Besides _main_, _feart_, or _feartish_, is used to emphasise an expression. "He be a _main sight_, or a _feartish deal_ better," or perhaps "only _tar'blish_" a contraction of tolerablish. In like manner, the patient would _change_ for the better, but _alter_ for the worse, while _a bit altery_ would apply to the weather _tokening_ for rain. _Smart_ is used to qualify another word, as _a smart few_, meaning a good many, or it would _rain smartish_. Other words, sometimes corruptions, are common, as _unked_, awkward, in the sense of obstinate, troublesome; _stomachy_, proud, self-willed; _quisiting_, inquisitive; _querky_, querulous; _wangery_, languid; _shackelty_, shaky; _hechatty_, onomatopoean, applied to a cough; _peaked_, pronounced _pikkid_, pointed, as the end of a stick; _worriting_ for worrying, though _terrifying_ is more often used, to _terrify_ and to _worrit_ being synomymous. _Casualty_ is risky, hollies being considered _casualty things_ to plant, while it is often _casualty weather_ in hay-making time. To be _in a ferrick_ is to be in a fidget, and _all of a caddle_ in a muddle. _Heft_ is weight, and _hefty_, weighty. To poise anything in the hand to test its weight would be to _heft_ it. _Overright_ is opposite, a word unknown to the aborigines; but what a "Leicestershire mon" would call _over yon_, is expressed by his Berkshire compeer as _athurt thur_, evidently a corruption of athwart there. _Overright_ would, of course, be originally rightover, and this tendency to put the cart before the horse is common. _Droo wet_ is always used for wet through. The same peculiarity appears elsewhere, as in _breakstuff_ for breakfast, and even in monosyllables, as _hapse_ for hasp, _clapse_ for clasp, and _aks_ for ask. This last, however, is by no means confined to Berkshire. Some of the verbs are original, while others bear signs of being simply mispronunciations. To _quilt_ is to swallow; to _plim_ to swell, like rice in the boiling; to _huck_ to dig up, or empty. A man _hucks out_ a gutter or ditch, or simply _hucks_ his potatoes. To _tuck_ is probably originally to pluck, and is applied to dressing the sides of a newly made rick with the hand to make it trim and neat. To _kite_, or _kite up_, is to look up sharp or peeringly; while bees are indifferently said to _bite_ or _tang_. "They do tang I," would seem to preclude any derivation from sting, as it undoubtedly is. To _argue_ is used in its proper sense, and is very common; but it is always turned into the monosyllable _arg_.