Aree faa, exclamation: “dear me.”
Bal, a mine.
Bannel, a broom, a yellow flowering shrub.
Beety, to mend nets.
Benen-vat, a good woman.
Benkeyl, a living stream.
Ben-ma-brea, woman of my heart.
Balsh, small rope.
Boobun, wick of the “chill.”
Bowjowler, a place in the fishing-boat, to keep the foot-line.
Breal, mackerel.
Breedy, to make nets, by meshing with needle and pin-roller.
Broaze, on the point of boiling.
Broazen, briskly; the fire burns briskly.
Bruz, small furze; remnants.
Bucca-boo, a fool; a bogey.
Bussa, a salting pot for meat.
Bussa-head, a blockhead.
Caboolen, a stone used by seiners.
Caboose, portable fishing-boat’s fire-place.
Capis, very large meshes in a trammel-net.
Cavers, the darnel.
Chea, word used in calling swine to feed.
Chea-chanter, hold your tongue.
Chill, a lamp.
Clibby, sticky, like molasses.
Clomb, earthenware.
Clunk, to swallow.
Cobesta, a part of fishing tackle.
Codgy or Clidgy, adhesive; gummy.
Coits, a pile of rocks; group of stones.
Costan, straw and bramble baskets.
Cowal, fish basket, with a band for the head, carried by fishwomen.
Cowl, fish-bladder.
Cowleck, a glutton.
Cravel, mantel-beam.
Croggan, limpet-shell.
Crowse, refreshment, carried to field in hay, corn, and potato
harvests.
Crum, crooked.
Crush, shrunk with age.
Derns, a door-frame.
Didgen, a bit; a small portion.
Dien, a man.
Dowse, to throw on the ground.
Dowsing-rod, divining rod, used to discover minerals, water, &c.
Drethen, a sand-pot, a sand-area ’neath the sea.
Drizzle, small rain.
Drizzling-dour, small stream.
Enys, an island.
Flucan-courses, a term in mining; cross-courses.
Freathed out, frayed.
Friday cum-sennet, next Friday week.
Fuggan, a cake; dinner cake.
Fun, a small kind of rush.
Fusy, good.
Geek, a sly look; a peep.
Ging, to fasten a fish hook to line with wire.
Gord, a nine-feet rod to measure land.
Griglens, remains of a heath broom.
Guldize, harvest home.
Gurry, a four-handled barrow with enclosed sides.
Gwarrah, the farthest, the most distant.
Gweean, perry-winkle.
Hayl, a river.
Heevil, three-prong fork, a stable implement.
Hilla, the nightmare.
Hogan, miners’ dinner.
Huel, a mine.
Ianken, walking quickly.
Jonic, fair, straightforward.
Jsenequick, italian-iron.
Jouder, fish overboiled.
Jowdy, to walk in water with boots and stockings on.
Kanker, a small crab.
Kay-yer, a coarse winnowing machine.
Keals (quilles) nine-pins.
Keal-alley, a bowling-green.
Keddened and Cabageed, booted with mud; dirty.
Keg, a dog.
Kente-pathen-gy, wooden pins belonging to the stone anchor used in
punts.
Keygans, small refuse roots.
Kibbal, a mine bucket.
Kibbin, to steal.
Kicker, fishing boats’ small mizen sail.
Keggil, a piece of wood used by thread-spinners.
Kiskey, a rotten stick.
Kist-vaen, stone chest.
Ku-lar, to lend.
Laggen, to splash in the water.
Laister, yellow iris, or water flag.
Lasking, keep near shore, a term used by fishermen.
Lenth, shelter, cover from the weather.
Ligge, broth; soup.
Ludras, a frame for the (Killick).
Meanolas, a fire-place, a square box made of stones and clay, made by
fishermen.
Midge-go-morrah, hesitation, doubt, excuse.
Miggle-cum-par, mixed fuel—a term used in swine feeding; confusion, a
mixture.
Minch, to play truant—shun school.
Moppeneede, hide and go seek, a game.
Mowaz, a maid.
More, the root.
Muryan, an ant, emmet.
Nacken, pocket handkerchief.
Nuddick, back part of the neck.
Padger-paw, a lizard.
Pag-ae, please.
Peacher, a lure, an enticement.
Pedna-a-mean, heads and tails, a game of pins.
Pedn-borbas, cod’s head.
Pigal, a farm implement.
Piler, a farm implement, used to pound, or cut the beards from barley
in winnowing.
Pilles, naked oats (avena nuda).
Planchen, wood floor.
Podn, mine dust; tailings.
Pol, a pool.
Polyn, a stick.
Punick, a small person; a dwarf.
Purvans, shreds of cotton used in wick-making for a “chill.”
Quail, withered.
Quilken, a young frog.
Raf, refuse, waste.
Riggling, cleaning out the fire-place with the poker.
Rût, to rub; friction.
Scabby-gullion, a stew.
Scat, to knock; break to pieces.
Schecojan, call; invitation.
Scraggen, straggling.
Scrof, the refuse.
Scroggan, a worthless person.
Scud, to spill any liquid.
Scruff of the nuddick, nape of the neck.
Shong, a broken mesh.
Shethen, any thing long; a piece of hake used as bait.
Skillet, small tin saucepan.
Skubmaw, small parts; bits of wreck.
Slag, small driving rain (drizzle).
Slintrim, an incline; going down an incline.
Slotter, a sticky wet mess.
Stag’d, booted in mud.
Stroath, wild haste.
Strop, string; a piece of rope.
Swap, a wasp.
Sabs, to burn tabs,—grass tufts, raked together into piles for burning,
in preparing ground for seed.
Tabs, turf, harrowed fine.
Thurl, leary.
Timmy-noggy, a notched square piece of wood, used to support the lower
end of the Vargord.
To garm, to shout in anger; scold.
Tolyer-predu, baking-dish.
Toust, toiled or rumpled.
Towse, noise; tumult.
Towser, coarse apron.
Trantums, friskiness; wildness.
Tre, a farm.
Tubbal, double ball-pick.
Tubban, a tuft of earth.
Tummels, large quantity, applied in agriculture to crops of straw and
hay.
Tut, hassock.
Vargord, a spar, used as a foresail; bowline in fishing-boats.
Vean, little; “child vean,” little child; kerris vean, little kerris;
treveneth vean, &c.
Vezy, without; distant; away.
Vumfra, blow; a heavy slap.
Widden, white.
Widdles, nonsense; foolishness; romancing.
Whinz, mine-winch.
Zawn, a cavern.
Zelli, a conger eel.