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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.\u00a0 The dictionary contains six volumes, which can be found online.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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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.\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d share a few of my favorites.\u00a0 (Apologies if there are any mistakes – I did my best.)<\/p>\n\n

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Someday I may add commentary on these, including some extra details from the EDD.<\/p>\n\n

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Maybe you\u2019ll be inspired to go and pore over all six volumes yourself.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n

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A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Aflunters – in a state of disorder<\/p>\n\n

Afterclap – ulterior and unexpected consequences, generally unpleasant; evil consequence<\/p>\n\n

Afterings – outcome, results, consequences<\/p>\n\n

Afternooning – refreshment between dinner and tea<\/p>\n\n

Aigle – icicle; spangle<\/p>\n\n

Aimstart – a starting point<\/p>\n\n

Airish – chilly, breezy<\/p>\n\n

Alakanee – alas<\/p>\n\n

Alawk – alas<\/p>\n\n

Altering – likely to improve<\/p>\n\n

Amell – among, between, amidst<\/p>\n\n

Amplush – to reduce to a dilemma, confuse in argument<\/p>\n\n

Ancientry – antiquity; old things, antiquities<\/p>\n\n

Angaluck – disaster, accident<\/p>\n\n

Angerly – fierce, raging<\/p>\n\n

Angle-eared – mischievous<\/p>\n\n

Arfish – timid, fearful apprehensive<\/p>\n\n

Argle-bargle – argument<\/p>\n\n

Argufication – dispute<\/p>\n\n

Argufy – to argue, wrangle<\/p>\n\n

Atter – poison, sting<\/p>\n\n

Attercop – a spider<\/p>\n\n

Attern – poisonous; savage, ill-tempered<\/p>\n\n

Attering – poisonous<\/p>\n\n

Atween – between<\/p>\n\n

Atwist – twisted, awry \u201cMy innards are all atwist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Aunter – an adventure, story of adventure, unlikely story<\/p>\n\n

Awebound – submission to authority, under restraint to discipline<\/p>\n\n

Ayont – beyond, farther on<\/p>\n\n

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B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Backfetch – something forgotten, then remembered; afterthought<\/p>\n\n

Back-gate – underhanded<\/p>\n\n

Back-jaw – retort, abuse<\/p>\n\n

Badling – worthless person<\/p>\n\n

Baffound – to perplex, bewilder<\/p>\n\n

Baggabone – vagabond<\/p>\n\n

Bagment – rubbish<\/p>\n\n

Ballyrag – abuse with foul language<\/p>\n\n

Baloo – uproar<\/p>\n\n

Baltorium – merry-making, riotous proceedings
Bambazed – puzzled, confused<\/p>\n\n

Bangster – a rough, violent fellow; bully<\/p>\n\n

Bang-up – smart, fine, well-dressed, in first-rate condition, quite on the mark<\/p>\n\n

Bangsome – quarrelsome<\/p>\n\n

Bantling – a child, a baby<\/p>\n\n

Batterfanged- bruised, beaten, scratched<\/p>\n\n

Beazled – tired out, exhausted<\/p>\n\n

Bechance – to happen, to befall<\/p>\n\n

Bedead – worn out, in low spirits, dull, heavy<\/p>\n\n

Bedfast – bedridden<\/p>\n\n

Befangled – smartly dressed<\/p>\n\n

Beezle – beastie<\/p>\n\n

Beggugled – destroyed by mud, etc.<\/p>\n\n

Beglammer – to bewitch, hoodwink<\/p>\n\n

Begrumpled – displeased, affronted<\/p>\n\n

Begrutten – tear-stained, disfigured with weeping<\/p>\n\n

Belangings – relatives<\/p>\n\n

Belantered – behind time, belated<\/p>\n\n

Belkupping – hiccupping<\/p>\n\n

Belltinker – to give belltinker or promise belltinker means to give a good thrashing or scolding<\/p>\n\n

Belly timber – food, provisions<\/p>\n\n

Belly-wark – gripes, colic<\/p>\n\n

Bettermore – superior, better<\/p>\n\n

Betwattled – distressed, bewildered, stupid; hardly sober<\/p>\n\n

Betwit – to upbraid, to taunt<\/p>\n\n

Betwitchelled – overcome with inquisitiveness<\/p>\n\n

Betwittered – excited, frightened, overcome with pleasing excitement<\/p>\n\n

Betwixen – between<\/p>\n\n

Bewottle – to confuse or render light-headed<\/p>\n\n

Bewrayed – seized with a foolish fit of talking<\/p>\n\n

Bezzle – drink immoderately; (bezzled = drunk)<\/p>\n\n

Billery-ducks – bilious or melancholy attacks
Bitterweed – bad-tempered person<\/p>\n\n

Blackamoor – a vain endeavor<\/p>\n\n

Bladrock – talkative, silly fellow<\/p>\n\n

Bleeze – a blow with the fist<\/p>\n\n

Blellum – an idle chatterer<\/p>\n\n

Bliffert – a squall; a sudden but short fall of snow<\/p>\n\n

Blinter – to shine feebly; to flicker<\/p>\n\n

Blish-blash – idle talk, tittle-tattle<\/p>\n\n

Bloggy – thick-set, stout<\/p>\n\n

Blunder-a-whack – one whose carelessness has brought on disastrous consequences<\/p>\n\n

Blunder-skull – a foolish fellow, blockhead<\/p>\n\n

Blusteration – talk, noise, blustering<\/p>\n\n

Blusterly – storm; violent in temper<\/p>\n\n

Blutterbunged – confounded, overcome by surprise<\/p>\n\n

Bluzz – to blindfold, to blind, to veil, to shade<\/p>\n\n

Bobber – in high spirits, saucy, venturesome<\/p>\n\n

Bobberous – in high spirits<\/p>\n\n

Bobbersome – in high spirits, venturesome, impatient<\/p>\n\n

Bobbish – good health and spirits, lively, cheerful<\/p>\n\n

Bogfoundered – perplexed, bewildered<\/p>\n\n

Boke – to retch, vomit<\/p>\n\n

Boldrumptious – presumptuous<\/p>\n\n

Bone-hugging – carrying corpses to the grave<\/p>\n\n

Bone-lazy – extremely idle<\/p>\n\n

Bone-picked – lean, cadaverous<\/p>\n\n

Bonny wallies – toys, gewgaws<\/p>\n\n

Boof – a clumsy fellow<\/p>\n\n

Bounceable – bumptious, cheeky<\/p>\n\n

Bowkers – expressing surprise<\/p>\n\n

Brafflesome – quarrelsome<\/p>\n\n

Braggable – commendable, very good<\/p>\n\n

Brass-face – brazen, shameless person<\/p>\n\n

Bratchet – a brat<\/p>\n\n

Brazzled – scorched, overcooked<\/p>\n\n

Brittle – frown \u201cHe brittled his brows.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Bruff – well and hearty in appearance and manners, healthy-looking, jolly<\/p>\n\n

Bug-hunter – a robber of drunken men<\/p>\n\n

Bullrageous – raging like a bull<\/p>\n\n

Bull-ragging – blustering, abuse<\/p>\n\n

Bulliraggle – a noisy quarrel<\/p>\n\n

Bury-hole – the grave<\/p>\n\n

Buzzaroon – umbrella<\/p>\n\n

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Cackle-stomached – squeamish<\/p>\n\n

Caddle – disorder, confusion, worry, fuss; to confuse, throw into disorder
Caddlement – fuss, confusion, gossip<\/p>\n\n

Caddling – teasing, worrying, annoying<\/p>\n\n

Caddling – fussing, fidgety; quarrelsome<\/p>\n\n

Caddlesome – troublesome<\/p>\n\n

Caddly – uncertain weather, stormy
Caffling – prevaricating, excusing<\/p>\n\n

Caffle – to entangle; to perplex a person in a conversation<\/p>\n\n

Cake – a simpleton, a fool<\/p>\n\n

Caleever – to skip, jump, frolic<\/p>\n\n

Callifudge – to cheat, deceive, to cajole, flatter<\/p>\n\n

Camperlash – abusive language<\/p>\n\n

Camperlecks – magical tricks<\/p>\n\n

Campshackle – to distort, throw in disorder, upset<\/p>\n\n

Camsteery – wild, mad unmanageable, obstinate, perverse<\/p>\n\n

Camstroudgeous – wild, obstinate, unmanageable<\/p>\n\n

Canary – a burglar\u2019s assistant (carries the tools and watches)<\/p>\n\n

Canderlucks – look yonder<\/p>\n\n

Cantankered – cross, cantankerous<\/p>\n\n

Carberry – to wrangle or argue perversely<\/p>\n\n

Cataclue – a group of people running in disorder and impeding each other<\/p>\n\n

Cataran – a Highland robber<\/p>\n\n

Caterpillar – to plague, torment, render helpless<\/p>\n\n

Catoose – an implement of any kind
Catterbatch – to quarrel, to broil<\/p>\n\n

Catterbatter – to wrangle good-humouredly<\/p>\n\n

Cazzon-hearted – out of heart, dispirited, sick on the subject<\/p>\n\n

Chacket – to cough<\/p>\n\n

Cheeping merry – half-drunk<\/p>\n\n

Chirple – to twitter as a swallow<\/p>\n\n

Chub – a friend<\/p>\n\n

Chubble headed – silly, foolish<\/p>\n\n

Chuffle headed – foolish, stupid<\/p>\n\n

Clack – noisy talk; a gossip; an untrue story, slander<\/p>\n\n

Clack box – a chatterbox<\/p>\n\n

Clacky – talkative<\/p>\n\n

Clapperclaw – to scratch, maul, fight in an unskilful manner; generally used of women<\/p>\n\n

Clatch-hooks\/clench-hooks – claws, talons, hands<\/p>\n\n

Cleverality – cleverness<\/p>\n\n

Clifty – fleet, active, mettlesome; industriously active<\/p>\n\n

Cobnobble – to chastise, correct; knock on the head<\/p>\n\n

Clinker-bell – icicle<\/p>\n\n

Coldrife\/coldrife-like – cold, shivering with cold; cold in personality; indifferent, spiritless<\/p>\n\n

Collyfodger – one who takes unusual care of himself<\/p>\n\n

Collyfogle – to deceive, cheat, scheme<\/p>\n\n

Collyfox – to idle about, humbug<\/p>\n\n

Collywoggle – a hurry<\/p>\n\n

Condiddle – to make away with, to take or entice away clandestinely<\/p>\n\n

Condoodle – to cheat, deceive a person<\/p>\n\n

Connyfogle – hoodwink, cheat, entice by flattery<\/p>\n\n

Contrarious – adverse, unfavorable<\/p>\n\n

Coof – a simpletone, ninny<\/p>\n\n

Coppet – pert, saucy, impudent; brisk, lively<\/p>\n\n

Cotter – to entangle, mat together<\/p>\n\n

Cotter – to plague, worry, vex, annoy; complain, grumble, grizzle<\/p>\n\n

Cotter – tangle, entanglement; plague, worry<\/p>\n\n

Cotter – beat, thrash<\/p>\n\n

Couthie – agreeable, sociable, affectionate, affable<\/p>\n\n

Cowdrum – beating<\/p>\n\n

Cowge – to pilfer, steal<\/p>\n\n

Cradden – coward (craddenly)<\/p>\n\n

Craffle – hobble<\/p>\n\n

Crake – boast; gossip; confess, divulge<\/p>\n\n

Craker – one who divulges
Crambazzle – a worn-out old man<\/p>\n\n

Cramble – to walk with difficulty, hobble<\/p>\n\n

Crambly – tottery<\/p>\n\n

Crinkie-winkie – a pother, contention, umbrage<\/p>\n\n

Cring-crankum – twisted, meandering<\/p>\n\n

Crinkams – twists and turns\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Crulge – to crouch together, draw together<\/p>\n\n

Crum-a-grackle – a mess, difficulty, bother<\/p>\n\n

Crusher – police<\/p>\n\n

Cullion – a mean, base fellow, knave<\/p>\n\n

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Daffen – to stun<\/p>\n\n

Daisy – extraordinary, excellent, darling<\/p>\n\n

Dapperwit – a spruce little man<\/p>\n\n

Derfly – boldly, fiercely<\/p>\n\n

Dern – secret, obscure; dark, dreary, dismal, lonely; darkness, secrecy; to conceal, hide<\/p>\n\n

Dibble-dabble – rubbish<\/p>\n\n

Dildrams – strange tales, improbable stories<\/p>\n\n

Diminity – a diminutive creature<\/p>\n\n

Discomfrontle – to disarrange, discompose<\/p>\n\n

Disheartsome – disheartening<\/p>\n\n

Disremember – to forget<\/p>\n\n

Dixie-fixie – imprisoned<\/p>\n\n

Dizzard – a weak-minded person, a fool<\/p>\n\n

Doolie – a hobgoblin; a scarecrow<\/p>\n\n

Doolie-doomster – a spectre<\/p>\n\n

Downsquare\/downstraight – honest, upright, straightforward<\/p>\n\n

Dozzle – to confuse, stupefy<\/p>\n\n

Drattled – confounded<\/p>\n\n

Drumble – to be sluggish and slow in movement; to fumble<\/p>\n\n

Duck-hearted – faint-hearted<\/p>\n\n

Dulderum – confused, in a state of stupor, silenced by argument<\/p>\n\n

Dumbfounder – to confuse, stupefy, stun, from a blow or the result of a powerful argument<\/p>\n\n

Dumbfounderment – confusion or the state of being dumbfounded<\/p>\n\n

Dumble – a wooded alley, a belt of trees along the bed of a small stream<\/p>\n\n

Dumbledore – the bumble-bee; a drone<\/p>\n\n

Dumpty – short and thick<\/p>\n\n

Dwingle – to loiter<\/p>\n\n

Dwizzen – to dry up<\/p>\n\n

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Earthfast – deep-rooted in the earth<\/p>\n\n

Eeriesome – dismal, dull, sad, melancholy; ghostly, weird<\/p>\n\n

Eldern – elderly<\/p>\n\n

Elf-shot – misfortune or disease; bewitched<\/p>\n\n

Entercommon – common to everybody<\/p>\n\n

Entramells – bondage, the chains of slavery<\/p>\n\n

Ercle – swelling, blister, pimple<\/p>\n\n

Ettle – to intend, purpose, have in mind, design \u201che ettled doom for me\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Ettlement – intention<\/p>\n\n

Ettle – to attempt, endeavor, strive after, struggle hard to obtain<\/p>\n\n

Eyeable – pleasing or agreeable to the eye, sightly<\/p>\n\n

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Faceable – fit to be seen, pretty<\/p>\n\n

Fammel – to starve, famish<\/p>\n\n

Fammelled – hungry, starved, famished<\/p>\n\n

Fandangle – ornaments, trinkets; antics, capers<\/p>\n\n

Fandanglement – whim, crotchet; gewgaw<\/p>\n\n

Fantigue – state of excitement, commotion, fuss, fit of ill temper<\/p>\n\n

Farrinkly – comely, good looking; decent, orderly<\/p>\n\n

Fawnsome – kind, caressing, loving; gently aggressive in manner or desire<\/p>\n\n

Feal – faithful, loyal<\/p>\n\n

Fear-fangit – panic-stricken<\/p>\n\n

Fear-fickle – dangerous, inspiring fear, uncertain in temper<\/p>\n\n

Feckfow – wealthy<\/p>\n\n

Feff – a thief; to steal<\/p>\n\n

Fezzle – to fall to with a good will; to seize eagerly<\/p>\n\n

Fidge-fadge – move along slowly<\/p>\n\n

Fingerfull – a pinch, small quantity<\/p>\n\n

Finnying – timid, fearful<\/p>\n\n

Finoodle – to fumble<\/p>\n\n

Fizgig – a silly or flirtatious young woman; a small firework<\/p>\n\n

Fizzen – food<\/p>\n\n

Flabbergash – to astound, amaze, take aback<\/p>\n\n

Fleech – to flatter, fawn; beseech\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Flizzen – to laugh heartily or sarcastically<\/p>\n\n

Flizzoms – small flakes, flying particles<\/p>\n\n

Flother – a boggy place, swamp<\/p>\n\n

Flug-fisted – left-handed<\/p>\n\n

Flunter – a fragment, untidy end, rubbish; state of confusion; angry state of mind<\/p>\n\n

Flunter-drawer – a rubbish drawer full of odds and ends<\/p>\n\n

Fluntered – mixed, flustered<\/p>\n\n

Flurrikin – speaking in a flurry or state of agitation<\/p>\n\n

Flurry-go-nimble – diarrhea<\/p>\n\n

Flustergated – blustering<\/p>\n\n

Flusterate – to fluster, confuse, take aback<\/p>\n\n

Flutterment – fluttering excitement<\/p>\n\n

Fluzzed – bruised<\/p>\n\n

Fluzzer – a bruise<\/p>\n\n

Foof – a stench<\/p>\n\n

Fool-scutter – silly, boasting talk<\/p>\n\n

Forflitten – scolded<\/p>\n\n

Forslitting – castigation, chastisement<\/p>\n\n

Frembd\/Fremble – strange, foreign, unfamiliar; unrelated, not of kin\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Fren\/the fren – strange, foreign; acting like a stranger; strangers as distinguished from kinsfolk<\/p>\n\n

Frettished – perished, benumbed, starved with cold, half-frozen<\/p>\n\n

Frettishin – a cold, catarrh; cold, numbing, perishing<\/p>\n\n

Frettishment – starvation, perishing from cold<\/p>\n\n

Frickle – to fidget, worry; potter about<\/p>\n\n

Friggle – to fidget, worry; to do anything in a niggling, slow, awkward way<\/p>\n\n

Friggling – tiresome, fiddling, minute; small, insignificant, trifling<\/p>\n\n

Frobly mobley – indifferently well<\/p>\n\n

Fruesome – scowling, coarse-looking<\/p>\n\n

Frumpyish – ill-humored, cross-grained, peevish<\/p>\n\n

Fudderment – excess of warm wrappings or lining<\/p>\n\n

Fuddersome – oppressive, cumbersome; troublesome, annoying<\/p>\n\n

Funglie-foo – obliging, generous<\/p>\n\n

Funkin – an unkind person, scamp<\/p>\n\n

Furthersome – active, expeditious; pushing<\/p>\n\n

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Gafty – sly, trick, cunning; mischievous, vicious<\/p>\n\n

Gaitle – to wander idly<\/p>\n\n

Galdragon – a sorceress, witch\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Galivander – gallivant<\/p>\n\n

Gallitrap – a mystic green circle of grass land into which any guilty person having trod is supposed doomed to be delivered over to justice<\/p>\n\n

Galluna – a derelict; a half-disabled vessel<\/p>\n\n

Gally – to frighten, alarm, scare, terrify<\/p>\n\n

Gallowed\/gallified\/galleyed\/gallied – frightened, alarmed<\/p>\n\n

Gally-trot – an apparition, ghostly object<\/p>\n\n

Gally-bagger – a scarecrow; an object of terror<\/p>\n\n

Gally-crow – a scarecrow<\/p>\n\n

Gally-fuggle – to deceive, take in, bamboozle<\/p>\n\n

Gamawdled – slightly intoxicated<\/p>\n\n

Gamesome – playful, frolicsome, sportive<\/p>\n\n

Gadger – anything of unusual size<\/p>\n\n

Gargrugous – austere, terrifying, awe-inspiring, ugly<\/p>\n\n

Gauster – to bully, bluster, storm, to be boisterous, swagger\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Gedgy – choking with laughter<\/p>\n\n

Geetle – a small quantity<\/p>\n\n

Gimcrack – a word applied to anything fanciful, showy, novel<\/p>\n\n

Glafter – a burst of laughter<\/p>\n\n

Glaver – flatter, wheedle\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Gledge – to glance at, look askance or slyly, to leer; to look archly<\/p>\n\n

Gleed – a spark, ember, cinder; fire, flame, glow<\/p>\n\n

Glegly – cleverly, smartly, keenly, attentively; briskly<\/p>\n\n

Glegsome – keen, sharp<\/p>\n\n

Glent – to shine, sparkle, gleam; of flowers, to blossom, put forth<\/p>\n\n

Glibbing – begging in the streets<\/p>\n\n

Gliff – a sudden fright or shock<\/p>\n\n

Gliffy – nervous, easily frightened<\/p>\n\n

Glime – to glance slyly, look askance or asquint; to look cunningly, or stare in an unpleasant manner<\/p>\n\n

Glime – to sparkle, glitter<\/p>\n\n

Glimigrim – punch<\/p>\n\n

Glince – of ice, smooth, slippery<\/p>\n\n

Glink – to sparkle, shine, gleam; to cast a side-glance<\/p>\n\n

Glocken – to start from fright, to astound<\/p>\n\n

Glockened – astounded, startled; shocked<\/p>\n\n

Glockening – a sudden start or shock from fright<\/p>\n\n

Glooming- frowning, gloomy, severe<\/p>\n\n

Glounce – to throw, fling<\/p>\n\n

Glump – to look sulky, gloomy, discontented<\/p>\n\n

Glumpish – surly, sulky; gloomy, mopish<\/p>\n\n

Glumpse – sullen, sulky, taciturn<\/p>\n\n

Glumpy – sullen, morose, sour-looking; ill-humored<\/p>\n\n

Guldering\/guldersome – passionate, boisterous<\/p>\n\n

Gorphin – a potato<\/p>\n\n

Gowan – daisy<\/p>\n\n

Gowan-speckled – covered with daisies<\/p>\n\n

Greecums – whims, fancies<\/p>\n\n

Griggles – small apples left on the tree after picking; small worthless fruit, vegetables left after gathering<\/p>\n\n

Grinagog – a stupid, grinning person\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Grudglings – dregs of coffee<\/p>\n\n

Grue – to shiver or shudder with fear or repulsion; pain, grief; gloomy weather<\/p>\n\n

Grufeling – to lie closely wrapped up, in a comfortable manner<\/p>\n\n

Grum – surly, cross, disagreeable, glum\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Grumly – fault-finding, grumbling, irritable<\/p>\n\n

Grummel – grounds, sediment<\/p>\n\n

Grumply – out of humor<\/p>\n\n

Gumptious – irritable; inclined to grumbling<\/p>\n\n

Grumsel – a dandelion<\/p>\n\n

Gupp – vomit<\/p>\n\n

Gyve – fetters, usually for the leg<\/p>\n\n

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Habble – difficulty, perplexity<\/p>\n\n

Hacket – cutting, biting, severe, caustic<\/p>\n\n

Hag-begagged – bewitched<\/p>\n\n

Hale-hearted – of unbroken spirit<\/p>\n\n

Halesome – well<\/p>\n\n

Hamert – belonging to home, home-grown, home-made, home-keeping<\/p>\n\n

Hanchum-scranshum – confusion, disorder, bewilderment<\/p>\n\n

Hand-rackle – careless<\/p>\n\n

Hand-bolts\/hand-sheckles – handcuffs<\/p>\n\n

Hangedly – reluctantly, unwilling; despondently, as though being led to the gallows<\/p>\n\n

Hauling-home – the bringing home of the bride, wedding day<\/p>\n\n

Haver – to talk in a foolish, incoherent manner; to talk nonsense<\/p>\n\n

Hedgehog – to open, divulge, or disclose anything (\u201csqueal\u201d)<\/p>\n\n

Hettle-tongued – foul-mouthed, irascible in speech<\/p>\n\n

High-twelve – mid-day<\/p>\n\n

Hinch – to be miserly; mean conduct, meanness\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Hindercome – in sight, but some way off<\/p>\n\n

Hisk – to draw the breath with difficulty; to breathe short through cold or pain; to gasp<\/p>\n\n

Hobbedy\u2019s-lantern – will-o\u2019-the-wisp<\/p>\n\n

Homologate – to express agreement with or approval of; to countenance, ratify\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Honkazin – idling, lounging\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Hookem-snivey – deceitful, tricky, sly\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Hookikooris – in a sulky, offended state of mind\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Hoosack – \u201ceureka\u201d said upon finding a thing lost<\/p>\n\n

Hoozle – to wheeze; heavy breathing<\/p>\n\n

Hoozle – to perplex, puzzle, nonplus; to drub or beat severely<\/p>\n\n

Hound-hungry – ravenous as a dog<\/p>\n\n

Huffle – a rattling in the throat<\/p>\n\n

Huffle-buffs – old clothes<\/p>\n\n

Huffled – angry, offended<\/p>\n\n

Hugger-mugger – concealment, secrecy, stealth (in hugger-mugger, in secret)<\/p>\n\n

Hwrinket – unbecoming language<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

I<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Icybells – icicles<\/p>\n\n

Idioticals – foolish things, nonsense<\/p>\n\n

Idiotry – idiocy, folly<\/p>\n\n

Ill-cheer – grief<\/p>\n\n

Ill-clepped – ill-conditioned, surly, churlish<\/p>\n\n

Ill-contricked – knavish<\/p>\n\n

Impet – an imp<\/p>\n\n

Ingle-bred – home-bred<\/p>\n\n

Ingle-lighted – lighted by the fire<\/p>\n\n

Inglenook – a chimney-corner, a corner by the fireside\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Ingle-ring – the fireside circle<\/p>\n\n

Ingle-side – hearth, fireside<\/p>\n\n

Ingle-stone – the hearthstone<\/p>\n\n

Insnorl – to entangle, inveigle<\/p>\n\n

Iversome – always, eversome<\/p>\n\n

Izle – an icicle<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

J<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Jabberment – idle talk, chatter<\/p>\n\n

Jackutty-taters – potatoes boiled with their skins on<\/p>\n\n

Jaffled – fatigued looking<\/p>\n\n

Jaffler – a careless, idle man<\/p>\n\n

Jammock – to squeeze, press<\/p>\n\n

Jammocked – worn out, exhausted<\/p>\n\n

Janglement – an angry disputation<\/p>\n\n

Janglesome – quarrelsome; noisy, boisterous<\/p>\n\n

Jawbation – a long and tedious harangue; a scolding or reprimand<\/p>\n\n

Jelder – to flog soundly, to thrash, maul<\/p>\n\n

Jeldered – severely bruised, jeldered up<\/p>\n\n

Jelly – pleasant, agreeable; upright, worthy<\/p>\n\n

Jeoperd – a hazardous enterprise; a bold adventure; a battle<\/p>\n\n

Jerry-cummumble – nonsense<\/p>\n\n

Jether – to talk idly<\/p>\n\n

Jibber – a sweetmeat, lollipop<\/p>\n\n

Jibble – to make a face as a child about to cry<\/p>\n\n

Jiggamy – name given to an implement or tool that can\u2019t be recalled at the moment<\/p>\n\n

Jiggered – exhausted, tired<\/p>\n\n

Jiggery-pokery – unfair dealing; deception<\/p>\n\n

Jilly-hooting – cheating, deception<\/p>\n\n

Jimmer – to make a disagreeable noise with the violin<\/p>\n\n

Jimp – slender, small, neat, elegant\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Jimpsy – neat, smartly dressed
Jingle-brains – a wild, noisy, talkative person<\/p>\n\n

Jingumbob – a knick-knack<\/p>\n\n

Jobbernowt – a talker of nonsense, a chatterbox<\/p>\n\n

Jomick – good-looking<\/p>\n\n

Jommetry – magic art<\/p>\n\n

Jotteral – odd, mean, or dirty work; anything about to fall to pieces\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Jottery- odd, mean or dirty work<\/p>\n\n

Joused – finished, completed<\/p>\n\n

Jower – to exhaust, to tire out<\/p>\n\n

Joy-wark – the doings at a public rejoicing<\/p>\n\n

Jubberment – trouble, bother; exertion<\/p>\n\n

Jubberty – a difficulty; a vexatious occurrence; misfortune<\/p>\n\n

Jumblement – confusion, disorder; intricacy<\/p>\n\n

Juttling – weak, wishy-washy<\/p>\n\n

Juzzled – rotted away<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

K<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Kafty – ill-tempered\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Kazzardly – precarious, risky, uncertain; of the weather, changeable, unsettled<\/p>\n\n

Keave – to plunge<\/p>\n\n

Keave – to struggle on in a hopeless way<\/p>\n\n

Keck – to retch; to feel sick; to faint suddenly\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Kecken-hearted – squeamish; loathing the sight of food; faint-hearted<\/p>\n\n

Kecker – the gullet; the windpipe<\/p>\n\n

Keckle – to speak insolently or retort impertinently<\/p>\n\n

Keckle – loud chatter; idle or foolish talk<\/p>\n\n

Keckle – a smothered laugh<\/p>\n\n

Keen-set – hungry, eager<\/p>\n\n

Kefty – awkward, clumsy<\/p>\n\n

Keg – belly, stomach<\/p>\n\n

Kelk – to beat severely; to hit roughly with the hand or foot\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Kellifudge – to deceive, trick<\/p>\n\n

Kennable – easily known or recognizable; apparent, easy to understand<\/p>\n\n

Kennance – knowledge<\/p>\n\n

Kennawhat – anything indescribable<\/p>\n\n

Kenner – one who knows<\/p>\n\n

Kenning – knowing<\/p>\n\n

Kenned face – a friend<\/p>\n\n

Kengood – a warning, an example or lesson learnt by experience; something to remember or take warning by, used ironically<\/p>\n\n

Kensmackle – conspicuous, remarkable for some peculiar mark or spot<\/p>\n\n

Kensmark – a peculiar mark or spot by which anything may be easily recognized<\/p>\n\n

Kenspeck – conspicuous, remarkable, easily distinguishable<\/p>\n\n

Keppen – to hoodwink<\/p>\n\n

Keysand – overnice, fanciful, dainty<\/p>\n\n

Kickmashaw – extravagant, foppish<\/p>\n\n

Kickshaw – a contemptuous term for a novelty, new invention, a useless trifle, trumpery\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Kicky-wicky – disdainful<\/p>\n\n

Kidgie – friendly, familiar, lovingly attached<\/p>\n\n

Kimplack – a very large piece<\/p>\n\n

Kimplet – a moderately-sized piece<\/p>\n\n

Kinsbody – relative<\/p>\n\n

Kintra-folks – country people, rustics<\/p>\n\n

Kintra-side – country region<\/p>\n\n

Kip – to take the property of someone else by fraud or violence<\/p>\n\n

Kippage – disorder, confusion; dilemma, state of difficulty<\/p>\n\n

Kipper – light, nimble; lively, in good spirits, frisky; eager<\/p>\n\n

Kithan – an unmanageable rogue; a blackguard<\/p>\n\n

Kittle – to tickle<\/p>\n\n

Kittle – to puzzle, perplex<\/p>\n\n

Kittle – difficult to deal with; prone to erratic behavior\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Kittlesome\/kittlish\/kittly – ticklish<\/p>\n\n

Kittle – clever; smart; amusing<\/p>\n\n

Kittle-notioned – fanciful<\/p>\n\n

Kittle-sighted- quick at seeing<\/p>\n\n

Kittle-tongued – fluent, given to falsehoods<\/p>\n\n

Kittyval – an assembly of persons of objectionable character<\/p>\n\n

Klem – imperfectly or badly done, of little value<\/p>\n\n

Knacket – clever, smart, conceitedly clever<\/p>\n\n

Knackety – handy, ingenious; self-conceited<\/p>\n\n

Knack-hardy – foolhardy<\/p>\n\n

Knackle – to trifle<\/p>\n\n

Knackling – working at odd jobs<\/p>\n\n

Knacky – handy, ingenious; deft, skillful<\/p>\n\n

Kneef – active, alert, brisk, lively\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Kniffy – stout and active, agile, clever<\/p>\n\n

Knevell – to beat severely; to knock about, beat with the fists D<\/p>\n\n

Knidget – a mischievous, saucy boy or girl<\/p>\n\n

Knogs – the knees<\/p>\n\n

Knooled – dispirited, broken down, of troubled countenance or expression<\/p>\n\n

Kottled – perplexed<\/p>\n\n

Kythe – to make known, to show, display; to appear, to become known or manifest<\/p>\n\n

Kything – an appearance, manifestation<\/p>\n\n

Kythesome – of a pleasant and prepossessing appearance<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

L<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Lantern-swash – excessive perspiration; a great fright; a state of consternation<\/p>\n\n

Lantern-puff – a hurry; petulant haste<\/p>\n\n

Lap-clap – a loud kiss<\/p>\n\n

Leally – loyally, faithfully, honestly; thoroughly<\/p>\n\n

Leal-come – honestly obtained<\/p>\n\n

Leal-loved – loyally loved, well-loved<\/p>\n\n

Leathering – a thrashing<\/p>\n\n

Leesome – pleasant, loveable\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Leethfow – kindly, compassionate, sympathizing, ready to lend\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Lief – dear, beloved<\/p>\n\n

Leifsome – pleasant\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Lillup – to skip, spring, walk quickly<\/p>\n\n

Lilly-wark – flattery, cajolery; coaxing<\/p>\n\n

Lilly-low – a blaze, a bright flame; a bright light from a fire<\/p>\n\n

Liquor-struck – rather drunk<\/p>\n\n

Lirripoop – a silly, empty creature, an old dotard<\/p>\n\n

Lollicker – the tongue<\/p>\n\n

Lollop – loll; idle; move in a heavy, awkward manner<\/p>\n\n

Lolloper – a lazy fellow, lout<\/p>\n\n

Lolloping – idle; clumsy<\/p>\n\n

Lollopy – idle, slovenly<\/p>\n\n

Lolly – tongue<\/p>\n\n

Lollypot – an idiot; a lazy lubber<\/p>\n\n

Long-crowned – clever, acute<\/p>\n\n

Loof – the palm of the hand\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Looster – to lounge, idle about; a lazy, slothful person\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Lop-lollard – a lazy fellow<\/p>\n\n

Losel – a lazy rascal; an idle, good-for-nothing fellow<\/p>\n\n

Lovesome – loveable; attractive; lovely; beloved<\/p>\n\n

Lozzuck – to lounge; to loll; to idle; to loaf<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

M<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Macky-moon – a fool, a silly person; a queer-looking figure<\/p>\n\n

Maffling or moffling – speaking thickly and unintelligibly<\/p>\n\n

Magger – a scolding, complaining person<\/p>\n\n

Mageniken – a genius or magician<\/p>\n\n

Malefice – a bad action; the act or effect of witchcraft<\/p>\n\n

Mallagrugous – grim, ghastly; discontented-looking\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Malverse – a crime; to do wrong; to give an erroneous judgment\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mamble – to eat without appetite, or with indifference<\/p>\n\n

Mazarded – stunned, amazed<\/p>\n\n

Mazerment – confusion, perplexity, amazement\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mazlekin – fool, idiot<\/p>\n\n

Mazzen – to stupefy, make dizzy; to perplex, bewilder<\/p>\n\n

Mecklekeckle – poor in quality or fiber<\/p>\n\n

Meeverly – moderately, tolerably, middling; fairly well in health<\/p>\n\n

Meggification – a lie, untruth\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Megrim – a whim, fancy, caprice; absurd notion or fancy\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Meirdel – a confused crowd of people or animals; a numerous family of little children; a huddle of small animals\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Melander – a disturbance; an accident; a misfortune<\/p>\n\n

Melder – entanglement; mental confusion<\/p>\n\n

Meldrop – a pendant drop (on the end of a nose, icicle, etc.)<\/p>\n\n

Menk – to have an inclination or longing for anything<\/p>\n\n

Menseful – in keeping with good taste and proprietary; polite, restrained\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mermooth – the entrance to a haven<\/p>\n\n

Mezzle – excitement<\/p>\n\n

Middling – moderate, fair, tolerable; mediocre, indifferent, poor, bad<\/p>\n\n

Miff-maff – nonsense, foolishness, humbug<\/p>\n\n

Mim – prim, demure; affectedly modest or shy; prudish; primly silent or reticent<\/p>\n\n

Mimpsy-pimsy – dainty, fastidious, fanciful, affected<\/p>\n\n

Mingle-mangle – a medley; irregular, confused<\/p>\n\n

Mirksome – somewhat dark<\/p>\n\n

Mirkning – twilight, dusk\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mirr – to tremble, vibrate<\/p>\n\n

Misboden – injured<\/p>\n\n

Misguggle – to disfigure, spoil, mar; to handle roughly; rumple\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mireckon – to miscalculate; a miscalculation, mistake\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Misremember – to forget\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Missment – a mistake, error<\/p>\n\n

Mixty-maxty – a heterogenous mixture; a confusion<\/p>\n\n

Miz-maze – confusion; bewilderment, perplexity<\/p>\n\n

Moble – to muffle the head and shoulders in warm wraps; to put on an abundance of warm wraps<\/p>\n\n

Mockrife – scornful<\/p>\n\n

Mog – to move on, depart, walk off, move away; to decamp, go off quickly or hastily\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mogre – a clumsy mess, confusion, disorder<\/p>\n\n

Mollicrush – to crush; beat to a jelly; to bruise; to pulverize; to hector, domineer\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Molligrant – a complaint; a whining lamentation\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Molly-prance – a merrymaking<\/p>\n\n

Momenty-morries – skeletons<\/p>\n\n

Monger – a man who has anything for sale<\/p>\n\n

Moolet – to whine; to sob; to murmur<\/p>\n\n

Moople – an imbecile; a simpleton<\/p>\n\n

Moosk – a haze<\/p>\n\n

Moosket – dusky<\/p>\n\n

Mortal-drunk – dead-drunk<\/p>\n\n

Motch – to eat dainties in secret; slow quiet eating, with the idea of fondness for good living<\/p>\n\n

Muck-shade – twilight<\/p>\n\n

Muck-sweat – a state of alarm or great anxiety<\/p>\n\n

Mudge – sludge, mud; movement\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mufflements – overclothes; mufflers, wraps<\/p>\n\n

Muggard – sullen, morose; displeased, discontented<\/p>\n\n

Muggaty – sullen, morose; discontented, displeased<\/p>\n\n

Muggaroon – mushroom<\/p>\n\n

Muggert-up – warn out, completely exhausted<\/p>\n\n

Mulder – to molder<\/p>\n\n

Mulfered – exhausted, worn out with heat<\/p>\n\n

Mulfering – sultry, close weather<\/p>\n\n

Mullock – dirty, a heap of rubbish; refuse\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mulloxed – tired, overcome<\/p>\n\n

Mullygrubs – a stomach-ache; the colic; any imaginary ailment; the sulks<\/p>\n\n

Mully-puff – a sweat<\/p>\n\n

Mully-puffled – muddle-headed, confused<\/p>\n\n

Mulp – to be sulky, to pout; a fit of sulkiness<\/p>\n\n

Mulvather – to confuse, bamboozle<\/p>\n\n

Mulvathered – confused with drink, intoxicated<\/p>\n\n

Mumpish – sulky, gloomy<\/p>\n\n

Mumple – to seem as if going to vomit\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Mumpoker\u00a0 – an evil spirit, bogey man<\/p>\n\n

Mungelling – dark, obscure, tortuous<\/p>\n\n

Muzz – a state of mental confusion<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

N<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Nag-ridden – troubled with nightmare<\/p>\n\n

Naggled – bothered, annoyed<\/p>\n\n

Nang – of a pain, to gnaw to keep up a dull, continuous aching; to complain, fret, cry, worry<\/p>\n\n

Nark – to annoy, vex, irritate, exasperate<\/p>\n\n

Nazzed – partly intoxicated; stupefied<\/p>\n\n

Nazzle – to be in a dreamy, stupid, abstracted state<\/p>\n\n

Nearsome – closely related<\/p>\n\n

Neazle – to make the noise which accompanies a sneeze<\/p>\n\n

Nebbock – the nose\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Neffit – a puny creature; a pigmy<\/p>\n\n

Netty – a privy or water closet<\/p>\n\n

Niddering – weak, cowardly; coward\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Nidderling – a coward, a weak, silly person<\/p>\n\n

Niddle-noddle – to do anything in a dreamy, bewildered way; to dawdle<\/p>\n\n

Nidget – an idiot, fool<\/p>\n\n

Nimble-chops – a chatterbox<\/p>\n\n

Nippy-nose – a child\u2019s name for the frost<\/p>\n\n

Nob-stick – a rascal<\/p>\n\n

Noofy – silly, feckless<\/p>\n\n

Nuncheon – a slight repast taken between meals, in fore or afternoon<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

O<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Oamly – unpleasant or hurtful to the feelings\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Offmagandy – the best and choicest of delicacies<\/p>\n\n

Oldster – an old person<\/p>\n\n

Omperlodge – to contradict<\/p>\n\n

Omperlodgies – apologies for not undertaking a work; difficulties urged as an excuse<\/p>\n\n

Oomik – a small person, small child<\/p>\n\n

Oonfersell – inactive, inert, not lively<\/p>\n\n

Oorie – apprehensive, superstitiously afraid, in dread of spirits, eerie; sad, melancholy, dismal, depressing; chilly, shivering\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Oozling – hairy<\/p>\n\n

Oozly – slovenly, unkempt; broken-down<\/p>\n\n

Orp – to weep with a convulsive pant; to fret morosely\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Out-away – extraordinary<\/p>\n\n

Outgang – a departure<\/p>\n\n

Outganger – one who goes out of a place or country, an emigrant<\/p>\n\n

Over-mickle – too much<\/p>\n\n

Over-minded – much inclined<\/p>\n\n

Overloup – a trespass<\/p>\n\n

Overmost – uppermost<\/p>\n\n

Overwin – to overcome<\/p>\n\n

Owlish – sleepy, stupid<\/p>\n\n

Oxter – armpit\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

P<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Paalie-maalie – sickly, not in quite good health<\/p>\n\n

Paik – a to beat, strick, punish<\/p>\n\n

Paiking – a beating, thrashing, punishment\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Palter – to hesitate, prevaricate; to play fast and loose<\/p>\n\n

Parinody – a long, uninteresting tale<\/p>\n\n

Peart – lively, cheerful, brisk\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Pearten – to enliven, cheer<\/p>\n\n

Peartle – to enliven, cheer<\/p>\n\n

Pecksome – hungry<\/p>\n\n

Peekle – to pry into secret matters<\/p>\n\n

Peerie-weerie-winkie – excessively small\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Penny-headed – a corruption of opinionated<\/p>\n\n

Pelder – to encumber<\/p>\n\n

Pelderment – an encumbrance<\/p>\n\n

Pensy – quiet, thoughtful, pensive<\/p>\n\n

Perjinkety – apt to take offense<\/p>\n\n

Phooky – of fruits and turnips: unsound, soft, wooly<\/p>\n\n

Pickelty – a difficulty; a state of need, distress, or embarrassment; a state of anxiety or eagerness\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Plaff – suddenly, as with the sound of a slight explosion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Pomp – to promise<\/p>\n\n

Pomple – responsible, trustworthy<\/p>\n\n

Pomster – to act as a quack-doctor; to treat illness without knowledge or skill in medicine<\/p>\n\n

Potherment – a source of petty trouble or annoyance; perplexity<\/p>\n\n

Prank – to decorate, deck out<\/p>\n\n

Pranked – decked out<\/p>\n\n

Preek – impatient eagerness to accomplish anything<\/p>\n\n

Prickmedainty – finical in language and behavior, conceited<\/p>\n\n

Primsie – demure, precise, affected\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Prog – to probe, forage; to beg\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Proop – to break wind in a suppressed way\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Prunk – neat, pretty, smart; proud, vain, saucy<\/p>\n\n

Puckeration – state of excitement, vexation<\/p>\n\n

Puckering – a rage<\/p>\n\n

Pungled – embarrassed, perplexed, especially in money matters<\/p>\n\n

Purgy – surly, peevish, quarrelsome, obstinate<\/p>\n\n

Pussyvan – a flurry, temper<\/p>\n\n

Puther – smoke, steam; dust; a cloud of smoke or dust<\/p>\n\n

Puthery – close, sultry, heavy<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

Q<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Quackle – to choke<\/p>\n\n

Quandorum – a polite speech or gesture<\/p>\n\n

Quank – to overcome, subdue; to quiet<\/p>\n\n

Quietsome – quiet, peaceable, tranquil, retired, silent<\/p>\n\n

Quignogs – ridiculous notions or conceits<\/p>\n\n

Quilly – a prank, a caper<\/p>\n\n

Quirkled – twisted<\/p>\n\n

Quither – a shake, tremble, shudder<\/p>\n\n

Quother – to talk in a low and confidential tone<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

R<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Rabblement – a crowd, mob, rabble<\/p>\n\n

Racketty\/rackety – boisterous, noisy, righteous; careless, thoughtless, wild<\/p>\n\n

Rackle – rash, violent, headstrong, fearless; disorderly, riotous, unruly\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Rackle-handed – careless, rash\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Rackledom – ruin, wreck<\/p>\n\n

Racklesome – boisterous, noisy, reckless; quarrelsome, disputative<\/p>\n\n

Radgy – ill-tempered, angry, excited, violent, mad<\/p>\n\n

Raffing – drinking, carousing<\/p>\n\n

Raffy – drunken, dissipated, wild\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Raffler – a worthless fellow<\/p>\n\n

Raffling – idle, worthless, dissolute, disorderly; a disorderly person<\/p>\n\n

Ragabrand – a low rascal, an idle vagabond; a collection of such persons; a beggerly, untidy\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Raglish – rough, boisterous; severe, harsh<\/p>\n\n

Rake-fire – one who comes to pay a visit and stays very late<\/p>\n\n

Ramfeezle – to exhaust oneself with work, to wear oneself out\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Rammel – a rough person<\/p>\n\n

Rammelsome – rough, troublesome<\/p>\n\n

Rampageous – boisterous, noisy, disorderly; angry, furious; obstreperous<\/p>\n\n

Ramshackering – worthless, idle, unsteady<\/p>\n\n

Ramshacketty – worthless, unsteady, dissipated<\/p>\n\n

Randigal – a string of nonsense; a long, rambling tale<\/p>\n\n

Rankringing – wild, coarse, lawless\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Rannigal – a masterful, turbulent person or animal\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Razzor – to exhaust, wear out, tire; to vex, exasperate<\/p>\n\n

Reasty – rancid\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Reave – to rob, steal, plunder; to bereave of\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Reaver – plunder, rob; a plunderer, robber\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Reck – to take heed of, care for, regard\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Rede – counsel, advice<\/p>\n\n

Reeze – to pull a person about roughly<\/p>\n\n

Reif – robbery, plunder\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Renchel – to beat, to thwack with a stick<\/p>\n\n

Rickle – a loose heap or pile; a stack\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Rig-welting – a flogging<\/p>\n\n

Rigment – an arrangement, contrivance, makeshift; anything unsuitable, insufficient, or incomprehensible<\/p>\n\n

Rim-ram – in a state of disorder<\/p>\n\n

Rinlet – a small stream\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Rippet – a noisy disturbance; a romp; an uproar; a quarrel<\/p>\n\n

Rip-rap – a worthless person; a firework, cracker<\/p>\n\n

Rivel-ravel nonsense; a confused harangue; a rhapsody\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Rix – a rush<\/p>\n\n

Rizle – to beat violently<\/p>\n\n

Rizzle – to creep<\/p>\n\n

Roamish – active; adventurous<\/p>\n\n

Rock-shop – a sweet shop<\/p>\n\n

Roffling – disorderly, dissolute, worthless<\/p>\n\n

Rogue-handled – cheated, swindled<\/p>\n\n

Rookery – pillage, robbery\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Ruckle – to breathe with difficulty, to make a hoarse, rattling sound; to croak<\/p>\n\n

Ruesome – sorrowful, pitiable<\/p>\n\n

Rugfus – rough; rude<\/p>\n\n

Rum-tum – a jovial party; a carousal; a questionable occupation<\/p>\n\n

Ryntle – to roll about in a chair in a lazy manner<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

S<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Sackless – without blame or accusation; guiltless, innocent; weak, dispirited; harmless\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Sadly-begone – woebegone, disappointed<\/p>\n\n

Sadly off – in a bad way<\/p>\n\n

Saffle – dull, sad, melancholy<\/p>\n\n

Saffling – melancholy<\/p>\n\n

Scaddle – wild, mischievous, unsteady; thievish (such as a dog or cat); timid, easily frightened; to dare one to do anything\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scaff – food, provisions of any kind\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scagmagly – worthless<\/p>\n\n

Scaleraker – a town scavenger<\/p>\n\n

Scamble – to shamble, walk awkwardly<\/p>\n\n

Scaragrice – used of anything very timid<\/p>\n\n

Scareful – terrifying, frightful\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scarify – to terrify, scare<\/p>\n\n

Scarly – boisterous, windy, threatening rain<\/p>\n\n

Scarn – dung, especially cow dung<\/p>\n\n

Scarrow – faint light, especially reflected light; a shadow\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scog – to boast, brag; to be self-important\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scouth – room, freedom, liberty to range, scope
Scrab – to scratch, scrape, claw\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scrafflin – a rascal<\/p>\n\n

Scraggle – to scramble, walk with difficulty<\/p>\n\n

Scrange – to inflict a deep scratch<\/p>\n\n

Scrapplings – scraps<\/p>\n\n

Scrawlation – confusion, disorder<\/p>\n\n

Scrawling – a term of contempt for anything mean, despicable; worthless, miserably small<\/p>\n\n

Scrawmax – anything badly formed or out of shape<\/p>\n\n

Scrift – a long-winded story; a made-up tale<\/p>\n\n

Scrive – to write\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scrivening-time – time set apart for writing<\/p>\n\n

Scrump – to eat ravenously, crunch, bit noisily<\/p>\n\n

Scrump – crisp, hard-baked, or dried up bread<\/p>\n\n

Scrumble – to make crisp; to bake hard or roast by the fire; to shrivel by means of the fire<\/p>\n\n

Scrunt – anything stunted in growth or worn down; a stump; a stunted, insignificant person; brushwood, stunted undergrowth; a worn-out wig; a miserly person<\/p>\n\n

Scubble – to soil, as a schoolboy does his book<\/p>\n\n

Scud – to drink copious draughts; to slap, beat down<\/p>\n\n

Scud – a boon companion<\/p>\n\n

Scuggery – the state of concealment; hiding; secrecy<\/p>\n\n

Sculver – to skulk, to attempt to hide by crawling on the ground<\/p>\n\n

Scummage – to run about and make a mess in a place<\/p>\n\n

Scunner – to loathe; to regard with, or feel, disgust\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scurl – the scab which forms over a wound<\/p>\n\n

Scuddle – to hurry, scurry; to wander from home in order to shirk some duty\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scug – shade; a sheltered place, especially the declivity of a hill\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Scutchel – rubbish<\/p>\n\n

Scutching – poor, bad, paltry, especially used of work\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Sindle-times – seldom, rarely<\/p>\n\n

Selcouth – strange, uncommon, rare\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Sevendle – strong, secure, sufficient; trustworthy, to be depended on\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Shaffle-topping\/shaffle-durt\/shaffle-horn -a\u00a0 lazy, shiftless fellow<\/p>\n\n

Shathmont – six inches; the measure of the fist with the extended thumb<\/p>\n\n

Shegger – to empty the pockets of an opponent at a game of chance or skill<\/p>\n\n

Sheldraker – a town scavenger<\/p>\n\n

Shelter-stick – a slang term for an umbrella<\/p>\n\n

Shortsome – amusing, cheerful, merry; diverting, entertaining; causing time to pass quickly, making time seem short\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Showerlickie – a gentle shower<\/p>\n\n

Shrump – to shrink, shrivel; to shiver with cold<\/p>\n\n

Shug-meazel – a term of vituperation<\/p>\n\n

Sibberidge – the banns of marriage<\/p>\n\n

Sickrife – sickly; having a slight attack of illness<\/p>\n\n

Side-wiper – a blow on the side; a covert blow or kick; indirect censure, sarcasm<\/p>\n\n

Sightworthy – worthy of being seen<\/p>\n\n

Sike – to sigh; to sob; to gasp; to catch the breath suddenly; a gutter or stream that dries up in summer<\/p>\n\n

Skaivie\/skavie – a trick, prank; a disappointment, an affront\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Skalrag – of a shabby appearance<\/p>\n\n

Skeeg-waggery – mischief, facetiousness, love of joking, tomfoolery\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Skeg – a glance; a squint<\/p>\n\n

Skell – to shriek, scream, yell, to cry aloud; to squall<\/p>\n\n

Skellum – a term of reproach; a rascal, scamp, scoundrel\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Skellyscope – a humorous name for a telescope<\/p>\n\n

Skelp – to strike with the hand or with a flat surface; to beat, whip, smack\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Skelping – unusually large or outstanding of its kind; a whipping, beating<\/p>\n\n

Sken – to squint; to look askance\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Skewboglish – of a horse: apt to shy<\/p>\n\n

Skice – to frisk or frolic about; to fun fast; to make off quickly and slyly, so as to avoid detection<\/p>\n\n

Skiffle – a slight shower of rain<\/p>\n\n

Skink – to spy, peer about<\/p>\n\n

Skinkle – to shine, sparke, twinkle<\/p>\n\n

Skinty – very small<\/p>\n\n

Skire – mad (Sc)<\/p>\n\n

Skitwit – foolish, scatter-brained person\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Skrike – to scream, screech, shriek, cry\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Skrimisher – a dwarf<\/p>\n\n

Skype – a mean, worthless fellow; a lean person of disagreeable manner and temper<\/p>\n\n

Skyre – to shine, glitter; to make\u00a0 foolish parade in gaudy dress\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Slape – slippery, crafty\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Sliggy – deceitful\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Slimsy – worthless, good-for-nothing; idle, lazy, dawdling<\/p>\n\n

Slitherum – a slow-moving person; an idle, languid person not up to his work<\/p>\n\n

Sloomy – sleepy, sluggish, idle; dull, slow-witted; gloomy<\/p>\n\n

Sluckatrice – a sluggard<\/p>\n\n

Slugabed – to lie late in bed<\/p>\n\n

Slutherment – any slimy, viscid matter<\/p>\n\n

Smeerikin – a hearty kiss; a stolen kiss\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Smeg – a bit, particle<\/p>\n\n

Smirkle – a smile, a suppressed laugh<\/p>\n\n

Smirl – a mocking smile; a sneering laugh; a trick; roguery<\/p>\n\n

Smook – to put away; to hide, conceal<\/p>\n\n

Smool – to look sulky<\/p>\n\n

Smool – to filch<\/p>\n\n

Smootrikin – a puny person or animal<\/p>\n\n

Smoozy – indolent; drowsy; half-asleep<\/p>\n\n

Smuggart – a person of small stature and disagreeable temper<\/p>\n\n

Smugsmith – a smugler<\/p>\n\n

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<\/p>\n\n

Snabble – to eat hurriedly or greedily; to devour<\/p>\n\n

Snackles – little delicacies of food<\/p>\n\n

Snaffling – mean, contemptible; idle, trifling; whining, canting<\/p>\n\n

Snagger – snore<\/p>\n\n

Sneagle\/sneasle – to sneak about with a display of mock activity<\/p>\n\n

Sneeter – to loiter; to remain idly in a place; to work in a slow, unskilful manner (Sc)<\/p>\n\n

Snerdle – to nestle closely; to wrap up comfortably in bed; to go comfortably off to sleep<\/p>\n\n

Snicket – anything small and insignificant<\/p>\n\n

Snickersneeze – a meaningless term used to threaten children<\/p>\n\n

Snickler – a clenching argument; conclusive evidence<\/p>\n\n

Snirtle – to laugh in a suppressed manner; to sneer<\/p>\n\n

Snod – smooth, even; sleek, velvety; neat, spruce, tidy; sly, soft-spoken; demure; snug, comfortable, easy; clever, careful, tactful\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Snoogly – snugly<\/p>\n\n

Snool – an abject, cringing person; one who submits tamely to others; a coward, craven, sneak; a weak fool<\/p>\n\n

Snuffers – nostrils<\/p>\n\n

Snuffling – paltry<\/p>\n\n

Snuzzle – to nestle<\/p>\n\n

Solacious – cheerful, comforting, solacing
Soothfast – trustworthy; honest; true<\/p>\n\n

Sore-hearted – sad at heart<\/p>\n\n

Sorely begone – woebegone, distressed, in bad health<\/p>\n\n

Soul-provven – spiritual food<\/p>\n\n

Spancel – a fetter, especially used of a rope to tie together a cow\u2019s hind legs; also used figuratively\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Spelk – splinter of wood\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Spellwind – a violent outburst of passion; a gust of rage<\/p>\n\n

Spiflicate – to overcome; to stifle; to kill<\/p>\n\n

Spirewind – a violent gust of passion; a gust of rage<\/p>\n\n

Splatherdash – a great talking over a trifle; unnecessary talk, chatter<\/p>\n\n

Splatter-dashing – large and wide-spreading; used of anything so large and full as to have an awkward appearance<\/p>\n\n

Sprack – brisk, nimble, active; lively, alert, vigorous\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Sprunny – a lover, sweetheart<\/p>\n\n

Squack – to cry out\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Squezzen – to squeeze, crumple; to suffocate, choke; to overcome by heat<\/p>\n\n

Stampointed – bewildered, overcome with astonishment<\/p>\n\n

Steelrife – overbearing\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Storicle – a kind of story<\/p>\n\n

Stound – a short while; instant; a pang, pain\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Stour – tall, large, stout; hardy, robust, strong, sturdy; stern, harsh; dust, powder\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Stour – battle, conflict; tumult, uproar
Strangway – demented, out of one\u2019s mind, beside oneself with pain, passion, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Strather – haste, excitement\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Streek – to stretch; to stretch out, extend; to lie down; to extend oneself at full length\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Stuffinger – a glutton<\/p>\n\n

Summer-blink – a transient gleam of sunshine<\/p>\n\n

Summer-fens – freckles<\/p>\n\n

Swaddledidaff – a term of endearment; sweetheart<\/p>\n\n

Swarf – to faint, swoon; a swoon<\/p>\n\n

Swarly – ill-tempered<\/p>\n\n

Sweb – to swoon; a swoon\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Swelt – to die; to cause to die\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Swelt – to faint, swoon; to fall into a state of syncope\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Swinked – oppressed, tired<\/p>\n\n

Swither – to be in a state of perplexity; to doubt, hesitate<\/p>\n\n

Swizzlement – any kind of drink<\/p>\n\n

Swizzler – a drunkard<\/p>\n\n

Swooth – a fright<\/p>\n\n

Swuggle – to drink eagerly<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

T<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Tongue-tacked – tongue-tied<\/p>\n\n

Taffle – to move aimlessly; to perplex, tire, wear out, exhaust with fatigue<\/p>\n\n

Taffety – dainty, fastidious<\/p>\n\n

Tafferel – thoughtless, giddy\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Taistrel – a passionate, violent, sour-tempered person; a good-for-nothing; a rascal<\/p>\n\n

Tallydiddle – a foolish or untrue tale<\/p>\n\n

Tamtarrie – the state of being detained under frivolous pretenses\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Tandiddled – imposed upon, bewildered, cheated<\/p>\n\n

Tantaddlement – a trifle<\/p>\n\n

Tantadling – a small tart; an apple-dumpling; light delicacies, especially sweets, in contradistinction to more substantial food<\/p>\n\n

Tantaran – noise, uproar<\/p>\n\n

Tanthunder – a commotion<\/p>\n\n

Tantoozle – to whip soundly<\/p>\n\n

Tartle – to hesitate, especially to hesitate in recognizing a person\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Tartuffish – sour, sullen, stubborn<\/p>\n\n

Teagle – a crane, life, elevator\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Teedle – to sing a song without words; to croon<\/p>\n\n

Teen – sorrow, grief\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Terrification – terror, anything causing terror\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Thingiment – something the name of which is unknown or forgotten<\/p>\n\n

Thole – to bear, suffer, endure, tolerate, undergo\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Tholeable – bearable, tolerable<\/p>\n\n

Tholemoody – patient<\/p>\n\n

Thootle – to endure, to wait<\/p>\n\n

Threap – to assert positively, especially to persist in or maintain a false accusation or assertion; to insist on; to swear, repeat, or reiterate obstinately\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Threaping – argumentative, quarrelsome<\/p>\n\n

Threaping-do – a contentions, dispute, quarrel<\/p>\n\n

Thrimble – to finger or handle anything as if reluctant to part with it, especially to dole or pay out\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Thropple\/throttle – the windpipe; the throat; the neck\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Thrunch – solemnly dissatisfied; much displeased<\/p>\n\n

Thrutch-puddins – a chubby person or animal<\/p>\n\n

Tinkerments – fittings, odds and ends, tools<\/p>\n\n

Tinkling-box – a slang expression for a pianoforte<\/p>\n\n

Tirrivee – a passion, rage; a fit of temper\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Tissick – a cough, especially a dry tickling cough; a hacking cough\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Toit – walk with an unsteady gait, totter\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Toothful – the smallest quantity of anything edible; a bite\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Toppingly – excellently<\/p>\n\n

Towardly – pleasant, affable; docile, tractable; apt to learn, promising, propitious; developing favorably\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Toxie – tipsy<\/p>\n\n

Toxified – tipsy, intoxicated<\/p>\n\n

Traik – to go idly from place to place; to stoll, lounge, loaf, gad about\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Traik – to trudge, walk wearily or reluctantly over a long distance\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Traik – to go astray\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Traik – to fall ill\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Traiky – in poor or declining health<\/p>\n\n

Tranklibobs – belongings; gear; odds and ends<\/p>\n\n

Trankliment – trinket, knick-knack, ornament; a toy\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Trazzle – to walk through wet and slush<\/p>\n\n

Tremskit – ill-arranged, slovenly\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Trig – true, faithful, reliable<\/p>\n\n

Trig – jauntily trim, neat, spruce; precise or prim; firm, vigorous, sound, well, in good health<\/p>\n\n

Trigimate – an intimate friend; a chum or companion<\/p>\n\n

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<\/p>\n\n

Tumfie – a stupid, dull, awkward person\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Turriefax-day – a term used to signify \u201cnever\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Twadgers – small round gingerbread cakes, thick, puffy, and tough, flavored with lemon<\/p>\n\n

Twam – to swoon<\/p>\n\n

Twangle – to twist, entangle, ruffle\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Twarly – cross, peevish, irritable, fractious, quarrelsome<\/p>\n\n

Twiggitop – the top of a tree<\/p>\n\n

Twire – to gaze at anything wistfully and beseechingly<\/p>\n\n

Twire – to peep out, peer; look at something intently or with difficulty; glance shyly; leer; twist or twirl; twinkle\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Twisterly – cross, bad-tempered; out of sorts<\/p>\n\n

Twitchel – a narrow footpath between hedges; a narrow passage; a blind-alley; a shortcut; a noose\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

U<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Ugsomeness – loathsomeness, repulsiveness<\/p>\n\n

Umperlodge – to contradict, bicker, dispute<\/p>\n\n

Unbiddable – perverse, obstinate; not to be advised<\/p>\n\n

Uncouthy – eerie<\/p>\n\n

Undercreeping – underhand, sly, sneaking<\/p>\n\n

Under-reckon – to undervalue<\/p>\n\n

Understrapper – a child<\/p>\n\n

Unfaceable – ugly, not fit to be seen<\/p>\n\n

Unfeary – feeble, infirm, weak, unfit for action<\/p>\n\n

Unfurthersome – unfavorable weather; unmanageable, difficult<\/p>\n\n

Unheartsome – cheerless, melancholy<\/p>\n\n

Unked – unknown, strange, odd; uncouth, awkward, desolate, lonely; uncanny, weird, ghastly\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Unstomachable – unappetizing, uninviting<\/p>\n\n

Unwishful – reluctant<\/p>\n\n

Up-headed – arrogant, despotic ill-tempered, peevish<\/p>\n\n

Up-stir – disturbance; tumult; excitement<\/p>\n\n

Uvart – unfrequented, lonesome; clumsy<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

V<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Vainsome – conceited, proud, vain<\/p>\n\n

Vaudy – cheerful, elated; gaudy in appearance\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Vennel – a narrow lane or passage between buildings; an alley\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Vitterly – quick-tempered, spiteful<\/p>\n\n

Vizard – a mask, visor<\/p>\n\n

Vizy – a look, view; a scrutinizing gaze; examine; to take aim\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Voar – the spring, seed-time\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Vogie – proud, vain, vaunting; elated; contented; happy, merry\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Vug – a mining term: a natural cavity in a rock; a hollow; a cleft\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Vuggy – full of cavities<\/p>\n\n

Vuzzy – of hair: rough, tangled, unkempt<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n\n

W<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Wack-rowdy-dow – weak beer, broth, tea, etc.<\/p>\n\n

Waff – a waving motion; puff, gust\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Whaffy – full of news<\/p>\n\n

Wairsh\/wersh – not sufficiently slated; tasteless, insipid; sour, bitter<\/p>\n\n

Wakerife – wakeful, sleepless, easily wakened; alert, vigilant\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wale – to choose, select; to pick or sort out; hence to court; to woo\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wallach – to cry as a child out of humor; to wail; to scream\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wamble – to rumble; to roll; to stir uneasily; used of the intestines or of food in the stomach<\/p>\n\n

Wambly – giddy, sick, faint, especially with hunger; shaky on the legs\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wamfle – to flap; to flutter\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wanchancy – unlucky, ill-fated, boding evil; wicked<\/p>\n\n

Wanhope – despair<\/p>\n\n

Wanion – with a wanion – with a plague, with a vengeance, with a curse\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wankle – unsteady, insecure, tottering; changeable, precarious, unsettled; loose<\/p>\n\n

Wankly – sickly; in poor health<\/p>\n\n

Wankered – exhausted, fatigued<\/p>\n\n

Wansy – sickly, weak<\/p>\n\n

Warlockry – magic skill<\/p>\n\n

Warry – take heed!\u00a0 Look out!<\/p>\n\n

Warty-well – a loose piece of skin at the base of the fingernail<\/p>\n\n

Washamouth – one who blurts out anything he has heard; a foul-mouthed person<\/p>\n\n

Weasand – throat, esophagus or gullet, windpipe\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Weased – anxious, uneasy, concerned\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Weefil – a term of contempt for an extravagant person
Well-sookit – almost exhausted<\/p>\n\n

Well-willied – kindly disposed; generous<\/p>\n\n

We-selves – ourselves<\/p>\n\n

Whenny – make haste!\u00a0 Be nimble!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Whensomever – whenever<\/p>\n\n

Wheresomever – wherever<\/p>\n\n

Whezzle – to beat or thrash with a stick<\/p>\n\n

Whicker – to giggle, snigger; to laugh uncontrollably<\/p>\n\n

Whinnock – to whimper; to cry; to whine as a dog<\/p>\n\n

Whinny-meg – a trinket; a toy; a hobby-horse<\/p>\n\n

Whippert – hasty, tart, irritable<\/p>\n\n

Whipperty – slight; brisk; bristling; smart<\/p>\n\n

Whizzle-winder – sweets<\/p>\n\n

Whizzo – hurrah!<\/p>\n\n

Whizzy – dizzy, giddy, confused<\/p>\n\n

Wilter – to fade, droop<\/p>\n\n

Wimmock – to coax; to wheedle; to cheat; to beggar<\/p>\n\n

Windle-straw – anything weak and slender, especially used of a sickly person; a vacillating fellow\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wink-a-peeps – drowsiness<\/p>\n\n

Winsome-fair – attractive and pretty<\/p>\n\n

Wintle – to stagger, reel; to tumble<\/p>\n\n

Winzie – winsome\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wit-begone – dazed<\/p>\n\n

Wit-word – a wise expression; an able answer<\/p>\n\n

Wizzle – to move stealthily; to creep in and out, as a snake; to obtain by craft, cajolery, flattery; to wheedle, entice<\/p>\n\n

Woonkers – an exclamation of surprise, like \u201cwow\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Wooster – a wooer; a lover<\/p>\n\n

Word-shy – shy of speaking\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Wordify – to put into words\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

World\u2019s-worm – a miser<\/p>\n\n

World-wonder – a spectacle for all beholders, especially used of a person of notorious or surprising conduct<\/p>\n\n

Worricow – a bugbear; a hobgoblin; any frightful object or awkward-looking person; a scarecrow<\/p>\n\n

Worriment – harassing annoyance<\/p>\n\n

Worrit – to worry; to harass, tease; to pester with words; to fret; to complain petulantly<\/p>\n\n

Wottingly – designedly<\/p>\n\n

Wrizzled – shriveled, wrinkled, withered<\/p>\n\n

Wrizzly – wrinkled, shriveled<\/p>\n\n

Wurraw – hurrah!<\/p>\n\n

Wurtle – to move backwards; to retreat; to withdraw form an awkward situation<\/p>\n\n

Wynd – an alley, narrow lane<\/p>\n\n

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Y<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Yabble – bark like a dog<\/p>\n\n

Yaffle – to gossip; to talk fast and unmeaningly<\/p>\n\n

Yaffle – to eat or drink greedily and with a noise<\/p>\n\n

Yallack – look here! An exclamation denoting surprise or calling attention to anything<\/p>\n\n

Yanker – a great falsehood
Yark – to jerk; to seize or pull forcibly<\/p>\n\n

Yark – brisk, lively; sharp-witted, shrewd, penetrating<\/p>\n\n

Yarking – grating, harsh<\/p>\n\n

Yarking – incessant fault-finding<\/p>\n\n

Yarny – disposed to the telling of long tales<\/p>\n\n

Yask – a loud cough to clear the throat<\/p>\n\n

Yawney-box – a silly person, yawney<\/p>\n\n

Yelly-hooing – yelling, screaming\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Yewk\/yeuk- to itch\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Yewky – itchy<\/p>\n\n

Yoller – to bellow; to bawl; to yell or speak indistinctly through passion<\/p>\n\n

Yonder-abouts – in that place, yonder
Yonderwheres – in that place, yonder<\/p>\n\n

Yonderish – proud, cold in manner<\/p>\n\n

Yonderly – vague, absent-minded; anxious, depressed<\/p>\n\n

Yoppet – to yap like a dog<\/p>\n\n

Yowk – to howl, yelp, etc.<\/p>\n\n

Yox – to hiccough\u00a0<\/p>\n\n


Z<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Zaggle – to confuse, especially by contradictory assertions<\/p>\n\n

Zidlock – in hiding<\/p>\n\n

Zuggans – the essence or best part of anything<\/p>\n\n

Zweal – a commotion<\/p>\n\n

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