CHAWK, CHAUK - Jackdaw
CHEAL, CHEEL - This usually relates to girls (as buye's be buye's). A young Cheel, or young maiden, who grow up to be 'ooman
CHILLERN - Children
"Look at they Chillern, they'm jumpin' up 'n down like a bag 'o flay's"
CHIKKY - Cheeky
"Chikky varment if you ask me they needs a good thraipin'
CLAW AMMER COAT - Tail Coat
CLEDGY, CLAGGY - Sticky, muddy, clay - "Daw'nt 'ee go vallin' een there buye, 'tiz master cledgee"
CLOAM - Earthenware or clay 'Clomin' - made of clay. 'Cloam Omn' - Cloam Oven
COCKLEERT - Dawn It has been suggested to me that this could be related to when the Cock Bird is alert?
COWFLOPS, FLOPPYDOCKS - Foxglove
CRADDED - Of acid disposition
"I tell 'ee, maister be propper craddid smornin"
CRILLY GREENS - Curly Greens, Curly Kale
| CROWD, CROWDER - Violin, Violinist, Fiddler
CHINKIN' GRASS - The first flush of spring grass
CHITTERLINGS- Pigs intestines
Or if a human were not well in the stomach they'd possibly say "Yer maister I be proper bad 'n me Chiterlin's"
CHONCHABLES - Icicles
CHUGGYPIG - Woodlouse
CLAW HAMMER COAT - Tail Coat
CLAUVELL, CLAWVIL - Beam of wood over the top of a fireplace.
CONFUDDLED - Confused
COOSE - This is the iron tip on hob boots
CRUMPIDDY - Uncomfortable, awkward
"O' get away with 'ee you be proper Crumpiddy like"
CRACKETY, CRACKY-WRAN - Wren
"Caw kin 'ee yer 'th ole Crackety, her be soundin' boddiful"
CAUCHY, COOCHY - Left Handed "Look at 'ee with thikky dart, 'ee be proper Coochy handed" |
