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... children : also a quaint name for an ass - but it is then pronounced Balam , of obvious origin . * BABBING . Catching crabs by drawing them to the surface of the water by a string baited with the innards of a chicken , or a piece of kit ...
... children : also a quaint name for an ass - but it is then pronounced Balam , of obvious origin . * BABBING . Catching crabs by drawing them to the surface of the water by a string baited with the innards of a chicken , or a piece of kit ...
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... child- One settling on a child is always sent away ren . with this sad valediction- Gowden - bug , Gowden - bug , fly awah home- Yar house is bahnt deown an yar childen all gone . -It is sure to fly off on the third repetition . Burnt ...
... child- One settling on a child is always sent away ren . with this sad valediction- Gowden - bug , Gowden - bug , fly awah home- Yar house is bahnt deown an yar childen all gone . -It is sure to fly off on the third repetition . Burnt ...
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... child of a family - neest gulp , to the " weak- est tenant of a nest : & c . & c . but barra - pig , as I have said , exclusively , to the smallest and shrillest grunter of the litter . In Ray is given as a S. and E. country word , one ...
... child of a family - neest gulp , to the " weak- est tenant of a nest : & c . & c . but barra - pig , as I have said , exclusively , to the smallest and shrillest grunter of the litter . In Ray is given as a S. and E. country word , one ...
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... child's chin - cloth , or pinafore . The first is called slaveren - bib . BIBBLE . TO Tipple - Bebble , in Scottish . J. The etymology is obvious - from bibere , to drink . · Lat . " Bibbeler or Bibber , one who drinks often . ” I ...
... child's chin - cloth , or pinafore . The first is called slaveren - bib . BIBBLE . TO Tipple - Bebble , in Scottish . J. The etymology is obvious - from bibere , to drink . · Lat . " Bibbeler or Bibber , one who drinks often . ” I ...
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... child . Blore is rather applicable to the moaning of a cow after her severed calf - one of the dis- mallest of rural sounds : or of the wennel after her dam : but both words are in common use . The first is not wholly ours . Elton in a ...
... child . Blore is rather applicable to the moaning of a cow after her severed calf - one of the dis- mallest of rural sounds : or of the wennel after her dam : but both words are in common use . The first is not wholly ours . Elton in a ...
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AINT ANINND applied Bailey basket beat believe bird blow BUTES called Cheshire child Cocker common commonly corn COSTARD country words curious derived especially Essex explains farther flump French given Glossary GOOF grass Grose hare hassock Hawstead head Hence Hengrave Hall horse Icelandic Jameison land Macbeth meaning milk mode Nares adds Nares gives Nares says Nares shows nearly never heard Norf Norfolk north country north country word noticed Nunch old word Othello passage pease perhaps PERK phrase piece plough poonch pretty probably pronounced proverb quotation quotes recollect referred rhyme Saxon Scotch Scotland Scottish seems Shakespeare sheep Shuckled SKEWBALD snaggy sometimes sort sound spelled Spenser straw strike Suffolk sense Suffolk word suppose term thing thou timber tion tree Tusser verb verse wheat whelk wood word occurs YANGLE yeow young
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