Lancashire day as you know is on 27th of November and I would like to invite YOU to scribe a LANCASHIRE DAY monologue to celebrate the day . Also on that day I wounder if WE COULD ONLY SPEEK LANCKY in our forum comments . Anyway back to the monologue. Please send um in to me via e-up mail at www.lancashirereunited@fsmail.net and I or I am sure STAN BROWN will make a video of it to place on the site .We need to have them in for the 20th . So come on whats tha angin about fer . Oh an if tha needs any help ave a shuffty at this lot so as it explains the lingo. It should keep tha busy fer a couple of hours, IT DID ME .
A, aw – I ‘Aw mend mi stockins, pill th’ potates’
Abaht – about ‘Aw’ll tell yo’ o abeawt it – gratis’
A-be, abee – alone ‘An’ thi’ never con let one a-be, a-be’
Abbo, abbut – but (‘Ah! but)
Abbut, awbut – all but, nearly (‘welly’)
Abeawt – about
Aboon – above ‘Hoo gi’s him brass, aboon his share’
Actilly – actually
Addle – to get, to earn, to handle wages
Addle-yedded – empty-headed, unfruitful (an addle egg)
Affeside or Affetside – a hilly district near Bury
Afore, afoore – before, previously to
Afterings – the last of a cow’s milk
Agate – working ‘He’s agate of his wark’,
also to go agate or accompany someone on a way
Agait, agate – on the way, going ‘They’d music agait, an aw whistl’t to th’ tune’
Agen, ageeean, ageeon – again ‘An’ he swears ‘at he’ll ne’er use a reedhook ageean’
Agen, agin – against
Ailt – ailed ‘A swoipt it o’ off at a woint, Un aw never alit nowt sin!’
Alays, awlus – always ‘Aaw awlus thowt ‘at keepin’ heawse wer sich a yezzy job’
Allocking’ – idling, killing time
Alooan – alone ‘An’ in a jiffy hoo wor gooan, An’ th’ foolish chap wor left alooan!’
Amno – am not
An’, un – and ‘An he went’ ‘Say ‘Aye,’ an’ be handy, my lass’
An – if
Ancliff - ankle
Appo, appu – apple ‘He towd um some appus Eve stole off a tree’
Areawnd – around
Arnt – errand ‘I’d liefer o gon the arnt forty mile’
Arranweb – spider’s web
Arta, arto – art thou ‘Arto reet I’ thi yed, thinksto?’
Ash – ask
Astid, ostid – instead
As, at – that ‘They say as bacco’s pisenous’
‘At – that. ‘I thowt ‘at yo’ knewn’ ‘The lark ‘at builds id own wee nest’
Ate – eat ‘We connot ate yo’r fancy mate’
At’ll – that will ‘He’s one o’ those at’ll lend onybody a shillin, iv they’n give him
fourteen pence to stick to’
At’s – that is ‘There isn’t a chap at’s better kown I o’ that country side’
Aw – pronoun I
Awkert – awkward, comical ‘Sherrup tha awkert beggar’
Aw’ll – I will
Awlus – always
Aw'm – I am ‘God bless thee, love! awm fain tha’rt come’
Awse, oss – Offer, attempt ‘A mon ‘at plays a fiddle weel Should never awse to dee’
Aw’r – I were
Aw’st – I shall
Awter – alter
Awtert – altered ‘Heaw things are awter’d neaw’
Aw've – I have
Ax, axe, axen – ask ‘They never seek my humble cot, To ax me heaw aw fare’
Axes – asks
Axt – asked
Axins – askings (banns of marriage)
Ayther – either ‘His wife could ayther sink or swim, For th’ difference as it med to
him’
Babby-wark – child’s play
Bacca, bacco – tobacco ‘An’ some bacca an’ pipes for misel’
Backart, backurt, backerd - backward
Backin— going backwards
Bad – difficult ‘Bad to please’, ‘Bad to find’
Badger’s shop – grocer’s shop ‘Er Alick keeps a badger’s shop,
An teyches Sunday schoo’’
Baggin’ – food, or a meal ‘Let me hev a bit o’ baggin’’, ‘Come to thi baggin’’
Baggin’-time – tea time ‘It’s getting’ on for baggin’-time’
Bagged – discharged, sacked
Bakstone, bakstun – bake-stone
Ballispipes – the vocal organs
Bally – belly ‘A bally’s wo’th nowt iv id fail, To werm the verra cowdest ale.
Ballybant – a man’s waist belt, also applied to the belt of a horse
Banglin’ – idling ‘Banglin’ abeaut’
Bant – string, twine ‘I’ bunches, teed wi bant’
Banterin’ – Beating down the price of anything ‘Aw bantered him deawn’
Barley – to claim, to bespeak ‘Barley me that’
Barm-bo – barm dumpling
Barmy - silly
Barrowfells— Barrowfields— from Baron's field
Barst, brast, brastid – burst ‘For trees were brastin’ into green’
Bat – hit ‘Aw’ll bat thi earhole’, ‘Aw’ll gie thi a bat’
Bat – rate, speed ‘Thou’rt gooin’ at a terrible bat!’
Bate – deduct from wages, for imperfect work (from ‘abate’)
Baun, beawn, bown - bound, about to, bound for, going to ‘neaw lads, where ar yo
beawn so fast?’
Be, bi – by ‘Why ‘twas alive ten minutes since, An that I’ll swear be king or prince’
Beast – milk from a newly calfed cow
Beatneed – one who occasionally assists another person
Beawt, bowt – without ‘An buttercakes etten beawt butter’
Becose – because
Bedlam Spit – a crazy dish of liver, black pudding, onions and other seasoning
Beeast, beeost – beast ‘I’th name o’ Jesus say – whot art; That two black tungs for
meawth con dart? Whooas twisted body’s like the hurn, O’ that fem’d beeost
the unicorn’
Beet— to kindle
Begum, bigum, bi gum – by gum! (an exclamation) ‘By gum, heaw every mon I’ th’
place, Clapt booath his een on th’ stranger’s face’
Beheend - behind ‘It gwos again my pluck to dee, An’ lev her wick beheend me’
Behint – behind ‘Back-o’-behint’
Beholden – under obligation
Beigh – buy ‘I sowd th’ owd couch to beigh ‘em bread’
Bellweather – a noisy woman
Berm, burm – barm, yeast
Bett-thur – better
Beyler – boiler
Beylin’ – boiling
Bi th’ mass – by the mass (an interjection or exclamation)
Billy – a spinning machine of about 100 spindles for making slubbins, now discarded
Bin – been. I ha’ bin ‘He’s bin taitch’d i Adversity’s Skoo’
Birkle – Erroneously spelled Birtle. Part of a township – Birkle-cum-Bamford
Birl, burl – pour out
Bishop – a pinafore worn by children to school
Bith – by the ‘Like sailors, thrut bith stormy main’
Bitin’-on – a snack ‘Have some bread an’ cheese for a bitin-on till t’goose is ready’
Bleb – a blister
Blobmouth – a loud mouthed gossip
Bloint, blynt – blind ‘Till aw’m very near getten as bloint as a bat’
Bloke – a fellow (familiarly or contemptuously)
Blubber – a bubble, also blubbering or crying
Blurt – to speak loudly and suddenly ‘To blurt it eaut’
Bo – but ‘Bo for me, aw’m content when aw’ve paid deawn mi rent’
Baokes – beams ‘Barn boakes’
Bogblinders - Limewashers
Boggart - a ghost, an apparation, a goblin ‘Has th’ boggarts taen houd o’ my dad?’
Bonk – bank ‘Bi yon bonk side at t’ nook o’ t’ wood’
Bonny – Pretty, handsome. ‘It’s a bonny posey’
Booan – bone ‘They sayn there’s a saint’s owd booans on show, I’ th’ Parish Church
– it may be so’
Booart – a board
Booath – both ‘An’ when they’d booath together prayed, He dudn’d feel I’ th’ least
bit flayed’
Boose – cow stall
Bouse, boose, booze – alcoholic drink; to drink till drunk ‘Werk, an’ dorn’d booze,
nor – wod is woss – Put yo’r last stake on a ‘done’ hoss’
Bowd – bold ‘Aw thin i’ my heart, if he’d nobbut be bowd, He needna’ quite let me a-
be’
Bowt - bolt
Bowt – bought ‘We’n bowt a pup an’ paid the price’
Brad – spread ‘He brad his sel’
Brandwood – a division of Spotland, on the border of Rossendale
Brass – copper money, also all sorts of coins ‘There’s nod one lass ‘at’s addlin’ brass’
Brass up – turn out your wages
Brast – burst (or start) ‘Sup, an’ then brast off’
Brat – an apron used in rough work
Brat – a child
Brawsen, brossen – gorged with food, overfull
Brawson – very lusty, much too fat
Breadfleck – once used for drying oatcakes
Breawn— brown
Breet – bright ‘Tha’rt as breet as when new made’
Brewis – Oatcake, beef dripping, pepper and salt, and a little hot water.
A one-time favourite supper dish.
Breyd –fleck, bread-fleck, bread rail – home-made oat-cakes were dried on the
bryed-fleck, a rail of many cross-pieces hung high above the hearth
‘Aw polish th’ fire ifons, dust th’ breyd fleyk’
Breyd – a shelf
Brid— bird, child ‘Thar’t prattiest brid we have i th’ nest’
‘An’ mi shuttle shall fly like a brid’
Brig, brig – bridge ‘Oe’r brucks an’ briggs do gallop Whigs,
Wi whip an’ spur unscented’
Brock – the insect in the froth called cuckoo spit
Brogged – broken up. ‘He’s brogged hissel op wi’ drinkin’’
Broo – brow, a hilly rise; also, the forehead ‘Hey, dear o’ me, aw’m reyt fagged eawt,
This broo it is a pull’
Browt – brough ‘Aw th’ wenches coom an’ browt th’ sweethearts’
Bruck— brook ‘To banish ducks fro’ dams an’ brucks’
Brun/brunt – burn/burnt ‘Some fiery oon tha’ll soon be brunt in’
Buckle – to do something ‘Buckle to thi wark’
Bud – but ‘An heaw happy aw lived I’ that spot, There’s nobudy knows bud mysel’
Bullirag – To abuse a person with the tongue
Bullock – to insult, to bully
Bums, bumbaylies – baliff, officers distraining for debt
‘Th’ bumbylis coom an’ marked their things, an’ took ‘em o’ away’
Bun/bun up/be bun – bound/bound up/be bound
Bur – but ‘Bur some clever uns han mentioned’
Burmyed – silly person
Buss – kiss ‘They geet th’ job done, an busst one another ‘i th’ church’
Buttery— pantry, also where the home-made butter was made
Butty – bread and butter ‘Daddy’s gone to feight for butties’
Butty – an intimate pal ‘Come on, owd butty’
Butty – a dishonest contest ‘A butty do’
Buzz – tale ‘Poor beggar! For o th’ time Owd Nick
Hed reeled his buzzes off off so slick’
By – aside ‘They nobbut wear’t in better days, Then lay it nicely by’
By Gum – by the man, .i.e., Christ (from Anglo-Saxon ‘guma = man, hero)
Ca, co, coed, coen, coes – call, calls ‘”Oh, yigh,” said th’ lad; “They co’n me things,
Sometimes, - ‘ats bad to bide”’
Call – to abuse people verbally
Cals— calicos
Calimanco— a kind of worsted stuffs
Cammed – crooked
Camp – to talk together ‘He thinks I come a-campin’ him
An nod a cooartin’ thee’
Camplin – children talking saucily to their elders
Canna, conna, conno – can not
Cant – healthy, cheery
Cappel – A piece of leather on the toes of clogs
Caps – beats
Capt – astonished, surprised, beaten ‘Aw’m capt at folk wantin’ to wed’
Car, cower, ceawer – cover, lie, also sit ‘But neaw aw ha’ to car mi deawn
Un rest whol Sunday’s o’er’
Cauf, cawf – calf ‘Whose cow ud cauved, or who wur brewin’
Cauvelicked – the hair parted on the wrong side of the head
Cawd – called
Cayther – a cradle, sometimes called a sorrow box [see also kayther]
Chag – a small branch of a tree
Char – (charwoman) – wash ‘While hoo went eawt to char’
Chep – cheap ‘This moorland breeze is noan so bad;
It’s chep, so get thy share’
Cher, cheer, cheor – chair ‘Come, lad, just draw thi cheor up, do’
Chet – cheat ‘But it’s ole to no use, he’ll be chetted, he’ll see’
Chez, chuseheaw – choose how [See also ‘shuzheaw]
Childer – children ‘Come whoam to thi childer an’ me’
Chilt chylt – child ‘Then he turn’t hissel o’er, like a chylt tir’t wi’ play’
Chockful – quite full
Chomplin – chewing vigorously
Chops – face, mouth ‘They didn’t walk eawt wi’ a tab i’ ther chops’
Chovin dish – an old holed bucket filled with hot cinders and placed under a hanloom
in winter to warm the warp so that there would be fewer broken threads
Chuck – to throw ‘Aw chucked it away’
Chump (off his chump) – not quite ‘all there’, senseless, silly
Chunner, chunter – talk low in a grumbling fashion ‘There’s some fooak are olez on t’
chunner, an’ there’s nob’dy can tell wot abeawt’
Chuntin – Murmuring sulkily
Churngetting – a feast after the harvest
Claggy – sticky, pasty ‘It clagge i’ mi meauth’
Clamm’d, clemm’d – starved, insufficiently fed, not enough to eat ‘Heaw they’re
clemmin’ an’ starvin’ poor weavers loike me’
Clammer – to climb, or a great noise
Cleaut, cleawt, clout – a hefty slap with the hand ‘Aw’ll gi thi a cleawt on th’ lug’
Cleawn— clown
Cleeon, clen, clennin’ – clean, cleaning ‘It isn’t stuffed wi’ fither-deawn;
But th’ flocks are clen and new’
Clemm’d – starved for want of food
Clinker— hobnail
Clip – embrace ‘Mon ‘at clips yon ‘ill ha’ a hontful’
Clog-agen – might be said of a widow likely to remarry ‘Hoo’ll clog agen’
Clog – shoe with wooden sole edged with clog-irons
Clog-merk – ‘A clog-merk were wor than a crime’
Clompin – setting the feet down heavily
Clooas – clothes ‘An sich a meawth, an’ sich a nooas!
An’ bein’ drest I’ th’ blackest clooas’
Clough, cloof – a wooded dell or valley
Clout – a cloth, a rag, as in ‘dish clout’ ‘As wake as a weet dish-clout’
Clutter, clutter – gathered in heaps
Cob – lump of coa ‘Aw’ve just mended th’ fire wi’ a cob’
Cob – throw ‘Cob thi cap at him’, ‘Cobbing a pigeon’
Cockstangs – two poles used for carrying cocks of hay to the barn
Cockstride – a short distance (once said to be the distance between two single beds!)
Cod, coddlin’ – banter, hoax ‘Tha’rt nobbut coddin’ (Kidding)
Coddle – to nurse
Codger – a quaint or eccentric character ‘Owd Time,-he’s a troublesome codger’
Coers – inviters, calling birds, also ‘o’-to-becoers’
Cogley – rough, stony ‘A cogley road’
Coil – a small cock of hay
Comn – is come
Connut – cannot ‘Hoo connut bake or brew thi’ sen’
Cooat – coat ‘Just poo thi cooat off, wilta lad?
Aw see it’s getten torn’
Coom— came ‘he coom’ ‘A mon in a shurt coom an’ geet in a tub’
Con – can
Conno’ - cannot
Coo-dove – a term of endearment
Cop/cops/copp’d – catch/catches/caught ‘Cop howd o’ that end’
Cornd/corn’t – cannot
‘Cose – because ‘Hoo cried, ‘cose her feyther weren’t theer’
Coss, cuss – curse ‘So aw care no’ a cuss for yo o-o’
Cotter – to kick ‘Aw’ll cotter thi weel’
Cowd— cold ‘Aw’m gooin’ neaw as cowd as leeod’
Crachinly – weak, feeble
Crack – a gossip, a chat
Crack – nothing to boast about ‘nowt to crack on’
Cram, crom – to stuff, to put in a place
Cramm’d – stuffed
Cram’d, cramm’d – cross, vexed ‘His partner could be clam’d or cram’d
An’ th’ universe idsel – be d___d’
Cranky – ill-tempered ‘Cranky side eaut’
Cratch – manger
Cratchinly – ill made, broken-down, weak
Crayter – creature ‘My owd wife, hoo’s a good owd crayter’
Crimble i’ th’ poke – go back on a bargain, to be cowardly
Cripplehole – a square hole left in a high wall for sheep to go through
Croddy – a feat ‘I set him a croddy (I did that which he could not do)’
Crony – a true companion soul ‘Hev yo’ just an owd crony to tawk to,
Or a book, when yo’ve finisht yo’ work?’
Croot – crooked
Cronked – sat down ‘He’s cronked i’ th’ corner’
Crope – crept, also crappled
Crop’n – crept into
Cruckle – to sink down ‘He cruckled to th’ floor’
Cruddled – curdled, congealed milk
Cruttle – to stoop down
Cubbert – cupboard ‘An’ open’t mony a cubbort door
Afore he knelt to pray’
Cud— could ‘I cud like a saup mysel’
Curtnurs – curtains
Cut – the canal ‘Come whoam! Bi sharp! Pig’s fo’n i’ t’ cut!’
Dab – clever, active ‘A dab hand at a game’
Dabs— blows, thumps
Dacent – decent, good
Dade – to help, assist ‘Aw daded him across th’ road’
Daft – short of sense, silly
Damprate – an imprecation
Dang - a mild substitute word for ‘damn’ ‘Boh, dang it, mon’
Dar – dear, expensive
Dar - dearer
Dar – dare
Dar say – dare say
Dare-na, dareno – dare not
Darsen’d, dassen’d – dare not ‘Aw read a story t’other neet
As med mi toppin rise wi freet;
Aw felt so flayed wi’ wod aw read
Aw dassen’d hardly gooa to bed’
Day-lit— twilight
Deawn— down ‘He’d lie him deawn an’ snore away’
Deawt— doubt ‘Not a fear left, not a deawt’
Dee – die
Deead, deeod – dead
Deeath – death ‘Bud id mon be a fearsome thing,
To know as Deeath is beawn to spring’
Dee'd – died
Deel, deeol, deol – deal, much
Deet – mark, sign ‘Deet no papper about nowt at o’
‘Theau’s deet thi bishop’
Deg – to sprinkle water
Desart— desert
Devilskin – a clownish fellow, full of tricks
Dickons/dickens, the (exclamation) ‘The Dickons it is, sed I’
Didder, dither, dodder – shake or tremble with cold or fear
Diddle – to shake gently, also to swindle
Didno’ – did not
Ding – a blow ‘Aw dinged him i’ th’ yed’
Ding – upbraided ‘Aw dinged him op’
Ditherin’ – shaking or trembling ‘He felt no ditherin’ at his knees’
Doaf - dough
Doanc'd— danced
Doesn’d – does not
Don'd— put on
Do, doo – party, event, fight ‘It wur a gradely do’
Do/done – swindle/swindled
Do – work to be done ‘Neaw, give them windows a good do!’
Dollop – a lot, a large quantity ‘A dollop of stones’
Dolly – a handled implement with four legs at its base, used for
‘dollying’ clothes in a ‘dolly-tub’. Also spoken of as a ‘peggy’
Dolly – the act of dollying ‘Be sharp, an’ dolly them clooas’
Dolly – overdressed or over-rated ‘She’s a proper dolly’
Don – clever
Don – put on clothes (do on)
Done – deceived, swindled ‘Tha’s bin done’
Doubt – afraid ‘I doubt we’re goin’ to be left (meaning ‘I think we’re going to
be left)’, ‘I doubt it’s goin’ to rain (meaning ‘I think it’s going to rain)’
Dree, dreigh,drey – tedious, prolonged, dry ‘Aw’m as drey, mon, as soot’,
‘A dree sarmon’, ‘A dree road’
Dreeamt, dreeomt – dreamed
Dress (down) – to scold, but generally to chastise ‘A good dressing down’
Dress (up) – to tidy up, to make smart
Drizzle – to rain softly
Drooty – dry weather
Drot, drat - an imprecation, drot is stonger, almost ‘damn’
Dud/Dudn’d – did/did not ‘Well, ony chap ‘at’s felt like thad
‘ll know as th’ tailor dud feel bad’
Dule – devil ‘The dule’s i this bonnet o’ mine’
Dun— done, do ‘Han yo’ dun?’, ‘We donc’d like morris-dancers dun’
Dunna, dunnat, dunnaw, dunno - do not ‘There con no wisdom be I trow,
In feighting things we dunnaw know’
Dunno’ – do not
Dur – door ‘Bring in some coals; an’ shut that dur’
Dur-sneck – door latch
Dur-cheeks – door frame
Dus— does
Dust – do you ‘For whot dust think?’
Dusto’ – dost thou
Dych – a heaped up hedge
Dyed (pron. D’yed) – dead
E law, O law (Oh Lord) – an interjection
Eautcumblin – a stranger
Eawr, eaw’r, eawer, eaur – our, also hour
Eawt, eaut – out (A stroll, a short journey: ‘a bit ov an eawt, a yarbin’ eawt’)
‘There’s mony a gate eawt of eawr teawn-end’
Ebors— a place near Middleton
Eccles – icicles
Edder – the dragon fly
Editch – grass grown after the mowing
Ee, e'en— eyes
Eebreen, eebrees – eyebrows
Eem – ‘Aw connut eem to do it. Aw havn’t time’
Eendneaw – by and by
Eendways – forward ‘So aw kept eendways on an’ to Owdham aw went’
Egad – a minor oath
Egodsnum – in God’s name
Eigh – yes ‘Eigh, eigh; an so sey I too’
Elbow-grease – energy, as in scrubbing, polishing
Elze – else
‘Em – them ‘An aw hanged ‘em o’ th’ maiden to dry’
End – back-end, fore-end, far-end ‘At th’ far-end, meaning at the end of a task, the
point of exhaustion, or, at death’s door
Enoo – enough ‘Why – forty, mon, wur noan enoo!’
Enoof— enough
Er – our ‘Er Joseph’s welly blynt, poor lad; Er Timothy’s a foo’
Eite, eyt – eat ‘I’ll yet mi hat!’
Esshole – a large hole under the fire of some old Saddleworth houses to hold the ashes
Etten, ett’n – eaten
Expect – to suppose, to understand
Eyyron – iron (the eyy pron. as ‘heigh’)
Fa, faw, fo – fall. Neet-fo – night fall
Fadge – a small load of coal
Fagend – the tail end
Fawn, foan, fo’en – fallen ‘Loike some owd shackle fo’en to rust’
Fag – tire
Fagged – tired
Fag-end – the far end
Fain – pleased, glad ‘Hail, owd friend! Aw’m fain to see thi’
Fair – utterly ‘Fair taken aback’, ‘Aw felt fair sat on’
Fairin’ – gift from a fair ‘Lasses darin’, look for th’ fairin’’
Fair-up – become fine weather again ‘It’ll fair up inneaw’
Far – the farther ‘I’m at t’ far end’, He’s at t’ far end o’ the’ field’
Farrantly – decent, respectable. Ben Brierley says this is a corruption of
‘fair and clean’, now applied to mean ‘decent and good-looking’
Fast – puzzled, stuck ‘For when a woman’s gradely vext,
Hoo’s never fast for what t’say next’
Fat’ll be I’ th’ foyar – everything gone wrong
Fause, fawse, foace – clever, crafty, also false ‘He towd um heaw
Solomon were a fause mon’. ‘A foace un’ is one who believes
that he has all the wit and can see more than his fellows.
Faut, fawt – fault ‘It isno eawr fawt we were born’
Favver, favvern – favour, resemble
Favvert – favoured ‘Thae favvert, then, a feightin’ cock’
Faw, fawd – fall, fell ‘He fawd wi’ a whack’
Fayther, fether, feyther – father ‘Tha’s thi feyther’s nose, aw see’
Feaberry - gooseberry
Feart – afraid ‘Awm noan feart o’ boggart muck’
Feear – fear
Feaw – anything ugly, to look cross, bad ‘Neaw aw’ve getten th’ feawst lass
un th’ wost pair o’ looms’
Feelt – field
Feert, feort, feeort – afraid ‘Aw’r gooin’ by a docthur’s shop, Ut to o’ Newton Yeth;
Un theer aw gav’a sudden stop, Un begun t’ be feort o’ deoth’
Feffnicute – a kind of hypocrite, one who blows hot or cold to suit the moment
Feigher – fire
Fire-potter – a poker
Feight – fight ‘Boh aw fair hate th’ seet o’ great lunk swords,
Sin th’ feight at Peterloo, mon’
Fella, felly, felley – man, fellow
Fettle – in good condition, in good health, in good form ‘in good fettle’
Fettled – mended, in good order ‘So he teed it wi’ tatchin’, an’ patched it wi’ glue,
And fettled it gradely as best he could do’
Feyther— father
Firrups – an imprecation ‘What the firrups!’
Fizzic – physic ‘A mon may hev brass an’ be ailin’,
May be fizzickt his life thro’ bi quacks’
Flabbergasted – speechless with surprise
Flake— a bread rack
Flat-iron – used in ironing clothes
Flaid, flay’d – frightened ‘Sent ‘em hooamward flayed to deeath’
Flay – to fear
Fleet – skimmed milk
Flit – to remove ‘Come Tummas, let’s flit fro this pleck’
‘Three flittin’s are as bad as a foire’
Flite – to scold ‘Aw flited her’
Float – an imperfection in woven cloth
Flunter – in a hurry,
Flunter ‘out of flunter’ – not well. Not working properly, ailing
Flure – floor ‘O’ mi white clooas are deawn uppo’ th’ flure’
Foak, fooak, fok, fowk – folk ‘Ther’s nowt so queer as foak’
Fob – a pocket
Foire, foyar – fire ‘I crope nar th’ foyar ogen’
Fo-out – fall out, disagree ‘Han yo foen-out wi me?’
Foo— fool ‘Whey, wot a foo for t’tell me t’ do it’
Foomart - polecat
Fooin – fooling
Forged – forget
Forgeet – forgot
Forrad, forrud – forward ‘Aw thought to seem forrud wur wrong’
For sartin, for shure – for certain, for sure, ‘I con, for sartin,
I con, for shure, tell lasses fortin
For shame – ‘Aw connot for shame be too soon,
An’ aw wouldn’t for th’ world be too late’
Fortin’ – fortune ‘Dunnot fret thi nob wi fortin’ an’ her pranks’
Fost, fust – first ‘Until he geet promised, if owt should torn eawt,
‘At he could hev t’ fost chance to start’
Fost – fast ‘For aw’ll goo to Owdham os fost os aw con’
Fot, fotch – fetch ‘My neest is snug an’ sweet; Aw’ll go an’ fotch my brid!’
Foughten – fought ‘Han yo bin to Bowton? Yigh. Han yo foughten?
Yigh. Han yo lickt’n? Yigh, an’ aw browten a bit’n him whoam i’ my pocket (Rev. W. Gaskell’s lecture on the Dialect)
Fotch – to give (a blow) ‘I’ll fot thi one!’
Fowd, fowt – a fold, or yard ‘Wev’d a clooas hedge an fowd to eawrsels,
An’ o for a shillin’ a week’
Foyer – fire
Frabbin’ – struggling, to contend against
‘Rare Anvil fot hard, but his frabbin’ wur vain’
Frame – to try, to show ability ‘Th’ lad frames weel’
Frap – a short quarrel ‘A bit of a frap’
Fratch – quarrel. A noisy quarrel.
Fratching – quarrelsome
Freeten, freetened – frighten, frightened
Fresh – anything new ‘Owt fresh’
Fridge – to rub, scratch
Frisgig – a silly young woman
Fro’ – from ‘Sooa th’ world wags on fro’ day to day’
Fuddled - drunk
Fun, fund – found ‘I fun it in th’ dolly-tub’
Fur – far ‘Ther’s lots o poor factory folk getten t’ fur end’
Fussocks – a fat, idle woman
Fut, fuut – foot ‘There’s never a gate so kind to the fuut,
As th’ gate one likes to go [gate = road]’
Futter – busy doing nothing ‘What arto futterin at?’
Fyer— fear, to frighten
Fyrin – fearing, apparitions
Gab – talk, cheek ‘Too much gab’, ‘Neaw then, less gab’
Gad – to run about
Gadding – cattle racing madly about a field. Also, gadding off on a holiday.
Gallowses, galluses – braces (for trousers) ‘An’, Jack, hitch up thi galluses!’
Gam – sport, diversion, also plucky
Gam – crooked or disabled through injury. ‘A gam leg’
Gan— gave ‘It wur nobbut last Monday aw sowd a good bed,
Nay, very near gan it, to get us some bread’
'Gan— began
Gate – a way, a path ‘Hoo’s out o’ th’ gae o’ th’ carts now’
Gauby – a fool, clownish
Gawbie, gawby, gawk – a dunce, stupid
Gawm – to comprehend with difficulty
Gawmblin’ – a dull learner, a soft youth
Gawmblt – played the fool (gambolled)
Gawmless - without wit, stupid, without sense
Gawpe – to stare with mouth open
Gawpin – staring with the mouth open
Gawsterin'— gaping
Geawl – dishcharge from weak eyes
Ged, ger – get ‘Aw cor’d tell heaw tha geds to see her’
Geet, getten – got ‘When hoa’d getten o mopt up and sanded’
Gee’t – give it
Gerr – get ‘Aye, an’ gerr it for nowt if he cud’
Gerrup – get up
Gerroff – get off ‘Gerrof wi’ thi bother’
Gett’n, - gotten
Geythur— gather
Gi – give
Gies – gives
Gi’n - given
Gibberidge – stammering, broken speech
Gin— given
Gird – a sudden pain in the bowels
Gi's— gives
Glad - doors, bolts that move too easily, ‘This bolt is glad’
Glent – glimpse, a glance, a sly look
Glim— glimmer
Glizzent – flashed, glittered
Gloppen’d, gloppen’t – thunder-struck, frightened, stunned, greatly surprised
Gob – mouth
Gob-oil – salive ‘Polishh it wi’ gob-oil’
Gobbin— an awkward clown
Goddil – God will
Godsnum – God’s name
Golsh – to belch or eject wind from the mouth
Gonnor— gander
Gonnerheead – stupid, a dunce
Goo, gooa – go
Gooan – gone
Gooas – goes ‘Well, put th’ dur to, when tha gooas’
Good lorjus days – good Lord Jesus what days! (an interjection)
‘Good Lorjus, Meary! Thou’rt so heasty’
Gooin – going
Gorse-cock – brown linnet
Gosterin – making a raucous noise
Gowd— gold ‘Aw prize this bonnet moor nor gowd’
Gowden— golden
Gradely, graidly, greadly – good, proper, right, thorough, complete, well, etc.
‘Let’s hev a bit o’ gradely talk’ ‘Fettled it gradely’
Grandge – a grinding with the teeth as when biting through celery
Granny, gronny - grandmother
Greawnd— ground
Green— grown
Grindleston – a grindstone
Groated— bribed, allowance of fourpence a-day to debtors
Groo— grow
Gronny— grandmother
Grout – washings from an ale tub after home brewing
Gruntin' herd— swinish herd
Guestless – properly ‘Grizzle-hurst’, a small wood, in Birkle
Guiders – sinews ‘Hoo’s ratched her guiders’
Gum – an exclamation ‘Gy gum, it’s gone some cowd to-neet’
Gurd o’ leawghing – a fit of laughing
Guttle – to drink
Gwon – gone
Gwos – goes (often used by Edwin Waugh)
‘Then aw went to th’ Peel’s Arms to taste of their ale;
They sup’n it so fast it never gwos stale’
Ha, hav, han – have ‘Come, give us a lift, yo’ ‘at han owt to give’
Hackle – in rare form ‘In good hackle’
Hadno’ – had not
Hafe, hauve, hawf, hoave – half
‘Aw wish tha on yon hoss’s back
On th’ road to Hell, i’ hafe a crack’
Haginow – to skulk about imposing on people
Haigs – berries of the hawthorn
Hangum, hongum – hang them
Hanno – have not
Happed – lapped, tucked ‘Hoo geet him to bed an’ happed him up weel’
Happen – perhaps, it may be
Harstone – hearthstone ‘An’ th’ harstone’s as white as new snow’
Hask – dry, parched
Hast, hasta, hasto – have you
Haupney – halfpenny
‘Even poets must get fewer haupneys nor kicks’
Haver – oats
Haver-bread – oat-bread
Heau, heaw - how ‘Says he, ‘Heaw are ta’ Willie?’’
Heaur, heawr – hour ‘We han an heawer for noon’
Heause, heawse – house ‘I carena’ for titles, nor heawses, nor longs’
Heaw-leech, heaw-leets – how happens it?
‘Heaw lets theaw’rt not at thi wark?’
Heck (‘Oh heck!, By heck!, Had they heck!) – exclamation
Hed – had ‘Yo’ ne’er knew when yo’ hed him’
Hed – did heed, minded
Heer – hear, at this place
Hee’r – he was ‘Hee’r asleep’
Heggled – badly off, harassed
Heigh – high ‘Some furniture we value heigh’
Heigher – higher
Heir’t – inherited ‘Where aw’ve a gill thae’s nine or ten,
Thae mun ha’ heir’t a fortin!’
Helder – rather ‘Aw’d helder not go’
He’re – he was ‘And Betty crept round, while he’re dozing away’
Hev – have
Hey-go-mad – like mad
Hidin’ (a good hidin’) – punishment, beating, thrashing
Hie – hasten ‘Hie-the’’
Hig – vexed; in a temper
Hill, hill-up – cover up, pile up (bed clothes)
Hippings – stepping stones over a stream.
Ho, hoe – hall, ancient mansion
Hob – hot shelf near fire, also a clown
‘Ther’s some nice bacon collops on th’ hob’
Hond – hand ‘Wi mi hat i mi hont un mi clogs full o stumps’
Hondle - handle
Hons— hands
Hont— hand
Hontle - handful
Hoo/hoo’d/hoo’ll/hoo’r – she/she’d/she would/she was
‘Hoo’re oather weyshin’, cleeanin up,
Or else hoo had to bake’
Hooa— who ‘Hooa ses so?’
Hooam – home [see also whoam]
Hoo-er – a courter, one seeking the affections of a female
Hooined – poor and ill fed
Hook (tak’ her hook) – go ‘Let her tak’ her hook, an’ stop’
Hoo’s, hoost – she is, she shall
Hopple – to walk badly
Howd, howt – hold ‘Howd thi’ noise, an’ then aw’ll gie thee
Owt tha likes’
Howd-te-tung – hold thy tongue
Hoyle – hole
Hud – hid, hide ‘Aw’d had it ole th’ time hud at eawr back dur’
Huffed – offended ‘He’s huffed at summat’
Hug – to carry
Hugger-mugger – to conceal
Hugginbund – hipbound, stiff in the hips
Huggins - hips
Hur – her ‘But aw could stare at nowt but hur,
When gooin’ eawt a-Mayin’
Hure – hair (also yure)
Hursel— herself
Hush, huysh – hush (secret, illegal liquor)
Husht – silence ‘Husht! There’s somebry at th’ dur!’
Hutch – get closer ‘So hutch up closer to mi breast’, ‘Hutch op, mack reawm’
Hutherin – a loud, roaring wind
Huzz – a humming noise
I’ – in ‘I’danger’ ‘Aw thowt no harm i’ speykin’
I’d – I had, I would
Id – it
Id, it – its ‘Theau’ll find eawr kettle’s lost it lid,
An’ taypot’s broke it nose’
Id’s – it is ‘Hoo’d just time, as id wor, to lock th’ heawse up’
Idelty – idleness
Ill – to cover ‘Ill me up’ [see ‘Hill’]
I’mi – in me, pron. ‘immi’
In neaw – soon ‘In neaw, Dame Bowden showed hersel’
Insense – to make understand
I’r – I was ‘Eh truth, Meary, I’r os gawmless os a goose’
I’st – I shall ‘I’st blubber an’ stut when I meet him’
Istid – instead
I’th’ – in the ‘I’th’ keythur’
Ithert – dirty ‘An ithert neck’
I’this – in this
It’l, ittle - it will ‘Ne, ne; ittle naw doo’
Ittered – thick ‘Hoo’s so ittert’t wi’ dirt that yo met set potitos in her neckhole!’
Iv— if ‘Iv tha’ll feel I my pocket tha’ll see’
Jannock— a thick cake of oatmeal
Jannock – straightforward ‘His clooas dunno matter if he’s jannock every time’
Jattert – frayed
Jenny – a cottage spinning machine of 50 spindles once common in Saddleworth
Jib – the chin ‘Stick thi’ jib eaut’
Jiffy – Quickly ‘In a jiffy’
Jiggered – weary, tired out
Jorum – a number of people
Jow – ‘I’ll jow thi yed’
Jowting – jolting
Jubberty – an accident of any kind
Kale – to take another person’s turn
Kalling – idling and gossiping
Kather, kayther, keyther – a cradle ‘Keep th’ keyther stirrin’ gently;
an’ make very little din’ [see also cayther]
Kawve – calf
Keawr, keawer, ceawer - cower, sit, to sit down
‘Tha never stops i’ th’ heawse an heawr
Bud in th’ owd ale-heawse tha will keawr’
Kecking – said of a young woman who is showing off with her head in the air.
Putting on airs.
Keigh – key ‘T; North wind is whistlin’ thro’ th’ keighole’
Kegley – shaky ‘Kegley on her pins’
Kelter – money
Kem – to comb ‘Kem thi yure’
Kemming - combing
Kerson, kersunt – christen, christened
Kesmus, kessmus – Christmas ‘Yo’re comin’! ay, an’ so is Kessmas’
Kesting – when the house flagstones become damp it is said to be a sign
of fine weather
Keyke, kyke – crooked or overturning
Keyney, key-pawed – left handed
Keythur – cradle
Kibe – to draw the mouth crooked in contempt
Kilt – killed ‘An’ heaw Samson kilt theawsands wi’ th’ jaw of an ass’
Kist – chest ‘My gronny’s sent a kist o’ drawers’
Kittlin’ – kitten ‘Just look at t’kittlin’ heaw id plays’
Kloof – a clough; a deep and precipitous hollow
Knattle – cross, ill-natured
Knocker-up – one who roused people who went early to work
Known – knw
Knowed - knew
Kreym - cream
Kuller – colour ‘a gowden kuller’
Kwortin’ – courting, a modern term for hooin’
Lace – to thrash ‘Aw gav’ him a good lacing’
Laft— left
Lag – to loiter, to lag behind
Laithe, laythe – invite ‘Aw’ll laithe a rook o’ neighbour lads’
Lake, laik – play
Land – reach, get, succeed ‘We’st never land theer’
Lant – urine. Many Saddleworth cottages had a lant jar outside near the door. Lant
was used to scour greasy woollen pieces. According to Ammon Wrigley: ‘In
the 17th century, Lancashire fold put urine in their Ale to make it strong.’
Lap – wrap ‘For they kept me lapt up in a fent’
Larn – learn (or teach)
Larnt – learned, did learn ‘The mon that’s larn’t up, an’ the mon that’s a foo’
Lat – lath ‘As thin as a lat’
Lat – late, slow
‘Has th’ trumpet bin blown, an’ aw’ve missed yerrin’ that?
Well aw’m ‘done’ iv it has; but aw’m allis to’ lat’
Latching – infectious, catching
Lathe— a weaver's fly
Law – Lord
Lawmt – lamed ‘An th’ woman noather lawmt nor nowt’
Layrock – lark, skylark ‘Loike a layrock at th’ breikin’ o’ morn’
Le, leet, letten – let ‘Hoo leet a bobbin at him fly’
Leawd – loud ‘An’ crash on crash, booath long an’ leawd’
Leeaf – leaf ‘Cherm’d [charmed] bud an’ leaf fro’ dormant trees’
Lee – lie, lay ‘Ow’d Anvil lee theer, stiff an’ stark’
Leef, lief, leefer, liefer – rather ‘I’d ov leof (I would rather)’
Leeof, leov, lev – leave ‘Yo’ can lev me a bag’
Leet— light, as in ‘day-leet’, ‘Hearts just as leet as yo’r own are to-neet’
Leet – light, as in ‘leet as a feather’, ‘leet-handed (light-handed)’
Leet – let, as in fell, alighted, also met with
‘I began o’ mindin’ my own business at after that breek leet’
Leeter— lighter
Lemme, lem’mi – let me
Let in – taken in, deluded
Let on – tell
Lether – to fight ‘Aw lethered him’
Lick – to beat ‘At dooin’ sums, an sich as that,
My feyther liks em o’
Lief – rather ‘Aw’d as lief be hanged’
Lifter – a kick ‘An he gav’ him a bit of a lifter beheend’
Lik’n – like ‘There’s no body boh the’ lik’n somebody’
Limber – lithe, active ‘Come, limber lads, so leet an’ gay’
Limpin’ Billy – a famous fortune teller/wizard, lived ca. 1800 at Radcliffe Bridge
Linderin - weavers lengthening strings (explained by Ben Brierley)
Lip – talk, cheekiness ‘Let’s ha’ less o’ thi lip’
Lippen’s – expects ‘He lippens o’ swappin’ his cowt for gowd’,
‘Aw lippent he’d come’
Litheing – meal added to stew to thicken it
Loaches – pieces of meat in a stew
Lobscouse – a hot dish of hash, potato hash
Local-lads— local militia
Log, getten, gitten, gotten – got
Logging, lugging – pulling the hair
Loike – like
Loike to be – bound to be
Lone – a lane ‘At th’ hut near th’ cow-lone well’
Look’n – the plural of the verb look ‘I look, we look’n, etc.’ Other verbs similar
Lorjus— Lord Jesus
Lowance – allowance (Ale drunk at harvest time)
Luck’o – look you
Lug – to pull the hair
Lumber – mischief ‘Up to some lumber’
Lumber – rubbish, discarded goods
Lung – long ‘it’s lung sin’, ‘we’n suffered so lung thro’ this ‘Merica war’
Lungus – rough, coarse
Lung’st – longest
Lutching – a throbbing pain
Luvver – chimney ‘Tyne th’ dur, luvver reeks’
Lyin’ – to lie, prostrate, to speak
Lyve – life ‘i’ mi’ lyve’
Mack— make, sort, breed
Maiden – clothes-horse (a folding wooden clothes rack)
Malkin— grimalkin
Mak, maks, mays, meck – make, makes ‘True love con meck a Paradise’
Mak, mack – sort, make ‘He’s tried three different maks o’ trades’
Mall— Mary
Mank – lark, play tricks
Mar – to pet, spoil
Marr’d – spoiled
Marlocks – frolics, mischief, merriment, playfulness
‘It’s sin some marlocks in its time’
Marrow – equal, similar ‘Hoo’ll never meet thy marrow’
Marry – an interjection
Marry-kem-eawt – a scornful interjection
Mary-Jos— Mary at Joshua's
Mate, meit, meyt – meat (or food) ‘Quick at mey, quick at wark’
Maunder – to wander stupidly
Meawse – mouse
Meawse-neezes – mouse nests, knavish tricks
Meawth – mouth ‘God ne’er sends meawths, but He sends meyt’
Med – made ‘Aw med mi mind up then an’ theer’
Meet-neaw – this very minute
Meety— mighty
Meety, meet-ty – mighty
Meg – a halfpenny
Meh— my
Meitherin’, meiderin’ - bothering
Mel— honey
Melch – moist ‘A melch morning’
Met, mit, moot, mut – might ‘The ducks did pray ‘at they mut stay’
Met ha’ – might have
Meterley – moderately
Mezzeled – a face painted red and purple by brewery ale
Mi – my ‘Aw wer sure mi advice wer woth givin’
Mich, mitch – much ‘I think I could buy this job off,
Witheawt mitch sheme, and little scoff’
Mickle – size, power ‘He’s a great mickle’
Misel’, missel – myself
Miss Nancy – an affected young woman
Mitch – much
Mitch-go-deet’o – much good may it do you!
Mizzzles – rains a little
Mizzle – to decamp
Mizzy – a quagmire
Mo – me (pronounced short) ‘Thi’n th’ biggest meawths i’ yon country at ever I seed
clapt under a lip! Aw hove one on ‘em his yure up, to see if his meawth went
o’r reawnd; but he knockt mo into th’ slutch’
Moance – an untidy careless person, an unfortunate happening
‘Theau’s made a moance o’ that’
Moangy – going about sleepily and shiftless
Moar, moor – more ‘Moore thoughts nor we con tell’
Moider – puzzle
Mollycot – an effeminate womanish man
Mon— man ‘He’re heighest mon i’ th’ nation’
Mon, mun – must
Monnud – must not ‘Her feyther swears an’ carries on –
Aw monnud hev his lass!
Mony, monny – many ‘Hoo hasn’t mony scholars yet’
Mooed out – full, a crowded room
Moon-doggs – night hounds, dogs that ‘bay the moon’
Moor – more, a greater quantity
Moor – a great waste of land, a desert tract, a hill, a common
Moorpeep – the twite
Morn, to morn – tomorrow
Mor’n’d – must not ‘Th’ wife’s readin th’ papper, aw mor’n’d speyk’
Mote – might ‘So mote it be’
Mowdiwarp – the mole
Moydert – nonplussed, worried
Much if – a big thing ‘It’ll be much if he poos through
Mullock – a dirty, slovenly person
Mullycrushed – hopelessly ruined, beyond repair
Mump – to strike ‘Aw mumped him’
Mun – must ‘We mun live an’ larn, an’ then dee an’ forget o’
Munt – must ‘He munt ha’’
Mut— might
Muzzy – sleepy or drunk
Mydered – worried, upset, ill at ease
M’yen – mean, the ‘yen’ pron. together
Mysel’ or missel’- myself
Na, neau, neaw – now ‘Na then, theer’
Naar – nearer ‘he coom narr’
Nab – to seize ‘Aw nabbed him’
Naiging, nagging – a constant pain ‘A naiging tooth’
Naiging, nagging – to continue pestering ‘Gie up naiging me’
Nangnail – ingrowing toe nail
Napper – head
Nar – near, nearer ‘An’ nar to th’ foire wouldna’ stir’
Natterable – natual
Nattle – nettle, cross, easily angered ‘It makes th’ wife so nattle’
Nattur’d – natured. Ill-nattered – ill-natured
Nawe, now – no ‘Nawe, nor me noather!’
Ne, ney - nay
Neatril – natural i.e. a fool
Neb – the front of a cap
Ned - need
Nee – near, nigh ‘An’ that were precious nee my weddin’
Neet, neeight – night ‘One neet I geet a bit o’er th’ line’
Neetrake – one who stays out late at night
Neplin – a small cob of coal
Ner, nur – nor ‘Aw’d sooner sing for them nur kings’
Nesh – tender ‘As nesh as a boiled turnip’
Net, nettur – nature
Nethercrop – the spider
Ninnyhommer – a dunce ‘Yoar a ninnyhommer t’ heed ur’
Noabry, nobody – nobody ‘Nobry about to gi’ th’ grindle a turn’
Noan – no, none ‘He wants noan o’ th’ bonnet, thae foo’
Noant – aunt ‘Then says my Noant Marget’
Noather – ‘For, lukko me, th’ oud felly wus no foo’
Nor rebbil noather’
Nob – head ‘Dunno trouble thi nob abeaut tat’
Nobbin— striking the head
Nobs – the upper class, the gentry
Nobut, nobbut – nothing but, no-one but, only ‘Wee’r nobbut tawkin’
‘We’ve nobbut getten coarsish fare’
Nod – not ‘We keer [care] nowt for th’ din, nod a pin’
Noddle – the head
Noddy – a fool ‘Tha art a noddy!’
Nomanny, nominy – a speech, tale, sometimes for special occasions.
‘O’ th’ nomanny’ - everything
Noonin— dinner-hour
Noss, nuss – nurse ‘Yo’ fend for, an’ noss ‘em’
Nowe - no
Nowt— nought, nothing, also naughty, bad ‘Aw am no’ vexed nor nowt, not I’
Nowt a pound – worthless ‘A liar’s nowt a pound’
Nowty— naughty
Nudg – a private intimation, a shove of the elbow, or shoulder, to call attention
Nudged or nudg’t – jostled in a friendly way
O – all ‘At top o’ o thad ale tha’s hed?’
O’ – of ‘o’th ward (all of the world)’, ‘Here one o’ th’ lot ‘ll wesh a pot’
Oandurth – afternoon ‘Abeawt thee o’clock i’ th’ oandurth’
Oather –either ‘Lawst, oather to-day or else sometoime to-morn,
As pratty a babby as ever wur born’
Obeawt— about
Od, odd, oddsfish – interjections
Oeranence – opposite ‘He lives oeranence yon chapel’
Ogen, ogeean – again ‘Opporunity ‘ll never come ogen’
Ogoddil – if God will
Ole – all ‘Till th’ curtain falls deawn, an’ ole’s o’er’
Olez – always (Also ‘awlus’) ‘It’s olez summer where th’ heart’s content’
Olis, or oalys – always
Omdy, amb’dy – anybody ‘If amb’dy ‘ll ha’ me ut isno’ too feort’
Onely – lonely ‘Mon, aw’m onely when theaw artn’t theer’
Onoo – enough, sufficient
Ont, on’t – on it, of it ‘He geet o’t top on’t’, ‘I know nowt ont’
Ony, onny – any
Ony-mak – any make, any sort
Oon – over ‘An’ a quart o’ ale posset i’ th’ oon’
Op— up
Oppen – open ‘They rob poor Timmy, e’en i’ th’ oppen leet!’
Oppenchops – a gossip
Opp’nt – opened
Oppoth, opp’oth – upon the
Oready - already
Orthert – ordered
Os lee’f – would choose, prefer
Oss – to try
Ossing – trying, offering
Ostid, astid – instead ‘To live wi’ me as Rosie Lee,
Ostid o’ Rosie Brown.
O’that – of that
O’th’ – of the ‘o’th’ yerth (of the earth)’
Ottymotty – perplexed, in a state of suspense ‘Awm fere I’ ottymotty’
Ovish - clownish
Owd – old ‘Th’ owder an’ th’ madder’
Owd Birkle – an ancient homestead in Birkle
Owdham - Oldham
Owd Ludd – an imaginary leader of "the machine breakers”
Owt – ought to
Owt – anything ‘”Owt for a quiet life”, as owd Jimty said when he put his wife at th’
back o’ th’ foire
Oytch – each
Pan – to make fit ‘It’s just panned eaut’
Papper – paper ‘Deet thee no papper’
Paxwax – a tough white tendon in meat
Peawchin’, peauchin – crying ‘What arto peawchin for?’ [Also overflowing
‘a full peauchin mub o’ whoam-brewed’]
Peawnd – pound ‘He rambles abeawt through boroughs an’ teawns,
A sellin’ folk up as boh ow’n a few a few peawnds’
Peawr – power, abundance ‘He’s getten a peawer o’ brass’
Peigh – pea
Peighswad – pea pod
Peyl – wear out, nose, disturb
Peyl, poal – to strike, to beat ‘Aw poal him i’ th’ yed’
Peylin – striking, also moving ‘He’s gone peylin deawn th’ road’
Peyth – a slight, tickling cough
Pick – push ‘Hoo pick’d him o’ th’ hillock’
Pickle – condition; in a bad state ‘In a bonny pickle’
Pike – to go away ‘He’s just piked off’
Pikel – a long hayfork
Pill, pillin’ – peel, peeling ‘Aw mend mi stockins, pill th’ potates’
Pincers – a tool for extracting nails
Pindert – thin, wizened
Pinot – the magpie
Plague – tease ‘Let’s goo an’ plague ‘em a bit’
Play me – ‘Mi day’s work is done, aw con play me to-neet’
Pleck – place ‘For aw’ve bin to a pleck so famed for reneawn’
Pluck – courage
Plucks – the lungs
Plumpt— sat down suddenly
Plutcherin – pilfering, stealing
Poat, pote – to thrust with the feet
Pobbies – a basin of bread and hot mile ‘We’re short o’ pobbies for eawr Joe’
Poke – a sack
Pon – pan ‘There’s cups an’ saucers; porritch pons’
Ponmark – a dirty mark round the neck
Poo, poo’d, poo’in’ – pull, pulled, pulling ‘An neaw it’s hard work pooin’ through’
Poo'd, pood - pulled
Pop – take to pawn ‘Puttin’ th’ husband’s cloos i’ pop’
Pop, to pop in – to go in
Posnit – large iron pan set on feet
Poss – purse ‘Avarice poss hed bin unteed’
Possitin’ – gently slavering
Pote – to keep pushing the feet out
Potter – fuss about
Potter – poker ‘a fire potter’
Pottert – disturbed, vexed, chagrin’d, worried, upset
Poucement, powsement – bad, naught ‘The plaguey young poucement!’
Poverty knocker – a handloom weaver
Powfagged – harassed, tired
Pow, powl – to cut hair ‘An’ then at th’ week-end, when he’s time,
he pows a bit an’ shaves
Pow – a pole ‘Failsworth Pow’
Powfagged – a ragged, dirty, slovely person
Powler’t – run about, knocked about
Prate, prato – potato
Pratty – pretty ‘Tha’rt th’ prattiest brid we have i’ th’ nest’
Prick-mete – just right, tight fitting
Prompted – dressed, got ready ‘Hoo prompted hur neatly’
Prout – a word of reproof to a setter dog when making a false set at a non-game bird
Provven – provender
Provven pricked – one who refuses good food, wants better
Pump, pumpin’ – asking questions
Punce, puns’t, punst, purr’d – to kick, preferably with clogs, punched
‘Puncin’ th’ cat for bein’ hungry’
Quate – quiet ‘As quate an’ waken as a meawse’
Rabbus – a door mat made from old canvas
Rackenhook – an iron bar and a hook in the chimney on which to hang
a posnit above the fire
Raddler— a heavy dancing step
Rafflecoppin – a careless, roistering fellow
Ram-jam full – stuffed full ‘Mi basket’s ram jam full’
Ramshackle – anything made up of odds and ends
Rantipow – ranting, wild talk, declamation
Rapscallion – a mischievous youngster
Ratchda - Rochdale
Ratchin - stretching
Ratliffe-bridge – Radcliffe bridge, a village near the ancient Racliffe
Ratt’n, rott’n – a rat
Ray-gull— a not over sagacious magistrate
Rayley – really ‘An’ aw rayley did feel rather hurt’
Rayther, rather – rather ‘When growin’ up, an’ rather smart’
Reawnd - round
Reawk— to gather together
Reawt— rout
Reawt— rout
Reeap – to revive or recall something against a person ‘To reap it op’
Reech – smoke ‘He poo’d a reech o’ bacco eawt’
Reet— right ‘An’ tho’ man fails i’ justice, God does reet!’
Reighton, Reight’n – Royton, a village
Reisty – rancid, ‘Reisty bacon’
Reitch, reytch – reach ‘Aw reytch deawn mi pipe’
Reives— reivers, thieves
Reythur – rather
Rhism – a small piece ‘Aw havn’t a rhism o’ ‘bacco’
Rib (owd) – wife ‘It’s slavered on th’ owd rib’
Ricklin – the smallest of a family, or of a litter of young pigs
Riddlin’ – understanding ‘There’s no riddlin’ some folks’
Riffraff – rubbish
Rig – the shoulders ‘Get it on to thi rig’
Rive – tear ‘I’ll rive him out, bi’ t’ scuft o’ t’ neck’
Roange – to shout angrily
Rook – a heap,the lot ‘It’s th’ nicest cheer i’ th’ rook’
Roost – praise ‘This rascot roost meh bitch to the verra to the verra Welkin’
Rops – the entrails, bowels
Rumpus – bother, a row
Rowl, rowlt – roll, rolled ‘Rowl away, theaw grand owd ocean’
Rush-hoyle – a hollow, bearing rushes
Saar, seawr – sour ‘Saar an’ sweet; dark an’ leet’
Sacked – discharged
Said (be said) – be told ‘If nobbut for once th’d ha’ sense to be said’
Salit – salad ‘Sali for th’ baggin time’
Sam – gather (or put) together ‘Aw sammed it op’
Sanner - sooner
Sartin— certain
Sauced – scolded ‘Heaw th’ wife sauced him!’
Sattl’t - settled
Saup, sope – sup, a drink ‘Get this sope o’ cinder tay, While it’s warm’
Saut, sawt – salt ‘An’ heaw Lot’s woife wur turn’d to a pillar o’ sawt’
Sawted— salted, caught with salt
Say – sea ‘Say-breeze is chep enough that you’ll confess’
Saycret – secret ‘An’ th’ tailor then an’ theer confess’d,
An’ geet th’ dread saycret off his chest’
Scaith, skaith – harm, danger ‘Tent moi owd mon fro’ skaith
Scallions – small, tender onions
Scarce – disappear ‘Make thisel’ scarce’
Scap – quarrel verbally, and otherwise
Scrat – scratch
Scat an’ scraped – saved ‘Theau’s scrat an’ scraped, an’ toil’d for years’
Scitter – a slight fall of snow or rain
Scrannil – a thin person, underfed
Scrumpled – ruffled, creased
Scuff, scruff – back of the neck
Seawkin - sucking
Seawnd – sound ‘Aw think there’s a bit o’ seawnd sleep comin’ on’
Seawk— suck
Seawse – blow, also drenched ‘fond o’ givin’ th’ bairns a seawse’
Sed— said
See, seed – saw ‘he seed’, ‘I never see sich a whelp sin I wur born’
‘Mi e’en are woss for seet’
Seech – seek, look for ‘O’ th’ folk i’ th’ fowt are seechin’ him,
We’st happen find him yet’
Sennygroon – sinew grown stiff for want of use
Seesto – seest thou, dost thou see
See’t – see it
Seet - sight ‘ee seet’,
‘There’s nowt con beat that steamy seet,
That good owd ‘tato-pie’
Seet – set ‘Aw seet off for mi wark’
Seeth’ – see the ‘com an’ see th’ gam (game)’
Sen, seyn – say ‘Folk seyn awm to’ pratty to dee an owd maid’
Serran – Sarah Ann
Set – sat ‘It’s snug an’ cozy set bi t’ fire’
Set to – commence
Set up – highly pleased ‘Some an’ set up abeawt it’
Shade – shed (weaving shed)
Shafflin – pretending to work or do something, and also idling
Shammocks – feet ‘Shift thi greyt shammocks’
Shan – shall ‘yo’ shan’
Shanks – legs ‘Poo up to th’ side o’ th’ hob, an’ rest thi weary shanks’
Shank’s pony - walking
Shanno’ – shall not
Shap – shape, do something ‘Shap thisel’’
Sheawtin’ – shouting ‘It’s o’ o’er nobbut sheawtin’
Shed, sheed – to spill
Shedd – excelled, ‘it shedds (it was beyond all)’
Sheedin’ – spilling, also a brow, ‘sheedin’ to one side’, ‘it sheeds that way’
Shepsters – starlings
Shepsterin – waiting on a lying-in woman
Sherrup, shurrup – shut up, be silent
Shive – a slice of bread
Shode - showed
Shoon – shoes ‘Aw’ve getten new shoon, an’ a rare nice cockade’
Shop – position, employment
Shu, to shu – word used to frighten poultry
Shus heaw, shuz heaw – choose how, anyhow
Shut – be quiet ‘Shut up’, Shut thi’ face’
Shut – rid of ‘Get shut’ - part with ‘Good shuttance’
Shute – suit ‘An’ a shute o’ clooas o made o’ tin’
Shuttance – left, gone away ‘Good shuttance’
Shuttered – a fall ‘A wall’s shuttered deawn’
Si, sin – see, seen ‘It’s sin some changes in its time’
Sich, sitch – such ‘I never seed sich a seet sin I’re born’
Side – put aside, clear ‘I yeard them murmur all ther prayers
Then sided all ther things away’
Sidled – to go away ‘He’s sidled off wom’
Sin – since ‘AW’ve never felt gradely sin’
Singlet – a waistcoat. The coat was a doublet.
Sis – something tasty to eat
Sitch— such
Sithe’, sitha – see thou, do thou see ‘Sitha! Here he is!’
Skellied – browned and blistered by heat
Skens, skenning – squint, also look ‘If thou’d as mony een as Skennin Billy,
and he could see everywheere at once’
Skew – to twist round
Skoo – school ‘At number one, i’ Bowton’s yard, mi gronny keeps a skoo’
Skrike – screams, cry loudly ‘Heaw tha skrikes’
Skrikin’ – screaming
Slart – to spill or throw liquid ‘Aw slarted him wi’ wayter’
Slatter – to spill
Sleck – small coal (slack), also impudence
Sleck – to quench a thirst, or ‘sleck’ a fir out
Sling yer hook – go, clear off
Slippy (look slippy) – be sharp, also slippery
Slither – silly talk
Slifter – a crevice , a crack
Slope – decamp, generally in debt or disgrace
Slur – a slide, to slide, also a slander
Slutch – mud, aspersioins ‘Do stop this throwin’ slutch abeawt’
Sluttered – to slide ‘He sluttered eaut o’ th’ chair’
Slutterin’ - came in late
Sluttermuck – a descriptive expression
Smeawch – to kiss
Smoot— smooth
Snaffle – to talk down the nose
Sneck – a lever-like latch to a door. Formerly a sneckbant
Snicksnarls – tangled, confusion
Snig – eel
Snig – to pull quickly or jerk
Snig-poy – eel-pie
Snod – smooth and sleek
Snood – hair ribbon
Snye – to draw up the nose scornfully
Snyin – swarming (packed like a swarm of eels)
Soeal – fastenings for cattle in the shippon
Sollit – quiet in company, nothing to say ‘What’s op theau’rt so sollit?’
Sompan – example ‘I’ll mak’ thee a sompan’
Sond – sand ‘These sodiurs an’ parsons, an’ maisters o’ lond,
He lays ‘em i’ th’ greawnd, wi their meawths full o’ sond’
Sope, slat – a small quantity of liquid. Farmers generally give a slat of milk over the
actual measure
Sooa – so ‘Sooa Rose an’ me ull soon be one’
Sooart – sort
Soss – to fall with a heavy thud
Sowd – sold ‘I sowd th’ owd couch to beigh ‘em bread’
Sowt – sought ‘He sowt not wealth’
Spack – to settle at a place
Spavined – a strained horse
Speawt (up th’ speawt) – in pawn ‘An’ mi halliday clooas are o on ‘em up th’ speawt’
Speer – a partition or screen at the entrance to a cottage
Spers – asks, enquires into
Sperr’d – enquired
Speyk – speak ‘May id allus be aar way o’ speykin’
Spiffin – fine, gaudily dressed
Spirrings – the banns of marriage, also to spir or question
Spit – spittle, saliva
Spit – likeness ‘He’s th’ very spit ov his dad’
Splutter – in great haste ‘Off in a splutter’
Spooak – spoke
Spooart – sport
Spuds – potatoes
Stale, steyl – steal ‘Iv aw turn eawt to stale, folk’ll co me a thief’
Stang – a pole
Stare-a-blaze – a person rushing about, always in a hurry
Staw – will not go
Stall’d, stow’d – tired ‘For o’ weavin’ this rubbitch aw’m getting’ reet stow’d’
Steawnge – a dull pain
Steelhole – a stile
Steyl – a handle, ‘A brush steyl’
Stir, stur – festivity, an exciting event ‘Next singin’ stur’
Ston, stonds – stands ‘It stonds upon a hilly ridge’
Stoop – a post ‘A gate stoop’
Stowed – stopped. When a horse refuses to go it is said to be stowing
Stracklin – a rough, careless fool
Strap – credit ‘He’d noather strap nor brass for t’ pay’
Stretch – a period of time, a distance
Stroddlin – standing with the legs wide apart
Sturred – stirred
Suddler – a wooden implement for suddling or twirling clothes about in
a tub on a washing day
Summat, summut – something, somewhat ‘Is summat up, or summat?’
Sun-leet – sunlight
Swack – to fall ‘Aw fell swack o’ mi back’
Swap, swop – exchange ‘So when this world for th’ next tha swaps’
Swarthin – swinging bout on a road from one side to another
Swat – smacked ‘Hoo swat him o’er th’ face’
Swat – sweat ‘Hoo laught an’ swat, her sides fair shakin’,
For she, that day, had th’ o’on wot – bakin’
Swat – hurry ‘He’s awlus in a swat’
Sweal – to burn
Swelted – over-heated ‘Awm fere swelted I’ this reawm’
Swilk – to shake a liquid in a vessel till it dashes over
Swipper – strong, active, nimble
Swither – tu burn fiercely
Swithern – warped, crooked
Syn – since
T’, ta, tee – thou
T’ th’ – the ‘It’s true as owt i’ th’ Bible’
Ta, tay, tey – take ‘Tay yor hurry, I haven’t supped o mi’ tay yet’
Ta’en – taken ‘An’ this es th’ test aw’ve taen I’ hand’
Tantrum – in a passion
Tatchin’-end – waxed thread used by cobblers
Tato - potato
Tawk- talk ‘Dust thin Rimes mun owlus tawk stump Loncashire?’
Tay – tea ‘Reitch deawn that ham, for Robin likes
A relish to his tay’
Teaw – pull (tow), work hard
Teawn – town ‘I stood beside Tim Bobbin’s grave,
‘At looks o’er Ratchda’ teawn’
Tee, teed, tees – tie, tied, ties ‘What sense is there e tele so black
That’s teed to th’ heeod, an rows o’ the back?’
Teem – pour, poured out ‘It teems deawn wi’ rain’
Tem’d – poured
Tent – to attend (look after – tenter) ‘Hoo sews, an’ tents er Joe’,
‘Tent or shut the door’ A good yard dog is said to be a rare tenter.
Tew, teaw – toil, struggle, persevere ‘Aw tew hard for what bit aw get’
Teytch - teach
Th’ - the ‘Th’lad camplt (the lad prated, he was saucy)’
Tha, thi – thee
Thad – that ‘Come, hang thi cap up; shut thad door’
Thaddle, thattle, that’ll – that will ‘That’ll do’
Tharcake – parkin (It was a custom in the coutryside to bake tharcake
on the 5th of November)
Thatch – hair, covering
The, thi - thy
The’ – thee ‘I’ll ha’ the’’
Theau, theaw – thou ‘Oh, Theau who made o’ th’ universe’
Theaw'll— thou wilt, will
Theaw'rt— thou art
Theawsuns— thousands
Theer – there ‘Don’t stand theer lookin’ so daft’
Ther – their ‘He’re moore content than ony sich
Wi’ handles to ther name’
Thesel, thisel - thyself
They'dn— they had or they would have had
They’n – they han’, they have
Thible, thibble – a porridge slice or spoon, a shaped stick for stirring porridge
‘Sin’ th’ day hoo broke mi now i’ th’ fowd,
Wi’ th’ end o’ th’ porritch-thible
Thick (geet thick) – made friends ‘Now hoo wur thick wi’ booath’
Thodden – solid, a thodden cake was made with plenty of fat
Thole – to afford ‘A shillin’ is o’ aw con thole’
Thoose – those
Thowt – thought ‘I welly thowt it shook its yed’
Thrang, thrung, thrunk – throng, very busy ‘Twur thrunk as Eccles wakes, mon’
Threap, threeap – to argue, to dispute
Threshin – laboured walking
Throos – big stones built in a wall to bind the little stones together
Thrung – very busy
Thrut – thrust, thrown ‘Wheer owd hands, when useless, aren’t thrut into th’ street’
Thrutch – thrust, push ‘There’s th’ most thrutchin’ where there’s th’ least reawm’
Thump – a blow
Thumping – striking, also anything large
Thunge – to fall with a loud noise
Thunner – thunder
Thur – their/there ‘thur stoode (there stood)’
‘Whoy, Sur, I conno see
What thur wur in ‘um that shid freeten me’
Tice – entice ‘Hoo tice’t him to church, an’ poor Tummy wur done’
Tick - credit
Tie-up - a written plan for connecting weaver's geering
Titivate – to make tidy
Titty – teat
Titty-bottle – child’s feeding bottle (also diddy)
Toart, tort – toward ‘But fooak as lookt tort Pendle hill’
Togs – clothes
Toirt, tyert, toyart, tyrt – tired
To-morn – tomorrow ‘To-morn he may be beggin’ for a lift on the way’
Tone, t’one – the one
Tone t’other – the one the other
Tooting – spying about suspiciously
Toppin – a tuft of hair on the forehead
Torn – turn –‘He’re up to o their slippery tricks
An’ torn’d his coat like winkin’
T’other, tother – the other ‘What doest think he did, tother day?’
Tothri, too'thri, tuthri - two or three (abbreviation)
‘Some say Chorla’h a sleepy than,
But I know a twothree that it’s ta’n dahn’
T’ord – toward
T’oth’ – to the
Touchus – easily disturbed and annoyed
Towd – told ‘He towd um Methusalem livt a lung toime’
Towt – taught ‘His hands wur towt to throw a shuttle’
Traunce, treaunce, trawnce – a tedious journey
Trig – to trip hastily, to walk with a kind of trot
Trindle – the wheel of a barrow
Tung – tongue ‘Her tung – it makes me fair go cowd’
Tup – to strike or butt with the head
Tupshinned – to kick the heels towards each other when walking
Tuttle – an awkward person
Twamp – to thrash ‘Aw twamped him’
Twang – to walk crookedly, also dialect speech
Twazy – nasty tempered
Twitch clock – a large beetle
Twitcher – a keen bitten person
'Twur –it were, it was
Udgit (letter z) – a term of reproach, coward ‘Thou udgit!’
‘Ull – will ‘Or dost ta think ‘at times ‘ull mend?’
‘Um or ‘em – them ‘But aw soon towd ‘um, aw’re gooin’ to Owdham’
Un – and or one
Uns – ones ‘longuns’
Untherside – the bottom part, the lowest surface
Uphowd – maintain, guarantee
Up-to – about, doing (generally disparaging) ‘Aw wonder what he’s up-to?’
Ur – or ‘It mun be oather thee ur me’
Urchant – the hedgehog
Us, uz – our. Give it us – give it to me
‘Ut – that
‘Ut’s – that is ‘He’ll gie me o’ ut’s due’
Uz – as ‘Soa Bodle took this uz a hint to propose’
Varra, verra – very ‘For Deeath were creepin’ varra neer’
Wackert – quaked, trembled, weak, tottering ‘Thou wackers about like a tripe doll’
Waint – will not
Wake – weak ‘He’s getting’ rather wake i’ th’ yed’
Wakes – village fair ‘ make a wakes’ – demolish
Wakken, wakkent – waken, wakened
Walloper – large ‘A walloper of a pig’
Walt, wote – to topple over, to overturn
Wang – to throw violently ‘Aw wanged it at his yed’
Want’n – want
Wantit – wanted
Wapt – walked, to move quickly ‘He wapt reaund th’ end an ‘ said ‘Good-neet’’
War, wor, wer, wur – were (was)
Warch – ache, ‘Yedwarch’
Ware – to spend
Warm wor, woss, wurr – worse
Ward – the world
War— were
Warch – ache
Warckt, warkt, wartcht, worched – ached
Wark, worch, wortch – work ‘Life’s o’ bed an’ wark’
Warm (warm yo’) ‘I’ll warm some on yo’, to some tune’
Warn— were
Warty – workday ‘There’s fourpence-hawpenny warty caps
For which they charge a bob’
Warty-cloas – workday clothes
Wary – weary
Wastril – a man of no character, a waster
Waut, wawt – overturn ‘Gently! Tha’ll waut th’ whole consarn, if tha doesn’t mind’
Wauter – to stagger
Wawk’n - walk
Wayter, waythur, weatur— water ‘Sometimes, th’ wayter in his e’en’
‘Wi a calico rag on her back that hasn’t sin wayter as three week!’
Waytertomes – sick fits
Weatherpeg – the nose
Weel – well ‘We’re neighbours, an’ very weel met’
Wee'n, ween, we’n - we have ‘Thank God we’n each a spoon apiece’
Weer – we are
Weer – where
Weet – wet ‘Weet an’ warm, like Owdham brewis’
Welkin – the sky, the firmament
Welkin-looker – an observer of the firmament, a star gazer
Welly – very nearly (almost) ‘He said ‘Aw’m feelin’ welly deead’’
We’n, we’r, we’st – we have, we are, we shall
Welt – a blow ‘Aw’ll gie thi a welt’
Wescot – waistcoat
Wesh – wash ‘Wi pop to wesh em deawn’
We’t – with it
Whangby – coarse cheese
Wheer – where
Whewtin - whistling
Whoa, whey, weigh – sotp ‘Before owd Time says ‘weigh’’
Whol – while, until ‘He cried whol his e’en were quite red’
Whom, whoam – home ‘Come whoam to thi’ childer an’ me’
Whooad, whood, who’d – who would, who had
Whot, wot - hot ‘Sed Jone to his wife, on a whot summer’s day’
Whottle, whatt’ll – what will
Whysty – draughty ‘A whysty reawm’
Wi'— with ‘go wi’ me’
Wick— alive ‘It’s said ‘I’m fain I’m wick to-day – Tick-Tock’
Wift – whiff ‘While takin’ a wift o’ my pipe’
Wilto’ – wilt thou
Wimme, wimmy – with me
Win— will
Winna, winno – will not
Winrow – a long row of raked-up hay
Wint, wynt, woind – wind ‘Wi hur heart in hur hont, an hur wynt welly gone’
Winterhedge – now called a clothes horse
Wirkened – a choking sensation with drinking too fast
Witchert, witchod – wet-shod, shoes let water in, ‘Mi feet are witchert’
Wo, wole – wall ‘Hoo fell yed first o’er th’ garden wo’’
Wod – what ‘’Wod, nowt?’ sed th’ tailor, ‘is ther nowt?’’
Wom— home
Wonst – once ‘Wonst on a time, ther’ wur a mon’
Worn’d – were not
Worritin – troubled, upset
Woss, wurr – worse ‘This an’ better may do – but this an’ wurr ‘ll never do’
Wost - worst
Wot— what
Wott – hot
Wott-ter - hotter
Wrang – wrong
Writhen – irritable, petulant
Wud – would, also vexed, mad
Wudno’ – would not
Wun – wound (up)
Wur – were
Wurno’ – were not
Wurto’ – were thou
Wynt, wint – the wind
Yallo— yellow
Yammer – to yearn intensely, to hunger for
‘An’ th’ worm yammers for us i’ th’ greawnd
Yammerin – making a noise with the lips when wanting something
Yarbin’ - herbing, gathering herbs
Yarbs – herbs ‘He’d yarbs o’ differt macks’
Yawnooked - crooked
Yead, yed – head ‘yed-bare’
Yeandurth – before noon
Yeasy, yezzy – easy
Yeddy-hill – heady hill, an eminence near Heywood
Yed-warch – head ache
Yed wark - head work (thinking, using your brain)
Yedweshin – a celebration of a birth
Yepp-fowd – Heap-fold, an ancient fold in Heap
Yer – hear ‘I yer thi mon’
Yeard, yerd – heard
Yer, yo’r – your
Yer – year
Yer - ear
Yer'd, yerd – heard ‘I yerd on hur (I heard of her)’
Yersto’ – hearest thou
Yerth - earth
Yessier – easier
Yessins – the eaves
Yigh – yea, yes ‘‘Yo could do wi a drop of ale, couldn’t yo?’
‘Yigh! I’ve nowt again it ‘at I know on’’
Yo’ – you
Yoar, you’re – you are
Yo’r, yor – your
Yorsel – yourself
Yoar – you are
Yo’d – you had
Yon – yonder ‘yon tree, yon heawse’, ‘Except wi yon childer an’ thee’
Yon, yo’n – you have ‘He’ll tell yo’ o’ yo’r beawn to do’
Yorshar – cheat ‘Yoast naw put Yorshar o me’
Yure – hair ‘At fifty, aw’re scattin’ mi yure’
Yuse – used ‘An’ aw yuse to climb th’ owd appo-tree’
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