Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second SeriesBottrell, William
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Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series
Bottrell, William
Cornwall (England : County) -- Social life and customs; Legends -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Bucca-boo (-dhu), a black spirit.
Bulhorn, a large shell-snail.
Bussa, an earthen crock.
Busy (to be), to require; e.g. it is
busy all, it requires all.
Caunse, pavement.
Cayer, a coarse sieve for winnowing.
Chee-ah! word used for calling
swine.
Cheeld-vean (little child), a term
of endearment.
Chill, an iron lamp.
Cliff, all the ground between the
shore and cultivated land. The
cliff proper, or precipice, is called
the edge of the cliff; the cleeves,
or the carns.
Clunk, to swallow.
Costan, a basket made of straw and
brambles.
Courant, romping play.
Coursey, to linger gossiping.
Cowal, a large fish-basket.
Cravel, mantel-stone.
Crellas, the ruins of ancient bee-hive
huts; an excavation in a
bank, roofed over to serve for an
out-house, &c.
Croggan, a limpet shell.
Cronack, a toad.
Croud, the rind of a sieve covered
with sheepskin, used for taking
up corn, &c.; also an old fiddle.
Crum, crooked.
Croust, afternoons' refreshment of
bread and beer in harvest time.
Crow, a small out-house.
Didjan, a little bit.
Dijey, a very small homestead.
Dower, water.
Druckshar, a small solid wheel.
Duffan, a nickname for one much
given to self laudation; usually
bestowed on a bouncing religionist
who is powerful in speech, and
strong in faith, but no better than
ordinary mortals in works.
Duffy, a forthright, blunt happy-go-lucky
person.
Dumbledore, large black-beetle.
'E, ye or you.
Faix! faith.
Flushet, a flood-gate.
Fuggan, a small unleavened cake.
Fuggo, an artificial cave.
Gadge-vraws, the ox-eye daisy.
Gard, soil used for scouring.
Garrack, a rock.
Glows, dried cow-dung used for
fuel.
Grambler, a stony place.
Griglans, heath.
Gruit, fine soil.
Guare, play, called out by boys
when they throw quoits cast a
ball, &c.
Guise-dance, Christmas mummery.
Gulthise (in Scilly niclethies), harvest-home
feast.
Gurgoes, the ruins of ancient fences
found on waste land.
Gweean, a periwinkle.
Hilla, the night-mare.
Hoggan, a "fuggan" with meat
baked on it; the fruit of hawthorns.
Keggas, rank wild plants, such as
water-hemlock, elecampane, &c.
Kibbal, a bucket used at a draw-well
or mine shaft.
Kiskeys, the dried-up stalks of
"keggas."
Knackers (knockers), spirits in the
mines.
Keuney, moss, lichen, &c.
Laister, the yellow water-iris.
Lew, sheltered from wind.
Lewth, shelter.
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Mabyer, a young hen.
Miryon, an ant.
Moar, the root; to produce roots.
Moor-work, tin-streaming.
Morabs, land near the sea.
Nackan, a kerchief.
Oar-weed, sea-weed.
Organ, pennyroyal.
Padzepaw, a newt.
Par, cove; the word porth is never
used by the natives of West
Cornwall, nor does it ever occur
in family names.
Peeth, a draw-well.
Piggal, a kind of large hoe
used for cutting turf, &c.
Pilf, woolly dust.
Piljack, a poor scurvy fellow.
Piskey, a mischievous fairy that
delights to lead people astray;
also a greenish bug, found on
blackberries.
Pitch-to, to set to work with good heart.
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