The English Dialect Dictionary (by Joseph Wright) contains thousands of fascinating words, including unique dialect terms for everyday things. Here are some of my favorite animal names from the EDD.
(I like flintermouse or furze-a-boar the best. 😉 )
Attercop – spider
Burran – badger
Chestlecrumb – dormouse
Codnobble – tadpole
Cotterling – a cosset lamb; tame, docile, tender
Doker – a small animal
Earthgrub – an earthworm
Emerteen – ant
Evet – newt, eft, lizard
Fleck – a flea
Flickermouse – a bat
Flintermouse – the bat
Flitterchack – the ring-ouzel
Forky-tail – earwig
Foumart – a polecat
Furze-a-boar – a hedgehog
Gill-hooter – an owl
Granogoe – hedgehog
Hagworm – the adder or viper
Henniel – a greedy dog; a covetous, greedy person
Helegug – the puffin
Hez – a swarm of bees
Hobran – a blue shark
Hully-butterflee – the tiger-moth that has wooly bear caterpillars
Ingle-dog – an earthworm
Jazzen – a donkey
Kae – the jackdaw
Kitling/kittle – a kitten
Lammermoor lion – a sheep
Lealow – a butterfly or a glow-worm
Lighty – a butterfly
Moke – a donkey
Mox – a moth
Muggleton – a rat
Mumruffin – a titmouse
Near-wiggle – an earwig
Pillacater – a caterpillar
Pishminnie – an ant
Poddywig – a tadpole
Quilkin – a frog or toad
Reely-mouse – a bat
Reynolds – a fox (also called Mr. Reynolds)
Rezzle – a weasel
Rillywig – an earwig
Rinkin – a fox
Scattle-cat – a thieving, mischievous cat
Scrallybob – a louse
Scug – a squirrel
Shady-mouse – a bat
Siggywiggy – a titmouse
Snortly-wink – a caterpillar
Speddart – a spider
Sprug – the house-sparrow
Taffety – a toad
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(Sorry, I couldn’t find any animals that started with Z.)
Happy word-weaving!