An Exmoor Scolding: In the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language, Between Two Sisters, Wilmot Moreman and Thomasin Moreman, as They Were Spinning. Also, An Exmoor CourtshipJ.R. Smith, 1839 - 57 ページ |
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... sometimes mistaken , for want of a proper interpretation of his language . In this Glossary we have not only shewn in what sense the most uncommon words are generally understood in this county , but also the etymologies of most of them ...
... sometimes mistaken , for want of a proper interpretation of his language . In this Glossary we have not only shewn in what sense the most uncommon words are generally understood in this county , but also the etymologies of most of them ...
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... sometimes impertinent to , and beside their pur- pose , provided they are sufficiently abusive . The following collection was originally made , about the beginning of the present century , by a blind itinerant fidler , ( one Peter Lock ...
... sometimes impertinent to , and beside their pur- pose , provided they are sufficiently abusive . The following collection was originally made , about the beginning of the present century , by a blind itinerant fidler , ( one Peter Lock ...
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... sometimes used to express such great terror , as if a ghost had appeared : the word being derived from the English Saxon gast , spiritus . Agging , murmuring , provoking , egging on or raising quarrels . Alkitotle , a silly elf , or ...
... sometimes used to express such great terror , as if a ghost had appeared : the word being derived from the English Saxon gast , spiritus . Agging , murmuring , provoking , egging on or raising quarrels . Alkitotle , a silly elf , or ...
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... sometimes one that tumbles in them .- ( Hence an axen - cat ) - [ " and sometimes one that paddles and draws lines in them with a stick or poker . " ] B. Ba - arge , ( from the Saxon Bearge , majalis , a barrow pig , ) generally used in ...
... sometimes one that tumbles in them .- ( Hence an axen - cat ) - [ " and sometimes one that paddles and draws lines in them with a stick or poker . " ] B. Ba - arge , ( from the Saxon Bearge , majalis , a barrow pig , ) generally used in ...
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... sometimes fly out of a chim- ney , and fall around the place . To Bless vore ( i . e . to bless for it , with a view to cure it , ) to use charms or spells to cure disorders.- She should have needed no more spell . " - Vide Spenser's ...
... sometimes fly out of a chim- ney , and fall around the place . To Bless vore ( i . e . to bless for it , with a view to cure it , ) to use charms or spells to cure disorders.- She should have needed no more spell . " - Vide Spenser's ...
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agen ANDREW arrant avore baarge banes bed-blonket Bezides Bone-shave borst Challacomb cham Charles Clark chave chell tell tha chell warndy chockling cozen Magery dedst thee Devon Devonians Devonshire DIALECT disyease drow drow vore e'er eart edition enny EXMOOR EXMOOR SCOLDING fump Glossary grammer gurt hare hire Horry Hosegood Jibb keendest kiss lick Lock MARGERY marl me-an means meend MOREMAN mulligrub muxy nif tha OLD COMPTON STREET olweys Parracomb perhaps person Pistering podger post 8vo Saxon signifies Spalls stertling strat Stroil tack tether tha art tha com'st tha dest Tha hast tha wut tha young thate thee art thee wut theng thenk THOMASIN thou vath vauther vella vitty vore Vulch vurst Vuzz wag-tail whan tha Whetstone whistering whot whot's WILMOT wone word wou'd wull yeet yess zess Zester zitch zome zure
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