_Ballyrag_, to scold. _Banging-gert_, very large. _Barken_, an enclosed place, as a rick-barken, a rick-yard. In Sussex a yard or enclosure near a house is called a "barton," from barley; and tun, an enclosure. _Barm_, yeast. _Bayte_, to beat, or thrash. "A wumman, A spenyel, And a walnut-tree, The oftener yu bayte 'em Better they'll be." _Blare_, to shout loudly. "Chillern pick up words as pigeons pease, And blare them again as God shall please." _Brath_, the ancient Cornish name for a mastiff dog. Perhaps this accounts for the common expression, "a broth of a boy," meaning "a stout dog of a boy"--a sturdy fellow. _Buck_, that peculiar infection which in summer sometimes gets into a dairy and spoils the cream and butter; a sign of gross negligence and want of skill, and not easily to be eradicated. _Bumpkin_, a common term for a clumsy, uncouth man. But whence the word?--for it is also applied to a part of a ship where the foretack is fastened down. The word _bump_ means a protuberance, a prominence: to _bump_ against a thing is a local term for striking oneself clumsily against it. _Butt_, a straw beehive. "A butt of bees in May Is worth a guinea any day; A butt of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A butt of bees in July Isn't worth a fly." _Chitter_, thin, folded up. It is applied to a thin and furrowed face, by way of ridicule. Such a one is said to be "chitter-faced." The long and folded milts or testes of some fishes are called "chitterlins," as were the frills at the bosom of shirts when they were so worn. The entrails of a pig cleaned and boiled are common food in Wiltshire, and the dish is called "chitterlings." _Churer_, an occasional workman. Char, to do household work in the absence of a domestic servant as a charwoman. In Dorset they say "one good choor deserves another," instead of one good turn, etc. _Click-handed_, left-handed. _Cloam_, common earthenware. _Clush_, to lie down close to the ground, to stoop low down. _Clusty_, close and heavy; particularly applied to bread not well fermented, and therefore closely set. Also applied to a potato that is not mealy. _Coccabelles_, icicles. _Condididdle_, to filch away, to convey anything away by trickery. _Craking_, complaining. "I, Anthony James Pye Molley, Can burn, take, sink, and destroy; There's only one thing I can't do, on my life! And that is, to stop the craking tongue of my wife." _Crummy_, fat, corpulent. "A fine crummy old fellow." _Daddick_, rotten wood. _Dew-bit_, breakfast. _Dout_, to extinguish. _Downargle_, to argue in an overbearing manner. _Drattle you!_ A corruption of the irreverent oath, "God throttle you."