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Old North Lincolnshire Words Used in Melton Ross-1939 Onwards |
| Word or saying | Meaning/Definition |
| Abide | To bear or tolerate |
| Afore | Before |
| Ail | To be ill |
| Appings | Wrappings (bedclothes) |
| Awming | Messing about |
| Badly | To be ill |
| Band | String |
| Bairns | Children |
| Beast | A cow |
| Beal (Bealing) | Cry (Crying) |
| Beck | A stream |
| Bottle of straw | Bundle of straw |
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| Booake | To retch |
| Bung hole | Cheese |
| Bubs | Young birds bubbed and fligged (hatched and flown the nest) |
| Canvas | Linoleum |
| Calf licked | Hair on the head that grows in all directions |
| Causey | Paved area outside house door |
| Check-Check-Check | Calling pigs towards you |
| Chuck-Chuck-Chuck | Calling chickens towards you |
| Cush-Cush-Cush | Calling cows towards you |
| Chelp | Cheek (To be cheeky) |
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| Chunter | To complain in a moaning sort of way |
| Clap post | Gate post (The one opposite the hinges) |
| Close | Nearby |
| Close | Heavy muggy weather |
| Close | A field |
| Clout | To hit |
| Cotty | Knotty as in hair |
| Consumption | Tuberculosis |
| Crawk | Core of an apple |
| Crib | To complain |
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| Crib | Feeding trough for animals |
| Crew yard | Farmyard where cattle are kept in winter |
| Dacker off | Slow down (Reduce) |
| Dicks | Head lice |
| Dilly cart | Lorry that emptied toilets before water toilets were common |
| Dip | Fat left over from frying bacon |
| Dyke | A ditch, usually with water in it |
| Fagged out | Tired out (Exhausted) |
| Fast | Tight (Hold fast) |
| Fetch you one | To hit someone |
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