“Keep out o’ his company that _cracks_ o’ his cheatrie.” Proverb. Croodle, or Cruddle, S and C, crouch or shrink. “My bonnie wee _croodlin’_ doo.” Old Song. “We sat doon an’ grat under a hedge or a wo’, o’ _cruddlea_ togidder.”—_Betty Yewdale._ T’ terrible Knitters i’ Dent. Crouse, S, brisk, bold, “bumptious.” “A cock’s aye _crouse_ on its ain midden-heed.”—Proverb. Cushion dance, C, the finishing dance at a rural ball or merry-night. A young man, carrying a cushion, paces round the room in time to the appropriate tune, selects a girl, lays the cushion at her feet, and both kneel upon it and kiss, the fiddler making an extraordinary squeal during the operation. The girl then takes the cushion to another young man, who kisses her as before, and eaves her free to “link” with the first, and march round the room. This is repeated till the whole party is brought in, when they all form a circle, and “kiss out” in the same manner, sometimes varying it by the kissers sitting on two chairs, back to back, in the middle of the ring, and kissing over their shoulders—a trying process to bashful youth of either sex. Cuttie, S, any thing short—as a spoon, pipe, etc. “Better sup wi’ a cuttie nor want a speun.” Proverb. “Aul’ Simon sat luntin’ his _cuttie_, An’ lowsin’ his buttons for bed.” _Andrew Scott._ Simon and Janet. D. Dadder, C, (Dodder in Furness, etc.) tremble, shiver. I once heard a Cumberland youth, at a supper table, say, indicating a “shape” of jelly, “I’ll tak sūm o’ that _dadderin’_ stuff.” Dadge, C, to plod along heavily. “Then _dadged_ we to the bog owre meedows dree, To plet a sword and seevy cap for thee.” _Relph._ Cursty and Peggy. Daft, S and C, foolish, silly. “Glower’t at me as he’d been _daft_.” Song—The carle cam ower the craft. “Ses I, ‘A was niver larnt sec _daftness_.’” _Rev. T. Clarke._ Johnny Shippard. Daized, C, stupified, benumbed. “Theer war we stannin’, dodderin’ an’ _daiz’t_ wi’ cauld, as neer deead as macks nea matter.” _Betty Yewdale._ T’ terrible Knitters i’ Dent. Dark, C, to lurk, keep unseen. “On her leànly bed she toss’d her, _Darkin’_ till the tempest ceas’d.” _Stagg._ The Return. Darrak, C, day’s-work. “An’ as for a _darrak_ in barn or in meedow, Whee match’d me when just i’ my prime.” _Anderson._ Twee auld Men. Dicht, S, wipe, or cleanse.