LAKELAND WORDS AND SAYINGS. (continued 4)

SHEEL—Under cover. Ther’s neea pliace ta sheel in fer t peur kye. Sheel thi e’e frae t’ sun wi’ thi hat flype.

SHEP, SHEPSTER—Starling.

SHEVEL, SHEVELEN—When a chap’s hauf drunk an caperen aboot wi’ his feet an’ ye cant’t tell tull a yard whar they’ll bit when he puts them doon. Shevelen aboot; sit thi doon.

SHOT—A drink bill. Ah paid me shot an’ oot Ah pot. Ah wonder if this is what they co’ pigs shots for.

SHOT—T’ pig jobber ’ll give full particulars what a shot pig is. Ah can tell ye ’at it’s wick.

SHAL—Divide. Shal it oot equal amang us.

SHANK’S MEAR—Walken. We’re gaan o’ shank’s mear.

SHANKS—Legs. His shanks er neea thicker ner a thyvil.

SHAP-GALLOP—Git somebody bi’ t’ scuft o’ t’ neck wi’ yah hand an’ owt ’at’s lowse wi’ t’ tudder an’ off wi’ him, if he’s a lal ’un he’ll gang happen.

SHEELEN—Shelling peas or beans.

SHEELENS—The husky part of wheat, &c.

SHELL WUM’LE—An auld-fashioned wum’le.

SHOO—When ye’ve ta drive t’ shop o’ t’ ducks an’ hens an’ things.

SHOODER, SHOODER-OOT—Aye an’ cauld shooder ano. A chap ’at izzant wanted gits t’ shooder, an’ if he’s awk’ard ’ll git shooder’d oot.

SHOODER-BUND—Cauld shooder’d; idle.

SHOOLEN, SHAWMEN—They’re aboot as yan. A shambling gait.

SHOCKLESS—When lads is laiken at marvels an’ yan gits up afooar t’ tudder gits three—he’s won him shockless.

SHOT-O’-GREASE—Nags hes ’t wi’ nut workin’ an’ stannen ower mich o’ ther feet.

SHOT-O’-ICE—Frae t’ skiul yat ta t’ turn at t’ niuk’s o’ yah shot o’-ice, an’ slape as an eel tail.

SHOON, SHUN—Shoes. Mi Sunday shun on.

SHORT-CAKE—Nice lal ciaks fer krissenens, an’ seck doos as them.

SHACK-BAGS—A shack-bags kind ov a chap’s yan ’at’s nin seea particular, he’ll sleddur aboot any fashion, deea just as he’s a mind, an’ izzant up ta mich at nowt.

SHUTTERED—Com doon wi’ a pash.

SHACK-WHOL—A pot whol. A spot i’ t’ grund whar t’ foundation’s gone an’ left a roond dent er whol.

SHARP—O theer in the way o’ brains.

SHIN—To trump at cards.

SHIMM—How weeds out amongst plants.

SHOG—A careless easy gait. He was shoggen away ta t’ market on t’ auld mear.

SHOOP-CHOOP—The seed pod of the rose.

SHROGGS—Rough, woody, stumpy, brushy land.

SHUPPOM, SHIPPON—Coo byre.

SHUT—A relaxed condition of the bowels of calves. That cauf hes t’ shut an’ ye mun war oot they’ve neea manners.

SHILLIES—A bed of small stones on a mountain side. Ah gat in ta a bed of shillies on t’ fell tudder day when Ah was amang t’ sheep, an’ Ah couldn’t git away ato.

SHOOL—A large spade used for conveying the dung out of stables, cowsheds, and so on.

SHOOLEN—The act of lifting with the shool, or spade. Ah’ll tell ye a breck aboot shoolen. Yah day a chap was threshen, an’ t’ hens an’ cocks liukt in as they went by, an’ peckt a bit up. In a bit tweea or three auld ducks waddled in, an’ they went ta wark, but, sez t’ chap, “That widn’t deea, peck as mich as ye like, but neea shoolen’, er oot ye gah.”

SHIVER—Loose stones that get detached from the “screes.”

SHIVEREENS—Very small pieces. Theer noo!. That’s oor best cheeny tea-pot ’at was mi mudder’s, an’ thoo’s let it fo’ an’ brokken ’t ta shivereens.

SHALLAK, SHALLAKEN—A shawmen, shoolen, snafflen way at fooak gits intul ’at’s boorn tired, an’ nivver hed time ta rest thersels reet.

SHALLOCK—Fadder, cut us a shallock o’ fat. Hem!

SHANDRY—A cross-bred cart, wi’ springs.

SHINDY—A row amang a lot whar they mak a gurt durdrum.

SHANGLED—Tie a kettle tul a dog tail, an’ it’ll be shangled. An’ durt let t’ dog maister see ye, er ye may be.

SHELL-TOD—Noo ye horse cowpers, this is yan o’ yours. A shell-tod tiuth is neea use as a age guide, is ’t?

SHIRL—Slide. Ther’s a grand shirl on ’t pond.

SHIVE—A slice of bread. To cut a neat swathe.

SHANK’S-GALLIWAY—On foot. Hoo hev ye come? On shank’s galliway.

SHINNY—A lad gam.

SHUTTLE-MOOTHED—A deformed sheep’s jaw.

SHOOLEN—A way o’ gitten some cheap yal is shoolen efter ’t.

SIND—A lick an’ a promise i’ t’ weshen line. Ah’ll just sind mi’ fias. A drink after taking solid food. Breed an’ cheese an’ a drop o’ yal ta sind it doon.

SIAL-CO’ER—An auctioneer.

SIBBY—A funny, queer auld woman, like a witch mudder.

SIGHT—A ter’ble quantity o’ owt, varra nar. Ther’s a sight o’ fooak varra thrang wi’ t’ hay o’ up an’ doon.

SIDE—Put away; tidy up. Side t’ pots by an’ git weshed up, lasses.

SIDELANS—Alongside (hem!) It means neighbourhood as well. They lived sidelans.

SIGNED—A cow stopped milking when near her time for calving.

SIKE—A muffled sob when t’ barn’s bin heart brossen, an’s gitten ower ’t a sike ’ll come.

SISS—He siss’d dog at me—egg’d it on.

SIDATION—We’d a sidation on; sidin’ up.

SIDE, SIDER—What side div ye cum frae? Ah’s a fell-sider.

SIMMUNS—Set. A chap used ta gah aboot menden pots, cheeny, an’ seck like. He pot a woman a teapot spoot on an’ charged a gay bit fer diun it, an’ he telt her nut ta touch it fer hauf a day as it wadn’t hae simmuns’d afooar than. It izzant simmuns’d yut an’ nivver will.

SIDLE, SIZLE—To edge out of a company that is not acceptable. Jack sidled off when they began o’ plagen him. We sizl’d aboot tell train time.

SISTA, SITHA—Shorthand for see’st thou? see’th thou?

SIUF—A nasty wet swangy sumpy spot like a dike gutter.

SIZELAN—Walking leisurely around. We war sizelan aboot tell t’ dinner was reddy.

SIZZLE—An onomatopoetic. When t’ meet’s i’ t’ yubben an’ it begins ta sizzle we know ’at we shan’t be lang afoor we hev some.

SIT-UP—Suffer. Thoo’ll sit-up fer that efter a bit. This ’ll be t’ origin o’ that famish classic “Sit-up an’ yewl.”

SIDE—Temper; disposition. He was t’ reet side oot, seea we gat on famishly. He’s nin a bad sooart, is t’ auld chap nut; he’s what ye may say t’ warst side oot, ther’s neea willy lilly whakly wark wi’ him, nobbut he’s a bit soor an’ rough.

SITTEN-UP—(Be whiat theer, ye cooarters.) It means keepen company, gangen tagidder, folloen efter, an’ seea on, but sitten-up’s yan at t’ fardest stages o’ that ailment ’at iv’ry son o’ Adam—an’ dowter ano’ fer that matter—gits a smatch on at some turn. He’d bin sitten his heart’s desire up fer years an’ nivver hardly spokken mair ner yance, an’ that was ta t’ effect at “Honey was sweet, by gom!” At last he gat it oot, an’ ass’d her aboot putten t’ assins in. “Thoo mun put them in when honey gahs sour fer me,” she sez, an’ ther was neea mair sitten-up wi’ them tweea.

SISSUP, SISSUPEN—A sissup at t’ side o’ t’ heed. He gat a good sissupen fer putten his neb in. Theer, they’re fully explained.

SILLY—Weak and low. Ah’s bad i’ mi’ heed, an’ Ah’s as silly as a gius if Ah stir.

SIDE-SHANGLED—A horse wi’ a fooar leg fassened tul a hinder ’un to hinder it frae roamen ower far away.

SINGEN-HONEY—Melted cream, er butter an’ groats biakt on a hot shovel.

SINK-MEW—A hay-mew in a cellar.

SIT—Get equal with. Noo if thoo can sit t’ auld horse brecker thoos nobbut anudder ta sit.

SKAYMERIL—A rough lowse bianed body ’ats nin ower nice aboot nowt. Bide tha whial thoo gurt silly skaymeril.

SKILVINS—Shelving for a cart.

SKIUM—Skim. Skium t’ fat off wi’ yer fingger.

SKON—Barley skons. Skons is nice sweet ciaks.

SKON, SKON’D, SKUN, SKUN’D—To jerk or jet anything in a temper. Ah ass’d fer some mair breed an’ she skon’d t’ liaf at my heed.

SKOP—A smart blow. Ah’ll skop thi thi lug.

SKOPERIL—A young squirrel. An uneasy boy. Thoo young skoperil.

SKUG, SNOODDLE, SNUDGE—To nestle in snugly for warmth.

SKIAL-BOOARD—The division between the stalls of a stable.

SKEW, SKEW-WABBLE—Out of a straight line. A bridge at a turn is a skew-bridge. Skew-wabble is when a load is out of its position and in a shaky condition at that.

SKIRL, SKIRLEN—To scream with fright. T’ barn fair skirl’d again.

SKAR—Scowling. Thoo needn’t to liuk see skar at yan.

SKARN—This is an auld ’un, deed is ’t. At yah time coo skarn was burnt asteed o’ cooal.

SKOGGERS—Wheea wad hae thowt ’at oor skoggers wad iver hae been nooaticed. Ye know they’re auld stocking legs, tied ower t’ clog tops ta keep t’ snow oot. An’ rare an’ useful they er.

SKRIKE, SKRIKEN—Shriek in passion. What’s ta skriken aboot? Ah’ll gie thi summat ta skrike for.

SKELLY—Field name.

SKELLY—A chub.

SKELL—Keck t’ cart up an’ throw t’ stuff oot.

SKEN—A laalbit squint.

SKIFT—Remove. Ah’ll tak thee ta skift young fellow mi lad if thoo shuts any o’ thi sauce here.

SKIP-JACK—A silly bouncing body ’at thinks he’s a bit clever.

SKYANDER—Mak them flee i’ o’ directions. T’ lads was at oor pez-rig, an’ thoo sud hae seen me mack them skyander when t’ auld dog an’ me gat i’ t’ field.

SKIP—A beehive is a skip, an’ ther’s taty skips, an’ coorn skips, they’re a bettermer mack o’ swills, that’s o.

SKELP—Aye fer sewer. That’s it, wi’ a rod ano; but Ah was thinkin’ aboot a chap ’at was gaan at seck a skelp ta catch a train.

SKITTER, SKITTEREN—Aboot fog time o’ t’ year yan sees a lot on ’t. A laal skitteren good-fer-nowt, is a chap ’at doesn’t sattle doon seea weel ta wark.

SKOBBY, SKOBBY-NEST—A laal bird ’at builds t’ bonniest nest ye ivver saw.

SKROKE, SKROTCH, SKROTCHEN—If ye tak’ a stian pencil an’ set it ebm up on a end, an’ draw it doon it’ll skroke; an’ if it doesn’t edge yer teeth Ah’ll say neea mair.

SLADDER, SLADDEREN—Spill; make a dirty wet mess. Mind thoo doesn’t sladder thisel wi’ that milk. Thoo’s sladderen o doon thi wiastcooat.

SLEDDUR, SLEDDUREN—Mair compliments fer t’ peur idle bodies ’at’s ower idle ta lift ther feet er liase their shun.

SLURR, SLIDDUR, SLIDDEREN—Let’s slidder doon t’ stair rails; he was slidderen doon a stee. A lad’ll shirl, owder on his feet, his back, er his belly—slidderen’s tweea last.

SLONK, SLONKEN—A gurt idle slonk. Slonken aboot frae yah spot tul anudder. Particulars on application.

SLONY—Ye know them slurry, sleezy, slape-tongued sneerers ’at wipes in wi’ a back handed compliment, seea wheem and whiat like; that’s them. Slony.

SLAB—A slate table for a dairy. A rough plank taken from the outside of a log.

SLATTERY—Wet. We’re hevin some slattery wedder aboot noo, by gom.

SLAYSTER, SLAYSTEREN—He dud slayster him aboot his craft. An unanswerable rebuke. Ah gat a slaysteren wi’ puddle an’ muck.

SLYPE—To get away unperceived. Thoo mun slype oot when Ah whissle er throw a bit o’ muck at t’ winda if ther’s nin o’ them watchen.

SLACK—Lowse; hollow; slack set up. Lanslack? A slack back cooat.

SLANG, SLANG’D—Abusive language. Let’s hev neea slang. He slang’d me rarely, a saucy good fer nowt ’at is he.

SLAPPY—It’s rayder slappy soort o’ wedder this. Wet.

SLATCH, SLATCHEN—What again! A gurt hungry lad ’at’s allus efter summat ta eat. A dog ’at’s far ower many hiams an’ hes ta snake a bit whar it can; chaps ’at gahs strippin’ fooaks peer trees; an’ tweea er three mair things, too numerous to mention, as t’ sial-co’ers says.

SLICK—Polish. Watch t’ shoemaker.

SLOCKEN, SLECKEN, SLECK—To quench the thirst. T’ blacksmith said he’d a spark in his throoat ’at niver wad be slockened. Lime-slecken is annudder matter o’ t’ siam soort.

SLOP—Jacket.

SLOPS—Britches legs.

SLOWP—To defraud and run away.

SLOWP, SLOWPEN—When unmannerly fooak sup tea in a hurry they mak a gurt splutteren noise wi’ iv’ry lap—they slowp it up. Slowp thi poddish inta thi kedge an’ off thoo gangs ta bed.

SLURRY, SLUDGE—Thick puddle.

SLUFF—A berry skin.

SLUFFED—Disheartened. He was heart sluffed aboot her.

SLUFFENED—T’ siam again.

SLODDUR—Wad ye tell o’ me if Ah skipt this yan? Ah wad like. Ye know what it is—tiad spawn; mushed turnips, an’ owt else ’at’s pulpy an’ slape.

SLASHY—Wet sloppy wedder. We’ve hed it gaily slashy noo fer a canny while.

SLATTER—Spill.

SLEEKY—Sly. Yan o’ t’ whiat, still-moothed ’uns, ’at sez nowt but taks o in.

SLYPE—To pare. It’s far ower big fer t’ whol; thoo mun slype a shive off ’t.

SLYVE—To interject an offensive remark. Slyve ’t in ’at thoo nivver hed t’ scab min.

SLAP—O at a slap. He slap’t gurt lumps off. Went doon wi’ a slap. Than ther’s what t’ barns git fer good conduct.

SLAPE, SLAPE-TAIL, SLAPE-HEELS—A shirl ’at’s slape ’s o ’at Ah know on ’at’s better for ’t. Owt else ’at’s slape, slape-tailed, er hes a pair o’ slape heels, would be better fer sharp’nin’.

SAVERY-DUCKS—Ducks wi’ veils on—meead o’ pork, &c.

SLIATED, SLIATE-OFF—Noo ye ladies. When ye see yan wi’ her petticooat boddum a bit below her frock, what is ’t? She’s sliated. Yan ’at hes a screw lowse, what’s that? A sliat off.

SLING—Depart. Ah’ve a lang way ta gang, seea Ah’ll sling me hook. Aye, whia, but ye’ll siun sling ower hiam.

SLENGK, SLENGKEN, SLENGKT—A gurt hungry slengk; slengken aboot efter nowt at dow; he’s slengkt hissel off ta bed withoot weshen. This is yan o’ that gurt host ’at’s its own definition.

SLEM—Slender. He’s grown verra slem. Wark ’at’s dium slem izzant o’ mich account, ner a slem customer.

SLOMMOCK, SLOMMOCKEN, SLOMMOCKY—These is terms of respect fer an idle, shufflen, mucky taistrel. Ah’ll say neea mair.

SLOTCH, SLOTCHEN—A gurt drucken slotch; slotchen o t’ yal ’at he can lig hands on.

SLOWDY—Sloven. A gurt slowdy.

S-LINK—Yan o’ t’ usefullest things yan can carry aboot fer mendin’ up wi’.

SLIPPY—Handy, alert, quick. Liuk slippy an’ du’t santer on t’ rooad.

SLYPE—A nasty slur, but put that nicely like a pill in a plum.

SLEM—A lad trick at marvels ta get ta t’ ring an’ keep theer, wi’ a bit o’ dodging.

SMACK—Ah’ve a queer smack i’ mi mooth. Taste.

SMO’ DRINK—Teetotallers’ yal, treacle Jacky, an’ honey botchard.

SMUSH—Ye’ve seen a chap wi’ a pair o’ jiken shun on, a white waistcoat, an’ a cutaway cooat, an’ a siapt hat—he’s smush.

SMITE-Particle. Ah’ve eaten up iv’ry smite.

SMIT—A sheep mark ta ken ’t bi.

SMUT—A complaint ’at bodders wheat.

SMITTLE—Infectious. T’ barns hes t’ King cough, an’ they say it’s smittle.

SMITTLE—Likely. As smittle a spot fer an auld hare an yan’ll come across.

SMOCK—Smooth. Ah mack nowt o’ fooak ’at’s seea smock-spokken an’ whakly.

SMOOR—Ye’ve seen young lads an’ lasses i’ t’ hay field coveren yan anudder ower wi’ hay, an’ i’ t’ dark whiat neets when ghosts, an’ barguests, an’ seck like flaysome things er oot, t’ barns git under t’ blankets tell they’re nearly scumfisht. We co’ that smooren. An’ gurt rough haniels o’ lads hes a gam; they git yan doon, anudder lot atop o’ him, an’ they shoot “Merry, merry muck heap, pund o’ mair weight,” tell they smoor t’ boddum ’un.

SMOCK-FACED—Beardless. She’s wedded a bit ov a smock-fiased lad.

SMOOT—A whol whar t’ sheep gah through. Owt else? Aye, hares rabbits, geese, likewise ducks an’ hens, an’ sometimes tweea legged ’uns ’ll smoot through a whol if it’s easier ner climmin.

SMUDJEN—Gurnen, nickeren, flyeren, snirten an’ whinneyen. Deea o these low doon an’ ye’ll know what smudjen an’ laughen is.

SNOTTER—Ta blodder an’ rooar a gay bit ower nowt.

SNARLIN—Biting bitter blasts o’ wind.

SNECK—T’ auld-fashioned door latch.

SNIFTER—Cry. What’s ta snifteren aboot.

SNIFTER—A slight shower.

SNAG—To lop off. An auld chap ’at Ah used ta ken went ta snag some grains off, an’ yan was a thick ’un, see what he wad tak t’ saw tul ’t. He gat on astride o’ t’ end he was sawen, an’ when he gat through com doon wi’ ’t, an’ let in a beck. He didn’t like ta hear aboot it efter.

SNARL—What hares hang in; snock-snarl is a knot ’at cannot be lowsed. T’ parson’s is t’ boys fer that mack o’ wark; they’ll tie a snarl for ye, seea nice an’ wheem, but it’s a capper ta lowse.

SNAGGEN—Ye’ve seen a chap loppen turnip tops an’ riuts off wi’ a gully—that’s it; snaggen turnips.

SNAPE—Snub; chastise.

SNIRPED—Scorched, dried up. O’s gahn ta be snirped up i’ t’ pasters if this drufty wind gahs on mich langer.

SNAPPAN—A curt manner of talking. What’s ta snappen aboot. Snappan, thoo’l snap yan’s heed off.

SNIZEN, SNIZELER—A biting wind. Noo, it’s a snizen mack ov a day. Aye, it’s a snizeler.

SNUB, SNUBB’D—Chastise. Thoo’ll git thisel snubb’d fer thi impidence.

SNOD—Smooth. Thoo’s thi hair varra snod.

SNUFFLE—To breathe heavily through the nose.

SNOOT-BANDS—The iron plate on a clog neb. Mi skirt catch’t i’ t’ snootband o’ mi clog, an’ doon Ah com bulnecks.

SNAPS—Hard baked gingerbread.

SNIFTER—An unmannerly sneering way.

SNIG—Drag. Snig it doon.

SNIG—An eel. Ah catcht a snig.

SNIRTLE, SNIFTER, SNICKER, SNIRT—Gurnen an’ laughen when ther’s nowt ta laugh at an’ they hev ta mack ’t.

SNAFFLIN—Wayses me! What again! A lal drucken snafflin thing ’at is he.

SNEVIL, SNEVIL-SHELL—Snail.

SNEWSLEN—Ay, dear! Yan mair fer t’ smo’ gang, peur beggars. What ’t is ta hev a bad niam.

SNIRP—Scorch with heat; a piece chipped out of earthenware.

SNICKET—A narrow passage between buildings.

SNICKLE—Snare. He could snickle eels.

SNAPE—Check. This ’ll snape t’ gurse frae growen. He gat snaped fer his cheek.

SNATTLE—To filch away a little at a time, or, to spend a considerable sum in that manner. He snattled through his bit o’ brass an’ hed ta start an’ work.

SNAVELEN, SNIAVELIN—Mair an’ mair fer t’ riff-raff tribe. A laal druckin’ sniavelin, snavelen aboot day efter day.

SNECK-POSSET—A cold reception, and the door closed against you. Grandest thing i’ this world fer a chap ’at’s ower mich consate aboot him.

SNEW—Sniff, or turn the nose up, as Bob Cragg dud efter he’d sook’d a rotten egg, an’ he was ass’d what he was snewin at. He said he nivver ate seck a bad smell i’ his life; it was war ner Shap Wells watter.

SNOOAK, SNOOAKEN, SNIFTEREN—When yan hes a cauld i’ yan’s heed.

SNIF-NICK—A gam laked in St. John’s.

SNOTTY—Curt, disrespectful, dirty. Whia what thoos neea casion ta be seea snotty wi’ yan when yan asses tha a civil answer, thoo sud gie them a civil question, thoo snotty auld slenk.

SPIALES—Gurt yarken chips ’at a fellow knocks oot when he’s fellen wood. Grand for elden.

SOOA!—Sooa! Sooa! Barn! Thoo munnot put t’ cat i’ t’ fire.

SOO, SOO’EN—I’ t’ dark an’ dreary days o’ December, when t’ wind’s rivin an’ grianen, an’ thrusten fit ta rive o t’ trees an’ doors doon, if ye’ll whisht a minute an’ lissen ye’ll mebbe hear ’t give a sob an’ soo like a mortal i’ pain. They deea say ’at that sob an’ that soo co’s frae t’ spirits o’ lal barns ’at’s bin co’ed away afoor t’ kirk ceremonies hes bin gian throo ower them, an’ ’at they enter intul the carcases o’ some gurt gowlen changen hoonds, an’ fer iver an iver they’re at it. We’ll nut hev that, will we? If t’ soo’en wind is t’ meeanen of a sairey spirit, it’s summat war ner a lal barn.

SORT—A football point.

SOAMY—Soft moist air; soamy wedder’s bad keepen wedder.

SOUTY—A rickety pig. A sheep ’ats dropsical.

SOD, SODDEN—Saturated or steeped. Wet as a sod. Ye’re sodden through an’ through.

SOGGY, SAGGY—Wet, springy ground.

SOPS—Bread dipped in melted butter and sugar.

SONSY—Well-favoured.

SOOSE—To put into water. Ah’ll soose thee i’ t’ pump troff for thi pains.

SOSS—An ugly fall. All in a heap. Mi legs shoot oot, an’ doon Ah went wi’ seck a soss.

SODDER, SODDEREN—The bubbling noise of porridge that is boiling.

SOOART—Squirt. We used to mak sooarts oot ov a bit o’ burtree.

SOCK—Part of a plew. Sock an’ cooter.

SOCKETING-BRASS—A fine ’at a young chap hes ta pay if he’s an off-comer when he’s catch’t cooartin’. Miast o’ them pay ’t wi’ pride, but some stand on ther dignity, an’ it means a march ta t’ horse troff.

SOOM—Ye’ve happen seen a coo drink. She just sooks ’t in. A chap ’at sups yal t’ siam way sooms it in. Ah’ve seen a chap chow yal.

SOOR—A hard, soor fellow is yan at can stand a bit o’ trashen aboot. Soor land is when it’s wet an’ wants drainen.

SOOREN—Sour leaven. A sooren o’ yast.

SOWEN, SOWENLY—Extraordinary. A sowen-lang way. A sowen gurt chap. A sowen gurt wallopen cabbish. Ah’s sowenly wrang if it’s nut gaan ta rain.

SOWKER, SOWKEN—An outsider. That taty’s a sowker. It’s a sowken lang way ta walk.

SOT-WHOL—A spot ’at yance was a public hoose.

SOOR-MILK—Nut kernels when they’re soft.

SOLDIERS—Floor seed stems ’at barns laik we?

SOZLEMENT—This is a recipe: Taties, cabbish, dumplin’ o on yah platter, an’ then add dumplin sauce, onion gravy, sugar, salt, and pepper, an’ ye wad hev a heap o’ sozlement ’at wad please t’ heart ov a hungry man ta say nowt aboot his stomach.

SOWINS—Ther’s a lot o’ macks o’ sowins, but they’re o’ yan better ner anudder. Soor sowins, sweet sowins, het sowins, cauld sowins, an’ it’s

whichever mack they’er. Ye can mak them oot o’ meal seeds, but then this is not a cookery biuk, an’ varra like ye know as weel as me.

SOTTERMENT—Food that is prepared by sottering or stewing.

SOWE—Boggy ground.

SUMP—T’ sypins frae a midden. Ah yance laid doon i’ yan, an’ Ah’ve net forgitten t’ aroma that surroonded me like a halo fer some days.

SOOPLE—T’ business end of a flail.

SPINKY—Yellowhammer.

An’ for that reason lads ’ll rob t’ spinky er t’ sparrow, without fear.

SPARRABLE—A nail for the boot sole.

SPELL—Round of a stee or a ladder.

SPILLOE, SHILLOE—Sand and gravel at t’ beck side.

SPIT—To rain slightly. It nobbut spits.

SPRODS—Fish, small salmon. &c.

SPRULE—To fidge; to sprawl.

SPIN-OOT—Sooa! sooa! thoo mun be careful o’ that milk an’ mak ’t spin oot, fer it’s o we hev.

SPINNING ON—Lingering, dragging on. Hoo’s thi faddur? Oh! he’s spinnin’ on, nowder better ner war.

SPIN—Fat. Noo lads! Marvel laikers know this ’un. It’s when they spin inta t’ ring an’s deed for ’t.

SPANG-WHEW—Noo if Ah tell ye hoo this is deun some o’ t’ lads ’ll deea ’t Ah’s warn’d them they will. Anyway it’s abominable cruelty ta teeads, frosks, an’ cheepers.

SPECK—Patch an’ darn.

SPEEK, SPAK, SPEYK—He was full o’ droll speeks.

SPELK—T’ frame of a swill afoor t’ willy wands is woven in amang yan annudder.

SPIAND—Weaned. Sookin’s maistly meant, but a chap ’ll spian hissel of a lot o’ things in his time if he’s sense.

SPLATS—Gaiters. In my time, ebm i’ yours teea, knee britches an’ splats war i’ go.

SPOT—Place. What mak ov a spot hes ta hed this hauf-year? A gay good ’un fer tommy an’ plenty o’ wark. Ah’s stoppen on. A sair spot; spot yan oot; a drop o’ het rum ’ll gah reet ta t’ spot t’ first time ano.

SPRAFFLIN—A whiat easy body ’at’s rayder soft. When ye hear a women co’en her tudder hauf a laal howken, sprafflin thing, ye can put odds doon ’at t’ gray meear’s t’ better hauf o’ that drawt.

SPAY, SPAY’D—Ass t’ coo doctor again.

SPIAD-GRAFT—The depth of one spade in the earth.

SPIC-AN’-SPAN—In good condition. She turned t’ barns oot spic-an’-span.

SPITTAL—Short for hospital—place name.

SPUNK—Pride. He hes plenty o’ spunk aboot him.

SPUNKY—Wi’ a bit o’ pluck, an’ plenty o’ style an’ sang froid. Theer noo, is that nowt?

SPAR—White rock ’at glitters an’ glissens i’ t’ sun.

SPLAWDEREN—Ye’ve seen a chap ’at’s bin towtl’d ower an’ his arms an’ legs hev flowen aboot a bit as he was gaan. That’s splawderen.

SPLAWDER—Ta mak a gurt show. Thoo’s neea casion to splawder o’ ower t’ toon talken aboot us gitten a new creddle.

SPELK—A splinter fer brokkun limbs.

SPELSH, SPELSHED—To break or tear off leaving jagged ends. Same as a bough or stick.

SPIT, SPITTEN-IMAGE—He’s t’ spit ov his fadder; aye he’s spitten image ower again.

SPROGUED, SPLANSHED, SPRAIGED, SPLATTERED, SPLODDERED—Ye know what it is to wade about in a wet spot, where long grass, or ling, compels one to lift the foot a good height up each step and every particle of the dignity and poetry of motion disappears from our movements—that’s sproguen, splodderen, splanshen, or spraigen as the case may be. The terms are exactly fitted to the purpose they are used for.

SPRUNG-VEIN—A lump on a vein caused by a blow.

SPEEK-SHAFF—A spoke-shave (hem!)

SPECS, SPENKS, SPENTACLES—Spectacles.

SPREED—But hezn’t he some spreed wi’ him? Ye’ve seen them chaps ’at walks on their heels, whia this is yan o’ them.

SPRING-CLOGS—For ladies wi’ a gimmer i’ t’ sooal.

SPROOTS—Bits o’ flusters aboot t’ band o’ t’ nail.

SPELKS—To hod t’ stack cooat doon.

SQUAB, SWAB—Sofa. Lig doon on t’ swab.

STARK—Stark, staren mad; stiff an’ stark; he’s varra stark; inflexable, unyielding.

STATESMAN—A man who lived on and cultivated his own land. He was yan o’ t’ few stiatsmen left amang us.

STEED—In place of. Thee gang steed o’ me.

STREEN, STRAIN—Race, tribe, generation. Er they owt akeen? They’re o’ t’ siam streen, but it’s gay near worn oot.

STIAK—Stiak t’ door. A good strong bolt for an old fashened door was a strong stake of wood inserted in holes in the walls of the doorway.

STIAVLEN—Aboot t’ siam as stopen. “He gat up stav’ling, nin could tell how suen.”—Graham.

STOOKS—Stook up an’ gah hiam.

STOON, STOOND—A sudden pang. It went through mi heed wi’ sec a stoon.

STAND-OWER—What we tell t’ nags when we’re bedden them doon.

STRANGE—Distant in manner. He was seea strange an’ hee an’ different, nut like hissel ato.

STOT—A bullock.

STIAK-AN-RISE—A natty way o’ dikin’.

STRIKE—A bushel.

STOWTER—Stacker: “And there let them stowter for me.”—Anderson.

STEEL—What t’ butcher whets his gully on.

STEEL-YARD—A weight balk ’at weighs bi’ measure.

STIANI—Stiani-gill, Stiani-raise, an’ seea on; a lads marvels ’ll some o’ them be stianies.

STIRRUP-CUP—The glass that is taken after the guest has mounted his horse.

STO’ED, STO’FED—Ah dar say some o’ ye’s sto’ed o’ this riapment week efter week, an’ yan gits sto’ed varra oft’ o things ’at’s ower good bi’ hauf for us.

STOOR—A quarrel. We’d a regular stoor aboot t’ bullocks gitten oot o’ t’ pasture inta their corn field.

STOPPEN-ON—When sarvant men, an’ lads an’ lasses, git a spot ’at they like an’ they can hit on’t fer wage they stop-pon. They durt skift that tierm.

STRADDLE—Stride. Thoo can straddle ower theer surely.

STRAP-OIL—We used ta think it grand fun ta send a lad fer a pennorth an’ wait for him ta come wi ’t yewlen like a gurt cauf.

STRAPPIN—A gurt strappin fellow. Yan ’at’s weel grown.

STAND-SWASH—Stand out of the way. Stand-swash, Ah’s gaan to lowp.

STECK—A horse taks t’ steck when it won’t tak t’ cart an’ inch farder fer nowt ner neea body, an’ varra oft t’ nag maister taks t’ stick aboot t’ siam time.

STUCKER—State of alarm. Thoo’s put us in a stucker noo, gaan ta be wedded an’ us seea thrang wi’ t’ turmets. Thoo’s neea thowt.

STUSSLE—Confusion; stir. He was o in a stussle an’ fuss.

STAG—Thoo gurt awkward stag. A young nag at izzant brokken in.

STAKEN, STOPEN—Aboot t’ siam as “popen” an’ “mopen.” Staken aboot wi’ his mooth wide oppen.

STALKEN—To stiffen. Ah was varra near stalkened.

STANKEN—“T’ thing was theer still, an’ Ah cud heer it stanken, an’ granken, an’ blooen fer o t’ woorld like oold Dick Smith.”—The Mason’s Ghost Story.

STEE—A ladder. A chap ’at can’t see a whol in a stee ’s badly hodden, deed is he.

STEG—Gander. A steg on a het girdle fer dancin’ aboot.

STICKS—As black as sticks. Nacken like rotten sticks. Selt up, stick an’ stower. Cut thi stick. He’s a gay stick. Tak’ thi stick an’ hook it. Ah’s yabble ta gie neea information; they o mean summat, neea doot.

STIDDY—Stithy-anvil.

STILTEN, STILTEREN—Siam as “Stowteren.” A bit awkward on a body’s pins.

STOOP—Post.

STRIPPINS, STRIP, STRIPT—Some kye ’ll give a drop o’ mair milk efter t’ main on ’t ’s bin gitten, seea they’re stript for ’t.

STRIKES, STRUCK—This is aboot t’ sheep i’ het wedder; a drop o’ rubbin bottle for ’t.

STUB, STUBBIN-HACK—Stub whins. Get them up by the root.

STUB, STUB-TWIST—An old horse shoe nail is known as a stub, and a gun barrel made out of them is known as a stub twist, an’ a soor, sulky chap is said ta liuk as if he could bite stubs through.

STUFF, STUFT—To be crammed with tales that are without foundation in fact.

STUNNEN—Hoo go? Stunnen.

STUNNER—A beauty. Yon gallawa’s a stunner.

STURDY, STOWT—These is sheep complaints, an’ varra bad uns.

STAND-KIRN—Yan o’ t’ auld farrand sooart. Up an’ doon, some fooak co’ them.

STANG—A sudden pang of pain; a cart shaft; a bull stang; but sen Ah can tell they used ta ride t’ stang at New Year. Eve, or New Year Day, fer yal. T’ fun was catchen chaps ’at pretended they dudn’t want ta be catch’d ta be stanged, an’ dudn’t they liuk silly astride ov a powl, an’ tweea fellows carryen them frae yah public-hoose tul anudder, an’ a arm chair ta stang t’ winner in. It’s gian oot o’ date, an’ it’s happen as weel.

STILTER—(Whar’s t’ word genius noo?) Ye’ve seen a fellow gahn ower a lot o’ rough cobbly stians, an’ he’s bin steppin atop on them varra careful, as if he was flait o’ fo’in off; he was stilteren amang t’ cobbles. Siam wi’ muck an’ waiter, ye’ve ta stilter throo on tippy-teeas.

STIRK—A young heifer or bullock.

STOUR—A bit o’ bad blood ’at brecks oot in a fratch, an’ sometimes ends with a feit. Like that ’at co’s aboot March, it’s a bit blustery, an’ varra oft ther’s a change on aboot than—o’ bad words.

STEP-MOTHER-JAGS—Nang-nails explains this.

STEER-OFF—Start for. We mun steer off hiam. Aye, what it ’ll be gitten on fer t’ edge o’ neet bi ye git theer.

STICK—A pint o’ yal Mary wi’ a stick in ’t will ye? It’ a drop o’ rum.

STEP-MOTHER-BITS—Varra canny bits o’ breed er cheese,

STERICS—Hysterics.

STINKEN-ROGER—Ye’ll find it i’ t’ garden.

STINT—A given quantity. A chap hed chang’d t’ coo diet an’ was weighin t’ butter ta know t’ effect. “Weel diun, dockens an’ nettles,” he sez tul hissel, “t’ auld stint.”

STOMACH—Appetite. Ah’ve neea stomach fer nowt. Ah ca’t stomach fat meat, ato’.

STOOR—Ye’ll mappen find some aboot March.

STAP—Round in a ladder, or stee.

STEND—A stick to hod a stuck pig oppen tell it sets.

STOOR AN’ DRIFE—small driven snow. Seek a neet! Stoor an’ drife fit ta blind yan.

STRACKLIN—A bad ’un.

STREEN—Strain as through a syle. Also to relate how the milk comes from the udder without effort when over full. Also the action of milking as it streens from the teats to the vessel when properly performed.

STRINGS—They hev ta deea wi’ kye aboot cauven time, but ass t’ coo docter.

STINT—A common right, but bless ye ther’s neea commons noo. They’re o’ gian up lang sen.

STUMP AN’ RUMP—Iv’ry rism. She set him a quart o’ poddish, some breed an’ cheese, an’ he felt t’ lot stump an’ rump. When fooak gits inta difficulties t’ bum bailiff sells ’em up stump an’ rump, stick an’ stane.

STAND—A stall at a fair.

STRETCH—Distance. It’s a gay lang stretch ta walk.

STIRRINGS—Aboot t’ fair an’ tierm times thers bits o’ stirrins.

STITCH-A severe pain in the side from over exertion.

STOUR—See Dyke-stour.

STRAKE—A piece of horn to scrape t’ churn doon wi’, or t’ cream pot, or bowl.

STRAKE—A piece of wood with a perfectly straight edge to strake a measure of grain and so test it and remove that which is over and above measure.

STRAKE—A marvel laiker’s word at ringy.

STRICKLE—What a mower sharpens his ley wi’. Thers t’ greasehorn, sandhorn, an’ t’ auld knife, an’ what is ther cheerfuler than whetting a scythe on a fine day i’ July, t’ auld hands can fairly mak music on ’t.

STRINKLIN—A thin covering; a griming. Put a strinklin’ o’ lime on ’t.

STRECK—Straight. Streck as a seeve.

STUTT—To stammer.

STEEL—A place where a footpath is taken over a hedge.

STOWER—T’ end of a cart stang ’at sticks oot ahint. What yan could ride o’ them formerly.

SUCK-IN, SUCKT-IN, SUCKT—A famish preacher was exhorting his congregation ta come noo, come at yance, he says, er—er—er—ye’ll be suckt. It means disappointed.

SWAPE—It’s when a chap walks on his heels, throws his heed weel back, an’ does a bit a quaveren wi’ his shooders. He gahs wi’ a ter’ble swape, an’ maks a gurt spreed.

SWAD—Pea shell or bean.

SWAIL, SQUAIL—To throw with violence.

SWAP—Cowp, exchange, barter. Ah’ll cowp ebben hands.

SWITCHER—A smart ’un; yan wi’ a bit o’ swape aboot her.

SWAG—T’ inside of a beggar pooak.

SWAMISH—Shy. A gurt swamish lad.

SWARM—To climb a tree by clasping it with the arms and legs.

SWARM-PLUM-SWARM—When t’ bees kest.

SWATCH—Sample. He’s yan o’ t’ siam swatch. It would seem that one kind of a swatch is a piece of material or wool accompanying a consignment to the dyer for a pattern.

SWEAL—To burn down rapidly on one side as a candle burns in a draught.

SWEEP—Carten hay withoot putten it i’ t’ cart, but trailen on ’t efter.

SWEG—Swallow. Sweg as mich kurn’d milk inta thi as thoo can hod.

SWELTRY—Close, warm, moist.

SWEY—Weigh butter an’ chow cheese. A pund o’ mair weight. Heighow fer t’ days when we used ta swey on a plank.

SWIPE—Sup hurriedly. Swipe ’t up an’ hev anudder.

SWARF’T—Swooned. She swarf’t reet away when they telt her.

SWARTH, SWARTHY—A body at’s bin badly an’ it’s gian hard wi’ them an’ they come oot thin an’ ghost-like is said to be a swarth. Dark sallow complexion is swarthy.

SWATH—Bacon rind. A swath on ’t like leddur.

SWEET MILK—Pleasure. Noo it izzant o sweet milk fer fooak ’at’s plenty o’ brass.

SWINGE, SWIDDER, SWIZZEN—Singed with fire.

SWYPES-A game like skittles.

SWYPES—Poor yal; it’s nobbut swypes. A gurt drinker is a ter’ble swype.

SWILL—It gahs i’ t’ giss troff. To drink varra greedy like.

SWINWAS—Cater-corner, diagonal, frae yah corner of a field or a fell ta t’ tudder. T’ auld gam keeper used ta say when they war oot wi’ t’ shutters, “We’ll tak this bit swinwas.”

SWIATHE, SWIATHE-BALK—The grass as the mower turns it off his scythe; t’ swiathe-balk is t’ grund ’at t’ swiathe ligs on. Ah telt ye aboot Parson Harrison lal biuk, ower three hundred year old, he tells a lal bit aboot it. Happen some day Ah’ll put it in.

SWINE-THROUGH—It’s fair shamful hoo some fooak ’ll swine-through ther stuff.

SWINGLE-TREE—What they yoke up wi’ ta plew an’ seck.

SWITHER—A rough blow. He swang his arm aroond an’ catcht me seck a swither ower t’ heed.

SWAG—Sway. Thoo fair maks t’ booards swag.

SWALLOP—When ye’ve a dose o’ salts ta git doon, t’ best way’s ta swallop it off at yah drawt.

SWAPE—What we turn t’ kurn wi’.

SWAT—Sit doon. Ye’re i’ neea hurry, swat ye doon an’ hod crack.

SWATTER—To waste time or money and do it in driblets. He’d a conny bit o’ brass frae an auld aunt, but he swatter’d through ’t. He’d swatter aboot an’ nivver buckle teea as he owt.

SWILLY-WHOLS—Pot-whols on t’ moors.

SWANG, SWANGY—A swang, or a wet swangy spot in a field is t’ spot ta late snipes. That is if ye know whar ta liuk.

SWAPE—A thing wi’ teeth in ta scale muck an’ bray clots oot.

SWATTLE—To fritter away time in frivolous dissipation.

SWEET-BUTTER, SWEET-BUTTER-DO—Ye know this; it’s what’s good fer krissenens, an’ seck do’s. Butter wi’ rum an’ sugar tult.

SWEETEN TA YER LIKIN’—Make your tea or coffee as you like it. A Peerith body used ta tell a tial aboot a chap gaan off frae hiam an’ when he co’ back yan o’ t’ things he hed ta tell his mudder was ’at he’d hed some sweeten-ta-yer likin’, an’ supt thirteen laal potfuls on ’t.

SWIJE—A chap wi’ a sair ee said it kittled, an’ it swij’d an’ he’d rub’d it tell he’d frig’d o t’ skin off.

SWINE-GRIUN’D—Siam as “Pig-chafted.”

SWILL—Ta gedder taties in.

SYLING—Pouring down. It’s fair sylen doon.

SYE—Ratch siam as some fooak’s conscience.

SYKE—A lal bit beck, neea bigger ner a gurt gutter. T’ sykes er oft dry i’ summer.

SYLE—A milk strainer. Syle t’ milk an’ set it away.

SYPE—To drain. Hing it ower t’ wo, an’ let it sype.

SYPINS—Dregs. Thers’ nowt fer me but some sypins o’ tea.

TAFFY-JOIN—A club up ta mak’ a boilen o’ taffy on a winter neet.

TAGALT—A nasty auld tagalt! It’s yan wi’ a bad habit er tweea.

TATH, TATHY—Tufty grass whar grund’s puffed up.

TAW—T’ motty. Ta taw t’ line is a good thing—allus—worken er laiken.

TAYSTREL—A good-fer-nowt character. Thoo’s a nasty taystrel.

TAICH, TACH, TACK—Fassen on slemly. Tach us a button wi’ ta?

TAGUE—Tease. Yon barn’s a reg’lar tague.

TALLY-IRON—What cap borders is crimpt on.

TARN—A gurt pond, er laal lake.

TATIES AN’ POINT—When ther’s neea meat but saut.

TA-YEAR—This year. We’st hev nin ower mich hay ta-yer.

TAK-UP—Be fine. Ah wish t’ wedder wad tak up.

TALLY—Single men an’ ther wives. Leeven tally. T’ new woman wad rayder co’ ’t summat else, seea wad t’ auld man, but we stick ta t’ auld words.

TALLY-MAN—A woman’s husband she’s nut wedded tull bi’ t’ Church ner t’ State. Happens a Gretna Green touch, er a gipsy, er a potter do, an’ that’s o.

TALLY-MAN—A travelling tradesman wi’ his shop on his rig ’at tacks seea mich a week an’ missins.

TARGER—A bit ov a character. Yon’s a targer.

TEEA—Toe, too, to.

TEAFIT—Plover, peewit, er teafit i’ common talk.

TEANAL—A cockle basket.

TEDDER—To fasten a bull to a stoop wi’ a riap.

TEARER, TEAR-AWAY—A chap ’at brashes aboot an’ maks a gurt show o’ wark.

TEESTER—Bed-heed.

TERRILOO—Set t’ dog on amang t’ geese, an’ ther ’ll be a terriloo.

TEWTLEN—Whistling. He was gaan on tewtlen up to keep t’ boggles off.

TEEAFAW—A laal bit poorch an sec, built up again t’ hoose side.

TEETOLLY—A small square top to laik at pins wi’.

TEEM, TOOM, TIUM—To pour out. Teem him a cup oot.

TENG—Sting. Ah gat teng’d wi’ a wamp. Also the point of any article driven into a shaft.

TER’BLE—We’re hev’n ter’ble fine wedder fer oor hay, an’ we’ve a ter’ble lot on ’t doon, an’ its ter’ble heavy ta-year.

TEW—Ye o know what ’tis ta hev ta tew an’ slave, seea Ah say neea mair on ’t.

TEWER—One who makes a good fight. He’s a tewer is yon.

TEDDR’D-BI-T’-TEETH—Feeding. Betty, whars your Bob? He’s here si’tha tedder’d-bi-t’-teeth.

THAK—Roof. I’ yah spot when a babby com a lad they pitched him on ta t’ hoose top; if he stopt up he war miad intul a thacker, an’ if he rowled off he was put ta preechen.

THATN, THISN—That; this.

THREEP—To argue or contradict. Will ta threep that lee i’ mi fiase?

THROWN-OWER-T’-BAWKS—Ass’d oot at t’ kirk fer weddin purposes.

THUMMEL-TEEA—Big toe.

THICK—In love.

THIVEL, THIBLE—What we stir poddish wi’.

THOIL, THOOL, THOLE—Find in yan’s heart. He can hardly thole ta loss t’ reek off his poddish.

THOMASES—Gurt wallopen clogs.

THOW-WIND—It comes fer t’ frost an’ snow, an’ its a snizer at times.

THRANG—Busy. We’re thrang as can be wi’ t’ hay. Thrang as throp wife.

THRIMMEL—To part with anything in a hesitating and reluctant way. He thrimmell’d them nooates ower an’ ower afooar he left lowse o’ them.

THRINKUMS, TANKLEMENTS, TACKLEMENT, THINGEMITY—These is three or fower gay lang ’uns, seea what they mun gang in a row siam as Johnny Lingo sheep. They mean owt ’at ivver ye want them ta mean, an’ when ye’re fast fer a word o’ that sooart tak yan o’ this mack.

THROPPLE—Throat.

THROUGH—A gurt stian ’at gahs reet through a wo’ an’ cocks oot at tudder side ta bark yer shins on when yer clammeren ower ’t.

THROUGHLY—Buxom. She’s a gay throughly body ’at’s well tian care on.

THROUGH-HANDS—Ah’ll tak thi through-hands. Chastise.

THROW—A turning machine is yah mak, an’ ta be put on yer back i’ wrusslen’s anudder.

THUM-SHAG—Tak a bit of thin haver ciak an’ cover’t wi’ butter fresh oot o’ t’ bowl, an’ spreed it wi’ t’ thum.

THUM-SYMES—Streea bands.

THEAT—Watertight.

THROSSAN-UP—Nin ower mich room. Mi teeas is o throssan up i’ these shun.

THROSSAN-UP—Yan ’at’s prood, forrad, fast. Stuckan up, that’s it. A throssan up monkey, she stinks o’ pride (hem!)

THWACK—Ah gat sec a thwack ower t’ cannister wi’ his stick.

TIT-BO’-TAT—A kind o’ tennis laikt wi’ t’ hand again a hoose side.

TIA, TIAN—One; the one.

TIAVE, TIAVEN—Planshen aboot amang t’ wet gurse, er owt. We tiaved aboot laiten mushrooms.

TIDDY-WEE—Hev some mair? A lal tiddy-wee bit thenk ye.

TIED—Obliged. “Ah’s tied ta be theer.” That’s what chap said ’at was gaan ta be wed. “Nay,” says his mudder, “thoo’s theer ta be tied.” T’ auld woman knew.

TIERM, TEARM—The half-yearly holiday at Martinmas and Whitsuntide.

TIFF, TIFFY—Dispute. We’d a bit of a tiff. Bad temper. He gat intul a tiffy ower t’.

TIFT—Pant. Runnen maks yan tift.

TITE—As lief. Ah’d as tite be tied tul a coo tail an’ trail’d ta deeth as leeve wi’ some fooak.

TITTER, TIDDER, TITTERMOST—Thoo’ll gang titter if thoo gangs bi thisel—which is tittermost?

TIG—A slight tap, used i’ laiken at Tiggy-Tiggy-Touchwood.

TISSICK—An epidemic. It’s neea cauld, Ah’s sure, it’s a tissick ’at’s gaan aboot. Like iv’rything else, noo, they’ve gitten a foreign niam fer ’t—Russian influenza.

TITTIVATE—Watch a young fellow aboot twenty, siapen his mustach o’ t’ Setterda neet, an’ putten same on his heed, an’ macken hissel as smart as ivver he can. That’s tittivaten.

TIDY—Good fettle. Hoo’s ta blowin’? Oh, tidy fer an’ auld ’un.

TIP-HORN—Varra bent and cruikt as a tip-horn. That is i’ temper.

TIGGY-TIGGY-TOUCHWOOD—A gam at tiggin; t’ hauld mun be a wood un ta siave ye.

TOITLE—Fall off. He toitle’t off a carful o’ hay.

TOP-LIP—Moustache. Tho’ll nut ken oor Jack; he’s letten his top-lip grow. What’s ta growan thi top-lip for, thoo gurt silly neddy? Fer fiuls ta liuk at.

TODGE—Shog, shamble. He was todgen on nice an’ stiddy.

TOCH—A laal lock. A toch o’ hay.

TOITY, TOIT, TOITISH—Concerning tempers. A chap ’at’s gitten his rent paid, putten a bit by, an’ things gaan on gaily weel, ’ll be i’ fair good toit.

TOME—A fishing line. To pull taffy. “Linked sweetness long drawn out”—that’s tomin taffy oot.

TOUCH—Broon paper steeped i’ saltpetre an’ dried ta leet pipes wi’ a flint an’ steel.

TOUCHWOOD—Wood that is thoroughly rotten. To this is ascribed the Willy-wi-t’-wisp—that dread of youngsters.

TOFT—A building:

TOMMY-LOACHERS—Ah telt ye aboot t’ bullheads; these is his mates.

TOORAL-OORAL, TOWRY-LOWRY—Just when a chap’s gaan ower t’ line afooar he’s drunk as a wheel heed.

TOOARTI—Easily offended. Thoo mun mind hoo thoo talks, he’s as tooarti as can be if thoo comes wrang way o’ t’ grain.

TOOZEL—Upset. Thoo wants ta toozel up thi toppin a bit mair.

TOPPER—Thoo’s a topper at a bit o’ leein. “He sings i’ the kirk, what a topper is he.”—Anderson.

TOPS—That tops o. “O what a top scholar is Matthew Macrae.”—Anderson.

TOSSPOT—See Piase-egg.

TOWERTLY—Willingly, pratly.

TOWP—Tip. Towp t’ car up an’ gah hiam.

TOWTIL—Upset. He towtill’d off his chair on ta t’ fleear.

TOMMY—Food. What’n a tommy shop is ’t?

TOP-HEAVY—Wi’ a laal drop mair i’ yan ner’ll gah streck; an’ owt else ’at’s welted a bit at top.

TOPPIN—What they lead cuddies bi, an’ lasses curl wi’ het pipe stoples to spoil ther bonny fiases.

TOON-GIAT—The main thoroughfare of a village or town.

TORFERT—To turn up through weakness or excessive effort. Ah’s gaan to torfert Ah’s flait.

TOUCHER—As near as a toucher.

TOUCHY, TOCHIOUS—Short tempered; catted; as touchy as can be. Thoo needn’t be seea touchious.

TRALLOP, TRALLOPS—Aye dear! These is used fer a mack o’ fooak ’at’s nowder fend ner shift aboot them. Peur beggars, they git t’ hard word frae ivvrybody.

TRALLACK, TRALLACKEN, TRALLACKS—He wad trallack aboot wi’ a auld gun under his arm; we war trallacken aboot amang t’ snow; she’s a gurt nasty trallacks, ’at is she.

TRASHEN, TRASHEN-ABOOT—To be engaged in a dirty or unpleasant occupation in wet or unfavourable weather.

TRASHY—Wild wet weather. It’s varra trashy.

TRASHY—Of bad habits sairy man. Dick, Ah’s flait he’s nobbut trashy.

TRIAK, TRIAKEN—Trailen aboot. Thoo wad triak yan aboot as lang as yan can git yah fiut by tudder.

TRIG—Tight fitting; neat. These shun’s as trig as skin.

TRINTER—Three years old sheep.

TRIPPET—Tip-cat, peggy, er what nut. Pointed at baith ends. “He was shiap’d aw the war’l like a trippet.”—Anderson.

TROLLY-BAGS—A chap wi’ a deal o’ waistcoat.

TROT—Tease. They trotted him aboot that caper tell he was crazy mad ower ’t.

TRAIL—Drag. Let’s gah trail whins fer oor bian-fire. See Hag-an’-trail.

TRAIL-TRIPE—Yan ’at’s come inta t’ world rayder back on, an’s i’ neea hurry to mack up.

TREACLE JACKY—Teetotaller’s yal miad at hiam oot o’ treacle; er as yah chap writes to say Bawtree Johnny—that’s elder wine.

TREMENDOUS—He’s a tremendous chap fer howken amang auld biuks, er papers, er owt o’ that mack. He tiak tremendous good care ta stick ta owt he gat hauld on.

TRENCHER-MAN—A heavy feeder’s a first class trencher man.

TRICK—Dealings. Ah’ll hev neea trick wi’ thi ato.

TRIVIT—Ah’s as reet as a trivit.

TROD—A path made by the constant treading of feet—fiut-trod, rabbit-trod, coo-trod, sheep-trod, an’ seea on.

TROONCE—Chastise. Ah’ll troonce thi a bit fer thi craft.

TRUGFUL—An assboordful o’ owt.

TRUST—Credit. Ah bowt that nag o’ trust.

TRUNNEL—Wheel fer t’ barrow. T’ trunnel is like a lot o’ mair things, they gah better wi’ greasin’.

TRAVELLERS’ JOY—Whar it grows theers watter.

TULL, TULT—To it. Dry breed an’ nowt tult.

TUTHER, TUDDER—When a chap can’t tell tudder frae which he’s badly hodden.

TUCKIN’—A “tuck-in” er a “tuck-oot” is a feed, an’ tuckin’s t’ act o’ sidin it away whar it’ll deea t’ miast good.

TULLY—A term of disgust. T’ gurt mucky tully, ’at is she, she wad scowbank aboot i’ any mack o’ muck an’ scrow afooar she wad side up.

TUMLER-WHEELS—A primitive description of cart used formerly in the dales; the wheels and axle revolve together.

TURN—Yan ’at sarras his awn turn, er does o his awn turns, is yan ’at minds his awn end at iv’ry turn.

TURN-AN-NIUK—We’ll set ye as far as t’ turn-an-niuk. It’s a bend in the road.

TURNIP-LANTERN—A lantern made out of a turnip. O lads gahs through t’ turnip lantern stage i’ ther turns, an’ ther’s nowt pleases them better ner ta flay sombody wi’ yan ’at they’ve scowpt oot, an’ cutten een, nooase, mooth, an’ lug whols in ’t an’ stucken shoomakker pegs in fer teeth.

TUSHES—Tusks.

TUSHY-PEGS—T’ barn teeth.

TWANG’D—Twisted. Thoo’s twang’d thi shoe heel o yah side.

TWIG—A lad’s prank, consisting of jerking upwards the short hairs of the neck fer bad manners e company.

TWINK—Ah’ll be wi’ ye in a twink.

TWINTER—Two years old sheep.

TWITCH, TWITCH-RIAK—Couch-grass. An iron rake.

TWITTER—Trull like a bird, tremble. His lip was twitteren when he telt ’at his lass hed gi’en him t’ sneck possett.

TWANGK—Siam as troonce.

TWIST—Appetite. That lad hes a twist.

TWINEY—Fractious, pleeny, ailing. That barn’s seea twiney Ah can deea nowt fer frabbin wi’ ’t.

TWITE-TA—Confound thi. Od twite-ta thoo’s ower mich auld buck aboot thi fer tweea.

TWOSUM—Both. T’ twosum rowt hard ta git on.

TYPE, TYPER—To sup up at one draught. Type it up, an’ when a few’s bin typ’d up he’s a typer.

TYKE—A heedless, hearty ho-buck, wi’ a rough heed an’ a rougher tongue, an’ ways ’at seeuner er leeater ’ll land i’ bodder. That’s a tyke. Somehoo we like t’ tike breed if they wad nobbut hev a bit mair wit.

UDDERSOME—Other persons; queer, Ah’s as uddersome as o’ that.

UDDERWAS—Other ways. He’d yah faut, he liked yal, udderwas a better fellow ye nivver could leet on; contrary—thoo’s neea casion ta be sa udderwas ower ’t.

UGLY-MUG—A compliment fer nice liuken fooak. Thoo wad deea ta gang ta Burton an’ set fiaces fer ugly-mugs.

UNBETHOWT—Remembered:

UNDER-GROWTH—Apples that grow on the under side of the tree, and which are longer in ripening, and are sweeter for it.

UNGAIN—Roundabout. That’s a ungain way o’ gaan aboot thi wark min.

UNKID—Weird; strange; cross; queer. He telt us a unkid tial aboot his broughtins up.

UPBANK, DOONBANK, IN-BANK—Ah’ll put these ota-pgidder becos they’re o o’ yah mak’. Upbank’s gaan uphill, doonbank and inbank’s gaan doon. Upbank wark’s tryen ta git on i’ t’ world; doonbank’s a way a lot on us gah withoot mich tryen. An auld sayen is “Thoo’s like a coo tail; thoo grows doonbank.”

UPSHAW—Over. It’s aboot upshaw wi’ him.

UPSHOT—Final. T’ upshot was ’at they mud feit an’ feit tell o was black and blue they dud.

UPSTIRRING—Up and busy. We mun be upstirrin afooar t’ sparrows i’ t’ moornin’.

UPTACK—Reward for finding. They gat a croon fer t’ uptack o’ that hoond.

UPHOD—Maintenance. He’s a chap at’s at a ter’ble gurt uphod sen he was seea badly.

URCHIN, URCHANT—Hedgehog. They sook eggs, an’ kye, an’ lads throw them i’ t’ pond ta oppen them oot.

URL’D—A knotty tree, or piece of wood; a youth of poor physical development. He’s a laal url’d stunt; he’s set on an’ ’ll niver grow neea bigger.

USE-IN-DRUM—Interest on a small sum lent oot:

VAGABOND’S-FRIEND—Solomon’s seal. Cure’s black een, brossen snoots, bruises, an’ sec!!! It hez a good niam awur.

VARGUS—Thoor’s as soor as crab-varjus.

VAST—A large quantity, Ther’s a vast o’ fooak at’s back ta year wi’ t’ hay.

VIEW-HALLA—“My lugs rang as if John Hudson hounds hed startit a fox, an’ he was givvan t’ view-halla.”—Joe and the Geologist.

VIRGIN-MARY—A garden flooer.

WADDITER—India-rubber for removing lead pencil marks—wad-eater.

WATTER-JOWLED—Soaked or sodden as potatoes are sometimes when cooking.

WAD—Would. Wad ye mind lenen mi mudder your cheese, we’ve some company dropt in? Ah wad’nt, honey, but Sarah hes ’t.

WAE-WORTH-THA—When yan’s summat nasty ta say an’ can’t find nowt better.

WARK—Ache.

WASS—Soor and acidy.

WAR’DAY—Week-day. See’sta, he went tull t’ market i’ his war’day clias, an’ fooak o giapen an’ glooaren wi’ o t’ een they hev at him, t’ auld maddlin’.

WARE—Spend. Thoo mun ware thi brass carefully.

WARF—Stale; damp. This meet tiastes warf. A pantry smells warf, an’ seea on.

WARN’D—Ah’s warn’d yer gaily thrang.

WARNING—Notice. He’s gi’en warnen ta quit.

WATER-SHOT—To form a wall or a stack on such a principle that water will run outwards and off.

WATER-WIER—To protect the sides of a water-course—they’re watter wieren t’ beck.

WATH—A way ower a beck wi’ gaan throo ’t, whar a rooad an’ it crosses an’ ther’s neea brig.

WATTLES—Countenance. Nivver let thi wattles doon ower a thing like that min.

WAWL, WAWEN—The music of cats at neet time.

WAX—Grow. Thoo niver waxes a bit.

WAXING-PAINS—When young fooak grow ower fast fer ther strength.

WAX-KERNELS—Lumps i’ t’ skin like nuts.

WAY-GAAN—Oot gaan er off-gaan crops an’ seck like, when a farmer comes to t’ end of his lease an’s gaan away.

WAF—A current of air. Keep oot o’ t’ waf o’ t’ train, er it’ll draw thi in anunder ’t.

WAFFY—Faint. Ah’s that waffy thoo could fell mi wi’ a fedder.

WAFFLE, WAFFLER—Change about. Thoo’l waffle aboot an’ say owt; thoo’s nowt but a silly waffler.

WAG-BI’-T’-WO—A clock wi’ neea wood-work an’ ye can see o’ t’ guts.

WAISTREL—A chap ’at gahs through his time an’ his substance withoot diun mickle good.

WAD—Lead. Thoo’s as blue as wad. Len’ us a bit o’ wad pencil.

WAD—Stuff; plug; gorge. Wad thisel wi’ some beef an’ taties.

WALLOP—Thrash. Ah’ll wallop thi fer thi craft.

WALLOPER—Large. That’s a walloper.

WALLOPEN—Thrashing.—Thoo’ll git a wallopen. Very large; it’s a gurt wallopen barn.

WALLAT—What a man carries his tommy in tied ower his rig. A corner field.

WANDLY—Gently. Oppen t’ deur wandly an’ creep in. In a quiet, suave manner. He wandly sez: “What, Joe, thou mapin wad’nt like to tell a body how thou gat on wi’ t’ oald jollyjist.”

WAP—A bundle of thrashed straw. He’d a wap o’ streea on his rig.

WATTER-BRASH—Anudder fer t’ coo doctor.

WALL-EYED—A dog with eyes of two colours.

WALLIKUR, WALLIKEN—Very big. A gurt walliken chap. That’s a wallikur.

WALLOW—Welsh. Ah’ve a nasty wallow tiaste i’ mi’ mooth like rotten eggs.

WAMLY—Faint from hunger. Ah’s wamly as owt fer mi dinner.

WANDS—Willows; switches.

WANGLE, WANGKLY—Weak, without strength or vigour. Ah’s nobbut wangkly. Ah can hardly wangle aboot.

WANTER—Fooak ’at want a partner:

WAP—A bundle of straw put round a pump or a tap to keep the frost out.

WAPEN-TAK—An officer employed to recover debt. “If he doesn’t pay up Ah’ll set t’ wapen-tack on tull him.” This officer is reported to have existed in the town of Kendal till as late as 1836.

WARBLE—A maggot in a cow’s hide.

WAR-OOT—War-oot o’ t’ way. Git oot o’ the rooad o’ danger.

WELT—Upset. Sooa! sooa! thoo murt welt t’ bucket. A rough blow. A welt ower t’ lug.

WEAKY—Moist; mellow. Put a wet cloot on t’ cheese ta keep ’t weaky.

WEATHER-BREEDER—A fine day amang a tot o’t tudder mak.

WEATHER-GLEAM—To perceive some one or something in the distance or dusk. Ah could weather gleam ye on afront on us.

WEATHER-GO—A lump of a rainbow end.

WEATHER-WISE—Yan ’at knows what soort o’ wedder we want, an’ prophecies ’at it’ll land up.

WEE—A laal wee chap wi’ a gurt heed.

WEEZEN’D—Wrinkled an’ shrivelled. A weezen’d laal monkey ’at is he.

WELSH—In want of a tonic. Ah’s as welsh as can be this moornen—this is efter a spree, when a saut heeren er owt o’ that mack gahs doon gaily grand.

WEZ’N, WEZ’RIN—Wind pipe.

WERT, WURT—Will not. Ah wert gah anudder step tell thoo pays me.

WEATHER-GLASS—Barometer—’t lasses played a breck yance wi’ yan, an’ t’ auld man put it oot o’doors amang t’ rain with the remark “See fer thisel thoo auld leer.”

WEATHER-GLASS—Red rubrum. Shuts up when its garn ta rain.

WHIFFLE, WHAFFLE—One that is easily turned. He whiffles an he whaffles; he’s like a dictionary, he sticks ta nowt neea length o’ time. Siam way wi’ t’ wind.

WHIGMALEERIE—A bit leet an’ whimmy. Nowt bad ye know, but just a bit fanciful amang t’ lasses an’ seck.

WHUFFLES—When t’ wind booasums a gay deal.

WHYTE-TA, OD-WHYTE-TA—About like ‘twiteta’; rayder a whiat mack o’ sweeren.

WHAFFIN, WHUFFIN, WHU’IN—The continued barking of a whelp or a chained dog. What’s ta whuffin at?

WHANG—A shoe liace; to throw down. He whang’d him doon wi’ seck a leddur.

WHANGEN—Aboot t’ siam as Brashen.

WHANGHY, WHANGBY—Summat er owt ’at’s varra teuf, a mack o’ cheese.

WHANKET—A rough piece. He’d a gurt whanket o’ cheese i’ yah nief, an’ a lump o’ broon Geordie i’ tudder, ’at he was trying ta fettle.

WHAKLY—An’ oily insinuating manner. Ah mak nowt o’ yer whakly, greasy fooak. Gie me yan ’at says what he thinks an’ neea mair on’t.

WHEEZE, WHEEZLY—Breathe. He can hardly wheeze an’ blow. Ah’s varra wheezly.

WHIDDEREN—Big; somewhat awkward. A gurt whidderen fellow.

WHIDDUR—Tremble. It maks yan’s skin whiddur to think on ’t.

WHIRLERS—Leather heels fer stockings ta keep t’ clogs, frae weearen them through.

WHISHT—Keep quiet. Whisht a bit an’ see if we can hear owt. Quietly. He was gaan on his tippy teeas as whisht as he could.

WHITE—Cut. White thi’ stick. Give up makin’ seea many whitins.

WHITTLE—Carving knife. I’ yah parish they’d nobbut yan an’ it stuck in a tree tell it was wanted. Fooak used ta shoot “Carls whittle ta t’ tree,” an’ that used ta mak them crazy.

WHUFT—T’ reek whuft doon t’ chimla. He whuft a chow o’ bacca oot. Summat diun gayley sharp wi’ a puff o’ wind.

WHYTE—Quite. He’s gon whyte away.

WHAMP—Wasp. A whamp nest.

WHARREL—Stone quarry; to quarry stone. Gang ta t’ wharrel fer a liad o’ stians.

WHATN—Whatn does thoo whistle i’ t’ hoose for?

WHAT-FOR—Why. What for does ta allus be seea unmannerly when fooak er in?

WHEEAM—Full thi wheeam, it’s last thoo’ll see fer a bit—its yan’s poddish pooak.

WHEEM—Smooth, soft-spoken, oily-tongued. He’s a gay wheem carl.

WHELLOCK, WHELLOCKER, WHELLOCKEN—A whellock ower t’ lug; a gurt whellocker. He got a whellocken. A rough lot these is fer owt ’ats awk’ard.

WHEMMLE—Overturn. Whemmle a swill ower that auld hen ’at’s clocken.

WHEN—Say when. That’s when they’re gaan ta lift owt ’at’s heavy. Yan says, “Say when.” Tudder ’ll say, “when,” then up it gahs.

WHENT—Quaint, old-fashioned, funny. He’s a whent ’un.

WHET—Ah’ll hev neea mair this whet. Whet stands for many things, such as turn, occasion, at present, and so on.

WHAMBLY—A bit shakky efter a badly roond.

WHUP-CRACKEN—A lump o’ coord ta mak a whup crack; o’ lads wants a bit.

WHUPPERSNAPPER—An upstart; yan ’at’s kilt wi’ wit; a bit of a fop; a silly clown. Efter we hed bin on wi’ these words a gay canny bit Ah gat a letter ta say ’at t’ first conclusion ’at yan o’ mi readers hed come tull was ’at Ah was a whuppersnapper, macken gam o’ fooak, an’ ther auld farrant twang; seea ye’ll know noo what ta say when ye want to plague somebody a bit.

WHUP-STREEA—Thrash. Thee gang an’ whup streea, an’ Ah’ll gah oot wi’ t’ nags.

WHUZ—A lad’s laiken miad oot ov a roond bit o’ leed, an’ spun aroond wi’ twisted string. It gangs like a circular saw, an’ fair whuzes.

WHY—A coo calf’s a why calf.

WHYA-NEEA—“Whya-neea” means “Well no,” wi’ a bit o’ foorce behint it. “Whya neea!” sez Ah, “Ah’ll deea nowt at mack nowder fer thee ner thi betters sista.”

WHYA-well; yes. Whya an’ hoo er ye o’ gaan on? Whya what wer o’ amacka middlin. Will ta hev me? Whya what Ah’s be like as thoo asses seea nicely.

WHY-LAIKENS—Beestens.

WHEWED—To throw in a temper. He whewed t’ door teea wi’ seck a leddur.

WHEWTEN—Snowing slightly.

WHEWTLE—Whistle. Whewtle us an air on ’t.

WHICHN—Whichn will thoo hev?

WHICK—Living; growing. A whick dike; i.e., a growing whick-set hedge, as distinct from a dry dike.

WHICKS—Watch a sheep ’at hez them—they’re lal mawks.

WHICK-SET—Growing hawthorn in a hedge.

WHICKENIN—A risin o’ yast.

WHICKIN-RAKE—A iron riak fer cleanen aboot t’ dike boddum.

WHIGS—Laal conny ciaks, wi’ seeds in.

WHILES—Occasionally. Whiles he’s as reet as anybody.

WHILK—Whether, which. Whilk on ye’s gaan wi’ me?

WHILLY-LILLY—Greasy whakly daubment. Ther’s neea whilly-lilly wark aboot huz, neea marry.

WHINGE—Cry. Thoo’ll git summat ta whinge for, if Ah cu ta thi.

WHINNY, WHINNYEN—The neighing of horses.

WHIMWHAM—A whuz. A lad’s laiken, like a waiter wheel in a beck.

WHIRL-PUFF—A whirlwind on a laal scale.

WHIPLETREE—A swingletree. He was a genuine type of the Lakeland character who so used this word on more than one occasion. [I do not vouch for its existence now in the above sense.]

WHIPS—Lots. We’ve whips o’ streea.

WHITLOW—A poisoned finger; gathering about the nail.

WHITTLE-GIAT—Ah telt ye what a saw giat is. This is whar t’ carvin’ knife gahs, an’ years sen it was t’ tommy ’at t’ skiul-maister hed frae them wheeas barns he was larnen ta shoot. It maks yan laff noo ta see what ways they hed a few o’ years sen.

WICKS—Twitch.

WIRE IN—To buckle teea wi’ a good will. Wire in an’ git thi niam up.

WHITCHWOOD, MICKANWOOD—Nowt nobbut t’ auld burtree ’at witches was flayed on formerly. Witches bi gom! Ah say witches an’ mowin machines! Eh! What?

WIND-IN-A-DYKE—Summat ’ats sharp he’s gian doon t’ toon like wind in a dyke, what is ther up? It went like wind in a dyke at they war gaan ta be wedded.

WIDDIES—Willy-wands at yah time used fer door jimmers.

WILLY-WAND—A willow.

WISP—A handfull of straw put in shoes or clogs to keep the feet warm. A bit of twisted straw stuck in a hole of a sack—otherwise, a miller’s cloot. To clean a horse; whisp it doon. An’ amair forbye these.

WIAS—A roond streea ring fer a pan ta stand on.

WIASTRY—Waistfulness. Seck waistry as yan niver dud see barn; it’s fair shocken.

WID—With.

WID’NT, WAD’NT—Will not; would not.

WILL-CAN—Be able and willing. Ah deea wish ’at ye will-can come as ye said, it’ll be seea grand ta gang on t’ fells an’ lait ferns.

WILLY-WI’-T’-WISP—Leets i’ dike breeasts at dark o’ neet. Varra flaysome things is willy-wi’-t’-wisp.

WIND—Scent. Wind ’em noo.

WIND—Breath. Ah’s short o’ wind. Ah’s aboot winded.

WINDED—Bacon not properly cured. It’s winded aboot t’ shooder.

WIND-FO—A rich relative’s leavings.

WIND-EGG—A egg withoot a skell. Thoo’ll run them hens tell we’ll hev nin but wind-eggs.

WIND-ROW—Hay raked up in rows.

WINE-BERRIES—Red currants.

WINNAK—A sort of leddur bottle ta carry drink er owt in.

WINNLE-STREEA—Dried stalks o’ gurse. His leg is neea thicker ner winnle streeas.

WIRE-WORMS—Milleped.

WIZZEN—Wrinkled and ill-favoured. Thoo laal wizzened imp, thoo.

WON—Secured. A stack of well-won meadow hay.

WOODY—Radishes ’at’s gitten sticky; er owt else o’ that mack.

WO’-PLATE—Atween t’ sliates an’ t’ wo. Many a bit ov a thing gits fielded up theer an’ lost.

WO’-WHOL—Whar laal rabbits skug in.

WOO-GARN—Wool-yarn.

WORK, WROUGHT—Aye, fer sewer; that’s it t’ belly wark wi’ physic.

WOTE, WOTIN—T’ edge of a clog sole whar t’ top’s fassened on. Thoo’s worn t’ doon ta t’ wote fer want of a calker. T’ wotins a bit o’ leddur at gahs aroond ta keep t’ top fast at t’ sooal.

WOTS, WOTTINS—Siam as Orts. Bits o’ fodder left at t’ biws.

WOW—Waf an’ bark like a silly dog. Shut up wi’ tha; what’s ta keep wow’en aboot?

WOWY—Oot o’ fettle.

WOTS—Oats. A gay canny crop o’ wots yon.

WRECKLING—T’ least pig i’ t’ litter; a reckless member of a family.

WRIGLED—Ass t’ veterinary fer full particulars.

WRINE—Rind. This bacon wrine’s as tiuf as ledder.

WULF, WULFEN—Eating voraciously. Thoo’s neea casion to wulf thi dinner doon like that.

WUMMEL—Augur.

WYKE—Hollow. It slipt through t’ wyke o’ mi hand. Grease was runnen frae t’ wyke ov his mooth.

YAMMER, YAMMEREN—Grumbling in an undertone. What’s ta keep yammeren aboot?

YAP, YAPPY, YAP-STICK—A chap ’at’s a bit ov o gomeril.

YARK—Beat. To snatch roughly. Yark it oot.

YARKER—A greedy person. He’s a yarker.

YAUP—Shouting. Thoo may yaup an’ shoot as thoo’s a mind, Ah’ll hev mi awn way about it.

YEDWAND—Aboot t’ siam as Yedder.

YEWE—Wild rhubarb, burbleck, an’ what nut, t’ Latin for ’t wad cap yan ta mak oot.

YEARTH—The earth.

YEARTH-UP—To soil up growing vegetables.

YEARTH-FAST—A stone deeply buried in the ground.

YEDDER—What we bind top o’ t’ dykes tagidder wi’ Gurt hazel stick—that’s a yedder.

YERBS—Herbs.

YEDDEREN—What a lad gits fer bein ower bain, an’ diun iv’rything ’at he wants an’ nowt ’at he sud. A gurt lowse bianed chap at sledders aboot i’ rayder rough pickle is said ta be a gurt yedderen fellow.

YEDDLE, YEDDLEN—Always nattering and grumbling. He’s always yeddlen aboot summat, but nea body taks nea nooatice on him. Let him yeddle, sez Ah.

YERB-PUDDING—Easter-man-giants, brocoli, chives, nettles, chopped fine, mixed wi’ barley, an’ boiled in a pooak. That’s a dinner of herbs. They gev a Cockney some yance, an’ he brast oot yewlen, an’ sez he, Ah izzant gaan ta be a coo, is Ah?

YERD-WAND—A measuring stick.

YERLS, EARLES, ARLES, ARLE-PENNY—The money with which the farm servant is bound to carry out his agreement with a master.

YEWER—Cow’s udder.

YOD—Galliwa. Gang an’ fetch t’ auld yod, an’ t’ coddy, an’ t’ tweea grey stags off t’ fell, an’ put them inta t’ yack intack.

YOOL, YOOLEN—Cry. What’s ta yoolen for?

YOUNGERMER—Younger. T’ youngermer end o’ them hed gian ta bed.

YONDERLY—Slack set up. Ah’s a bit yonderly.

YOWE-YONUTS—Earth nuts; pig nuts. They’re like laal taties. We used ta howk them up an’ eat them, but they’re nut up ta mich.

YOWLEN—Howling. Give ower yowlen.