Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire:: With a Glossary of Words Now in Use There; and Poems and Other Pieces, Exemplifying the Dialect

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Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London., 1825 - English language - 191 pages

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Page 45 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Page 11 - I've a be To dreave our bull to bull tha parson's kee.' It is to be observed, that this whole dialogue is formed upon the passion of jealousy; and his mentioning the parson's kine naturally revives the jealousy of the shepherdess Cicily, which she expresses as follows : 'Cicily. Ah...
Page 69 - Skum'mer. s. A foulness made with a dirty liquid, or with soft dirt. To Skum'mer. va To foul with a dirty liquid, or to daub with soft dirt. Slait. s. An accustomed run for sheep ; hence the place to which a person is accustomed, is called slait. To Slait. va To accustom. To Slait. va To make quick-lime in a fit state for use, by throwing water on it ; to slack. To Slat. va To split ; to crack ; to cleave. To Sleeze. vn To separate ; to come apart ; applied to cloth, when the warp and woof readily...
Page 7 - ... peculiarity is that of attaching to many of the common verbs in the infinitive mode, as well as to some other parts of different conjugations, the letter y. Thus it is very common to say...
Page 150 - Tha ooman he took up behine, Begummers, war a man ! Tha rubbers zaw ad lad ther plots Our grazier to trepan. I sholl not stap ta tell what zed Tha man in ooman's clawze ; Bit he, an all o'm jist behine, War what you mid suppawze.
Page 84 - The larva of the gadfly growing under the skin of the back of cattle. WOROWE. To choke. See Worry. WORRA. A small round moveable nut or pinion, with grooves in it, and having a hole in its centre, through which the end of a round stick or spill may be thrust. The spill and worra are attached to the common spinning-wheel, which, with those and the turnstring, form the apparatus for spinning wool, &c.
Page 184 - Now; criscross, girt a, little a— b — c — d. — That's right Billy; you'll zoon lorn tha criss-cross-lain — you'll zoon auvergit Bobby Jiffry — you'll zoon be a scholard. — A's a pirty chubby bway — Lord love'n !" — Specimens of the West Country Dialect. Horn-books are now of great rarity, and even modern ones are very seldom seen.
Page 64 - Hirddick; the r and i transposed.] Rode. s. To go to rode, means, late at night or early in the morning, to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over head on the wing. To Rose. vn To drop out from the pod, or other seed vessel, when the seeds are over-ripe. To Rough. va To roughen; to make rough. Round-dock. s. The common mallow; malva sylvestris. Called round-dock from the roundness of its leaves. CHAUCER has the following expression which has a good deal puzzled the glossarists: "But canst thou...
Page 167 - Antiq. i. 85. STICKLE-BUTT. Headlong. North. STICKLER. (1) A person who presides at hacksword or singlestick, to regulate the game ; an umpire ; a person who settles disputes. Come, niver mine tha single-sticks, Tha whoppin or tha stickler ; You dwon't want now a brawken head. Nor jitchy zoort o' tickler ! Ballad of Tom Coal.
Page 184 - I'll wake ye. Now, Billy, there's a good bway ! Ston still there, an mine what I da za to ye, an whaur I da pwint. — Now; criscross, girt a, little a— b — c — d. — That's right Billy ; you'll zoon lorn tha criss-cross-lain — you'll zoon auvergit Bobby Jiffry — you'll zoon be a scholard. — A's a pirty chubby bway — Lord love'n !" — Specimens of the West Country Dialect.

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