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| Word or saying | Meaning/Definition |
| Flitting | Moving house |
| Foggy | First in a race |
| Fumard | A Stoat or a Weasel |
| Full pelt | As fast as one can go |
| Gain hand | Close (Nearby) |
| Gallivanting | Running about |
| Gansey | A jersey or a pullover |
| Garthman | Person who looked after cattle |
| Gawp | To stare (What are you gawping at) |
| Gawster | To laugh a lot |
| Gee (Orve) |
Instruction to a horse to turn right (Instruction to a horse to turn left) |
| Gleaning | Gathering left over corn in fields after harvest |
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| Glegg | To look |
| Gollop | Eat food quickly |
| Gump | A fool |
| Happy month | Mince pie |
| Hold hard | Stop or wait |
| Jiffle | To fidget |
| Kecks | Trousers |
| Kelch | Mud |
| Kelter | Rubbish |
| Kelly | Small oil lamp for bedrooms |
| Kindling | Firewood |
| Kufting | Smoking |
| Labdab | A paste used for sticking wallpaper on |
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| Look sharp | Hurry up |
| Lope | To run fast like a rabbit |
| Lugs | Ears |
| Manner | Manure |
| Mardy | Bad tempered |
| Mawk | To have maggots breed on you (because you are hot) |
| Mester | Mister |
| Middlin | (Middling) Average |
| Moorish | Very tasty |
| Night soil | Contents of toilet |
| Not right sharp | Stupid |
| Not a mucher | Not much of a person |
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| Over yonder | Over there |
| Paddy | Bad temper (To throw a paddy or be in a paddy) |
| Pad | A path |
| Pail | A bucket |
| Paunch | To gut a rabbit |
| Physic | Medicine |
| Pig cheer | Meat handed out when a pig was killed (Also called "Pigs Fry") |
| Pigs | Woodlice |
| Pinky | A Chaffinch |
| Plashing | Laying and cutting of hedges |
| Pitcher | A jug |
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© D.C. Hodgson 2004
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