“It greànt, an’ it gowl’t, an’ it freetent fwoke sair.”
Dickinson. Scallow-Beck Boggle.
Gradely, C, a Lancashire and Cheshire word, often used in Cumberland, signifying proper or correct. I have overheard myself, in contravention of the proverb, spoken of as “a varra gradely man” in the lake district.
Grank, C, to covet querulously.
“Hout man! what signifies repinin’,
Or grankin’, snifterin’, twistin’, twinin’.”
Stagg. New Year’s Epistle.
Greet, S and C, weep.
“It’s nae mair to see a woman greet than to see a goose gang barefit.”—Proverb.
“When we’d hed our belly full o’ greetin’ we gat up, an’ feel’t better for’t.”