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Richard

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Aa  have not, am not

 

Aanchboon  haunch bone

 

Aass  buttocks

 

Abac(backer)  backwards, take back

 

Ackidock  aqueduct

 

Adrenchen  soaked

 

Afar(furder)  afar, eg "He went furder than me"

 

Ah  yes

 

Aither  either

 

Aive  heave, lift

 

 

Aks(axe)  ask

 

Anent  against, next to

 

Anny(Onny)  any

 

Anunst  against, next, eg "The housen anunst hisen"

 

Ar  our

 

Armole  a euphemism, used only as a vulgar retort

 

Aud(oud)  old

 

Babby  baby

 

Backen  delay, keep back

 

Bai(bay)  am not, eg "I bay gooin' ter tell yow agen"

 

Balies  belly or bellows

 

Bamfoozle  puzzle, bemuse

 

Bawk  hinder or confuse

 

Belloil  hammering, thrashing

 

Beezum  a broom of birch, also playfully a pert young woman

 

Bibble  pebble

 

Bile  boil

 

Bin(ben)  been, have been, are, have

 

I bin  affirmative reply to question

 

Blaberen  to talk idly

 

Blart  cry

 

Blenchen  to flinch

 

Blether  a bladder, eg "Blether yed" - a fool.

 

Blobmouth  blabbermouth, eg "'Ers a right blobmouth. Tell 'er terday, the world knows tomorrer"

 

Blowse  bloom, especially on fruit trees

 

Blubren  crying, eg "Ar kids blubren agen"

 

Bobowler  large moth

 

Boffle  hinder

 

Bofumble  bemuse

 

Bonk  small hill

 

Broo'us  brewhouse or outhouse

 

Bost  burst, past tense Bosted

 

Bostin  literally "bursting" but actually "very good indeed" eg "We 'ad a bostin time" or "Ers a bostin wench"

 

Breffus  breakfast

 

Bunny-fire  bonfire

 

Bunt  push, shove, jostle

 

Cack  excretia, eg "The babbie's cacked 'erself"

 

Cade  spoil (a child) eg "cade and cosset"

 

Caggy  left-handed

 

Cagel  to hoe

 

Cag-mag  gossip

 

Caggy  left-handed

 

Camplin  gossiping

 

Catlick  hasty wash

 

Caw(cor)  cannot, eg "I cor goo the'er terday"

 

Chate  cheat

 

Chops  mouth

 

 

Fittle Chimdy  chimney

 

Chuffed  pleased

 

Chuky  chicken, fowl (children's word)

 

Chunter  grumble under one's breath

 

Clane  clean

 

Clack  uvula, eg "Just stop yer clack"

 

Clobber  clothes

 

Clomber  climb

 

Codge  a poor job, eg "He's made a right codge of it"

 

Coddin  joking, eg "Goo on, yum coddin me"

 

 

Cooss  cross

 

Coost  could you ?, also negative "thee coosnt"

 

Cost  can you ?, also negative "I cosn't" - I cannot

 

Crack  fun, entertainment

 

Craw  crop of a bird, as in "that sticks in my craw" - I cannot believe it

 

Croddle  huddle together

 

Craunch  crunch

 

Cut  canal

 

Dahb  daub, smear

 

Day(day)  did not, eg "I day see 'im comin"

 

Desay  dare say, very likely

 

Dishle  cup of tea

 

Dock  to stop or hold back wages

 

Doe  do not, as in reply to question: "I doe"

 

Dollop  large quantity, usually of food

 

Donny  hand (children's word)

 

Dowl  down, soft hair on the face

 

Duck  evade, dodge

 

'E  he, pronoun used to describe the husband or household head

 

Faggots  Black Country dish made from pig's organs, onion, sage, bread crumbs

 

Fai®ther  father

 

Fettle  excellent condition

 

 

Scuft Fittle  food, victuals

 

Flen  fleas

 

Flics  cinema

 

Forby  nearby, at hand

 

Franzy  irritable, particularly fretful children

 

Frit  frightened, eg "doe be frit"

 

Frowtsy  dishevelled

 

Fun  found

 

Gaffer  master, employer, perhaps husband

 

Gain  handy, skilful

 

 

Gammitin  playing the fool

 

Gammy  lame

 

Ganzy  an under-vest

 

Gawby  a simpleton

 

Gawk  an ill dressed person, or to stare, eg "Who am yow gawkin' at ?"

 

Gawp(gorp)  open mouthed, staring

 

Gillyvor  wall flower

 

Ginnel  entry between houses

 

Glad-iron  smoothing iron

 

Glass'us  glass house

 

Gleed  ember

 

Gob  a piece of something

 

Gob  spit, or mouth, eg "Shut yer gob" or "'Er's got a right gob on 'er"

 

Gobble  gabble

 

Goo  go, eg "Am yow gooin' ter the flics ?"

 

Grawty(Grorty)  groat (grain) eg "groaty dick" - a local dish, mixture of groats and meat stewed together

 

H  this sound is not used

 

Ift  heave, lift

 

Ike  beckon forward

 

Ivver-ovver  hesitate, eg "Stop yer ivverin' an' ovverin' an' get on wi'it"

 

Jeth(jed)  death (dead)

 

Jiffy  brief moment, eg "E woe be a jiffy"

 

Job  poke out, excrete

 

Jole  bread pan, large earthenware crock

 

Joobus  suspicious, dubious

 

Kell  the lining around a *expletive removed*

 

Keffle  lumbering, awkward, person

 

Kench  to sprain, especially the back

 

Ketch  catch

 

Ketchpit  cesspool

 

Kiddle  dribble

 

Lamp  to beat or thrash, eg "Ee giv' 'im a right lampin'"

 

Lather  ladder

 

Lezzer  a meadow

 

Lickle  little

 

Lief  as soon as

 

Loff  laugh

 

Lommock  (OR lummock) clumsy, lumbering, eg "Yow big lommock"

 

Lover  common term of endearment to children

 

 

Trankle Lungeous  play roughly, inclined to horseplay

 

Madden  to make wild, annoy

 

Maitrum  matron (of a hospital)

 

Maulers  hands

 

Maunch  to chew carefully (as with no teeth)

 

Meegrum  facial contortion, eg "He's got the meegrums" - bad tempered

 

Mither  to be disturbed in one's sleep, to be pestered

 

Mo  must not

 

Moach  to idle about in a bored fashion

 

Monty  pert, precocious

 

 

Mucker  confusion, eg "All of a mucker"

 

Mumchance  dolefully, dejectedly, bored

 

Mun  must

 

Munch  ill treat, eg "sly munchin" - sly pinching or poking

 

Myther  to bother, to irritate, or be irritated by

 

Nairun  none, not one

 

Naither  neither

 

Nash  soft, suscetible to cold, weak

 

Natty  tidy, neat

 

Nerker  a mischievious boy

 

Niggle  to find fault in insignificant things

 

Nineter  a terrible man, a tartar

 

Node  known, eg "I've nowd 'im for 'ears"

 

Noggen yedded  stupid, thick

 

Noggin  thick piece of bread

 

Noo  new

 

Nuss  nurse

 

Ockerd  awkward

 

Ode  old, eg "Th' ode lad" - the devil

 

Odge  push, eg "Odge up" - move up a bit

 

'Ond  hand

 

Omber(Ommer)  hammer

 

Ood  would

 

Ooman  woman

 

Oot  will you

 

Opple  apple

 

Oss  horse

 

Ote  hold, eg "Ketch ote on it" - take hold of it

 

O'thatnin'  in that way

 

O'thisnin'  in this way

 

Owern  my husband, my son, my daughter, often used by women to denote member of family

 

Owsen  houses

 

 

Zowk Pail  beat, eg "I'll gi' 'im a good pailin' when 'e cums whum".

 

Passnip  parsnip

 

Pikelet  muffin

 

Pither  potter aimlessly about

 

Pittle  pickle

 

Potch  forestall

 

Pothery  close or stuffy

 

Powk  sty on the eye

 

Puss  purse

 

Rantan  violent mood, eg "on the rantan"

 

 

Raunge  climb clumsily over a gate

 

Rawling  carry a weight too heavy

 

Rawm  to strain in reaching or stretchings

 

Reesty  rancid (of fat, butter, or cheese)

 

Rile(Roile)  scramble about

 

Rodny  an adle fellow

 

Sad  heavy, as in bread that does not rise

 

Saft  stupid, soft (in the head)

 

Saided  sated, glutted

 

Sawny  simpleton

 

Scratchings  remains left after rendering lard, regarded as a Black Country delicacy

 

Scuft  to box the ears

 

Shommock  to walk with a shuffle

 

Siden  out of perpendicular

 

Skraze  graze, scratch

 

Skrobble  a tangle of wool, string, and the like

 

Slake  to slash or cut with a whip

 

Snape  to snub

 

Splod  flat-footed

 

Spockle  to cover with drops of moisture

 

Spottle  splash

 

Sock  liquid manure

 

Soople  to soften, make supple

 

Squob  old fashioned settle

 

Stale  steal

 

Steen  stew jar or earthenware pot

 

Stond  to stand

 

Suck  sweets

 

Suff  sewer or drain, eg "Up the suff" - down the drain

 

Sup  to sip, a sip, drink

 

Sussifikut  certificate

 

Swelth  swelling

 

Swilker  to spill or splash

 

Swopson  a heavily built woman, used in a semi-humorous sense

 

Tack up  improvement in the weather, eg "It'll tack up tonight"

 

Tacky-bonk  a pit mound

 

Tai(tay)  tea, also "it isn't"

 

Tabber  to tap repeatedly

 

Tank  sharp blow

 

Tek  take

 

Tek after  to resemble, look like physically, mentally, or emotionally

 

Tewthree  a few, two or three, always used as a noun preceded by "a"

 

Thrial  group of three, used only inthe card game of Cribbage

 

Thrope  thrash

 

Tizzicky  having an irritating dry cough

 

Tittle  tickle

 

Tranklements  small possessions, bits and pieces, paraphernalia

 

Trapes  walking aimlessly about, eg "Trapesin' in an' ott like a dog at a fair"

 

Trussen  to trust

 

Tummy  a snack, especially a collier's mid-morning snack

 

Tunky  a fat pig, eg "As fat as a tunky"

 

Unkyoothe  uncouth

 

Volve  valve

 

Welly  nearly, eg "Welly clemmed to jeth"

 

Wench  girl, still commonly used by parents towards daughters

 

Werrit  worry

 

Whimsey  pit head winding gear

 

Wiouten  without

 

Wool  whole, often of a brick : "A wooly 'un"

 

Wurse(Wuss)  worse

 

Wum(Whum)  home

 

Yawle-Yaup  bawl, shout or cry loudly

 

Yed  head

 

Yer  your

 

Yow  you

 

Yum  you are

 

Zowk  yelp, cry out

 

Zad  the letter Z

 

 

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