_Dubbin o' drenk_, a pot of ale. _Durns_, door-posts. _Ebbet_, the common lizard, commonly called the "eft," which may be a corruption of this word. The word _eft_ signifies speedy or quick. _Escaped._ A person is said to be just escaped when his understanding is only just enough to warrant his being free from constraint of the tutelage of his friends. _Ether_ or _Edder_, a hedge; also the twisted wands with which a "stake hedge" is made. They have a rhyme in Dorset on the durability of a "stake ether": "An elder stake and black-thorn ether Will make a hedge to last for ever." _Fags!_ or, _Aw Fegs!_ An interjection. Indeed! Truly! _Fenigy_, to run away secretly, or so slip off as to deceive expectation; deceitfully to fail in a promise. It is most frequently applied to cases where a man has shown appearances of courtship to a woman, and then has left her without any apparent reason, and without any open quarrel. _Fess_, proud, vain. "Lukee her agot a new bonnet. Why, her's as fess as a paycock." Mrs Durbeyfield uses this word in Hardy's _Tess_. _Flaymerry_, a merry-making, or what is now vulgarly called "a spree," but with an innocent meaning, an excursion for amusement. _Gabbern._ Gloomy, comfortless rooms and houses are "gabbern." _Galley-bagger_, a person fond of gadding about. _Gallied_, scared. Jonathan Kail the farm-hand at Talbothay's uses this word (see Hardy's _Tess_). _Gallyvanting_, going from home. "Then for these flagons of silver fine, Even they shall have no praise of mine; For when my lord or lady be going to dine, He sends them out to be filled with wine, But his man goes gallyvanting away, Because they are precious, and fine, and gay; But if the wine had been order'd in a leather bottel, The man would have come back, and all been well." _Gigglet_, a merry young girl, one who shows her folly by a disposition to grin and laugh for no cause. It is used as a term of slight and contempt, and commonly to a young girl. Gigglet-market, a hiring-place for servants. From time immemorial, to within the last sixty years, on Lady Day young girls in Dorset and Devon were accustomed to stand in the market-place awaiting a chance of being hired as servants. _Gu-ku_, cuckoo. "The gu-ku is a merry bird, She sings as she flies; She brings us good tidings, She tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear; And when she sings 'gu-ku' The summer is near." _Hadge_, hedge. "Love thy neighbour--but dawnt pull down thy hadge." _Holt_, hold. "When you are an anvil, holt you still, When you are a hammer, strike your fill."