| Somerset dictionary: A-M: |
| Somerset | English | Additional Comments |
| Aah and aarr | Yes | (eg: well aah) |
| Acker | Friend | |
| Adder | After | |
| Addle | A pus-filled swelling | |
| Addled | Gone off (as in a bad egg) | |
| Again | Against | |
| Agen | Again | |
| Aggy | Gather eggs | (eg: I be gwain aggy) |
| Agin | Against | |
| Agon | Gone | |
| Aiyer | Air | |
| Alasadaizey | Alackaday, alas | |
| Ale | A weak beer, generally meaning it had fewer than five bushels of malt per hogshead | |
| Alice | Ulcer | |
| Allus | Always | |
| Anigh, anear | Nearby | |
| 'Ankicher | Handkerchief | |
| 'Ammered | Drunk | |
| Amper | Pimple | |
| Ann Summer | More handsome | |
| Anyhroad | Anyway | |
| Anywhen | Anytime | |
| Apiggy back | Carried on shoulders, as for a child | |
| Appleplexus | Apoplexy | |
| Apricock | Apricot | |
| Apse | Abcess | |
| Apse | Hasp, fasten | |
| Apsen | Made from the wood of the Aspen tree | |
| Arg or Argify | Argue | |
| Art'noon | Afternoon | |
| Ass backwards | Back to front | |
| Ast | Asked | |
| Astooded | Sunk into the ground | |
| Athirt | Across | |
| Auver | Over | |
| Aveard | Afraid | |
| Avord | Afford | |
| Avore | Before | |
| Awakid | Awake | |
| Awmos ' | Almost | |
| Awrigh ' | Alright | |
| Ax | Ask | |
| Ayeard | Heard | |
| Back house | Out house | |
| Backalong | Sometime ago | |
| Bade | Bed | |
| Bailly | Bailiff | |
| Baint | Is not | |
| Ballyrag | To scold, tell off especially with foul language | |
| Bandy legs | Crooked legs | |
| Batch | Hillock | |
| Baven | Faggot of unprepared twigs and branches | |
| Becall | Tell off | |
| Bedstick | Stick used for bed turning, especially feather beds | |
| Beer | A woodland suitable for feeding pigs on acorns and beechnuts | |
| Beesom, bessom | Broom made of twigs | |
| Begrumpled | Offended | |
| Begurge | Begrudge | |
| Beknown | Known about | |
| Benapt | Left high and dry by the tide | |
| Bestest | Best | |
| Betwaddled | Confused | |
| Bibber | Shiver | |
| Bibbler | A drinker | |
| Biddle | Beetle | |
| Bide | Stay | |
| Biden | Staying | |
| Bin | Been | |
| Birchen | Made of birch wood | |
| Bisghee | Axe for removing tree roots | |
| Bissen | Are not | |
| Bist | Are | |
| Bit and drap | Meal | |
| Blather | Fuss, uproar | |
| Blind Buck and Davy | Blind Man's Bluff | |
| Bobbish | In full health and high spirits | |
| Bog baler | Long-handled scoop for emptying outdoor toilets | |
| Bog house | Toilet | |
| Bone shave | Sciatica | |
| Bore | Tidal wave, especially on the River Severn and River Parrett | |
| Borrid | A sow ready to receive the boar | |
| 'Bout | About | |
| Bow | Small arched bridge | |
| Brassen | Made of brass | |
| Breze | Press down | |
| Brickle | Brittle | |
| Brown kitties or Brown Titus | Bronchitis | |
| Bruckly | Brittle, crumbly, falls apart easily | |
| Bucket and chuck it | The outdoor toilet | |
| Bull-beggar | Hobgoblin | |
| Bundle along | Bound rapidly | |
| Buppo or Bup-horse | Stick with a horse's head handle | |
| Bwile | To boil | |
| By me by | By and by | |
| Cack-handed | Left-handed | |
| Caddle | Confusion, muddle | |
| Cancervells | Icicles | |
| Cannee | Can you | |
| Cardin | According | |
| Cassen | Can not | |
| Cassen thee | Can you not | |
| Catcheldy | Changeable, indecisive | |
| Chammer | Chamber | |
| Chayer | Chair | |
| Chimbley | Chimney | |
| Chittlens | Pig's intestines | |
| Chockful | Absolutely full | |
| Chuffed | Pleased | |
| Cider ring | Cider press | |
| Cidered up | Drunk | |
| Circoo | Circle | |
| Claggy | Lumpy, muddy, as in heavy clay | |
| Clapse | Clasp | |
| Clavel | Fireplace beam | |
| Clavel -tack or clavey-tack | Shelf over a fireplace beam, a mantlepiece | |
| Cleeve | Steep slope | |
| Clim, climmer | Climb | |
| Clyce | River or land drain outlet controlled by a valve to let water out but in | |
| Cloam | Pottery | |
| Cob | Mud and straw mix used to build house walls | |
| Combe | Pronounced 'coom', a deep hollow valley | |
| Comferbull | Comfortable | |
| Cow-baby | Coward | |
| Craddlehood | Infancy | |
| Cre-apped | Crept | |
| Creem | Sudden shiver | |
| Crips | Crisp (as in sharp) | |
| Crock | Metal cooking pot | |
| Croopy down | Squat down | |
| Crousty | Ill-tempered | |
| Cubby hole | Small cupboard | |
| Cursmas | Christmas | |
| Cuz | Because | |
| Dabster | Expert | |
| Dadder | Confuse | |
| Dang I | Well, I damned! | |
| Dank | Damp and dark | |
| Dap | Boung along | |
| Daps | Trainers, plimsoll, plimsole | |
| Darter | Daughter | |
| Daver | Wilt, fall over | |
| Deb'n | Devon | |
| Desperd | Desperate | |
| Dewbit | Breakfast | |
| Dibs | Money | |
| Diddee | Did you | |
| Didden | Did not | |
| Diddiky | Rotten, crumbling | |
| Dimmet | The period of dusk after sunset | |
| Dimpsey | Half lit, at twilight or dusk | Can also be used to describe partial sight or short sightedness |
| Din I | Didn't I | |
| Dinner | Didn't he | |
| Dinnum | Didn't they | |
| Dinnuz | Didn't we | |
| Dirn | Upright post supporting a doorway | |
| Dish o' tay | Cup of tea | |
| Dollop | Large lump | |
| Donnins | Clothes | |
| Dough baked | Simple | (eg: 'e be dough baked) |
| Dough boys | Dumplins | |
| Downarg | To put down by argument | |
| Draffit | Vessel in which to collect pig swill | |
| Drang | Alleyway | |
| Drash, drasher | Tresh, thresher | |
| Drashel | Threshold | |
| Drauve | Drove, a track between fields | |
| Drawed | Drawn | |
| Drawt | Throat | |
| Dreckley | Soon | |
| Dree | Three | |
| Dre'un | Threaten | |
| Dring, dringet | To gather as a crowd, a crowd | |
| Drong | Narrow passageway | |
| Drode | Threw | |
| Droo | Through | |
| Droe | Throw | |
| Drub | Beat, drum out | |
| Drubbin | Thrashing, beating | |
| Ducks and Drakes, Ducks and Mallards | Game of skimming stones over the surface of water | |
| Dudder | Deafen or confuse with loud noise | |
| Dun | Brown | |
| Dungery | Toilet | |
| Durnt | Dare not | |
| Easement | Relief | |
| Edification | Education | |
| 'Ee | You | |
| 'ees | Yes | |
| Eezelf | Himself | |
| Eller | Mischievious child | (eg: a righ' little eller) |
| Elmen | Made from elm | |
| Emmets | Tourists in large numbers | |
| Empt | To empty out | |
| Er | Him or it | |
| Eyesore | I saw | |
| Fair t'middlin | So so | |
| Fairy Rade | Procession of fairies | |
| Farty | Forty | |
| Figgety puddin' | Plum pudding | |
| Finnikee | Fussy | |
| Firnd | Friend | |
| Fi-yul | File (of soldiers, but not the tool) | |
| Frump | Trump up, falsify | |
| Fuddled | Confused | |
| Gad | Whipping stick, for horse riding, or a stake | |
| Gaffer | Old man | |
| Gallivantin | Straying from home | |
| Gallox | Gallows | |
| Gally | Frighten | |
| Gallybeggar | Bugbear, hobgoblin | |
| Garn | Garden | |
| Gate shord | Place for a gate | |
| Gawk | Gape, stare | |
| Ghostisiz | Ghosts | |
| Gi' | Give | |
| Gi'd | Gave | |
| Gimmaces | Chains in which a prisoner is hanged | |
| Girnin | Grinning | |
| Gob | Mouth | |
| Goozegogs | Gooseberries | |
| Gore | Triangular piece of land | |
| Gramfer | Grandfather | |
| Grammer | Grandmother | |
| Grockle | Tourist | |
| Grockle shells | Caravans | |
| Gruff, gruffer | Mine, miner | |
| Gulch | Swallow fast | |
| Gullivers | Masked men wearing tall hats and bedecked in ribbons | They are akin to Morris Dancers and travel with the Hobby Horse in May Day celebrations. They collect money from passers-by |
| Gurt, girt | Great | |
| Gurt big dollop | Large lump | |
| Gwain | Going | |
| Gwains on | Affairs, unacceptable behaviour | |
| Gwon | Gone | |
| Haaf | Half | |
| Hag-rod | Bewitched | |
| Hang gallis | Fit for hanging, villainous | |
| Hangles | Fire crook | A hanging rod with teeth at intervals from which a cooking pot can be hung at different heights |
| Haps | Fasten | |
| Hard Cheddar | Bad luck | |
| Hassen | Haven't | |
| Hassen thee | Haven't you | |
| Hele, hell | To pour | |
| Hele tap | Residue left after pouring | |
| Hellier | Roof tiler | |
| Here away | Hereabouts | |
| Hick | Hop on one leg | |
| Hirches | Riches | |
| Hizzen | His own | |
| Hobblers | Men who haul and moor boats by rope | |
| Hold wi' | Agree with | |
| Holler | A hollow | |
| Hollerday | Holiday | |
| Holman | Made of Holm Oak | |
| Hoppy Cough | Hooping cough | |
| Hornen | Made of horn | |
| Hullerburrloo | A noisy confusion | |
| Hulve | Turn or tip over | |
| Hunky punks | Will-o-the-wisps, the souls of unbaptized children | |
| Hurdy 'ead | Red head | |
| Idden | Isn't | |
| Influrmayshun | Inflamation | |
| Inner, Inshee | Isn't he, isn't she | |
| Jack-o-lanterns | Will-o-the-wisps, the souls of unbaptized children | |
| Jaunders | The jaundice | |
| Jis | Just | |
| Kecker | Windpipe | |
| Keep | Large basket | |
| Keeve | Large vessel used in brewing | |
| Kirsmas | Christmas | |
| Kirsen | Christen | |
| Kittle Smock | Smock frock | |
| Lamb's wool | Mulled ale with spiced apple | |
| Lameger | Crippled | |
| Lants | Sand Eels | |
| Larn | Teach | |
| Lart | Wooden flooring | |
| Leastways | Anyhow | |
| Leat | Water channel to supply a mill | |
| Leb'm | Eleven | |
| Lew | Sheltered from the wind | |
| Lights | Lungs | |
| Lookzee, lookeezee | Pay attention | |
| Lookzo | So it appears | |
| Lug | Long heavy pole | |
| Maister | Mister | |
| Maized | Mad, insane | |
| Manchit, Manchip | Jam-filled rolled pastry | It's almost unique to Bridgwater |
| Mang | Mix | |
| Marnen | Morning | |
| Meach | Play truant from school | |
| Mell | Meddle | |
| Mid | Might (verb) | |
| Midlen | Fairly well | |
| Miff | Cause offence | |
| Mind | Remember | (eg: I d'mind my childhood) |
| Minded | Inclined | |
| Mommets | Effigies | |
| Mote | Small piece | |
| Mucker, Ole mucker | Friend, friend of long standing | |
| Mud horse | A type of sled with a ski-shaped base and wicker basket | Used on the Somerset coast for fishing |
| Mugglin | Struggling | |
| Mumper | Beggar | |
| Mussen | Must not | |
