Wummel, C, to enter in a sinuous manner, as an auger bores.
“He’ll wummel his-sel’ intil t’ creuktest rabbit whoal i’ Siddick.”—Said of a terrier.
Y.
Ya, Yan, C, one; Ae and Yin in Dumfriesshire.
Ya is used when the noun indicated is named—yan, when it is understood; thus—“How many fwoke was theer?” “Yan!” “No’but yan?” “No’but ya man!” Ae and yin are used in the same way. The use of the first is illustrated in the conversation without consonants which is said to have come off in a shop in Dumfries—Customer, referring to some cloth, asks, “A’ ’oo?” Shopman assents, “Ou aye, a’ ’oo!” Customer again, “A’ ae ’oo?” Shopman, “Ou aye, a’ ae ’oo!” That is, “All wool?” “O yes, all wool!” “All one (or the same) wool?” “O yes, all one wool!”
Yabble, C, wealthy (literally, able).
“A varra yabble man i’ heeh life was wantan ta simma.”
Rev. T. Clarke. Johnny Shippard.
Yammer, S and C, to articulate quickly and indistinctly from any feeling.
“Fareweel to the bodies that yammer and prowm.”