“To think how poets wi’ their sangs,
Their minds sud seea perplex,
’Bout Eden, Lune, the Tyne, and Tees,
An’ scwores o’ mucky becks.”—Whitehead.
BECK STEPS—Stepping stones. T’ beck steps is oot o’ seet—that’s when ther’s a fliud on. Yah auld chap ’at hed ta gang ower t’ steps when t’ beck was oot, said his prayers an’ set off, but he sez, “Ah’s gaan bi t’ boddum.”
BELLIKIN—An immoderate eater or drinker—a gurt brossen bellikin.
BELLOCK—To eat hastily or greedily. He wad bellock his dinner doon, an’ off ta laik.
BELL-TINKER—A rattle on t’ side o’ t’ heed as oft as owt. But ther’s lots o’ things ’at’s co’ed bell-tinker.
BELLY-BAND—A girth. Fassen t’ belly-ban’.
BELLY-OUT—To project. That hoose wo bellys oot a lot mair ner I like.