Words
Caddle, untidy condition.
“In he comes when I’m all of a caddle.”
To stabble, to walk about aimlessly, or in the wet.
“Now, Miss, don’t you come stabbling in and out when I am scouring.”
Or,
“I can’t come stabbling down that there dirty lane, or I should be all of a muck.”
Want, mole.
Chiselbob, woodlouse; also called a cud-worm, and, rolled in a pill, put down the throat of a cow to promote the restoration of her cud, which she was supposed to have lost.
Gowk, cuckoo.
Fuzz-Buzz, traveller’s joy.
Palmer, caterpillar.
Dish-washer, water-wagtail.
Chink, chaffinch.
Long-tailed caper, long-tailed tit.
Yaffil, green woodpecker.
“The yaffil laughed loud.”—See Peacock at Home.
Smellfox, anemone.
Dead men’s fingers, orchis.
Granny’s night-cap, water avens.
Jacob’s ladder, Solomon’s seal.
Lady’s slipper, Prunella vulgaris.
Poppy, foxglove.
To routle, to rummage (like a pig in straw).
To terrify, to worry or disturb.
“Poor old man, the children did terrify him so, he is gone into the Union.”
Wind-list, white streak of faint cloud across a blue sky, showing the direction of the wind.
Shuffler, man employed about a farmyard.
Randy go, uproar.
“I could not sleep for that there randy go they was making.”
Pook, a haycock.
All of a pummy, all of a moulter, because it was so very brow, describing the condition of a tree, which shattered as it fell because it was brow, i.e. brittle.
Leer, empty, generally said of hunger.—See German.
Hulls, chaff. The chaff of oats; used to be in favour for stuffing mattresses.
Heft, Weight.
To huck, to push or pull out. Scotch (howk).
Stook, the foundation of a bee hive.
Pe-art, bright, lively, the original word bearht for both bright and pert.
Loo (or lee), sheltered.
Steady, slow.
“She is so steady I can’t do nothing with her.”
Kickety, said of a one-sided wheel-barrow that kicked up (but this may have been invented for the nonce).
Pecty, covered with little spots of decay.
Fecty, defective throughout—both used in describing apples or potatoes.
Hedge-picks, shoes.
Hags or aggarts, haws.
Rauch, smoke (comp. German and Scotch).
Pond-keeper, dragon-fly.
Stupid, ill-conditioned.
To plim, to swell, as bacon boiled.
To side up, to put tidy.
Logie, poorly, out-of-sorts.