BACON-FLICK—A picture ta hing up in a chimly niuk. It’s miad oot ov a pig’s carcase when it’s been fed weel an’ butched.
BACK-SET—To throw backwards in growth or improvement. To be forced or fast. He gat cauld an’ it gev him a back-set. We’re back-set an’ fooar-set, an’ can’t stir a pin.
BARK—Skin. T’ sun’s burnt o’ t’ bark off mi nooas.
BACK-SIDE—Behind the house. Come an’ laik i’ oor back-side. The hinder parts.
BASH—A nasty ugly wallop. It catcht me a bash fair i’ t’ ee.
BACON-STAVE—A plaster made from a bacon collop. Anybody wi a sair throat try yan, an’ sleep wi’ ’t on.
BACKSTUN, BACKSTUN-CAKE, BACK’US—Ah fancy t’ “bake-stone” ’s aboot oot o’ date, nobbut at haver-breed time, but a backstun-ciak ’s as good, if it is biaked on t’ girdle. Thers backs as briad as a backstun, an’ mooths as wide as a backus door.
BAD—Past of bid. He bad a ten pun nooat fer t’ Galloway.
BADGER—See batch-carrier. A buyer up of eggs an’ butter.
BADGER—Brow-beat. He pot up wi’ ther tricks as lang as they did nowt nobbut badger him.