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Skeat, Walter William, 1835-1912

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


Notes.--_Ingle_, chimney-corner. _Gloming_, twilight;
_keeks_, peeps; _ca's_, drives (lit. calls); _owsen_,
oxen; _byre_, cow-house; _sair dung_, sorely tired;
_steeks_, shuts; _dighting_, winnowing; _bangs fu'
leal_, defeats right well; _gars_, makes; _-tappit_,
crested; _dowie_, melancholy; _fley'd_, frighted;
_poortith_, poverty.
_Divets_, turfs; _theekit_, thatched; _weet_, wet;
_sods, peats, and heath'ry trufs_, various turf fuels;
_chimley_, fire-place; _gar_, make; _smeek_, smoke;
_lift_, sky; _halland_, partition forming a screen;
_een_, eyes; _ilka_, each; _cosh_, cosy; _lo'es_, loves.
_Kens_, knows; _meltith_, meal-tide, meal; _synd_,
wash-down, draught; _nappy_, heady, strong; _downa_,
cannot; _bannocks_, cakes; _girdle_, hot-plate; _reeks_,
smokes; _bowie_, cask, beer-barrel; _reams_, foams;
_readied kail_, (dish of) cooked greens; _by_, beside;
_hauds... het_, keeps... hot; _riggin_, roof over the open
hearth; _whilk_, which.
_Grien_, yearn, long; _hafflins steeks_, half shuts;
_cruizy_, oil-lamp; _bleer_, bedim (the sight); _restit
ingle_, made up fire; _dow_, can; _tackman_, lease-holder,
farmer; _cod_, pillow; _drumly pow_, confused head.


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