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| Word |
Meaning
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| A-cothed |
Disease
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| A-drawen |
Drawing, for example "He be a-drawen a picture."
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| A-feard |
Afraid (Dorset motto, "Who's a-feard?")
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| Agean |
Against, for example "'e be runnin' agean thac strong wind."
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| A-lassen |
Lest
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| Alik' |
Like
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| All's |
All this
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| Amper |
Pustules "I be all out in an amper!"
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| Aller |
The alder tree
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| Anby |
At a near time, by and by
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| Annan? |
An interjectional exclamation. "What did you say?"
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| Anewst, or Aniste |
At nearest
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| Ankly |
The ankle
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| Any-when |
At any time
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| A piggyback, a pig a back, a pack a back |
To carry a child on one's back with their arms around your neck and their legs around your waist.
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| A pisty poll |
To carry a child on one's shoulders with their legs around your neck and their arms around your forehead.
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| A-ponted |
See "ponted"
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| Arn |
A contraction of "e'er a one"
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| Ash candles |
The seed vessels of the ash tree
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| Asker |
Water newt
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| A-strout |
Stretched out stiffly
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| A-stooded |
Stood (as a waggon) immovably in the ground
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| A-stoggd |
Having your feet stuck in either clay or dirt
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| At |
To play at, to have at
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| Athirt |
Across
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| Avore |
Before
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| A-vrore |
Frozen
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| Awaked |
Awake
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| Ax |
To ask
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| Axen |
Ashes
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| Axen hole |
Ash hole
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| A-zet |
Set or planted
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| A-zew |
1) To be dry of milk; no longer giving suck "The cow's a-zew" 2) To sew a pond, to drain or draw it dry.
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| Backhouse |
Outhouse
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| Bad |
Synonym for ill
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| Ballyrag |
To scold
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| Bandylags |
Crooked/bowed legs
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| Bankrout |
Bankrupt
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| Batch |
Hillock
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| Beas' |
Beast
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| Baven |
A faggot of untrimmed branches
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| Becall |
To deride
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| Beens |
Because
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| Beknown |
Known about
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| Bibber |
Shiver with cold
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| Bide |
Dwell
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| Biddle |
Beetle
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| Bird-kippy |
To keep birds from the corn
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| Bit-an'-drap |
A meal
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