Words below from the book “Aall Tegithor!” by Dorfy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Words below from the book “Aall Tegithor!” by Dorfy. Geordie English Abide to bear with. a-hadden a-holden, to have hold of. ahint behind. bide abide, stay. biv by. When preceding a vowel, e.g.: Biv a lang chaalk.” blaa blow, meaning a pause, a rest usually for a smoke: “Let’s hev a blaa.” blast a puff, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11217,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11299,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11213\/revisions\/11299"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Geordie<\/strong><\/td> English<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Abide<\/td> to bear with.<\/td><\/tr> a-hadden<\/td> a-holden, to have hold of.<\/td><\/tr> ahint<\/td> behind.<\/td><\/tr> bide<\/td> abide, stay.<\/td><\/tr> biv<\/td> by. When preceding a vowel, e.g.: Biv a lang chaalk.”<\/td><\/tr> blaa<\/td> blow, meaning a pause, a rest usually for a smoke: “Let’s hev a blaa.”<\/td><\/tr> blast<\/td> a puff, e.g.: “A blast o’ baccy.”<\/td><\/tr> coo-paaed<\/td> cow-pawed. Awkward with the hands.<\/td><\/tr> canny (1)<\/td> careful, sparing, e.g.: “Be canny.”<\/td><\/tr> canny (2)<\/td> gentle, e.g.: “Canny on, noo.”<\/td><\/tr> canny (3)<\/td> nice, e.g.: “Sh’s canny.”<\/td><\/tr> canny (4) and (5)<\/td> can mean “very well” or “not very well,” according to the inflection, and referring to one’s state of health.<\/td><\/tr> claggy<\/td> sticky, tacky.<\/td><\/tr> darts<\/td> sticky mud.<\/td><\/tr> to “clart on”<\/td> to dilly-daily.<\/td><\/tr> “a lot of clant”<\/td> a delaying fuss or bother.<\/td><\/tr> cock-eyed<\/td> cross eyed, a squint.<\/td><\/tr> coign<\/td> to go round a corner, e.g.: “Coign a corner.”<\/td><\/tr> copple<\/td> topple, turn over, e.g.: “Copple your creels”\u2014a somersault.<\/td><\/tr> divvent<\/td> don’t.<\/td><\/tr> dovered ower<\/td> to doze.<\/td><\/tr> fettle<\/td> to mend.<\/td><\/tr> fettle (2)<\/td> state of health, e.g.: “Watt fettle?”<\/td><\/tr> grozer<\/td> gooseberry. (Editor I wonder if this is meant to be “Gozer?”<\/td><\/tr> gliff<\/td> a fright.<\/td><\/tr> goniel<\/td> a fool.<\/td><\/tr> give-ower<\/td> stop, cease.<\/td><\/tr> haadaway<\/td> go away. (Probably a corruption of the nautical term “hardaway.”)<\/td><\/tr> howay<\/td> come here. (“Hereaway”?)<\/td><\/tr> hinny<\/td> an affectionate term resembling the south country “honey?,<\/td><\/tr> hoy<\/td> throw.<\/td><\/tr> to “get the hoyers”<\/td> to be thrown over, i.e., jilted.<\/td><\/tr> hanted<\/td> to get familiar with a place. Used mostly in connection with domestic animals. “Hanted t’ hoose<\/td><\/tr> hanselled<\/td> worn or used until the newness is no longer obvious.<\/td><\/tr> howk<\/td> to poke out.<\/td><\/tr> “a howkin”<\/td> a beating, a thrashing.<\/td><\/tr> impittent<\/td> impudent.<\/td><\/tr> kittly<\/td> tickly.<\/td><\/tr> kittled<\/td> tickled.<\/td><\/tr> kittled (2)<\/td> kittened.<\/td><\/tr> kitlin<\/td> kitten.<\/td><\/tr> lap<\/td> wrap around.<\/td><\/tr> low<\/td> a flame.<\/td><\/tr> lowp<\/td> to leap.<\/td><\/tr> marra’<\/td> marrow, a mate, a. match.<\/td><\/tr> nowther<\/td> neither.<\/td><\/tr> on<\/td> of, e.g.: “Hez onny on ye onny on ye?” (“Have any of you any on you?”)<\/td><\/tr> prog<\/td> prick, poke about with.<\/td><\/tr> plodge<\/td> wade, paddle.<\/td><\/tr> porky<\/td> annoyingly fussy about food.<\/td><\/tr> scad<\/td> scald.<\/td><\/tr> scad (2)<\/td> tea: “A cup o’ scad.”<\/td><\/tr> stotty-cyek<\/td> a flat cake, “oven-bottom cake,” made of yeasted dough.<\/td><\/tr> stive, stife<\/td> a stifling atmosphere (usually connected with the smell of cooking).<\/td><\/tr> slockened<\/td> slaked, to quench the thirst.<\/td><\/tr> skeip<\/td> smack<\/td><\/tr> shull<\/td> a shovel.<\/td><\/tr> scruffy<\/td> very dirty.<\/td><\/tr> teem<\/td> to pour out.<\/td><\/tr> twine<\/td> string.<\/td><\/tr> tormit<\/td> turnip.<\/td><\/tr> tyettie<\/td> potato.<\/td><\/tr> varny<\/td> nearly, very near, very nigh.<\/td><\/tr> waa’nd<\/td> warrant, suppose.<\/td><\/tr> wairsh<\/td> tasteless. (Possibly corruption of “wheyish.”)<\/td><\/tr> “wairsh gob”<\/td> a preference for unseasoned food<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Dorfy – “Aall Tegithor!”
Terry Ford<\/p>\n\n\n\n