_Hozeburd_, a person of bad character. "Jack Dollop, a 'hore's bird of a fellow," is the hero of a story related by Dairyman Crick in Hardy's _Tess_. _Klip_, a sudden smart blow, but not a heavy one. It is most usually applied to a "_klip_ under the ear." Of late the word _klipper_ is grown into use to describe a smart-sailing vessel, one that sails very swiftly, with some distant reference to the same idea. _Knap_, prominent. It is sometimes applied to the prominent part of a hill; but it is more frequently used as significant of the form of a person's knees when they are distorted towards each other, and which some people have chosen to term knock-kneed. _Lasher_, a large thing, of any sort. The meaning sought to be conveyed appears to be that this thing beats or excels every other. The opinion that any object which excels another is able to beat, _lash_ or inflict violence on that other is a strange but not uncommon vulgar one. _Lof_, unwilling. "Dawntee be like old Solomon Wise-- 'Lof tu go tu beyd And lof to rise.' Cuz then you'll soon be 'Out tu elbaws, Out tu toes, Out ov money, An out ov cloase.'" _Main_, very. I remember once hearing a Dorset thatcher say: "I be main fammled. I be so hungry I could welly eat the barn tiles." _Mommet_, a scarecrow. See _Tess of the D'Urbervilles_: "Had it anything to do with father's making such a mommet of himself in thik carriage?" _Nitch_, a bundle of reed, straw or wood. "He's got a nitch"--he is drunk. _Peg_, pig. "Tez time tu watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening pegs ain't 'ardly in luck!" At a tithe dinner a farmer in giving the Royal toast said: "The King, God bless him! May he be plaized to send us more pegs and less parsons." _Stubberds_, delicious apples. "Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know; but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound--a few blighted." "Which do we live on--a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one." (See Thomas Hardy's _Tess_.) _Stugged_, stuck in the mud. "He that will not merry be With a pretty girl by the fire, I wish he was a-top o' Dartmoor A-stugged in the mire." _Squab pie_, a pie in favour in Devon and Dorset: "Mutton, onions, apples and dough Make a good pie as any I know."