“Than Watty Ferguson, provwok’t
To hear this hoaf-thick rattle.”
Stagg. The Bridewain.
Hoddingly, C, persistently.
“Does your pain come and go?” “It nayder cūms ner ga’s; it’s theear hoddingly.”—Said to a Doctor.
Hooal’t, or Whoal’t, C, holed, “bagged,” applied to anything being secured, thus—
At a school treat in High Furness I was “scrambling” comfits, and having filled a paper packet with gravel, and thrown it up, it was caught by a great hulking fellow, who thrust it into his pocket, exclaiming, “I’ve hooal’t that an’.” His face, when his attention was directed to the contents of his prize, was a sight.
Hosteler, Old S, keeper of an inn or hostel.
“Syne pay him on a gantree,
As hosteler wives should do.”