Blether n.v. foolish talk/er
Blood fighting spirit Don’t raise his blood!
Blow scold I gave him a good blowing up!
Blustery stormy, of temper as well as weather
Blutter as with ‘blether’
Boast hollow
Boke vomit: was man who’d do it on request, aka Bill the Boke!
Bone-dry out of milk! The wee cow’s bone-dry!
Bonefire bonfire
Bothered silly: he’s a bit bothered in his mind.
Bottom end, sense: there’s no bottom to his story.
Bottom low-lying field or meadow: He’s in the bottom field.
Boy male of any age: servant: the devil [as in ‘old boy’]
Brag boast she was the brag of the ball: he’s a bit of a brag
Braird prickly
Brakefast breakfast
Bran new
Brash illness: may also mean help
Braskins milk raised by the churn-staff in churning
Brave large, as in ‘a brave lump’: wholesome, as in ‘a brave day’
Bravery finery, as in, ‘she was out in her bravery’
Breast mount, as in ‘I haven’t yet met the horse I cudn’t breast!’
Brenthy broad
Brew the edge of a drain/bank of a stream: in town, tea.
Brissle toast, as in ‘she was brissling her shins at the fire’
Broken no longer fair, as in ‘the weather’s broken’
Brung brought
Buff joke, naked ‘he’s ony buffing!’ ‘in his buff!’
Budge more
Budget news, ‘What’s yer budget?’
Buggle shy, as in horse’s refusal, ‘the mare buggled at it!’
Bum boast, ‘he’s a real bum’
Bunty small
Busk dress, as in ‘All busked up and nowhere to go’
Butt ‘he jumped from a butt’ as ‘bunty’: ‘a quare wee butt of a lad’
Butter-fingered careless
Butter-mouthed treacherous ‘a butter-mouthed deceiver!’
Bye-boy illegitimate son
Bye-name nickname
