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Skeat, Walter William, 1835-1912

"English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day"


_Mense_, respect, reverence, decency, sense; _mickle_, great; _mirk_,
dark; _morkin_, a dead sheep; _muck_, dirt; _mug_, fog, mist, whence
_muggy_, misty, close, dull; _neif_, _neive_, the fist; _ouse_,
_ouze_, to empty out liquid, to bale out a boat; _paddock_, a frog,
a toad; _quey_, a young heifer; _rae_, a sailyard; _rag_, hoarfrost,
rime; _raise_, a cairn, a tumulus; _ram_, _rammish_, rank, rancid;
_rip_, a basket; _risp_, to scratch; _rit_, to scratch slightly, to
score; _rawk_, _roke_, a mist; _roo_, to pluck off the wool of sheep
instead of shearing them; _roose_, to praise; _roost_, _roust_,
a strong sea-current, a race.
_Sark_, a shirt; _scarf_, a cormorant; _scopperil_, a teetotum;
_score_, a gangway down to the sea-shore; _screes_, rough stones on a
steep mountain-side, really for _screethes_ (the _th_ being omitted
as in _clothes_), from Old Norse _skri{dh}a_, a land-slip on a hill-side;
_scut_, a rabbit's tail; _seave_, a rush; _sike_, a small rill,
gutter; _sile_, a young herring; _skeel_, a wooden pail; _skep_,
a basket, a measure; _skift_, to shift, remove, flit; _skrike_, to
shriek; _slocken_, to slake, quench; _slop_, a loose outer garment;
_snag_, a projecting end, a stump of a tree; _soa_, a large round tub;
_spae_, to foretell, to prophesy; _spean_, a teat, (as a verb) to
wean; _spelk_, a splinter, thin piece of wood; _steg_, a gander;
_storken_, to congeal; _swale_, a shady place; _tang_, the prong of a
fork, a tongue of land; _tarn_, a mountain pool; _tath_, manure,
_tathe_, to manure; _ted_, to spread hay; _theak_, to thatch; _thoft_,
a cross-bench in a boat; _thrave_, twenty-four sheaves, or a certain
measure of corn; _tit_, a wren; _titling_, a sparrow; _toft_, a
homestead, an old enclosure, low hill; _udal_, a particular tenure of
land; _ug_, to loathe; _wadmel_, a species of coarse cloth; _wake_,
a portion of open water in a frozen lake or stream; _wale_, to choose;
_wase_, a wisp or small bundle of hay or straw; _whauve_, to cover
over, especially with a dish turned upside down; _wick_, a creek, bay;
_wick_, a corner, angle.


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