English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present DaySkeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
English language -- Dialects
_Addle_, to earn; _and_ (in Barbour, _aynd_) sb., breath; _arder_,
a ploughing; _arr_, a scar; _arval_, a funeral repast; _aund_, fated,
destined; _bain_, ready, convenient; _bairns' lakings_, children's
playthings; _beck_, a stream; _big_, to build; _bigg_, barley; _bing_,
a heap; _birr_, impetus; _blaeberry_, a bilberry; _blather_,
_blether_, empty noisy talk; _bouk_, the trunk of the body; _boun_,
ready; _braid_, to resemble, to take after; _brandreth_, an iron
framework over a fire; _brant_, steep; _bro_, a foot-bridge with a
single rail; _bule_, _bool_, the curved handle of a bucket; _busk_,
to prepare oneself, dress; _caller_, fresh, said of fish, etc.;
_carle_, a rustic, peasant; _carr_, moist ground; _cleck_, to hatch
(as chickens); _cleg_, a horse-fly; _coup_, to exchange, to barter;
_dag_, dew; _daggle_, to trail in the wet; _dowf_, dull, heavy,
stupid; _dump_, a deep pool.
_Elding_, _eliding_, fuel; _ettle_, to intend, aim at; _feal_, to
hide; _fell_, a hill; _fey_, doomed, fated to die; _flake_, a hurdle;
_force_, a water-fall; _gab_, idle talk; _gain_, adj., convenient,
suitable; _gait_, a hog; _gar_, to cause, to make; _garn_, yarn;
_garth_, a field, a yard; _gate_, a way, street; _ged_, a pike;
_gilder_, a snare, a fishing-line; _gilt_, a young sow; _gimmer_,
a young ewe; _gloppen_, to scare, terrify; _glare_, to stare, to glow;
_goam_, _gaum_, to stare idly, to gape, whence _gomeril_, a blockhead;
_gowk_, a cuckoo, a clown; _gowlan_, _gollan_, a marigold; _gowpen_,
a double handful; _gradely_, respectable; _graithe_, to prepare;
_grice_, a young pig; _haaf_, the open sea; _haver_, oats; _how_,
a hillock, mound; _immer-goose_, _ember-goose_, the great Northern
diver; _ing_, a lowlying meadow; _intake_, a newly enclosed or
reclaimed portion of land; _keld_, a spring of water; _kenning_,
knowledge, experience; _kilp_, _kelp_, the iron hook in a chimney on
which pots are hung; _kip_, to catch fish in a particular way;
_kittle_, to tickle; _lain_, _lane_, to conceal; _lair_, a muddy
place, a quick-sand; _lait_, to seek; _lake_, to play; _lathe_,
a barn; _lax_, a salmon; _lea_, a scythe; _leister_, a fish-spear
with prongs and barbs; _lift_, the air, sky; _lig_, to lie down;
_lispund_, a variable weight; _lit_, to dye; _loon_, the Northern
diver; _lowe_, a flame, a blaze.
_Mense_, respect, reverence, decency, sense; _mickle_, great; _mirk_,
dark; _morkin_, a dead sheep; _muck_, dirt; _mug_, fog, mist, whence
_muggy_, misty, close, dull; _neif_, _neive_, the fist; _ouse_,
_ouze_, to empty out liquid, to bale out a boat; _paddock_, a frog,
a toad; _quey_, a young heifer; _rae_, a sailyard; _rag_, hoarfrost,
rime; _raise_, a cairn, a tumulus; _ram_, _rammish_, rank, rancid;
_rip_, a basket; _risp_, to scratch; _rit_, to scratch slightly, to
score; _rawk_, _roke_, a mist; _roo_, to pluck off the wool of sheep
instead of shearing them; _roose_, to praise; _roost_, _roust_,
a strong sea-current, a race.
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