BELK—An eructation. That is, it’s a rift efter eatin’ ower mich.
BELKER—Something that’s big. That taty’s a belker.
BELKEN-FULL—When yan’s hed ower mich poddish.
BELKEN-INTULT—A chap ’at gahs intul his wark as if he liked it.
BELKIN’—A tannin’. Thoo’ll catch a belkin’ fer this.
BELLY-WARK—This sometimes comes wi’ eatin’; back-wark wi’ workin’; heed-wark wi’ drinkin’; lug-wark; tiuth-wark; shooder-wark; een-wark; an’ ivverything aboot yan warks bi’ times but t’ tongue. Thi tongue nivver warks—Ah’ve bin telt that scores o’ times.
BETTER-NER-GOOD—Varra kind. Yer better-ner-good Ah’s sewer.
BERRY, BERRY-BREAD, BERRY-CAKE—Gooseberries. “I saw the dairy of one, half filled with the berry-bread, (large flat-baked cakes enclosing layers of gooseberries) prepared by its mistress for her shearers.”—Ruskin “Fors Clavigera.”
BERRY-SHAG—Ass a lad ’ats bin noppin berries fer his mudder what he expects as siun as t’ pan boils.
BETTER—More than. He’s better ner a year auld.