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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... poor hearers ' hair quite upright sets . Book I. Sat. iii . Some editor of Hall has endeavoured to ex- plain the term huff - cap by blustering , swag- gering . I think it simply means difficult . Hug . s . The itch . See SHAB . brutes ...
... poor hearers ' hair quite upright sets . Book I. Sat. iii . Some editor of Hall has endeavoured to ex- plain the term huff - cap by blustering , swag- gering . I think it simply means difficult . Hug . s . The itch . See SHAB . brutes ...
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... ; any land which is poor and bare of grass . Larts . The floor : never applied to a stone Lawt . floor , but only to wooden floors ; and those also which are up stairs . Las - chargeable ! interj . Be quiet ! The D 2 A GLOSSARY . 51.
... ; any land which is poor and bare of grass . Larts . The floor : never applied to a stone Lawt . floor , but only to wooden floors ; and those also which are up stairs . Las - chargeable ! interj . Be quiet ! The D 2 A GLOSSARY . 51.
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... Poor and mean , like scrawf . Screed . s . A shred . To Scrunch , v . a . and v . n . I know not any sy- nonym in our language for this word . The act of crushing and bringing closer together is implied , A GLOSSARY . 65.
... Poor and mean , like scrawf . Screed . s . A shred . To Scrunch , v . a . and v . n . I know not any sy- nonym in our language for this word . The act of crushing and bringing closer together is implied , A GLOSSARY . 65.
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... poor vawk love , How much restraint how many pruv ; How zick zum an how zorry . Aw you who live in houzen grate , An wherewi ' much possessin , You knaw not , mâ - be , care not you , What pangs jitch tender horts pursue , How grate nor ...
... poor vawk love , How much restraint how many pruv ; How zick zum an how zorry . Aw you who live in houzen grate , An wherewi ' much possessin , You knaw not , mâ - be , care not you , What pangs jitch tender horts pursue , How grate nor ...
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... poor , ' tool be my pride " To ha my Fan vor a buxom bride- My lidden dâ an night . ” 66 A took er gently in iz orms An kiss'd er za zweetly too ; His Fan , vor jay , not a word cood speak , Bit a big roun tear rawl'd down er cheak , It ...
... poor , ' tool be my pride " To ha my Fan vor a buxom bride- My lidden dâ an night . ” 66 A took er gently in iz orms An kiss'd er za zweetly too ; His Fan , vor jay , not a word cood speak , Bit a big roun tear rawl'd down er cheak , It ...
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a-mâ-be âll tha Amangst Anglo-Saxon applied âter athin auver avaur awâ awld bezides bird bwile bwye ta thee called cattle cawch Chaucer cheaks cood cood'n corrupted dear Jane desperd dialect droo dwon't dwont ye eese Fieldfare gennelmen GLOSSARY GOOL gwon haup hence hired hitch Huntspill ichè interj Jerry Nutty jist jitch knaw lessin letter lewth look'd Luck in tha Maester Mary Puddy meaning mooäst moor moril niver oten person pirty pleonasm polished dialect prep pron pronounced rawd rawze River Parret Rookery Rooks sholl shood Somerset Somersetshire sound storry TEDDY BAND thâ thawt theäze thee Cot thenk ther thic Todd's Johnson try yer twar UTCHY v. n. To go vawk verb vooäth vrom vust West of England word zeed zong zoon zorry zummet zumtime zunz
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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.
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Page 7 - Jennings, in his Observations on the Western Dialects, says, "Another 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, / can't sewy, I can't nursy, he can't reapy, he can't sawy, as well as to sewy, to nursy, to renpy, lo sainj, &c. ; but never, I think, without an auxiliary verb , or the sign of the infinitive lo.
Page 150 - 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, Thâ cust, thâ swaur, tha drealen'd too, An âter Mr.
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 180 - I'm glad o't. I'll hirn auver an zee where I can't help 'em; bit I han'ta bin athin tha drashel o' Maester Boord's door vor a longful time, bin I thawt that missis did'n use Hester well; but I dwon't bear malice, an zaw I'll goo. Farmer Bennet.
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...
Page 66 - Scud. s. A scab. Sea-Bottle. s. Many of the species of the sea-wrack, or fucus, are called sea-bottles, in consequence of the stalks having round or oval vesicles or pods in them; the pod itself. Sea-crow. s. A cormorant. Seed-lip. s. A vessel of a particular construction, in which the sower carries the seed.
Page 64 - The round-dock leaves are used at this day as a remedy, or supposed remedy or charm, for the sting of a nettle, by being rubbed on the stung part; and the rubbing is accompanied, by the more superstitious, with the following words— In dock, out nettle...
Page xxiv - This small section throws considerable light upon the mode of deposition of these tongues in the larger section, and is well worthy the attention of those who take an interest in the deposits of the valley.