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

PLODDY, PLADDY—A pattern in cloth of a checked design.

PLAGUE—Torment. Ye sud nivver plague a mad bull.

PLANTIN—Whar trees is set.

PLASH, PLASHEN—T’ rain fair plashes again when it comes a gurt heavy shoor, an’ a chap’s plashen aboot in ’t.

PLAT—Hay riaked up when it’s a bit leet inta plats.

PLEEN, PLEENY, PLEENEN—Ailing. She’s nobbut a bit pleeny. She pleens a gay deal aboot her heed. Fooak ’at’s allus pleenen aboot udders izzant varra nice company fer neeabody.

PLETS—A chap’s legs plets when t’ maut gits intul them, an’ they lap aboot anunder him.

PLEUF—Plough. T’ auld soond’s hard, but varra seldom, an’ Ah put it in acos it’s gaan oot o’ date.

PLEW-SLED, PLEW-STILTS—A block of wood on which a plough is conveyed on the road. He’d a fiut on him like a plew-sled. T’ stilts, ye o’ know what these is, Ah’s sewer.

PLOOAT—Pluck.