Glossary of Dorset dialect words These are some words which are unique to the Dorset dialect, spoken in Dorset in the West Country of England. Word Meaning A A-cothed Disease A-drawen Drawing, for example "He be a-drawen a picture." A-feard Afraid (Dorset motto, "Who's a-feard?") Agean Against, for example "'e be runnin' agean thac strong wind." Aggy The act of collecting eggs[1] Aïght Eight Ailen illness, ailing (verb or noun)[1] Air vlees Flies that seldom land for hovering in the air Aish or Aishy Ash tree Aish-a-twiddick Ash twig A-lassen Lest Alik' Like All's All this Amper Pustules "I be all out in an amper!" Aller The alder tree Allum All of them Anby At a near time, by and by Annan? An interjectional exclamation. "What did you say?" Anewst, or Aniste At nearest Anigh Near, close by[1] Ankly The ankle[1] Any-when At any time[1] Archet Orchard[1] Arn A contraction of "e'er a one" Ash candles The seed vessels of the ash tree Asker Water newt A-strout Stretched out[1] A-stooded Stood (as a waggon) immovably in the ground A-stoggd Having your feet stuck in either clay or dirt At To play at, to have at Athirt Across Auverlook Overlook, bewitch, look on with the evil eye Avore Before[1] A-vroze Frozen[1] Awaked Awake Ax To ask[1] Axen Ashes[1] Ayer Air[1] A-zet Set or planted A-zew 1) To be dry of milk; no longer giving suck "The cow's a-zew" 2) To sew a pond, to drain or draw it dry. B Backhouse Outhouse[1] Backside backyard or rear of property[1] Bad Synonym for ill B'aint be not Ballyrag To scold[1] Bandon Abandonment Bandy A stick used for beating dung out of the way, usually long and sturdy with a bent end[1] Bandylags Crooked/bowed legs Bankrout Bankrupt Bantling Child Barken Barley[2] Barry Borrow[2] Batch Hillock[2] Battenbuoard A tool for tamping thatch on a roof[2] Baven A faggot of untrimmed branches[2] Beas' Beast, usually refers to cattle[2] Beatplough A tool used for cutting turf[2] Becall To deride Bedraggled angels Wet sheep Beens Because, possible contraction of 'being as'[2] Bee-pot Beehive[2] Beknown Known about Bennits The bent tips of grasses and similar[2] Ben't Wasn't Bibber Shiver with cold[2] Bide Dwell[2] Biddle Beetle[2] Bird-kippy To keep birds from the corn[2] Bissen Bist not, Art not Bit-an'-drap A bite to eat and a drink[2] Bit-an'-crimp Every last scrap of something[2] Biver To shake or quiver with cold or fear Black Bards Rooks (or 'storytellers') Black-bob Cockroach Blatch Black or sooty[2] Blather An uproar[2] Bleare To cry outload and fretful like a child Blether To bleat or blare much; to talk noisily Blood beads Berries Bloody Warriors Wallflowers Blooth Blossom[2] Bottom Steadfast[2] Braims Membranes Brake A thicket Brembles Brambles Brinton or Braton Bold, audacious[3] Brockle Broken[3] Bruckly or Brickley Brittle[3] Brushen Huge/giant Budget A leather pouch for a whetstone[3] Bull-head Tadpole Bumbye By-and-by[3] Bundle To bound quickly Bunker Rabbit Button-crawler Woodlouse Bwoneyard Graveyard/churchyard C Caddie An uproar or carry-on[3] Caddle Muddle[3] Cag Cloy/clog Cag-mag Rotten meat Cammish Awkward Car Carry or move: to car hay is to stack hay[3] Carner Corner Cas'n Can'st not Cast Prematurely born Cazelty weather Extremely bad weather (casualty weather)[3] Chalky Ghostly Chammer Chamber, bedroom, room Charken, charked Burn (to charcoal), burned Chattermag Magpie Chawly-whist Ashamed Chaw Chew[3] Cheese-late A floor for drying cheese[3] Chetlens The entrails of any edible animal Chilver or Chilver hog A yearling ewe lamb Chimley Chimney[3] Chop Sell, barter or exchange[3] Chump A log of wood[3] Clavy Mantelpiece[3] Clinker Icicle[4] Clitty Stringy and sticky, tangled in clods or lumps Clodgy Dumplike, close Clot Lump, clod Clutchéd Clutched Cockle Tangle[4] Codgloves Hedger's gloves, with a bad for all the fingers together Comely or Come To be ripe. Inviting Conk-load Nose-full Conzum-ed Consumed Cowheart Coward Cowlease An uncut field, meadow[4] Cradlehood Early stages of childhood, infancy, still in the cradle[4] Crate Womb Creezey Silky Crewel Cowslip Cricket A low stool or chair for a child[4] Crims Cold-shivers, creeping of flesh Croodle To rock, to coo. To make little crowings Croopy To sink one's body, bending down the thighs behind the legs Crousty Grumpy, in a bad mood[4] Culver Wood pigeon Curdles Hair curls[4] Cuty Wren D Dabster Someone who is skilled in something, an expert[4] Dadder To confuse or bewilder[4] Dander Vex, anger[4] Darkling bird Blackbird Daw Jackdaw Death-biddle Deathwatch beetle De-da Simple, foolish, slow-witted Devil's bird Magpie Dewbit A bite to eat taken first thing in the morning before breakfast[4] Didden Did not Dorring Mocking Doughbiaked Feeble-minded[5] Dout Put out a flame or fire, "Dout the candle" for example[5] Downdashious Audacious[5] Drashel The strip of wood or concrete at the bottom of a doorway, the threshold[5] Draty Draught, draughty, full of draughts of air Drawlatcheten Idle, lazy[5] Drinky Having consumed too much alcohol, inebriated[5] Dread-fulled Full of dread Dread gates School gates Drean To drawl in speaking Dree Three Drisk A fine, wind-driven mist Drownsy Drowned Drush Thrush Duckish Dark, gloomy[5] Drong Squeeze or compress[5] Drongway A narrow passage or alley; Most commonly a narrow footpath between two fenced fields[5] Dumbledore Bumblebee[5] Dummet Dusk Dungy Downcast, dull Dunnick Sparrow E 'e He Eacor Acorn Eet Yet[5] Effets Newts[5] Egg-tree Ovary Elebm Eleven Em Them Emmets Ants[5] En Him Engripement Grievance 'enself Himself 'es His 'e's He is Eth, ethly Earth, earthly Ethed Buried Ether-hunger The hunger for earth, sometimes felt by persons approaching death Evemen Evening[5] F Faddle To pack or bundle together[6] Fantod Fuss[6] Farterous Father-like Feasen Faces Fess Pleased with, proud[6] Fevrell February Fleeceful As much as fills a fleece Fleecy Fleece; drunk, drunken Flummocks To scare or frighten[6] Footling Something worthless, beneath contempt[6] Footy Insignificant, small, trivial[6] Fowel The placenta of a cow Freen Free from Frith Thin twigs that have broken off from trees and bushes, historically used to make brushes; brushwood[6] Frog-hopper Grasshopper Furby Foul or sticky matter, as that on a tongue in sickness G Gake To stare open-mouthed, gawk, gape[6] Gallycrow Scarecrow[6] Gannywedge A wide yawn or to spread apart[6] Gap Mouth Gapmouth Nightjar Gawl, Gawly An opening, an empty place, a bare patch; empty hollow Gi'e To give, to yield Gilcup or Giltcup A small, yellow flower of the family Ranunculaceae, common in meadows and pasture; buttercup[6] Girding Taunting Girt Large, great[6] Glene To joke with[7] Glory hole Vagina Glow Stare or watch with fixed, open eyes Glutch To swallow[7] Gnang To mock by half-clear sounds, wagging the jaw with a grin God's stinking tree Elder Goocoo Cuckoo Goocoo pint Wild arum, snakeshead, Arum maculatum Goocoo's bread Wood sorrel Goocoo spettle or Spume Cuckoo spit, a white froth secreted by insects Grab Crab apple tree Gramf'er Grandfather Gramm'er Grandmother Grave To bury Greygole A small, blue woodland flower of the hyacinth family; Bluebell[7] Gribble A young crab tree or blackthorm Grotten A sleep-slade, a run or pasture for sheep Growed Grew Gurrel Girl Gwain Going[7] Gwains-on Rowdy behaviour (goings-on)[7] H Hag-ridden A nightmare attributed to a supernatural presence of a witch or hag, by whom one is ridden to sleep Halterpath A path for a horse and rider; Bridleway[7] Handy Thereabouts, an approximation, "Ees 6' or somewhere 'andy" for example[7] Hangen house A shed under the continuation of the roof of the house Han'pat Nearby, close at hand[7] Harled Tangled Hassen Hast not Hatch A small gate[7] Heabm Heaven Heal or Healéd To cover over[7] Hedlen Headlong[7] Heissen A prediction of evil Hetful Hot Heth Hearth Hethcropper A horse or pony bred on a heath[7] Hidy-buck Children's game, hide-n-seek[7] Ho To be anxious or to show caution[8] Hoar-stone Standing stone or ancient boundary stone Hobble A field-shed for cattle Hobby Horse Woodlouse[8] Hogget A yearling sheep of either sex, the meat of a hogget Hogget shears Sheep shears Hold wi' Side with Holm Holly Holrod Cowslip Holway Hollow lane Homhle A duck[8] Honey-zuck A climbing plant of the family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle[8] Honking Inhale deeply Hook To gore with the horns Hoss-stinger or Ho's adder Dragonfly[8] Hummock Cow Hustle To moan, spoken of the wind Hwome Home I Ice-candles Icicles[8] Inneath Behind, inside Inon Onion[8] Inwards Innards J Joppety-joppety Anxious, nervous trepidation[8] K Keech To clear a riverbank of weeds[8] Kit Friend or family, kin[8] Knog Knob L Lag Leg Lagwood The larger cut-off branches and twigs of a tree Laminger One who has become lame Lamploo A game of tag in which those caught join hands with the pursuer/s to form a chain[9][10] Lear An ailing in sheep Leaze Field Leery Hungry[9] Lerret A traditional, double-ended boat with a flat bottom and high sternposts, which can be launched from a steep bank or beach [9][11] Let A stopping or interruption Limber Skinny, slim, slender[9] Limner Painter and decorator[9] Lip Basket[9] Lippen Wet weather, rainy, sometimes also referred to as lippy[9] Lisome Cheery, happy[9] Litter Confusion[9] Litty Of light and easy bodily motion Loneleft Left alone Long tail Pheasant Lovesome Lovely, loving Lowsen To listen Lure A disease of sheep; an ulcer in the cleft of the foot Lwonesomness Lonesomeness M Magot An impulse or whim[9] Maggoty Very drunk Main Strength, power[9] Mampus A crowd[9] Mandy Saucy Mare's tail Equisetum arvense (horsetail) Mazzerdy Knotty Meeces Mice Mesh Moss[9] Midin' Might not, may not Milchi Milk, milky pale Milk flower Snowdrop Mingdom A stinking, dirty or unpleasant kingdom Mommet A guy, an effigy Moud or Moule Field mouse[12] Mus'n Must not Mwope Bullfinch N Nammet A light lunch of meat[12] Near Parsimonious, miserly[12] Nearen Nearby Nesh, Neshen Tender Nesseltripe The weakest or last born Nether-ethed Buried Netherwise Viewed from below Nicky Kindling[12] Nippy Peckish[12] Nirrup Donkey[12] No-but Nothing but Noowhen At no time Not Flowerbed[12] Nuncheon A noon-time meal, luncheon[12] Nuts Joy; testicles O Oone One Orf A viral form of pustular dermatitis found in sheep, and communicable to humans Out ov ban Instantly, at once[12] Over-right Opposite[12] Over-watch Baby-sit Owl, owling To owl about, to ramble by night P Pank To pant Parlour-sky Attic, loft Parrick A piece of fenced off land, a paddock[12] Peart Healthy, vibrant, full of life[13] Pecker Green woodpecker Peck upon Dominate[13] Pelt A rage, to feel angry[13] Peze, peaze To ooze out Piaviours Flagstones[13] Piggyback, a pig a back, a pack a back To carry a child on one's back with their arms around your neck and their legs around your waist. Piss-a-bed Dandelion Pisty poll To carry a child on one's shoulders with their legs around your neck and their arms around your forehead. Pleck A small enclosure 'plexion Complexion Pock-fretten Pock-marked from acne Poll Head Popples Pebbles[13] Prog Food[13] Purl Curl, swirl, frill; or an abbreviation of pur lamb Pur lamb A castrated ram lamb Puxy A miry or boggy place Pwope A bunchy thing, an effigy, a doll, a puppet Q Quartere'il, Quaterevil A disease of sheep, a corruption of the blood Quine The corner of a wall[13] Quob Quiver, shake[13] R Rafty Rancid Rake To reek Rale Walk[13] Rammish Strong smelling, rank Ramshacklum Useless[13] Rangle To reach about like a trailing or climbing plant Rap Swap, barter or exchange[13] Rathe Early[13] Reames The frame or ligaments of a thing, skeleton Rean Consume food quickly and greedily[14] Reaphook A curved blade for cutting grasses; Sickle[14] Reapy Reap Red-bread Vagina Reddick Small garden bird with a red breast, commonly known as a robin (Erithacus rubecula)[14] Red rag Tongue Reeve Unravel[14] Riblets Little ribs Roasting tomb Stove Rod Penis Rottletrap Rickety[14] Ruddle A red earth by which they mark they mark sheep Rudger or Rig An uncastrated horse Rum Queer Rumstick Queer, a queer man S Sar To serve or feed animals Sarch To search Satepoll A foolish or silly person[14] Scaly Mean, stingy[14] Sclerevil Hardened and evil Scote To shoot along very fast Scram Screwy-grown Scratch, scratching To write, writing; to carve Screak, screaking To creak loudly Scriddick, scrid A small scrap or shred Scrip Shepherd's coat Scroff Small bits of dead wood Scroop, scrooping The low sound of one hard body scraping against another Scrounch, Scrunch To crunch strongly Seem an I Seems to me Shabby mothers Ewes Shade Spirit, ghost Shatten Shall not Sheep nuts Coarse mix pellets, sheep food Shim a she/him Shockle To shake about lightly Shoo A cry to fray away owls Shram A screwing up or out of the body and limbs from keen cold Sify To catch the breath in sighing; to sob Sives Chives or garlic[14][15] Skeat, skeating A looseness of the bowels Sloey spears The sharp spines on the branches of the sloe or blackthorn Slommock(en) A slatternly, thick-set, stocky, short, dirty woman Smame To smear Smeech A cloud of dust[16] Smirchéd Tarnished Smoor To smear Snabble To snap up quickly; To eat quickly or greedily[16] Snake's-head Arum maculatum So't Soft Soldier's tears Mullein, a tall, stiff flowered, woolly plant Somen Someone Somewhen At some time Soonere Ghost Span-new Clean and shiny, like new[16] Spawl, spawly A splinter flown off, as from wood or stone; splintered Sprak Spry, lively[16] Speare Thin, lanky Spet To spit Spiles The beard of barley Spotter (Great or lesser) Spotted Woodpecker Spume Come, semen Squitters Diarrhoea in cattle Stare Starling Stiver To stiffen up much as an angry dogs hairs Stumpy To walk with short stamoing steps Sweethearts Goose grass Sweven A dream T Taffle To tangle, as grass or corn beaten down by weather Tarble Tolerable Tardle To tangle Teake to To reach forth to a man or thing with a ready good will Teare Eager and bold as flies on food Tet Teat Tewly Small and weakly Theave A three-year-old sheep Theosom These Thick as inkle weavers Close in friendship, from inkle, a kind of tape for a very narrow loom at which the weavers sat close side by side Thieves Fairies Thik That Thirtover Perverse Thumbles Thumbs Tidd'n 'tis not Tilty Grumpy, irritable, ill-tempered[16] Tinklebobs Icicles[16] Torrididdle A state of bewilderment or confusion[16] Toyear This year; as in today, tomorrow etc.[16] Trapes, Trapesèn A woman who tramps about bodly Tree-tears Leaves Tuen Tune Tup A ram; (of a ram) to copulate with a ewe Twanketen Sad, melancholic[16] T'wards Towards 'twere It were Twiddick A small twig Twink Chaffinch Twoad Toad Twoad's meat Toadstools U Undercreepen Devious, sly, underhand[17] Unheal To uncover Unray To undress Upsmitten Dust or liquid sprayed or blown upwards Upsydown Upside down, overturned[17] V Vall To fall Vang To earn[17] Veag Wrath, a high heat of anger (Anglo-Saxon faegth) Veäre Weasel Veäry Fairy Veäry ring Fairy ring, a ring of fungi Veäry tale Fairy tale Vess'y To versey, to read verses by turns Vilthy Filthy Vinny Veiny or mouldy, like the Dorset cheese, Blue-vinny[17] Vitty Neat and proper[17] Vive Five Vlee Fly Vlesh vlee A blowfly, a flesh fly Vlit Flit Vlittermouse Bat Vloat Float Vlutterbie Butterfly Vog Fog Vokket To go about here and there Voley Vole Vom Vomit Vorehearing Premonition, forewarning Vore-right Going forward without regard to consequences or seemliness Voretold Foretold Vorewarn Forewarned Voul Foul Vower, vowr, vow'r Four Vuzzen Fir trees W Wagwanton Quaking grass Want Mole Want-heave Mole hill Want-heave slave A mole Ware Pond[17] Waxen crundels Swollen tonsils Weave To rock backwards and forwards in pain Welshnut Walnut[17] Werret To concern or worry[18] Wether A castrated male lamb Wevvet Cobweb Wevvet queens Spiders Wheel-bird Nightjar Whinnick To whine softly or slightly Whiver To hover, to quiver Winker Eyeball Woak Oak Woodculver Wood pigeon or ringdove Woone One Wont Mole, small burrowing mammal of the family Talpidae[18] Woppen Big, heavy[18] Wopsy or Wops Wasp[18] Wordle World[18] Wurse Devil, arch-fiend Y Yakker Acorn[18] Yer Your Yer tiz Here it is, yes it is Yis Earthworm[18] Yoller Yellow Yollerheads Daffodils Yoller roses Primroses Yop Speak rapidly, jabber[18] Z Zeale or Zack Sack[18] Zebm Seven Zedgemocks Tufts of sedge grass Zet up To anger, infuriate[18] Zing Sing Zive Scythe Zix Six Zounds Sounds Zummat Something[18] Zwail Swagger[18] Zweal To scorch Zweat Sweat Zween, zweemy A feeling of swinging around in the head See also Wiktionary has a category on Dorset English. Dorset dialect Citations ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Newton (2014), p. 7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Newton (2014), p. 8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Newton (2014), p. 9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Newton (2014), p. 10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Newton (2014), p. 11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Newton (2014), p. 12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Newton (2014), p. 13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Newton (2014), p. 14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Newton (2014), p. 15. ^ Bertha Gomme, Alice (2009). The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. (Complete). Library of Alexandria Publishing. ISBN 9781465572899. ^ "Lerrets and Fishing Off Chesil Beach". Dorset Ancestors. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2017. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Newton (2014), p. 16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Newton (2014), p. 17. ^ a b c d e f g h Newton (2014), p. 18. ^ Barnes (1863), p. 84. ^ a b c d e f g h i Newton (2014), p. 19. ^ a b c d e f g Newton (2014), p. 20. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Newton (2014), p. 21. References Barnes, William (1863), A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, Berlin: A. Asher and Co. Newton, Gill (2014), Dorset Dialect, Sheffield: Bradwell Books, ISBN 9781910551011 Harvey, PJ (2022), Orlam, London: Picador, pp. 283–297, ISBN 978-1-5290-6311-0

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