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BURNS. Or maybe, in a frolic daft,
J 7 86 - To Hague or Calais taks a waft. Twa Dogs, I.
J. P. MORRIS. On he went croonin t'll his-sel scraps of a daft aid
l86 7$ sang he'd offen heeard sung at t' Spavin'd Horse.
Lebby Beek Dabby, p. 6.
COLL. USB. Come sharpen up mon, thae looks as if thae'rt daft.
1875.
DAG, v. to shear sheep. Mid. E. daggen, to cut into jagged edges. The
expression “leet dagge his clothes” in Piers the Plowman, B. xx. 142, means
“he caused his clothes to be curiously cut/' in allusion to the fashion of
the period.
DAG, sb. a leathern latchet.
DAG, sb. dew on the grass. Icel. di)gg, dew; see also Icel. deigr, damp, wet,
lit. “doughy." Cf. Icel. dcig, dough; Moeso-Goth. daigs, dough, from a
verb of which the earliest trace is the Mceso-Goth. deigan, to form by hand,
as a potter forms clay.
DAG, v. to trail in the dew, wet, or mire. See DAG ante. IceL doggva, to
bedew.
B. BRIERLEY. The dame proceeded to pin up her dress, to prevent
T86 9$ its being "dagged," as she expressed herself, in the
dew. Red Windows Hall, p. 25.
DAGGY (E. Lane.), adj. dirty, wet, drizzly. See DAG ante.
COLL. USE. It's varra daggy to-day.
1875.
DAGLOCKS, sb.pl. the wool cut off a sheep. See DAG, verb.
DALE (Chipping; and Burrow, near Kirkby-Lonsdale), sb. an unseparated portion
of a field, belonging to a second owner, and which is often unmarked, or only
shown by stakes in the hedge and stones at the corners of the dale. A.S.
dcel, a portion.
COLL. USE. i. (Burrow.) We've two dales in Hardgroves
l8 7S- Bodom.
2. (Chipping.) A dale of about a quarter of an acre on Black Moss belongs to
this farm.
DANK, v. to depress; lit. to damp.
BAMFORD. Put th' Kurn-bill i' the divel's hons
l86 4$ 'At it no moor may dank us.
Homely Rhymes, p. 135.
DONK I at ^'' ^ am P> Depressing. Akin to damp.
COLLIER. I doft meh donk shoon on hoyse, on me doage
clooas. Works, p. 54.
DANNET (N. Lane.), ) sb. a term of reproach; lit. dow- DO-NOWT (S. and E.
Lane.), j nought; from the verb dow, to
be worth. Cf. in E. D. S. Reprinted Glossaries, 1873, dannat
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(North of England), sb. a bad person; donnot (E. Yorkshire), adj.
good-for-nothing, bad; dannot (West Riding), sb. a good-for-nothing, a wretch.
The verbs dow and do are confused even in modern ordinary English. “That will
do” is a corruption of “that will dow"
J. P. MORRIS. T'ald woman shouted, “Cu' thy ways on, thou
1867. dannct." Siege o” Brou'ton, p. 5.
COLL. USE (S. and E. L.) He's a do-nowt an' maks his mother keep him.
1875$$
DARK, adj. blind.
COLL. USE. Help him o'er th' road, poor lad, he's dark.
1875.
DARKENIN', sb. twilight. A.S. dearcung, twilight.
A. C. GIBSON He niver durst bide by his-sel' efter t' darkenii?.
(Dial, of High Furness). Cumb> Folk-Speech, p. 95.
DARRACK (N. Lane.), sb. a day's work. A.S. dczgweorc, the same.
DASHIN, sb. a tub used for kneading oatmeal dough.
COLLIER. He nipt up th' deaihon, ot stoode oth' harstone, on
J 75o. whirl'd it at meh. Works, p. 66.
DATALLER (S. Lane.), ) sb. a day labourer. Marshall's
DAYTAL-LABOURER (Furness),) East Yorkshire Glossary (E. D. S. Reprint, 1873,
p. 25) has “Daitlc (that is, day-tale) adj. by the day; as, daitle-man, a
day-labourer; daitle-work, work done by the day." Brockett (Gloss. N.
Country Words) has, “Daytaleman, a day-labourer, chiefly in husbandry one who
works by day-tale, i.e. a man whose labour is told or reckoned by the day,
not by the week or year." Cf. Icel. dagafal, a tale of days.
DATELESS, adj. stupefied, foolish, disordered in mind. For deedless. So Icel.
dtiSlauss, lit. deedless, means lubberly, impotent. See Deedless in
Atkinson's Cleveland Glossary.
Miss LAHEH. Theer sit Jinny starin' at th' owd lass loike one
dateless. Betty o 1 Yep's Tale, p. 15.
WAUGH. They carried her into Sally Grimshaw's, an' laid
1867. her upo' th' couch cheer, as dateless as a stone.
Dead Man's Dinner, p. 19.
“““ Th' White Heawse had to goo into other honds, for
th? poor owd crayter wur getten quite dateless, an hoo wur takken to live wi
some relations.
Yeth Bobs, c. ii., p. 40.
DATHIT (Furness), interj. a mild curse on making a mishap.
DAUB, \ sb. clay or marl; also, the clay mixed with chopped straw, DOBE, j
formerly used for filling in between the timbers of
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wooden-framed houses, sometimes called “wattle and daub.' See
CLAM-STAVE-AN'-DAUB ante.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) ])enne cleme hit with clay comly withinne,
1360. A n d a u e jj e endentur drynen dattbe withouten.
E. Eng. Allit. P., B., 1. 312. I 44Q- Dawber or cleyman: dawbyn, lino, muro.
Prompt. Parv.
COLL. USB. Fetch yon lad in, he's messin” hissel wi that dobe.
1875$$
DAUB-HOIL, sb. i.e. daub-hole; a clay or marl pit. See DAUB ante,
DAWK (Fylde), ) v. to stoop, to plunge. Lit. to duck.
DEAWK (S. and E. Lane.), ) Cf. Du. duiken, to stoop, dive? plunge.
COLL. USE. I deawPd deawn an' he misst his aim.
1875$$
DAWKIN', sb. a dull, stupid person. See DAFFY.
DAWKINLY, afo. stupidly, foolishly.
COLLIER. After looking dawkinly-vfisQ a bit. Works, p. 52:.
DAZED (Furness), adj. starved, cold, stupid, frightened. Icel. dasask, to
become weary and exhausted from cold or bodily exertion; dasaftr, exhausted,
weary; O. Du. daesen, to lose one's wits. HAMPOLE. Brynned ay here m J>e
calde of malice,
J 34o- A n d ay was dased in charite.
Pricke of Conscience. 1. 6646.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) I stoode as stylle as dased quayle [as a dazed
quail]. 'S 60 - E. Eng. Allit. Poems, A, 1. 1084.
CHAUCER. Thou sittest at another booke,
Tyl fully dasewyd ys thy looke.
House of Fame, ii., 149. GAVIN DOUGLAS. A11 j> e maisters W ere so mased
J>at dom j>ai stode als ]>ai ware dased.
Vol. ii., 567
DEAD-TONGUE (Furness), sb. the water hemlock.
DEAVE. 27. to deafen; to stupefy with noise. Adj. DEAVIN, deafening. Icel.
deyfa, to stupefy; O. Sw. dojwa, to deafen, dull, assuage, stupefy , Dan.
dove, to deafen, deaden, blunt.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) J) e dunte [ = blow] >at schulde hym deoe.
Sir Gawavne & G. K., 1. 1286. If mair they aeave us with their din.
The Ordination, 1. 122.
JOHN JCHOLES. j ust t h en t h' queen's carridge un o' thoose ut win
sin i' th' mornin' rattlt by, un bang went th' deavin 1 din [of cannon] ogen.
Jaunt to See th” Queen, p. 55. COLL. USE. Howd thi din, thae fair deaves me.
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DEAWLDY, adj. doleful, depressed, dolorous, despondent. Cf. Icel. ddligr,
wretched. E. D. S. Reprinted Glossaries, B. 7 (West Riding)
\&s"dowly,dawly, adj. lonely, sorrowful;" and Brockett (North
Country Words) gives “Dowley, lonely, dismal, melancholy, sorrowful,
doleful."
WAUGH. Then, Mally, fill it up again;
l8 S9$ An dunnot look so deawldy;
There's nought can lick a marlock. when One's brains are gettin meawldy!
Lane. Songs: Turn Rindle.
DEAWN, adj. depressed.
COLL. USE. There's summat wrung wi th' owd lad to-day he
l8 75$ looks so deawn.
DEAWN-BROO, adv. down hill , metaph. for failing or declining, WAUGH. Owd
Roddle was now only the shrunken relic of a
l86s ' very strong man. He had long since begun to grow
“deawn -broo, like a keaw-tail."
Besom Ben, c. vi., p. 79.
DEAWN-FO. sb. i.e. down-fall. A fall of rain or snow.
WAUGH A sawp o' deawnfo 'ud do a sect o' good just neaw;
I 8 SS . an we'st ha some afore lung, or aw'm chetted.
Lane. Sketches: Grave of Grislehurst Boggart, p. 209.
DEAWN-LYING, sb. an accouchement.
1873. Hoo's just at th' deaivn-lying; poor body! we'd
better see ut hoo's looked after a bit.
DEAWNT, v. finished; taken off or taken down. Deawnin\ finishing, part.
Lancashire weavers call the web, or piece of cloth they are working upon,
whether woollen or cotton, a “cut;" and when the entire piece or web is
woven, and taken off the loom, the weaver says he has “deawnt his cut;"
that is, he has taken his finished web down from the loom. So, figuratively,
a man who dies, has finished the web of his life.
WAUGH. Aw thought it wur time to sell th' dog, when aw
1855. had to ax owd Thunge to lend mo a bite ov his
moufin whol aw deawnt my piece.
Lane. Sketches: Birthplace of Tim
Bobbin, p. 81.
BAM FORD. And never would she let me wait
l86 4$ When downing on a Friday,
Her wheel went at a merry rate,
Her person always tidy. Poems, p. 39.
WAUGH. "Yer, tho', Jone, another caliy-weighver [calico- 1867. weaver]
gone!” "Ay," replied Jone, "th' owd lad's
deawnt his cut. He'll want no more tickets."
Home Life Factory Folk, c. xiv , p. 127.
DECK, sb. a pack, applied to playing cards. Mr. Payne Collier (Ed. Shakspere)
says "the word continued in use [as applied
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to a pack of cards] as late as 1788. being found in the Sessions Paper of
that year. Possibly it is derived from the A.S. decan, to cover, because one
card in a pack covers the other."
SHAKSPERE. Gloucester: Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,
1595. But whiles he thought to steale the single
ten, The king was slily finger'd from the deck.
Third K. Hen. VI., v. I, 42. DEED, sb. doings.
WAUGH. We'n had very hard deed, maister. Aw consider
l86 7$ we'n had as hard deed as anybody livin, takkin o
together. Home Life Factory Folk. c. xvi. p. 145.
DEET, v. to daub, to sully. Also, adj. dirty. Probably deet is a mere
corruption of dirt, formerly spelt drit. Cf. A.S. gedritan” to dirty. The
loss of the r is well seen in speak, a corruption of spreak, from A.S.
sprecan.
Miss LAHES. Betty wor not long afore hoo coome back wi' th'
l86 5$ owd paper in her hond, looking as deet an' yellow as
one of them foreign felleys at aw've sin i' Manchester.
Betty 0' Yeps Tale, p. 29. COLLIER. An ill-grim'd an deet th' lad wur for
shure.
Works, p. 59.
WAUGH. He comes noan here! Aw'll not ha' th' heawse
l86 7$ dated wi' sich like rubbidge '
Owd Blanket, c. i., p. II
I " D - “Come in," said the landlady, “an sit tho deawri
while eawr lasses getten yon kitchen readied (made right) a bit." “Aw's
deet this reawm o' yors," said Ben, looking round the parlour. “Deet, be
hanged!” replied she. “A saup o' clen wayter '11 deet nought."
Ibid, c. iii., p 53.
DEET (S. Lane.), v. to dress with size or paste; a term used by weavers.
COLL. USE. When he's dated his yarn he'll come eawt.
1875$$
DEG, v. to sprinkle water upon anything. Icel. doggva, to bedew; cf. Icel.
deigja, wetness, damp; Sw. dagg, dew. This is probably the same word as that
which in Shakspere takes the form of deck.
SHAKSPERE. Thou didst smile,
l623 ' Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
When I have dec&d the sea with drops full salt, Under my burthen groaned?
Tempest, act i., sc. ii., 1. 153
REV. W. GASKELL. The word which a Lancashire man employs for
sprinkling with water is "to deg" and when he degs his garden he
uses a deggin-c&n..
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 28.
Miss LAHEE. Si'tho' what a deggin 1 hoo's gin me, an' aw've o'
18651 these moiles to gu i' mi weet clothes.
Carter's Struggles, c. vii., p. 53.
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DELF-RACK, sb. shelf for crockery. Delf=- pottery from Delft, and rack, an
open frame work.
DENE 1 sb. a little valley. A.S. denu, a
DEYN or DEIGN (E. Lane.), j valley.
A. SAX. GOSPELS. yl c denu bij> gefylled; [every valley shall be filled].
995$ st. Luke, iii., 5.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) j>ou says )>ou trawe3 me in ]>is dene, I 3 6
- Bycause )>ou may with y3en me se.
E. Eng. Allit. P., A, 1. 295.
WAUGH. In the forest of Rossendale, between Derply Moor
“%55' and the wild hill called Swinshaw, there is a lone
valley called Dean. The inhabitants of this valley are so notable for their
love of music that they are known all through the vales of Rossendale as
"Th 1 Deign Layrocks," or "The Larks of Dean."
Lane. Sketches: Wandering Minstrels, p. 276.
DESS (Fylde). sb. a pile, appl. to straw. Icel. des, a rick, whence hey-des,
a hay-rick. It exists in local names, as Desjur-myri in the east, Des-ey in
the west of Iceland.
DEVILMENT, sb. mischief.
WAUGH. Yo'n some make o' divulment agate i'th chimbley,
18551 aw declare. Lane, Sketches, p. 29.
DICKONS, j&. the deuce or devil.
SHAKSPERE. Mistress Page: I cannot tell what the dickens his
name is. Merry Wives, iii. 2, 19.
COLLIER. The Dickons it is!” sed I. Works, p. 7o.
TTETk “ “
1750.
DIDDLE-DADDLIN', dawdling about.
COLL. USE. HOO goes abeawt diddle -daddlin an' never gets
18751 nowt done.
DILFA (Mid. Lane.), } adj. doleful, sickly. In Essex dialect dil- DEALFA (E.
Lane.), ] vered means exhausted.
DILL, v. to lull or soothe a child; also, to dandle. Icel. dilla, to trill,
lull; dillindo, lullaby.
COLL. USE. Naa; thee dill that chylt an' get it asleep.
1875.
DING, v. to knock, to strike, to thrust; p. t. dang and dung; pi. dungen: as
“He dang [or dung\ him down;" "They dungen him to the floor."
Icel. dengja, to hammer , Sw. d&nga: A.S. dencgan, to knock.
HAMPOLE. Right swa J>e devels salle ay dyng
I34 ' On J>e synfulle, withouten styntyng.
P. of Conscience. 7015.
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BEN JONSON. 1610.
DRAYTON. 1627.
Surly: Down with the door.
Kustril: 'Slight! ding it open.
Lovewit: Hold, gentlemen, what means this violence,
Alchemist, v. 5. This while our noble king His broad sword brandishing Down
the French host did ding.
Battle of Agincourt: Works, p. 1380.
WAUGH. Hoo use't to ding me up wi't a bit sometimes when
l86 9' we wur cwortin. Yeth Bobs, c. i., p. 9.
DING-DRIVE (Furness),} adv ' ful1 s P eed > without int ^mission, He goes
at it ding-dong.
COLL. USE. 1875$$
DINNEL, v. to tingle: din + el.
COLL. USE. My ears dinnd as if bells wur ringing in 'em.
DINTLE, v. to indent. A.S. dynt, a dint, blow, dent; Icel. dynta r sb. a
dint; and v. to dint.
DITHER (general), ] v. to shake, to tremble. In some parts BOTHER (E. Lane.),
L of England, didder. A certain kind of DEDUR (N. Lane.), J grass is called
didder-grass, totter-grass,
and quaking-grass. The cognate form in High German is
zittern, to tremble; a word in common use.
He began to dotur and dote Os he hade keghet scathe.
E. Eng. Met. Rom., C, xvi., 1. II. Gif Menealfe was the more my3tie dyntus
gerut him to dedur.
Ibid, C, xxv., 1. 7.
LANCASHIRE DIAL. About 1400.
IBID.
COLLIER. 1750- ELIJAH RIDINGS. 1848.
RAMSBOTTOM. 1864.
WAUGH. 1868.
I dithert ot meh teeth hackt i' meh heeod ogen.
Works, p. 50.
My honds shak'd loike an aspen leof, Aw dithert i' my shoon.
Lane. Muse: Ale v. Physic, p. 8. Hearken th' bonny layrock sing, A dark spot
ditherirf i' th' blue sky.
Lane. Rhymes, p. 100.
Eh, it ma'ea me dother neaw, when aw think of pickin-peg. Sneck-Bant, e. ii.,
p. 29.
DIVERSOME, adj. fanciful; hard to please.
Wj 86 GH ' Musicianers cap'n the world for bein' diversome, an'
jealous, an' hard to plez. Barrel Organ, p. 14.
Thae'rt too diversome to live j tha eyts nowt.
COLL. USB.
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DIVULSKIN, DULESKIN, } sb. a humorous term of reproach, generally applied to
a mischievous person. Mid. E. deueles cynnes, lit. of the devil's kind or
kin.
WAUGH. l874. “He's etten all t' goose." “Who hes?" “Yon divulskin
i' t' parlour." Jannock, c. iv., p. 29.
DO, DOOMENT,} sb. an action or occurrence; anything of a lively or stirring
nature; a business, an entertainment.
When he started a readin' o'er Jinny's doomenl, aw ne'er yerd sich laughin'.
Betty o” Yep's Tale, p. 15.
"Who are they?" said the landlord; "conto make 'em eawt?"
"Nawe," answered the carter; "but they favvour'n Todmorden
chaps. Aw’ll be bund they're upo th' same dooment." “Aw dar say they
are," replied the landlord. "They're corned up a-viewin', aw
guess." Dulesgate, p. 19
"What the hectum's yon lad doin'." Hoo said, “' I see him \ He's
comin' down th' brow, yon, full pelt, wi' a gun on his shoulder." “O'
reet," said Sam, rubbin' his honds > “o' reet, keep still. This
Miss LAHEE. 1865.
WAUGH. 1867.
IBIEK 1875.
is a grand do."
Old Cronies, yii. , 89.
DO, v. to thrive, to be healthy. Cf. Sc. dow; A.S. dugan, to profit, avail,
be good for; cognate with Ger. taugen, to be good for.
COLL. USE. Old folks will say of a sickly man, “He noather
dees nor does." Again, “He d$es [i.e., thrives] well in his
business."
DOAGE, ) adj. damp. A.S. deawig, dewy, wet. Cf. DEG
DOYCH (E. Lane.),} ante.
COLLIER. I doft meh donk shoon on hoyse. on me doage
I75 - clooas. Works, p. 54.
:OLL. USE (E. L.) Where he weyvesisakyflS an' he's getten t' rheumatiz.
DOBBER, sb. a lump; also, a large marble.
WAUGH. Put thi hond o' th' top o' mi yed," said Ben.
"Doesto feel nought?" “Some lumps," said Randal.
"Lumps!" replied Ben; ''Ay, an pummers too. Ceawnt 'em. Aw think
they'n come to seven gradely dobbers" Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 30.
DOBBIN, sb. a familiar term for a horse.
DOBBIN, sb. a small, thick glass tumbler, which holds a fourth or fifth of a
pint. Cf. W. dobyn, a half-pint measure.
MICHAEL WILSON. Come, Robin, sit deawn, an aw'll tell thee a tale,
Boh first, prithee, fill me a dobbin of ale.
Songs of the Wilsons, p. 26.
1830.
See Dobbie in Jamieson's Scot-
J P. MORRIS. 1867.
DOBBY, sb. a ghost; lit. a stupid.
tish Diet.
Ghosts! Eigh, me lad, we ve hed plenty on em
i' Forness, but we'd anudder neeam for em; we ol'as co'd 'em dobbies or
freetnins. Here about U'ston we'd t' Plunton Ho' dobby, Swartmoor Ho' dobby,
Aid Ho' dobby, Lebby Beck dobby, 't Swing Gate dobby, an' we had t' King's
Arms dobby, tu.
T Lebby Beck Dobby, p. 3.
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DOFF, v. to take off or put off, to undress; literally, do off.
1440. And thou my concelle doo, thow doffe of thy clothes- Morte Arthure, 1
1023
SHAKSPERE. Faulconbridge: Thou weare a lyon's hide! Dojf\\.
1598$ for shame.
And hang a calf 's-skin on those recreant limbs.
K. John, iii. i. 128.
RAMSBOTTOM. Doff\ti\ clogs and warm thi feet.
1864. Lane. Rhymes, p. 40.
WAUGH. Come thi ways in, an doff tho. An get summat warm
1868. into tho for thae'll do wi't. Sncck-Bant, i., p. 8. DR. BARBER. He hed
doft his clogs an stockin's, an was paddlin
l8 7$ amang watter an soft sand. Forness Folk, p. 39.
DOG-CHEAP, adj. excessively cheap.
COLL. USE. Buy it, Mally, it's dog-cheap."
1875.
DOG-DAISY, sb. the common field daisy, Bellis perennis; sometimes applied to
the ox-eye daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum.
DOG-ROSE, sb. the common wild rose, Rosa canina.
DOIT, sb. a trifle; a small share. Cf. Icel. dot, trumpery, trifles. The
Dutch duit (pron. doit} was a small coin, the eighth part of a stiver, 01
about half a farthing.
SHAKSPERE. Trinculo: When they will not give a doit to relieve
161 1$ a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead
Indian. Tempest, ii. 2, 32.
IBID. Timon: How dost like this jewel, Apemantus?
l63 3$ Apem.: Not so well as plain dealing, which wili
not cost a man a doit.
Timon of Athens, i. i, 214.
COLL. USE. He's not worth a doit"; "He hasn't a doit in
18 75$ f his pocket."
DOITED, adj. silly, foolish. E. dote, dotard. Cf. Du. dutten, to take a nap,
from dut, a nap; Icel. dotta, to nod from sleep; dottr, a nodder.
COLL. USE. He's doited; ne'er mind him.
1875$$
DOLLOP, sb. a shapeless lump, a large piece. Cf. W. talp, a mass, a lump.
COLL. USE. Hea\” mich? Tuppence! What a dollop thae's
getten!
DOLLY, sb. a wooden instrument used in washing clothes.
DON, v. to put on, to dress; lit. to do on; p. t. did on. In this form the
phrase appears in Morris's Jason (p. 15): Then Jason rose and did on him a
fair Blue woollen tunic. '
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This again is very near to the Lancashire expression, “He did himself
up," for “He dressed himself."
1280. That Grim bad Leve bringen lict,
For to don on his clothes. Havelok, 1. 576.
SHAKSPEKE. What! should I don this robe, and trouble you?
l6 - Be chosen with proclamations to-day;
To-morrow yeeld up rule.
Titus Andronictis, i. I, 189.
BAMFORD. On Sundays and holidays, a pair of lighter shoes,
1850. raised at the heels, would be donned.
Ed. of Tim Bobbin, p. vii.
WAUGH. Get tho donned, an come deawn! Aw mun be
l86 7$ gooin. Owd Blanket, c. i. p. 14.
B. BRIERLEY. Aw tell eawr Matty sometimes, ut if hoo stonds so
1869. lung starin' i'th looking-glass when hoo's donnin" 1 her- sell,
hoo'll find hoo's getten int' an old maid afore hoo knows gradely where hoo
is.
Red Windows Hall, c. iv p. 26.
DONTLES, sb.pl. clothes to be donned. See DON ante.
DOSOME, adj. healthy. See Do ante.
JOHN SCHOLES. Hoo did look sum plump un' dohsom.
1857$ Jaunt to See ttf Queen, p. 43.
T. T. WILKINSON. A quart o' this ale o'th' top ov a beef-steak 'ud
l8 73$ mak' a chap's ribs feel dosome.
Legends and Trad, of Lane., 195.
DOSSUCK,) sb. a slovenly woman. Perhaps related to Icel. dasi, DOSSY, ) a
lazy fellow; fosaftr, exhausted.
WAUGH. Thou'll make a bonny dossy of a wife for sombry,
l8 75$ when thou comes to be laft to thisel'.
Old Cronies, ii. 20. COLL. USE. Hoo's a regular dossuck, and lies i' bed till
noon.
DO-UP, v. to fasten. See also dup in Shakspere: "Auddutyed the chamber
door." Hamlet, iv. 5, 53.
COLL. USE. Do-up mi dress; aw connot catch th' hooks.
1875$$
DOW, sb. alms, relief; lit. a dole, a pittance.
RAMSBOTTOM. To get this dow aw still con goo.
l86 “- Lane. Rhymes, p. 53.
DOWD, adj. flat, dead. Icel. dauftr, dead; dodi, deadness, insensibility.
COLL. USE. lt' s as dowd as dyke wayter.
1875.
DOWLY (N. Lane.), adj. dull, lonely. See DEAWLDY ante.
DOYT, sb. a finger. Lat. digitus, a finger; Fr. doigt.
COLL. USE. Keep thi doyts off me.
1875.
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DOYTCH-BACK, sb. (i.e. ditch back), a fence, a rampart above a ditch.
COLLIER. Whether eh lost it ith' bruck, or weh scrawmin
1750. o'er th' doytch-backs, I no moor know than th' mon
ith' moon. Works, 55.
DOXY, sb. a term for a sweetheart. The author of Tim Bobbin (see below)
applies the word to his wife. Also, an untidy, dirty woman. Probably from the
rogue's cant or gipsy language, Nares observes that Autolycus, who sings the
song in Win. Tale, has a spice of the cant language in his dialect. On the
other hand, Dr. Mahn connects the word with Swed. docka, a doll, a baby. Cf.
Dan. dukke, a doll; and perhaps E. duck, in the sense of sweetheart.
SHAKSPERE. ion.
JOHN GAY. 1728.
JOHN COLLIER. 1768.
COLL. Us. 1875.
When daffodils begin to peere
With heigh the doxy over the dale
Why then comes in the sweet o' the yeere.
Win. Tale, iv. 3, 2.
Thus I stand like the Turk with his doxies around, From all sides their
glances his passion confound. Beggars' Opera: Finale.
My compliments to all friends; and tell my doxy that her son John is tired
with living free as a hawk.
Works (Letters), p. 359. Thae'rt a bonny doxygtt thi weshed J
DRAD, v. (past tense and pp. of Dread), feared. A.S. dradan; p. t. dred; pp.
dr&den. Mid. E. dradde, drad.
He dradde hire so, And his unworthynesse he ay acused.
Troylus and C., Bk. ii., 1. 1080.
Saw hys people governed with such justice and good order, that he was both
dradde and greatly beloved. Vol. /., d. 2.
So from immortall race he does proceede. That mortall hands may not withstand
his might, Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed.
Faerie Queene, Bk. II., c. iv., St. 42.
CHAUCER. 1380.
HOLINSHED. 1586.
SPENSRR. 159”
COLL. USE. 1875.
! He dings her so that hoo's drad on him killin'hur."
DRAGGLE-TAIL, sb. a dirty person; one whose skirts have been drawn through
the mire.
OLD SONG. 'Twas Moll and Bet, and Doll and Kate, and Dorothy
Draggletail,
And John and Dick, and Joe and Jack, and Humphrey with his flail.
' L 1 L 8 7 ^ SE> “Eh, what a draggle-tail howd up thi' petticoats!
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DRAFF, sb. malt grains after brewing. Icel. draf, husks, dregs; A.S. and Du.
drabbe, dregs, lees.
pel [hogges] don bot dravele ]>eron; drafweore hem
levere
J>en al J>e presciouse Peerles ]>at in Paradys waxen. Piers Plowman,
A -text, xi , 1 1. Why schuld I sowen draf out of my fest, Whan I may sowe
whete, if that me lest?
Persones Tale, Prol., 1. 35. Draffe, or drosse, or matter stamped; pilumen.
Prompt. Parv.
Falstaff: I had a hundred and fiftie tatter'd prodigals, lately come from
swine-keeping, from eating draffe and huskes. First K. Hen. IV., iv. 2, 38.
LANGLAND. 1362.
CHAUCER. 1380.
1440.
SHAKS 1598.
COLL. USE. 1875$$
We mun get some draff for these cows. DRAPE, sb. a cow which has ceased to
give milk. See DRIPPINS.
DREE, \ adj. tedious, protracted, monotonous, wearisome.
DREESOME, j Icel. drjugr, lasting; Swed. dryg, long; Dan.
droi, large, ample. A.S. dreogan, to endure, to suffer; p. t. dreah.
Icel. drygja, to lengthen; Mid. E. dreghe (Harnp. Pricke of C.,
1. 2235; E. Eng. Allit. Poems, B, 1224).
"Whooas lad arto?” "Whau," sed he, "I'm Jone's o' Lall's
o' Simmys, o' Marriom's, o' Dick's, o' Nethon's, o' Lall's o' Simmy's ith'
Rooms/' Odd, thinks I t' mehsel, theaws a dree-et name than me
Works, p. 51. The rain having set in dree . Life of Radical, xx., 135.
Lancashire people talk of "dree rain," which often puzzles those
who fancy dree is a corruption of "dry." And they say it rains
“dreely" meaning that it is continuous and enduring. Lect. Lane.
Dialect, p. 22.
Aw've brought thi top cwot, doesto know, For th' rain's comin' deawn very
dree.
Lane. Songs: “Come Whoam to thi Childer."
I fudged away up Gamswell . . . till I began to think it wos langsome and
dreesome beath.
Forness Folk, p. 3.
DRINKINS (Lancaster) sb. pi. lunch, labourer's dinner. DRIPPINS, sb. the last
yield of milk.
DROIT (S. Lane.), sb. a draught of ale; a team of horses. AS. dragan, to
draw.
Miss LAHEE. Bessy, lass, bring Jone here a droite o' ale, an' a
l86 5$ boite o' brade an' cheese. Carter's Struggles, c. i. p. 5.
WAUGH. But, come, winnot yo have a droight o' ale? Jenny,
l86 7$ fill him a tot. Tattlin Matty, c. i. p. 14.
B. BRIERLEV. Sogger seized him by the arm, and begged he
1867. would partake of “a droit o' charmed drink."
Marlocks of Merriton, c. ii. p. 35
COLLIER. 1750.
BAMFORD.
1840.
REV. W. GASKELL. 1854.
WAUGH. 1859$
DR. BARBER. 1870.
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DUB, sb. a pool, a marshy place, a muddy hole. Probably of Celtic origin; cf.
Irish dob, a gutter; W. dwfr t water.
DUBERSOME, adj. doubtful, dubious.
DUBBIN, sb. an oily paste used for softening shoes.
DUBBLER, sb. a large dish. O. Fr. doblier, a plate (Burguy).
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) A dysche o]>er a dobler }>at dry3ten 01163
served.
'S 60 - [= A dish or a dobler that the Lord once served.]
E. Eng. Allit. Poems, B, 1. 1 146. 1440. Dobder, vesselle. Lat. parapses.
Prompt. Parv.
DUD, sb. a teat. Cf. Moeso Goth, daddjan, to suckle.
COLL. USE. Hoo's a rare elder; an' what duds!
1875.
DUDS, sb.pl. clothes. Icel. dtffta, to swathe in clothes, dtffti, swaddling
clothes.
COLL. USE. Be sharp and get thi duds off, an' away to bed.
DULE, sb. the devil. Contracted from A.S. deofol.
WAUGH. But aw're mazy, an' nattle, an' fasten't to tell
l8s9 ' What the dule it could be that're ailin mysel.
Lane. Songs: “Jamie's Frolic." RAMSBOTTOM. Aw'r bad enoof i' wark, for
sure,
1 4 ' Bo stoppin' plays the aule wi me.
Lane. Rhymes, p. 33.
DUMMEL-HEEAD (N. Lane.), sb. a blockhead. A.S. dumb, mute, foolish; cf. Du.
dorn, dull, stupid; Ger. dum, stupid. Cf, Ger. diimmel- kopf.
DR. BARBER. “It's a fair sham, 1 ' she said, “a girt dummel-heead
it hes & feass for owte." Forness- Folk, p. 32.
DUMPS, sb. a low-spirited condition. Cf. Du. dompig. damp, misty; dampen, to
extinguish.
SHAKSPERE. Baptista: Why, how now, daughter Katherine, in
your dumps? Tarn, of Shrew, ii. I, 286.
COLLIER. I from this cot, this Christmas eve,
Write with a troubled mind, believe,
And wife in doleful dumps. Works, 467. COLL. USE. Say nowt to him, he's in
th' dumps to-day.
DUNDER-HEAD, sb. a blockhead. DUNG-PIKE, sb. a dung-fork.
DUMMOCK, sb. a small heap of soil or dirt. Prob. a dimin. of dam. Cf. Du.
dam, a bank; Icel. dammr.
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DUNNOCK, sb. the hedge-sparrow. From dun, as a colour; so also ruddock^ a
red-breast, from red. The Icel. dunna, a wild duck, seems to have been
similarly named.
BAMFORD, It wur nother gorse-cock, ouzle, nor dunnock.
Life of Radical, xx. 133.
IBID. She was of middle stature; and whilst he was as
l8 44$ dark as a dunnock, she was of an excessively fair
complexion. Walks in South Lancashire, p. 39.
DUR, sb. pron. of Door. A.S. duru, a door. WRITTEN IN LANCASHIRE, Nerre the
chapelle dur he 3ode,
About 1400. Auturs for to lere. E. Eng. Met. Rom. B vii. 2.
WAUGH, When we'n getten fairly off, thae mun lock th'
l86 5$ durs, an' pike eawt at th' back after us.
Besom Bn, c. iii. p. 34.
DUR-CHEEK, sb. doorpost.
WAUGH. When I geet to th' house, I fund a yello lookin'
l8 74$ mak of a chap rear't up again th' dur -cheek.
Chimney Corner: Mane. Critic, Mar. 21.
DUR-HOLE, sb. the doorway.
WAUGH, Qwd Mally stoode i'th' dur-hole, watchin 'em.
Besom Ben, c. iv. p .45.
IBID. They threatn't mich an' moor that if he didn't howd
i86g. his din they'd throw him eawt at th' dur-hole.
Yeth-Bobs, c. ii. p. 35.
DUR-STONE, sb. the threshold.
COLL. USE. 1875.
He wur stondin' on th' durstone, an' would no goo inside.
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E.
EA (N. and E. Lane.), sb. a river or the channel of a river; applied also to
water generally. A.S. ed, water. Mceso-Goth. ahwa. Icel. a. The word ed
occurs four times in the A.S. version of Genesis li. n 14, where the
authorised version has river.
EALIN', sb. a shed set against another building; a lean-to. Lit. a heeling,
from the verb to heel or lean over. Heel is a corruption from Mid. E. helden,
A.S. hyldan, to incline. See HELDEN in Stratmann, and HEEL in Wedgwood. For
the loss of the initial h, see ELDER.
EASINS, sb. the eaves of a house; also applied to sloping land. Thus
Habergham - Eaves = Habergham slopes (properly slope, as eaves is singular).
For evesings, from A.S. efesung, a shearing round, from the verb efesian, to
shave round; which from A.S. efese, “brim, edge, margin. Mid. E. evesunge,
evesinge.
LAXCLAND. “Ysekeles in euetes" i.e., icicles upon the eaveses,
J 377$ p. Plowman, B. xvii 227, where four MSS. read
euesynges; also the C-text (xx. 193) has "Isykles in euesynges"
Evese or evesinge of a house. Prompt. Parv.
Severonde, the eaue, eauing. or easing of house-French Dictionary.
JOHN JCHOLES. gee yo, Tim, hoo sed to me, iv ther is nah o felley
peeorcht on th' yeazirfs, wi o choilt in his arms.
. Jaunt to See th? Queen, p. 31.
COLL. USB. Hearken heaw th' rain's dhrippin' off th' easins (or
l8?5$ yezzins).
EASIN-SPARROW, sb. the common house- sparrow. From EASIN, q. v.
COLL. USE. It's nowt but an easin 1 -sparrow.
1875$$
EAVER (sometimes Ether), sb. a quarter of the heavens, as “the wind is in a
rainy eaver"
EAWL-LEET (pron. of Owl-light), sb. twilight.
WAUGH. “Heaw quiet everything is," said Betty, drawing
her chair nearer to Ben's. “Very," replied he, “aw olez think there's
summat fine abeawt th' eawl-leet." Sneck-Bant, c. i., p. 15.
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EAWRSELS, I , ERSELS, f p '
RAMSBOTTOM. 1864.
WAUGH. I86>
pron. of Ourselves. See also URSELS.
O! it was hard eawrsels to draw
Fro th' things i' th' heawse we'd awlus known.
Lane. Rhymes, p. 66. Ben laid his hand upon his shoulder and said,
"Dan, owd lad; we'n o' th' world to ersels yet.
There isn't a wick soul i' sect." Yeth-B. c. i., p. 28
EAWT, adv. pron. of Out. A.S. ut; Icel. ut.
WAUGH. He ails nought, not he. Go poo him eawf.
l86 7$ Owd Blanket, c. i., p. 8.
EAWT-COMER, ) sb. one from another district; a stranger.
EAWT-CUMLIN, f From A.S. cuman, to come; cf. O. H. G.
chomeling, a new comer, stranger.
JOHN OF TREVISA. 1387.
HAMPOLE. 1340.
WYCLIF. 1380.
IBID.
1440.
WILLIAM HARRISON. 1587$
j?e longage of Normandy ys comlyngot ano]>er lond. Descrip. Britain, 1.
193. (Sp. E. Eng.^
Pt. ii., p. 242.)
For I am a commelyng toward ]>e, And pilgrim, als alle my faders was.
Pncke of Conscience, 1. 1385. A comely nge which is a pilgrim at 3ou.
Levit. xviii., 26. Most dere I biseche you as comelingis and pilgryms.
/. Peter, ii., ir,
Comelynge, new cum man or woman; Adventicius, inqtiilinus. Prompt. Parv.
The lawes of Malmutius .... indured in execution among the Britons, so long
as our homelings had the dominion of this He. Afterwards, when the comeling
Saxons had once obteined the superioritie of the kingdom, the maiestie of
those lawes fell for a time into . . . decaie Description of England: Ed. by
Furnivall for New Shakspere Soc., Bk. II., c. ix., p. 189.
JOHN SCHOLES. 1857$
One o theese same hauve-clemm'd eawtcumblin 1 s sed ut Englond awt to bi
guvern'd by commun sense.
Jaunt, p. 55.
EAWT-O-FLUNTERS, adv. Phr. Out of order. It is obvious that flunters can
hardly mean order here; the phrase is probably a corruption of
eawt-#?-flunters, i.e. out to splinters. See FLENDERS, shreds, splinters, in
Brockett. To “fly to flinders" means to fly to pieces. The Dutch
flenters means tatters. So Nares gives the Mid. E. fling with the sense of a
trifle; lit. a fragment. The root is the verb to fling, which is best
illustrated by the Old Swed. flenga, to beat, and Lat. fligere: cf. Lat.
affligere.
WAUGH. When he geet th' organ into his cart, they towd
him to be particular careful an' keep it th' reet side up; and he wur to mind
an' not shake it mich, for it wur a thing that wur yezzy thrut eawt o>
flunters.
Barrel Organ, p. 18.
“Yo'n catched us eawt-o-flunters, n said the poor woman when we entered; but
what con a body do? Home Life Lane. Factory Folk, c. xix , 166.
1865.
IHID. 1867.
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EDDER (S. Lane.), ) sb. an adder. Mid. O. E. addre, eddre, EDTHER (N. Lane.),
\ probably = naddre, neddre. A.S. naddre, ETHERD (E. Lane.), j nadre; etym.
disputed.
1220. “pe nddere^ seiS Salomon, “stingeft ul stilliche."
Ancren Rivule, p. 82, 1 1 . WYCLIF. Yee sarpentis, fruytis of eddris, hou
shulen yee
flee fro the dom of helle? Matt, xxiii , 33.
CH “ g BRl Here may ye see, that dedly synne hath first sugges- tioun of the
feend, as scheweth here by the neddir. The Persones Tale, Aid. ed., vol.
iii.,
p. 287, 1. 22. 1440. Eddyr, or neddyr, wyrme j Serpens.
Prompt. Parv.
i COLL. USE. He's bin bitten by an edder \edther or etherd\.
1875$$
EDDISH or EDDITCH, sb. the first grass after mowing. A.S,
edisc, aftermath, where prefix ed= again. Mid. E. edisch. SIR ANTHONY
FITZHERBERT. If all shulde lye common, than wolde the edycke of the corne
feldes, and the undermath of all the medowes be eten in x. or xii. dayes.
The Boke of -Surveying”
BP. KENNETX. Eddish, roughings or after-math in meadows, but
more properly the stubble or gratten in corn-fields. This word is in some
southern parts corrupted into ersh, and in Surrey into esh, as a wheat esh, a
barley esh. Glossarial Collections, Lansdowne MSS., 1033.
USB. This rain 'ull fetch th' eddish up.
EDGE-O'-DARK, sb. twilight.
W AUGH. ^ it '11 tak thee a greight while to gether fifty shillin'
i' tow-brass [toll money], at th' rate we're gooin at a keaw i' th' forenoon,
a wheelbarrow i' th' afternoon, an' happen a jackass at th' edge '-o '-dark.
Sneck-Bant, c. ii , p. 39.
IBID - We's be back again abeawt th' edge -o” -dark, when
th' crow flies home. Ibid^ c. iv., p. 72.
EDGRO or ETGRO, sb. the aftermath. A.S. ed, z&m+grow. Cf. A.S. edgrowung,
a re-growing.
I 44$ Edgrow, gresse. Bigermen, regermen.
Prompt. Parv.
S mitch for fc ' gress and soa mitch for l ' et ro '
T^TTT? "R^^A^J'T” ^
EDTHERBOWT, | s “' the dra g n - fl y- See EDDER, EDTHER + bolt.
COLL. USE. i t 'u 9t i n g \[^ e an e dder-bout.
EDDERCROP, ) sb. a spider. Formed like A.S. dtter-coppa, a EDTHERCROP, j
spider, with a variation in the second part.
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TI7
It is therefore from A.S. dtter, poison, and crop, a top, or bunch, alluding
to the supposed poison bag.
JOHN SCHOLES. Aw met weel foind o eddercrop creepin' o' mi
l8 57$ cwoats, hoo sed. Jaunt, p. 15.
COLL. USE, Th' edges are full o' edthercrop neesus (nests).
1875$$
EE-BREE, sb. the eyebrow. A.S. edge, eye, and brow, brow.
COLL. USE. 1875$$
He's a fause un, aw con tell bi his ee-brees.
EE, sb. the eye; EEN, pi. A.S. edge, pi. edgan.
Hire nose streight; hire eyen grey as glas.
Prologue C. T., 152. All present wer in twynkling of ane E, Baith beist, and
bird, and flowr, befoir the quene. Thistle and Rose, 13.
Me thocht Aurora, with hir cristall ene,
In at the window lukit by the day. Ibid, 2.
The fyry sparkis brastyng from hys eyn
To purge the ayr, and gylt the tendyr greyn.
Prologue XII. Book of the ^Eneid, I. 39.
His belly was upblowne with luxury,
And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne.
Fairy Queen: I., iv., 21.
I B1D . My star is falne, my comfort done,
Out is the apple of my eine.
An Elegie: Astrophel, 1. 69.
CHAUCER. 1386.
DUNBAR. I503$
IBID.
GAWIN DOUGLAS.
SPENSER. 1590.
REV W. GASKELL. 1854$
WAUGH. 1859$
IBID. 1859.
B. BRIERLEY. 1870.
In Anglo-Saxon, one declension of substantives formed the plural in
"an," the only relic of which in modern English is in the word
“oxen." In Lancashire we have two words as least beside
"oxen," in which this form is preserved. They occur in this passage
from the "Okeawnt uth Greyt Eggshibishun ": “They'rne sum uth
grandest carpits us ever aw clapt my een on; aw wondur heaw they cud foind e'
ther hearts fur to set ther shoon on urn."
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 23. Thi cheeks are grooin thinner, An th' leet has
laft thi ee.
Lane. Songs: What ails thee, my Son Robin.
He cried till his een were quite red. He likes thee some weel, does yon lad!
Ib.: Come whoam to thi childer. He oppent a pair o' een as wide as a sheead.
Bundle o 1 Fents, I., p. 32.
EEM, v. to spare time j to find an opportunity; to be able to compass an
object; to get into the way of doing a thing. A.S. efnan, to be able to
perform; Icel. efna, to perform, chiefly to fulfil a vow or the terms agreed
upon; Dan. evne, to have ability; Swed. arnna, to form, shape. In like
manner, the A.S. efen, even,
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becomes erne in provincial English. Shakspere uses even as a
verb.
OEDMON. Efndon finrihtd6m [i e., they performed unrighteous
ness.] Ed. Thorpe, p. 227, 1. 7.
DR. BYROM. We warken hard as't iz for meeat and clooas,
I745$ An connot eem to be so feert, God knooas.
Misc, Poems, vol. i., p. 157.
COLLIER. ] aw< w hot o cank han we had! I mennaw [may
or must not] eem to stey onny lunger.
Works, p 71.
COLL. USE. i. Aw've tried mony a time but aw could never
18751 eem to do it.
2. If aw wur thee aw'd eem to do that or elze aw'd see what it sticks on.
EEND-WAY, ] adv. outright; at once; to the end- EEND-WAYS, \ ing or finish.
Cf. Spenser's use
ENDAS (Mid. and E. Lane.), J of endlong:
That who from East to West will endlong seeke, Cannot two fairer Cities find
this day.
Fairy Queen, III. ix , 51. Also Dryden:
Then, spurring, at full speed, ran endlong on.
Palamon and Arcite, iii., 1. 691. COLLIER. So I took eendwey, for it wur
welly neet.
Works, p. 59. IBID ' Get eendwey; its prime rime efeath.
Works, p 39.
B. BRIERLEY. Aw've done seventy odd year beaut bein' drawn
l86 9$ like a dobby-hoss; an' aw meean to do eend-way.
Red Windows Hall, c. xiii., p. 104.
WAUGH. "Rom a bit o' talk in," said Rondle o' Rogers,
"an' get eend-way." Old Cronies, c. v., p. 51.
EEN-NEAW (pron. of Even now), adv. directly, bye-and-bye, in a short time, a
short time ago.
SHAKSPERE. Nurse: What's this? What's this?
I59S< Jidiet: A rhyme I learned even now
Of one I danced withal.
Rom. and JuL, i. 5,
Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off
the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now, i Kings, xiv., 14.
COLLIER. j,^ ^ ^ mQor Q ^ eend . neaw
Works, p. 60.
B. BRIERLEY. E'enneaw wi seed Jonathan Grimshaw comin 1
l8 7$ deawn bi th' side o' th' dingle.
Bundle o j Fents, i., 26.
EET,| v. ate, did eat. Pr. t, ate; imp. t, eet or et; per. t., eetn
ET, j or etten; pr. par., atin. Thus: "Canto ate this bread?"
“Aw eet [or et] what thae gan mi." “He's etten o' th lot."
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“Be quiet, aw'm atin mi baggin." A.S. etan, pt. t. at, pi. <zton.
Icel. eta; pret. at, pi. /; pres. “/.
par ai offerd. praid, and s\iank, Thre dais no]?er ete ne dranc.
Cursor Mundi. (Sp. E. Eng. , pt. ii. p. 70, 1 40.) Alswa in J>e days of
Loth befelle, Men ete and drank, shortly to telle, Ilkan with other. Pricke
of C. 1. 4847,
Therfore whanne thei hadden etyn, Ihesu seith
John xxu 15.
Ful sooty was hir hour, and eek hir halle, In which she eet ful many a
sclender meel.
Norme Prest his Tale, 1. 12.
1320.
HAMPOLK. 1340.
WYCLIF. 1380.
CHAUCER. 1386.
EGADLINS, int. a diminutive oath. Egad, for begad, with dimin. suffix.
Egodlins, Betty, sez aw, aw think win no need to goo ony furr. Jaunt, p. 19.
Egadlins! wi mun bi sharp eawt o' this pleck or they'n catch us.
EGODSNAM, int. a form of oath; contraction of "in God's name."
JOHN SCHOLES.
1857$
COLL. USE. 1875$$
COLLIER. 1750.
Heau's tat e Godsnum? Works, p. xxxvi.
EGG, v. to urge on, to incite. A.S. eggian, to incite. Icel. eggja, to egg
on, incite, goad; from A.S. ecg, Icel. egg, an edge, point.
1220. Bacbitunge, and fikelunge, and eggunge to don eni
vuel. Ancren Riivle, p. 82.
And next was peynted coveitise That eggeth folk in many gise.
Romaunt of Rose, 181.
Fader of Falsness, he foundede it him-seluen; Adam and Eue he eggede to don
ille.
Piers Plowman: A. Passus 1. 1 62. Bot )>ur3 }>e eggyng of Eue he ete of
an apple.
Allit. Poems: "Cleanness,"!. 241. January hath caught so gret a
wille, Thorugh eggyng of his wyf, him for to pleye In his gardeyn.
Marchaundes Tale, 1 890.
Eggyn, or entycyn, to doon' welle or yvele; Incito, provoco. Prompt. Parv.
1350-
LANGLAND.
1362.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) 1360.
CHAUCER. 1386.
1440.
COLL. USE. 1875$$
He eggs him on to o' sorts o' mischief. EGG-CLOCK, sb. a cockchafer. See
CLOCK.
COLL, USE. 1875.
LANCASHIRE Proverb . Kill a egg-clock an' it '11 rain to-morn.
EGGS-AN'-COLLOPS, sb. toad-flax, Linaria vulgaris.
EH, pron. I. Cf. Icel. ek, eg, J.
WAUGH. Aw'm donnin this lad as fast as eh con," replied
Betty. Sneck-Bant, c. iii., p 50
1868.
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EH, inter/, oh or ah.
WAIIGH. 1867.
B. BRIERLEY. 1870.
EIGH, adv. aye, yes.
COLLIER. 1750.
J. P. MORRIS. 1867.
Eh, Ailse that blanket, that owd blanket! Eh, iv that blanket could talk,
Ailse, it could oather make folk laugh or cry! Owd Blanket, c. iii., p. 61.
"Eh, whatever is ther' t' do," hoo shrikt eawt. Bundle <?'
fents, i., p. 31.
Mary: Is Seroh o' Rutchots so honsome?
Tim: Eigh, hoos meeterly. Works, p. 54.
Tom ex'd t' priest if it was trew 'at ther' wos sich things.
"Eigh," said t' aid fella, an' his lile black eyes fair twinkled
wi' fun, "Eigh, ther's many a million on 'em” Lebby Beck Dobby, p. 5.
ETSCH-KEYS (N. and Mid. Lanc.), sb. the pods containing the seed of the ash.
A.S. cesc, ash-tree; whether the ending is really A.S. cag, a key, is not
proven.
1440- Esch key, frute; Clava in fructinus. Prompt. Parv.
CoLL ' Us x!” Lanc “Child loq.: Let's ga an' gedder some eisch-keys
an' lake at conquerors. [In this amusement the wings of the seed are
interlocked; each child then pulls, and the one whose "keys” break is
conquered ]
ELDER, I adv. rather, more easily. Icel. heldr. more, rather. ELTHER, j Dan.
Jieller. Vigfusson says "Only Scandinavian, not being found in Teutonic
dialects." Yet it, is found in Mceso-Gothic in the form haldis. The
literal meaning of haldis is more favourable, and A.S. hold, friendly, is
from the same root. Thus elder really means “with more pleasure." Cf.
A.S. hyld, inclination, favour. WEST MID. DIAL. (Lanc.) Gawan got5 to J>e
gome, with giserne in honde,
And he baldly hym bydez, he bayst neuer ]>e helder. Sir Gawayne and Grene
Kt., 1. 375.
1320.
WAUGH. Aw'd go as fur as oather grace grew or waytur ran.
57> afore aw'd live amoon sich doins. One could either
manage we't at th' for-end o' their days.
Lanc. Sketches: Bury to Rochdale, p. 26.
IBID. I declare I'd elder see 'em wortchin for th' next to
l8?4 ' nought nor see 'em doin nought. It keeps 'em out o'
lumber, an that's summat.
Chimney Corner: Manchester Critic, Feb. 21.
ELDER, sb. the cow's udder.
COLL. USE. When thaer't milkin', Nancy, thae mun' bi gentle
wi hur, hur elder's a bit sore.
ELDERS, sb. ancestors, parents, betters, elders, parents.
LANGLAND. 1362.
A.S. eldran, yldran^
God sende to seie, by Samuel mou]>e, pat Agag and Amalec and al his peple
aftur, Schulden dye for a dede J?at don hedde his eldren A3eynes Israel and
Aaron and Moyses his broker. Piers Plowman, A-text; Passus iii. 246.
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WYCI.IK. And I profitide in the lewerie aboue manye of
“3fo- myne euene elderis in my kynrede, and was more
aboundantli a folowere of my fadris tradicions.
Galat. c. i.
[The Authorized Version, in place of "manye of myne, euene elderis in my
kynrede" has "many my equals in mine own nation."]
CHAUCER. jr or h e was boren of a gentil hous
13861 . And had his eldres noble and vertuous.
Wyf of Bathes Tale, 298.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Hereof it came, that the word [elder] was always
l6ia used both for the magistrate, and for those of age and
gravity; the same bearing one signification in almost all languages. Hist.
World, b. i. c 9. s. I.
SHAKSPERE. Casar: Forget not in your speed, Antonio,
lfi2 3$ To touch Calphurnia; for our elders say,
The barren touched in this holy chace, Shake off their sterrile curse. Jut.
C<zs., i. 2, 6.
ELDIN' (N. Lane.), 1 sb. fuel or fire. The word is
EILDIN' (N., Mid., and S. Lane.), ) appl. to any kind of fuel,
and to the brushwood of which fences are made. Icel. elding,
firing, fuel; Scot, eliding, from Icel. eldr, fire; A.S. aled, fire;
A.S. (Elan, to kindle.
1440. Eyldynge, or fowayle; Focale. Prompt. Parv.
WAUGH. He f etc hed a great handful of heather from the
inner room, and, cramming into the fire-place, put a light to it. Up blazed
the inflammable eilding, with a crackling sound. Lane. Sketches: Rochdale to
Blackstone Edge, p. 156.
IBID. These coals were burnt very sparingly, with dried
l868 - roots, brushwood, and other bits of dried "eildin?."
Ben an' th? Bantam, c. i., p. 14.
DR. BARBER. She'd just thraan down a girt leadd o' fire eldiri 1 ,
l8 7$ she'd fetcht off t' fell. For ness Folk, p. 15.
ELLY-MOUTH (N. Lane.), sb. a bound or goal in the game of football. Probably
a corruption of Mid. E. hell-mouth, a common expression due to the fact that
the entrance to hell was commonly represented by a widely opened mouth. See
the numerous illustrations in Nares' Glossary, s. v. Barlibreak. Herrick
wrote an epigram, with the title “Barlibreak, or Last in Hell." Hell was
the middle compartment of the three which were marked out in playing this
game.
ELSIN (S. Lane.), \ sb. a sort of shoemaker's awl. The Dutch ELSON (E.
Lane.). ) word for an awl (A.S. al, awel) is els, from
which elsin is formed by the addition of the diminutive suffix in.
Tauchnitz's Dutch Diet, has the entry: "Els, f. an awl, elsin"
1440. Elsyn; Sibula. Prompt. Parv.
1571. In the inventory of the goods of a merchant as
Newcastle, A.D. 1571, occur "vj doss 1 elsen heftet I2d. j clowte and i
a c elson blades."
Wills andlnv.: Surtees Soc. i. 361.
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ELT (E. Lane.) v. to stir oaten dough some time after kneading. Icel. elta,
(i) to chase; (2) to knead, to work. Mid. E. elten, to knead.
COLL. USE. Hoos eltin t' doff an canno' come.
1875$$
END-IRON (S. Lane.), ) sb. a moveable plate
END-ARNS (E. Lane, and Goosnargh dist), I to contract the fire-place. End may
be a corruption here, as the common word is andiron.
COLL. USE (E. Lane.) Put them endarns in an id'l nod brun so monny
l8 75$ coyls.
ENTY (N. Lane.), sb. the last furrow in a rigg. A.S. ende; Icel. endi, the
end, conclusion.
ER,flr<m. our. A.S. ure, lit. of us, gen. pi. of we.
WAUGH. We'n live't together, an' we'n had th' best ov er
days together. Owd Blanket, c. iii., p. 63.
ESHLE-TREE (N. and E. Lane.), sb. an axle-tree. A.S. eax, an axle-tree, with
the dimin. suffix el.
1440- Axyltre or exyltre. Axis. Prompt. Parv.
ESLINS (N. and E. Lane.), sb. a salmon-fly.
ESS (S. and S. E. Lane, and Goosnargh dist.), sb. ashes. A.S. asce, dsce;
Icel. aska; Mid. E. asche, esche, esse.
DAN MICHEL. Huet am ich bote esssse [i e. what am I but ashes.]
I34 ' Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 137.
[This, however, only illustrates the vowel; the consonant is quite different,
since the Kentish ss means sh; and the doubling of sh is indicated by the
four esses; hence esssse = esh-she, a disyllabic. Dr. Stratmann seems not to
have noticed this, and spells the word wrongly.]
COLL. USE. Come, lass, sweep th' ess up, an' let's bi lookin'
Ig 75$ tidy.
ESS-HOLE (S. and S. E. Lane.), sb. the hole under the fire which receives the
ashes. See Ess.
COLLIER. Deawn he coom o th' harstone, on his heeod i th
esshole. Works, p. 52.
B. BRIERLEV. Theau'rt farrantly yet, if theau'd nobbut keep eaut
l868 “o'th' esshole, an' smarten thisseP up.
Fratchingtons, p. u.
ETTLE (N. and E. Lane.), v. to intend, to purpose. Icel. atla, (i) to think,
mean, suppose; (2) to intend of oneself, purpose” Mid. E. ahtlien, atlien,
etlen. WEST Mm. DIAL. (Lane.) For>i an aunter in erde I attle to schawe.
Sir Gawayne and Grene Knt., 1. 27. WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) Me bos telle to
>at tolk >e tene of my wylle
I36a And alle myn attlyng [purpose] to Abraham vn-haspe
bylyne. ' Allit. Poems, B, 1. 687.
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WILLIAM (Surname unknown.) ]> e emperour entred in a wey euene to attele,
To haue bruttenet >at bor at >e abaie seen.
Will, and Werwolf, 205.
COLL. USK. East Lancashire Saying: He's ready to ettle but
Io “ 3< never to do.
ETTLE (N. and E. Lane.), adj. stingy. A.S. etol, greedy, occurring in the
compound ofer-etol. COLL. USE (E. Lane.) Hoo's varra ettle to-day, an' gi's
next to nowt.
EVVEN-DOWN, adv. (N. and E. Lane.), i.e. even-down; thorough, downright.
COLL. USE (E.Lanc.). I gav him a evven-down blow.
1875.
EVVEN-FORRIT (N. Lane.), 1 adv., i.e. even fore right or even- EVVEN-FURRUD
(E. Lane.),} forward; directly forward.
COLL. USE. He went ewen-forrud an' nowt could stop him.
EVVEN-ON, adv. (N. and E. Lane.), i.e. even-on; close to the
mark.
COLL. USE. (E. Lane.) 1875$$
EX,
EXT,
ESHT,
That wur ewen-on t' hoyle. v. pron. of Ax and Asked (q. v.) in Furness and E.
Lane.
J. P. MORRIS. 1867.
A chap i' U'ston . . wos ga'n ta ex neabody kna's how mitch a pund for it.
Invasion d 1 ITston, p. 4.
A slonkin sooart of a chap ext for a leet job o' some maks at t' pits.
Forness Folk, p. 2 1 .
EYSEL, sb. a kind of vinegar made from the juice of the wild crab. O. Fr.
aisil, vinegar (Roquefort); which is said to be from the Greek 6|a/Us, which
from 6|u S , sharp.
That lad her life onely by bread Kneden with eisell strong and egre.
Romaunt of the Rose, 1. 217.
And thou shalt greithe [make ready] “?>w/veselis and phiols. Exodits, xxv.
29.
Esylle. Acetum. Prompt. Parv.
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eysell, 'gainst my
strong infection.
Sonnet, c. xi.
DR. BARBER. 1870.
ANON. 1370.
WlCLIK. 1380.
1440.
SHAKSPERE. 1609.
REV. W. GASKELL. 1854.
I have not heard the word for some thirty years. . . I have heard Lancashire
people formerly make use of the expression "as sour aseysel."
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 12.
ERRATA.
P. 33. BEET. Strike out the illustration from Tusser's ffusbandrie, in which
the word beath means to heat unseasoned wood by the fire for the purpose of
straightening it, (see also beethy, in Halliwell's Dictionary), and is not
connected with the Lancashire word beet.
P. 35. BELIVE. Strike out Chaucer's name against the passage from Cokes Tale
of Gamelyn.
In a few of the citations from Morte Arthure (the Alliterative Poem of 1360),
the name of Sir T. Mallory has been inadvertently and erroneously placed in
the margin.
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I2 3
WILLIAM (Surname unknown.) p e emperour entred in a wey euene to attdc, 13 To
haue bruttenet >at bor at >e abaie se]>>en.
Will, and Werwolf, 205.
COLL. USE. 1875$$
East Lancashire Saying: He's ready to ettle but never to do.
ETTLE (N. and E. Lane.), adj. stingy. A.S. etol, greedy, occurring in the
compound ofer-etol. COLL, USE (E. Lane.) Hoo's varra ettle to-day, an' gi's
next to nowt.
EVVEN-DOWN, adv. (N.andE. Lane), i.e. even-down; thorough, downright. COLL.
USE (E.Lanc.). J ga v him a ewen-down blow.
EVVEN-FORRIT (N. Lane.), ] adv., i.e. even fore-right or even- EVVEN-FLTRRUD
(E. Lane.),} forward; directly forward.
COLL. USE. He went ewen-forrud an' nowt could stop him.
EVVEN-ON, adv. (N. and E. Lane.), i.e. even-on; close to the mark.
COLL. USE. (E. Lane.) 1875.
That wur ewen-on t' hoyle.
EX, )
EXT, \ v. pron. of Ax and Asked (q. v.) in Furness and E. Lane.
ESHT, J
J. P. MORRIS. A chap i' U'ston . . wos ga'n t& ex neabody
l867 ' kna's how mitch a pund for it.
Invasion <?' IFston, p. 4.
DR - I B 3 A “ BER - A slonkin sooart of a chap ext for a leet job o'
some maks at t' pits. Forness Folk, p. 21.
EYSEL, sb. a kind of vinegar made from the juice of the wild crab. O. Fr.
aisil, vinegar (Roquefort); which is said to be from the Greek 6oAi?, which
from 6fvs, sharp.
That lad her life onely by bread Kneden with eisett strong and egre.
Romauntofthc Rose, 1. 217.
And thou shalt greithe [make ready] <yj”/ veselib and phiols. Exodus, xxv.
29.
Esylle. Acetum. Prompt. Parv.
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions ofeysell, 'gainst my
strong infection.
Sonnet, c. xi.
I have not heard the word for some thirty years. . . I have heard Lancashire
people formerly make use of the expression "as sour as eysel"
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 12.
ANON. 1370.
WlCLIF. 1380.
1440.
SHAKSPERE. 1609.
REV. W. GASKELL. 1854.
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F.
FADDER (Mid. and N. Lane.), sb. father. A.S. feeder; Du. vader; Dan. and
Swed. fader. Professor Skeat (Etymological Dictionary) says “the spelling
fader is almost universal in Middle English; father occurs in the Bible of
1551. The change from M.E. fader, moder, to father, mother, is remarkable,
and perhaps due to the influence of th in brother (A.S. bro&or), or to
Icel. fa&r." Father occurs in Tyndale's New Testament of 1526.
A. C. GIBSON. He was niver seen ageean wi ne&body. He partit wi'
(High Furness Dialect.) Betty at ^fodder duer i' Tilberthet, an' that was t'
last on him! Folk-Speech of Cumberland, p. 94.
WAUGH. Ye see, my fodder an' mudder lies buried there an'
(Furness Dialect) my g^-fodder, an' my great gran-/<M&fcr, an' I know
not hoo mony mair o' my awn kin.
Jannock, c. vi., p. 55.
FADDLE, sb. nonsense, evasive trifling. (Bamford's Glossary.) Usually used
with the addition of the VTQI& fiddle.
COLL. USE. Come, no fiddle faddle; out with it at once, mon.
1880.
FADGE, sb. a burden, part of a horse's load. (Bamford's Glossary.)
FADGE, v. to toil.
DR. BARBER. I set off by t' Gillbanks, an' fudged away up Gams- Fo
welL Forness Folk, p. 3.
FAFFMENT (N. Lane.), sb. nonsense.
FAIN, adj. and v. glad, delighted, eager, fond, willing, compelled or
obliged. A.S. fagen, glad. The word in the forms fayn, fayne, and feyn, is to
be found in the Alliterative Poems, West Midland (Lancashire) dialect, 1360;'
Piers Plowman, Chaucer, and is indeed common in Mid. Eng. See also
Shakspere's 2 Hen. VI., act ii., sc. i.; Bacon's Essay "Of Empire;"
Burns' Tarn o' Shanter; Sir W. Scott's Black Dwarf, chap, ii.; Morris's
Jason, p. 91; Forster's Life of Dickens, vol. i., p. 182.
MlSS R” AHEE “Aw'm rare an' fain at yo could cheat yon owd stingy
beggar out of ought. Carter's Struggles, p. 28.
WAUGH. "Wed folk, be hanged!" answered Ben. "Aw'm
fain 'at we are wed, lass; an' that's moor nor some can say." Owd
Blanket, c. i., p. 25.
FAIR, adv. really, actually, completely.
COLL. USE. Aw \jMxfair shuddering wi' cowd.
1880.
He wur fair gloppent (completely astonished). He wurJSwr done up.
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FAIRIN', sb. a gift from the fair.
FAIRISH-ON, adj. elderly j also partially intoxicated.
FAND (W. Lane.), v. found. Cursor Mundi, A.D. 1320, Cotton and Gottingen
MSS., 1. 10,993 \ Alliterative. Poems, A.D. 1360, A. 870; and in other
Northumbrian and West Midland texts.
J. P. MORRIS. Ivery roum an' cellar wos rumiged ower an' ower, but
(Furness^Dialect.) they/0</ nowte. Invasion o' ITston, p. 5.
WAUGH. He fand that his breeches were getten sadly aat o'
(Furness Dialect.) gear> Jannock, c. vii., p. 61.
FARMOST, adj. farthest. Also pronounced furmost. Dryden has “Within
\hzfarmost entrance of the grot." (Sigismonda, 1. 264.)
COLL. USE. He lives at th' 'furmost house i'th' lone.
1880.
FARRANT, adj. becoming, decent, nice, applied to action or dress. See Sir
Gawayne and the Green Knight (A.D. 1320), 1. 1 01, for
"farandfe&t" = goodly feast; E. E. Alliterative Poems, West
Mid. (Lane.) dialect, A.D. 1360, Bk. A., 1. 864, for “talle farande" =
pleasing tale.
FARRANTLY, adv. decently. See E. E. Alliterative Poems, Bk. C., 1. 435, f r
farandely pleasantly.
FARRANTLY, adj. reputable, decent.
COLLIER. Yo'ar a ninyhommer t' heed 'ur, for there's none sich
I 7S. farrantly talk abeawt 'ur. Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 72.
JOHN SCHOLKS. Hoo's as hard a wortchin', howsom, farrently, day- l8 57$ sunt
o body us is to bi fund e Smobridge.
Jaunt to see th? Queen, p. 14.
WAUGH. Aw'd tak him just while he're inclined,
18591 An' a. farrantly bargain he'd be.
Lane. Songs: The Dule's f this Bonnet.
B. BRIERLEY. Theau'rt farrantly yet, if theau'd nobbut keep eaut o'
18681 th' esshole, an' smarten thisel up.
Fratchingtons, p. II.
FASH, v. to trouble, annoy, vex. O.F. fascher, "to anger, displease,
offend." (Cotgreave.) See Burns' Epistle to James Smith.
COLL. USE. Tha' doesn't need to fash thisell abeawt it. It '11
come reet i'th' end.
FASH, sb. the leaves of a turnip or carrot. (Bamford's Glossary.) FASH
(Ormskirk), v. to pare, to cut off
FAST-GATED, adj. reckless, thoughtless. Lit.: quick-paced.
WAUGH. He didn't like th' notion of his hard-getten brass bein'
l8 75$ squander'! bi a fast-gated spendthrift.
Old Cronies, c, iv., p. 40. FATTERT, v. embarrassed.
wi ' it- ~ Glossary.
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adj ' Wis6 ' cunnin S> s} y>
COLLIER. Odd! but that wur o meetyfawse owd felly.
1750. Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 57.
;VAUGH. He're asfause as a boggart, as th' neighbours weel knew r
1876. Though when he'd a mind he could look like a foo.
Poems and Songs: The Grindlestone.
IBID. Mi faither wur about asfause a chap as ever I let on.
l8 7<5. Chimney Corner, c. vii.
FAVVOUR (favour), v. to resemble, to have the same outward appearance or
form. This verb is formed from the noun favour in its old sense.
WAUGH. Jone. Yo reckelect'n a 'torney co'in' here once't. What
l8 S5. dun yo think o' him?
Sam. He favvurs a foo, Jone; or aw'm a foo mysel'.
JOHN SCHOLES. Whot! thoose show dolls? sed Turn. Thi favvurn
us iv thid bin tryin' to jump thru th' hoop un ud stuck'n fast i' th' middle
on't. Jaunt to see ttt Queen, p. 23. WAUGH. "Who are they?" said the
landlord; "conto make
18671 'emeawt?" “Nawe," answered the carter; "but they
fawour'n Todmorden chaps." Dulesgate,^. 19.
FAWN-FRECKLED, adj. freckled, having small spots on the face. A Lancashire
folk-rhyme runs thus
Fawn-freckles han made a vow, They'll noan come on a face that's feaw.
This is because freckles are usually found on a fair skin.
FAYBERRY, sb. -= fairy's berry; a gooseberry.
WAUGH. “Well," said Randal, “heaw arto for gooseberries?"
"Eh," said Ben, "aw ha'not a fayberry-tetz i' th'
garden." Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 26.
IBID. There's a hare under th' fay berry tree, at th' bottom
l875> o' yo'r garden. Yo' mun be sharp.
Old Cronies, c. vii., p. 89.
FEAR, v. to frighten, to terrify. Frequent in Shakspere. See Venus and Adonis,
1. 1,094; Ant. and Cleo., ii., sc. 6; Tarn. Shrew, i., 2, 1. 211. See FEART.
FEAR?) r } v ' afraid ' fri S ntened > terrified. See FEAR, AFEARD.
JOHN SCHOLES. Feeurt, sez tah! Aw've sin naut e Manchistur ut con
1857. feeur me. Jaunt to see th' Queen, p. 27.
Miss LAHEE. Aw'm feert on it deein', cose it's bin ailin' this day or
l86 5$ two, an' ud eyt nought. Carter's Struggles, p. 33.
WAUGH. Yo'n nought to be feeor't on. He's fuddle't to-neet
but a quieter chap never broke brade.
Ben an" 1 th! Bantam, c. vi., p. 114.
FEATHER-YED, sb. a light and brainless person. Tennyson's Queen Mary, v. i.,
"A fool and featherhead."
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FEORIN'
WAUGH.
JOHN HIGSON.
1852.
JOHN SCHOLES. 1857$
WAUGH.
1859.
FEAW, adj. ugly, unhandsome.
WAUGH. There never wur zfeaw face i' this world but there wur
l8ss- z.feaw fancy to match it, somewheer.
Lane. Sketches: Bury to Rochdale.
FEEAG (Furness), sb. a flatterer. AS.fagnian, to flatter.
evil spirits, fearful things.
In the lonely detached dwellings which are scattered among the hills and
cloughs of the “Edge” [Blackstone Edge] they cling to the speech, and ways,
and superstitions of their rude forefathers. A tribe of hardy, industrious,
old-fashioned, simple-hearted folk, whose principal fear is poverty and
boggarts. They still gather round the fire, in corners where factories have
not reached them, on dark nights in winter, to feed their imagination with
scraps of old legend, and tales of boggarts, fairies, and feeorirf that haunt
their native hills and dales. Lane. Sketches: Rochdale to Blackstone Edge, p.
124.
As for fact'ry lads, they caren nowt noather for boggarts nxccfeorin”. Gorton
Historical Recorder, p. 17.
Wheer aw wur browt up at, it fair swarmt wi feeorin”. Jaunt to see th? Queen,
p. 60.
Neaw, mother, dunnot fret yo;
Aw am not like mysel'; But, 'tis not lung o' tie? feeoriif
That han to do wi' th' deil.
Lane. Songs: What ails thee, my son Robin?
FEERSUNS-EEN, sb. Shrovetide. . Such is Collier's spelling. The more recent
form is Fasten-een. See Burns' Epistle to Lapraik: On Fasten-een we had a
rockin, To ca' the crack, and weave our stockin.
COLLIER. For I should be lose ot Feersuns-een, on it matter't
I7S “naw mitch. Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 68.
FEGGUR, adj. fairer. (Bamford's Glossary.) A.S. fegerjegr, fair. FELD, past
tense of v. to feel.
FELLY, sb. a fellow, a man, a sweetheart.
Little Billy put his arm round his mother's neck, and said, “Aw's be a felly,
soon, shan't aw, mam?" "Ay, in a bit, my love," replied Betty,
with a long-drawn sigh; "in a bit, iv God spares thi life." “Little
lads o' groon into fellys, don't they mam?" “Ay, if they liven, my
love," answered Betty, in a quiet tone.
Sneck-Bant, c. iii., p. 53.
Sithee, that first is a. felly; t'other are o' women.
Mam, eawr Mary's getten a felly neaw: aw met 'em i'th lone to-neet.
FELLON (N. Lane.), sb. a sore, a disease in cows.
FELLON-WOOD (N. Lane.), sb. the plant Bitter-sweet (Solanum Dulcamara).
WAUGH. 1868.
COLL. USE.
IBID.
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FEND, v. to provide for, to seek, to strive. A.S. fandian, fandigan, to try, tempt,
prove, seek, search out. Fend is used by Burns. See Poor Mailie.
COLLIER. Nip [a dog] I leet fend for hur seln. Works: Tim
1750. Bobbin, p. 49,
GASKELL. Another common expression is "fendin^ and provin'."
1854$ The former word is not, as might be supposed, a cor- ruption of
defending, but is from the Anglo-Saxon fandian, to try, to seek, to search
out. And when a man is “fendirf for a livin' for hissel','' or "fendin 1
for his family," he is seeking a means of subsistence for himself or
them. Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 17.
WAUGH. God bless him \h&\. fends for his livin',
l859 ' An' houds up his yed through it o'!
Lane. Songs: God bless these poor folk!
WAUGH. The Board gave orders for the man and his wife and
1 7 ' three of the children to be admitted to the workhouse,
leaving the other two lads to "fend for theirsels," and find new
nests wherever they could.
Factory Folk during Cotton Famine, p. 51.
FENDY (N. Lane.), ) ,. , . .
FENSOME (ditto), I adj ' adrolt; also neat ' becomm g- DR. BARBER. She's a
gay fendy lile body, an' a terble favourite
amang o' maks o' foke. Forness Folk, p. 32.
FERRUPS, int. an exclamation, as "Wot th' ferrups arto doin'?" Miss
LAHEE. Whoy, what tt&ferrups don yo myen, felley?
Betty j Yeps Tale, p. 20.
FEST (N. Lane.), v. (i) to put out to board; (2) to put out cattle to grass
at a rate per head; (3) to let off any work.
FET, v. fetched. See Fox. FETTLE, sb. condition.
Miss LAHEE. Yo'r long traunce '11 ha' made yo' i' rare fettle for yo'r
breykfast. Betty o 1 Yeps Tale, p. 6.
WAUGH. “Bravo, Jem," said Giles. "By th' mass, thou'rt i”
1875$ grandy?/^. Thou mends as thou gets owder."
Old Cronies, c. vii., p. 86.
FETTLE, v. to mend, improve, set right, dress. Shakspere uses the word in Rom.
and f., act iii., sc. 5, line 154. COLLIER. i think t' be an ostler, for I
con fettle tits.
Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 71.
WAUGH. One neet aw crope whoam when my weighvin' were o'er,
To brush mo, an' wesh mo, an' fettle my yure.
Lane. Songs: JamiJs Frolic.
B - BR o fi E o RLEY - PeggV” Aw'll fot thi cooat. Should aw co at little
Flanker's to get \\. fettled? Or should aw try to do it misel?
Tim. Theau con just ha' thi own road. Iff thinks theau con fettle it, theau
may try. Fratchingtons, p . 41. DR. BARBER. T> bonny lile lan'lady com in
a minute, wi' her yar
[hair] c? fettled wp. Forness Folk, p. 32.
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FEWTRILS, sb. little things. In Burns' Address to a Louse this is given
"fatt'rels," and in the glossary is described as "ribbon-ends
":
Now haud ye there, ye're out o' sight,
Below fat fatt'rels, snug an' tight.
JOHN SCHOLES. Peg had hur hoppet ov hur arm wi her odd fewtrils
l8 57$ in't. Jaunt to see tti Queen, p. 28.
FEY, v. to remove the earth over stone or slate. FIR-BOB, sb. a fir-cone.
JOHN SCHOLES. Th' monkey wur makkin o foyar-potter ov it neebur's
l8 57$ paw. Jaunt to see th? Queen, p. 56.
WAUGH. We went towards this place with the poker, . . Out
186 7$ came John from the kitchen. "Here, John, owd brid," said one
of the carters, "weigh this fire-potter for us, wilto?" Dulesgate,
p. 25.
WAUGH. Iv aw wur her mother, see yo, aw'd tak that pouse at
1867. top o' th' yed wi' th' fire-pote iv ever he darken't my
dur-hole upo' sich an arran' as that.
Tatttin” Matty, c. ii., p. 19.
FIRTLE (N. Lane.), v. to intermeddle in small matters; also, to fidget.
FITTED, v. suited, served.
COLL. USE. “Thae'rt a lung time a getten _/#/."
l88o> "Aye, this mon's so slow: aw nobbut want a bit o'
calico."
FLAIGHT, sb. a light turf.
FLAKE, \ sb. a shelf, or a number of cords stretched between FLEAK, L two
pieces of wood upon which to hang oatcake. FLEIGH, J See BRADE-FLAKE,
BRADE-FLEIGH.
JOHN HIGSON. [About the middle of last century] the domestic
18521 arrangements included boilers, flour and meal coffers,
apple arks, and oat-cake fieak, oaten cake and bread forming a considerable
portion of their ordinary diet.
Gorton Historical Recorder, p. 12.
B. BRIERLEY. Pointing to a flake cnfleigh well thatched with crisp- l868
“looking and nicely browned oat-cakes, which curled over
the strings that held them like a bishop's hat-brim inverted. Irkdale, p. 45.
FLANG, v. flung.
WAUGH. Grippin' th' poker tight in his reet hond, he shot th'
1868 - bowt wi' his left, atf flang th' dur wide oppen.
Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 38.
FLANNIN, sb. flannel. The more correct form. W. gwlanen, flannel.
BURNS. I wad na been surprised to spy
I786> You on an auld wife's flainen toy. To a Louse.
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FLASH-FIT, sb. a pit nearly grown up with reeds and grass.
FLASKER, v. to struggle, to flounder.
COLLIER. Deawn coom I i'th weter, on flaskert int' eh geete
I 75$ howd on a sawgh. [= Down I came into the water,
and floundered till I got hold of a willow].
Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 49.
B.?BRIF.RLEY. A lot o' cowts (colts) ut han kicked an' flaskert thersels
eaut o' wynt (wind). Irkdale, p. 23.
FLASKET, sb. a shallow basket. Welsh fflasged, a shallow basket.
FLAY, \v. to frighten. See FLAY. Fley is &. flegan (not in
FLEY, j the dictionaries), another form of Jly'g&tt, to put to
flight, in Leo's Glossar (not in Bosworth). It is the causal of
A.S. fleari) to flee, fly. See FLEZEN in Strutmann, and Alltt.
Poems, ed. Morris, B. 960 [W. W. S.j .
COLLIER. True, Tummus, no marvil ot o wur so flay 1 d; it wur
J 75$ so fearfoo dark! Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 51.
IBID. These wur'n th' boggarts otflayd'n thee!
Works: Tim Bobbin, Intro, p. xxxvii. DR. BARBER. i vm&flayte o' missin'
t' train, so meadd t' best o' me
way to San' side. Forness Folk, p. 16.
WAUGH. What, thae'rt noan fleyed ov a cat, arto?" asked the
landlord. “Aw'mfleyed o' that cat," replied Ben.
Ben an? th? Bantam, c. ii., p. 46.
WAUGH. Craddy," said Giles, "draw nar to th' table. Thou
looks as if thou were beawn to fire a gun. Thou's no 'casion to
\&JUyed" Old Cronies, c. iii., p. 33.
FLAY-CROW (N. Lane.), sb. a scarecrow, a ridiculous object. Pronounced:
Flay-craa.
FLAYSOME, \ ,. , , , FLEYSOME, } # fearfuL
WAUGH. "What, th' boggart?" "Ay; an' th' warst boggart
there is upo' this country-side for flay some deed, an' powlerin' about i'
th' neet time!"
Old Cronies, c. ii., p. 24. FLEAZY, adj. dusty, linty, fibrous.
FLECK, sb. a flea.
COLL. USE. Aw sent him off wi' a fleck in his ear-hole aw con tell
yo: he'll noan come a courtin' here again.
FLEED, v. flayed, skinned.
FLEET (N. Lane.), v. to skim. See FLET.
FLEETINS, sb. pi. the curd of milk from which cream is made. A.S.yfc/, cream.
GASKELL. We have dsofleetins, from the A.S. fliete (cream, that
which floats) signifying the curds from which cheese is made. Lect. Lane.
Dialect, p. 19.
FLEET-TIME (Ormskirk), sb. break of day, twilight.
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FLEIGH. See FLAKE.
FLET, p.p. skimmed. See FLEET and FLEETINS.
FLET-MILK, sb. skimmed milk.
JOHN SCHOLES. The'ad bettur may o roice puddin', fur win o deyle o
l8 S7$ flet-milk laft. Jaunt to see th' Queen, p. 19.
FLINDERS, sb. pi. small pieces, fragments. See Burns' On a Scotch Bard:
'Twill mak her poor, auld heart, I fear, In. flinders flee.
FLIPE (N. Lane.), sb. the brim of a hat.
DR. BARBER. He hed a terble grand white hat on top of his heead,
l8 7$ w i' girt breadd^/^ter tul it like a collegian ameastt.
Forness Folk, p. 57.
FLIT, v. to move from a house, with the household goods. Mid. Eng. flitten;
Dan, flytte. See “flitting" in Tennyson's “Walking to the Mail."
PSALMS OF DAVID. Thou tellest my flirtings. Ps. Ivi. 8, Pr. Bk. Ver.
1625. Edmund Platt pledges himself "toflitt remove and
depart out of and from all that capitall messuage or dwelling-house called
the Platt."
Booker's Birch, p. 23.
Miss LAHEE. He towd me to tell you ut th' notice stons good, un
yo mwaflit. Neddy Fitton's Visit, p. 17.
FLITTIN', sb. the removal from a house.
FLIZZIN',}^ as P linter ' FLO OS (Furness), sb. a sluice.
FLOSS r I s ^ m “oose threads, fibres; a loose texture.
COLLIER. Sitch &floose o hay follot me ot it driv me shiar deawn.
Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 68.
FLOP, v. to throw or put down anything suddenly, in such a manner as to make
a noise.
COLL. USE. Whoile they wur o' sittin' round th' foire as quiet as
1880. mice, a greyt lump o' soot flopped deawn th' chimney.
FLOP, sb. a noise, a hollow sound.
FLOSH (Furness), sb. water, or a watery place. Cf. flush.
FLOTE, v. (past tense of Flyte) to scold or upbraid sharply.
COLLIER. Mezzil fease [Mezzil-face] startit to his feQt,flote none,
I7S ' boh gran like a foomurt-dog. Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 52.
WAUGH. An' er Betty flote me, as if aw'd bin th' instigation o'
th' whole consarn. Besom Ben, c. iv., p. 45.
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FLUET (Furness), sb. a blow with the back of the hand.
FLUNTER, ) sb. order; correct arrangement, as in machinery. FLUNTERS, j See
EAWT-O'-FLUNTERS.
FLUSK, sb. a whirring sound.
COLLIER. I heard th' eawl come into th' hoyle, on presently
I 75$ summot come with a greytjlusfc thro' th' riddle.
Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 45.
FLUTTERMENT, sb. fluttering excitement.
WAUGH. Dan, owd lad, let's have a doance! These toes o'
l86 9$ mine are ram-jam full o' flutterment! Strike up 'The
Flowers of Edinburgh;' aw'll fuut it! Just thee hearken my feet, neaw.
Yeth-Bobs, c. i., p. 28.
FLUZZ (N. Lane.), v. to blunt.
FLUZZED (N. Lane.), adj. blunt and jagged, or turned up at the edges;
bruised.
FLYRE, v. to smile improperly, impertinently, or scornfully. Probably pron.
of the old wordy&w.
FLYTE, v. to scold. A.S. Flitan, flite, he flit; ptfldt, wefliton; pp.
fliten, gefliten. To strive, contend, dispute, quarrel, rebel. Flit, geflit,
strife, wrangling.
BURNS. And gin she take the thing amiss,
J 79o- E'en let h&flyU her fill, Jo.
"O steer her up." GASKELL. When a Lancashire man scolds, heflytes;
fromjlytan,
to quarrel. Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 17.
WAUGH. Yor noan beawn toflyte mo, owd crayter, are yo?
Lane. Sketches: Bury to Rochdale, p. 25.
Dunnot yo see Mally dar but say so, freetened Bob 5 ' met [might]_^V<? her
for stoppin' Jinny off her feed.
Betty o 1 Yefs Tale, p. 27.
FOG, sb. the later growth of grass; the aftermath. FOISTY, adj. having a
musty or bad smell or taste.
COLLIER. We'n had enough o ftn&foisty matter.
Works: Tim Bobbin, Intro., p. xxxvi. FOLD, )
FOWD, or \ sb. a cluster of houses. FOWT, j
WAUGH. Wardle Fold, near Wardle Hall, was fifty years since
only a small sequestered cluster of rough stone houses. Lane. Sketches, p.
124.
WAUGH. Thou 'rt a town's talk, mon! Th' childer putten their
tungs out at tho, as thou gwos through th' ' fowd.
Chimney Corner, N. S., chap. ix. FOO-GAUD, sb. a plaything.
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FOO'-HARD, adj. foolhardy.
WAUGH. He ails nought 'at aw know on, nobbut he talks to
l868 - mich off at th' side, neaw an' then; an' he?$foo-hard.
Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 25.
{sb. a martin, polecat, or fitchew. Mid. Eng. folmart. Prof. Skeat (Etym.
Dictionary) says, "A hybrid compound; Mid. E.>/= A.S.>/, foul,
stinking and old French marte, martre, a marten. Thus it means 'foul
marten.'“
COLLIER. He gran like a foomut-&og.
Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 52.
WAUGH. The moors north of Heywood afford great sport in the
l8ss< grouse season. Some of the local gentry keep harriers;
and now and then a foomart-hunt takes place, with
the long-eared dogs. Lane. Sketches: Heywood and its
Neighbotirhood, p. 182.
WAUGH. They turn't up at th' edge-o'-dark, as hungry as two
l86 5$ foomart-dogs. Besom Ben, c. iv., p. 45.
FOOR (N. Lane.), sb. a furrow. FOOR-BREST (N. Lane.), adv. right in front.
FOO-SCUTTER, sb. silly boasting talk. Foo = fool. F. fou.
WAUGH. "An' aw've a uncle 'at owns two mills i' Darbyshire
1866. m y unc i e j oe> Thoose two mills are mine when he dees.
Crack that nut." “Iv thy uncle Joe owns ony mills i'
Darbyshire," said Twitch, "they're coffee mills. Thae
desarves jollopin' for talkin' sich-likefoo-scutter as that."
Ben an” th? Bantam, c. v. , p. 96.
FOO-SIDE, sb. foolish side, the part most open to be gulled or deceived. Foo
= fool. F. fou.
WAUGH. There is'nt a wick soul i' th' world at hasn't &foo-side.
1876.
FOR-ALL, con. although, notwithstanding.
COLL. USE. Well, yo know, he would goo for-all it wur so rough
l88 - and dark j an' th' eend on't wur he slipt into th' cut,
just at th' bridge corner an' wur drownt.
FORCE (N. Lane.), sb. a cascade or waterfall. A fall of water in a narrow
gorge. Icel. fors; Dan. fos.
FORE-ELDERS, sb. pi. forefathers.
WAUGH. The entire population [about Heywood], though engaged
in manufacture, evinces a hearty love of the fields and field sports, and a
strong tincture of the rough simplicity, and idiomatic quaintness, of their
forefathers, or foreelders, as they often call them. Lane. Sketches, p. 183.
J. P. MORRIS. Some on 'em hes left barns behint 'em 'at m'appen
e i867 . wodn't like ta see \^&\ far-elders' 1 neeams mix't up wi'
sic a bit o' Forness Linch-ta. Invasion o” LTston, p. J.
WAUGH. He's a farmer, an' his fadder afore him was a farmer,
(Furness^Ihalect.) an all ^[ s f ore . f ^ ers were farmers. Jannock, c. v. ,
p. 36.
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FORE-END, sb. early spring; the beginning of a thing or time j used as the
opposite of far-end.
WAUGH. One could either manage we't at th' far-end o' their
l8 55$ days. But what, we hannot so lung to do on neaw,
Lane. Sketches, p. 26.
FORMER, v. to order or bespeak. Probably former used as a verb. Cf. to
further a thing.
JOHN SCHOLES. As fur mi shoon, awd gettin' o spon-new payre to put
l857> on, ut ud \>va. formert o thri wik gon.
Jaunt to see th? Queen, p. 13.
B. BRIERLEY. "Aw'm come z.-formerin a weddin'."
l8s9 “"Farmering a wedding! Oh, I see," replied the
clerk; "you mean putting up the banns."
Lane. Tales and Sketches, p. 219.
FORRUD, adv. forward.
BURNS. Yes! there is ane; a Scottish callan
There's ane; come>m/, honest Allan!
On Pastoral Poetry.
WAUGH. Get forrud wi' thy deem'.
Lane. Songs: Owd Pinder.
FOR-SET (Furness), v. to waylay.
FOR-SURE, adv. certainly, undoubtedly.
COLL. USE. < < Wilta come?” ' Aw will, far-sure."
1880.
FOR-THINK, v. to regret, to reconsider.
WAUGH. When it geet th' edge-o'-dark, an' nought but th'
wild cloof abeawt us, it made me rayther for-think ever settin' eawt.
Yeth-Bobs, c. ii., p. 32.
FOR-TO, adv. in order to.
BIBLE, AUTHOR. VER. And it came to pass, that there went out some of the
people on the seventh day/?/- to gather, and they found none. Ex. xvii. 27.
FOR-WHY, adv. wherefore. A.S. for-hwi.
CoL ^- 8 ysE. "For-why? Because he wur a foo', an knew no
FOT or) v. fetched. A.S. fetian, perfect tense; fette, to fetch, to FET, j
bring to.
And thereupon the wyn was fet anoon j We dronken, and to reste went echoon.
Cant. Tales: Prologue, 1. 19. SPENSER. He was unhable them tofett.
F. Queene, Bk. ii., canto 9, v. 58.
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SHAKSPERE. On, on, you noblest English,
1599$ Whose blood vs>fet from fathers of war-proof!
King Hen. V., iii., i, ]. 18.
BAMFORD. Whilst Bet-at-Joe's nipt up her toes,
l8 43$ And fot owd John wi th' fiddle.
Poems: Stakehill Ball, p. 144.
GASKELL. The Lancashire dialect has been peculiarly retentive
l8 5 2 - of the Anglo-Saxon preterite, generally preferring the
strong conjugation to the weak. A Lancashire man does not say he
"fetched," but he "fet" or ">/." Lect. Lane.
Dialect, p. 24.
WAUGH. Send yo'r Alick to him, an' tell him to crack o' fottin
18664 law iv he doesn't turn up some brass.
Ben an' tK Bantam, c. iv., p. 77.
FOUGHTEN, part, of v. to fight. Shakspere, Henry V., act iv., sc. 6 j W.
Morris, Jason, p. 146.
B. BRIERLBY. I'd a quiet victory, but like mony a battle of a bigger
18691 sort, it wur unfairly fowten, an' had to be bowt (bought)
at last. Ab-o-tK- Yate in London, p. 76.
COLL. USE. “Hasto foughten .?"
1880. "Nawe."
"Then get foughten; an' come whoam wi' thee."
FRAM (N. Lane.), adj. brittle, tender.
FRAMPIT (Ormskirk), \sb. an iron ring which slides on the boose- FRAMPUT
(S.E. Lane.), J stake to fasten cows in their stall.
FRAP (N. Lane.), sb. a blow, ^.f rapper.
FRAP, sb. a fit of temper or passion.
COLLIER. Come, come, dunnaw fly up in a frap.
Works: Tim Bobbin, Intro., p. xxxvii.
WAUGH. Dunnot tee fly up i' sich a frap, mon, what, aw
l86 7$ nobbut want a bit ov a wort (word) wi him.
Owd Blanket, c. i., p. 10.
FRATCH, adj. and v. quarrelsome j to quarrel, to dispute.
COLLIER. Theydn some o'th' warst fratchingst cumpany ot e'er
^S - e saigh. Works: Tim Bobbin, p. 52.
A. C. GIBSON. As I cud hear, they wor fratchin cruelly o' t' way as
(High Fu |ss Dialect.) t ' ey com . Folk-speech of Cumberland, p. 92.
WAUGH. "Come, come, lads; let's ha' no fratchirf 7 Jone
18754 thou'rt gettin' terribly rivven o' at once."
Old Cronies, c. vii., p. 90.
FRAWZIN' (Ormskirk), sb, a gossiping person.
FREETNIN' (N. Lane.), sb. a ghost, spirit, or anything uncanny.
J. P. MORRIS. “Ghosts! Eigh, we've hed plenty on 'em i' Forness,
(Furness Dialect.) but we > d anu dder neeam for 'em; we ol'as co'd 'em
dobbies er freetnins." Lebby Beck Dobby, p. 3.
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FREMD, sb. a stranger or guest.
FREMD, adj. strange, not related. Thus, a person living with a family to whom
he is not related is termed” a/rm^body." If it were asked, "Is he
akin to you?" the answer would be, “Nawe, he's fremd," i.e. “he's
one of us, but not a relation." A.S. f rented, foreign; Moeso-Goth,
framatheis; G. fremde, strange. Burns uses f remit for strange. A
"fremit man" is a stranger.
CHAUCER. Now alle is wel, for al the world is blynde
I s8o. i n this matere, bothe /rented and tame.
Troylus and Crysede, Bk. iii., 1. 479.
IBID. A faucon peregryn than seemed she
Qifremde londe. Squieres Tale, pt. ii., 1. 82.
SPENSER. So now his frend is chaunged for &frenne.
1579$ Shepheards Calender, April, stanza 7.
GASKELL. Fremed or fremd in Anglo-Saxon meant foreign,
l8 5 2 - strange; or, as a substantive, a stranger or guest. We
meet with it in Chaucer as fremdc. In Spenser we have it altered into frenne.
Sir Walter Scott uses the expression, "like a cow in a fremd loan
ing." Precisely the same meaning is given to the word by Lancashire
people. When an individual has been adopted into a family, they say “he is a
fremd'''
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 20.
FRIST, sb. trust.
FRITH (N. Lane.), sb. a wood; also unused pasture land. Vf.ffrith.
FROG-RUD, sb. the spawn of the frog, which may often be seen floating on
stagnant pools or ditches.
WAUGH. [Lads] soiling their “good clooas," as country mothers
l8s5 ' used to call them, by tumbling among the dry soil of the
hedge-side, and then rolling slap into the wet ditch at
the bottom, among cuckoo-spit, and l frog-rud, and all
sorts of green pool-slush. Lane. Sketches,^. 189.
FROSK (N. Lane.), sb. a frog. A.S. frox \ Icel. froskr. See FROG in Skeat's
Etym. Diet.
FRUM, adj. brittle.
Frum means fragile, or short, in the sense of short-cake, a common word in
South Lancashire. A story is told of a country girl giving some pears to the
late Lady Houghton, then of Astley Hall, Chorley, and saying, "The're
varra gud, an' if yoal nobbut put em under the bowstert abaat a faurtnit
they'll be as frum as muck" (soil). Manchester Guardian Local Notes and
Queries, No. 1,107.
FRUMMETY or) sb. new wheat boiled in milk; from la FURMETY, ) turn. See
FRUMENTY in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
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FRUMP, sb. a mock or jeer.
FRUPP (N. Lane.), adj. loose, spongy, easily broken.
FUB (Ormskirk), sb. long withered grass on old pastures or meadows.
FUD (N. Lane.), sb. the hair of a hare or rabbit.
FUDGE (Ormskirk), sb. a fat person.
FULL-MICKLE (N. Lane.), adj. too much; literally, full much.
FUN, v. pt. t. of verb find; for fund, i.e. found.
?y? r 1 adj. and adv. further; also distant. rAK, J
WAUGH. 1865.
IBID.
1866.
COLL. USE. 1880.
Aw mun clear these brokken pots eawt, afore we gwon onyfur! Besom Ben, c.
ix., p. 102.
Let's see; my aunt Matty lies i' yon fur nook.
Sexton's Story, p. 24.
Stond/w; i.e. move further back.
FUR-END, sb. the furthest end; the last of any thing.
COLL. USE. Well, we'n getten to th' fur-end now; an' the Lord
l88 “only knows what we mun do for eawr next meal.
FUSSOCK (S.E. Lane.),
FUZ, FUZZOCK,
sb. an idle fat woman.
COLLIER. 1750- JOHN SCHOLES. 1857$
WAUGH.
1868.
This broddling fussock lookt feaw os Tunor [a dog] when I'd done. Works: Tim
Bobbin, p. 55.
Yoih! boh that owdfussocfc ov o woife ov hiz tuk it off mi ogen. Jaunt to see
th? Queen, p. 20.
"Nay," cried Billy; "thae'rt noan beawn to run off thi bargain
becose o' this fuzzock makin' her din, arto?" Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 40.
FUUTIN, sb. = footing; condition, understanding.
WAUGH. Aye, marry: thou may sattle wi' the dule his-sel' upo'
l876 ' Ha&t/uutin'. Manchester Critic, March 3.
FUUTIN, sb. = footing; a fine or contribution paid by an apprentice or other
person on the occasion of his entering upon a new trade or situation; also
the entertainment provided by such payment.
COLL. USE. “Has he paid his footin'?”
1880. "Nawe."
“Then he starts no work here, aw con tell yo'. 5>
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G.
GA (N. Lane.), v. to go. A.S. gd, go.
A. C. GIBSON. But wrote-for punds go's farder far
(High Furness Dialect.) N or hundreds gien or fund;
An' sum' may be to t' fooer for t' barnes When we gd under t' grand.
Folk-Speech of Cumberland, p. 87.
an iron crow b arj a weapon. GAVL(JC.rv, J
COLLIER. Truth on honesty gooin' hont eh hont howd'n one
J 7So. onother's backs primely, on ston os stiff os o gablock.
Works, p. 62. GAD-ABOUT, sb. an idle, rambling person.
GADWAUD (Cartmel), sb. a long stick.
GAFFER, sb. a master.
COLL. USE. Neaw then, shift sharp here's th' gaffer comin'.
1880.
GAIN, adj. direct, near, convenient, handy. Icel. gegn, short, also
serviceable.
COLL. USE. Come back, mon; this is th' gainest road.
1880.
GAIT (N. Lane.), sb. pasturage for cattle during summer in a common field.
GAITINS (N. Lane.), sb. pi. single sheaves of corn set up on end to dry.
GALE (N. Lane.), sb. the wild myrtle or bog-myrtle, Myrica gale. GALKER, sb.
a tub to hold wort.
JOHN SCHOLES. Some o' thir own brewin' wur browt eawt, ut aw
l8 57$ believe coom fro under th' galker, fur it wur onkommon
fresh o' berm. Jaunt to see ttf Queen, p. 22.
GALLIVANT, v. to go about in a loose or aimless manner.
COLL. USE. He's gallivantirf up and down wi' play-actors instead
1880. Q > mindin' his wark.
CALLAGES I s ^' $' ^ races> stra P s to no ^ U P tne trowsers.
WAUGH. Goo an' get that jackass in, aw tell tho! An' then come
l865 ' an' unbutton my gallowses. Besom Ben, c. II, p. 28.
IBID - His breeches wur nobbut fastened wi' one gallace;
tother hanged down beheend, like a razzor-strap in a barber's shop.
Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 38.
IBID - I can leet o' nought but two ^z//<?/j-buttons an' a
'bacca papper. Old Cronies, c. ii., p. 25.
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GALLOWS, adj. cunning, designing, full of duplicity.
COLL. USE. Tha mun look after yore Jem. He's a gallows young
l88 - dog.
GAM (game), sb. sport, rollicking, fun.
WAUGH. Thoose began o' snow-bo'in' one another, wi' breek
18791 an' stones. . . . It's rare gam too as lung as
a body doesn't get hit theirsel'.
Chimney Corner, p. 41.
GAM ASHES (N. Lane.), sb.pl. short gaiters or leggings.
GAM-LEG, sb. a crooked or feeble leg. Gammy , meaning crooked or feeble, is
also frequently used as an adjective. Cf. Welsh cam, crooked.
GASKELL. I remember that a poor schoolfellow of mine who had
l8s4> a bent leg, which obliged him to use a crutch, was com- monly said
to have a gam leg. I fancied that this was because he was made
"game" of, but the reason evidently was because it was bent.
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 8.
GAMMERSTANG (N. Lane.), sb. an awkward, tall, slender person, male or female.
WAUGH. My mother's gan me th' four-post bed,
1859$ wi' curtains to't an' o'.
GAN, v. gave, given.
ly mother': Vi' curtains
Lane. Songs: Come, Mary, link thi arm.
GANG I ^ N “ Lanc ')> v ' to 8$ A - S - & an > an -> Icel - S an
S a t to g- DR. BARBER. He com i' contact wi' t' middle o' t' beck whar t'
stream
\ti& ganging at a cruel speed. Forness Folk, p. 6.
IBID. T' miners gang to wark at o' hours o' t' neet.
Ibid., p. 26.
WAUGH. "Adam," said she, "if I wur thee, I'd gan down
18741 to t' meadow, an' see what's goin' on.”
Jannock, c. ii., p. 16.
GANG (Cartmel), sb. a lobby in a farm-house.
GANG-BOOSE, sb. a narrow passage from the cow-house to the barn. See BOOSE.
A.S. gang, a way, path, passage.
GANK, sb. a deep, narrow footway.
GANTY, sb. a wooden frame on which barrels are placed.
GAR (Cartmel), v. to compel.
GARDEN-TWOD, sb. a large toad.
WAUOH. Hutch't of a lump, like a garden -twod.
Chimney Corner, p. 151.
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GARTH (N. Lane.), sb. a small field or enclosure adjoining a house, church,
or other building; usually an affix, as school-garth, church-garth,
chapel-garth. W. gardd, an enclosure.
TENNYSON. Past into the little garth beyond. Enoch Arden. 1864.
WAUGH. When ye get to Seathwaite, ye must gan by all means
l8 74$ into t' chapd'garth; an' there ye'll find his gravestone.
Jannock, c. viii., p. 78. GARTH, sb. a hoop; a child's bowling hoop.
WAUGH. Aw seed nobory abeawt, nobbut a bit of a lad mar- l866 ' lockin' wi'
a. garth. Ben an" 1 th? Bantam, c. iv., p. 81.
GARTHIN', v. repairing a tub by re-hooping it.
WAUGH. I'll have a penk at her piggin', if I have to pay for th”
1879. garthirt on 't. Chimney Corner, p. 1 54.
GATE, sb. a road, a way; also, a manner or fashion; speed, rate of movement.
Icel. gata, A.S. geat, a way.
WAUGH. One never knows a mon by nobbut meetin' him i'
l86 5 smooth wayter a time or two. Yo mun see 'em tried o”
gates [ = all ways] afore yo known 'em!
Besom Ben, c. vii., p. 84.
IBID. Then Mally trode upo' th' cat, an' away it shot on to
l868< th' top o' th' drawers, eawt o' th' gate o' th' row.
Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 36.
IBII>. Well, thae'll be sure to co' when tho comes this gate
on again, an” let's have another look at tho!
Ibid., c. ii., p. 49.
GATE, v. to begin; to put a loom in order for working.
WAUGH. Afore tho gates a-talkin', goo an' don these dry things.
l868 - Sneck-Bant, c. i., p. 9.
COLL. USE. Aw con gate a loom wi' ony chap i' Owdham (Oldham).
1880.
GATHERIN', sb. a suppuration.
COLL. USE. “Oh my! this gatherirf does lutch!" "Well, lass,
l88o- we mun poultice it, an' then it '11 soon come to a head."
GAUD-GATHER (Ormskirk), sb. a tax-collector. GAUK-HANDED (N. Lane.), adj.
left-handed.
GAUP, v. to stare.
GASKELL. I n Lancashire, to stare is to gaup. When, for instance,
18541 one person runs against another while looking a different
way, it is not unusual to hear, ' ' Na, stupid, what art ta gaupiri at?"
Led. Lane. Dialect, p. 27.
GAURDIN (Cartmel), sb. wood for hedging. GAWBY, sb. a lout, a silly fellow, a
clown.
GAWM, v. to understand, to comprehend.
COLLIER. Hoave a duzz'n on um would geaw t' see if they
coud'n mey shift t' gawm it, boh it capt um aw.
Works: Intro., p. 37.
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GASKELL. There is one word that is not found in the Anglo- l8 54$ Saxon
language; nor, as far as I know, in any of the
kindred tongues, except that which is the oldest and most venerable of them
all. And, if so, this is one of great interest. It is the word gaum, to
understand. As, for instance, a Lancashire man says, ' ' I conno gaum what
tha means;" and from it is formed the adjective gaumless. In the version
of the Gospels by Ulphilas, "they saw" or "they
perceived" is, in one instance, Mark xvi. 4, "^azmidedun." It
seems to me there can be little doubt that we have in this the original of
the Lancashire word. It is the past tense, and the root would evidently be
gaum. Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 14.
GAWMBLIN, sb. a silly fellow; a half fool.
BAMFORD, “As for \ha.\. gawmblin o' mine," she continued, "he
1840. me ^. k a ' ^d j^s CO o-dove lung sin, iv he'd nobbut ha'
foiled th' advice o' Limpin Billy at RatlifTe."
Life of Radical, c. xx., p. 134.
GAWMIN', v. understanding; also considering, cogitating; at a loss, but
trying to understand.
GAWMLESS, adj. dull or slow of comprehension; vacant-minded; foolish, silly,
senseless; insensible j idiotic.
COLLIER. I steart like o wilcat, on wur welly gawmless.
'75o. Works: p. 55.
WAUGH. "Theer," said Joe, stopping to take breath, "aw
c865 ' think they'n yer that, if they aren't both deof an' gawm- less."
Sexton's Story, p. 20.
B. BRIERLEY. Aw'm nobbut a poot yet, an' happen a bit gawmless.
l868 - Irkdate, c. ii., p. 102.
COLL. USE. i. He up wi' his foot an' knockt him gawmless.
l88o> 2. He wur olez a gawmless foo'.
GAWMLIN, adj. silly, senseless, stupid.
COLLIER. Boh mind neaw, theaw gamblirf tyke.
Works: Intro., p. 37. IBID - This wur mad gawmlin 1 wark. Works, p. 53.
GOSTER R 'l v ' to boast ' to
WAUGH. An' that set him agate o' bletherin' an? gosterin” up an'
l875 ' down like mad. Old Cronies, c. viii., p. 98.
I ^ D - He began o' gosterirf an' talkin' about th' hdrses
he'd ha' this done, an' he'd ha.' that done, or else he'd play th' upstroke
wi' somebry. Chimney Corner, p. 89.
GAWSTERIN', sb. boasting.
GAY (N. Lane.), adj. considerable.
A. C. GIBSON. j ac k Slipe follow't by his-sel' a gay bit behint 'em.
(H lg h Furness Delect.) Folk-Speech of Cumberland, &c., p. 94.
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GAYLY (N. Lane.), adv. very moderately.
DR. BARBER. T' rooad now wos o' down bank, sooa I manisht gayly
1870. wee i < Forness Folk.
GAYLY (Fylde), adv. heartily.
GEAL (N. Lane.), v. to smart or itch with cold.
J. P. MORRIS. Mi fingers f&itgeal wi' cald. Furness Glossary, p. 39.
1869.
GEAWL, sb. a rheumy discharge from the eyes.
GEAWLT, part, festered with a rheumy discharge.
WAUGH. It're very frosty, an' his een looked white an' wild;
l865 ' an' as geawft as a whelp.
Lane. Sketches: Rochdale to Blackstone Edge, p. 130.
GEBBY (N. Lane.), sb. a hooked stick.
GEET, v.p. t. got; plural, geet'n or gett'n.
WAUGH. When it geet past midneet, I couldn't prop my een
l8? 9$ oppen no lunger. Chimney Corner, p. 245.
IBID. We'n o'ertay yo afore yo getten to th' Owler Nook.
Chimney Corner, p. 3.
COLL. USE. i. What has to geet i' thi hond?
1881. 2> what han they geefn i' that cart?
GERSE, sb. grass.
JOHN SCHOLES. "David," hoo sed to one o' th' lads, "thee moind
l857 “o' th' stirk breakin' thru yon gap intuth' iay-gerse.”
Jaunt to see th 1 Queen, p. 19.
DR. BARBER. Ther' wos jenny-spinners, gzVrc-hoppers, an' midges,
l8 7$ an' bees bumman about i' thowsands.
Forness Folk, f>. 7. GERSINS', sb. moorland pastures.
GETS, sb. wages.
COLL. USE. Tha'll noan marry him, wench, surely. Why his gets
wouldn't keep hissel, mon, let alone booeth on you.
GEX, v. to guess.
COLLIER. I gex I'm him ot to meeons. Works, p. 57.
IBID. I heard um say \&gexing's o kint lying. Works, p. 73.
GIB (Fylde), sb. a hooked stick.
GIFT, sb. a small white spot on the finger nail, said to foretell the coming
of a gift j sometimes called, also, “a sweetheart."
GILBERT (N. Lane.), sb. a snare of horse-hair. GILLERS, sb. pi. bands of
twisted hair.
GILLHOOTER, sb. an owl.
COLLIER. Thoose ot connaw tell a bitterbump fro a gillhooter.
'750' Works: Intro., p. 34.
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GILLIVER, sb. the gilly-flower.
GIMMEE (N. Lane.), sb. a two-year old sheep.
GINGER-TOPPIN', sb. applied to the head of a person whose hair is red.
GINN, I (Fylde), sb. a road or passage down to the sea. A.S. ginn, GYNN, ) an
opening, an abyss.
GINNEL, sb. a narrow entry; a covered passage between houses. See GINN.
Miss LAHEE. Underneath this reawm wor a ginnel coed th' dark
l86s ' entry ... an' dark it wor, sure enough.
Betty c? Yep's Tale, p. 21.
GIRDLE (N. Lane.), ) sb. an iron plate used for baking, and GRIDDLE (S. E.
Lane.), f laid upon or suspended over the fire. Welsh, greidyl, a bakestone.
GIRN, vb. to grin.
GIRT (N. Lane.), adj. great.
DR. BARBER. T' aad man meadd a girt blast wi' t' horn.
Forness Folk, p. 6.
GISE (g soft; N. Lane.), v. to put cattle out to grass at a sum agreed upon
per head.
GIST (g soft; N. Lane.), v. to pasture out cattle upon hire. GISTIN' (N.
Lane.), sb. the pasturage of cattle at a price. GIVE-O'ER, v. to cease doing
a thing; to discontinue.
COLL. USE. If tha doesn't give-e'er this sort o' wark, tha '11 come
to a bad end, aw con tell thi.
GIV'EROUS, \ adj. greedy; also avaricious. A.S. gi/er, greedy, GI VERSO ME, [
voracious, desirous.
DR. BARBER. He'd hed nowt to itt [eat] o' t 1 day, an' wos varra
gyversom. Forness Folk, p. 13.
GIZ, v. pronun. of "gives."
COLL. USE. He giz nowt for th' money mon. Wi mun tak eawr
brass somewheer else.
GLEAD, sb. a hawk.
GLENTHUR \ v ' to ^^ i ntense ty or abstractedly; to stare.
WAUGH. Wheer the heart will be,
l859> Th' wits are sure to wander;
What one likes to see At it they mun glendur.
Lane. Songs: These Maund'rin' Een.
IBID. Then he grunted, an' mumble't, an' glendur 1 1 around.
l87 ' Lane. Songs: The Grindlestone.
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GLENT, sb. a glance, a quick view.
COLLIER. I gan o glent into th' shipp'n, on seed o mon stonnin'.
Works, p. 56.
WAUGH. “Ay," said Judd, givin' a sly glent round th' kitchen;
“I've stopt to lung." Old Cronies, c. iv., p. 44.
GLEY, sb. a squint.
JOHN SCHOLES. Iv yoan tay notis yoan see ut aw've o sooart ov o gley
57$ wi mi een. Jaunt to see tti Queen, p. 6.
GLIFF (N. Lane.), sb. a glimpse, a transient sight.
J. P. MORRIS. IVe niver seen yan, an' if ther wos sic a lot we'd o'
ness lhalect..) hey gitten a gUj p ^ ym gome dme ^ anudderi
Lebby Beck Dobby, p. 7.
GLIME (N. Lane.), v. to glance aside, to look askance. GLISK, v. to glitter,
shine, sparkle, glisten. GLIZZEN, v. to sparkle.
BAMFORD. It wur as fair a gowden yallo as ever tfizzent, wi' white
wings o' th' untherside. Life of Radical, c. xx., p. 133.
GLIZZEN, sb. lightning.
BAMFORD. Away it went i' th' glizzen an' th' thunner-din, o'er th'
moor. Life tf Radical, c. xx., p. 133.
GLOAR (Fylde), v. to squint. GLOOR, v. to stare fatuously.
COLLIER. He glooart at it a good while. Works: Intro, p. 38.
BAMFORD. He didno come glooring at th' chimney reech an' then
maunder back agen. Life of Radical, c. xx., p. 134.
WAUGH. Aw're forc't dray back a bit, at th' first, he glooart so
flaysome.
Lane. Sketches: Rochdale to Blackstone Edge, p. 1 30.
GLOPPEN, v. to astonish, to surprise.
OLD BALLAD. Bounce gus hur hart, an hoo wur so glopen
1548$ That out ' t h' w i n( Jo hoo'd like fort' lopen.
Warrikin Fair: Gent's. Mag., Sept., 1740. RAMSBOTTOM. Theer aw stoode, an'
kept starin' awhoile;
l864> Aw wur gloppent wi' th' sentence they'd passed.
Lane. Rhymes, p. 21.
B. BRIERLEY. Well, i'sted on him bein' gloppent when he seed me,
l868> an' beggin' me for t' know nowt, he slapt me on th' back,
an' coed me Old Cockylorum. Irkdale, c. ii., p. 101. J. P. MORRIS. What du ye
say? Wos nowte done to stop 'em?
irne i86 DialeCt ' ) Whv ' ves V constables tried, but they wer' nea use.
They wer' fairly gloppen'd. Siege o” LTston, p. 6.
GLOPPERS (N. Lane.), sb. pi blinkers for a horse.
GNATTER, v. to gnaw, to bite small with the teeth. CoLL - USE. He's olus
gnatterit? at his finger-nails.
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GOAD, sb. a custom, a way of doing a thing.
COLL. USE. Nay, theau '11 not act i' that goad, will to?
1881.
GOB, sb. a lump of anything, a large piece of meat, a mouthful.
JOHN SCHOLES. Summut ut wur loik lumps o' crud began o' leckin fro
l8 57$ under hiz hat, un slur'd deawn hiz face e gobs.
Jaunt to see th' Queen, p. 28.
GOBBIN, sb. an ignorant, clownish person.
COLLIER. Th' gobbin ne'er considert o' hongin' wou'd naw be
I 75o- cawd good spooart be ony body eh ther senses.
Works, p. 62.
JOHN SCHOLES. Awm noan o thoose awkurt^y^Vw ut nevvur venturn o
l8 57$ moileoff thir owndur-stone. -Jaunt to see ttt Queen, p. 6.
GOBSLOTCH, sb. a glutton; one who takes his meat in large pieces. COLLIER.
Theaw'rt glenting ot tat flopper-meawth't gob-slotch
Bill o' owd Katty's. Works, p. 72.
GO-BY-THE-WALL, sb. a creeping, helpless kind of person.
COLL. USE. Neaw then, owd go-by -the-wall, shift eawt o' th' road.
1881.
GODDIT, sb. Shrovetide.
GODSTONE, sb. a small, round, white stone found by children and kept in the
pocket as something valuable.
GOD'STRUTH, sb. the simple truth; that which cannot be gainsaid. COLL. USE.
It's God'struth, aw tell thi, an' nowt else, whether tha
l88l< believes it or not.
' sb. a watercourse to a mill.
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GOLCH, v. to swallow ravenously.
GOWD^INK, ) ( Mid and W ' LanC ' )> Sb - a oldfinch - GOLLIN, sb. the
marsh marigold. Caltha palustris.
GOLLOP, v. to swallow hastily or greedily.
COLL. USE. Try him, an' then tha'll see. Why, he'll gallop it up
l8Sl - i' no-time.
GOMERAL, sb. a stupid fellow.
J. P. MORRIS. T' girt gomerals hed tacken some brogs on t' sand for
l86 7$ t' French masts. Siege o' Brou'ton, p. 7.
DR. BARBER. He wos nea gommeral, thattan Forness Folk, p. 25.
1870.
BAMFORD. 'Tis Feargus O'Connor
l86 4$ I' search of a gonner. Homely Rhymes, p. 147.
Miss LAHBE. "What has tha done wi' th' gonner s?" “Gonners,
l8 “ 5< says ta; aw tell thee they're geese."
Carter's Struggles, p. 68.
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WAUGH. It makes me maunder up an' deawn, like a gonner wi
186 7$ a nail in its yed.
Home Life of Factory Folk, c. xvi., p. 142.
B. BRIERLEY. An' made her squeeal as leawd as a twichelt gonner
1868 - wi' th' squeeze he gan her. Irkdale, c. xii., p. 193.
GONNER-HEAD, sb. a stupid person, a gander-head.
GOOD-FOR-NOWT, sb. a useless or disreputable person. The Lancashire
equivalent for Ne'er-do-weel.
GOOD-WAY, sb. a long distance.
COLL. USE. He went wi' me a good-way, an' carried mi things
l881 - for me.
GOODE (N. Lane.), sb. the ox-eye daisy. Chrysanthemum leu-canthemum.
GOOER, \ sb. a triangular piece of cloth stitched into a shirt or other GORE,
I garment when greater width is required at one end than at the other.
GOOR (W. Lane.), sb. a seagull. GOOSEGOB, sb. a gooseberry.
GOOSEFLESH, sb. a term used to describe the skin when roughened by a shock of
cold or by fear.
WAUGH. But let's not talk about it. It makes me o' goose-flesh.
l8?9$ Chimney Corner, p. 204.
GORRISH, \ adj. thick and luxuriant, sometimes coarse and GORRY, j luxuriant,
applied to grass.
GOSTERIN', adj. boastful. See GAWSTERIN'.
COLLIER. I con fettle tits os weel os onny one on urn aw, tho'
I75a theaw mey think its gaimtring. Works, p. 71.
WAUGH. Doesn'to yer what he says, thae gosterirf foo?
Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 39.
GO-TO, sb. beginning of an action; a bout or an attack.
COLL. USE. Feight! He can feight noan, mon; he wur done up at
th' first go-to.
GOUL, sb. a yellow secretion in the eyes of children. See GEAWL.
GO-UNDER, v. to undergo; to suffer, as in the case of a surgical operation.
COLL. USE. Si tha, aw would no' go-under it again, not for fifty- pound.
GOWK (W. Lane.), sb. the cuckoo. GOWK.
, ,,.,, GAWK } a fl ls h fellow.
GOWL (W. Lane.), v. to howl, to yell.
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GRADELY, adv. properly, completely, truly, handsomely. Cf. Icel. grei&r,
ready; grei&-liga, readily, promptly.
To Rondle's hoo hied, an' hoo hov' up the latch, Afore th 1 mon had tied th'
mare gradely to th' cratch. Ballads and Songs of Lane., p. 53.
A clothes washing, in those days [Tim Bobbin's time], was never considered to
be “greadly dun" unless all the woollen things had been thoroughly
scoured by the great purifier, and afterwards washed and wrung out of clean
hot water. Intro, to Tim Bobbin, p. viii.
For when hoo's gradely donned, hoo'll look As grand as th' queen o' Shayba.
Lane. Songs: Turn Rindle.
GRADELY, adj. decent, becoming, proper, good, right.
Yed's os greadly o lad as needs t' knep o'th' hem of a keke [cake]. Works, p.
67.
"Why bless yur life, Mesthur Nadin," said George, “yore a graidley
felley for owt 'at I kno' to th' contrary; an' I never sed nowt ogen yo' i'
my lyve."
Life of Radical, c. xiii., p. 84.
He's had thoose hens mony a year; an' they rooten abeawt th' heawse just th'
same as greadly Christians. Home Life of Factory Folk, c. xi., p. 105.
Aw go a fishin' a bit neaw an' then; an' aw cotter abeawt wi' first one thing
an' then another; but it comes to no sense. Its noan like gradely wark.
Ib., cxvi., p. 142.
GRAIN, sb. the prong of a fork.
COLL. USE. What's th' owd mon doin' i'th' garden? ' Oh he's
l881 ' diggin' up roots wi' an owd three-grained fork.
GRAN, v. grinned,
COLLIER. So I gran, on I thrutcht, till meh arms wartcht ogen.
J 75$ Works, p. 44.
GRANCH, v. to grind up with the teeth; to eat voraciously.
GRASSED, part, discharged from work for a time; usually for misbehaviour.
What's up wi' yor Jim? Why, he wur drinkin'; an' th' mestur grassed him for a
fortnit.
GRATTER'D,/tfr adj. grated.
BAMFORD. A jug of warm ale with some grattered ginger in was
1840- placed on the table. Life of Radical, c. ix., p. 58.
GREAVE OR GREAVE-BY, phr. right, or very nearly so. A common saying in the
Rochdale district, meaning that anything which may be the subject of dispute
is either what it is said to be, or so near as to make no difference.
COLLIER. Beleemy mon, I think theaw'rt oather greave or
I75 - greave-by. Works, p. 65.
IBID. Sed I, is yoar neme Mr. Scar? Sed he, theaw'r oather
greeof or greeof-by Works, p. 57.
OLD BALLAD. I54 8.
BAMFORD. 1850.
WAUGH. 1865.
COLLIER. 175$
BAMFORD. 1840.
WAUGH. 1867.
IBID.
1867.
COLL. USE. 1881.
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GREAVIN' (N. Lane.), v. delving.
J. P. MORRIS. Jinny Dodgon ran into t' garden, whar her aid man
was greavirf. Siege o 1 Brou'ton, p. 5.
DR. BARBER. Thor off-come chaps seaun began prowlin' about,
grubbin' an' ' greavvin 1 an' pickin'. Forness Folk, p. 20.
GREAWPIN', sb. the joining in the binding of a tub. GREAWT, sb. the cheap
thin ale drawn off after the first brewing.
GREAWT-NEET, sb. a feast of cheap ale. Also called a “Brewin'-main."
B. BRIERLEY. They con make tables an' cheears doance abeawt like
1868. Little Gorton at a greaivt-neet stir.
Irkdale, c. vi., p. 140.
GREENEY (N. Lane), sb. the green grosbeak, or green linnet.
GREEN-SAUCE, sb. a kind of sorrel with an acid flavour (Rumex acetosa).
WAUGH. Gathering on their way edible herbs, such as ' ' pay shun
18551 docks," and "green-sauce."
Lane. Sketches: Cottage of Tim Bobbin, p. 50.
GREESE, sb. stairs, steps; also a little brow, an ascent. Latimer has
“greesings," meaning steps.
GREET, v. to weep; past tense, grat. A.S. gretan, to cry.
GASKELL. In Lancashire we sometimes hear it said, when a child
l854 ' is crying, “Give o'er greetirf;" and when a person has
wept much for another, it is said, ' ' Hoo grat sadly.” Lect. Lane. Dialect,
p. 29.
GREVE, ) sb. a division of a district, as the greves or gryevs in the GRYEV,
{ ancient forest of Rossendale.
I 5 ^' P ronunc i at i n f greyhound.
COLLIER. Why, yoad'n be os gaunt os o grewnt, on welly
fammisht. Works, p. 59.
GRIDDLE, sb. See GIRDLE.
GRIG, sb. a cricket; a lively or restless child.
COLL. USE. That's a bonny little grig yo'n getten. What's its
name?
GRINDLE,
GRINDLE, ) . . , .
GRINDLESTONE, f sb ' a g rmdstone -
WAUGH. Body's axe wanted grindin', one wark-a-day morn,
When there nobry about to gi' th' grindle a turn.
Lane. Songs: The Grindlestone.
GRIP-YARD, | sb. a platting of stakes and twisted boughs filled GRIP-YORT, j
up with earth; generally made to confine a
water-course, and occasionally to form artificial banks and seats
in pleasure gardens.
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GRON (as a prefix), adj. grand, as gron-chylt, a grandchild; gron-dad and
gron-feyther, grandfather; gron-mam and granny, grandmother.
GROON, v. grow.
WAUGH. Little lads o' groon into fellys; don't they, mam?"
l868 - Sneck-Bant, c. iii., p. 53.
GROOP, sb. a channel in a shippon behind the cows. GROO-WEATHER, sb. growing
-weather.
WAUGH. Wi'n had grand groo-iveather as week or two. But a
l8 S5$ sawp o' deawn-fo' 'ud do a sect o' good.
Lane. Sketches: Grislehtirst Boggart, p. 203.
GROYN, sb. a swine's snout. GRUG (Fylde), sb. a dandy hen.
GRUMBLE-BELLY, sb. a discontented person.
COLL. USE. Neaw then, owd grumble-belly, tha'rt at it again
l88l< nowt reet, and never satisfied.
GRUMMEL, sb. pi. small coal, riddlings.
GRUN-GRON, adj. grown on the ground; a native of a given locality; homespun.
COLL. USE. He's one o' th' owd sort, grun-gron none o' yer new- l88r - catcht
uns.
GUIDER, sb. a tendon.
GULLION, sb. a soft, worthless runagate.
GULLOOK, intj. begone; go and look; see for yourself.
GUMPTION, sb. ability combined with good sense. The Lancashire equivalent for
nous.
B. BRIERLEY. Aw've bin surprist, Dick, ut theau's had no mooar
18681 gumption abeawt thee nor what theau's shown yet.
Irkdale, c. ii., p. loo.
GURD, sb. a fit, as "A gurd o' laughin'“ = a fit of laughter.
COLLIER. Th' fly'rin karron sect up o' gurd o' leawghin'.
J 75o. Works, p. 42.
GUTTER, v. to make a channel; applied to a candle when the tallow runs down
wastefully.
COLL. USE. Snuff that candle, mon. Doesn't tha see how it's
I88r - gutterirf?
GYRR, v. to purge. A gyrrd cauve is a calf purged by having had too rich
milk.
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HACK (N. Lane.), sb. a pickaxe, a stone-pick or mattock, used by excavators.
HACK, v. to shake or knock together.
COLLIER. Meh teeth hackt eh meh heeod ogen. Works, p. 50.
1750.
HACKSLAVER, sb. an objectionable blockhead; a disgusting and silly fellow.
HADLOONT (E. Lane.), sb. pronunciation of Adlant; the headland of a ploughed
field.
HADLOONT-REEAN, sb. the gutter, ditch, or space between the head lands and
others.
COLLIER. A tealier i' Crummil's [Cromwell's] time wur thrung
I75 - pooin' turmits in his pingot, an' fund an urchon i' th'
hadloont-reean. Works, p. 37.
HAFFLE, v. to hesitate, to prevaricate.
COLL. USE. Come, eawt with it mon. We'll ha' noan o' thi haffUn”
l88x - wark here.
HAG (N. Lane.), sb. an enclosure, a wood. A.S. haga, what is hedged in, a
garden, a field; Icel. hagi, a hedged field.
HAG (N. Lane.), sb. a lot or set portion of work, as distinguished from day
work.
R. B. PEACOCK. I war k be t' hag, an' not be t' day.
Lonsdale Glossary, p. 39.
HAG, HAGGUS,
HAG-A-KNOWE, sb. an ungainly blockhead.
l iae gawmbless hag-a-knowe, or aw'll kom thi yure for tho. Ben an' th'
Bantam, c. v., p. 98.
HAGBERRY (N. Lane.), sb. the bird-cherry ( Prumus padus ) .
HAGGUS, 1 ,
HEYGUS ] pottage made of herbs.
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HAGUE, ) sb. the hawthorn, but especially the hawthorn berry. HAIG, j Fruit
of Cratcegus Oxyacantha. A.S. haga, a hedge,
also haw or hedge thorn; hagan, haws, fruit of the haw, hedge,
or white thorn.
B. BRIERLEV. “Wilt ha' this bit o' ^a^w-blossom? Aw geet it eawt
l868 - o' th' hedge wheer aw seed thee layin' th' clooas eawt,"
and Joe produced a bunch of hawthorn blossom of a delightful fragrance, and
offered it to Mally.
Irkdak) c. iv., p. 116.
HAGWORM (N. Lane.), sb. the common snake j lit. hedgeworm. HEALO \ a 4? m s
^y Bashful. See AYLA, AYLO, ante, p. 20.
HALCH, sb. a noose. O.E. hatch, a loop; halched, looped, fastened.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) And 36! hem halche^ al hole >e halves to-geder.
I320 ' Sir Gawayne, 1. 1613.
IBID. A lace lapped aboute, )>at louked at )>e hede,
And so after )>e halme halched ful ofte.
Sir Gawayne, 1. 217.
HALFENDOLE } sb ' a moiety or half” See also HAUGHENDO - SPENSER. Now the
humid night was farforth spent,
And hevenly lampes were halfen-deak ybrent.
Faerie Queene, Bk. III., canto ix., 1. 3.
1526. The name of Thomas Smith, vicar of Kirkham, occurs
in a lease dated I5th September, 1526, by which he "graunted, demised,
sett, and to farme lettyn" to Sir Richard Hoghton, Knt., "the moyte
or hallfendell and of all profetts, &c., of a certain tacke or bargain
belonging to the chappell of Gosenarghe.”
Fishwicfts Hist. Kirkham, p. 72.
HALIDAY, sb. holiday. A.S. Mlig, holy.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) Er )>e halidaye?, holly were halet out of toun.
I320< Sir Gawayne, 1. 1049.
IBID.
I herde on a halyday at a hi3e masse.
E. Eng. Allit. Poems, C, 1. 9.
COLL. USE. 1881.
He'll wark none. It's haliday o' th' year reawnd wi' him.
HALID AY-JACK, sb. a man fond of holidays and of display in clothes,
COLL. USE. Look at him neaw. He's a bonny haliday-jack is n't
l88l> he? wi' his mester's foine shirt on.
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HALLIBLASH, sb. a great blaze; something which dazzles.
COLLIER. I'st ha set th' how leath on a halliblash.
J 75$ Works, p. 46.
B. BRIERLEY. Aw'd ha' sich a blaze as ther hasno bin sin' owd George
1868. ' Jammie's barn wur ov a foyer, for aw'd mak a' hally- blash ov every
factory i' Englandshire.
Irkdale, c. i., p. 7.
HAMMIL, sb. a hamlet. A.S. ham, a home, dwelling, village.
JOHN SCHOLES. Nanny Clegg's peggy-tub, ut goas o reawnd th' hammil.
J 867. Jaunt to see th" 1 Queen, p. 6.
WAUGH. Aw know o' that country-side, deawn as far as Rip- l86 9 - ponden,
hill an' dale, wood an' wayter-stid, hamil an'
road-side heawse. Yeth-Bobs, c. i., p. 30.
HAMMIL-SCOANCE, sb. the lantern or light of the village; the village Solomon.
COLLIER. They look'nt on him as th' hammil-scoance, an' thowtn
I 75$ he'r fuller o' leet than a glow-worm. Works, p. 37.
WAUGH. Randle Holt, or "Rondle o' Raunger's," a school- l87S>
master, who was looked up to by his neighbours as a
kind of “hamel-scoance," or lanthorn of the village. Old Cronies , c.
iii., p. 27.
HAMSHACKLE, v. to fasten the head of a vicious animal to one of its forelegs.
HAMSTERS, sb. pi. a kind of knee-breeches; literally, a covering for the
hams.
BAMFORD. His hamsters were similar in material and condition to
l8 4$ his coat. Life of Radical, Vol. I., p. 50.
IBID - His hamsters of dark kerseymere, grey at the knees.
Ibid., p. 51.
E. RIDINGS. Wi' stockins deawn, unteed his shoon,
l845> His hamsters loosely hung.
Lancashire Muse, p. 6.
HAN, v.pl. have.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) fenne he . . criande loude,
1320. ^ e han demed to do j, e dede jj at j bidde .
Sir Gawayne, 1. 1088. SPENSER. j t was upon a holiday
When shepheardes groomes han leave to playe.
Shepheardes Calender: March.
WAUGH. What han yo to do wi' me? Aw want my jackass.
Besom Ben, c. viii., p. 95.
Miss LAHEE. "Win gettin' o soarts for yo to-neet, hannoi we
Hannah?" "We to, lad." The Charity Coat,?. 18.
HANCH, v. to snap, to bite at.
BAMFORD. Th' dog hancht at him. Dialect ofS. Lane., p. 185.
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HANCH-APPLE, sb. the game of snap-apple, which consists in biting at an apple
floating in water or suspended by a cord. It is usually played at Halloween.
HANDY-DANDY, sb. a game played by children. Common in Lancashire. Frequently
given as “handy -pandy" Something being hidden in one hand, both are
presented by the player to his opponent with the words, “Handy-dandy, sugar
candy, which hand is it in?"
SHAKSPERE. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice, which is the thief?
Lear, act iv., sc. vi., 1. 157.
HANGMENT, sb. mischief. Frequently used as an expletive.
WAUGH. "Where's that jackass?" cried he, almost out of
l86 5$ breath. "It's i' th' nook, here," said Twitchel. "What
the hangment has to sent it up to us for?"
Besom Ben, c. iii., p. 33.
HANKLE, v. to twist, to entangle.
HANSEL, sb. a gift given to the first purchaser; also v. to have the first
use of anything. Icel. handsal; hanselling, the transference of a right or
bargain by joining hands. Dan. and Scot. handsel
SPENSER. 1586.
That who so hardie hand on her doth lay,
It dearely shall aby, and death for handsell pay.
Faerie Queene, Book VI., c. xi., stanza 15.
HAP, v. to cover up, to smooth down.
schal not rise of your bedde, I rych yow better, I schal happe yow here. Sir
Gawayne, 1. 1223.
For hit wat3 brod at }>e boj>em, bo3ted on lofte, Happed upon ay>er
half a hous as hit were.
E. Eng. Allit. Poems, C, 1. 49.
Happyn or whappyrf yn clopys. Involve.
Prompt. Parv.
Lord, what [to] these weders ar cold, and I am ylle happyd. Towneley
Mysteries, p. 98.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) 1320.
IBID. 1360.
1440.
1450. (Yorkshire.)
WAUGH. Then hoo geet him to bed, an' hoo happed him up weel.
l8 59$ Lane. Songs: Owd Enoch.
IBID. He happed the clothes about his sleeping wife.
Ben an' ttt Bantam, c, i., p. 9,
HAPPEN, adv. probably, perhaps, possibly.
WAUGH. Aw's happen be leetin' on tho up Whit'oth Road on
afore th' next fay-berry time.
Ben an' th' Bantam, c. v., p. 98.
Theaw'll happen be i' time for th' leeavins, if theaw'll be sharp! Irkdale,
c. i., p. 46.
1866.
B, BRIERLEY.
1868.
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HAR, adj. com. and adv. higher.
HARDSET, adv. in difficulties, closely pressed.
COLL. USE. He's hard-set, aw con tell thi eawt o' wark an' his
l88l> woife deawn wi' twins.
HARD-YEDS, sb. scabious; also called devil's-bit (Scabiosa Succisa).
HARE-GATE, sb. an opening in a hedge, sufficient for the passage of hares.
WAUGH. The hedge on each side was full of holes and “hare- l879 “gates"
and tunnels, and runs, where the mole, the
weazel, and the urcheon wandered at will.
Chimney Corner, p. 5.
PROVERBIAL SAYING. "He knows both th' hare an' th' hare-gate" i.e.
he
l88 - knows both the hare, and the way the hare runs a pro- verbial saying
commonly applied to a person who is supposed to be thoroughly acquainted with
any particular matter.
HARRISHT, v. harassed, vexed, tormented.
WAUGH. They dunnot know 'at they're wick, Matty, they
dunnot for sure. They mun be harrisht an' parisbt, . . . an' then they'n larn
summat 'at '11 last their time. Chimney Corner, p. 141.
HARSTONE-TALK, sb. boastful talk; promises made at night, and not intended to
be kept in the morning.
COLL. USE. Dunnot moind 'em, mon. It's o' har stone-talk.
They'll do nowt i' th' morn.
HATCH-HORN, sb. an acorn. See AKRAN, ante, p. 7. Icel. akarn; A.S. acorn.
WAUGH. Come, aw think o's reet an' square. Reet as a hatch- horn. Besom Ben,
c. i., p. 14.
HATELY, adv. hateful, bad tempered. A.S. hetel, hetol, fierce.
WEST Mm. DIAL. (Lane.) So fro heuen to helle >at hotel schor laste.
E. Eng. Allit. Poems, B, 1. 227.
BAMFORD. Dunno be so hately. Gloss, to Tim Bobbin.
HATTOCK, sb. a corn sheaf.
HAUGHENDO, ) sb. a half part or half measure. The Rev. HAUGHENDOLE, j W.
Thornber, in his History of Blackpool, p. 108, gives “Haughendo, seven
quarts." See HALFENDEAL.
POTT - lohn Device . . . did covenant with the said
Anne [Chattox] that if she would hurt neither of them, she should yearely
have one aghen-dole of meale.
Discoverie of Witches, p. 23.
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JAMES CROSSLEV. One Aghen-dole of Meale. This aghen-dole, a word
l8 45$ still, I believe, in use for a particular measure of any
article, was, I presume, a kind of witches' black-mail. My friend, the Rev.
Canon Parkinson, informs me that aghen-dole, sometimes pronounced acken-dole,
signifies a half-measure of anything, from half-hand-dole. Mr. Halliwell has
omitted it in his Glossary, now in progress.
Since writing the Note, p. 23, I am indebted to Miss Clegg, of Hallfoot, near
Clitheroe, for information as to the exact quantity contained in an
aghendole, which is eight pounds. This measure, she informs me, is still in
use in Little Harwood, in the district of Pendle. The Archdeacon of
Manchester [J. Rushton, D.D.] considers that an aghendole, or more properly,
as generally pronounced, a nackendole, is a kneading-dole, the quantity of
meal, &c., usually taken for kneading at one time. There can be no doubt
that this is the correct derivation. Notes to Chetham Society's reprint of
Potts' s Discoverie of Witches.
HAUT, sb. a finger-cover used to protect a cut or wound. HAVER, sb. oats.
HAVER'CAKE?'
LANGLAND. 1377$
sb. a thin cake made of oatmeal. .
A few cruddes and creem, and an haver cake.
P. Plowman, B, vi., 284.
JOSEPH FIELDING. 1852.]
WAUGH. 1865.
IBID.
1879.
Formerly the bread chiefly eaten by the labouring classes in this parish
(Rochdale) was oat-cake; and the same kind of food was in pretty general use
in the manufacturing parts of Yorkshire. In the districts where this peculiarity
prevailed the people were proud of the distinction; and a regiment of
soldiers, raised in the east of Lancashire, and the west of Yorkshire, at the
beginning of the French war, took the name of the "Haver-cake
Lads;" assuming as their badge an oat-cake which was placed, for the
purpose of attraction, at the point of the recruiting sergeant's sword. Oat
bread is still eaten here, but its use is by no means general as it was in
the latter, and the beginning of the present century.
Rural Gleanings in South Lancashire.
Oatmeal porridge, and oatcake, enter largely into the diet of the country
people in this part of Lancashire. They used to pride themselves on the name
of the Havercake Lads. A regiment raised in Lancashire during the war bore
this name. This oatcake is baked upon a peculiar kind of stone slab, called a
back-stone; and the cry of "Haver-cake back-stones" is a familiar
sound in Rochdale, and the villages around it, at this day. Lane. Sketches:
Rochdale to Blackstone Edge, p. 128.
“Here; what's this? Bring me some loaf! I want noan o' thi baked
moonshine!" Ay, my lad, thinks I, thou'll be fain of a bit o'
haver-brade yet afore thou dees! Chimney Corner, p 285.
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HAW (Ormskirk), adj. on one side of the perpendicular. "All of a
haw" - all on one side.
HAWBUCK (N. Lane.), sb. a country clown. HAWMBARK, sb. a horse-collar. See
HAWMS.
COLLIER. It slipt o'er his sow, an leet like a hawmbark on his
J 75o. shilders. Works, p. 52.
HAWMPLE, v. to walk awkwardly, to limp.
B. BRIERLEY. “Thank yer, guv'nor," he said, as he haumpled eawt.
l8 7Q. Ab-o'-tft- Yate in London, p. 21.
WAUGH. He hawmples in his walk, like a lame duck.
1876. Hermit Cobbler, p. 6.
IBID. He wur nobbut a hawmplirf mak of a walker at th'
l8 79$ best. Chimney Corner, p. 116.
IBID. Thou'll keep hawmplitf and slutterin' through it
l8 79$ onyhow. Ibid., p. 209.
HAWMS (Ormskirk), sb. pi. the hames; the part of the collar by which horses
draw. Pronun. of “name." “Hame and chain maker" common in
Manchester.
HAY, v. to lay bare; to remove the top earth off gravel. A farmer at Flixton
had fetched some gravel and complained of his pay, saying, “I had to hay it
as well."
HAYBANT, sb. a twisted band of hay.
WAUGH. Here, lass, tee this on for mo. It looks like a haybant,
1867. when aw tee it for myseT. Owd Blanket, c. i., p. 22.
HAY-MOO, sb. a stack of hay. Moo is the pronunciation of mow> which means
the pile or stack of hay which has been mowed. A mow is also the loft or
chamber in which hay or corn is laid up. The “Barley Mow" is an alehouse
sign in Manchester.
WAUGH. He's sprain't his anclif a bit, wi' jumpin' off th' hay- l866 “moo
yesterday. Ben an' th? Bantam, c. ii., p. 39.
HEAD-AN'-HEELS, adv. altogether, completely without reserve. The Scottish
equivalent is “heels-o'er gowdie." See Burns' Poem on Life: "Soon
heels-o'er-gowdie! in he gangs." COLL. USE. i. His foot slipped, an' in
he went, head-an-heels.
2. He's th' reet sort of a chap; when he starts he gwos in for it,
head-an-heels.
HEADBOLT (Ormskirk), sb. a road over a bog or morass, stopped at one end.
HEARTY-ETTEN, adj. hearty, having a good appetite.
WAUGH. The poor woman said that her children were all
“hearty-etten,” especially the lads.
Home Life of Factory Folk, c. xix., p. 166.
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HEAWSE-MONEY, sb. a wife's allowance for house expenditure.
COLL. USE. 1881.
“Does he turn up his wages?" “Nawe, he gies me what he loikes for th'
heawse-money, an' keeps th' rest forhissel."
HEAWSE-PLACE, sb. the living-room in a cottage.
Come, my wench, let's have this heawse-place cleaned up.
COLL. USE. 1881.
HEAWSE-PROUD, adj. admiringly fond of home.
We had some talk with that class of operatives who are both clean, provident,
and heaivse-proud, as Lancashire folk call it.
Home Life of Factory Folk, c. vi. , p. 56.
WAUGH. 1867.
sb. a half-door or hatch; a gate.
Heck, a door, a rack for cattle. North Country.
Bailey's Diet., vol. i., ed. 1735.
HEDGE-BACKIN', sb. the bank under or behind the hedge.
B. BRIERLEY. We'st ha' nowt to do then i'th' summer nobbut lie in
l87 “hedge-backins, hearkenin' brids sing.
Ab-tf-th?- Yate on Times and Things, p. 94.
HELVE, sb. the haft of a spade. A.S. helf. 1350-
HECK (N. Lane.
1735$
HEM, pr. them.
LANGLAND. 1377$
CHAUCER. 1380.
SPENSER. 1580.
He hedde an hache uppon hei3 wi]> a gret halve.
Joseph of Arimathie, 1. 503.
A.S. hem, heom, dat. pi. of hi, they.
I batered hem on ]>e bakke and bolded here herds, And dede hem hoppe for
hope.
Piers Plowman, B-text, iii. 1. 198.
And yif he have nought sayd hem, leeve brother, In o bok, he hath seyd hem in
another.
Man of Lawes Prologue, 1. 5 1 - Wolves, ful of fraude and guile That often
devoured their owne sheepe, And often the shepheards that did hem keepe.
Shepheardes Calender, May, 1. 127.
REV. W. GASKELL. I believe that "hem," in such phrases as
"I'll give it
18541 hem," is not a contraction of "them," but simply the
A. S. dative plural, which we find retained by our poets to a comparatively
late period.
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 23.
HEMPLAND (N. Lane.), sb. a small piece of land set apart for growing flax for
family use. Mr. J. P. Morris says the practice has fallen into disuse, but
the patches of land still retain the name.
HENKY-PENKY, sb. trickery; snaffling conduct.
COLL. USE. Now mi lad none o' thi henky-penky here; stand up
l88l> fair.
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HENRIDGE, )
HAINRIDGE, [ (Ormskirk), sb. an outlet for cattle.
HAINING-GROUND, J
HEP, sb. the fruit of the briar. Pron. of hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.
CHAUCER. And sweet is the brambel-flour
That bereth the rede hepe.Cant. Tales, 1. 13,677.
WAUGH. Aw'll keawer me deawn, an' pike a two-thre o' these
heps. Yeth-Bobs, c. i., p. 12.
HERBY, sb. a shop for the sale of herbs and simples. The word was used in a
paragraph in the Preston Guardian during January, 1877.
HE-WITCH, sb. a wizard.
HIDDLE, v. to hide. A.S. hydan, to hide; hydels, a den, a hiding-place. Mr.
Skeat (N. and Q., 5th s., vol. vi., p. 209) says: “Hy 'dels occurs in the
Rushworth MS. of the Northumbrian Gospels, where the phrase speluncam
latronum (Mark xi. 17) is glossed by ' cofa vel hydels Seafana,' a cove or a
hiding-place of thieves. ... As the word became obsolescent, the false form
hidel or hiddel arose, with a false plural hideles or hiddelis. Of this there
is an example in Barbour's Bruce (bk. v., 1. 306 of my edition), where Sir
James Douglas is said to have lurked 'in hiddilis and in prevate,' that is,
in hiding-places and in privacy." See HIDLANCE.
HIDE, sb. skin or body. Hide is the skin of an animal, but used for skin of a
man and figuratively for body. “Tan his hide" is used figuratively for
“beat his body."
WAUGH. I v ony mon says wrang to me,
1859$ Aw'll tan his hide to-day! Lane. Songs: Chirrup.
HIDE, v. to beat, to flog.
HIDIN', sb. a flogging, beating, or chastisement.
s LAHEE. Tha desarves a gradely good kidin 1 , an tha shall hav
l8s5 “it too afore this job's getten o'er wi'. Owd Yem, p. 22.
HIDLANCE (S. Lane.), \ sb. a place of secrecy or con- HIDLANDS (Preston and
Lonsdale), [ cealment. The word is HIDLINS (Lancaster), J always used with
the prep.
"in," forming an adverbial phrase. See HIDDLE.
COLL. USE. He's not bin seen for mony a month. He's in kid- lance somewheer;
and has bin, ever sin' he left his woife.
HIG, sb. passion; pettish anger.
COLLIER. \Vi' that I leep off th' tit in a great hig. Works, p. 61.
1750- BAMFORD. He's in a great hig. Dialect of S. Lane., p. 187.
1854.
Miss LAHEE.
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HIGH TIME, sb. time fully arrived.
BIBLE. 1610.
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.
Romans xiii. II.
COLL. USE. 1881.
Aw'm feart for yon lad: it's high-time he were back.
HILL, \ v. to cover. A.S. helan, to cover, conceal; Icel. hylja, HULL, ) to
hide, cover; O.H.G. huljan; Germ, hullen; Dan. hylle and hczle.
Depnes als schroude his hilingslle. Psalm ciii., 1. 6.
NORTHUMB. PSALTER. Before 1300.
SPENSER. 1586.
Else would the waters overflow the lands,
And fire devoure the ayre, and hell them quight,
But that she holds them with her blessed hands.
Faerie Queene, iv. x. 35.
COLLIER. 1750-
Sitch a floose o hay follud meh, at it drove meh sheer deawn, an Seroh atop o
meh, an quite hilfd us booath.
Works, p. 68.
A Lancashire man, when he wishes to be covered up, as with bed-clothes, says
"hill me up." And he calls the husk or covering of the pea "a
pea-/m//," and removing it is “hullirf” it.
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 15.
Th' owd lad wur hillirf hissel up nicely.
Ab-o'-th'-Yate on Times and Things, p. 121.
HINDER-END, sb. the back part of a thing; the posterior.
WAUGH. He let wi' his hinder-end thump o' th' top-bar, an r
l86 9$ then roll't deawn upo' th' har'stone.
Lane. Sketches, p. 30.
HINDERSOME, adj. obstructive.
REV. W. GASKELL. 1854.
B. BRIERLEY. 1870.
HIPPIN' or
) sb. a napkin, a cloth in which something is
HIPPIN'-CLOUT, f "happed" or folded.
Mary, reach me yon hippirf off th' oon-dur.
Home Life of Factory Folk, c. xix., p. 165.
A mon o' three score gettin' wed to a
WAUGH. 1867.
IBID.
1876.
He caps me! bit of a snicket that's hardly done wearin' hippins!
Hermit Cobbler, p. 44.
) sb.pl. stepping-stones in a brook. Bungerley >, j Hipping-stones, across
the Ribble, near
HIPPINGS,
HIPPING-STONES,
Clitheroe, so called to this day, are mentioned in Warkworttts Chronicle,
A.D. 1470, where the word is spelt “hyppyngstones" Hipping is a form
Chopping: “That hippe aboute in Engelonde" (Piers Plowman, B, xv. 557).
l8 79$ Pendle Forest district may almost be said to be shut
up from the people of Burnley, so far as a field-walk is concerned. For, by
far the greatest portion of the year, there is no passing whatever for foot
passengers for the whole length between Padiham and Pendlebottom
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bridges. There are two sets of stepping-stones one known as the "Pendle
Hippings," the other as the "Duckpit Hippings." The public
have an undoubted right to travel over both these places; but, in the case of
Pendle Hippings, there is no passing at all for travellers except through the
water; and, in the other case, they can only be crossed at the dryest seasons
of the year.
Burnley Gazette.
HIS-SEL, pr. himself.
WAUGH. He's as poor as a crow his-sel.
The Chimney Corner, p. 144.
HOAST, sb. a cough. Icel. hostr, the throat; hostt, a cough.
144. Hoose, or cowghe (host or hoost). Prompt Parv.
WAUGH. Eh, I have sich a hoast! My throttle's as reawsty as
l8 7 6 a bone-house-dur lock. Chimney Corner, p. 169.
HOBBIL, sb. a dunce, an idiot. See hob, a clown, a rustic, a fairy, in
Skeat's Etym. Diet.: “Hob, strange as it may appear, was a popular corruption
of Robin. The name Robin is French, and, like Robert, is of O.H.G. origin;
Littre considers it as a mere pet corruption from Robert, a name early known
in England, as being that of the eldest son of William I."
NICH. UDELL. Ye are such a calfe, such an asse, such a blocke,
1 55$ Such a lilburne, such a hoball, such a lobcocke.
Roister Doister, act iii., sc. 3, 1. 17.
HOBTHURST, sb. an ungainly dunce. In Tim Bobbin's time, a wood goblin Hob o'
th' Hurst, or Hob of the Wood. Cf. Shakspere, Lear IV. i. 62:
“Hobbididance," a dumb fiend or goblin.
COLLIER. Th' goblin wur awtert when they poodn him eawt, an'
I75 “whot a hobthurst he lookt wi' o' that berm abeawt him.
Works, p. 53.
BAMFORD. Theau great hobthurst. Tim Bobbin describes it as
54< an apparition "haunting only woods" [i.e. Hob o' th'
hurst], but in that sense it is not now understood.
Dialect of S. Lane., p. 188.
HOG, v. to cover a heap with earth or straw.
PARSON WALKER. I put off at present, being throng hogging up some of
my potatoes. Diary, p. 23.
HOG-MUTTON, sb. a year-old sheep.
HOLE, v. to hide, or get under cover.
WAUGH. How leets thou didn't hole?" “Hole! wheer mut
l879 ' I hole, at th' top o' Rooly Moor, where o's as bare as a
bakstone for five mile round?"
Chimney Corner, p. 169.
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HOLLIN, sb. the holly. A.S. holen, holegn. The spellings holm, holie both occur
in the Ancren Riwle, p. 418. See holly in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) Bot in his on honde he hade a holyn bobbe [i.e. a I 3
20 - holly bough]. Sir Gawayne, 1. 206.
COLLIER. Meh carkuss wur pratty yeasy, boh meh mind moot
I75 “os well ha line in o rook o' hottins or gorses.
Works, p. 54.
HOMER (Fylde), v. to incommode.
HOND-RUNNIN' (hand-running), adv. consecutively, quickly.
COLL. USE. He'd feight the whole lot on 'em, hand-running, as
. l88l> easy as ninepence.
HOND'S-TURN, sb. a small service.
WAUGH. Folk 'at never did a hond's-turn for theirsels sin they
l8? 6 - wur born into th' world. Chimney Corner, p. 141.
HONISHT (N. Lane.), p. adj. wearied, tired out. See three capital
illustrations of this remarkable word in Skeat's Notes to P. Plowman, pp.
237, 238. The etymology there suggested is wrong; it is not allied to hunch,
but derived from O.F. honnir, honir, to disgrace (as in honi soit).
HONTLE, sb. a handful.
E. RIDINGS. A hontle o' woise saws
1845$ Or moral rules an' laws. Lancashire Muse, p. II.
HOO, pr. she. A.S. heo. Dr. R. Morris, in his Historical Outlines of English
Accidence, p. 120, says: "She, in the twelfth century, in the Northern
dialects, replaced the old form heo. The earliest instance of its use is
found in the A. Sax. Chronicle, 1140 (Stephen): “Dser efter scce ferde ofer
s&? In the thirteenth century, the ordinary form of she is sco, found in
Northern writers; sche (scce) is a Midland modification of it."
WEST. MID. DIAL. (Lane.) Into a comely closet coyntly ho entre3
I 3 20 - Sir Gawayne and G. K., 1. 935.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) Ho profered me speche.
J 36$ E. Eng. Allit. Poems, A, 1. 235.
LANCASHIRE. Bounce gus hur hart, an hoo wur so glopen
I S48. That out o' th' windo hod'd like for t' lopen.
Hoo staumpdt, an hoo star'dt, an down stairs hoo run.
Warrikin Fair: Gentleman? s Mag., Sept., 1740; and Ballads and Songs of
Lane., p. 53.
About 1815. Hoo^s nout agen th' king,
Bur hoo loikes a fair thing,
Un hoo says hoo con tell when hod's hurt.
Ballads and Songs of Lane.: Jone o 1 Grinfilt Junior, p. 169.
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WAUGH. An' aw kiss'd her agen; but hoo said
l8 59$ At hoo wanted to kiss thee an' o'.
Lane. Songs: Come Whoam to tin Childer.
IBID. When hoo'd getten o' reet, hoo set off after a place;
1867. and when hoo geet theer, th' mistress said hoo thought
hoo'd suit 'em, but hoo wur to co' again at six o'clock. Owd Blanket, c.
iii., p. 72.
MOPPET, sb, a small basket.
JOHN SCHOLES. Hoo put hur hont deawn fur hur hoppet; boh th'
l8 57$ hoppet, wi' Peg's fewtrils in, wur gwon.
Jaunt to see th” Queen, p. 29.
HOPPLE (Fylde), v. to fetter.
HOP-SHACKLE'T, p. adj., cumbered or hindered in walking, by some natural or
other impediment or defect.
WAUGH. “Well; come on then! What's to do witho? Thou
1879$ wa ik s as if t ho u were hop-shackle' t!" "Thou'd be
hop- shackle 1 1 too, if thou'd as mony corns o' thi toes as I have."
Chimney Corner, p. 17.
HORN, sb. a comb for the hair.
WAUGH. Here; tak how o' this horn, an' ready thi yure a bit
l8 79$ for thou'rt moore like a corn-boggart nor aught belungin'
this world. Chimney Corner, p. 168.
HORSE-NOP (N. Lane.), sb. the knap weed (Cmtaurea nigra). HORSE-STANG (N.
Lane.), sb. the gad-fly.
HOTFOOT, adv. in great haste. The same “&fut-hate (foot-hot) in Barbour's
Bruce, iii. 418, xiii. 454. See note in Skeat's edition, p. 557. &&
foot-hoot in Chaucer, Man of Lawes Tale, 1. 340. COLL. USE. He coom deawn
hot-foot, bent on havin' a quarrel.
looX.
HOTTERIN', v. fidgetting, or trembling with emotion.
JOHN SCHOLES. Hoo'd o face loik o turkey-cock, un hoo wur fayr
I8S7> hotterin' wi' vexashun. Jaunt to see th' Queen, p. 28.
HOTTERIN'-MAD, very angry. HOWLE, adj. hollow. A.S. hoi, a hole.
CHAUCER. And he was not right fat, I undertake,
But lokede holwe, and therto soburly.
Prologue, C. T., 1. 288.
WAUGH. “He must be varra hawk when he's hungry," said the
I8 74$ landlady. “Howie! n said Adam, "why he'll be like
a two-legged drum, about t' middle o' t' forenoon.
Jannock, c. iv., p. 30.
HOYT, sb. a long road.
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HUBBONS, ) sb. pi. the hips. In the Lincolnshire dialect this word HUGGINS, )
appears as "huck." See Tennyson's "Northern Cobbler" I
slither'd and hurted my hwk? '
JOHN SCHOLES. Aw shud o shaumt wur nur o thief when aw're o lass
l8s7 ' t' ha' bin sin wi' mi cooatts brad eawt o yard un o hauve
across th' hubbons. Jaunt to see th' Queen, p. 23.
HUCKLE, v. to stoop, to bend from weakness or age.
In Lancashire, a person who stoops is said to "huckle;" and
"hunch-backed" is expressed by Chuckle-backed^ this may come from
the A. S . hoc, a hook; or from what seems more like it, the Welsh hwca,
hooked.
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 13.
also hid or hidden.
Mi feyther coom back wi' a greyt top-quot on ut welly hud him eawt o' seet.
The Charity Coat, p. 9.
REV. W. GASKELL. 18541
HUD, v. to hide
Miss LAHEE. 1875.
WAUGH. 1879.
IBID. 1879.
Hud thisel' i' th' buttery theer, till hoo's gone.
Chimney Corner, p. 1 86.
He ga' me howd of a greight stang, about twelve fuut lung, at they had hud in
a nook.
Chimney Corner, p. 172.
HULL, v. to cover. See HILL.
HULL, sb. a husk; used especially for the husk of the pea, which is called a
HULLET, sb. an owl. See also ULLET.
J. P. MORRIS. Folk used to say it wod screeam like a hullet.
Lebby Beck Dobby, p. 4.
HULLY-BUTTERFLEE (N. Lane.), sb. any heavy-bodied night-flying moth.
HUMBUGS, sb. an old-fashioned sweetmeat, made of mint and sugar.
WAUGH. I remember gooin' wi' him once into owd Nanny
79 ' Shackleton's toffy-shop, a-buyin' a hawporth o' hum- bugs; an' as soon
as he'd getten th' humbugs, he popt one into his mouth, an' tother into his
pocket.
Chimney Corner, p. 240.
HUMMABEE, s&, the common field bee; i.e. hummer-bee.
As thick as wasps in a hummobee-ntzst. Works, p. 43.
COLLIER.
1750- JOHN SCHOLES.
1857$
B. BRIERLEY.
1870.
O th' folk i' th' hammil wur huzzin' abeawt loik a swarm tf hummobees. Jaunt
to see th' Queen, p. 15.
Theere they're at it, pell-mell, like wasps in a hummabee neest.
Ab-o'-tW- Yate on Times and Things, p. 64.
HUMP-BACK, sb. a person with a hunched back. HUMP-STRIDD'N, adv. astride a
person's back.
COLLIER. 1750.
Nick may ride hump-striddn a' beggin.
Works, p. 34.
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HURE, sb. hair. See also YURE.
COLLIER. Aw find teaw con tell true to o hure. Works, p. 55.
1750.
JOHN SCHOLES. Aw con clog mi own clogs, pow hure, fettle clocks.
l8 57$ Jaunt to see ttt Queen, p. 6.
HURKLE (N. Lane.), v. to stoop or squat. Du. hurken, to squat; cf. M.E.
rouke> to squat.
WEST MID. DIAL. (Lane.) Ouer >e hisest hylle >at hurkled on er>e.
I 3 6 - [Over the highest hill that rested on earth.]
E. Eng. Attit. Poems, B, 1. 406.
HURR, v. to snarl like a dog. Cf. Lowland Scotch hur, to snarl. See
hurdy-gurdy in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
HURRY (Oldham), sb. a spasm, a fit, a sharp attack of illness, or even an
outburst of temper.
COLL. USE. Hoo's had a bad cryin' hurry (said of a passionate
I88l child).
HUTCH (Fylde), v. to hoard. HUTCH, v. to sit close, to get nearer.
Miss LAHEE. Hoo never offer't to hutch up to make reawm for me
55 ' bi th' side on her. Owd Yem, p. 20.
WAUGH. Come, Dimple, let's be hutchin' a bit nar whoam!
Besom Ben, c. i., p. 10.
IBID. “We're o' reet,” said Jone o' Gavelock's, ' ' if I can get
l8 75$ Craddy, here, to hutch a bit fur off," "Craddy," said
Giles, "hutch up lower, mon."
Old Cronies, c. iii., p. 33.
HUZZY, sb. a daughter, a female child. See hussy in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
B, BRIERLEY. They co'en me odd, aw know, an a mon may well be
when he con see other folk wi' ther bits o' huzzies reawnd 'em an' noane o'
ther own for t' mak 'em even.
Irkdale, c. i., p. 55.
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I.
ICCLE, sb. an icicle. A.S. isgicel
COLLIER.
1750. WAUGH.
1855$
JOHN SCHOLES.
1857$
GASKELL.
1854.
I'GADLIN,
Beside, yoad'n be os cowd os iccles. Works, p. 49.
An' feel at it nose; it's as cowd as iccles.
Lane. Sketches: Birthplace of Tim Bobbin, p. 80.
Mi hure stood up in o minnit us stiff us iccles, streyt up, loik o rush cap.
Jaunt to see th? Queen, p. 60.
The Anglo-Saxon for what was "eel," chill, or congealed, was gicel,
and the Lancashire for an icicle is only another form of the same word,
iccle. We meet with it in the time of Charles II. in some lines by Cotton,
who wrote a continuation of Walton's Complete Angler. He says:
Be she constant, be she fickle, Be she firm, or be she ickle.
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 19.
WAUGH. 1874.
IBID. 1875$$
1837$
“He says I'm to clear t' table." “Clear t' table, eh! Fgodlin, he's done
a good stroke at that, hissen!"
Jannock, c, iv., p. 28.
“Hello, Snip!" said Giles. . . "A merry Christmas to tho, owd
craiter! rgadlin, we's never look beheend us after this." Old Cronies,
c. iii., p. 29.
IGNAGNING (Fylde), sb. the name given to a morris or sword-dance, common in
the Fylde some fifty years ago. REV. W. THORNBER. Others performed a kind of
morris-dance or play, known by the name of ignagning, some mystery in honour
of St. Ignatius, but more probably its derivation is from ignis Agnae, who suffered
martyrdom at the stake. Ignagning has almost fallen into disuse, and a band
of boys, called Jolly Lads, has succeeded.
History of Blackpool, p. 92.
I'GODDIL, interj. if God will.
COLLIER. Tim. I think lunger ot fok liv'n an th' moor mis- 175 ' choances
they han.
Mary. Not awlus, o Goddil. Works, p. 40.
I'GODSNAM, interj. in God's name; a petty oath.
COLLIER. L e t U m speyk greadly, os we dun, e'godsnum.
Works, p. 35.
WAUGH. Get some'at into tho lad, i Gotfs-nam, for thou'll
l8? 6 - need it. Hermit Cobbler, p. 16.
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IKE, sb. abbreviation of Isaac. ILL-DOIN', adj. in bad condition; sickly.
ILL-DONE-TO, adj. badly treated; ill used, ILL-GETTEN, adj. dishonestly
obtained.
IN-FOR-IT, ad. in circumstances of danger or difficulty; overtaken by
calamity.
COLL. USE. Tha'rt in-for-it, neaw, owd mon; aw wouldn't be i'
thy shoes for summut (something).
INGLE-NOOK, sb. the corner of a fire-place. INGLUN-SHIRE, sb. England.
INKLE-WEAVER, sb. a tape weaver. See BEGGAR-INKLE, ante, P- 34$
WAUGH. Thick! We're as thick as a pair o' owd reawsty inkle- weyvers.
Sneck-Bant, c. i., p. n.
INSENSE, v. to convey a meaning; to make a stupid person comprehend.
O. ORMEROD. It's no mak o use me troyin' for to insens yo into o us
1862.
INSIDE, sb. the stomach or bowels.
WAUGH. Th' lad had bin wrang in his inside a while, an' one
18761 day he says to his faither, "Eh, faither, I do like th'
bally- warche!" “Thou likes it? Why, what for?" “Becose it's so
nice when it gi's o'er!”
Manchester Critic.
INTACK, sb. an enclosed piece of common. Cf. Icel. itak.
IR, pron. of our.
WAUGH. There wur ir Jammy lad, an' me, an' some moor on
us. Lane. Sketches, p. 206.
IRNIN', sb. cheese-making. A farmer when he has begun to make curd for cheese
is said to have begun irnin\ An irniij-tub is the tub in which the milk is
placed for curding. A.S. yrnan, to run, i.e. to coagulate. See Rennet in
Skeat's Etym. Diet.
I'ST, pro. and v. I should, or I shall.
COLLIER. Tim. Neaw, Meary, whot cou'd onny mon doo?
Mary. Doo! fst o gon stark woode [i.e., mad].
Works, p. 42. IBID. fst naw have one boadle t' spare. Works, p. 55.
YT,pron. used for "its." Prof. Skeat in his Etym. Diet, says
"the genitive case its was just coming into use in Shakspere's time,
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but we find // (with the sense of its) in the first folio, in thirteen
passages."
WAUGH. An' look at it een; they're as breet as th' north-star ov
l86 9$ a frosty neet! Lane. Sketches, p. 80.
COLL. USE. If he can catch howd o' that dog he'll have it life, as
l88l> what comes on it.
I'TAW 1
I'TEAW I com P un d j i n two, or in two pieces.
WAUGH. An' bith light in her een,
It were fair to be sin, That hoo're ready to rive me fteaw.
Lane. Songs: Jamie's Frolic.
IVIN, sb. ivy.
B. BRIERLEY. "Isn't your name over the door?" "Ay, but yo
l869 ' couldno' see it; for it's groon o'er wi' “w, an has bin
mony a year." Red Windows Hall, c. ii., p. 12.
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J.
JACKSTONES, sb. a child's game, played with a large marble and the knuckle-bones
of a sheep; also with small white pebbles or jackstones. The same game is
also known as “Bobber and kibs;" the kibs being the sheep's bones.
JAMBLES, sb. the hames; the part of the collar by which horses draw.
JAMMY-CRANE (N. Lane.), sb. the heron. JAMRAGS (N. Lane.), sb. anything
overcooked.
JANNOCK, sb. a dark-coloured bread or cake made of oatmeal, or of coarse
wheat-meal; also, metaphorically applied to anything or any action that is
honest or thorough. REV. P. WALKDEN. Paid I/- for a new cheese and zjanocke.
Diary, p. 44.
REV. W. THORNBER. [At Easter] jannock, introduced by the Flemish
l8 37$ refugees, [was] eaten with zest by the hungry labourer.
Hist, of Blackpool, p. 93.
WAUGH. The thick unleavened oatcake, called jannock, is
1855$ scarcely ever seen in South-east Lancashire now; but it
used to be highly esteemed. The common expression, "That's noan
jannock," applied to anything which is not what it ought to be,
commemorates the fame of this wholesome old cake of theirs.
Lane. Sketches: Rochdale to Blackstone Edge, p. 129.
JAWMS, sb. pi. pronun. of jambs, the side-posts of a window, fire-place, or
other portion of a house.
JERRY, v. to cheat.
JERRY, adj. bad, defective, and deceptive; i.e. a jerry building is one that
is badly built, although it may look well outwardly.
JERRY, ) ,
JERRY-SHOP, | '^public-house.
JIDDY, v. to agree.
COLL. USE. They never jiddy together. (Heard in Bolton and Bury. )
1880.
JILLIVER, sb. a termagant.
JIMP, adj. neat, spruce, tidy, slender. Burns has I see thee dancing o'er the
green, Thy waist sae jimp, thy limbs sae clean.
And see also Scott's Minst. Border (" Lord Thomas and Fair Annie")
She maun lace on her robe sae jimp And braid her yellow hair.
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JIMPLY (Ormskirk), adv. smoothly. JINDERIN' (Ormskirk), v. seeking a mate.
JINNY-GREEN-TEETH, sb. literally the green scum on ponds, but supposed to
imply the presence of a water-sprite or “boggart;" a terror to children
as they pass the pond on which the appearance is seen.
JINNY-SPINNER (N. Lane.), an insect, Tipula.
JOBBERNOWL, sb. a dunce or dolt. Cf. nowl in Mids. N. Dream, iii. ii. 17.
JOHNNY-RAW, sb. a foolish or stupid person.
COLL. USE. What a Johnny-raw he must be, to swallow a tale o'
l88l> that soart!
JORUM, sb. a large quantity.
REV. W. THORNBER. A. jorum of ' ' browess,” and roasted wheat or frumenty,
l8 37$ for dinner, was the treat of Good Friday.
Hist, of Blackpool, p. 93.
COLL. USE. Neaw lads, set-to there's & jorum o' porridge for you;
l8Sl “in wi your spoons an' start fair.
JOW, v. to jog; to push or knock against. See jow! in Shakspere "They
may jowl horns together:" As You Like It, i. iii. 59; “How the knave
jowls it to the ground:" Hamlet, v. i. 84.
B. BRIERLEY. It'll end i' folk jowin” ther yeds t'gether till they'n be
l868 - fain o' quietness at any price. Irkdale, p. 23.
WAUGH. "Whoareyo? For yo're not mich to look at.” "Reet
1867. again, owd craiter," answered Tim, "Reet again!
jow thi yed!" “What mun Q.WJOW mi yed for, yo greight
starin' rack-an-hook?" replied Betty. "Jow yo'r own
yed! It's o' at it's good to. “Owd Blanket, c. i . p. 9.
IBID. Then, th' wife an' him jowed their yeds together, as
l868 - they wur bendin' deawn to reitch their stockin's up.
Sneck-Bant, c. ii. p. 36.
JOYST, sb. pasturage for cattle let out to farmers or others for a consideration.
A corruption of agist.
REV. P. WALKDEN. Received from Seath Jolly off halfjoyst, 4. o. O.
J 7 2 5$ Diary, p. 161.
JUD, sb. familiar substitute for George.
JUMP, sb. a Sunday coat, gown, or other outer garment j probably a
well-fitting coat. In Shakspere the word means just, exactly, also to tally.
See Hamlet, act i., sc. i., 1. 65; Othello, act ii., sc. 3, 1. 392.
COLLIER. Soh I donn'd meh Sunday /#;;//, o top o meh singlet.
J 75. Works, p. 41.
JUST-NOW, ad. in a short time j after a little interval, as “e'en-now"
means without interval, immediately. Also a little while before the present
time.
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K.
KALE (N. Lane.), sb. broth or pottage.
WAUGH. "I never had mich traffic o' that mak." "Nor me
(Furness^ Dialect.) nawther; mine's bin chiefly poddish an' peas-&z&,
an' blue-milk cheese." Jannock, c. ix., p. 97.
KALE, sb. a turn in rotation. See GALE, ante, p. 66.
B. BRIERLEV. Yo'st o' be wed when yor kale comes.
l868 - Irkdale, p. 225.
WAUGH. They keepen droppin' off, an' comin' on. It's once
l8?9$ a-piece for us, o' round. It'll be our kale in a bit,
Snaffle. Chimney Corner, p. 231.
KALES, sb. the game of ninepins, See kails in Skeat's Etym. Diet. Of Old Low
German origin j Du. kegel, "a pin, kail j mid kegels spelen, to play at
ninepins: Sewel."
KAME, sb. a comb. A.S. camb; Icel. kambr; Dan. kam.
KAYTHURor) , KEYTHER, } ^ a cradle.
COLLIER. Whether it lawmt [lamed] th' barn ot wur i' th'
heather, I know naw. Works, p. 66.
BAMFORD. I'll put th' chylt i' th' keyther an' set at yon wark.
I8 “- Life of Radical, c. ix., p. 61.
WAUGH. Keep th' keyther stirrin' gently; an'
I8 59$ Make very little din. Lane. Songs: “Neet-fo'."
B - Bl J, E 8 RLEY> If theaw hasno' bin rocked enough i' thy younger days,
it's time theaw'd a new kaythur made for thee.
Irkdale, p. 74.
KAYVE, vb. to overturn, to upset. Kayvt, upset, turned over.
KEAWER, v. pron. of cower; to shrink, to crouch, to squat.
COLLIER. Let's keawer us deawn o' th' yeoarth o bit.
Works, p. 41.
B. BRIERLEY. He'd keawer up th' stairs o' day if aw did no fotch
him by th' skuft o' th' neck. Irkdale, p. 47.
WAUGH. I wonder how thou can for shame o' thi face sit
keawerin” theer hutch't of a lump, Critic.
KEAWL, v. to crouch, to quail.
KEAWLT, /#;-/. repulsed, intimidated.
KEAWNT, sb. account; as “Aw ma no keawnt of it."
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KEBBIN' (Morecambe), part, fishing for flat fish with four hooks hanging from
the ends of a weighted wooden cross.
KECK, v. to upset. A variant of kick,
DR. BARBER. Lads wos . . . bringin' girt clogs o' stuff to t'
chaps i' thor shades as they co' ryvers, to be keckt up reet in front o'
them. For ness Folk, p. 10.
COLL. USB. “Who's spilt this milk?" "Me, mother: aw couldn't
l88l< help it; aw keckt it o'er wi' my sleeve."
KECKER (Ormskirk), sb. the bar which connects the body of the cart with the
thills.
KECKIN' (N. Lanc.),/0r/. spying. Cf. Icel. kaga, kikja, to peep; Scot, keek,
to look with prying eye, or with stealth.
KECKLE, sb. prate, cackle, idle or foolish talk. KECKLE (N. Lane.), v. to
giggle, to laugh. KECKLE, adj. pert.
to to PP le over - JOHN SCHOLES. Aw'm as keklety us o owd waytur tub after o
twel- l8 57' munth's drouth. Jaunt to see th? Queen, p. 20.
WAUGH. “What's to do wi' tho? Thou stonds very keckley."
l8 79$ “Rheumatic or summat. I've never bin reet o' mi pins
sin' Rushbearin." Chimney Corner, p. 112.
KECK-MEG, sb. a pert, meddling woman.
KECKS, | sb.pl. the hollow stems of the common hemlock; used KEX, ) by lads
to shoot peas with, also for making a rude flageolet.
SHAKSPHRE. Nothing teemes
1599> But hatefull dockes, rough thistles, keksyses, burres,
Loosing both beautie and utilitie.
Henry Fifth, act v., sc. ii., 1. 51.
TENNYSON. Tho' the rough kex break
1850. The starr'd mosaic. The Princess, iv. 59.
B. BRIERLBV. Thoose . . . wi' texts o' Scriptyer i' ther meawths
l868> ut they con shoot eawt as readily as paes eawt of a kex.
Irkdale, p. 48.
REV. W. GASKELL. As boys, the name we gave to the stalks of the wild
S4> hemlock, which we used for pea-blowers, was kecks. I
am not aware that this is to be found in the Gothic with any similar meaning;
but in Welsh we have cecys, plants with hollow stalks; and in Cornish kegaz
means hemlock; and I see no reason why this should not be regarded as a
genuine British relic.
Led. Lane. Dialect, p. 9.
COLL. USE. As dry as a kex (meaning thirsty).
1881.
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KEDDLE-DOCK, sb. common ragwort. Scnecio Jacob cza.
1776. July 30. This summer is remarkable for the great
quantity of keddledocks. A Middleton Farmer's Diary in Manchester Guardian,
Feb. 26, 1877.
1877. In the rural part of Mid- Lancashire (near Goosnargh),
where I was reared, the word was pronounced “kettle-dock" It is the
broad-leafed common dock, and the name is used in contradistinction to sour
dock and patience dock; it is totally different to the "ketlock"
\Sinapis arvensis. )
Edward Kirk, in Manchr. Guardian, March, 1877.
KEEL, v. to cool, to assuage, to allay, to moderate. A.S. celan, to chill;
formed from col, cool, by the usual mutation of o to e. See Skeat's Notes to
Piers the Plowman, p. 434.
About 1370. Then downe on knees ful humbly gan I knele,
Beseeching her my fervent wo to kele.
Court of Love (Aldine Chaucer), 1. 774.
1440. Kelyn, or make cold. Frigefacio. Prompt Parv.
SHAKSPERE. While greasie Jone doth keele the pot.
I 598. Love's Labour Lost, act v., sc. ii., 1. 930 and 939.
COLLIER. Fear me not, sed I, for I'm as hungry as a rott'n. . . .
175 “Yo mey come on' begin, sed hoo, for they need'n no
keeliri. Works, p. 68.
KEEMIN'-COMB, sb. a small tooth comb. KEEN, v. to kindle.
COLL. USE. What, is ther no foire keen'd yet? Aw mun have yo'
l88l> wenches eawt o' bed afore this toime in a mornin'.
KEEN-BITTEN, adj. eager, sharp, hungry; ready to take advantage.
COLLIER. i' r so keen-bitten I mede no bawks at o heyseed.
^so- Works, p. 68.
WAUGH. There were no symptoms of indigestion about Ben.
l86s- He was as keen-bitten as a starved ostrich.
Besom Ben, c. i., p. 6.
IBID. It wur Body o' Joseph's, a joiner by trade,
1876. A comical cowt, an' a keen-bitten blade;
He're as fause as a boggart.
Lane. Songs: The Grindlestone.
KEEP, sb. food, board, maintenance.
COLL. USE. "What does he get?" "Nine shillin' a- week an'
l88l- his keep; an' noan bad wages, noather."
KEEPIN' COMPANY, part, courting, being betrothed.
COLL. USE. "How lung
"Why, for sei mile, mon, whi
KEEVIL (Lytham), sb. a candle.
COLL. USE. "How lung does ta say they kept company?"
' ' Why, for seven years; an' walked many a thousand mile, mon, while they
were at it."
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173
KEEVIL, sb. the person who stands on the centre of a sway-plank.
KEIGH-NEIGHVT, adj. = key-fisted, malformed, applied to the hand, and
referring to a hand chronically shut or half-shut.
WAUGH. “Had he a hair-shorn lip?" “Ay, he had! An' he
l86s> wur keigh-neighvt!" Besom Ben, c. vii., p. 90.
KEISH (N. Lane.), sb. the hollow stem of the hemlock. See KEX. KELCH
(Ormskirk), sb. a sprain. See KENCH. KELK (N. Lane.), v. to strike. KENCH,
sb. a sprain.
KENCH, v. to sprain.
r . "What's up Ned?"
COLL. USE.
Nowt mich a bit of o r
2. Aw slipp'd off th' kerb-stone an' kench'd my ankle.
KENNED, ) m T x , T^TTXTT' r (N. Lane.), v. knew. iviidN i, ) x
DR. BARBER. < That's a bit o' aad Bat's wark.” ' ' Wha's he?" I ext.
“I sud ha' thowte ivvery body kent aad Bat."
Forness Folk, p. 13.
KENSPAK (N. Lane.), adj. easy to know.
DR. BARBER. it's t sleatts et gev that bye-neamm to t' spot, 'cos
the'r kenspak amang udder sooarts.
Forness Folk, p. II.
KENSPECKLE, adj. conspicuous from some oddity of person or attire; easy to
recognize. Icel. kenni-speki t the faculty of recognition.
WAUGH. He's a kenspeckle mak of a face, as far as I can judge.
Chimney Corner, p. 127.
KEP (N. Lane.), v. to catch.
KERSEN, )
KESSEN, ' } "-to christen.
COLLIER. I75 '
WAUGH. l879 '
Eh, truth, Meary, I never lee eh sitch bed sin eh wur kersunt. Works, p. 54.
Did'n yo never hear tell on 'em gooin a-kessunin y that chylt o' theirs?
Chimney Corner, p. 32.
KESMAS, ) , ~, .
KERSMUS (N. Lane.), J sb ' Christmas”
WAUGH - l867 '
Aw's be seventy-one come Kesmas mornin'.
Owd Blanket, c. Hi., p. 62.
KEST (N. Lane.), sb. a ride; a lift on the way.
J. P. MORRIS. I gat a kest in a coup er I wod a' bin teer't.
Furness Glossary, p. 52.
KESTER, sb. Christopher.
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KESTLIN, sb. a calf dropped before its time.
KESTREL, sb. a flawed and inferior earthen vessel Whittaker.
KET (Fylde and Lonsdale), sb. carrion.
KET-CROW (Fylde and Lonsdale), sb. the carrion crow.
KEEVILLY, adj. unsteady.
KIB, sb. a small bone in the sheep's foot, used in playing the game called
“Bobber and kibs."
KIBBLE (Fylde), sb. a stick. KIBBLER (Fylde), sb. a bad walker. KIBBO, sb. a
long stick.
COLLIER. Aw' th' rest on urn had hoyts, or lung kibboes, like.
I 75$ swinging sticks or raddlins. Works, p. 43.
IBID. A felly with a wythen kibbo in his hont. Works, p. 52.
KIBE, v. to pout the lip in scorn, to gibe, to mock.
KILL, sb. a kiln.
REV. W. GASKELL. I n the Welsh word for a furnace, we have that which
18541 is constantly used in Lancashire; not kiln, with the n
at the end, but cyl, as a lim&kill, a brick^z'//.
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 10.
KIM-KAM, adv. to walk with a throw of the legs athwart one another.
Whittaker.
KIN-COUGH, sb. the whooping-cough. See CHINCOUGH, ante
P- 74$ KINDLE, v. to bring forth; chiefly applied to rabbits.
SHAKSPERE. The cony that you see dwell where she is kindled.
I6o - As You Like It, iii. ii. 358.
KINGDOM-COME, sb. heaven; a state of happiness.
COLL. USE. Poor owd lad! He's gone to Kingdom-come at last.
KINK, v. to lose the breath with coughing or laughing. See CHINK, ante, p.
74.
JOHN SCHOLES. Hoo set Throddy agate o laffin at hur till e kinkt
l8s7> ogen. Jaunt to see th? Queen, p. 57.
KINK (N. Lane.), sb. a crease.
KINK-HAUST, ) sb. a violent cough or cold. See CHINCOUGH, KINK-HOOST, J ante,
p. 74.
KINKIN' (N. Lanc.),/rf. laughing. KIPE (N. Lane.), v. to retort.
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KIPPER, adj. amorous.
KIPPLE, v. to lift a weight from the ground on to the shoulder without help
or stay.
KIST, sb. a chest. A.S. cist; Icel. kista; Dan. kiste.
WEST MIDLAND DIALECT. And he with keyes uncloses kystes ful mony.
J 36o. Allit. Poems, B, 1438,
BAMFORD. If it were during winter, or in broken cold weather,
l8 5$ the great oaken kist would have to yield up its most
substantial article of attire. Intro, to Tim Bobbin, p. vii.
JOHN SCHOLES. Aw stare't at him, un weel aw met, fur aw thowt o'
l86 7$ th' meyl kist. Jaunt to see tti Queen, p. 41.
DR. BARBER. Fellas wos runnin' abowt as rank as mice in a meeal
l8 7$ kist. Forness Folk, p. 12.
KITE (N. Lane.), sb. the belly.
WAUGH. Noo an' then I've starken't my kite wi' bacon an'
(Furness^Dialect.) cabbish. Jannock, c. ix., p. 97.
KITTER (S. Lane.), } ,. d u KITTLE (N. Lane.), { f” d
KITTLE, v. to miss, to fail in an attempt. KITTLE, v. to tickle. Icel. kitla.
KITTLE, adj. ticklish, nicely-balanced.
KITTLE, v. to bring forth, applied to cats.
WAUGH. Owd Ben had a daughter wed, an' a keaw cauve't, an'
18751 a mare foal't, an' a cat kittle 1 1, o' in one day.
Old Cronies, c. vi., p. 56.
KITLIN', sb. a kitten. Professor Skeat in his Etym. Diet, art. Kitten, says:
"The true English form is kit-ling, where-ling ( = / + ing) is a double
diminutive suffix."
ROBERT HERRICK. The brisk mouse may feast herself with crums, 1648. Tm that
the g re en-ey'd kitting comes.
A Country Life.
WAUGH. Aw connot ston it. Aw'm as wake [weak] as a kitlirt
l86 7$ this minute. Home Life of Factory Folk, c. xxii., p. 194.
KIZEN'T (N. Lane.), adj. parched, dried up. KNAP (N. Lane.), sb. a blow.
KNOBLUCKS, sb.pl. small lumps.
KNOCKUS, sb. pi knuckles.
COLLIER. Hal o' Nabs had his knockus lapt in his barmskin.
J 75<>. Works, p. 43.
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KNOGGY, adj. knotty.
KNOWE, sb. pronun. of knoll.
WAUGH. I went out at th' town-end till I geet at th' top of a
l8 79' bit of a knowe. Chimney Corner; p. 252.
KNUCKLE-DOWN, v. to submit, to consent to indignity.
COLL. USE. Aw shall never knuckle-down to that chap, aw con
l881 - tell thi'.
KNUCKLE-UNDER, v. to humiliate oneself; to take the second place.
COLL. USE. If hoo once gets thee to knuckle-under tha's done for.
KOBNOGGLE (Fylde), v. to pull the hair and then hit the head with the
knuckles.
KRINDLE, sb. kernel.
WAUGH. Onybody may ha' th' shell, Mary, if they'n lev me th'
79< krindle. Chimney Corner, p. 203.
KUSS, ) sb. a kiss. A.S. coss; Mid. Eng. cos, kos, kus; Icel. KUSSIN', |
koss; Du. kus, sb., whence kussen, vb. See Kiss in
Skeat's Etym. Diet. "The form kusse is as late as Skelton,
Phylyp Sparowe, 361."
WAUGH. Aw could just like to kuss tho once, afore we starten,
iv thae's no objection, for thae looks hondsomer nor ever this mornin'. Let's
just ha' one kuss, lass.
Sneck-Bant, p. 59.
IBID - “Give us a kussirf /" And hoo gave him one.
Old Cronies, c. iv., p. 43.
KYE, sb. pi. cows, kine. A.S. cu, a cow; cy, cows.
WEST MIDLAND DIALECT. Bothe to cayre [drag] at the kart and the kuy mylke.
A Hit. Poems, B, 1259. BURNS. The kye stood rowtin' i' the loan. The Two,
Dogs.
REV. W. GASKELL. Another relic of an Anglo-Saxon plural we have in the
18541 word which Wickliffe uses when he says, "And thus we
blame childre." In A.S. this was ctldru. Our word "children"
is a double plural, and really not so good a form as /'childre." And so
with "kyne," the A.S. being cy, to which the Lancashire kye
answers.
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 24.
KYSTY (N. Lane.), adj. dainty.
J. P. MORRIS. Some weshed out the'r chammer-pots ye may be suer
they worn't keisty an' hed 'em filled.
Invasion o” IFston, p. 5.
DR. BARBER. Qoer kysty to be amang dacent foke.
Forness Folk, p. 31.
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L.
LACE (S. Lane.), j v . to beat, to castigate. Literally to strike LEACE (N. Lane.),
I with a leather thong.
THOMAS WILSON. Hoo towd me hoo'd get me weel laced, 18421 If aw didna' that
minute goo whom.
Songs of the Wilsons, p. 45. LAD, v. led.
WAUGH. it'll do noan! I'll not be lad into temptation wi' yo.
Chimney Corner, p. 277.
LADSAVVUR, r.. 4 , , ,,..,,
LADS-LOVE | southernwood. Artemisia Abrotanum.
LADYBIRD, J sb. the small scarlet beetle with black spots. Cocci- LADYCOW, I
nella punctata. Lancashire children sing the following song:
Lady-cow, lady-cow, fly away home,
Your house is on fire and your children all gone.
LADY-SMOCK, sb. the plant cuckoo-flower. Cardamine pratensis. Most commonly
known in Lancashire as the “May-flower." SHAKSPERE. Daisies pied and
violets blue
i597 And lady-smocks all silver-white.
Lovers L. L., act v., sc. ii.
LAFTER (N. Lane.), sb. one brood of chickens; the eggs which a hen sits upon
during incubation. Cf. Icel. Idtr, the place where animals lay their young
(which Mr. Vigfusson wrongly identifies with E. litter).
LAGGINS 1 s ^' ^' l ^ e staves f a tu k or cas k- B - BRIERLEY. The fence,
his own making, was but a rickety fabric of
1 ' “laggins," worn-out treadles, and discarded weight
ropes. Marlocks of Merriton, p. 68.
LAIGH, v, to laugh; laighin, laughing; laighless, laughless, without
laughter.
LAITH, v. to laugh.
B ' BR O^B RLEY ' "Aw da'say," said Jacob, "hoo'llwant summat
to
laith abeawt.'' Irkdale, c. xvii., p. 241.
LAITH, \ sb. a barn or storehouse. Icel. hlafta, a barn, a store- LEATH, j
house.
CHAUCER. Why nad thou put the capul [horse] in the lathe?
Keeves Tale, 1. 168.
COLLIER. 175$
Just as I'r gett'n to th' leath dur. Works, p. 67.
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LAITHE, v. to invite. A.S. lathian, to invite, bid, send for, assemble. Icel.
/afta, to bid, to invite a guest.
A - D - 995$ “Da se sunder-halga, pe hine in-geldtode" when the
Pharisee, who had invited him.
A.S. Gospels, Luke vii. 39.
WAUGH. “Come, poo a cheer up," he said, “an' need no moor
laithein\” Lane. Sketches: Cottage of Tim Bobbin, p. 53. IBID. Aw'll laithe a
rook o' neighbour lads,
Frisky cowts, an' bowd uns.
Lane. Songs: Turn Rindle. B. BRIERLEY. Q' th' folk i' Irkdale wur laithe to
th' buryin'.
Irkdale, c. i., p. 30.
LAKE, v. to play. A.S. Idc, play; Iczcan^ to play. Icel. leika. I 44$ Laykyn,
or thynge that chyldryn pley wythe.
Promp. Parv.
J- p - MORRIS. A lot of us lads wer' lakin down et t' la end o'
Brou'ton. Siege o' Brou'ton, p. 3.
LAM, v. to beat soundly. Icel. lemja, to thrash, flog, beat, so as to lame or
disable; A.S. lemian.
LAMMAS, v. to run, to disappear quickly.
WAUGH. Thae'm mind te hits, an' when aw sheawt
l859 ' Be limber-legged, an' lammas eawt.
Lane. Songs: Margifs Comirf.
B. BRIERLEY. Aw'm noane feart on thee gooin' back. Theau con
18681 lammas off agen, if t' thinks theau con do better some- wheere else.
Fratchingtons, p. 62.
LANGEL (N. Lane.), v. to tie the forelegs of cattle to prevent them from
straying.
144$ Langelyn, or byynd to-geder. Prompt. Parv.
LANG-LENGTH (N. Lane.), ) ,
LUNG-LENGTH (S. Lane.)! | adv ' at last '> ultimatel y- COLLIER. Yoan pood
truth eawt ov a dirty pleck at lung-length.
W- Works, p. 65.
WAUGH. At th' lung-length aw geet 'em laid still.
I8S9> Lane. Songs: Come Whoam to thi Childer.
IBID. Well, at th' lung-length we geet to th' White Heawse.
Yeth-Bobs, c. ii., p. 33.
LANKISTER-LOWP, sb. leap-frog.
LANT, v. to beggar, to disappoint. Cf. Icel. hlanna, to pilfer.
LANT, sb. stale urine. Generally spoken of as "owd lant." Formerly
much used by Lancashire cottagers for scouring or cleaning blankets and other
woollen cloths; also for sundry medicinal purposes. In every yard or garden
would have been found a receptacle for storing it. Icel. hland.
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LATCH, v. to take, to catch as "to latch a distemper." A.S.
Iceccan, to catch.
LATE, v. to seek. Icel. leita, to seek, to search. See Latiand'm Spec, of
Eng., ed. Morris and Skeat.
B. BRIERLEY. There's a gentleman at th' back ut aw dar say yo'
7$ known; so aw'll leeave yo to lait up owd acquaintance
while aw get ready. Red Windows Hall, c. iv., p. 22.
DR. BARBER. They heven't time to lait ther lost sheep.
Forness Folk, p. 23.
LATHER, sb. a ladder (sometimes pronounced ladther).
LATTER-END, sb. death, the time of death.
It's toime for thee to begin o' thinkin' o' thi latter-end, owd mon.
LAWRENCE, sb. used figuratively for idleness.
C OL L- USE. i s he poorly?" "Not him, belike. He's getten
Lawrence on his back that's his ailment."
LAYERS-FOR-MEDDLERS, sb. anything which it may not be desirable to describe;
a term used in answer to the impertinent or inconvenient question of a child.
"What hav yo' getten i' that bag?" “Layers-for-meddlers does ta
want to know?"
LAYROCK, ) sb. the lark. Icel. lasvirki. Chaucer in Cant. Tales LEAROCK, )
1&& laverock; Romaunt of Rose, 1. 662, laverokkes; Burns, Holy Fair,
st. i. See Lark in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
COLL. USE. 1881.
COLL. USE. 1881.
BAMFORD. 1840.
A climb of about two miles brought us upon the level of the hill at Ashworth
Moor, soon after which we came in sight of Learock Hoyle, in modern English,
“Lark's Hole," a substantial hostel and farm house.
Life of Radical, vol. i., c. viii., p. 53.
Yo'll ne'er find swallows uppo th' wing, Nor hearken th' bonny layrock sing,
A dark spot ditherin' i' th' blue sky.
Lane. Songs: Lancashire Emigrants, p. IOO.
The inhabitants of Dean valley are so notable for their love of music, that
they are known all through the vales of Rossendale as "Th' Deighn Lay
rocks," or "The larks of Dean."
Home Life of the Factory Folk, c. xxiii., p. 199.
LEA (N. Lane.), sb. a scythe. Icel. It, Ijdr.
LEAF, sb. the inner fat of the pig, which, when melted, is called lard.
LEAN-TO, sb. a building erected against another; also used as an adj., and
applied to a roof, as "a lean-to roof."
RAMSBOTTOM. 1864.
WAUGH. 1867.
LEASE ) LEECE f
Dividing f t ^ ie tnrea d in a warp.
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LEATHER, v. to beat, to thrash.
MJSSLAHEE. As for Ned Buttereth, bith' mass, aw'll leather him
i' th' sect ov himsel, when aw see him again.
Carter's Struggles, p. 52.
LEATHERIN', adj. large.
J. P. MORRIS. Ther' wer' some gert letherin 1 young chaps (fell-bred,
I'se uphod 'em), stackerin' abowt.
Siege o' Brorfton, p. 3.
LEATHERIN 1 , ) part, going at a great rate or with much
LEATHERIN' AWAY, | vigour.
B. BRIERLEY. Leatherirf away at one's loom as if it we'rn feightin'
a battle. Ab-o'-th'- Yate on Times and Things, p. 14.
S. LAYCOCK. jje sprang eawt o' th' heawse witheawt jacket or hat;
went leatherin^ deawn th' street to an uncle o' mine.
Lane. Songs, p. 45.
LEATHER-YED, sb. a blockhead, a stupid person.
B. BRIERLEY. When I come for t' calkilate heaw mony scamps it tak's
for t' keep one o' these leatheryeds i' concait wi' hissel, I break eawt in a
cowd swat.
Ab-o'-th?- Yate on Times and Things, p. 34.
WAUGH. “I can't say that I quite understand what it is that you
l8?5$ want, exactly." "Well, then," said he, "thou'rt a
leather-yed" Old Cronies, c. vii., p. 70.
LEAVIN'S, sb. anything left; remnants; also offal. Icel. leifar, leavings,
remnants, esp. of food.
COLL. USE. Nay, aw'st ha' noan o' thy leavings tha mun ate 'em
I88l thisel'.
LEAWK, v. pron. of lowk; to beat, to thrash.
LEAWKS I s ^' ^' tu ^ ts ^ barren dry grass; locks of hair.
JOHN SCHOLES. Theaw mun recollect ut Jim wur browt up omung th'
l857> leawk ut top o' Breawn Wardle.
Jaunt to see th? Queen, p. 40.
LEECE-ROD, sb. a rod to divide the threads of a warp.
LEECH, sb. a pond or pool of water; water lying in the hollow of a road. In
old Lancashire deeds and inquisitions the word appears frequently as lache,
as in Blake-/^^, Brad-/#^, Grenelowlache, Gos-lache, and Melshaw-/#<:/fo,
always indicative of a marshy locality. See Chetham Society's Publications.
COLL. USE. Comin' tearin' alung i' th' dark, aw went reet through
a leach o' watter, an' o'er my shoe-tops.
LEEM (N. Lane.), v. to free nuts from their husks. LEEMERS (N. Lane.), sb.
ripe hazel nuts.
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LEET, LEETEN
1 v. to alight; let, alighted; also to happen, and to find.
WAUGH. 1859.
One leets o' few sich nooks as this, An th' journey ends i' th' gravel.
Lane. Songs: Come, Limber Lads.
His een let upo' th' tow-bar. Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 35.
"How did yo sattle it?" "He tanned my hide for me."
"Well, come; that's done wi' till we leeten o' one another again."
Chimney Corner, p. 182.
1. We'll see how it leets (happens).
2. If aw leet on him (find him), aw'll tell thi.
LEET, sb. pron. of light, as in day-/#tf; leeter, lighter; leetniri,
lightning.
LEET-LOOKIN', adj. light, in full daylight.
WAUGH. To goo an' come straight out o' thi looms, an' walk
l8?9$ three mile, i'th leet-lookirt day, to feight a battle.
Chimney Corner, p. 153.
LEETSOME, adj. light, cheerful, pleasant-looking.
WAUGH. Th' cat pricks up her ears at th' sneck,
Wi' mony a leetsome toot. Lane. Songs: Neet-fo.
One leetsome neet, abeawt hay- time. Oivd Yem, p. 5.
IBID. 1868.
IBID. 1879.
COLL. USE. 1881.
1859.
Miss LAHEK. 1870.
LEG-DOWN, v. to cause to fall or stumble by putting forward the leg in the way
of another; figuratively, to bring into trouble.
LEISTER (N. Lane.), sb. a fish-spear. Icel. Ijbster.
LENNOCK, adj. pliant, nimble; also long, pendulous.
Another word, not so often heard, which he [the Rachda Felley] makes use of,
is lennock. I can only charge my memory with having heard this once, and that
was some years ago; it means limber or pliant.
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 21.
Thae's a fuut like a angel, Ben; an, by th' mon, thae'rt as lennock as a
snig. Yeth-Bobs, c. i., p. 29.
REV. W. CASK ELL. 1854.
WAUGH. 1869.
LEP (Fylde), v. to steep.
LET, v. lighted.
WAUGH. He took me into a long, dark room, wheer there wur
l8 79$ a hawp'ny candle let. Chimney Corner, p. 245.
LET-ON, v. to tell a secret; to admit knowledge of a thing.
COLL. USE. Whatever he says, dunnot thee let-on 'at tha knows
l88l< owt about it.
LEY, sb. the carnation.
WAUGH. She was the queen of all flower-growers in humble life
upon her native ground; especially in the cultivation of the polyanthus,
auricula, tulip, and "ley," or carnation. Lane. Sketches: Heywood
and Neighbourhood,^. 184.
1855.
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LEY, sb. pasture or grass land, as distinguished from plough land or such as
is kept under tillage.
LICK, v. to beat; also to excel, to surpass.
WAUGH. I could ha' lickt him mysel' wi' one hont teed beheend
l879 ' mo! . Chimney Corner, p. 153.
COLL. USE. Tha'll not lick (excel) that, if tha' tries for a week; so
tha' may as weel give in.
B. BRIERLEY. Theau'd want byettin' [beating] twice a-day wi' an odd
lick extry neaw an' agen. Fratchingtons, p. 68.
LICKIN', sb. provender for cattle.
LIEF, adv. soon, in the sense of willingly or preferably.
SHAKSPERE. I had as lief have been myself alone.
l6o - As You Like It, iii. ii. 269.
WAUGH. Iv it's o' th' same to yo, aw'd as liefyo wouldn't co' me
no mak o' nick-names. Sneck-Bant, c. iv., p. 73.
B. BRIERLEY. Aw'd as lief goo to a comfortable corner o' th' tother
l868 - shop. Irkdale, c. i., p. 49.
T IF'T^KT^ }
LEVER (N. Lane.), { “' rather > sooner '
TENNYSON. Myself would work eye dim, and finger lame,
l859> Far liefer than so much discredit him.
Idylls of the King: " Enid.
COLLIER. I'd leefer ha' taen forty eawls. Works, p. 72.
1750.
WAUGH. But, he that would liefer drink wayter,
Shall never be stinted by me.
Lane. Songs: God Bless these Poor Folk.
Miss LAHEE. Nawe, aw'd liefer wait till they com'n.
Betty <?' Ye/s Tale, p. 12.
LIEW, adj. thin, poor, diluted.
LIG, v. to lie. A.S. licgan; Icel. liggja.
SPENSER. Tho gan shepheards swaines to looke aloft,
1580. ^ n( j Yeave to live hard, and learne to ligge soft.
Shepheardes Calender: May, 1. 124.
REV. W. GASKELL. Another word retaining the Anglo-Saxon form, which
l8s4 ' occurs in our older poets, and also prevails in the Lanca- shire
dialect, is the verb to “lig" which has now become lie. A medical friend
of mine, being once sent for to visit a person who was ill, asked the
messenger, by the way, whether the person he was going to see was a
respectable man. He wanted to know what was the rank of his patient. The
answer was, "Aw dunnot knoa disaktly what yo koen 'respectable,' but he
wears a watch an' ligs aloan." Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 16.
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Miss LAHEE. "Aw could do neaw to ligme deawn a bit."
"Humph,"
l86 S- aw ses, "aw shouldn't wonder iv tha ligged deawn an'
brast, for aw ne'er see'd a woman eyt so mich."
Betty o' Yep's Tale, p. 7.
DR. BARBER. He ligged i' bed a lang while afooar he deed.
Forness Folk, p. 13.
LIKE, adv. used in a curious manner for the purpose of intensifying an
expression as, “I'm all of a dither, like?, meaning, “I am trembling
violently."
LIKED, v. obliged, compelled, almost.
COLL. USE. i. “Tha'rt never gooin to make that journey to-neet,
l88x - surely." “Yea, aw am: aw'm liked.”
2. “What did tha hit him for?" "Aw couldn't help it: aw felt as if
aw wur liked to do it."
3. Get out o'th' way, aw'd liked to knock'd thi deawn.
LILE (Ormskirk and N. Lane.), adj. little. Dan. lUle, little.
DR. BARBER. He meadd a deeal o' fancy things i' his aan Hie smiddy.
l8 7$ Forness Folk, p. 13.
LILT, v. to step lightly.
WAUGH. Come, Mary, link thi arm i' mine,
l85 9$ An' lilt away wi' me. Lane. Songs.
LIMB, sb. a wild or frolicsome or over-clever person.
COLL. USE. What a limb that wench is!
1881.
LIMBER, adj. supple, flexible.
WAUGH. He're straight as ony pickin'-rod,
l859 “An' limber as a snig. Lane. Songs: Chirrup.
IBID - Th' cowt's as pratty a limber-legged, craiter as ever I
clapt een on. Chimney Corner, p. 157.
LIME-GAL, sb. a pony used for the carrying of lime; gal is probably a
contraction of “galloway."
About 1 860. Clitheroe, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, was a
paltry, poverty-stricken borough, its staple, and indeed its only, commodity
being lime, which was brought from the neighbouring kilns upon the backs of
small, shaggy-coated ponies (there denominated “lime-gals"), and
disposed of in the adjacent country.
Ned of the Fell, p. 12.
LIN, sb. linen. A.S. lin, flax. Prof. Skeat in his Etym. Diet, has
"Linen, used as a sb., but really an adj. with adj. suffix -en, as in
wooll-en, gold-en; the original sb. was //, preserved in lin- seed. Mid. Eng.
//, sb.; linen, adj."
WAUGH. It's a quare thing about ghosts comin' back, wi' their
l86 S- clooas on, too! That caps me! Think o' th' ghost of
a lin sheet! Sexton's Story, p. 25.
IBID. I can see him sittin' there . . . drest in a check
18741 lin shirt, wi' a strap round his neck for a stock.
Jannock, c. viii., p. 82.
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LINDRINS, sb.pl. ropes put round a weaver's beam when the woof is nearly
finished.
B. BRIERLEY. Wi' mi pickers an' pins,
An' mi wellers to th' shins, Mi linderins, shuttle, and yeald-hook.
Wayverd 1 Wellbrook. LINES, sb. a marriage certificate.
LINTHER, v. to make fast the end of a warp so that it can be woven close and
finished.
LIPPEN, v. to expect, to calculate.
COLLIER. Hoo towd me hoo lipp'nt hur feythur wur turnt
stracklin'. Works, p. 68.
WAUGH. Eawr Tummy's at th' fair, where he lippens
l8 59$ O' swappin' his cowt for gowd.
Lane. Songs: Yesterneet.
IBID. Aw lippen on him breighkin' his neck some o' these
days. Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 25.
IBID. Hoo lipperit o' bein' wed, yo known but it fell
l8 79$ through. Chimney Corner, p. 27.
LISH (Fylde and N. Lane.), adj. smart, active, nimble. Cf. E. lithe.
DR. BARBER. Afooar t' men gat down, a lish young fella hed setten
off on horseback to tell 'im. Forness Folk, p. 48.
LISK (N. Lane.), sb. the groin.
LITHE, v. to thicken broth or soup with oatmeal or flour.
WAUGH. There'll be broth to-morn, weel lithe't, an plenty o'
pot-yarbs in 'em. Besom Ben, c. i., p. 15.
B - B ^ ERLEY - The old woman was engaged in "tithing" the broth,
when her spouse rushed in to tell her dreadful tidings. “What ever 's to do
neaw?" she exclaimed, hurriedly placing the lithing bowl on the hob.
Marlocks of Merriton, p. 69.
LITHER, adj. idle, lazy. See Lither and Luther in Spec, of English.
Miss LAHEE. Theyr'n too farrently lit her to give a gradely deawnfo'
an' be done wi' it.
Robin o' Dick's Charity Coat, p. 12.
WAUGH. Well, thou knows, Ben were olez to lither to wortch,
fro bein' a lad. Chimney Corner, p. 278.
I BID - Lither folk wi' their stomachs so dainty,
They wanten their proven made fine.
Ibid., p. 234.
LIVEN, v. plural of live.
WAUGH. Thae's wit enough to know
1 59 “That daisies liven weel
Where tulips connot grow.
Lane. Songs: God Bless thi Silver Yure.
J|g' “Little lads o' groon into fellys; don't they, mam?”
"Ay, if they liven, my love," answered Betty, in a quiet tone.
Sneck-Bant, c. iii., p. 53.
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LOAD EN, v. to load.
LOANE, sb. a lane. A.S. lane, lone.
l68l William Hunt fined one shilling for keeping geese in
the loanes. Bailiff's minute-book, FishwicKs Hist, of Kirkham, p. 20.
B. BRIERLEY. His shirt no lad would ha punced if he'd seen it lyin'
i' th' loane. Ab-j-tti- Yate in London, p. 19.
LOAVE (N. Lane.), v. to offer.
LOB, sb. a clown, a clumsy fellow. W. Hob, an unwieldy lump; also a
blockhead.
REV. W. GASKELL. We sometimes hear a heavy clumsy man called “a
l854 ' great lob of a felley." Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 13.
LOB (Ormskirk), sb. an assistant gamekeeper.
LOB, v. to run with a long and irregular stride. Cf. Dan. lobe, to run.
LOBCOCK, sb. a great, idle, young person.
LOBSCOUSE, sb. a dish consisting of hashed meat, cooked with potatoes and
onions.
WAUGH. Aw'm partial to butcher's chips; aw wish they wer'n
l86s> abeaut twopence a peawnd; we'd oather ha' lobscouse, or
beef-bo', every day, bi go! Besom Ben, c. i., p. 15.
LOBSIDED, adj. on one side, out of proportion.
COLL. USE. He's a lobsided sort of a chap body an' moind,
booeth (both).
LOCK (N. Lane.), sb. a quantity.
LOIT, adj. few.
WAUGH. "It's close upo' puddin'-time," said the old man.
l869 ' “It'll be within a light minutes o' noon, aw'll be bund."
Yeth-Bobs, c. iii., p. 47.
B. BRIERLEY. If anybody had axt me heaw mony friends I had, I
l8 7$ should ha' bin bothered to ha' said how loit.
Ab-J-tW- Yate on Times and Things, p. 48.
LOLLOPIN', part, loose, hanging, limp.
WAUGH. Thou greight, o'er-grown, idle, lollopirf hount (hound)!
l8 79$ Chimney Corner, p. 153.
LOMPER, v. to walk heavily.
LONDON-BOBS (Calder Vale, near Garstang), sb. Sweet William.
LONG-SETTLE, ) sb. a sofa with a high wooden back. A.S. //, LUNG-SETTLE, j a
seat.
WAUGH. Old Sam, the landlord, sat quietly smoking on the
18551 long-settle, in a nook by the fireside.
Lane. Sketches, p. 23.
IBID. Come thi' ways to th' fire. There's plenty o' reawm
l8 7 6 - [room] upo' th' lung-sattle\\QiQ. Hermit Cobbler, p. 32.
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LONK, sb. a Lancashire-bred sheep.
LOOK-AFTER, v. to watch, to attend to.
COLL. USE. Aw'll look-after thi, my lad; tha'll not get so far
l88l without me knowin'.
LOPE, v. leapt. See Leop in Spec, of Eng.
WAUGH. Turn Rindle lope fro' th' chimbley-nook.
l8 S9$ Lane. Songs: Turn Rindle.
LOPPER, v. to boil slowly.
LOPPERIN'.
WAUGH. I've bin wheer there's roast an' boiled an' a lopperiri
18791 stew, that it would make a mon's yure curl to smell at.
Chimney Corner; 126.
LOPPERT-MILK, sb. boiled milk or curdled milk. LOPPERT, part, coagulated,
clotted.
LURRY ] I s ^' a ^ n ^ cart> without sides, an d with f ur wheels. .
LORRY, v. to pull or drag a person along against his will.
COLL. USE. Aw'l not be lorried in that way oather by thee or
l881 - onybody else.
LOSSY, adj. unprofitable, causing waste.
COLL. USE. These potatoes are very lossy; aw have to cut haaf on
'em away.
LOTCHIN', v. limping.
LOUND (N. Lane.), adj. calm, or out of the wind. Icel. logn> Swed. lugn,
calm, said of weather.
LOUNDER (N. Lane.), v. to lounge idly about. LOUP, v. to leap. LOVER, l ,
LOOVER, } sb - a chimne y- LOW, sb. a flame. Icel. log, a flame.
LOWK (Fylde and N. Lane.), v. to weed. Icel. lok, a weed; A.S. lyccan, to
pull, weed.
LOWMOST, adj. lowest.
WAUGH. The fire was dying out in the lowmost bars of the
grate. Besom Ben t c. ix., p. no.
LOW-SIZED, adj. little, short of stature. LOZZUCK, v. to loll, to rest idly.
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LUG, sb. the ear. Cf. Swed. lugg, the fore-lock.
LUG, v. to pull the hair. Swed. lugga, to pull by the hair; lugg, the
fore-lock.
JOHN ScHotES. Hoo pood his ears for him, an lugged him reet weel
when hoo found eawt. Jaunt to see tti Queen, p. 61.
WAUGH. “That big un's gone an' cut every smite o' th' lad's
toppin' off." "Well," said the elder lad, "Aw did it so
as nobody could lug him." And it certainly was a close clip. Home Life
Factory Folk, c. xx., p. 178.
LUM, sb. a chimney. LUM, sb. a deep pool.
LUMBER, sb. mischief.
B. BRIERLEY. I begin to think I shall never see Walmsley Fowt no
1869. moore, for if I dunno' get lost, or kilt, or takken up for
dooin' summat I never intended dooin', I shall be i' lumber o' some sort.
Ab-o'-th- Yate in London, p. 49.
WAUGH. "What's keepin' Robin till this time o'th' neet?" I
l8 7 6 - hope he hasnt getten into lumber, for he's hardly to be
trusted on a market day as owd as he is.
Hermit Cobbler, p. 12.
LUNGE, v. to strike heavily.
COLL. USE. He lunged out wi' his fists to some tune, aw con tell
LUNGEOUS, adj. rough and clumsy. See Lounge and Lunge in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
JOHN SCHOLES. Weft into th' yung rascot. Maw hont's raythur too
lunjus, or aw'd ge'et him to some bant.
Jaunt to See th? Queen, p. 29.
WAUGH. He leet fly at Antony wi' a greight strap 'at he had,
an' he said, “Hasto catched that?" "Come, give o'er!" said
Antony, “give o'er; yo're too lungous /" Chimney Corner, p. 161.
LUNG-LENGTH, adv. See LANG-LENGTH. LURCHER, sb. one who lurks j also a kind
of dog.
LURDEN, sb. an idle fellow.
About 1390. He loketh al louryng, and lordein hym calleth.
P. Plowman, c. vi. 163.
LURRY, v. to drag, to pull; lurried, dragged along. See LORRY.
LUTCH, v. to pulsate; lutchirf, pulsating painfully, as in a tumour, or in
tooth-ache.
WAUGH. It steawnges an' lutches to that degree that I sometimes
79> wish my yed would fly straight off.
Chimney Corner, p. 143.
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M.
MACK (N. Lane.), sb. a maggot. Mid. Eng. mawk. See Mawkish in Skeat's Etym.
Diet.
MADDLE, v. to confuse, to irritate; parallel to madden.
WAUGH. Make a less din, childer, win yo: for my yed's fair
l867 - maddttt wi one thing an' another.
Home Life of Factory Folk, c. xix., p. 165.
DR. BARBER. They wor fairly maddlet amang it, an' gev it up as a
l8 7$ bad job, Forness Folk, p. 20.
MADLIN', sb. a flighty, extravagant person. MADLOCK, sb. a wild, giddy
person. From mad. MAES, v. makes. See MAY. MAFFLE, v. to hesitate, to falter,
to stammer, to mumble.
SLEMENT, 1”
WAUGH. He' re a fine, straight-forrud mon, wi' no maffle abeawt
l8 55$ him, for o' his quare, cranky ways.
Lane. Sketches: Cottage of Tim Bobbin, p. 55.
IBID. “Come noo," said the landlord,” I like that!
1874$ There's nae mafflement aboot it.” -Jannock, c. v. , p. 34.
MAFFLEHORN, sb. an incapable, blundering, inefficient person.
MAID (N. Lane.), \ sb. a clothes-horse. See Tamsin in Pegge's MAIDEN (S.
Lane.), j Kentidsms.
WAUGH. Aw iron't o' my clooas reet weel,
l8 59$ An' aw hanged 'em o' th' maiden to dry.
Lane. Songs: Come Whoam to thi Childer.
MAIKIN (N. Lane.), sb. the common yellow iris. Iris pseudacorus. MAIN-SHORE,
sb. the principal sewer in a street.
MAK, sb. sort, kind, appearance.
B. BRIERLEY. What sort o' sons an' dowters-in-law hast getten? Are
1866. they of a farrantly mak?
Red Windows Hall, c. xiv., p. 107.
WAUGH. Th' shopkeepers an' th' ale-heawses are in for it as ill
1867. as ony mak. Home Life of Factory Folk, c. ii., p. 21.
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MAKE, v. to fasten. Shakspere uses the word in this sense: Com. Err or s>
iii. i. 93; As You Like If, iv. i. 162.
COLL. USE. It's toime we wur gooin' to-bed. Hasto made aw
1881. t > durs (doors )?
MAM, sb. mother. W. mam. See Mamma in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
B. BRIERLEY. Well, an' heaw lung's thy mam bin deead?
Irkdale, c. i., p. 42. MANGY (Ormskirk), adj. ill-tempered, peevish.
MANIGATE (Ormskirk), sb. a straight road over bog or moss land.
MANK, sb. a sportive trick.
WAUGH. “Neaw for a mank!" said Ben, as he drew the patient
l86s ' companion of his wanderings under the rope.
Besom Ben, c. ii., p, 21. MAPMENT (N. Lane.), sb. nonsense.
“ ", GlBS -, Mapment, Martha, mapment / Thow kna'sn't what
<H lg h Furness Dialect.) thow sa ys . _^/^^ of Cumberland, &c., p.
86.
MAPPEN (N. Lane.), adv. perhaps, possibly. See MEBBE and HAPPEN.
DR. BARBER. He seed a woman liggin deead, which put him in a
l87 ' sad pucker, for she'd mappen bin murder 'd or summat
o' t' mak. Forness Folk, p. 31.
MARKET-FRESH, sb. a stage of inebriation.
MARLOCK, sb. a playful trick, a prank, a game, a joke, fun, mischief.
Probably = merry lark.
COLLIER. He made sitch marlocks that if I'd naw bin i' that
J 75o- wofo pickle I'st a bross'n wi' laughin'. Works, p. 70.
WAUGM. Aw'll bet tho a hawpenny he's done it for a marlock.
l86 5$ Besom Ben, c. ii., p. 28.
B. BRIBRLEY. He'd be makin' o' sooarts o' marlocks wi' th' bedclooas
18681 an' cheers an' drawers, tumblin' 'em o' of a rook like an'
owd goods-shop, Irkdale, c. i., p. 47.
MARLOCK, v, to play. The suffix -lock is clearly the same as laik or lake, to
play. South E. lark.
RAMSBOTTOM. Ther'll nob'dy tak yo into th' cloof,
1864. An” j et yo rom p an ' marlock theer.
Lane. Rhymes, p. 99.
WAUGH. He's been marlockirf at th' front, wi' two or three
1866. more from Little wood Schoo'.
Ben an' tti Bantam, c. iv., p. 84.
MARRIAGE-LINES, sb. the certificate of marriage.
MARROW, sb. a match, a mate, an equal; also likeness, resemblance.
1440. Mar-we, or felawe yn travayle or mate.
Promp. Parv.
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TUSSER. Though buieng and selling doth woonderful well,
J 573' To such as have skill how to buie and to sell:
Yet chopping and changing I cannot commend, With theefe and his marrow, for
fear of ill end.
Chap. 57, st. 40.
WAUGH. Hoo'll never meet thy marrow,
l8 59$ For mony a summer day.
Lane. Songs: What Ails Thee.
IBID. Eh, Ben, onybody may know who's chylt this is. He's
l8 68. j us t thy marrow to nought, temper, an' o'.
Sneck-Bant, c. iii., p. 51.
Miss LAHEE. His curls lay quite flat, like a parson, so ut he wor th'
1870. marrow ov his brother Dick. Owd Yem, p. 15.
MASH (Ormskirk), sb. a large quantity.
MAULP, ) sb. a bullfinch. The low, plaintive cry of the wild MAWP, j
bullfinch sounds not unlike mope or moup. In the
Fylde district, maup is the common name for the blue-tit, and
spink for that of the bullfinch.
1673. Payd for maulpp taken 38 in Rostherne, 79 in High
Leigh, 63 in Overtabley; for every malpe id.; the whole number 180: o. 155.
od.
Rostherne Churchwardens' Accounts.
MAWKIN, sb. a scarecrow. Rob-mawkin is a poor fellow who exchanges his hat or
coat for that which has been used for a scarecrow.
MAWKIN, sb. a slattern. See Grimalkin in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
WAUGH. He co'de her a mismanner't daggle-tail an' a mawkin\
l8 7 6 - Manchester Critic, March 31.
MAY, v. make. See MAES. Hampole (A.D. 1340) has mas for makes, Pricke of
Conscience^ lines 255 and 702, and mase, 1. 242. See also Sir Gawayne (A.D.
1320), 1. 106, "Much mirthe he mas with alle."
WAUGH. Thae mays mo war [worse] nor aw am, wi' thi talk.
Owd Blanket, c. i., p. 1 8.
MAY-FLOWER, sb. the lady-smock. Cardamine pratensis. MAZZERT, excessively
vexed.
COLL. USE. He'd his best Sunday black on, and he came smack
l88 “i'th' slutch and he wur mazzert, I'll a-warnt yo.
MAZZLIN', adj. confused, foolish. See Maze in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
MEAWNGE or )
MUNGE, | v ' to chew > munch '
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LANCASHIRE GLOSSARY. MEBBE (may-be),
adv. perhaps.
MEEM AW, sb. an antic or grotesque action or expression of face; an affected
manner. See Mow (3), a grimace, in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
Yf ]>on make mawes on any wyse, A velany Jon kacches or euer )>on rise.
Book o Curtasye, Sloane, 1986 (Furnivall's Manners and Meals, p. 300).
WAUGH. A'wm noather partial to th' teawn nor teawn's folk,"
said Randal. "Nor me noather," replied Ben. "They'n too mony
meema^vs abeawt 'em for me."
Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 34. MEETEN, v. pi. of meet.
WAUGH. I'll tell tho moore when we meeten again.
Chimney Corner, p. 200.
MEETERLY, adv. tolerably well, comfortably. Literally "measurably,"
from the verb to mete.
COLLIER. Mary: That wur clever too; wur it naw? Thomas:
Yigh, meeterly. Works, p. 47.
B. BRIERLEY. < < Well, Mary, heaw art ta wench?” “Meeterly, Jone;
heaw art theaw?" was the widow's response. "Well, a'wm meeterly as
theaw ses, considerin' like."
Lane. Tales and Sketches, p. 127.
WAUGH. They'n getten meeterly weel sarv't this time.
Owd Blanket, c. iii., p. 52.
MEEVERLY, adv. modestly, gently, handsomely.
COLLIER. Aw carrid mesell meety meeverly too, an' did as yo
^S - bidd'n meh. Works, p. 37.
JOHN SCHOLES. Aw thowt aw'd nare sin hur lookin' more meeverly. .
Jaunt to see th' Queen, p. 14.
HEIGHT, sb. meat.
WAUGH. Fat! Yo connot ha' good meight beawt fat.
l8 79$ Chimney Corner, p. 221.
MELCH, adj. moist and warm.
WAUGH. "Nice melch mak o' a mornin'." "Grand groo- l879 '
weather, for sure. Weet an' warm, like Owdham
brewis." Chimney Corner, p. 113.
MELDER (N. Lane.), sb. a quantity.
J. P. MORRIS. Under a pile o' hay they fand a melder o' meeal girt
seeks full. ' Invasion o' ITston, p. 5.
MELL, v. to meddle, to have to do with. The M. E. verb medlen, often spelt
mellen, means “to mix." See Meddle in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
CHAUCER. Now let me melle therwith but a while.
I 3 86 - Chanoune Yemannes Tale, 1. 173.
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SHAKSPERH. And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,
I597> Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss.
Love's L. L., iv. iii. 257.
About 1400, In Whalley Church there are eighteen antique oak
stalls from the dismantled abbey, each with its quaintly- carved “miserere”
or folding seat, under which, in admirable workmanship, grotesque figures are
sculptured, with ludicrous jokes for which the holy men seem to have had a
remarkably keen appetite. Among the most noticeable is one representing a man
forcibly shoeing a goose, with the inscription
Woso melles of wat men dos,
Let him cum hier and shoe the ghos
MELL (Fylde and N. Lane.), sb. a mallet. MENSEFUL r adj. managing,
creditable.
WAUGH. It'll be a sham [shame] if we eonnot find him a menseful
l8 74$ bit of a dinner. Jannock, c. ii., p. 13.
MET, v. might.
WAUGH. Ben kissed her again, "Eh, Ben," said she, "do
1867. gi ve O ' er j Thae met b e sweetheartin'.”
Owd Blanket, c. i., p. 24.
MEXEN, v. to cleanse a stable or shippon. Literally to clean a mixen, as it
is called. Tennyson uses mixen for a midden: “And cast it on the mixen that
it die." Enid, 1. 672.
COLLIER. I think t' be an ostler, for I con mex'n, keem, or fettle
I7S ' tits as weel as ony one on um. Works, p. 71.
MEZZIL-FACE, sb. a fiery face, full of red pimples.
MICKLETH { s ^ size ' bulk “A ' S “ m y ce ^ reat
BAMFORD. "That wur indeed a strange brid," said Bangle; "but
wot mickle wur it, and wot wur it like i' shap?"
Life of Radical, vol. i., p. 133.
B - BR "5” LBV - That's just th' length an' bradth on't to th' mickleth
of
a yure. ' Red Windows Hall, c. v., p. 38.
MIDDEN, sb. a heap of dung or refuse; the ashpit at one time commonly
attached to most houses in Lancashire. Dan. modding, a dunghill.
HAM POLE, A fouler mydding saw thow never nane.
PrickeofC., L 628.
PALLADIUM The myddyng, sette it wete as it may rote,
And saver nought eke sette it ought of sight The sede of thorn in it wol dede
and dote.
WAUGH. He leet go th' rope, an' roll't off th' slate into a
midden at th' back o' th' house.
Chimney Corner, p. 297.
MIDDEN-HOLE, sb. the receptacle for dung.
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193
MIDDEN-STID, sb. a place for dung.
MIDDLE, sb. the waist, the middle part of the body.
COLL. USB. i. He wur up to his middle i' watter (water).
l88lm 2. He geet him by th' middle an' pitch'd him upo' th'
floor.
MIDGE, sb. anything very small.
COLL. USE. “Jone wur married o' Monday. Hasto seen his
iS8i. woife?" "Aye, hoo's nowt but a midge" “Hoo is a
little un, for sure."
MIMP, adj. prim, precise, affected.
MINDER, sb. the name given to one of the workers in a spinning mill.
MISTAL, sb. a cowhouse = mist-stall; mist = dung.
MITS, sb.pl. a woollen covering for the hands which leave the fingers and
half the thumb bare; also strong leathern gloves without partitions for the
fingers, used when handling thorns and prickly shrubs, or repairing fences.
See Mittens in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
MIZZY, sb. a soft, boggy place; allied to mist in mist-stall
MOITHER I to em ^ arrass ' to confuse, to perplex.
Neaw aw'r so strackt woode, Fr arronly moydert”
Works, p. 58,
Aw declare it's enough to moighder a stoo'-fuut (the leg of a stool).
Sneck-Bant, c. iii., p. 50.
COLLIER. 1750-
WAUGH. 1868.
B. BRIERLEY. 1868.
Aw begun o' thinkin' till aw're welly moidert.
Irkdale, c. i., p.
DR. BARBER. 1870.
p. 50.
At t' end of o' they wor fairly moidert amang it, and gev it up as a bad job,
Forness Folk, p. 20.
MOLLART, sb. a mop for a baker's oven. Cf. malkm, the old name.
MOOF } sb ' a ha y- mow - See Mow ( 2 ) in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
MOO'D, crowded, stowed to an inconvenient pitch, put away. Articles laid by
to be out of the way are said to be mooed up.
MOOIN', putting hay on the mow.
MOONLEET-FLITTIN', sb. the stealthy removal of household furniture in the
night to avoid payment of rent.
Aw met a cart i' th loan they wouldn't speyk (speak) it wur some'dy makkin a
moonleet-flittirf.
COLL. USE. 1881.
MOOT, \ MUT, j v '
COLLIER. 1750-
That moot be, sed I, for after theau laft me eawr Seroh browt me meh supper,
an' hoo moot leave it oppen. Works, p. 70.
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MOOTER, sb. mill-toll; a quantity of meal or flour taken by the miller as his
due for grinding. Latin molitura; Fr. mouture, spelt moulture in Cotgrave.
MOPSY, sb. a slattern.
MORNIN'-PIECE, sb. a small piece of bread taken before going to work in the
morning.
COLL. USB. When aw come deawn stairs aw awlus foind mi mornin'- l88x - piece
on th' table; mi mother puts it eawt before hoo
goos to bed.
BAMFORD. My new shoon they are so good,
l8 49$ I could dance Morris if I would;
And if hat and sark be drest, I will dance Morris with the best. Early Days.
MORT, sb. a lot, a quantity.
REV. W. GASKELL. We sometimes hear a Lancashire man talk of a "mart
l8 54$ of people," or a “mart of things."
Lect. Lane. Dialect, p. 30.
MOSS-CROP, sb. cotton-grass. Eriophorum.
WAUGH. Three neet-geawns o'th best gray calico, an' they wur
l86 7$ eawt i' eawr yard, bleachin', nearly a fortnit, till they wur
as white as a moss-crop. Owd Blanket, c. iii., p. 72.
MOT (N. Lane.), ) sb. a word. Fr. mot, the same word as Ital. MOTTY (S.
Lane.), J motto.
WAUGH. He couldn't bide a minute longer beawt puttin' his
l8?9$ motty in. Chimney Corner, p. 355.
MOTHERIN', part, the visiting of parents by their children on Mid-lent Sunday
an ancient custom. Mid-lent Sunday is also called "Motherin'
Sunday."
MOTH-ULLET (Lytham), sb. a small butterfly = moth-owlet.
MOTTY, sb. an aggregate of small deposits of money j a kind of small money
club.
MOW, v. to cover up, to heap together. See Moo and MOO'D.
MOWDYWARP, sb. the mole. Icel. moldvarpa.
COLLIER. Hoo's as fat as a snig, an' as smoot as a mowdywarp.
Works, p. 57.
WAUGH. Eh, he has bin gooin' on! He's getten a mowdiwarp
in his pocket. Owd Blanket, c. iii., p. 76.
MOZZLY (Oldham), adj. Equivalent to muggy: damp, warm, and heavy. Used as
follows: Butcher says “he never knew such bad-keeping weather as there has
been this back-end, it has been so moist and mozzly, and it turns the meat
foist."
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MUCK, v. to manure.
WAUGH. Like Jerry o' th' Knowe, 'ut mucttt wi' sond, an' drain't
l8 79$ w i' cinders. Chimney Corner, p. 195.
MUCKOT (Rossendale), sb. a tub or vessel carried between two men, and used
for bearing manure to hilly ground. Also, a name given in derision to a
naughty boy.
MUCK-SWEAT, sb. a state of great anxiety.
COLL. USE. I WU r o' of a muck-sweat to know what'd coom ov her.
1880.
MULL (N. Lane.), sb. dust. Swed. mull. > ,
)> “- broken tur” ""
MUNT ' must” ce “munu -
MULLOCK (Ormskirk), sb. a bundle of dirty clothes.
MUMP, v. to thump, to beat.
MUMPS, sb. sulkiness. See Mump in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
MUN (N. Lane.), sb. the mouth. Icel. munnr. See Mouth in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
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COLLIER. I asht 'im whot way eh munt gooa? On he towd meh.
^SQ. Works, p. 47.
WAUGH. It will not do, my lass! Go aw mun!
Home Life of Factory Folk, c. xxii., p. 195.
MUNGE, v. See MEAWNGE.
MURTH, sb. a large quantity or number. Another form of mort.
MUSE, sb. a gap for game; a run in a hedge for rabbits or other game. Old Fr.
mussette. Shakspere, Venus and Adonis, line 683, referring to the hare,
speaks of “the many musets through the which he goes.
MUSICIANER, sb. a musician; one who plays upon an instrument.
WAUGH. An' thee, too, owd musicianer,
Aw wish lung life to thee, A mon that plays a fiddle weel Should never awse
to dee!
Lane. Songs: Eawr Folk. MUT, v. must.
WAUGH. If I mut ha my mind, you would ha' to dangle at th'
18794 end of a bant. Chimney Corner, p. 30.
MUZZY, adj. sleepy, dull; also bemused with liquor.
MYCHIN, part, pining, out of humour. The same, probably, as Shakspere's
miching. See Mich, to skulk, hide, play truant, in Skeat's Etym. Diet.
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N.
NAG, v. to torment or irritate with the tongue, to scold incessantly. Icel.
naga, to gnaw.
DR. BARBER. T aad fella said she was olas terble reedan; he let her
knag away. Forness Folk, p. 37.
COLL. USE. He's awlas naggiri at me; aw 've no peace o' mi loife.
NAG AS (N. Lane.), sb. a greedy, stingy person. NAGGLE, v. to gnaw. Icel.
naga, to gnaw.
NAGNAIL, sb. a sore, caused by the peeling of the skin from the roots of the
finger nail.
NANGNAIL (Ormskirk), sb. a tyrant; an ill-tempered, troublesome person.
NANNY, sb. a she-goat; generally takes the form “Nanny-goat."
NAP-AT-NOON (N. Lane.), sb. the purple goat's-beard (Trapogon porrifolius, Linnaeus),
which opens its flowers only in the forenoon, after which they close.
NAPLINS, sb.pl. small round coal, as distinguished from the cob and slack or
dust. Also, "Nibblins."
WAUGH. These coals are noan so good as t'other. We's ha to
try another pit th' next time. Put some naplins under that pon. Ben ari ttt
Bantam, c. ii., p. 30.
NAPPERN, sb. an apron (Whittaker). See APPERN.
SPENSER. And put before his lap a napron white.
F. Queene, Bk. V., c. v., st. 20.
NAPPY, adj. merry, joyous, under the influence of liquor.
NAR, adj. and adv. nearer; superl. narst.
SPENSER. To Kirke the narre, from God more farre,
Has bene an old-sayd sawe.
Shepheardes Calender: July.
JOHN SCHOLES. Aw hardly know iv aw awt to ventur ony narr, yor
look'n so smart. Jaunt to See th' Queen, p. 19.
WAUGH. it' s o ' reet!” said th' singers, in a whisper. "He's
better nor expectation! “an' they begun a-drawin' nar to th' heawse. Owd
Blanket, c. iv., p. 95.
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B - BR 8 I <? 8 RLEY '!f eaur Dick wur t' dee, aw should feel as if aw
wanted
to goo i' th' coffin wi' him, isted o' letten somb'dy else be nar to him nor
me. Irkdale, c. xiii., p. 198.
W ^fi GH “" By th' mon," cried one of them, “aw believe that
chap 's th' narst ov ony on us." Dulesgate, p. 24.
NATTER, v. to nibble, to bite; also to tease, to irritate. Icel. gnadda, to
murmur, to vex; also, knetta, to grumble; see Appendix to Vigfusson's
Icelandic Dictionary.
COLL. USE. j. Hello, there's bin a mouse i' th' bread-mug; sitho
heaw this loaf's nattered.
2. Aye he's a natteriri soart of a chap they'll nobody ha' mich rest as is
near him.
WAUGH. Hoo're as hondsome a filly as mortal e'er see'd,
l87S> But hoo coom of a racklesome, natteriri breed.
Old Cronies, c. v., p. 50.
NATTLE, adj. irritable, touchy, cross.
WAUGH. But aw're mazy, an' nattle, an' fasten't to tell
What the dule it could be, that're ailin' mysel'.
Lane. Songs: Jamie's Frolic.
I | ID - "Eh, Sam," I said, “thou's never bin nettlin' of a
1 7 ' Sunday again, hasto?" “Why, what for?" he said, as
nattle as could be. “They groon on a Sunday, donnot they?" Tattliri
Matty, c. i., p. 14.
IBID - He's a quare un, is tat. Terrible nattle betimes; but
noan o' th' warst mak for o' that.
Sneck-Bant, c. ii., p. 25.
Miss LAHEE. Jinny begun, for th' first toime, to think at folks had
1865. b m laughin' at her, an' hoo geet rayther nattle, an'
wouldn't eyt no moor. Betty o' Yefis Tale, p. 27.
NATTY, adj. neat, handy.
TUSSER. How fine and how nettie
Good huswife should iettie, From morning to night. Husbandrie, 68, i.
COLL. USE. He's a rare mon to have abeawt th' heawse he's so
“ natty at a bit o' joinerin' an' that soart o' wark.
NATURE, sb. softness, kindliness, when applied to the texture of cloth;
nutritive quality, when applied to food.
COLL. USE. i . It's a noice bit o' cloth this, mon; there's some
l881 - nature in it.
2. Aw wouldn't gi' tuppence a pound for stuff loike that. It'll fill no
bailies (bellies); there's no nature in it.
NAYTHER (N. Lane.), \ . NOATHER (S. Lane.), \ pr '
WAUGH. Hoo's noather feyther nor mother.
l86 7$ Home Life of Factory Folk, c. xxi., p. 185.
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NAZZY, adj. peevish, cross, short-tempered.
COLL. USE. Dunnot speyk to him he's as nazzy as he can hutch
(as peevish as it is possible for him to be).
NEATRIL, sb. a born fool, a natural” He's a nattral foo'“ is a common phrase.
COLLIER. Mary: "Eh, Tummus! Aw deawt team mayin' a
parfit neatril on yo." Thomas: "A neatril? Eigh, th' big'st at ever
wur made sin Cain kilt Abel."
Works, p. 58. IBID. I stoode like a gawmblin or a parfect neatril till welly
day. Works, p. 69.
JOHN SCHOLES. He mun be o pure neatril, hoo sed; did he think ut a
pow [pole] could stond on th' woint [wind].
Jaunt to See th? Queen, p. 25.
NEAVE (S. Lane.), \ ^. t he fist. Icel. hnefi, the fist; Swed. nafve; NEYVE I
Dan. nave. The word is not found in A.S.
NEAF (N. Lane.), J or Ger.
SHAKSPERE. Give me your neaf, Mounsier Mustardseed.
Mid. N. Dream, iv. i. 20.
COLLIKR. I up weh meh gripp'n neave, on hit him o good wherrit
o' th' yeear [in the ear]. Works, p. 59.
SHAW. My kneoves wurn gript, my yure stood still,
Aw durst na hardly look. Lancashire Muse: Sequel to Tim Bobbin's Grave.
JOHN SCHOLES. Aw giv hur sich o grip o' mi neyve as hoo never feldt
afore. Jaunt to See th' Queen, p. 12.
Miss LAHBK. Tha's nare bin bout nother sugar nor butter; nor tha
l86s< nare shall be whol aw've kneaves o' th' end o' mi arms.
Carter's Struggles, c. vi., p. 39.
DR. BARBER. He darted his neeaf down aside on it, to bring out a
7 ' girt slapper. Forness Folk, p. 40.
NEB, sb. the nose. A.S. nebb, the face, John xi. 44 Du. neb, bill, beak, nib,
mouth.
WAUGH. "Will ye bring me some?" said a little, light-haired
lass, holding up her rosy neb to the soup-master.
Home Life of Lancashire Factory Folk, c. vii., p. 62.
NEB, sb. the peak of a hat, cap, or bonnet, the edge of a cake. In Shakspere,
the bill of a bird” Go to, go to! How she holds up the neb, the bill to
him!" Winter's Tale, i. ii. 182.
COLL. USE. What soart of a cap had he on? Blue cloth, wi' a
shoiny neb.
NECK (Fylde), v. to beat, as a watch.
NECK-HOLE, sb. the nape of the neck.
COLL. USE. p u t that umbrella deawn th' waater's runnin' into mi
l881 ' neck-hole.
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NECKLIN', part, to clatter, as with iron pattens on a stone floor.
B ' BR 86? LEY ' Nanny's pattens were heard "neckling" over the
kitchen flags. Irkdale, c. ii. , p. 73.
NECK-OR-NOWT, ad. entirely, altogether. Literally up to the neck or not at all.
COLL. USE. Aw'm in for it neaw neck-or-nowt.
NED, v. needed.
BAMFORD. I hanno ned \\. \ have not needed it; nedno, needed
l854 ' not; nedn, we needed; nednno, we needed not.
Dialect of S. Lancashire , p. 205.
RAMSBOTTOM. We took no thowt wi' th' childher ill,
l86 4$ Bo geet em what they ned fro' th' teawn.
Lane. Rhymes, p. 51.
NEE, adv. near. A.S. nedh, neh; Mid. Eng. neh, neih^ ney, nigh.
NEELD, sb. a needle.
JOHN SCHOLES. Hur hussif [her needle-case, called a "housewife"]
wur
18574 eawt, un hur neeld thredud e quick toime.
Jaunt to See ttt Queen, p. 47.
RAMSBOTTOM. Well, want yo pins or neelds to-day,
l864 ' Or buttons, threed, or hooks an' eyes?
Lane. Rhymes, p. 54.
NEET, sb. pron. of night.
WAUGH. "Good neet, Matty," said I, walking out of the garden
l86 7$ gate. “Good neet, to yo!” replied the old woman.
Tattlin” Matty, c. ii., p. 27.
NEET-CROW, sb. a night-bird. Figuratively a person fond of staying up late.
COLL. USE. What a neet-crow thou art! Get thee to bed; tha'll
never grow if ta stops up o' this way.
NEET- GLOOM, sb. the gloaming.
NEET-HAAK (N. Lane.), sb. the night-jar. Caprimulgus Euro paus.
NEMINIES, sb. the wind-flower. Anemone nemorosa. In Tennyson's "Northern
Farmer" the flower is called "Enemies" “Boon i' the woild
enemies."
NEPS, sb.pl. the dried flower-buds of lavender.
B. BRIERLEY. "Dost keep thy clooas i nepsV "Ay; aw awlus
1867. do< ef i Windows Hall, c. xiv., p. ill.
IBID. Ther Sunday clooas boxed up nicely wi' neps t'keep
l868< 'em sweet. Irkdale, c. x., p. 48.
COLL. USE. Aw've awlus a bunch o' lavender neps i' mi clooas
l88x - drawer to keep th' moths away.
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