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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... true meaning : it did not appear necessary to increase the Glossary by the explanation of such synonyms . Whilst upon the subject of poetry it may be appropriate here to observe , that in the periodical work called the Guardian ...
... true meaning : it did not appear necessary to increase the Glossary by the explanation of such synonyms . Whilst upon the subject of poetry it may be appropriate here to observe , that in the periodical work called the Guardian ...
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... true , I have found several of the words which are in my Glossary ; and I find also that many of their definitions are correct , and will correspond with my own ; but their conjectural etymologies are , in too many instances , calcu ...
... true , I have found several of the words which are in my Glossary ; and I find also that many of their definitions are correct , and will correspond with my own ; but their conjectural etymologies are , in too many instances , calcu ...
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... true some scarce copies of such works are to be found , I understand , in the cabinets of the curious , but they are not accessible to the general reader . Yet , after all , it must be admitted that , besides a practical and extensive ...
... true some scarce copies of such works are to be found , I understand , in the cabinets of the curious , but they are not accessible to the general reader . Yet , after all , it must be admitted that , besides a practical and extensive ...
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... true meaning is , I doubt not , as above : fat g'lore , is fat in plenty . Gold . s . The shrub called sweet - willow or wild myrtle ; Myrica gale . This plant grows only in peat soils ; it is abundant in the boggy moors of ...
... true meaning is , I doubt not , as above : fat g'lore , is fat in plenty . Gold . s . The shrub called sweet - willow or wild myrtle ; Myrica gale . This plant grows only in peat soils ; it is abundant in the boggy moors of ...
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... true , Mr. Pope's use of the word implies permanence ; but this is a licentia poetica . The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb : Sir Strut , for so the witling throng Oft called him when at school , And hitch'd him ...
... true , Mr. Pope's use of the word implies permanence ; but this is a licentia poetica . The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb : Sir Strut , for so the witling throng Oft called him when at school , And hitch'd him ...
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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.
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 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.