=Māndy= pronouncd Long--frolicksome--Impudent--Showy
=Miff=--offence--to take a miff--to be offended
=Mothery= or =Muthery= Beer, vinegar &c. are said to be mothery
when white Particles of fust float in it--Perhaps a Corruption
of muddy or muddery--
=Most-in-deal=--in general--mostly--(example) "where do you
Live now?'--why at Devizes, most in deal, but sometimes at
Warminster--"
=Muxen= Dung heap.
=Newst=--Newst or anewst Signifies nearly--what is it a
Clock?--a newst One. which of the two is oldest?--They are
newst of an age. which of those things are best? they are a
newst alike--In the Latter example however the more usual reply
would be "they are anewst of a newstness"
=Nitch=--a Burthen, as a Nitch of wood a nitch of Straw a Nitch
of hay &c.--"He has got a nitch," i.e. he is Drunk, he has got
as much Liquor as he can carry--
=Plye= to bend as the Poker is plied--
=Nan?=--What do you say
=Quilt= To Quilt a term used almost exclusive of any other to
denote the act of Swallowing when performd
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in the usual & natural way--the term Glutch being rather
descriptive of a difficulty in doing it or the doing it with
labour
=Rowney=--thin, uneven--generally applied to Cloth
=Rumple=--to Rumple is to press a thing, particularily
=Rathe=--early in the morning
a garment, so as to make it appear promiscuously
wrinkled--or tumbled
=Rubble=--universally us'd for Rubbish--
=Shewent= a Piece of Cloth is said to be--shewent--when it is
evenly wove & not Rowey--it is also applied in other Cases but
always to denote a thing Level & even--to Look Shewent, is to
Look demure
=Shim= This word is rather of Glocestershire but it is
nevertheless in use on the North Border of wilts, & is a
Corruption or Contraction perhaps of Seeming--Ex. gra--He is a
fine fellow Shim--or he is, Shim, a fine fellow means that the
person spoken of is apparently a fine fellow
=Skillin=--a shed
=Shog=--Shog & jog--words nearly of the same import & Signify
to move off degradedly--to slink or shirk away
=Shirk= off
=Sleazey=--thin--Slight--generally applied to Cloth Silks &c.
=Slink away=
=Slox= to waste a thing, or pilfer it--"Sloxd away" wasted or
pilferd
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=Stowl=--a root--great stowl
=Sprack=--Lively--bright quick a main sprack child
=Stole=--when trees, are buddg--trees
=Sultedge= a term applied to describe a Coarse apron much worn
by the poor Women & which they always describe by the term a
Sultedge apron
=Swingeing=--violent--great--forcible
=Sprawny= a Sweetheart [Misread as Sprawing by Britton.]
=Tack= a shelf--put it on the tack--i e put it on the
Shelf--How many tacks are there in the Pantry, i.e. how many
Shelves
=Teft=--to teft a thing is to judge of its weight by taking it
in the hand i e--what Heft do you think this Bundle is--I dont
know Let's teft it--i.e. let me take it in my hand
=Thic= & =Thuck= this & that--as thic wâ this way
=Tine=--to kindle--to tine a fire is to Light a fire,--to tine
a Candle--to Light a candle
=Tine= to fence to tine in a piece of waste ground is to
enclose it with a fence of wood or quickset
=Tining= fences of Wood either Brushwood Pales or a Hedge
=Tun= Chimney
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=Tag= to tease to torment
=Todge=--a thick Consistency--Thick as Todge gruels, Soups,
etc, made unpleasantly thick
=Twit=--to upbraid
=Twire=--to Look at a thing wistfully or Critically 'How he
twir'd at her--i e. how wistfully he Look at her'--Common Phrase
=Vuddels= a spoilt Child
=Vinny= mouldy--Vinney Cheese, is mouldy Cheese--properly it
denotes anything tinted--not with a black or Rotten--but with a
whitish or blue mould--very common Phrase
=Unkerd= or =Unkert=--Lonely or Solitary--an unkert house a
Lone house--an unkert place a Solitary place--very Common phrase
=Weeth= tough Soft pliable--
=Yat= a gate--yat Post, a gate Post
=Wont= for Will not
=dree vour vive zix s=
N.B. In north wilts it may be remarkd that the formation of the
Plural by affixing en to the Noun is almost universal as house
housen Pease Peasen Wench wenchen--almost as universal too is
the transformation of the
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Substantive into an adjective by the same termination as a
Silken gown a Clothen Coat a Leatheren Shoe an elmen Board
&c. the pronoun Possessive too is formd in the same way as
hisn hern Ourn theirn--the old terms also, thic & thoc almost
Constantly exclude the expression This & That--There is also
here a Peculiar mode of forming active verbs from Nouns, which
are generally in use as apellations for professions--take an
Example Well Mary, how do you get on in Life? what do you &
your family do _now_ to get a Living in these times--Wy zur we
do aal vind zummut to do--Jan, ye know, he do _Smithey_ (work
as a smith) Jin the beggist wench do spinney the Little one do
Lace makey--I do _Chorey_ (go out as a Chore Woman) and the
two Boys do Bird keepey--that is One works as a smith--one
spins one makes Lace one goes out as a Chore woman & two are
Birdkeepers which Latter term were more to the purpose if
expressd Bird frightener or driver