Lakeland Words / A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as Used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with Illustrative Sentences in the North Westmorland Dialect

by Bryham Kirkby

KNURL’D—Shrunken; shivering. T’ barn’s knurl’d wi’ cauld, tak’t in.

KNURR-AN’-SPELL; SPELL-AN-BULLET—A lad gam.

KOOK-AN’-HEYDE—Hide and seek.

KOP—Shoot kop an’ hod a bit o’ cooarn, an’ ye’ll catch a a nag happen.

KOP—Catch. She’d plenty o’ brass as far as that gahs, but she was neea gurt kop fer o’ that.

KOPT—Caught. It copt me on t’ back; kopt e t’ wotchud; kopt in a shoor.

KYE—Cows collectively (nacken again). Gang an’ fetch t’ kye in ta milk.

KYLE—An angry or inflamed sore which does not head up to burst like a bile. Mi nief’s as sair as a kyle whar Ah cot it.

KYSTY—Fooak ’at’s varra pensy aboot what they eat, er said ta be kysty.

KYTLE—A workmen’s linen jacket for summer. A kytle’s a varra handy thing i’ het wedder.