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Dialect ‘mix’
Raghery red-coloured pony (or girl)
Pallions flapping pieces of bandages or clothing
High-low shoe/boot type, half-shoe, half-boot, with a very short top
Nyff-nyaffs odds and ends, small ornaments
Jook-the-Beetle little pieces in champ that were not mashed; by extension, a sly person who escapes just punishment
Dah-hoe a bogey, curse, ‘the dah-hoe is in him’, a hereditary evil
Shire to pour off and leave only sediment, or leave till sediment settles
Teemer osier basket used to drain potatoes
Terrible well-lost gone for ever, won’t be found
Expressions:
‘You’ve as much need of a woman as ducks need umberellas’
Foolish counting in the ‘twenties’
‘Wannery two ere ey Dickery Daisy
Hall a boe Crack, a bone fandolairy
Haze come paze
Come merry, come time
Hummily bummily
Twenty-nine!’
ED: I remember this one. There were others. Does anyone remember them? |
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