United Kingdom [UK]
Source: A Selection Taken from 'The County of Devon' by G.A.Cooke
A vocabulary containing, for the most part, such provincial words as are current among the common people of Devonshire.
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acker(acre)
affeard(afraid)
ageest(astonished)
agging(egging on)
ago(just gone)
agoon(soon)
akether(quoth he)
alkitotle(a silly elf)
all abroad(open)
aller(a pinswell)
allernbatch(an old sore)
an(than)
aneest(near)
ansney(anticipate)
aprill'd(soured)
apurt(sullen)
aquott(squatted)
arg(argue)
art(eight)
aslat(cracked)
asneger(an ass)
avroar(frozen)
bak(beat)
barra(a gelt pig)
barton(a large demesne)
bate(quarrel)
bed ale(ale brewed for a christening)
bee lippen(a bee hive)
being/bin(because)
bellyharm(the colic)
bescummer(foul with dirty linen)
betwit(upbraid/repeat a matter)
bibble(drink often)
billid(distracted/mad)
biver(shake/quiver)
blid(blood)
bloggy(be sullen)
boostering(labour busily so as sweat)
bote(part)
bowerly(blooming (a comely bowerly woman))
brack(flaw)
buckle(a struggle)
buddled(suffocated)
bulhaggle(a scarecrow)
caal/caaling(a call)
cawbaby(an awkward timid bod)
cham(I am)
chave(I have)
chell(I shall)
chets(kittens)
chilbladder(chilblains)
chrisemore(an unchristened child)
chups(cheeks/chops)
churn(a bad woman)
clathers(clothes)
clear and sheer(completely/totally)
cleves(cliffs)
clopping(lame)
clume buzza(an earthenware pan)
coalvarty(a bed/ warm a bed with a warming pan)
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