nothing
in the world but a frame.'
-N.W.
*Frea, Fry. To make a brushwood drain (D.). Freglam. Odds and ends of cold
vegetables, fried up with
a little bacon to give a relish. Compare Lane. Braughwham,
cheese, eggs, clap-bread, and butter, all boiled together.
N.W., obsolete.
*French Grass. Onobrycliis sativa, L., Sainfoin. N.W.
(Enford.)
Fresh liquor. Unsalted hog's-fat (A). N.W. Frickle, Friggle. (i) To potter
about at little jobs, such as
an old man can do. ' I bain't up to a day's work now ;
I can't do nothing but frickle about in my game.' N. &
S.W. (2) To fidget, to worry about a thing. N.W. ' He freggled [fidgetted]
hisself auver thuck paason as come a bit
ago.' Greene Feme Farm, ch. vii.
Frickling, Friggling. adj. Tiresome, involving much minute attention or
labour. Used of fiddling little jobs. N.W.
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Priggle. n. A worrying little piece of work. ' I be so caddled
wi' aal these yer friggles, I caan't hardly vind time vor a bit
o' vittles.' See Frickle. N.W. (Huish.) Frith. (i) n. 'Quick,' or young
whitethorn for planting
hedges. N.W. *(2) n. Thorns or brush underwood (D).
N.W.
' 1605. Itm to James Smalwood for an Acre & halfe of hedginge frith out
of Heywood . . . Item for felling the same frith/ Records of CMpperiham, p.
194.
(3) v. To make a brushwood drain, as opposed to Grip,
q.y. (D). Froar. Frozen (A.B.S.) ; generally Vroar or Vr6r in N. Wilts,
but the usual form at Wroughton, N.W., is Froren. A.S.
gefroren.^. & S.W. Frog-dubbing. Boys throw a frog into a shallow pool,
and
then ' dub' or pelt it, as it tries to escape. See Dub. S.W. Froom. See Frum.
Front. Of animals : to take fright. ' My horse frouted and
run away.' S.W. Frouten, Froughten. To frighten (S.). N. & S.W.
' Lor, Miss, how you did froughten I ! ' Greene Feme Farm, ch. vii. Frow. See
Brow. Frum, Froom. Of vegetables, grass, &c. : fresh and juicy (A.B.) ;
strong-growing or rank. A.S. from, vigorous, strong. N.W. *Fry. (i) n. A
brushwood drain (H.Wr.). See Frith (3).
N.W. (2) v. To make a brushwood drain (D.), Also
Frea and Frith (D.). N.W.
' 1790. For 234 Lugg Hollow frying in Englands 2 . 18 . 6.' Records of
Chipperiham, p. 248.
Fullmare. n. In my childhood I remember being told more than once by servants
at Morden, near Swindon, N.W., that a colt which was playing about in a field
near was ' a fullmare.' Could this possibly have been a survival of the old
word 'Fotymare, a young foal,' which is given by Halliwell and Wright as
occurring in a fifteenth-century MS. at Jesus College, Oxford ? I have never
heard the word elsewhere. G. E. D.
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Pur. n. The calcareous sediment in a kettle, &c, N. &
S.W. Furlong (pronounced Vurlin). The strip of newly-ploughed
land lying between two main furrows. N.W. (Lockeridge.)
Fur up. Water-pipes, kettles, &c., when coated inside with 'rock,' or the
calcareous sediment of hard water, are said to ' fur up,' or to be 'furred
up.' N. & S.W.
* Furze-hawker. Saxicola oenantJie, the Wheatear. N.W.
*Furze Robin. Saxicola rubicola, the Stonechat (Birds of Wills, p. 150). N.W.
(Sutton Benger.)
Fuzz-ball. Lycoperdon Bovista, L., Puffball. N. & S.W.
Gaa-oot! See Horses (A.).
Gaam. (i) v. To smear or bedaub with anything sticky. Gaamze (Village
Miners). (2) n. A sticky mass of anything. See Gam. N. & S.W. Many years
ago, at a Yeomanry ball in a certain town in N. Wilts, the Mayor, who had
done his duty manfully up to then, stopped short in the middle of a dance,
and mopping his face vigorously, gasped out to his astonished partner, a lady
of high position, ' Well, I don't know how you be, Marm, but I be ael of a
gaam o'zweat!' N.W.
Gaamy, Gammy. Daubed with grease, &c., sticky. In Hal. andWr. 'Gaam, adj.
sticky, clammy, 'is apparently an error, gaamy being probably intended. N.W.
Gaapsey. n. A sight to be stared at. See Gapps. N.W.
Gaapus. n. A fool, a stupid fellow. 'What be at, ye girt gaapus!' N.W.
(Clyffe Pypard.)
Gabborn. Of rooms or houses, comfortless, bare (B.C.). Gabbern (A.H.) and
Gabern (Great Estate, ch. iv. p. 78). This term always denotes largeness
without convenience or comfort (Cunnington MS.). N.W. Gabberny on Berks bord.
*Gage-ring. An engagement ring (Great Estate, ch. x\ N. W. Galley-bagger. A
scarecrow (S.). S.W.
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Galley-crow. A scarecrow (A. H. Wr. ). N. & S. W.
'"Maester," said the child, "wull 'e let m' chainge hats wi'
thuck galley-crow yander ? " . . . pointing to a scare-crow at the other
end of the garden.' Wilts Tales, p. 103.
Gallivant. To be gadding about on a spree with a companion of the opposite
sex (S.) : to run after the girls, or 'chaps,/ as the case may be. N. &
S.W.
Gallow. See Gaily.
Gallows (pronounced Gallus}. *(i) A pair of braces. (2) Exceedingly. Used
with any adjective ; as ' Gallus dear,' very expensive (Great Estate, ch. iv.
p. 75). N. & S.W. * A gallus bad wench her be ! ' Dark, ch. xviii.
*(s) ' He's a gallus chap,' i. e. plucky.
Gallows-gate. A light gate, consisting only of a hinged style, top-rail, and
one strut. N.W.
GaUus. See Gallows. N.W.
Gaily, Gallow. To frighten or terrify. Gallow (B.H., Lavish. MS.), Gaily
(A.B.S.), Pret. gallered, astonished, frightened (A.B.C.S.) <He gallered I
amwost into vits.' Still in use about Marlborough and in S.W. From M.E.
galwen ; A.S. agcelwan, to stupefy. N. & S.W.
'The wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark.' Lear, iii. 2.
The word is still commonly used in the whale-fishery :
'Young bulls ... are ... easily " gallied," that is, frightened.' MARRYAT,
Poor Jack, ch. vi.
Gam. A sticky mass, as 'all in a gam.' See Gaam (2). N. & S.W. In S.
Wilts the a in this word and its derivatives is usually short, while in N.
Wilts it is broad in sound.
Gambrel. The piece of wood or iron used by butchers for extending or hanging
a carcase (A.). Gamel (S.). N. & S.W.
Gamel. See Gambrel. Gammer. A woodlouse. S.W.
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Gammet, Gamut. (i) n. Fun, frolicsome tricks. 'You be vull o' gamuts.' N.W.
(2) v. To frolic, to play the fool. See Gammock and Gannick. 'Thee bist allus
a gammetting.'- N.W. (3) v. To play off practical jokes ; to take in any one.
N.W.
Gammock. v. To lark about, to play the fool, to frolic. See Gannick and
Gammet. N.W. (Marlborough.)
Gammotty, Gammutty. (i) adj. Frolicsome, larky. See Gammet. N.W. (2) adj. Of
cheese, ill-flavoured. See Cammocky. N. W.
Gammy. (i) Sticky. See Gaamy. S.W. (2) Lame, crippled, having a 'game leg.'
N. & S.W.
Gamut. See Gammet.
Gander-flanking, To go. To go off larking or * wonderment- ing.' Perhaps a
corruption of gallivanting. S.W. (Upton Scudamore.)
Gandigoslings. Orchis mascula, L., Early Purple Orchis. Compare Gandergosses
in Gerarde (Appendix), and Candle- gostes in Folk-Etymology. Also see
Dandy-goslings, Dandy- goshen, Goosey-ganders, Goslings, Grampha- Griddle- Goosey-Gander,
and Granfer-goslings. N.W.
Gannick. To lark about, to play the fool. See Gammock. S.W. (Warminster,
&c.)
Gapps, Gaapsey. To gape or stare at anything. ' Thee'st allus a gaapsin'
about.' N.W.
Garley-gut. A gluttonous person. Perhaps connected with gorlej to devour
eagerly (see Halliwell).
'"Let's go to bed," says Heavy-Head, "Let's bide a bit,"
says Sloth, " Put on the pot," says Garley-gut, "We'll sup
afore we g'auf" [go off].' Nursery Rhyme.
Gashly, See Ghastly.
Gate. n. Excitement, 'taking.' 'Her wur in a vine gate w iV N.W.
Gatfer. See Gotfer.
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Grange-brick. A brick which shows by its change of colour when the oven is
hot enough for baking. Cf. "Warning- stone. N.W.
* She knew when the oven was hot enough by the gauge-brick : this particular
brick as the heat increased became spotted with white, and when it had turned
quite white the oven was ready.' Great Estate, ch. viii. p. 152.
Gawl-cup. See Gold-cup.
Gawney. A simpleton (A.H.S.Wr.).- N. & S.W. ' Leave m' 'lone y' great
gawney ! ' Wilts Tales, p. 83.
Gay. Of wheat, rank in the blade (D.). N.W.
Gee, Jee. To agree, to work well together (A.B.). N.W.
Genow. See Go-now.
*Gentlemen's-anri-ladies J -fingers. Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint. Cf.
Lady's-Finger (2). S.W. (Farley.)
Ghastly (pronounced Gashly}. This word is used in many ways, as ' Thick hedge
wur gashly high, but it be ter'ble improved now.' N.W. (Huish.) At
Etchilhampton,
N.W., a 'gashly ditch' is one that is cut too wide. N. & S.W.
Gibbles. Onions grown from bulbs. Cf. Chippies and Cribbles. N. & S.W.
Gicksey. See Kecks.
Giggley. See Goggley.
Gigletting. adj. Fond of rough romping ; wanton. Used only of females.
'Dwoan't ha' no truck wi' thuck there giglettin' wench o' his'n.' N W.
(Malmesbury. )
Gilcup. Buttercups in general ; occasionally restricted to E. Ficaria. Cf.
Gold-cup. S.W.
*Gill. A low four-wheeled timber-carriage (Cycl. ofAgric.).
*Gilty-cup. Caltlia palustris, L., Marsh Marigold. S.W.
(Zeals.) Gin- and- Water Market. See quotation.
' Some towns have only what is called a " gin-and-water " market : that
is, the "deal" is begun and concluded from small samples carried in
the pocket and examined at an inn over a glass of spirits and water.' The
Toilers of the Field, p. 28.
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Gipsy. Carnation grass, Carex panicea, L., because it turns so brown. N.W.
(Clyffe Pypard.)
Gipsy-rose. Scdbiosa atropurpurea, L., the Garden Scabious. N.W.
Girls. The short-pistilled or ' thrum eyed' blossoms of the Primrose, Primula
vulgaris, L. See Boys. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Gix, Gicksey, &c. See Kecks.
Glory-hole. A place for rubbish or odds and ends, as a house- maid's
cupboard, or a lumber room. N.W.
' This has nothing to do with Lat. gloria, but is connected with
M.E. glorien, to befoul (Prompt. Pan?.); Compare Prov. Eng. glorry,
greasy, fat. Thus glory-hole & dirty, untidy nook. See Folk-Etymology, p.
145.' SMYTHE-PALMEK.
*Glox. This is given by most authorities as a noun, and defined as ' the
sound of liquids when shaken in a barrel ' (A.B.H.Wr.); but it is really a
verb, and refers to the motion and peculiar gurgling of liquids against the
side of a barrel or vessel that is not quite full (C.). In Hants gloxing is
the noise made by falling, gurgling water (Cope). Cf. Lottie. N.W., obsolete.
* Fill the Barrel full, John, or else it will glox in Carriage.' Cunning- ton
MS.
Glutch. To swallow (A. B. C. S. ). According to Cunnington MS. the use of
glutch implies that there is some difficulty in swallowing, while quilt is to
swallow naturally. N. & S.W.
Glutcher. The throat (S.). See Glutch. N. & S.W. *Gnaa-post. A simpleton
(S.). S.W.
Ghaing. To mock, to insult (S.). Also used in West of England and Sussex.
S.W.
Goat- weed. Polygonum Convolvulus, L., Black Bindweed.
N.W.
*Gob. (i) n. Much chatter (S.). S.W. (2) v. To talk.
S.W.
*Goche. A pitcher (H.Wr.). Perhaps a mistake, as Morton (Cycl. ofAgric.)
gives gotch under Norfolk.
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Gog, Goggmire. A swamp or quagmire. Cf. Quavin-gog. 'I be all in a goggmire,'
in a regular fix or dilemma.
N.W.
' In Minty Common ... is a boggie place, called the Gogges . . . Footnote.
Perhaps a corruption of quag, itself a corruption of quake. " I be all
in a gogg-mire" is a North Wilts phrase for being in what appears an
inextricable difficulty.' JACKSON'S Aubrey, p. 271.
Goggle. (i) n. A snail-shell. Cf. E. cockle (Skeat). N.W.
' Guggles, the empty shells of snails not the large brown kind, but those of
various colours.' Miss E. BOYER- BROWN.
(2)0. 'To go goggling,' to collect snail-shells (Springtide, p. 89). N.W. (3)
.v. To shake or tremble, as a table with one leg shorter than the others. * I
do trembly an' goggly ael day.' N. & S.W. (4) n. 'All of a goggle,' shaking
all over, especially from physical weakness. ' How are you to-day, Sally?'
'Lor', Zur ! I be aal of a goggle.' ' What on earth do you mean ? ' ' Why, I
be zo ter'ble giggly, I can't scarce kip my lags nohow.' S.W. (Steeple Ashton.)
Goggles. A disease in sheep (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xiv). N.W. (Castle Eaton.)
Goggly. Unsteady, shaky. Sometimes Giggly is used, as in example given under
Goggle. N. & S.W<
Goggmire. See Gog.
Gold. Nodules of iron pyrites in chalk. N.W. Heard once or twice, near Clyffe
Pypard, years ago. Gr. E. D.
' On past the steep wall of an ancient chalk-quarry, where the ploughboys
search for pyrites, and call them thunderbolts and "gold," for when
broken the radial metallic fibres glisten yellow.' Greene Feme Farm, ch. v.
Gold-cup (pronounced Gawl-cup). The various forms of Buttercup. Cf. Gilcup. N.W.
(Malmesbury.)
Golden Chain. (i) Laburnum (S.). The general name for it in Wilts. N. &
S.W. (2) Latliyms pratensis, L., Meadow Vetchling. S. W. (Salisbury.)
Goldlock. Sinapis arvensis, L., Charlock. S.W. (Zeals.)
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Go-now, G-enow, Good-now. Used as an expletive, or an address to a person
(S.). 'What do'ee thenk o' that, genow ! ' Also used in Dorset. N. & S.W.
Gooding Day. St. Thomas' Day, when children go 'gooding,' or asking for
Christmas boxes. N.W.
*Good Neighbour. Jefferies (Village Miners) speaks of a weed called by this
name, but does not identify it. See below.
Good Neighbourhood. (i) Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus, L., Good King Henry. N.W.
(Devizes.) (2) Centranthus ruler, DC., Red Spur Valerian (English Plant
Names). N.W. (Devizes.)
Good-now. See Go-now (S.). Used at Downton, &c. S.W.
Gooseberry-pie. Valeriana dioica, L., All-heal. S.W.
Goosegog. A green gooseberry (S.). Used by children. N. &
S.W. Goosehill. See Guzzle.
*Goosen-chick. A gosling (Wr.). *Goosen-chick's vather. A gander (Wr.). Both
these words would appear to belong to Som. and Dev. rather than Wilts.
Goosey-gander. A game played by children (S.). N. & S.W.
Goosey-ganders. Orchis mascula, L., Early Purple Orchis.
N.W.
*Gore. A triangular piece of ground (D.).
Goslings. Orchis mascula, L., Early Purple Orchis. See Gandi- goslings. N.W.
Goss. Ononis arvensis, L., Restharrow. Gorse, Ulex, is always 1 Fuzz.' N.W.
Gossiping. A christening. N.W. , obsolete.
*Gotfer. An old man (H.Wr.). *Gatfer is still in use about
Malmesbury . N. W. Grab-hook. A kind of grapnel used for recovering lost
buckets from a well.
Graft. (i) A draining spade. N.W. (2) The depth of earth dug therewith. N.W.
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Grained. Dirty (A.H.Wr.) ; Grainted (B.) ; the latter being a
mispronunciation. N.W.
Grains. The tines of a gardening fork, as 'a four-grained
prong.' N. & S.W.
Gramfer. Grandfather (A.B.). Granfer (S.) and Gramp are also used. N. &
S.w!
Grammer. Grandmother (A.B.S.). N. & S.W. Becoming obsolete.
Grammered in. Of dirt, so grained in, that it is almost im- possible to wash
it off. Grammered : Begrimed (H. ). N.W.
*Grampka- Griddle- Goosey- Gander. Orchis mascula, L., Early Purple Orchis
(Sarum Dioc. Gazette). S.W. (Zeals.)
*Granfer-goslings. Orchis maculata, L., Spotted Orchis (Village Miners).
'N.W.
* Granny-jump-out-of-bed. Aconitum Napellus, L., Monks-
hood. S.W. (Deverill.)
Granny (or Granny's) Nightcap. (i) Anemone nemorosa, L., Wood Anemone. S.W.
(Salisbury.) (2) Aquilegia vulgaris, L., Common Columbine. N.W. (Huish.) (3)
Con- volvulus sepium, L., Great Bindweed. N.W. (4) Convolvulus arvensis, L.,
Field Bindweed. N.W.
* Grate. Earth (D.).
* Grate-board. The mould-board of a plough (D.\
* Gratings. The right of feed in the stubbles (D.). See
Gretton.
Gravel-Path, The. The Milky Way. N.W. (Huish.)
*Gray Woodpecker. Picus major, the Great Spotted Wood- pecker (Birds of
Wilts, p. 253). See Black Woodpecker.
Great axe. The large English woodman's axe (Amateur Poacher, ch. iv).
Greggles, or Greygles. Scilla nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth Cf. Blue Goggles.
S.W.
* Gretton. Stubble (Aubrey's Wilts MS.) See Gratings.
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Greybeard. Clematis Vitalba, L., Traveller's Joy, when in seed.-N.W.
Greygles. See Greggles.
Griggles. Small worthless apples remaining on the tree after the crop has
been gathered in. N.W.
Griggling. Knocking down the l griggles,' as boys are allowed by custom to
do. N.W.
Grindstone Apple. The crab-apple; used to sharpen reap- hooks, its acid
biting into the steel. The ' Grindstone Apple ' mentioned in the Eulogy ofE.
Jefferies, p. iv. is probably the 1 Grindstone Pippin ' of Wood Magic, not
the crab. N.W.
Grip, or Gripe. (i) To grip wheat is to divide it into bundles before making
up the sheaves. N.W. (2) n. i A grip of wheat,' the handful grasped in
reaping (A.). It is laid down in gripe when laid ready in handfuls untied
(D.). N.W. (3) v. To drain with covered turf or stone drains, as opposed to
frith. To take up gripe, is to make such drains (D.). S.W. Grist, Griz. To
snarl and show the teeth, as an angry dog or
man (A.H.Wr.).-N.W. Grizzle. To grumble, complain, whine, cry. N. & S.W.
* Groin. A forked stick used by thatchers for carrying the
bundles of straw up to the roof (A.B.G.). *Gropsing. ' The gropsing of the
evening/ dusk. Obsolete.
' Both came unto the sayd Tryvatt's howse in the gropsing of the yevening.'
Wilts Arch. Mag. xxii. 227.
Ground. A field. -N.W.
' A whirlevvind took him up ... and layd him down safe, without any hurt, in
the next ground.' AUBKEY'S Nat. Hist. Wilts p. 16, ed. Brit.
* Ground-sill stone. Quarrymen's term for one of the beds
of the Portland oolite useful for bridges, &c., where great strength is
required (Britton's Beauties, vol. iii).
Ground-rest. The wood supporting the share, in the old wooden plough (D.).
Rest is a mistake for wrest (Skeat).
N.W.
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Grout. (i) v. To root like a hog. N.W. (2) ' v. Hence, to rummage about. N.W.
Grouty, adj. Of the sky, thundery, threatening rain. It looks ' ter'ble
grouty ' in summer when thunder clouds are coming up. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Grump. 'To grump about,' to complain of all sorts of ail- ments. N.W.
*Grupper. To give up (Wr.). There would appear to be some mistake here, as we
cannot trace the word elsewhere.
*Gubbarn. n. A filthy place, a foul gutter or drain (A.H.Wr.), Gubborn (B.).
Should not this be adj. instead of n. ? Compare Devon gultbings, offal,
refuse.
Guggles. See Goggles.
Guinea-pigs, Pigs. Wood-lice. See Butchers'- Guinea- Pigs. N. & S.W.
*Gule. To sneer or make mouths at (A.). Also used in Hereford.
Guley, Guly. adj. (i) Of sheep, giddy, suffering from a disease in the head
which affects the brain and causes a kind of vertigo. N.W. (2) Of persons,
queer, stupid, or silly-looking. Compare Gruled, bewildered, Berks. After being
very drunk over-night, a man looks 'ter'ble guley' in the morning. N.W.
Gullet-hole. A large drain-hole through a hedge-bank to carry off water. N.W.
*Gurgeons. Coarse flour (A.). Gushill. See Guzzle.
Guss. (i) n. The girth of a saddle (A.B.). N.W. (2) v. To girth ; to tie
tightly round the middle. A bundle of hay should be l gussed up tight.' A
badly dressed fat woman * looks vor aal the world like a zack o' whate
a-gussed in wi' a rawp.' N.W.
Gustrill. See Guzzle.
Gutter. To drain land with open drains (D.). N.W.
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Guzzle. (i) The filth of a drain (B.). (2) A filthy drain (A.B.). Goosehill
(Wr.\ Gushill (K.), and Gustrill (H.Wr.), the latter being probably a misprint.
N.W.
Guzzle-berry. Gooseberry. Used by children. N. & S.W.
H. It should be noted that the cockney misuse of H is essentially foreign to
our dialect. Formerly it was the rarest thing in the world to hear a true
Wiltshire rustic make such a slip, though the townsfolk were by no means blameless
in this respect, but now the spread of education and the increased facilities
of communication have tainted even our rural speech with cockneyisms and
slang phrases.
Hack. (i) v. To loosen the earth round potatoes, pre- paratory to earthing
them up. This is done with a ' tater- hacker,' an old three-grained
garden-fork, which by bending down the tines or 'grains' at right angles to
the handle has been converted into something resembling a rake, but used as a
hoe. In Dorset hoeing is called hacking. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) * (2) n. The
shed in which newly-made bricks are set out to dry. N.W. (Malmesbury. )
*Hacka. n. A nervous hesitation in speaking (Village Miners). N.W.
* He speaks with so many hacks and hesitations.' DR. H. MOBE.
Hacker. (i) v. See Hakker. (2) n. The instrument used in 'hacking' potatoes ;
also known as a Tomahawk.
N.W.
Hacketty. See Hicketty.
Hackle. * (i) n. The mane of a hog (A.H. Wr.). (2) n. The straw covering of a
beehive or of the apex of a rick (A.). N.W. (3) *To agree together (A.). (4)
To rattle or re-echo. N.W.
Hagged. Haggard, worn out, exhausted-looking. 'He came in quite hagged.'
'Her've a had a lot to contend wi' to- year, and her 's hagged to death wi't
aal.' N. & S.W.
Hagger. See Hakker.
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Haggle. To cut clumsily. See Agg. N.W.
' They took out their knives and haggled the skin off/ Bevis, ch. vii. Hag-rod.
Bewitched, hag-ridden, afflicted with nightmare.
*Haig-raig, bewildered (S.). S.W. Hail. The beard of barley. See Aile, which
is the more
correct form (Smythe-Palmer). N. & S.W.
' The black knots on the delicate barley straw were beginning to be topped
with the hail.' Round about a Great Estate, ch. i. p. 8,
Hain, Hain up. v. To reserve a field of grass for mowing (A.B.D.). N.W.
Treated as a noun by Akerman.
' Three acres of grass ... to be hayned by the farmer at Candlemas and
carried by the Vicar at Lammas.' Hilmarton Parish Terrier, 1704.
Haito. A horse ; used by mothers and nurses concurrently with Gee-gee. A
contraction of Hait-wo, the order to a horse to go to the left. Nighty is
similarly used in N. of England. N. & S.W.
Hait-wo. See above.
Hakker, Hacker. To tremble (S.), as with passion (A.), cold, or ague. Hagger.
To chatter with cold (H.Wr.). N. & S.W.
' Bless m' zoul, if I d won't think our ma ester 's got the ager ! How a hackers
an bivers, to be zhure ! ' Wilts Tales, p. 55.
Half-baked, or Half-saved. Half-witted. N. & S.W.
*Hallantide. All Saints' Day (B.).
Hallege, Harrige. n. The latter seems to be the original form of the word,
and is still occasionally heard ; but for at least seventy years it has been
more commonly pro- nounced as hallege, I and r having been interchanged. We have
met with it at Clyife Pypard, Bromham, Huish, and elsewhere in N. Wilts ;
but, so far as we know, it is not used in S. Wilts. Ravage = disturbance,
which the Kev. S. Baring-Gould heard once in Cornwall, and made use of in his
fine West-Country romance, John Herring, ch. xxxix, is doubtless a variant of
the same word. (i) Of persons, a crowd ; also, contemptuously, a low rabble. i
Be you a-gwain down to zee what they be a-doing at the Veast ? ' ' No, I
bean't a-gwain amang such a hallege as
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that ! ' N.W. (2) Of things, confusion, disorder. Were a load of top and lop,
intended to be cut up for firewood, shot down clumsily in a yard gateway, it
would be said, ' What a hallege you 've a-got there, blocking up the way ! ' N.W.
(3) Hence, it sometimes appears to mean rubbish, as when it is applied to the
mess and litter of small broken twigs and chips left on the ground after a
tree has been cut and carried. N.W. (4) It is also occasionally used of a
disturbance of some sort, as ' What a hallege ! ' what a row ! N.W.
Ham. (i) A narrow strip of ground by a river, as Mill-ham (A.D.). (2) See
Haulm (S.).
Hames. Pieces of wood attached to a horse's collar in draw- ing (A. DA N.
&S.W.
Hanch (a broad). Of a cow or bull, to thrust with the horns, whether in play
or earnest. N.W.
Hand. (i) n. Corn has 'a good hand' when it is dry and slippery in the sack,
'a bad hand' when it is damp and rough (D.). N.W. (2) v. To act as a second
in a fight. N.W. (3) v. 'To have hands with anything,' to have anything to do
with it. 'I shan't hae no hands wi't.' N.W. See Hank.
Hand-box. See Box.
Hander. The second to a pugilist (A.). See Hand (2). N.W.
Handin'-post. A sign-post. N.W.
Hand-staff. The part of the ' drashell ' which is held in the hand.
Hand-wrist. The wrist. N.W.
Handy. Near to, as ' handy home,' 'handy ten o'clock' (A.B.M.S.). 'A gied un
vower days' work, or handy.' N. & S.W.
Hang. * To hang up a field,' to take the cattle off it, and give it a long
rest, so as to freshen up the pasture. N.W.
Hang-fair. A public execution, as ' Hang-fair at 'Vize,' for- merly treated
as a great holiday. N.W., obsolete. The Pleasure Fair at Warminster on August
1 1 is known as
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* Hang-Fair, 'perhaps from the hanging of two murderers there on that day in
1813. See Wilts Notes and Queries, i. 40, 139.
Hang-gallows. A gallows-bird (S.). N. & S.W.
' " Where 's the money I put in th' zack, you hang-gallus ? "
roared Mr. Twink.' Wilts Tales, p. 55.
Hanging. (i) The steep wooded slope of a hill. N. & S.W. (2) A hillside
field (S.). S.W.
Hanging Geranium. Saxlfraga sarmentosa, L. ; from the way in which it is
usually suspended in a cottage window ; also known as Strawberry Geranium,
from its strawberry-like runners. S. W.
Hanging-post. The hinder upright timber of a gate, by which it is hung to its
post. Frequently heard, although Har is much more commonly used. N.W. (Huish,
&c.)
Hanglers. The hooks by which pots and kettles are suspended over open
fireplaces in old cottages and farm-houses. See Coglers. N.W.
*Hank. Dealings with (S.). ' I won't ha' no hank wi' un,' will have nothing
at all to do with him. Cf. Hand (3). S.W.
*Hants-sheep, Hants-horses. See quotation.
* They were called [in Wilts] hants sheep ; they were a sort of sheep that
never shelled their teeth, but always had their lambs-teeth without shedding
them, and thrusting out two broader in their room every year. . . . There
were such a sort of horses called hants horses, that always showed themselves
to be six years old.' LISLE'S Husbandry, 1757-
Happer-down. To come down smartly, to rattle down, as hail, or leaves in
autumn. N.W. (Clyife Pypard.)
Haps. (i) n. A hasp (A.B.). N. & S.W. (2) v. To hasp, to fasten up a door
or box (A.B.) N. & S.W.
Har. The hinder upright timber of a gate, by which it is hung to its post. A.
S. heorre, M. E. herre, the hinge of a door. See Head and Hanging-post. N.W.
(Marlborough ; Huish; Clyffe Pypard.)
' We wants some more heads and liars cut out.' Carpenters about Marlborough
usually reduce the word to a single letter in making up their accounts, as '
To a new R to Cow-lease gate, &c.' Rev. C. SOAMES,
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Hardhead. Centaurea nigra, L., Black Knapweed. N. & S.W.
Harl. (i) v. To thrust a dead rabbit's hind-foot through a slit in the other
leg, so as to form a loop to hang it up or carry it by (G-amekeeper at Home,
ch. ii). Hardle in Dorset. N. & S.W. (2) v. To entangle (C.). Harl,
knotted (A.S.), is a mistake for harled.'N. & S.W. (3) n. An entanglement
(B.C. ). ' The thread be aal in a harl.' A knot (Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts,
p. 51, ed. Brit.) N. & S.W. *(4) Of oats, well-harled is well-eared (D;.
Harrige. See Hallege.
*Harrows. The longitudinal bars of a harrow (D.).
Harvest-trow. The shrew-mouse ( Wild Life, ch. ix) ; Harvest- row (A.H.Wr.
\-N.W.
*Hask. A husky cough to which cows are subject (Lisle's Husbandry). See Husk.
Hatch. (i) n. A 'wallow,' or line of raked-up hay. N.W.
(2) v. 'To hatch up,' to rake hay into hatches. N.W.
(3) n. A half-door (A. B. C. ). * Barn-hatch, ' a low board put across the
door, over which you must step to enter. N.W.
Haulm, Ham, Haam, Helm. A stalk of any vegetable (A.B.), especially potatoes
and peas. N. & S.W.
Haycock. A much larger heap of hay than a 'foot-cock.'
N. & S.W. * Hayes. A piece of ground enclosed with a live hedge ; used
as a termination, as Calf-Hayes (D.). A.S. liege (Skeat). Hay-home. See
quotation.
* It was the last day of the hay-harvest it was " hay-home " that
night/ K. JEFFEBIES, A True Tale of the Wiltshire Labourer.
Hay-making. Grass as it is mown lies in swathe (N. & S.W.); then it is
turned (S.W.), preparatory to being tedded (N. & S.W.), or spread-, then
raked up into lines called hatches (N.W.\ which may be either single hatch or
doulle hatch, and are known in some parts as wallows (N.W.) ; next spread and
hatched up again, and put up in small foot-cocks, cocks (N.W.), or pooks (N.
& S.W.) ; finally, after being thrown about again, it is -waked up into
long wakes (N.W.), or rollers (S.W.), and
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if not made temporarily into summer-ricks (N.W.), is then carried. No wonder
that John Burroughs (Fresh Fields, p. 55) remarks that in England hay 'is
usually nearly worn out with handling before they get it into the rick.'
Almost every part of the county has its own set of terms. Thus about Warminster
meadow-hay is (i) turned, (2) spread or tedded, (3) put in rollers, (4)
pooked ; while at Clyffe Pypard it is tedded, hatched, waked and cocked, and
at Huish waked and pooked. Roller is pronounced as if it rhymed with collar. Hay
is 'put in rollers,' or * rollered up.'
Hazon (a. broad . To scold or threaten (A.B.C.H. Wr.). l Now dwoan't 'ee
hazon the child for V N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Head. The front upright timber of a gate. See Har and Falling-post,- N.W.
(Marlborough ; Huish ; Clyffe Pypard.)
Headland. (i) adj. Headlong, as to 'fall headland' or ' neck-headland.' N.W.
(2) The strip where the plough turns at bottom and top of a field, which must
either be ploughed again at right angles to the rest, or dug over with the
spade ; generally called the Headlong by labourers in S. Wilts.
Headlong. See Headland.
Heal, Hele. Of seeds, to cover or earth over (D.) ; Heeld, Yeeld (Great
Estate, ch. viii). When the ground is dry and hard, and the wheat when sown
does not sink in and get covered up at once, it is said not to heal well, and
requires harrowing. N. W.
Heartless. ' A heartless day ' is a wet day with a strong south- west wind.
S.W.
Heater (pronounced Hetter). A flat iron (S.). N. & S.W.
Heave, Eve. Of hearthstones, &c., to sweat or become damp on the surface
in dry weather, a sign of coming change and wet. Eave, to sweat (S.). N.
& S.W.
Heavy (pronounced Heevy}. Of weather, damp. See Heave. N.W.
Heaver. Part of the old-fashioned winnowing tackle. N.W.
*He-body. Awoman of masculine appearance. S.W.(Deverill.)
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*Hecth. Height (A.).
Hedge-carpenter. A professional maker and repairer of rail
fences, &c. (Gamekeeper at Home, ch. iii). N.W. Hedge-hog. The prickly
seed-vessel of Eanunculus arvensis, L.,
Corn Buttercup (Great Estate, ch. vii). N.W. Hedge-peg. The fruit of the
Sloe, q. v. Cf. Eggs-eggs. N W.
(Marlborough.)
Hedge-pick, Hedge-speak. See Sloe. N.W. Heeld. See Heal.
Heft. (i) n. The weight of anything as poised in the hand (A. B.C. M.S.). N.
& S.W. (2) v. To weigh or test weight in the hand (A.B.), to lift. -N.
& S.W.
Hele, Heel, Hill. (i) To pour out (A.B.H.Wr.), to serve out or dispense. S.W.
(2) See Heal.
Hellocky. See Hullocky.
Helm. (i) See Elm. (2) See Haulm.
Helyer. A tiler. An old word, but still in use. N.W.
Hen-and-Chicken. ~ (i) Saxifraga umbrosa, L., London Pride.
- N.W. (2) Saxifraga sarmentosa, L., from its mode of
growth. N.W. Henge. See Hinge.
Hen-hussey. A meddlesome woman. N.W. Here and there one. 1 1 wur mortal bad
aal the way [by sea]
and as sick as here and there one.' N. & S.W. *Herence. Hence (A.B.).
Hereright. (i) Of time: on the spot, immediately (A. B.), the only use in
N.W. (2) Of place : this very spot (S.). S.W. (3) Hence (A.), probably a
mistake.
Hesk. See Husk.
Het. 'A main het o' coughing, 5 a fit of coughing. S.W.
Hetter. See Heater (S.).
He-woman. The same as He-body. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c. )
Hicketty. Hacking, as a cough. S.W. Hacketty. N.W.
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Hidlock. 'In hidlock,' in concealment. Akerman, by some mistake, treats this
as verb instead of noun. ' Her kep' it in hidlock aal this time.' N.W.
Hike. To hook or catch. 'I hiked my foot in a root.' See Hook and Uck. N.W.
Hike off. To decamp hastily, to slink off (A.B.C.S.) ; mostly used in a bad
sense. N. & S.W.
Hile. See Hyle. Hill. See Heal.
Hill-trot. Apparently a corruption of Eltrot. (i) Heradeum SpJiondylium, L.,
Cow-parsnip. *(2 N > Oenanthe crocata, L., Water Hemlock. -S.W. (Charlton
and Barford.)
Hilp. Fruit of the sloe. N.W. Hilp-wine. Sloe-wine. N.W.
Hilt. A young sow kept for breeding (A.). N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Hinge, Henge. The heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep or pig (A.). In some
parts of S. Wilts used only of the latter.
N. & S.W.
Hinted. Harvested, secured in barn (D.). ' Never zeed a better crop o' wheat,
if so be could be hinted well/ A.S. hentan, to seize on, to secure. N.W.
Hit. (i) To bear a good crop, to succeed : as 'Th' apples hit well t' year.'
Treated by Akerman as a noun instead of a verb. N.W. (2) v. To pour out or
throw out. * You ought to het a quart o' drenk into 'ee.' 'Hit it out on the garden
patch.' N.W.
Hitchland. See Hookland.
Hitter. A cow which is ill and appears likely to die is said to be ' going
off a hitter.' N.W.
Hittery. Of cows : suffering from looseness, ill. N.W. Hobby. Tunx torguilla,
the Wryneck. S.W. (Bishopstone.). *Hob-lantern. Will-o'-the-Wisp (A.B.).
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Hock about. To treat a thing carelessly ; drag it through the mud. ' Now
dwoan't 'ee gwo a-hocken on your new vrock ahout.' N.W. The usual form in S.
Wilts is Hack-about.
Hocks. (i) To cut in an unworkmanlike manner (A.). (2) To trample earth into
a muddy> untidy condition. N.W.
Hocksy, Hoxy. Dirty, muddy, miry. N.W.
1 It 's about two miles in vine weather ; but when it 's hocksey like this,
we allows a mile vor zlippin' back ! ' Wilts Tales, p. 179.
*Hodmandod, Hodmedod. adj. Short and clumsy (B.). Hodmedod. (i) n. A snail.
N.W. (Mildenhall. ) "(2)
Short and clumsy (B.). See Hodmandod. Ho for. (i) To provide for. See Howed
for. N.W.
(Clyffe Pypard ; Malmesbury.) (2) To desire, to long for.
'I did hankeran' ho a'ter 'ee zo.' N.W. (Malmesbury.) Hog. (i) n. Originally
a castrated animal, as a hog pig (DA
(2) Now extended to any animal of a year old, as a chilver hog sheep (DA
' We have wether hogs, and chilver hogs, and shear hogs . . . the word hog is
now applied to any animal of a year old, such as a hog bull, a chilver hog
sheep.' Wilts Arch. Mag. xvii 303.
1 1580 . . . Una ovis vocata a hogge.' SCROPE'S History of Castle Combe.
(3) To cut a mane or hedge short (D.), so that the stumps stick up like
bristles (Village Miners}. N. & S.W.
Hogo. (Fr. haut gout). A bad smell (Monthly Mag. 1814).
Still frequently used of tainted meat or strong cheese.
N. & S.W. *Hollardy-day. The 3rd of May. Apparently a perversion
of 'Holy Kood Day/ N.W. (Malmesbury.) Home, to be called. To have the banns
of marriage published.
S.W.
4 They tells I as 'ow Bet Stingymir is gwain to be caal'd whoam to Jim Spritely
on Zundy.' Slotc.
Honesty. Clematis Vitalba, L., Traveller's Joy, occasionally. *Maiden's
Honesty (Aubrey's Wilts MS.). N.W.
Honey-bottle. (i) Heather. (2) Furze.
It is not clear which is intended in Great Estate, ch. i.
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* Honey-plant. Some old-fashioned sweet-scented plant, perhaps the dark Sweet
Scabious, which used to be known as * Honey-flower ' in some counties.
4 In the garden, which was full of old-fashioned shrubs and herbs, she
watched the bees busy at the sweet-scented "honey-plant."' Great
Estate, ch. ii.
Also see Reproach of Annesley, vol. i. p. 119, for Hants use of the name :
'Sibyl bent over a honey plant encrusted with pink-scented , blossoms, about
which the bees . . . were humming an old-fashioned cottage plant.'
Honey-suckle. (i) Lamium album, L., White, Dead Nettle, sucked by children
for its honey. S.W. (Salisbury.) (2) Also applied to both Eed and White
Clover, Trifolium pratense and T* repens. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Hook. Of a bull, to gore (S.). See Tick. N. & S.W.
* Compare hitch, to push, lift, gore, Hants ; and Prov. hike, to toss.' . SMYTHE-PALMER.
Hookland (or Hitchland) Field. A portion of the best land in a common field,
reserved for vetches, potatoes, &c., instead of lying fallow for two
years (Agric. of Wilts, ch, vii). Parts of some fields are still known as
Hooklands in S. Wilts, though the system has died out. Sometimes defined as 'land
tilled every year.' N. & S.W.
Hoop. Pyrrhula vulgaris, the Bullfinch (A.B.); also Bed Hoop.
N.W.
Hoops, or Waggon-Hoops. The woodwork projecting from the sides of a waggon so
as to form, an arch over the hind wheels. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Hooset. See Housset.
Hop-about, An apple dumpling (B.C.), probably from its bobbing about in the
pot. Cf. Apple-bout. N.W.
Hopper* A grig (Amateur Poacher, ch. i).
Horse -daisy. Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, L. r Ox-eye Daisy. -N. & S.W.
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* Horse-Matcher. Saxkola rulicola, the Stonechat (Birds of Wilts, p. 150).
' Horse-matchers or stonechats also in summer often visit the rick- yard.'
Wild Life, ch. x. p. 159.
Horses. In N. Wilts the orders given to a plough or team are as follows : to
the front horse, Coom ether, go to the left, and Wowt, to the right : to the
hinder horse, Wo-oot, to the right, and Gie aay or G-ie aay oot, to the left.
The orders to oxen are somewhat diiferent.
Horse-shoe. Acer Pseudo-platanus, L., Sycamore. S.W. (Barford St. Martin.)
*Horse's-leg. A bassoon.
Horse-Snatcher. Saxicola oenanthe, the Wheatear (Birds of Wilts, p. 152).
N.W. (Huish, &c.)
Horse-stinger, Hosstenger. The Dragon-fly (A.B.S.). N. &S.W.
Hound. The fore-carriage of a waggon. N.W.
House, Houst. To grow stout. 'Lor, ma'am, how you've a-housted ! 'N.W.
Housset, Hooset, Wooset. (i) n. A serenade of rough music, got up to express
public disapproval of marriages where there is great disparity of age,
flagrant immorality, &c. See article on The Wooset in Wilts Arch. Mag.
vol. i. p. 88 ; cp. N. $ Q. 4 Ser. xi. p. 225. In Berks the 'Hooset' is a
draped horse's head, carried at a ' Hooset Hunt.' See Lowsley's Berks Gloss.
N.W. (2) v. To take part in a housset. N.W.
*Howe. n. i To be in a howe/ to be in a state of anxiety about anything (C.).
See Ho for. N.W., obsolete.
*Howed-for. Well provided for, taken care of (A.B.C.H.Wr.).
Huckmuck. (i) A strainer placed before the faucet in brewing (A.B.H.Wr.).
N.W. (2) Parus caudatus, the Long-tailed Titmouse (Birds of Wilts, p. 173).
N. & S.W. (3) General untidiness and confusion, as at a spring-cleaning. A
very dirty untidy old woman is 'a reg'lar huckmuck.' N.W.
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II ucks, Husks. (i) The chaff of oats (Village Miners). N.W. (Clyife Pypard.)
(2) Grains of wheat which have the chaff still adhering to them after
threshing, and are only fit for feeding poultry. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Hud. (i) n. The husk of a walnut, skin of a gooseberry, shell of a pea or
bean, &c. N. & S.W. (2) v. To take off the husk of certain fruits and
vegetables. Beans are hudded and peas shelled for cooking. N.W. (3) A finger-
stall or finger of a glove (S.). Also Huddick (S.). N. & S.W. (4) A lump
or clod of earth. N.W. Cf. Hut.
Huddy, Oddy. Of soil, full of lumps and clods. N.W. *Hudgy. Clumsy, thick (A.
B. C. H. Wr. ).
Hudmedud. (i) n. A scarecrow (A.). In common use in N. Wilts.
* Mester Cullum i sends you back your saddell koz its such a cusnashun rum
looking hudmedud of a theng that pipl woll no it direckly.' Wilts Tales, p.
79.
' "That nimity-pimity odd-me-dod ! " . . . Little contemptible
scare- crow.' Greene Feme Farm, ch. iii.
*(2) adj. Short and clumsy (B.). See Hodmedod.
Hullocky ! ' Hullo ! look here ! ' exclamation denoting surprise, or calling
attention to anything (S.). This is usually pronounced Hellucky, and is a
contraction of ' Here look ye ! ' Also TellucJcs.-'N. & S.W.
'"Now which way is it?" ... "Yell ucks," said the boy,
meaning " Look here.'" Greene Feme Farm, ch. v.
1 " This be the vinest veast ... as ever I zeed . . . Yellucks !
"as much as to say, Look here, that is my dictum.' Ibid, ch, xi.
Humbug. A sweet or lollipop. N.W.
Humbuz. A cockchafer. N.W.
*Humdaw. To speak hesitatingly (Village Miners).
Humming-bird. Regulus cristatus, the Golden-crested Wren. N.W. (Huish.)
' We always calls 'em humming-birds here, and they are humming- birds ! '
said the school-children at Huish, in the most decided manner, when
cross-examined as to the Gold-crest. Apparently the
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same use obtains in Devon, as Martin speaks of the l humming-bird * as
occurring in certain localities about Tavistock, which are assigned to the
Gold-crest by other writers. See MRS. BRAY'S Description of Devon, 1836, vol.
ii. p. 146.
*Hummocksing. Clumsy, awkward, loutish.
1 She had a lover, but he was "a gurt hummocksing noon-naw "... a
"great loose-jointed idiot." ' Great Estate, ch. iv.
Humstrum, A home-made fiddle (S.). Sometimes applied
also to a large kind of Jew's-harp. S.W. Hunch, about. To push or shove
about. S.W.
*Hunder-stones. Thunder-bolts (Aubrey's Wilts, Roy. Soc. MS.). Probably
either belemnites, or else the concretionary nodules of iron ' pyrites,
called ' thunder-bolts x by the labourers, are here intended.
See.Thunderstoixes.
Hunked. See linked (A.H.). Hurdle-footed. Club-footed. S.W. Hurdle-shore. The
same as Poldshore. S.W.
Hurkle. To crowd together, as round the fire in cold weather. An old form of
hurtle.
1 Hurtelyn, as too thyngys togedur (al. hurcolyn, hufchyn togeder). Impingo,
collido.' Prompt. Parv. c. 1440. (SMYTHE-PALMER). ?
Husk, Hesk. A disease of the throat, often fatal to calves. See Hask. N.W,
Husks. See Hucks.
Hut. A lump of earth. N. W. See Hud (4).
Hutty. Lumpy, as ground that does not break up well. N.W.
Hyle, Hile, Aisle, &c. (i) n. A shock or cock of wheat, con- sisting of
several sheaves set up together for carrying. The number of sheaves was
formerly ten, for the tithing man's con- venience, but now varies
considerably, according to the crop. Tithing in N.W. Hite-a-whate (S.) The
form** given by Davis, aisle, aile, and isle, seem purely fanciful, as also
does the derivation there suggested, a Jiyle being merely a single shock. In
some parts of Wilts the shape and size of a hyle will depend largely on the
weather at harvest-time. Thus in a stormy season it will usually be built
compact and
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round, while in a calm one it may sometimes form a line several yards in
length. S.W.
1 'Tis merry while the wheat 's in hile.' BARNES, Poems.
(2) v. To make up into hyles. Wheat and rye are always hyled, and oats
usually so, about Salisbury. S.W.
Ichila-pea. The Missel-thrush : only heard from one person, but perhaps an
old name. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
lies. See Ailes.
Imitate. To resemble. ' The childern be immitatin' o' their vather about the
nause/ Participle only so used. N.W.
In-a-most. Almost. N. & S.W.
'It inamwoast killed our bwoy Sam.' Wilts Tales, p. 145.
Innocent. Small, neat, unobtrusive, as 'a innocent little primrose.'
Virtually restricted to flowers. N.W.
Iron Pear. PyrusAria, L., White Beam. N.W. (Heddington, &c.)
Iron-Pear-Tree Farm, near Devizes, is said to take its name from this tree.
*Isnet. AlJcanct bugloss (D.).
*Ivors. Hanging woods (Slow). S.W. There would appear to be some
misunderstanding here. The word may refer to the coverts on the hillside
above Longbridge Deverill, which are known as The Ivors, the farm below being
Long Ivor Farm. At Wroughton a field is called * The Ivory,' but this is
perhaps a family name.
Izzard. The letter Z (A.S.). Still in use in S.W.
*Jack. A newt. N.W. (Swindon.)
Jack, Jack Ern. Ardea cinerea, the Heron (Birds of Wilts,
P- 395). N.W. Also Moll 'ern. Jack-and-his-team. The Great Bear. N.W.
(Huish.) See
Dick-and-his-team.
Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Tragqpogon pmtensis, L., Goat's Beard. N. & S.W.
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Jack-in-the-green. (i) Adonis autumnalis, L., Pheasant's-
eva S.W. (2) The hose-in-hose variety of Polyanthus.
N. & S.W. Jack-run-along-by-the-hedge. AUiaria officinalis, Andrzj.,
Hedge Mustard. Jacky-Dinah. Sylvia sylvicola, the Wood Warbler. S.W.
(Bishopstone.) Jacob's-ladder. Polygonatum multiflorum, All., Solomon's Seal.
S.W. (Farley, &c.) Jag. The awn and head of the oat. Oats are spoken of
as
'well-jagged,' 'having a good jag,' 'coming out in jag,' &c.
N.W.
'The despised oats were coming out in jag ... in jag means the spray-like
drooping awn of the oat.' Round about a Great Estate, ch. i. p. 8.
Jan-Chider. See Johnny Chider.
Jarl. To quarrel, to 'have words.' N.W.
Jaw-bit. Food carried out in the fields by labourers, to be
eaten about 10 or n o'clock. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) Jee. See Gee. Jew-berry.
Rubus caesius, L., Dewberry; a corruption of the
proper name (Wild Life, ch. xi). N. & S.W. Jibbets. Small pieces. ' You
never did see such a slut ! her
gownd a-hangin' in dirty jibbets [rags] aal about her heels ! '
N. & S.W.
* Jiffle. At Bishopston, N. Wilts, an old bell-ringer was recently heard to
accuse the younger men of having got into a regular ' jiffle ' (? confusion)
while ringing. We have not met with the word elsewhere, but Hal. and Wright
have jiffle, to be restless, var. dial.
Jiggery-poke. Hocus-pocus. Jiggery-pokery. Unfair dealing
(S.): deception. N. & S.W. Jigget. v. To ride or walk at a jog-trot.
'Here we go a
jiggettin' along.' N. & S.W. Jiggetty. adj. (i) Jolty, shaky. ' This be a
ter'ble jiggetty
train.' N.W. "(2) Fidgetty (S.). S.W.
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Jut 87
Jimmy, Sheep's Jimmy. A sheep's head (S.). N. & S.W.
*Jimmy-swiver. n. A state of trembling. Apparently con- nected with wliiver
or swiver. N.W.
* " Lor, Miss, how you did froughten I ! I be all of a
jimmy-swiver," and she visibly trembled, which was what she meant.'
Greene Feme Farm, ch. vii.
*Jitch, Jitchy. Such. N.W. (Malmesbury.) Jobbet. A small load (A.). N.W. *Jod.
The letter J (A.S.).
Johnny Chider, Chan-chider. The Sedge Warbler, Salicaria phragmitis. So
called ' because it scolds so.' S.W. Jan Chider (S.).
Jolter-headed. Wrong-headed ; used generally of a jealous spouse. 'Her wur
allus a jolter-headed 'ooman.' N.W. (Clyife Pypard.)
Jonnick. Honest, fair, straightforward in dealings (S.). N. & S.W.
Joseph-and-Mary. Pulmonaria officinalis, L., Common Lung- wort, the flowers
being of two colours, red and blue. N.W.
Joy-bird. The Jay, Garrulus glandarius. The name commonly used in N. Wilts
for the Jay. Fr. geai. N.W. (Savernake Forest, &c.)
Jumble. A kind of coarse dark brown sweetmeat (My Old
Village). N.W.
Jumping Jesuses. The long-legged water-flies, Gerris, which skim along the
surface of streams. N.W. (Hilmarton.)
Junk. A hunch of bread-and-cheese, &c. ; a lump of wood or coal. A solid
piece (S.). N.W.
Junket. A treat or spree ; still in use. When potatoes were not so common as
now, a man would complain of his wife's i junketing wi' the taters,' i.e.
digging them up before they were ripe, as a treat for the children. N.W.
Just about. Extremely. See About (i). N. & S.W.
*Jut. To nudge*, to touch (S.).-- N.W.
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K *- Kissing-gate
K. K sometimes becomes t, as Neat, bleak ; blunt, blunk.
Conversely, t becomes Jc, as sleek, sleet, Keach, &c. See Catch (i). Keavin.
See Cave (i).
Keck. To retch as If sick (A.) ; to cough ; also Cack. N.W. Keeker. The
windpipe (A.S.). N. & S.W.
Kecks. Dry stalks of hemlock (A.B.), Hemlock must here be taken to mean
several of the larger Umbelliferae, and to include occasionally growing
plants as well as dry stems. There are many variants of the word, as Keeks
(A.), Kecksey (A.B.), Gix(A.B.H.Wr.), Gicksies (Amateur Poacher, ch. iii;, Gicks
(Great Estate, ch. v). N. & S.W.
Keep, Kip. Growing food for cattle, &c. (A.B.S.). N. & S.W. Kerf. A
layer of turf or hay (A.B.C.). A truss of hay. N.W. Ketch. See Catch (i). Keys,
or Keyn. Fruit of ash and sycamore (A.B. ). N. & S.W.
*Kibble. *(i) To chip a stone roughly into shape (A.). Cf. Glouc. cobble, to
break smelted pig-iron into small pieces, before proceeding to draw it into
bar-iron. *(2) To cut up firewood (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxiv. p. 210).
Obsolete.
Kid. (i) n. The cod or pod of peas, beans, &c. N. & S.W. (2) v. To
form pods ; used of peas and beans. Well-Mdded, of beans or peas, having the
stalks full of pods (D.). N. & S.W.
Kidney-stones. Dark waterworn pebbles (Eulogy, p. 28).
N.W. 'Kin. The same as Ciderkin.
Kind. Some woods and soils ' work kind,' i.e. easily, pleasantly. N.W.
King's-cushion. See Queen's-cushion.
Kiss-behind -the-garden-gate. Saxifraga umbrosa, L., London Pride. S.W. (Som.
bord.)
Kissing-gate. A 'Cuckoo-gate,' or swing gate in a V-shaped enclosure. N.
& S.W.
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Koomb 89
Kiss-me-quick. Centranthus ruler, DC., Bed Spur Valerian, N.W.
* Kite's Pan, Orchis maculata, L., Spotted Orchis. S.W. (Farley.)
Kitty Candlestick. Ignis fatuus, Will-o'-the-Wisp. Kit of the Candlestick
(Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 17, ed. Brit.). S.W. (Deverill.)
Kiver. A cooler used in brewing (A.B.). N. & S.W. Knacker. To snap the
fingers. Nacker (H.Wr.) S.W.
Knap, Knop. (i) v. To chip stone, as formerly in making a gun-flint. N.W. (2)
n. A little hill; a steep ascent in a road (S.). This is really a Devon use.
S.W. (Dorset bord.)
Knee-sick. Of wheat, drooping at the joints, from weakness in the straw
(D.).-N.W.
Knee-socked. Corn beaten down by storms is i knee-socked down.' N.W. See
Knee-sick.
Knit. Of fruit, to set. ' The gooseberries be knitted a'ready.' N.W. (Clyffe
Pypard.)
Knitch, Nitch, Niche, &c. Usually spelt incorrectly, without the Jc. M.E.
Jcnucche, Germ, knocke : used by Wy cliff e, also in Alton Locke, ch. xxviii.
(i) Nitch,.& burden of wood, straw, or hay (A.B.), such a faggot as a
hedger or woodman may carry home with him at night ; a short thick heavy
chump of wood (Village Miners}. Hence a fine baby is spoken of as *a regular
nitch' (Ibid.}. A bundle of gleaned corn (S.). N. & S.W. (a) ' He has got
a nitch,' is intoxicated, has had as much liquor as he can carry (A.B.).
Compare :
' He 's got his market-nitch.' Tess of the D'Urbervilles, vol. i. p. *9.
Knot Couch. Avena elatior, so called from the roots some- times looking like
a much-knotted cord or a string of beads. N.W.
Koomb. See Comb (S.).
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Ladies-and-Gentlemen Lamb's-cage
Ladies-and-Gentlemen. Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint.
Leades an Genlmin (S.). N. & S.W. *Ladies'-balls. Centaurea nigra, L.,
Black Knapweed. S.W.
(Charlton.) *Ladies'-fingers-and-thunibs. Lotus corniculatus, L., Bird's-
foot Trefoil. N.W. (Enford.)
Ladies-in-white. Saxifraga umbrosa, L., London Pride. Lady-cow. The Ladybird.
N.W. Lady's-cushion. Anfhyllis vulneraria, L., Kidney Vetch.
S.W. (Salisbury.) Lady's-finger. (i) Applied generally to Lotus corniculatus
and Hippocrepis comosa, and occasionally also to Lathyrus pro-
tensis. ' Leades vingers, the wild Calceolaria ' (S. ), probably
refers to one of these flowers. N. & S.W. (2) Arum
maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint. S.W. (Barford St. Martin) :
N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
*Lady's-glove. 'The Greater Bird's-foot.' S.W. Lady's-nightcap. The flower of
Convolvulus sepium, L., Great
Bindweed (A.B.). Lady's-petticoat. Anemone nemorosa, L., Wood Anemone.
S.W. (Mere.)
Lady's-mffles. The double white Narcissus. N.W. Lady's-shoe. Fumaria
officinalis, L v Common Fumitory.
S.W. (Barford St. Martin.) Lady's-slipper. Applied generally to the same
plants as
Lady's-finger.
*Lain. Of a smith, to dress the wing and point of a share
(D.). See Lay (4). Laiter, Loiter. A full laying or clutch of eggs. The whole
number of eggs produced by a hen at one laying, before she
gets broody and ceases to lay. N.W. Lake. A small stream of running water.
S.W. (Hants
bord.)
Lambkins. Catkins of hazel. S.W. (Barford St. Martin.) Lamb's-cage. A crib
for foddering sheep in fold (D.). N.W,
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Lay 91
Lamb's-creep. A hole in the hurdles to enable the lambs
to get out of the fold. N.W.
Lamb's-tails. Catkins of willow and hazel. N. & S.W. Land. The ' rudge, '
or ground between two water-furrows
in a ploughed field. N.W.
'The ploughman walks in the furrow his share has made, and
presently stops to measure the " lands " with the spud/ Amateur
Poacher, ch. vii. pp. 130-1.
*Landshard. The strip of greensward dividing two pieces
of arable in a common field (D.). Land-spring. A spring which only runs in
wet weather
(Gamekeeper at Home, ch. v. p. 109). N.W.
Lane (a broad). A strip of grass, generally irregular, bound- ing an arable
field. N.W. (Devizes.)
*Lannock. A long narrow piece of land (A.H.Wr.).
Lanshet. See Linch.
*Lark's-seed. Plantago major, L., Greater Plantain. S.W. (Charlton.)
*Latter Lammas. An unpunctual person (S.) S.W.
' When a person is habitually late and unpunctual, folks say " What a
Latter Lammas thee beest, ta be sure ! " ' Letter from Mr. Slow.
Lattermath. Aftermath (A.B.). Lattermass at Cherhill. N.W.
Lave. (i) Of a candle, to gutter down (H.Wr.). N.W. (2) To splash up water
over yourself, as in a bath. 'Lave it well over ye.' N.W.
Law. In N. Wilts, when speaking of relations-in-law, the in is always
omitted, as brother-law, father-law, &c., the only exception being
son-in-law.
Lay. (i) To lay a hedge, to trim it back, cutting the boughs half through,
and then bending them down and inter- twining them so as to strengthen the
fence (A.). N. & S.W. (2) To lay rough, to sleep about under hedges like
a vaga- bond. N. & S.W. (3) To lay up afield, to reserve it for mowing.
S.W. (4) To lay a tool, to steel its edge afresh. This appears to be the same
as Davis's lain, which is
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Laylocks Lemfeg
probably a contraction of lay in. At Mildenhall you often hear of laying or
laying in a pickaxe, and the word is to be traced back for a century or more
in the parish accounts there. N. & S.W. (5) An idle dissipated man is
said to lay about. N.W.
Laylocks. Usually Syringa vulgaris, L., Lilac, but rarely applied to
Cardamine pratensis, L., Lady's Smock, in S. Wilts.
*Lay-over. A wooden bar, or a rope, used to fasten tackle together.
'Two or three horses go abreast, each drawing a harrow diagonally, all the
harrows being fastened together with a lay-over or rider.' Agric. of Wilts,
ch. v.
Leach. A strand of a rope. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Lear, Leer, (i) Empty (A.B.C.G.). N. & S.W. (2) Hence, craving for food,
hungry (A.C.S.). N. & S.W. Leary is the usual form on the Som. bord.
1 1 never eat but two meals a day breakfast and supper . . . and I'm rather
lear (hungry) at supper.' Gamekeeper at Home, ch. i. * His bill was zharp,
his stomack lear, Zo up a snapped the caddlin pair.' Wilts Tales, p. 97.
Learn. To teach. ' I'll learn 'ee to do that again, you young vaggot ! ' *
Her do want some 'un to learn she, 'stead o' she learnin' we ! ' In general
use in Wilts. N. & S.W.
Lease, Leaze, &c. : sometimes used with a prefix, as Cow- leaze,
Ox-leaze. (i) As much pasture as will keep a cow (B.). N. & S.W. (2) A
large open pasture. Legh, Lease (Aubrey) ; Leaze (Amateur Poacher, ch. iii). N.
& S.W.
Lease. To glean (A.S.). N. & S.W.
Lease-bread. Bread made from lease-corn. N.W.
Lease-corn. Wheat collected by gleaning. N.W.
Leaser. A gleaner. N. & S.W.
Lodged. See Lodged.
Lemfeg. An Elleme fig (A.H.Wr.). N. & S.W.
'A cure-peg, a curry-peg, A lem-feg, a dough-feg.' Wilts Nursery Jitiglc.
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*Length, Lent. A loan (A.B.). *Lenth (S.). Let-off. To abuse. N.W.
(Cherhill.)
' Maester let I off at a vine rate.' Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. in.
Lew (pronounced Zoo). (i) adj. Warm (H.). N. & S.W. (2) n. Shelter (A.
B.C. S.). ' Get in the lew,'i. e. into a place sheltered from the wind. A.S.
hleo, Meow. -N. & S.W.
Lewis's Cat. A person suspected of incendiary habits. Many years ago fires
are said to have occurred so frequently on the premises of a person of this
name (whose cat sometimes had the blame of starting them), that the phrase
passed into common use, and a suspected man soon t got the name of a Lewis's
Cat,' now corrupted into 'Blue Cat.' S.W.
Lewth. Warmth (A. B.C.). Usually restricted to the sun's warmth, but in
Cunnington MS. applied to a thin coat, which 'has no lewth in it.' N.W.
Lew- warm. Lukewarm. N. & S.W.
Libbet. A fragment (S.). ' All in a libbet,' or 'All in libbets and jibbets,'
torn to rags. N. & S.W. Also Lippet.
* Liberty, v. To allow anything to run loose. 'It don't matter how much it 's
libertied,' the more freedom you can give it the better. N.W. (Cherhill.)
Licket. ' All to a licket,' all to pieces. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
*Lide. The month of March (A.). A.S. hlyda, hlydamonath,
the stormy month, from Mud, boisterous, noisy (so Grein).
This has nothing to do with lide or lithe, mild, whence come
the A.S. names for June and July. See N. <Sf Q. Feb. 6,
1892.
Lieton. See Litton.
Lill. To pant as a dog (A.B.H.). N.W. Lily, or Lilies. (i) Convolvulus
sepium, L., Great Bindweed.
S.W. (Farley and Charlton.) (2) Arum maculatum, L.,
Cuckoo-pint. S.W. (Barford.) Limb, Limm. (i) n. A ragged tear (Village
Miners). N.W.
(2) v. To tear irregularly, to jag out (Ibid.). N.W. Limbers. The shafts of a
waggon (S.). N. & S.W.
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Linch Litten
Linch, Linchet, Lynch, Lanshet (N.W.), Lytchfct (S.W.), Linchard, &c.
(S.). A.S. Mine, a bank. For articles on Lynchet, Linchet, or Linch, see
Wilts Arch. Mag. xii. 185, and xv. 88. Also articles and letters in
Marlborough College Natural History Report and Marlborough Times, 1892, Seebohm's
Village Community, and Britten's Old Country Words. In an old MS. schedule of
land at Huish, N.W., ' LansTies and borders,' i. e. turf boundary banks and
field margins, are enumerated. (i) Certain terraces, a few yards wide, on the
escarpment of the downs, probably the remains of ancient cultivation, are
locally known as Lynches or Lynchets. N. & S.W. (2) The very narrow
ledges, running in regular lines along the steep face of a down, probably
made by sheep feeding there, are also frequently so called. S.W. (3) A raised
turf bank dividing or bound- ing a field. S.W. (4) A strip of greensward
dividing two pieces of arable land in a common field (D.). N. & S.W. (5)
An inland cliff, cf. ' The Hawk's Lynch ' (Tom Brown at Oxford) ;
occasionally applied to a steep slope or escarpment, as at Bowood and
Warminster.
*Linchard. A precipitous strip of land on a hillside, left un- ploughed
(Spring-tide, pp. 79 and 186). See Linch. Cf. A.S. Mine, a bank ; and perhaps
sceard, a piece or portion (Skeat).
* Lined. Of an animal, having a white back (D.).
Linet. Tinder (H.Wr.). Tinder was made of linen. N.W., not long obsolete.
*Lipe. A pleat or fold in cloth. S.W. (Salisbury.)
Lipping. Of weather, showery, wet, and stormy. ' I thenks as we shall have a
ter'ble lipping summer to-year.' Cf. Lipping-time, a wet season, Glouc., and
Lippen', showery, Som. N. & S.W.
*Litten, Litton. A churchyard. Lieton (H.Wr.) Chirche- litoun (Chron. Vilod.).
Still used in Hants, but probably now obsolete in Wilts (Wilts Arch. Mag.
vol. xxv. p. 129).
' His next bed will be in the Litten, if he be laying on the ground on such a
night as this.' Wilts Tales, p. 161.
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Longful 95
*Liver-sand. See quotation.
' Sand-veins . . . which are deep and tough, and are of the nature called in
Wilts " liver-sand." ' Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii.
Lob. Of leaves, to droop limply, as cabbages do before rain. N. & S.W.
Lock. ' A lock of hay,* a small quantity of hay (A.B.). N. W.
Locks-and-Keys. Dielytra spectalilis, B.C. The usual cottagers' name for it
in Somerset. S.W. (Som. bord.).
Locky. Of hay which has not been properly shaken about, stuck together in
locks as it was cut. N.W.
Lodged. Of wheat, laid or beaten down by wind or rain (D.). N. & S.W.
Also Ledged (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii, p. 112).
Log. See Lug (i).
Loggered. A boy who is at plough all day often gets so loggered, or weighed
down with loggers, all the time, that he conies home at night quite
exhausted. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Loggers. Lumps of dirt on a ploughboy's feet. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) In Glouc.
a * logger' is a small log attached to a horse's foot, to prevent straying.
Loggerums. (i) Centaurea nigra, L., Black Knapweed.
N.W. *(2) ' Scabious ' (Village Miners). Loiter. See Laiter. Lolloper. A lazy
lout (S.). N. & S.W.
Lollup. (i) To loll out. 'Look at Tie, wi' he's tongue a lolluping out o'
he's mouth, vor aal the world like a dog ! ' N.W. (2) To loll about, to idle
about. 'What be a-loUupin' about like that vor ?' N. & S.W.
*Long Eliza. A kind of long blue earthen jar, formerly often seen in cottages.
N.W. (Berks bord.)
* The high black chimney-shelf was covered with crockery of a low type of
beauty ; pink and yellow china dogs shared their elevated station with "
long Elizas" and squat female figures.' Dark, ch. i.
Longful. Tedious (A.B.S.). N. & S.W.
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Long purples Lottie
Long purples. Lytlirum Salicaria, L., Purple Loosestrife. Rarely used.
Tennyson's 'long purples of the dale' have been identified by himself as
Vicia Cracca ; Shakespeare's are either Orchis mascula, or Arum maeulatum,
while Clare applies the name to Lythmm.
Long-winded. ' A long-winded man ' always means One who is very slow to pay
his debts. N.W.
Long wood. The long branches which are bent down and used to weave in and
bind a hedge when it is being laid.
N.W.
Lope along. To run as a hare does. S.W.
Loppet. (i) v* The same as Lope. (2) v. To idle about, to slouch about. 'A
girt veller, alms a loppetin ? about.' N.W. Cf. Sloppet.
Loppetty. Weak, Out of sorts. N.W.
Lords-and-Ladies. Arum maeulatum, L., Cuckoo-pint (A.B.). N. & S.W.
Lot. To reckon, expect, think. 'I do lot her's a bad 'un.'
N.W.
Lot-meads. (i) Common meadows divided into equal-sized pieces, for the hay of
which lots were cast each year (D.). N.W., obsolete.
' " Lot Mead " is not an uncommon name of fields in Wiltshire parishes.
It is perhaps a vestige of the original partition of lands when cleared,
which the chronicler Simeon of Durham says were dis- tributed by lot. See
Kemble's Anglo-Saxons, i. 91.' JACKSON'S Aubrey, note, p. 198.
(2) A kind of festival in connexion with this division.
* Here [at Wanborough] is a Lott-mead celebrated yearly with great ceremony.
The Lord weareth a garland of flowers : the mowers at one house have always a
pound of beefe and a head of garlic every man.' JACKSON'S Aubrey, p. 198.
Nothing more appears to be known about this festival. N.W. (Wanborough),
obsolete.
* Lottie, v. To sound as water trickling in a small stream. Cf. Glox. N.W.
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-idols Lumpy 97
Love-an'-idols, or Loving Idols. Viola tricolor, L., Love-in- idleness,
usually the wild form, but occasionally applied to the garden pansy also.
Nuffin-idols at Clyffe Pypard. Lovenidolds (S.). N. & S.W.
"Loving-andrews. Geranium pratense, L., Meadow Cranesbill (Village
Miners).
*Lowl-eared. Long-eared (A.B.H.Wr.).
Luce* (i) Luke-warm. S.W. * (2) A sore in sheep.
S.W. Lug. (i) In land measure, a pole or perch (A.B.G.H.S.).
Log (MS. Gough : K.Wr.) N. & S.W.
' A lug ... is of three lengths in this county : 15, 18, and i6| feet. The
first of these measures is getting out of use, but is still retained in some
places, particularly in increa^ng mason's work. The second is the ancient
forest measure, and is still used in many parts of the county for measuring
wood-land. But the last, which is the statute perch, is by much the more
general.' Agric. of Wilts, p. 268.
(2) Any rod or pole (D.H.), as a perch for fowls, a clothes pole (A.B.). See
Oven-lug. 1 Olde Freeman doe weare ruggs [coarse cloth], And Thomas Lord doe
goe to the woods to steal poles and luggs.' Seventeenth century doggrell
rhymes from Wroughton, quoted in Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 216.
Lug- wood. Lops and tops of trees. S.W. Lummakin. Heavy, ungainly, clumsy
(A.B.). N.W.
Lumper. To move heavily, to stumble along. Of a pony, to stumble. To kick
against anything (S.). N. & S.W. (Malmesbury, Pewsey, &c.)
Lumpus. (i) Noise, row. * Don't 'ee make such a lumpus.' N.W. (2) All in a
lump, heavily, as applied to a fall. * Th'oss didn't vail down, but a come
down wi' a kind of a lumpus.' N.W.
Lump work. Piece work. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Lumpy. Stout and strong. To say to any one, 'Why, ye be growed main lumpy ! '
is to pay him a high compliment.
N.W.
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Lurry. Of cows, suffering from looseness. N.W.
Lynchet, Lytchet. See Linen.
'Another British coin, found on the "lytchets" at East Dean, has passed
into the cabinet of Dr. Blackmore.' Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 242.
Maakin. See Malkin.
Mace. See Note to quotation.
* This is a style still used by the lower classes in North Wiltshire to tradesmen
and sons of farmers. Thus at Ogbourne St. George, a brickmaker whose name is
Davis, is called "Mace Davis," and sons of farmers are called
" Mace John," or ' Mace Thomas," the surname being sometimes
added and sometimes not.' Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. i. p. 338.
This seems a misapprehension. The word used is simply Mais' (before a
consonant), a shortened form of ' Maister.' ' Mais* John ' is short for Maister
John. Before a vowel it would be Mais'r or Maistr' as 'Maistr' Etherd'
[Edward J. N.W.
1 Mas was formerly a common contraction for master, s.g. "Mas John,"
and is used by Ben Jonson and other Elizabethan writers. See Nares, s.v.
Mas.' SMYTHE-PAUCER.
*Mad. Of land, spoilt, damaged, as by sudden heat after much rain (Lisle's
Husbandry). Obsolete.
Madder. *(i) Aspcrula odorata, L., Sweet Woodruff. N.W. (Lyneham.) (2)
Anthemis Cotula, L., Stinking Camomile. N. & S.W.
Madell (a broad), Medal, &c. The game of * Merrills ' or * Nine Men's
Morris.' Also known as Puzzle-Pound. Several varieties of Madell are played
in Wilts, known respectively as Eleven-penny (strictly The Merrills),
Nine-penny, Six- penny, and Three-penny, according to the number of pieces used.
' Eleven-penny ' is played with eleven pieces each side, instead of nine, the
game being in other respects identical with * Nine Men's Morris ' as
described in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes. The players move alternately, and
the general principle is to get three pieces together in a line anywhere on
the dots or holes, while at the same time preventing your adversary from
making a line. 'Nine-penny,' 'Six-penny,'
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and * Three-penny ' differ only in the number of men each side and the form
of the board (see diagrams). The ' board '
Nine Men's Morris, or Eleven -penny Madell.
Nine-penny Madell, or The Merrills.
Six-penny Madell.
Three-penny Madell.
is scratched or chalked out on paving-stones, drawn on the slate, cut deep
into the turf on the downs, or the top of the corn-bin (with holes instead of
dots), in short, made anywhere and anyhow. The * men ' or ' pieces ' may be anything
available, sticks being played against stones, beans against oats, &c.
N.W. (Devizes, &c.)
Maggots, n. Tricks, nonsense. 'Her J s at her maggots again.'
N.W.
*Maggotting. Meddling (S.). S.W.
Maggotty. adj. Frisky, playful (A.S.). N. & S.W.
Maggotty-pie. Picus caudatus, the Magpie (MS. Lansd. 1033, f. 2), still in
use. N.W.
'Maiden's Honesty. Clematis Vitalba, L., Traveller's Joy. See Honesty. N.W.,
obsolete.
4 All the hedges about Thickwood (in the parish Colerne) are . . . hung with
maydens honesty.' AUBREY'S Wilts, Royal Soc. MS. p. 120.
Main. (i) adv. Very, as 'main good,' excellent (A.B.). N. & S.W. (2) adj.
'A main sight o' frawk,' a great number (S.). N, & S.W.
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