A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: From an Original Manuscript, in the Library of John George Lambton, Esq., M. P., with Considerable AdditionsE. Charnley, 1825 - 243 страници |
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... land of " Cockaigne , " as some wits have lately called the dwellers in the metropolis , has long lost its raciness of idiom ; but among the lower classes tradition has been faithful to its task ; and several of our vulgarisms are in ...
... land of " Cockaigne , " as some wits have lately called the dwellers in the metropolis , has long lost its raciness of idiom ; but among the lower classes tradition has been faithful to its task ; and several of our vulgarisms are in ...
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... land , now in a course of publication , the writer is indebted for the use of a volume of memoranda connected with the historian's own enquiries , but which proved highly useful on the present occasion . The author is much obliged to ...
... land , now in a course of publication , the writer is indebted for the use of a volume of memoranda connected with the historian's own enquiries , but which proved highly useful on the present occasion . The author is much obliged to ...
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... LANDS , common fields in which different proprie tors hold portions of greater or less quantities ; from acre , a word common to almost every language , and Sax . dælan , to divide . In ancient times an acre did not signify any de ...
... LANDS , common fields in which different proprie tors hold portions of greater or less quantities ; from acre , a word common to almost every language , and Sax . dælan , to divide . In ancient times an acre did not signify any de ...
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... lands , properly those in common fields . Also a place above a cow - house , where the beams are covered with wattles and turf , and not boarded . - A hen - roost or hay - loft ; supposed by Mr. Wilbraham from its being divided into ...
... lands , properly those in common fields . Also a place above a cow - house , where the beams are covered with wattles and turf , and not boarded . - A hen - roost or hay - loft ; supposed by Mr. Wilbraham from its being divided into ...
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... land in the Northern counties are held under lords of manors by customary tenure , subject to the payment of fines and heriots , and the performance of various duties and services on the boon days . BOOR , BOUR , the parlour , or inner ...
... land in the Northern counties are held under lords of manors by customary tenure , subject to the payment of fines and heriots , and the performance of various duties and services on the boon days . BOOR , BOUR , the parlour , or inner ...
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Æsop ancient Antiq applied Aw'l bairn Barrister at Law beat Beaum bird BIZON BLASH Brand's Pop bread cake called Canny Newcassel castle cattle Chaucer common copies corn corruption Crav creils dialect dirty Durham fair fellow female fire Flet Gael Gateshead Germ Gloss Glossary grass Grose Hence Henry hinny horse iron Jamieson JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON Johnson keel keelmen kind lads language London Lord means milk Mirror for Magistrates Mo.-Got Moor Nares Newcastle noise North country North Shields Northern Northumberland Northumbrian obsolete Old Eng old word originally Peirs Ploughman perhaps person piece Pure Saxon RIGHT HONOURABLE Saxon says Scotch sense Shak Shakspeare sheep Song sort Spenser stone Su.-Got Suff term Teut thing Thomas Todd Todd's John Tyne vulgar Welsh Wilb Willan William writers young
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Страница 231 - WELSH, insipid. Teut. gaelsch. Welsh and wallow are synonyma. Broth and water, and pottage without salt, are wallow or welsh. A person whose face has a raw, pale, and unhealthy look — whom a keen frosty morning pinches, and to whom it gives an appearance of misery and poverty — has a welsh and wallow face. A welsh day, is the same as a sleety day, when it is neither thaw nor frost : but a wallow day is when a cold, strong and hollow wind prevails. Wallow, applied to the state of the weather,...