The English Dialect Dictionary, written in 1898 by Joseph Wright, is a massive collection of obscure, colloquial, oddball words that people used to use around England and beyond. The dictionary contains six volumes, which can be found online.
(Volume I: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13022 )
I began reading the EDD to find unique words for my allegorical stories, and I found a treasure trove of fascinating fun terms, phrases, slang, and quirky expressions that I never knew existed. I thought I’d share a few of my favorites. (Apologies if there are any mistakes – I did my best.)
Someday I may add commentary on these, including some extra details from the EDD.
Maybe you’ll be inspired to go and pore over all six volumes yourself. 😉
A
Aflunters – in a state of disorder
Afterclap – ulterior and unexpected consequences, generally unpleasant; evil consequence
Afterings – outcome, results, consequences
Afternooning – refreshment between dinner and tea
Aigle – icicle; spangle
Aimstart – a starting point
Airish – chilly, breezy
Alakanee – alas
Alawk – alas
Altering – likely to improve
Amell – among, between, amidst
Amplush – to reduce to a dilemma, confuse in argument
Ancientry – antiquity; old things, antiquities
Angaluck – disaster, accident
Angerly – fierce, raging
Angle-eared – mischievous
Arfish – timid, fearful apprehensive
Argle-bargle – argument
Argufication – dispute
Argufy – to argue, wrangle
Atter – poison, sting
Attercop – a spider
Attern – poisonous; savage, ill-tempered
Attering – poisonous
Atween – between
Atwist – twisted, awry “My innards are all atwist.”
Aunter – an adventure, story of adventure, unlikely story
Awebound – submission to authority, under restraint to discipline
Ayont – beyond, farther on
B
Backfetch – something forgotten, then remembered; afterthought
Back-gate – underhanded
Back-jaw – retort, abuse
Badling – worthless person
Baffound – to perplex, bewilder
Baggabone – vagabond
Bagment – rubbish
Ballyrag – abuse with foul language
Baloo – uproar
Baltorium – merry-making, riotous proceedings
Bambazed – puzzled, confused
Bangster – a rough, violent fellow; bully
Bang-up – smart, fine, well-dressed, in first-rate condition, quite on the mark
Bangsome – quarrelsome
Bantling – a child, a baby
Batterfanged- bruised, beaten, scratched
Beazled – tired out, exhausted
Bechance – to happen, to befall
Bedead – worn out, in low spirits, dull, heavy
Bedfast – bedridden
Befangled – smartly dressed
Beezle – beastie
Beggugled – destroyed by mud, etc.
Beglammer – to bewitch, hoodwink
Begrumpled – displeased, affronted
Begrutten – tear-stained, disfigured with weeping
Belangings – relatives
Belantered – behind time, belated
Belkupping – hiccupping
Belltinker – to give belltinker or promise belltinker means to give a good thrashing or scolding
Belly timber – food, provisions
Belly-wark – gripes, colic
Bettermore – superior, better
Betwattled – distressed, bewildered, stupid; hardly sober
Betwit – to upbraid, to taunt
Betwitchelled – overcome with inquisitiveness
Betwittered – excited, frightened, overcome with pleasing excitement
Betwixen – between
Bewottle – to confuse or render light-headed
Bewrayed – seized with a foolish fit of talking
Bezzle – drink immoderately; (bezzled = drunk)
Billery-ducks – bilious or melancholy attacks
Bitterweed – bad-tempered person
Blackamoor – a vain endeavor
Bladrock – talkative, silly fellow
Bleeze – a blow with the fist
Blellum – an idle chatterer
Bliffert – a squall; a sudden but short fall of snow
Blinter – to shine feebly; to flicker
Blish-blash – idle talk, tittle-tattle
Bloggy – thick-set, stout
Blunder-a-whack – one whose carelessness has brought on disastrous consequences
Blunder-skull – a foolish fellow, blockhead
Blusteration – talk, noise, blustering
Blusterly – storm; violent in temper
Blutterbunged – confounded, overcome by surprise
Bluzz – to blindfold, to blind, to veil, to shade
Bobber – in high spirits, saucy, venturesome
Bobberous – in high spirits
Bobbersome – in high spirits, venturesome, impatient
Bobbish – good health and spirits, lively, cheerful
Bogfoundered – perplexed, bewildered
Boke – to retch, vomit
Boldrumptious – presumptuous
Bone-hugging – carrying corpses to the grave
Bone-lazy – extremely idle
Bone-picked – lean, cadaverous
Bonny wallies – toys, gewgaws
Boof – a clumsy fellow
Bounceable – bumptious, cheeky
Bowkers – expressing surprise
Brafflesome – quarrelsome
Braggable – commendable, very good
Brass-face – brazen, shameless person
Bratchet – a brat
Brazzled – scorched, overcooked
Brittle – frown “He brittled his brows.”
Bruff – well and hearty in appearance and manners, healthy-looking, jolly
Bug-hunter – a robber of drunken men
Bullrageous – raging like a bull
Bull-ragging – blustering, abuse
Bulliraggle – a noisy quarrel
Bury-hole – the grave
Buzzaroon – umbrella
C
Cackle-stomached – squeamish
Caddle – disorder, confusion, worry, fuss; to confuse, throw into disorder
Caddlement – fuss, confusion, gossip
Caddling – teasing, worrying, annoying
Caddling – fussing, fidgety; quarrelsome
Caddlesome – troublesome
Caddly – uncertain weather, stormy
Caffling – prevaricating, excusing
Caffle – to entangle; to perplex a person in a conversation
Cake – a simpleton, a fool
Caleever – to skip, jump, frolic
Callifudge – to cheat, deceive, to cajole, flatter
Camperlash – abusive language
Camperlecks – magical tricks
Campshackle – to distort, throw in disorder, upset
Camsteery – wild, mad unmanageable, obstinate, perverse
Camstroudgeous – wild, obstinate, unmanageable
Canary – a burglar’s assistant (carries the tools and watches)
Canderlucks – look yonder
Cantankered – cross, cantankerous
Carberry – to wrangle or argue perversely
Cataclue – a group of people running in disorder and impeding each other
Cataran – a Highland robber
Caterpillar – to plague, torment, render helpless
Catoose – an implement of any kind
Catterbatch – to quarrel, to broil
Catterbatter – to wrangle good-humouredly
Cazzon-hearted – out of heart, dispirited, sick on the subject
Chacket – to cough
Cheeping merry – half-drunk
Chirple – to twitter as a swallow
Chub – a friend
Chubble headed – silly, foolish
Chuffle headed – foolish, stupid
Clack – noisy talk; a gossip; an untrue story, slander
Clack box – a chatterbox
Clacky – talkative
Clapperclaw – to scratch, maul, fight in an unskilful manner; generally used of women
Clatch-hooks/clench-hooks – claws, talons, hands
Cleverality – cleverness
Clifty – fleet, active, mettlesome; industriously active
Cobnobble – to chastise, correct; knock on the head
Clinker-bell – icicle
Coldrife/coldrife-like – cold, shivering with cold; cold in personality; indifferent, spiritless
Collyfodger – one who takes unusual care of himself
Collyfogle – to deceive, cheat, scheme
Collyfox – to idle about, humbug
Collywoggle – a hurry
Condiddle – to make away with, to take or entice away clandestinely
Condoodle – to cheat, deceive a person
Connyfogle – hoodwink, cheat, entice by flattery
Contrarious – adverse, unfavorable
Coof – a simpletone, ninny
Coppet – pert, saucy, impudent; brisk, lively
Cotter – to entangle, mat together
Cotter – to plague, worry, vex, annoy; complain, grumble, grizzle
Cotter – tangle, entanglement; plague, worry
Cotter – beat, thrash
Couthie – agreeable, sociable, affectionate, affable
Cowdrum – beating
Cowge – to pilfer, steal
Cradden – coward (craddenly)
Craffle – hobble
Crake – boast; gossip; confess, divulge
Craker – one who divulges
Crambazzle – a worn-out old man
Cramble – to walk with difficulty, hobble
Crambly – tottery
Crinkie-winkie – a pother, contention, umbrage
Cring-crankum – twisted, meandering
Crinkams – twists and turns
Crulge – to crouch together, draw together
Crum-a-grackle – a mess, difficulty, bother
Crusher – police
Cullion – a mean, base fellow, knave
D
Daffen – to stun
Daisy – extraordinary, excellent, darling
Dapperwit – a spruce little man
Derfly – boldly, fiercely
Dern – secret, obscure; dark, dreary, dismal, lonely; darkness, secrecy; to conceal, hide
Dibble-dabble – rubbish
Dildrams – strange tales, improbable stories
Diminity – a diminutive creature
Discomfrontle – to disarrange, discompose
Disheartsome – disheartening
Disremember – to forget
Dixie-fixie – imprisoned
Dizzard – a weak-minded person, a fool
Doolie – a hobgoblin; a scarecrow
Doolie-doomster – a spectre
Downsquare/downstraight – honest, upright, straightforward
Dozzle – to confuse, stupefy
Drattled – confounded
Drumble – to be sluggish and slow in movement; to fumble
Duck-hearted – faint-hearted
Dulderum – confused, in a state of stupor, silenced by argument
Dumbfounder – to confuse, stupefy, stun, from a blow or the result of a powerful argument
Dumbfounderment – confusion or the state of being dumbfounded
Dumble – a wooded alley, a belt of trees along the bed of a small stream
Dumbledore – the bumble-bee; a drone
Dumpty – short and thick
Dwingle – to loiter
Dwizzen – to dry up
E
Earthfast – deep-rooted in the earth
Eeriesome – dismal, dull, sad, melancholy; ghostly, weird
Eldern – elderly
Elf-shot – misfortune or disease; bewitched
Entercommon – common to everybody
Entramells – bondage, the chains of slavery
Ercle – swelling, blister, pimple
Ettle – to intend, purpose, have in mind, design “he ettled doom for me”
Ettlement – intention
Ettle – to attempt, endeavor, strive after, struggle hard to obtain
Eyeable – pleasing or agreeable to the eye, sightly
F
Faceable – fit to be seen, pretty
Fammel – to starve, famish
Fammelled – hungry, starved, famished
Fandangle – ornaments, trinkets; antics, capers
Fandanglement – whim, crotchet; gewgaw
Fantigue – state of excitement, commotion, fuss, fit of ill temper
Farrinkly – comely, good looking; decent, orderly
Fawnsome – kind, caressing, loving; gently aggressive in manner or desire
Feal – faithful, loyal
Fear-fangit – panic-stricken
Fear-fickle – dangerous, inspiring fear, uncertain in temper
Feckfow – wealthy
Feff – a thief; to steal
Fezzle – to fall to with a good will; to seize eagerly
Fidge-fadge – move along slowly
Fingerfull – a pinch, small quantity
Finnying – timid, fearful
Finoodle – to fumble
Fizgig – a silly or flirtatious young woman; a small firework
Fizzen – food
Flabbergash – to astound, amaze, take aback
Fleech – to flatter, fawn; beseech
Flizzen – to laugh heartily or sarcastically
Flizzoms – small flakes, flying particles
Flother – a boggy place, swamp
Flug-fisted – left-handed
Flunter – a fragment, untidy end, rubbish; state of confusion; angry state of mind
Flunter-drawer – a rubbish drawer full of odds and ends
Fluntered – mixed, flustered
Flurrikin – speaking in a flurry or state of agitation
Flurry-go-nimble – diarrhea
Flustergated – blustering
Flusterate – to fluster, confuse, take aback
Flutterment – fluttering excitement
Fluzzed – bruised
Fluzzer – a bruise
Foof – a stench
Fool-scutter – silly, boasting talk
Forflitten – scolded
Forslitting – castigation, chastisement
Frembd/Fremble – strange, foreign, unfamiliar; unrelated, not of kin
Fren/the fren – strange, foreign; acting like a stranger; strangers as distinguished from kinsfolk
Frettished – perished, benumbed, starved with cold, half-frozen
Frettishin – a cold, catarrh; cold, numbing, perishing
Frettishment – starvation, perishing from cold
Frickle – to fidget, worry; potter about
Friggle – to fidget, worry; to do anything in a niggling, slow, awkward way
Friggling – tiresome, fiddling, minute; small, insignificant, trifling
Frobly mobley – indifferently well
Fruesome – scowling, coarse-looking
Frumpyish – ill-humored, cross-grained, peevish
Fudderment – excess of warm wrappings or lining
Fuddersome – oppressive, cumbersome; troublesome, annoying
Funglie-foo – obliging, generous
Funkin – an unkind person, scamp
Furthersome – active, expeditious; pushing
G
Gafty – sly, trick, cunning; mischievous, vicious
Gaitle – to wander idly
Galdragon – a sorceress, witch
Galivander – gallivant
Gallitrap – a mystic green circle of grass land into which any guilty person having trod is supposed doomed to be delivered over to justice
Galluna – a derelict; a half-disabled vessel
Gally – to frighten, alarm, scare, terrify
Gallowed/gallified/galleyed/gallied – frightened, alarmed
Gally-trot – an apparition, ghostly object
Gally-bagger – a scarecrow; an object of terror
Gally-crow – a scarecrow
Gally-fuggle – to deceive, take in, bamboozle
Gamawdled – slightly intoxicated
Gamesome – playful, frolicsome, sportive
Gadger – anything of unusual size
Gargrugous – austere, terrifying, awe-inspiring, ugly
Gauster – to bully, bluster, storm, to be boisterous, swagger
Gedgy – choking with laughter
Geetle – a small quantity
Gimcrack – a word applied to anything fanciful, showy, novel
Glafter – a burst of laughter
Glaver – flatter, wheedle
Gledge – to glance at, look askance or slyly, to leer; to look archly
Gleed – a spark, ember, cinder; fire, flame, glow
Glegly – cleverly, smartly, keenly, attentively; briskly
Glegsome – keen, sharp
Glent – to shine, sparkle, gleam; of flowers, to blossom, put forth
Glibbing – begging in the streets
Gliff – a sudden fright or shock
Gliffy – nervous, easily frightened
Glime – to glance slyly, look askance or asquint; to look cunningly, or stare in an unpleasant manner
Glime – to sparkle, glitter
Glimigrim – punch
Glince – of ice, smooth, slippery
Glink – to sparkle, shine, gleam; to cast a side-glance
Glocken – to start from fright, to astound
Glockened – astounded, startled; shocked
Glockening – a sudden start or shock from fright
Glooming- frowning, gloomy, severe
Glounce – to throw, fling
Glump – to look sulky, gloomy, discontented
Glumpish – surly, sulky; gloomy, mopish
Glumpse – sullen, sulky, taciturn
Glumpy – sullen, morose, sour-looking; ill-humored
Guldering/guldersome – passionate, boisterous
Gorphin – a potato
Gowan – daisy
Gowan-speckled – covered with daisies
Greecums – whims, fancies
Griggles – small apples left on the tree after picking; small worthless fruit, vegetables left after gathering
Grinagog – a stupid, grinning person
Grudglings – dregs of coffee
Grue – to shiver or shudder with fear or repulsion; pain, grief; gloomy weather
Grufeling – to lie closely wrapped up, in a comfortable manner
Grum – surly, cross, disagreeable, glum
Grumly – fault-finding, grumbling, irritable
Grummel – grounds, sediment
Grumply – out of humor
Gumptious – irritable; inclined to grumbling
Grumsel – a dandelion
Gupp – vomit
Gyve – fetters, usually for the leg
H
Habble – difficulty, perplexity
Hacket – cutting, biting, severe, caustic
Hag-begagged – bewitched
Hale-hearted – of unbroken spirit
Halesome – well
Hamert – belonging to home, home-grown, home-made, home-keeping
Hanchum-scranshum – confusion, disorder, bewilderment
Hand-rackle – careless
Hand-bolts/hand-sheckles – handcuffs
Hangedly – reluctantly, unwilling; despondently, as though being led to the gallows
Hauling-home – the bringing home of the bride, wedding day
Haver – to talk in a foolish, incoherent manner; to talk nonsense
Hedgehog – to open, divulge, or disclose anything (“squeal”)
Hettle-tongued – foul-mouthed, irascible in speech
High-twelve – mid-day
Hinch – to be miserly; mean conduct, meanness
Hindercome – in sight, but some way off
Hisk – to draw the breath with difficulty; to breathe short through cold or pain; to gasp
Hobbedy’s-lantern – will-o’-the-wisp
Homologate – to express agreement with or approval of; to countenance, ratify
Honkazin – idling, lounging
Hookem-snivey – deceitful, tricky, sly
Hookikooris – in a sulky, offended state of mind
Hoosack – “eureka” said upon finding a thing lost
Hoozle – to wheeze; heavy breathing
Hoozle – to perplex, puzzle, nonplus; to drub or beat severely
Hound-hungry – ravenous as a dog
Huffle – a rattling in the throat
Huffle-buffs – old clothes
Huffled – angry, offended
Hugger-mugger – concealment, secrecy, stealth (in hugger-mugger, in secret)
Hwrinket – unbecoming language
I
Icybells – icicles
Idioticals – foolish things, nonsense
Idiotry – idiocy, folly
Ill-cheer – grief
Ill-clepped – ill-conditioned, surly, churlish
Ill-contricked – knavish
Impet – an imp
Ingle-bred – home-bred
Ingle-lighted – lighted by the fire
Inglenook – a chimney-corner, a corner by the fireside
Ingle-ring – the fireside circle
Ingle-side – hearth, fireside
Ingle-stone – the hearthstone
Insnorl – to entangle, inveigle
Iversome – always, eversome
Izle – an icicle
J
Jabberment – idle talk, chatter
Jackutty-taters – potatoes boiled with their skins on
Jaffled – fatigued looking
Jaffler – a careless, idle man
Jammock – to squeeze, press
Jammocked – worn out, exhausted
Janglement – an angry disputation
Janglesome – quarrelsome; noisy, boisterous
Jawbation – a long and tedious harangue; a scolding or reprimand
Jelder – to flog soundly, to thrash, maul
Jeldered – severely bruised, jeldered up
Jelly – pleasant, agreeable; upright, worthy
Jeoperd – a hazardous enterprise; a bold adventure; a battle
Jerry-cummumble – nonsense
Jether – to talk idly
Jibber – a sweetmeat, lollipop
Jibble – to make a face as a child about to cry
Jiggamy – name given to an implement or tool that can’t be recalled at the moment
Jiggered – exhausted, tired
Jiggery-pokery – unfair dealing; deception
Jilly-hooting – cheating, deception
Jimmer – to make a disagreeable noise with the violin
Jimp – slender, small, neat, elegant
Jimpsy – neat, smartly dressed
Jingle-brains – a wild, noisy, talkative person
Jingumbob – a knick-knack
Jobbernowt – a talker of nonsense, a chatterbox
Jomick – good-looking
Jommetry – magic art
Jotteral – odd, mean, or dirty work; anything about to fall to pieces
Jottery- odd, mean or dirty work
Joused – finished, completed
Jower – to exhaust, to tire out
Joy-wark – the doings at a public rejoicing
Jubberment – trouble, bother; exertion
Jubberty – a difficulty; a vexatious occurrence; misfortune
Jumblement – confusion, disorder; intricacy
Juttling – weak, wishy-washy
Juzzled – rotted away
K
Kafty – ill-tempered
Kazzardly – precarious, risky, uncertain; of the weather, changeable, unsettled
Keave – to plunge
Keave – to struggle on in a hopeless way
Keck – to retch; to feel sick; to faint suddenly
Kecken-hearted – squeamish; loathing the sight of food; faint-hearted
Kecker – the gullet; the windpipe
Keckle – to speak insolently or retort impertinently
Keckle – loud chatter; idle or foolish talk
Keckle – a smothered laugh
Keen-set – hungry, eager
Kefty – awkward, clumsy
Keg – belly, stomach
Kelk – to beat severely; to hit roughly with the hand or foot
Kellifudge – to deceive, trick
Kennable – easily known or recognizable; apparent, easy to understand
Kennance – knowledge
Kennawhat – anything indescribable
Kenner – one who knows
Kenning – knowing
Kenned face – a friend
Kengood – a warning, an example or lesson learnt by experience; something to remember or take warning by, used ironically
Kensmackle – conspicuous, remarkable for some peculiar mark or spot
Kensmark – a peculiar mark or spot by which anything may be easily recognized
Kenspeck – conspicuous, remarkable, easily distinguishable
Keppen – to hoodwink
Keysand – overnice, fanciful, dainty
Kickmashaw – extravagant, foppish
Kickshaw – a contemptuous term for a novelty, new invention, a useless trifle, trumpery
Kicky-wicky – disdainful
Kidgie – friendly, familiar, lovingly attached
Kimplack – a very large piece
Kimplet – a moderately-sized piece
Kinsbody – relative
Kintra-folks – country people, rustics
Kintra-side – country region
Kip – to take the property of someone else by fraud or violence
Kippage – disorder, confusion; dilemma, state of difficulty
Kipper – light, nimble; lively, in good spirits, frisky; eager
Kithan – an unmanageable rogue; a blackguard
Kittle – to tickle
Kittle – to puzzle, perplex
Kittle – difficult to deal with; prone to erratic behavior
Kittlesome/kittlish/kittly – ticklish
Kittle – clever; smart; amusing
Kittle-notioned – fanciful
Kittle-sighted- quick at seeing
Kittle-tongued – fluent, given to falsehoods
Kittyval – an assembly of persons of objectionable character
Klem – imperfectly or badly done, of little value
Knacket – clever, smart, conceitedly clever
Knackety – handy, ingenious; self-conceited
Knack-hardy – foolhardy
Knackle – to trifle
Knackling – working at odd jobs
Knacky – handy, ingenious; deft, skillful
Kneef – active, alert, brisk, lively
Kniffy – stout and active, agile, clever
Knevell – to beat severely; to knock about, beat with the fists D
Knidget – a mischievous, saucy boy or girl
Knogs – the knees
Knooled – dispirited, broken down, of troubled countenance or expression
Kottled – perplexed
Kythe – to make known, to show, display; to appear, to become known or manifest
Kything – an appearance, manifestation
Kythesome – of a pleasant and prepossessing appearance
L
Lantern-swash – excessive perspiration; a great fright; a state of consternation
Lantern-puff – a hurry; petulant haste
Lap-clap – a loud kiss
Leally – loyally, faithfully, honestly; thoroughly
Leal-come – honestly obtained
Leal-loved – loyally loved, well-loved
Leathering – a thrashing
Leesome – pleasant, loveable
Leethfow – kindly, compassionate, sympathizing, ready to lend
Lief – dear, beloved
Leifsome – pleasant
Lillup – to skip, spring, walk quickly
Lilly-wark – flattery, cajolery; coaxing
Lilly-low – a blaze, a bright flame; a bright light from a fire
Liquor-struck – rather drunk
Lirripoop – a silly, empty creature, an old dotard
Lollicker – the tongue
Lollop – loll; idle; move in a heavy, awkward manner
Lolloper – a lazy fellow, lout
Lolloping – idle; clumsy
Lollopy – idle, slovenly
Lolly – tongue
Lollypot – an idiot; a lazy lubber
Long-crowned – clever, acute
Loof – the palm of the hand
Looster – to lounge, idle about; a lazy, slothful person
Lop-lollard – a lazy fellow
Losel – a lazy rascal; an idle, good-for-nothing fellow
Lovesome – loveable; attractive; lovely; beloved
Lozzuck – to lounge; to loll; to idle; to loaf
M
Macky-moon – a fool, a silly person; a queer-looking figure
Maffling or moffling – speaking thickly and unintelligibly
Magger – a scolding, complaining person
Mageniken – a genius or magician
Malefice – a bad action; the act or effect of witchcraft
Mallagrugous – grim, ghastly; discontented-looking
Malverse – a crime; to do wrong; to give an erroneous judgment
Mamble – to eat without appetite, or with indifference
Mazarded – stunned, amazed
Mazerment – confusion, perplexity, amazement
Mazlekin – fool, idiot
Mazzen – to stupefy, make dizzy; to perplex, bewilder
Mecklekeckle – poor in quality or fiber
Meeverly – moderately, tolerably, middling; fairly well in health
Meggification – a lie, untruth
Megrim – a whim, fancy, caprice; absurd notion or fancy
Meirdel – a confused crowd of people or animals; a numerous family of little children; a huddle of small animals
Melander – a disturbance; an accident; a misfortune
Melder – entanglement; mental confusion
Meldrop – a pendant drop (on the end of a nose, icicle, etc.)
Menk – to have an inclination or longing for anything
Menseful – in keeping with good taste and proprietary; polite, restrained
Mermooth – the entrance to a haven
Mezzle – excitement
Middling – moderate, fair, tolerable; mediocre, indifferent, poor, bad
Miff-maff – nonsense, foolishness, humbug
Mim – prim, demure; affectedly modest or shy; prudish; primly silent or reticent
Mimpsy-pimsy – dainty, fastidious, fanciful, affected
Mingle-mangle – a medley; irregular, confused
Mirksome – somewhat dark
Mirkning – twilight, dusk
Mirr – to tremble, vibrate
Misboden – injured
Misguggle – to disfigure, spoil, mar; to handle roughly; rumple
Mireckon – to miscalculate; a miscalculation, mistake
Misremember – to forget
Missment – a mistake, error
Mixty-maxty – a heterogenous mixture; a confusion
Miz-maze – confusion; bewilderment, perplexity
Moble – to muffle the head and shoulders in warm wraps; to put on an abundance of warm wraps
Mockrife – scornful
Mog – to move on, depart, walk off, move away; to decamp, go off quickly or hastily
Mogre – a clumsy mess, confusion, disorder
Mollicrush – to crush; beat to a jelly; to bruise; to pulverize; to hector, domineer
Molligrant – a complaint; a whining lamentation
Molly-prance – a merrymaking
Momenty-morries – skeletons
Monger – a man who has anything for sale
Moolet – to whine; to sob; to murmur
Moople – an imbecile; a simpleton
Moosk – a haze
Moosket – dusky
Mortal-drunk – dead-drunk
Motch – to eat dainties in secret; slow quiet eating, with the idea of fondness for good living
Muck-shade – twilight
Muck-sweat – a state of alarm or great anxiety
Mudge – sludge, mud; movement
Mufflements – overclothes; mufflers, wraps
Muggard – sullen, morose; displeased, discontented
Muggaty – sullen, morose; discontented, displeased
Muggaroon – mushroom
Muggert-up – warn out, completely exhausted
Mulder – to molder
Mulfered – exhausted, worn out with heat
Mulfering – sultry, close weather
Mullock – dirty, a heap of rubbish; refuse
Mulloxed – tired, overcome
Mullygrubs – a stomach-ache; the colic; any imaginary ailment; the sulks
Mully-puff – a sweat
Mully-puffled – muddle-headed, confused
Mulp – to be sulky, to pout; a fit of sulkiness
Mulvather – to confuse, bamboozle
Mulvathered – confused with drink, intoxicated
Mumpish – sulky, gloomy
Mumple – to seem as if going to vomit
Mumpoker – an evil spirit, bogey man
Mungelling – dark, obscure, tortuous
Muzz – a state of mental confusion
N
Nag-ridden – troubled with nightmare
Naggled – bothered, annoyed
Nang – of a pain, to gnaw to keep up a dull, continuous aching; to complain, fret, cry, worry
Nark – to annoy, vex, irritate, exasperate
Nazzed – partly intoxicated; stupefied
Nazzle – to be in a dreamy, stupid, abstracted state
Nearsome – closely related
Neazle – to make the noise which accompanies a sneeze
Nebbock – the nose
Neffit – a puny creature; a pigmy
Netty – a privy or water closet
Niddering – weak, cowardly; coward
Nidderling – a coward, a weak, silly person
Niddle-noddle – to do anything in a dreamy, bewildered way; to dawdle
Nidget – an idiot, fool
Nimble-chops – a chatterbox
Nippy-nose – a child’s name for the frost
Nob-stick – a rascal
Noofy – silly, feckless
Nuncheon – a slight repast taken between meals, in fore or afternoon
O
Oamly – unpleasant or hurtful to the feelings
Offmagandy – the best and choicest of delicacies
Oldster – an old person
Omperlodge – to contradict
Omperlodgies – apologies for not undertaking a work; difficulties urged as an excuse
Oomik – a small person, small child
Oonfersell – inactive, inert, not lively
Oorie – apprehensive, superstitiously afraid, in dread of spirits, eerie; sad, melancholy, dismal, depressing; chilly, shivering
Oozling – hairy
Oozly – slovenly, unkempt; broken-down
Orp – to weep with a convulsive pant; to fret morosely
Out-away – extraordinary
Outgang – a departure
Outganger – one who goes out of a place or country, an emigrant
Over-mickle – too much
Over-minded – much inclined
Overloup – a trespass
Overmost – uppermost
Overwin – to overcome
Owlish – sleepy, stupid
Oxter – armpit
P
Paalie-maalie – sickly, not in quite good health
Paik – a to beat, strick, punish
Paiking – a beating, thrashing, punishment
Palter – to hesitate, prevaricate; to play fast and loose
Parinody – a long, uninteresting tale
Peart – lively, cheerful, brisk
Pearten – to enliven, cheer
Peartle – to enliven, cheer
Pecksome – hungry
Peekle – to pry into secret matters
Peerie-weerie-winkie – excessively small
Penny-headed – a corruption of opinionated
Pelder – to encumber
Pelderment – an encumbrance
Pensy – quiet, thoughtful, pensive
Perjinkety – apt to take offense
Phooky – of fruits and turnips: unsound, soft, wooly
Pickelty – a difficulty; a state of need, distress, or embarrassment; a state of anxiety or eagerness
Plaff – suddenly, as with the sound of a slight explosion.
Pomp – to promise
Pomple – responsible, trustworthy
Pomster – to act as a quack-doctor; to treat illness without knowledge or skill in medicine
Potherment – a source of petty trouble or annoyance; perplexity
Prank – to decorate, deck out
Pranked – decked out
Preek – impatient eagerness to accomplish anything
Prickmedainty – finical in language and behavior, conceited
Primsie – demure, precise, affected
Prog – to probe, forage; to beg
Proop – to break wind in a suppressed way
Prunk – neat, pretty, smart; proud, vain, saucy
Puckeration – state of excitement, vexation
Puckering – a rage
Pungled – embarrassed, perplexed, especially in money matters
Purgy – surly, peevish, quarrelsome, obstinate
Pussyvan – a flurry, temper
Puther – smoke, steam; dust; a cloud of smoke or dust
Puthery – close, sultry, heavy
Q
Quackle – to choke
Quandorum – a polite speech or gesture
Quank – to overcome, subdue; to quiet
Quietsome – quiet, peaceable, tranquil, retired, silent
Quignogs – ridiculous notions or conceits
Quilly – a prank, a caper
Quirkled – twisted
Quither – a shake, tremble, shudder
Quother – to talk in a low and confidential tone
R
Rabblement – a crowd, mob, rabble
Racketty/rackety – boisterous, noisy, righteous; careless, thoughtless, wild
Rackle – rash, violent, headstrong, fearless; disorderly, riotous, unruly
Rackle-handed – careless, rash
Rackledom – ruin, wreck
Racklesome – boisterous, noisy, reckless; quarrelsome, disputative
Radgy – ill-tempered, angry, excited, violent, mad
Raffing – drinking, carousing
Raffy – drunken, dissipated, wild
Raffler – a worthless fellow
Raffling – idle, worthless, dissolute, disorderly; a disorderly person
Ragabrand – a low rascal, an idle vagabond; a collection of such persons; a beggerly, untidy
Raglish – rough, boisterous; severe, harsh
Rake-fire – one who comes to pay a visit and stays very late
Ramfeezle – to exhaust oneself with work, to wear oneself out
Rammel – a rough person
Rammelsome – rough, troublesome
Rampageous – boisterous, noisy, disorderly; angry, furious; obstreperous
Ramshackering – worthless, idle, unsteady
Ramshacketty – worthless, unsteady, dissipated
Randigal – a string of nonsense; a long, rambling tale
Rankringing – wild, coarse, lawless
Rannigal – a masterful, turbulent person or animal
Razzor – to exhaust, wear out, tire; to vex, exasperate
Reasty – rancid
Reave – to rob, steal, plunder; to bereave of
Reaver – plunder, rob; a plunderer, robber
Reck – to take heed of, care for, regard
Rede – counsel, advice
Reeze – to pull a person about roughly
Reif – robbery, plunder
Renchel – to beat, to thwack with a stick
Rickle – a loose heap or pile; a stack
Rig-welting – a flogging
Rigment – an arrangement, contrivance, makeshift; anything unsuitable, insufficient, or incomprehensible
Rim-ram – in a state of disorder
Rinlet – a small stream
Rippet – a noisy disturbance; a romp; an uproar; a quarrel
Rip-rap – a worthless person; a firework, cracker
Rivel-ravel nonsense; a confused harangue; a rhapsody
Rix – a rush
Rizle – to beat violently
Rizzle – to creep
Roamish – active; adventurous
Rock-shop – a sweet shop
Roffling – disorderly, dissolute, worthless
Rogue-handled – cheated, swindled
Rookery – pillage, robbery
Ruckle – to breathe with difficulty, to make a hoarse, rattling sound; to croak
Ruesome – sorrowful, pitiable
Rugfus – rough; rude
Rum-tum – a jovial party; a carousal; a questionable occupation
Ryntle – to roll about in a chair in a lazy manner
S
Sackless – without blame or accusation; guiltless, innocent; weak, dispirited; harmless
Sadly-begone – woebegone, disappointed
Sadly off – in a bad way
Saffle – dull, sad, melancholy
Saffling – melancholy
Scaddle – wild, mischievous, unsteady; thievish (such as a dog or cat); timid, easily frightened; to dare one to do anything
Scaff – food, provisions of any kind
Scagmagly – worthless
Scaleraker – a town scavenger
Scamble – to shamble, walk awkwardly
Scaragrice – used of anything very timid
Scareful – terrifying, frightful
Scarify – to terrify, scare
Scarly – boisterous, windy, threatening rain
Scarn – dung, especially cow dung
Scarrow – faint light, especially reflected light; a shadow
Scog – to boast, brag; to be self-important
Scouth – room, freedom, liberty to range, scope
Scrab – to scratch, scrape, claw
Scrafflin – a rascal
Scraggle – to scramble, walk with difficulty
Scrange – to inflict a deep scratch
Scrapplings – scraps
Scrawlation – confusion, disorder
Scrawling – a term of contempt for anything mean, despicable; worthless, miserably small
Scrawmax – anything badly formed or out of shape
Scrift – a long-winded story; a made-up tale
Scrive – to write
Scrivening-time – time set apart for writing
Scrump – to eat ravenously, crunch, bit noisily
Scrump – crisp, hard-baked, or dried up bread
Scrumble – to make crisp; to bake hard or roast by the fire; to shrivel by means of the fire
Scrunt – anything stunted in growth or worn down; a stump; a stunted, insignificant person; brushwood, stunted undergrowth; a worn-out wig; a miserly person
Scubble – to soil, as a schoolboy does his book
Scud – to drink copious draughts; to slap, beat down
Scud – a boon companion
Scuggery – the state of concealment; hiding; secrecy
Sculver – to skulk, to attempt to hide by crawling on the ground
Scummage – to run about and make a mess in a place
Scunner – to loathe; to regard with, or feel, disgust
Scurl – the scab which forms over a wound
Scuddle – to hurry, scurry; to wander from home in order to shirk some duty
Scug – shade; a sheltered place, especially the declivity of a hill
Scutchel – rubbish
Scutching – poor, bad, paltry, especially used of work
Sindle-times – seldom, rarely
Selcouth – strange, uncommon, rare
Sevendle – strong, secure, sufficient; trustworthy, to be depended on
Shaffle-topping/shaffle-durt/shaffle-horn -a lazy, shiftless fellow
Shathmont – six inches; the measure of the fist with the extended thumb
Shegger – to empty the pockets of an opponent at a game of chance or skill
Sheldraker – a town scavenger
Shelter-stick – a slang term for an umbrella
Shortsome – amusing, cheerful, merry; diverting, entertaining; causing time to pass quickly, making time seem short
Showerlickie – a gentle shower
Shrump – to shrink, shrivel; to shiver with cold
Shug-meazel – a term of vituperation
Sibberidge – the banns of marriage
Sickrife – sickly; having a slight attack of illness
Side-wiper – a blow on the side; a covert blow or kick; indirect censure, sarcasm
Sightworthy – worthy of being seen
Sike – to sigh; to sob; to gasp; to catch the breath suddenly; a gutter or stream that dries up in summer
Skaivie/skavie – a trick, prank; a disappointment, an affront
Skalrag – of a shabby appearance
Skeeg-waggery – mischief, facetiousness, love of joking, tomfoolery
Skeg – a glance; a squint
Skell – to shriek, scream, yell, to cry aloud; to squall
Skellum – a term of reproach; a rascal, scamp, scoundrel
Skellyscope – a humorous name for a telescope
Skelp – to strike with the hand or with a flat surface; to beat, whip, smack
Skelping – unusually large or outstanding of its kind; a whipping, beating
Sken – to squint; to look askance
Skewboglish – of a horse: apt to shy
Skice – to frisk or frolic about; to fun fast; to make off quickly and slyly, so as to avoid detection
Skiffle – a slight shower of rain
Skink – to spy, peer about
Skinkle – to shine, sparke, twinkle
Skinty – very small
Skire – mad (Sc)
Skitwit – foolish, scatter-brained person
Skrike – to scream, screech, shriek, cry
Skrimisher – a dwarf
Skype – a mean, worthless fellow; a lean person of disagreeable manner and temper
Skyre – to shine, glitter; to make foolish parade in gaudy dress
Slape – slippery, crafty
Sliggy – deceitful
Slimsy – worthless, good-for-nothing; idle, lazy, dawdling
Slitherum – a slow-moving person; an idle, languid person not up to his work
Sloomy – sleepy, sluggish, idle; dull, slow-witted; gloomy
Sluckatrice – a sluggard
Slugabed – to lie late in bed
Slutherment – any slimy, viscid matter
Smeerikin – a hearty kiss; a stolen kiss
Smeg – a bit, particle
Smirkle – a smile, a suppressed laugh
Smirl – a mocking smile; a sneering laugh; a trick; roguery
Smook – to put away; to hide, conceal
Smool – to look sulky
Smool – to filch
Smootrikin – a puny person or animal
Smoozy – indolent; drowsy; half-asleep
Smuggart – a person of small stature and disagreeable temper
Smugsmith – a smugler
Smyster – to work in a lazy, weak manner; to sit idly over the fire; to talk or laugh to oneself, as in a day-dream
Snabble – to eat hurriedly or greedily; to devour
Snackles – little delicacies of food
Snaffling – mean, contemptible; idle, trifling; whining, canting
Snagger – snore
Sneagle/sneasle – to sneak about with a display of mock activity
Sneeter – to loiter; to remain idly in a place; to work in a slow, unskilful manner (Sc)
Snerdle – to nestle closely; to wrap up comfortably in bed; to go comfortably off to sleep
Snicket – anything small and insignificant
Snickersneeze – a meaningless term used to threaten children
Snickler – a clenching argument; conclusive evidence
Snirtle – to laugh in a suppressed manner; to sneer
Snod – smooth, even; sleek, velvety; neat, spruce, tidy; sly, soft-spoken; demure; snug, comfortable, easy; clever, careful, tactful
Snoogly – snugly
Snool – an abject, cringing person; one who submits tamely to others; a coward, craven, sneak; a weak fool
Snuffers – nostrils
Snuffling – paltry
Snuzzle – to nestle
Solacious – cheerful, comforting, solacing
Soothfast – trustworthy; honest; true
Sore-hearted – sad at heart
Sorely begone – woebegone, distressed, in bad health
Soul-provven – spiritual food
Spancel – a fetter, especially used of a rope to tie together a cow’s hind legs; also used figuratively
Spelk – splinter of wood
Spellwind – a violent outburst of passion; a gust of rage
Spiflicate – to overcome; to stifle; to kill
Spirewind – a violent gust of passion; a gust of rage
Splatherdash – a great talking over a trifle; unnecessary talk, chatter
Splatter-dashing – large and wide-spreading; used of anything so large and full as to have an awkward appearance
Sprack – brisk, nimble, active; lively, alert, vigorous
Sprunny – a lover, sweetheart
Squack – to cry out
Squezzen – to squeeze, crumple; to suffocate, choke; to overcome by heat
Stampointed – bewildered, overcome with astonishment
Steelrife – overbearing
Storicle – a kind of story
Stound – a short while; instant; a pang, pain
Stour – tall, large, stout; hardy, robust, strong, sturdy; stern, harsh; dust, powder
Stour – battle, conflict; tumult, uproar
Strangway – demented, out of one’s mind, beside oneself with pain, passion, etc.
Strather – haste, excitement
Streek – to stretch; to stretch out, extend; to lie down; to extend oneself at full length
Stuffinger – a glutton
Summer-blink – a transient gleam of sunshine
Summer-fens – freckles
Swaddledidaff – a term of endearment; sweetheart
Swarf – to faint, swoon; a swoon
Swarly – ill-tempered
Sweb – to swoon; a swoon
Swelt – to die; to cause to die
Swelt – to faint, swoon; to fall into a state of syncope
Swinked – oppressed, tired
Swither – to be in a state of perplexity; to doubt, hesitate
Swizzlement – any kind of drink
Swizzler – a drunkard
Swooth – a fright
Swuggle – to drink eagerly
T
Tongue-tacked – tongue-tied
Taffle – to move aimlessly; to perplex, tire, wear out, exhaust with fatigue
Taffety – dainty, fastidious
Tafferel – thoughtless, giddy
Taistrel – a passionate, violent, sour-tempered person; a good-for-nothing; a rascal
Tallydiddle – a foolish or untrue tale
Tamtarrie – the state of being detained under frivolous pretenses
Tandiddled – imposed upon, bewildered, cheated
Tantaddlement – a trifle
Tantadling – a small tart; an apple-dumpling; light delicacies, especially sweets, in contradistinction to more substantial food
Tantaran – noise, uproar
Tanthunder – a commotion
Tantoozle – to whip soundly
Tartle – to hesitate, especially to hesitate in recognizing a person
Tartuffish – sour, sullen, stubborn
Teagle – a crane, life, elevator
Teedle – to sing a song without words; to croon
Teen – sorrow, grief
Terrification – terror, anything causing terror
Thingiment – something the name of which is unknown or forgotten
Thole – to bear, suffer, endure, tolerate, undergo
Tholeable – bearable, tolerable
Tholemoody – patient
Thootle – to endure, to wait
Threap – to assert positively, especially to persist in or maintain a false accusation or assertion; to insist on; to swear, repeat, or reiterate obstinately
Threaping – argumentative, quarrelsome
Threaping-do – a contentions, dispute, quarrel
Thrimble – to finger or handle anything as if reluctant to part with it, especially to dole or pay out
Thropple/throttle – the windpipe; the throat; the neck
Thrunch – solemnly dissatisfied; much displeased
Thrutch-puddins – a chubby person or animal
Tinkerments – fittings, odds and ends, tools
Tinkling-box – a slang expression for a pianoforte
Tirrivee – a passion, rage; a fit of temper
Tissick – a cough, especially a dry tickling cough; a hacking cough
Toit – walk with an unsteady gait, totter
Toothful – the smallest quantity of anything edible; a bite
Toppingly – excellently
Towardly – pleasant, affable; docile, tractable; apt to learn, promising, propitious; developing favorably
Toxie – tipsy
Toxified – tipsy, intoxicated
Traik – to go idly from place to place; to stoll, lounge, loaf, gad about
Traik – to trudge, walk wearily or reluctantly over a long distance
Traik – to go astray
Traik – to fall ill
Traiky – in poor or declining health
Tranklibobs – belongings; gear; odds and ends
Trankliment – trinket, knick-knack, ornament; a toy
Trazzle – to walk through wet and slush
Tremskit – ill-arranged, slovenly
Trig – true, faithful, reliable
Trig – jauntily trim, neat, spruce; precise or prim; firm, vigorous, sound, well, in good health
Trigimate – an intimate friend; a chum or companion
Trinamanoose – a nonentity; a thing forbidden; a delusive expression used to answer a child that asks a question relating to some object which is unfit for him to learn about
Tumfie – a stupid, dull, awkward person
Turriefax-day – a term used to signify “never”
Twadgers – small round gingerbread cakes, thick, puffy, and tough, flavored with lemon
Twam – to swoon
Twangle – to twist, entangle, ruffle
Twarly – cross, peevish, irritable, fractious, quarrelsome
Twiggitop – the top of a tree
Twire – to gaze at anything wistfully and beseechingly
Twire – to peep out, peer; look at something intently or with difficulty; glance shyly; leer; twist or twirl; twinkle
Twisterly – cross, bad-tempered; out of sorts
Twitchel – a narrow footpath between hedges; a narrow passage; a blind-alley; a shortcut; a noose
U
Ugsomeness – loathsomeness, repulsiveness
Umperlodge – to contradict, bicker, dispute
Unbiddable – perverse, obstinate; not to be advised
Uncouthy – eerie
Undercreeping – underhand, sly, sneaking
Under-reckon – to undervalue
Understrapper – a child
Unfaceable – ugly, not fit to be seen
Unfeary – feeble, infirm, weak, unfit for action
Unfurthersome – unfavorable weather; unmanageable, difficult
Unheartsome – cheerless, melancholy
Unked – unknown, strange, odd; uncouth, awkward, desolate, lonely; uncanny, weird, ghastly
Unstomachable – unappetizing, uninviting
Unwishful – reluctant
Up-headed – arrogant, despotic ill-tempered, peevish
Up-stir – disturbance; tumult; excitement
Uvart – unfrequented, lonesome; clumsy
V
Vainsome – conceited, proud, vain
Vaudy – cheerful, elated; gaudy in appearance
Vennel – a narrow lane or passage between buildings; an alley
Vitterly – quick-tempered, spiteful
Vizard – a mask, visor
Vizy – a look, view; a scrutinizing gaze; examine; to take aim
Voar – the spring, seed-time
Vogie – proud, vain, vaunting; elated; contented; happy, merry
Vug – a mining term: a natural cavity in a rock; a hollow; a cleft
Vuggy – full of cavities
Vuzzy – of hair: rough, tangled, unkempt
W
Wack-rowdy-dow – weak beer, broth, tea, etc.
Waff – a waving motion; puff, gust
Whaffy – full of news
Wairsh/wersh – not sufficiently slated; tasteless, insipid; sour, bitter
Wakerife – wakeful, sleepless, easily wakened; alert, vigilant
Wale – to choose, select; to pick or sort out; hence to court; to woo
Wallach – to cry as a child out of humor; to wail; to scream
Wamble – to rumble; to roll; to stir uneasily; used of the intestines or of food in the stomach
Wambly – giddy, sick, faint, especially with hunger; shaky on the legs
Wamfle – to flap; to flutter
Wanchancy – unlucky, ill-fated, boding evil; wicked
Wanhope – despair
Wanion – with a wanion – with a plague, with a vengeance, with a curse
Wankle – unsteady, insecure, tottering; changeable, precarious, unsettled; loose
Wankly – sickly; in poor health
Wankered – exhausted, fatigued
Wansy – sickly, weak
Warlockry – magic skill
Warry – take heed! Look out!
Warty-well – a loose piece of skin at the base of the fingernail
Washamouth – one who blurts out anything he has heard; a foul-mouthed person
Weasand – throat, esophagus or gullet, windpipe
Weased – anxious, uneasy, concerned
Weefil – a term of contempt for an extravagant person
Well-sookit – almost exhausted
Well-willied – kindly disposed; generous
We-selves – ourselves
Whenny – make haste! Be nimble!
Whensomever – whenever
Wheresomever – wherever
Whezzle – to beat or thrash with a stick
Whicker – to giggle, snigger; to laugh uncontrollably
Whinnock – to whimper; to cry; to whine as a dog
Whinny-meg – a trinket; a toy; a hobby-horse
Whippert – hasty, tart, irritable
Whipperty – slight; brisk; bristling; smart
Whizzle-winder – sweets
Whizzo – hurrah!
Whizzy – dizzy, giddy, confused
Wilter – to fade, droop
Wimmock – to coax; to wheedle; to cheat; to beggar
Windle-straw – anything weak and slender, especially used of a sickly person; a vacillating fellow
Wink-a-peeps – drowsiness
Winsome-fair – attractive and pretty
Wintle – to stagger, reel; to tumble
Winzie – winsome
Wit-begone – dazed
Wit-word – a wise expression; an able answer
Wizzle – to move stealthily; to creep in and out, as a snake; to obtain by craft, cajolery, flattery; to wheedle, entice
Woonkers – an exclamation of surprise, like “wow”
Wooster – a wooer; a lover
Word-shy – shy of speaking
Wordify – to put into words
World’s-worm – a miser
World-wonder – a spectacle for all beholders, especially used of a person of notorious or surprising conduct
Worricow – a bugbear; a hobgoblin; any frightful object or awkward-looking person; a scarecrow
Worriment – harassing annoyance
Worrit – to worry; to harass, tease; to pester with words; to fret; to complain petulantly
Wottingly – designedly
Wrizzled – shriveled, wrinkled, withered
Wrizzly – wrinkled, shriveled
Wurraw – hurrah!
Wurtle – to move backwards; to retreat; to withdraw form an awkward situation
Wynd – an alley, narrow lane
Y
Yabble – bark like a dog
Yaffle – to gossip; to talk fast and unmeaningly
Yaffle – to eat or drink greedily and with a noise
Yallack – look here! An exclamation denoting surprise or calling attention to anything
Yanker – a great falsehood
Yark – to jerk; to seize or pull forcibly
Yark – brisk, lively; sharp-witted, shrewd, penetrating
Yarking – grating, harsh
Yarking – incessant fault-finding
Yarny – disposed to the telling of long tales
Yask – a loud cough to clear the throat
Yawney-box – a silly person, yawney
Yelly-hooing – yelling, screaming
Yewk/yeuk- to itch
Yewky – itchy
Yoller – to bellow; to bawl; to yell or speak indistinctly through passion
Yonder-abouts – in that place, yonder
Yonderwheres – in that place, yonder
Yonderish – proud, cold in manner
Yonderly – vague, absent-minded; anxious, depressed
Yoppet – to yap like a dog
Yowk – to howl, yelp, etc.
Yox – to hiccough
Z
Zaggle – to confuse, especially by contradictory assertions
Zidlock – in hiding
Zuggans – the essence or best part of anything
Zweal – a commotion
Zwodder – a drowsy, stupid state of body or mind