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... See RAG . I have spelled the word bawda , as it is mostly pro- nounced . It might be written border , which would approach the Scottish Bourd , to jest , to mock - or substantively a scoff - which Jameison derives from the French 20.
... See RAG . I have spelled the word bawda , as it is mostly pro- nounced . It might be written border , which would approach the Scottish Bourd , to jest , to mock - or substantively a scoff - which Jameison derives from the French 20.
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... spelled as inTusser - noting that as a diminutive of bull , it ought to be bull - kin . He quotes from four of our older writers , who all spell it bulchin . See BUD . BULL - FIEST . The puff ball , Lycoperdon , called in other counties ...
... spelled as inTusser - noting that as a diminutive of bull , it ought to be bull - kin . He quotes from four of our older writers , who all spell it bulchin . See BUD . BULL - FIEST . The puff ball , Lycoperdon , called in other counties ...
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... spelled dif- ferently ) foot , loan , moan , root , tone , and are never , I think , changed . I am disposed to maintain against respected au- thority , that spoon is never spune . I think I never heard it . It is sometimes spun . In a ...
... spelled dif- ferently ) foot , loan , moan , root , tone , and are never , I think , changed . I am disposed to maintain against respected au- thority , that spoon is never spune . I think I never heard it . It is sometimes spun . In a ...
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... spelled in four syllables in Gage's Hengrave in a Suffolk letter written 1548- " Not doubting the country to be quyet and merrye , if the comyssioners will dyligentlie accomplishe their com- aundements gyven to them by the King's most ...
... spelled in four syllables in Gage's Hengrave in a Suffolk letter written 1548- " Not doubting the country to be quyet and merrye , if the comyssioners will dyligentlie accomplishe their com- aundements gyven to them by the King's most ...
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... spelled dotard in a like sense for dead or decayed trees in Cullum's Hawstead . The reverend author refers to the word so spelled in a sur- vey of the possessions of the Archbishopric of Canter- bury taken in 1646. Bib . Top . Brit . No ...
... spelled dotard in a like sense for dead or decayed trees in Cullum's Hawstead . The reverend author refers to the word so spelled in a sur- vey of the possessions of the Archbishopric of Canter- bury taken in 1646. Bib . Top . Brit . No ...
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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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