ROPE, ROPEN, ROPEMENT—Frah’den an’ riapen on aboot auld times; seck a lot o’ riapment aboot shutten as he dud tell us an’ he can shut nin, nut he marry. It’s aboot t’ siam as white leein’.
ROPS—The inward parts of an animal are by older and unaffected persons spoken of as it’s rops.
ROTTEN-EGG-RIFT—It’s a nasty dwallow tiast, ’at co’s intul a body’s mooth when t’ stomach’s rang.
ROT-GUT—Poor yal. It’s nowt but rot-gut.
ROUGH-CAST—A house which is plastered outside with lime mixed with gravel is rough-cast.
ROWK—Aboot t’ siam as howk an’ riut.
ROWELL—Put through a cauf neck. If Ah tell ye what for Ah’st be tellen ye mair ner I know. It’s a bit o’ hair put through a cauf skin just afoor t’ front legs—that’s a rooel.
ROWNTREE—Mountain ash. We mun be canny wi’ this yan, er else, by gom!
RUN O’ T’ TEETH—A chap’s grub ’at’s quartered on t’ community fer his wark. It’s his heaf, his stint, er his whittle-gait; it’s whar he runs amang, gits his dollop, er hes his tommy; he’s yan ’at’s fest oot wi’ a lot, an’ neea wonder i’ them days ’at t’ skiul maister was i’ foreign spots a gay deal, when he’d neea hiam ov his awn an’ nobbut t’ run ov his teeth i’ somebody’s else.
RUMMELBUCK—A gurt rough lungious fellow at gahs on i’ t’ hoose warse ner a bull in a pot shop.