Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent / Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties

by Alexander Craig Gibson

For toozling a lass i’ my daffin.”

Burns. The Jolly Beggars.

Top-sark, C, an over-shirt, generally made of coarse woollen cloth.

“We cannot bed ye o’, but we can lend ye top-sarks.”—Said to a weather-bound party at Cockley Beck in Seathwaite.

Towp, C, capsize.

“The leevin surs! she towp’t her ower

Or yen cud say, ’Od bliss her.”

Mark Lonsdale. The Upshot.

Toytle, C and S, totter.

“Tak care thou doesn’t toytle intil t’ beck.”