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Dialect ‘R’ 1
Rabble to talk foolishly
Rake quantity, ‘a rake of butter’, ‘a rake of flax-land’
Rampage to stamp noisily, to make a disturbance
Ram-stan rash, headlong
Rammel-tree beam in byre to which cow-stakes are fastened
Ramp to stamp in anger or rage
Rap rascal: also, rapscallion
Rasps raspberries
Rattle-skull silly person who talks without thinking
Ready make ready, prepare, ‘ready the horses for the plough’
Reason talk
Red clear, tidy up. ‘red the way for the cart’, ‘all red up’, red your hair, girl!’
Reel joke
Reek smell strongly
Reeve splitting, ‘a reeving pain in my head’
Rench rinse, ‘rench up the dishes, there’s a good girl!’ (Mum was always annoyed when I took this literally: i.e. failed also to dry and return them to their respective cupboards. Like when I was asked to 'give the chile's face a lick!' Well, that's what she asked me to do, isn't it?)
Rib as thin as a, ‘just a stack of ribs, that girl’
Resate receipt
Ribbely rebellious
Rig ridge
Rickle a heap, ‘a rickle of turf’, ‘a rickle of bones’
Rift drift. ‘we rifted apart of recent’
Riff-raff people of low moral standing
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