Dictionary of Kentish dialect

A dictionary of the Kentish dialect compiled by Camilla Harley.

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'OD RABBIT IT od rab-it it

Interjection: A profane expression, meaning, "May God subvert it." From French 'rabattre'.

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AAZES

Noun, plural: Hawthorn berries - S B Fletcher, 1940-50's; Boys from Snodland, L.R A.G. 1949. (see also Haazes, Harves, Haulms and Figs)

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ABED ubed

Adjective: In bed. "You have not been abed, then?" Othello Act 1 Sc 3

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ABIDE ubie-d

Verb: To bear; to endure; to tolerate; to put-up-with. Generally used in a negative sentence as: "I cannot abide swaggerers" 2 Henry 4, Act 2 Sc 4

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ABITED ubei-tid

Adjective: Mildewed. (see also Bythe)

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ACHING-TOOTH

Noun: To have an aching-tooth for anything, is to wish for it very much. "Muster Moppett's got a terr'ble aching-tooth for our old sow."

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ACKLE

Verb: The only meaning attached to this word is that anything of a mechanical nature will, or will not, work. "My old watch won't ackle no-how!" "I got my cycle to ackle all right after giving the free-wheel a good oiling."

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ACT-ABOUT

Verb: (1) To play the fool. "He got acting-about, and fell down and broke his leg."

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ACT-ABOUT

Verb: (2) "Stop acting-about; stop skylarking." - West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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ACT-THE-GIDDY-GOAT

Phrase: To act foolishly. West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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ADDLE-HEADED

Adjective: Stupid; thoughtless. - West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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ADDLE-PATE

Noun: A foolish person. - West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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ADDLE-PLOT

Noun: A person who spoils any amusement. - South Kent

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ADDLE-POOL

Noun: A pool or puddle, near a dungheap, for receiving the fluid from it. - South Kent.

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ADLE ad-l

Adjective: Unwell; confused. "My head's that adle, that I can't tend to nothin'."

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A-DOIN'

Verb: Doing is here prefixed by "A", and the "G" of doing cut out. "What be ye a-doin' of Bob?"

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ADRY udreiAdjective: In a dry or thirsty condition.

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AFEARED ufee-rd

Preposition: .Affected with fear or terror. "Will not the ladies be afeared of the lion?" A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3 Sc1

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AFORE ufoa'r

Preposition: Before

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AFTERMATH

Noun: The grass which grows after the first crop has been mown for hay; called also Roughings. - Maidstone district. J.H.Bridge. (see also Aftermath, Fog)

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AFTERMEATH aaft-urmee-th

Noun: The grass which grows after the first crop has been mown for hay; called also Roughings. (see also Aftermath, Fog)

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AGAINST

Adjective: By the time that. "Get it ready against I come back." - R Cooke

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AGHTEND

Noun: Eighth. 'The Old Kentish numerals, as exhibited in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, are identical with the Northen forms, but are no doubt of Frisian origin.'

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AGIN urgin

prep.Against; over-against; near. "He lives down de lane agin de stile."

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AGREEABLE urgree-ubl

Adjective: Consenting; acquiescent. "They axed me what I thought an't, and I said as how I was agreeeable."'

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AIREY

Adjective: A word denoting a particular type of weather; the meaning is:- windy, or blustery; cold and gusty wind. "It be a roight airey day today mairt!" "The way the old sun be a-goin' down looks loike being airey weather for tomorrow."

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AIRY

Noun: The Area of a house. - Mrs Allen, c 1920. "One two three, olairy, My ball's down the airy. Don't forget to give it to Mary. Not to Charlie Chaplin." Ball game in West Kent and South East London in 1920's - London Street Games, Norman Douglas.

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AKERS ai-kurz

Noun, plural: Acorns

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ALEING ai-ling

Noun: An old-fashioned entertainment, given with a view to collecting subscriptions from guests invited to partake of a brewing of ale.

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ALE-SOP ai-lsop

Noun: A refection consisting of toast and strong ale, hot; customarily partaken of by the servants in many large establishments in Kent on Christmas day.

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ALL-A-MOST au-lumoast

Adjective: Almost.

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ALLEMASH-DAY al-imash

Noun: French, À la mèche. The day on which the Canterbury silk-weavers begin to work by candle-light.

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ALL-FOURS

Noun: A well-known game at cards; said by Cotton in 'Compleat Gamester' 1709, p 81 to be "very much played in Kent". - L.R.A.G.

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ALL-ON

Adjective: (1) Continually. "He kep all on actin'-about, and wouldn't tend to nothin'." (see also All-on (2)

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ALL-ON

Adjective: (2) Continually. "He kep all on actin'-about, and wouldn't tend to nothin'." - L.R.A.G. (see also All-on (1)

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ALLOW

Verb: To consider. "He's allowed to be the biggest rogue in Faversham."

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ALLOWANCE

Noun: An allowance; bread and cheese and ale given to the wagoners when they have brought home the load, hence any recompense for little jobs of work.- R.Cooke. (see also 'lowance)

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ALLWORKS

Noun: The name given to a labourer on a farm, who stands ready to do any and every kind of work to which he may be set.

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ALONGST ulongstprep.On the long side of anything.

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ALUS ai-lus

Noun: An ale-house. "And when a goodish bit we'd bin We turned to de right han; And den we turned about agin, And see an alus stan." - Dick and Sal, st 33

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Used for are; as - "They'm gone to bed." (see also Them)

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AM YE

Verb: Are you. "What am ye a-doin' of a-chasing them there chickens about?"

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AMENDMENT u'men-munt

Noun: Manure laid on land. (see also Mendment)

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AMMUT-CAST am-ut kaa-st

Noun: An emmet's cast; an ant-hill. (see also Emmet's cast)

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AMON ai-mun

Noun: A hop, two steps, and a jump. (see also Half-amon)

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AMONST THE MIDDLINS

Adjective: Phrase: In pretty good health. "Well, Master Tumber, how be you gettin' on now?" "Oh, I be amongst the middlins!"

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AMPER amp-ur

Noun: A tumour or swelling; a blemish

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AMPERY amp-uri

Adjective: Weak; unhealthy; beginning to decay, especially applied to cheese. (see also Hampery.)

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Preposition: (1) Frequently used for of. "What do you think an't?" "Well, I thinks I wunt have no more an't."

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Preposition: . (2) On. "Put your hat an." "An" was the genuine West-Saxon or Southern form of "on", (it is also the Old Saxon form). They joined it to nouns and adjectives, as we now do, but like our article 'an', it became 'a' when used before a word commencing with a consonant. Thus they said "an eve", "an urth", "an east", for "in the evening, on the earth, in the east"; but "afoot, afire, aright". It was employed more frequently than at present, and nothing is more common than "a summer", "a wInterjection:," a land", "a water", "a first" , "a last" for in wInterjection:etc.

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ANDIRONS and-eirnz

Noun, plural:. The dogs, brand-irons, or cob-irons placed on either side of an open wood fire to keep the brands in the places. Called end-irons in the marginal reading of Ezek.Ch 40 v 43 (see also Brand-irons, Cob-irons, Firedogs)

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ANENTS unents

Preposition: Against; opposite; over-against.

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ANEWST unents

Adjective: Over-against; near.

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ANNIT

Corruption of "Is it not" or "Isn't it", into the slang term "Aint it", and moulded into the Wealden brogue as "Annit". "Look at that rainbow, mairt. Annit a wonderful soight!". Another corrupt form is Ennet, though this word is not used as commonly as Annit. These words should not be confused with Ammet and Emmet, well-known Wealden dialect words meaning the insect Ant.

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ANOINTED unoi-ntid

Adjective: Mischievous; troublesome. "He's a proper anointed young rascal," occasionally enlarged to: "The devil's own anointed young rascal."

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ANOTHER-WHEN

Adjective: Another time.

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ANTHONY-PIG ant-uni pig

Noun: The smallest pig of the litter, supposed to be the favourite, or at any rate the one which requires most care, and peculiarly under the protection of St. Anthony. (see also Dannel, Dan'l, Runt)

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ANVIL-CLOUDS

Noun, plural:. White clouds shaped somewhat like a blacksmith's anvil, said to denote rain.

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APS aps

Noun: (1) An asp or aspen tree (see also Eps)

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APS apsn. (2) A viper. "The pison of apses is under their lips."

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AQUABOB ai-kwa'bob

Noun: An icicle (See also Cobble, Cock-bell, Cog-bell, Icily)

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ARBER aa-ber

Noun: Elbow.

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ARBITRY aa-bitri

Adjective: Hard; greedy; grasping; short for arbitrary.

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AREAR u'ree-r

Adjective: Reared-up; upright

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ARKIES

Noun, plural: Ears. One ear is an Arkie. "Aint young Jesse got big arkies." "You want to open your arkies a bit more then you'd hear what I'm a'saying of to ye!" "I've got a painful cold in my left arkie." (see also Weekers)

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ARRANT

Noun: An errand. "To get an arrant" - to go on an errand, i.e. for groceries, etc. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. 1920's.

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ARRIVANCE urei-vuns

Noun: Origin; birthplace. "He lives in Faversham town now, but he's a low hill (below-hill) man by arrivance." (see also Rivance)

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ARTER aa-tur

Preposition: . After. "Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling arter."

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Is often used redundantly. "I can only say as this - I done the best I could." "I reckon you'll find it's as how it is."

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ASHEN-KEYS ash-nkee-z

Noun, plural:. The clustering seeds of the ash tree; so called, from their resemblance to a bunch of keys.

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ASIDE usei-d

Preposition: . By the side of. "I stood aside him all the time."

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ASPRAWL usprau-l

Adjective: Gone wrong. "The pig-trade's all asprawl now."

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ASTRE aast-ur

Noun: A hearth. Lambarde - Perambulation of Kent, Ed. 1596, p 562, states, that in his time this word was nearly obsolete in Kent, through still retained in Shropshire and other parts.

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AUGUST-BUG au-gust-bugn A beetle somewhat smaller than the May-bug or July bug.

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Preposition: . Of. "I ha'ant heerd fill nor fall av him."

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AWHILE u'wei-l

Adjective: For a while. "He wunt be back yet awhile, I lay."

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AWLIN au-ln, au-n

Noun: A French measure of length, equaling 5ft. 7ins, used in measuring nets

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Noun: (1) The Axel-tree (see also Yax)

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Verb: (2) To ask. This is a transposition - aks for ask, as waps for wasp, haps for hasp, etc. "I axed him if this was the way to Borden." "Where of the seyde acomptantis ax alowance as hereafter foloyth." - Accounts of the Churchwardens of St Dunstan's, Canterbury.

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BACCA

Noun: Tobacco; foreshortened word, with the O corrupted to A. "Gies (give us) a nip o' bacca, George. I'm fair run right out moiself." (see also Barker)

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BACKENING bak-uning

Noun: A throwing back; a relapse; a hindrance

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BACKER bak-ur

Noun: A porter; a carrier; an unloader. A word in common use at the docks.

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BACK-OUT bak-out

Noun: A backyard.

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BACKPART bak-paart

Noun: The back, where part is really redundant. "I shall be glad to see the backpart of you," i.e. to get you gone. " I will take away Mine hand and thou shalt see My backparts; but My face shall not be seen." - Ex.odus Ch 33 v 23

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BACKSIDE bak-seid

Noun: A yard at the back of a house. 1590 - 1592 - "It'm allowed to ffrencham for mendinge of a gutter, and pavement in his backside . . .. 19d." - Sandwich Book of Orphans. 1611 - "And he led the flock to the backside of the desert" - Exodus Ch 3 v 1 (see also Backway)

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BACKSTAY bak-stai

Noun: (1) The flat piece of wood put on the feet in the manner of a snow-shoe, and used by the inhabitants of Romney Marsh to cross the shingle at Dungeness. (see also Backsters)

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BACKSTAY bak-stai

Noun: (2) A stake driven in to support a raddle-fence. (see also Backsters)

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BACKSTERS bak-sturz

Noun: The flat piece of wood put on the feet in the manner of a snow-shoe, and used by the inhabitants of Romney Marsh to cross the shingle at Dungeness. A stake driven in to support a raddle-fence. (see also Backstay 1, Backstay 2)

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BACKWAY bak-wai

Noun: The yard or space at the back of a cottage (see also Backside)

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BAG

Verb: To cut with a bagging-hook. 1677 - The working-man taking a hook in each hand, cut (the pease) with his right hand, and rolls them up with that in his left, which they call bagging the pease. - Plot, Oxfordshire 256

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BAGGING-HOOK bag-ing-houk

Noun: A curved cutting implement, very like a sickle, or reaping hook, but with a square, instead of a pointed end. It is used for cutting hedges, etc. The handle is not in the same plane as the hook itself, but parallel to it, thus enabling those who use it to keep their hands clear of the hedge. (see also Brishing-hook)

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BAIL bail

Noun: The handle of a pail, bucket, or kettle. A cake-bail is the tin or pan in which a cake is baked. (see also Baile)

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BAILE

Noun: "Item Nine milke truggs, one cheese baile and fallower and one milke payle ... 8s 6d" Will of John Bateman of Greenway Court, Hollingbourne, 1681 (KAO Pre 27/29/86). (see also Bail)

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BAILY bai-li

Noun: (1) A court within a fortress. The level greeNoun, plural:ace before the court at Chilham Castle, i.e. between the little court and the street, is still so called. They have something of this sort at Folkestone, and they call it the bale (bail). The Old Bailey in London, and the New Bailey in Manchester, must have been originally something of the same kind, places fenced in. Old

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BAILY bai-li

Noun: (2) Bailiff is always pronounced thus. At a farm, in what is called "a six-horse place," the first four horses are under the charge of the wagoner and his mate, and the other two, of an under-baily.

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BAILY-BOY bai-liboi

Noun: A bailiff-boy, or boy employed by the farmer to go daily over the ground, and see that everything is in order, and to do every work necessary. - Pegge.

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BAIN'T bai-nt

Phrase: For are not, or be, not. "Surely you bain't agoin' yit-awhile?"

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BAIST baai-st

Noun: The framework of a bed with webbing. - Weald. (see also Beist, Boist, Byst)

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BAIT bai-t

Noun: A luncheon taken by workmen in the fields (see also Tommy)

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BALD

Adjective: Bold The Northumbrian dialect retained, as it still does, many pure Anglo-Saxon words containing the long sound of 'a', which the Southern dialect changed into 'o'. This word contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, resembles the Northumbrian form.

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BALD-PATES bau-ld-pai-ts

Noun, plural:. Roman coins of the lesser and larger silver were so called in Thanet, by the country people, in Lewis's time. (see also Borrow--pence, Dwarfs- money, Hegs pence)

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BALK bau-k

Noun: (2) A cut tree.

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BALK bau-k

Noun: (1) A raised pathway; a path on a bank; a pathway serving as a boundary.

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BALL SQUAB bau-lskwob

Noun: A young bird just hatched.

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BALLET bal-et

Noun: A ballard; a pamphlet; so called because ballards are usually published in pamphlet form. "Use no tavernys where the jestis and fablis; Syngyng of lewde ballette, rondelette, or virolais." - MS. Laud, 416, 104. Written by a rustic of Kent, 1460. "De books an ballets flew about, Like thatch from off the barn." - Dick and Sal, st.77'

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BALLOW bal-oa

Noun: A stick; a walking stick; a cudgel. "Keep out che vor'ye, or ise try whether your Costard or my Ballow be the harder." - King Lear, Act 4 Sc 6 (first folio ed)

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BANNA ban'u

Phrase: For be not. "Banna ye going hopping this year?" (see also Banner)

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BANNER ban-r

Phrase: For be not. "Banna ye going hopping this year?" (see also Banna)

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BANNICK

Verb: To cuff, clout, or hit any person or animal. "Old Ed. 'e didn't arf give that old young 'un of Muss Week's a bannick on the ear for sarsin' him." "The eggler gave his old hoss a bannick across the knees with a faggot bat 'cause it tried to bite 'un." (see also Bannock)

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BANNICKING

Noun: A good hiding. "By Gar! Old Cuttie didn't half give his boy a bannicking for smashing his bungalow window with that football."

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BANNOCK ban-uk

Verb: To thrash; beat; chastise. (see also Bannick)

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BANNOCKING ban-uking

Noun: A thrashing; beating. "He's a tiresome young dog; but if he don't mind you, jest you give him a good bannocking."

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BANYAN-DAY ban-yun-dai

Noun: A sea term for those days on which no meat is served out to sailors. "Saddaday is a banyan-day." "What do'ye mean?" "Oh! a day on which we eat up all the odds and ends."

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BARBEL baa-bl

Noun: A sort of petticoat worn by fishermen at Folkestone. (see also Barvel)

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BARGAIN PENCE baa-gin pens

Noun: Earnest money; money given on striking a bargain. .

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BAR-GOOSE baa-goos

Noun: The common species of sheldrake. - Sittingbourne.

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BARKER

Noun: Foreshortened and totally corrupted form of Tobacco, as spoken by gipsies, pikeys and countryfied petty dealer types. "Dear beloved, kind sir, if you've a morsel o' barker in your pouch it would be much 'preciated, and may yer kind face never know sorrow, brother!" (see also Bacca)

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BARM baa-m

Noun: Brewers yeast. (see also God's good, Siesin, Sizzing)

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BARREL DRAIN barr'-l dreun

Noun: A round culvert; a sewer; a drain.

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BARTH baa-th

Noun: A shelter for cattle; a warm place or pasture for calves or lambs.

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BARVEL baa-vul

Noun: A short leathern apron used by washerwomen; a slabbering-bib. (see also Barbel)

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BAR-WAY baa-wai

Noun: A gate constructed of bars or rails, so made as to be taken out of the posts.

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BASH bash

Verb: To dash; smash; beat in. "His hat was bashed in."

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BASTARD bast-urd

Noun: A gelding.

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BASTARD-RIG bast-urdrig

Noun: The smooth hound-fish, mustelus laevis. - Folkestone.

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BAT

Noun: (4) A heavy piece of wood, generally 2" in diameter, several of which are usually incorporated in a a well-made and honest sized wood faggot. The term is also used for any piece of wood of about 4 to 5 feet in length and not too wide iin diameter to hold in the hand and able to be wielded about.

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BAT

Noun: (5) A use-pole, a brickbat, also in the compound, a three-quarter bat - R Cooke. (see also Use-pole)

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BAT bat

Noun: (1) French, Bâton. A piece of timber rather long than broad; a staff; a stick; a walking stick. The old Parish book of Wye - 34, Hen 8. - speaks of "a tymber-bat." Boteler MS. Account Books cir. 1664 - "pd. John Sillwood, for fetching a batt from Canterb(ury) for a midle piece for my mill, 10s.0d." Shakespeare, in the Lover's Complaint, has, "So slides he down upon his grained bat," i.e. his rough staff. Some prisoners were tried in 1885, for breaking out of Walmer Barracks; when the constable said, "One of the prisoners struck at me with a bat;" which he afterwards defined as being, in this case, "the tarred butt-end of a hop-pole."

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BAT bat

Noun: (2) The long handle of a scythe.

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BAT bat

Noun: (3) A large rough kind of rubber used for sharpening scythes.

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BAULLY bau-li

Noun: A boat (see also Bawley)

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BAVEN bav-in

Noun: A little fagot; a fagot of brushwood bound with only one wiff, whilst a fagot is bound with two. "The skipping king, he ambled up and down With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits Soon kindled and soon burned" - Henry 4, Act 3 Sc 1. And "It yearly cost five hundred pounds besides, To fence the town from Hull and Humber' s tides; For stakes, for bavins, timbers. stones, and piles." - Taylor's Merry Wherry Voyage. (see also Bavin, Bobbin, Kilnbrush, Pimp, Wiff)

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BAVIN bav-in

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BAVIN-TUG

Noun: A bobbin-tug. - J.H.Bridge to L.R.A.G. 1950's. (see also Bobbin-tug)

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BAWLEY bau-li

Noun: A small fishing smack used on the coasts of Kent and Essex, about the mouth of the Thames and Medway. Bawleys are generally about 40ft in length, 13ft beam, 5ft draught, and 15 or 20 tons measurement; they differ in rig from a cutter, in having no boom to the mainsail, which is consequently easily brailed-up when working the trawl nets. They are half-decked with a wet well to keep fish alive. "Hawley, Bawley - Hawley, Bawley, What have you got in your trawley?" is a taunting rhyme to use to a bawley-man, and has the same effect upon him as a red-flag upon a bull - or the poem of "the puppy pie" upon a bargeman. (see also Baully)

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BAY-BOARDS bai-bordz

Noun, plural:. The large folding doors of a barn do not reach to the ground, and the Interjection:ening space is closed by four or five moveable boards which fit in a groove - these are called bay-boards.

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BAYER

n,vb,& adj This words means BARE and also BEAR. In fact it covers all instances regarding these two words and is what I personally call a dialect collective-word. "Bayer (bear) with me Mary in moi sad loss!" "The autumn gales have blowed the trees bayer (bare)." "Scandlous it wor! Stud theer a- front o' the bedroom windy (window) as bayer (bare) as brass, the shamless Jezebel." "Oi saw one o' them 'Merican bayers (bears) up the Zoo in Lunnon town one time, mairt!." "Don't 'ee bayer (bare) down on that hosses head; let 'im walk free." (see also Burr)

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BE be

Verb: For are, am, etc. "Where be you?" i.e., "Where are you?." "I be comin'," i.e. "I am coming." This use of the word is not uncommon in older English; thus in 1st Collect in the Communion Office we have - "Almighty God unto Whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from Whom no secrets are hid;" and in St Luke Ch 20 v 25 "Render, therefore, unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's."

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BEAM

Noun: Beam Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Byeam)

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BEANFEAST

Noun: To have a beanfeast; to have a celebration. The workers in Woolwich Arsenal have an annual Beanfeast. - L.R.A.G.

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BEAN-HOOK bee-nhuok

Noun: A small hook with a short handle, for cutting beans.

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BEARBIND bai-rbeind

Noun: Bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis (see also Bearbine)

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BEARBINE bai-rbein

Noun: Bindweed. Convolvulus arvensis. (see also Bearbind)

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BEARERS bai-rr'urz

Noun, plural:. The persons who bear or carry a corpse to the grave. In Kent, the bier is sometimes called a bearer.

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BEASTS bee-sts

Noun, plural:. The first two or three meals of milk after a cow has calved. (see also Biskins, Bismilk, Poad milk)

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BEAVER

Noun: A word around which a certain amount of controversy has revolved. It has been pointed out that Beaver or Beevor, is a corruption from the French "Bouvoir", to drink. Actually Beaver, or Beevor, means breakfast. It is used hardly ever in the Weald, Mid-Kent, East Kent or within the three-mile almost pure dialect radius of the Kent town of Ashford. But it is used quite commonly in North-East Kent, and particularly in the Medway Towns of Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham. Almost all dockyardmen in the Royal Naval Dockyard at Chatham refer to their breakfast meal, partaken from 8.40a.m. to 9 am, as Beaver or Beevor. It may have originated in the Dockyards at Chatham, being used by French (Napoleonic) prisoners-ofwar confined to the old prison hulks then moored near the dockyard and Upnor Castle. From the Medway Towns, over the last century it no doubt found its way deeper into Kent, penetrating to the Weald and beyond. On most old-established farms in Kent, the workmen, if living near home could have a "break" (an Interjection:uption) for their morning meal or breakfast, or if working on some distant part of the farmlands could partake of their Beaver or Beevor, in any sheltered spot they could find. The words Beaver and Beevor, seem to mean a rough, cold meal taken out in the open (the fields or woods or the roadsides) at breakfast time: when taken at home or in the farmhouse itself, then it was called breakfast, whether it was a cold meal or a warm one. "When we've ploughed another furrow Garge we'll knock off for our beaver." "It's too cold for beaver under the hedge: let's nip down to the old cart-lodge and have her in there out o' the wind a bit." (see also Beevor, Breckie)

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BECAUSE WHY bikau-z whei

Interjection:g. Adjective: Why? wherefore? A very common controversy amongst boys:- "No it ain't" - "Cos why?" "Cos it ain't."

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BECKETT bek-it

Noun: A tough bit of cord by which the hook is fastened to the snood in fishing for conger-eels.

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BEDEN

Noun, plural:. Petitions. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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BEDSTEDDLE bed-stedl

Noun: The wooden framework of a bed, which supports the actual bed itself. "Item in the best chamber, called the great chamber, One fayer standing bedsteddle, one feather-bedd, one blanckett, one covertleed." - Boteler Inventories in Memorials of Eastry, p 224, et seq. (see also Steddle)

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BEE-LIQUOR bee-likur

Noun: Mead, made from the washings of the combs.

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BEETLE bee-tl

Noun: A wooden mallet, used for splitting wood (in conjunction with iron wedges), and for other purposes. Each side of the beetle's head is encircled with a stout band or ring of iron, to prevent the wood from splitting. The Phrase: se - "as death (deaf) as a beetle," refers to this mallet, and is equivalent to the esxression - "as deaf as a post."

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BEEVOR

Noun: Breakfast taken outdoors. (see also Beaver)

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BEFORE AFTER bifoa-r'aaft-r

Adjective: Until; after.

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BEHOLDEN bihoa-ldun

Verb: Indebted to; under obligation to. "I wunt be beholden to a Deal-clipper; leastways, not if I knows it."

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BEIST

Noun: A temporary bed made up on two chairs for a child. - Sittingbourne. (see also Baist, Boist, Byst)

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BELATED bilai-tid

Noun: To be after time, especially at night, e.g., "I must be off, or I shall get belated."

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BELE

Verb: Boil. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Bele (K) = Bile (N) = Boil

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BELEFT bileftn. For believed. "I couldn't have beleft it."

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BELLEN

Noun, plural: Bells. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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BELOW LONDON

Phrase: An expression almost as common as "The Sheeres," meaning simply, "not in Kent."

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BEND

Band. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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BENDER AND ARRS bend-ur-un-aarz

Noun, plural:. Bow and arrows.

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BENEN

Noun, plural: Prayers. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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BENERTH ben-urth

Noun: The service which a tenant owed the landlord by plough and cart.

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BERBINE bur-been

Noun: The verbena.

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BERK

Noun: Bark. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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BERTH burthVerb: To lay down floor boards. The word occurs in the old Parish Book of Wye - 31 and 35, Henry 8.

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BESOM

n (1) A besom, or besom-broom, is a small sweeping instrument composed of fine nut brushwood ends of a whippy character, tightened together and held iNoun, plural:ace by twisted thongs of the same material around a light bat or pole. This besom is used in lieu of a bristle broom by many cottagers in tidying up the outsides of their homes, and footpaths: it is used greatly by gardeners, especially in autumn when falling leaves are prolific upon the domains over which they have control. Another type of besom-broom, often found outside the back-doors of cottagers up to some twenty years ago was for wiping the mud off boots and shoes in bad weather instead of wiping the mud on to a mat, or to stomp it indoors when a cottager could not afford the luxury of a door mat. The larger besom was generally of the same construction as the smaller edition, and of the same basic materials (always of nut wood, be it minded!) and banded and held into position, not by nut wood thongs, but by light iron bands of an inch in width and lightly riveted. These bands were made beforehand and the broom was always a bit wider than the bands, so that when the bands where driven home over the brushwood they settled down and tightened up the whole into position around a strong bat of wood some two inches in diameter. The bands, usually three in number, graded the width of the broom, from the rather full and whippy bottom, to the less wide middle part up to the much narrower and very hardly held top section. The pole itself usually protruded a foot above the broom, and some fifteeen or eighteen inches below it. The upper part of the bat or pole was to hold onto to facilitate the brushing off of the footwear and the lower portion of the bat, pole or stake, which was sharp pointed, and driven well into the earth kept the large besom-broom in an upright position. "Give me the small besom so's I can swip up the leaves off the path." "Now you go outside at once you naughty, dirty boy and wipe them muddy boots of yours on the besom."

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BESOM

Noun: (2) A naughty child "My young Katie be a rare little besom, a'rollicking and a'rellocking over everything." "Did you ever see such a young besom? He's gone and pulled up all o' his fayther's (father's) spring onions." "They're such little besoms around the house, that I shall be mighty glad when the school-holidays are over."

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BESOM

Noun: (3) A maiden of peculiar temperament, or questionable character. "She's a bit of a besom, be young Sarah; always a'playing around with the boys, and she be only fourteen." "That young woman down the lane never does any work, but she can afford more fags than a hardworking man: and look at the fashions she wears! always donged up in the height of it! I say she's no cop. Between you and me Missis, she's a lazy, crafty, no-good besom of a woman."

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BEST

Verb: To best or get the better of. "I shall best ye."

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BESTID bistidAdjective: Destitute; forlorn; in evil case.

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BESTLE

Verb: Bustle. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Bestle (K) = Bustle (S)

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BESY

Adjective: Busy. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Besy (K) = Busy (S)

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BET

Verb: To beat. "Martha! Yur bet up them eggsies at once, so's we kin get on with the big cake." "Young Jim thought he could fight summat (something) good, but that there Harry Pile bet (beat) him easy as shelling pea-hucks." "Aye! and we bet Bonypart; an' we bet old Kaiser Bill an' we bet old Hatler (Hitler) an we kin bet them Russhies, too, surelye!"

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BETTER-MOST

Adjective: Best or Superior. "That be a foine sow you have there master. It must be the better-most pig around these parts." "Your frock aint as nice as mine, young Mary: mine be the bettermost one." "I be the better-most fighter in our school, and I can bet (beat) any an (of) ye yurr (here)!" (see also Bettermy)

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BETTERMY bet-urmi

Adjective: Superior; used for "bettermost." "They be rather bettermy sort of folk." (see also Bettermost)

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BEVER bee-vur

Noun: A slight meal, not necessarily accompanied by drink, taken between breakfast and dinner, or between dinner and tea. (see also Elevenses, Leavener, Progger, Scran)

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BEVET

Noun: A bevet of bees. Testamenta Cantiana, East Kent section, p 84

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BIB bib

Noun: Name among Folkestone fishermen for the pouter.

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BIBBER bib-ur

Verb: To tremble. "I saw his under lip bibber."

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BIDE bei-d

Verb: To stay. "Just you let that bide," i.e. let it be as it is, and don't meddle with it.

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BIER-BALKS bee-r-bauks

Noun, plural: Church ways or paths, along which a bier and coffin may be carried.

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BIGAROO big-ur'oo

Noun: The whiteheart cherry.

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BILBOW

Noun: A framework for holding cows during milking. Bilboa, see Shakespeare. - R Cooke.

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BILLET bil-it

Noun: A spread bat or swingle bar, to which horses' traces are fastened. (see also Gig, Spreadbat)

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BIN

Noun: Hop bin, for collecting picked hops in West Kent. - L.R.A.G.

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BINDER bei-ndur

Noun: A long stick used for hedging; a long, piable stick of any kind; thus, walnuts are thrashed with a binder. Also applied to the sticks used in binding on the thatch of houses ot stacks. "They shouted fire, and when Master Wood poked his head out of the top room window, they hit him as hard as they could with long binders, and then jumped the dyke, and hid in the barn."

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BING-ALE bing-ail

Noun: Ale given at a tithe feast.

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BIRDES NESTES bir-diz nes-tiz

Noun, plural:. Birds' nests. This old-world Phrase: se was constantly used some years back by some of the ancients of Eastry, who have now adopted the more modern pronounciation.

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BISHOP'S-FINGER

Noun: A guide post; so called, according to Pegge, because it shows the right way, but does not go therein. (see also Pointing-post)

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BISKINS bisk-inz

Noun, plural:. In East Kent, they so call the two or three first meals of milk after the cow has calved. (see also Beasts, Bismilk, Poad Milk)

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BISMILK bis-milk

Noun: In East Kent, they so call the two or three first meals of milk after the cow has calved. (see also Beasts, Biskins, Poad Milk)

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BLACKBRINDS

Noun, plural:.Oak trees, less than 6 inches in diameter, or 24 inches in circumference allowing for bark. Over these sizes the oaks are called oak timber. Blackbrinds are used greatly for fencing work, etc., and particularly for the making of good stout posts. (see also Black-rind)

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BLACKIE blak-I

Noun: A black-bird - Sittingbourne

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BLACK-RIND blak-reind

Noun: A small oak that does not develop to any size. "Them blackrinds won't saw into timber, but they''ll do for postes." (see also Blackbrinds)

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BLACK-TAN blak-tan

Noun: Good for nothing. "Dat dare pikey is a regler black-tan."

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BLAR blaar

Verb: To bellow; to bleat; to low. "The old cow keeps all-on blaring after her calf." (see also Blare)

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BLARE blair

Verb: To bellow; to bleat; to low. "The old cow keeps all-on blaring after her calf." (see also Blar)

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BLAW

Verb: Blow. The Northumbrian dialect retained, as it still does, many pure Anglo-Saxon words containing the long sound of 'a', which the Southern dialect changed into 'o'. This word contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, resembles the Northumbrian form.

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BLEAT bleet

Adjective: (1) Bleak

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BLEAT

Adjective: (2) Corruption of bleak, cold, cheerless. "She adn't got a fire in her kitchen and it was quite bleat in there." "It's a bleat-looking day, sir. Cold and huvvery (shivery), and all likelihood o' rain 'fore the artnoon's out." - Wealden.

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BLEAT-WIND

Noun: Corruption of Bleak Wind. A very cold, penetrating wind. A north-east or easterly wind. "That wind from the aist (east) blows right through ye a-coming across the old Ley. Real bleat it be!" "Come inside out o' that bleat wind Jess, and have a mug o' tea to warm ye up a bit: you kin finish a-chopping up they faggots arterwards." "Even with this thick old coat o' mine I'm a-wearing today, I can't keep out that there bleat-wind. Cuts right through a body and chills yer innards right sick" - Wealden.

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BLEDDER

Noun: Bladder. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The ' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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BLEND

Adjective: Blind. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Blend (K) = Blind (N)

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BLEST

Noun: Blast. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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BLETHER

Verb: To talk a lot of nonsence. The trouble with this word is that it is recognised English and an English Dictionary word. But people in the Weald of Kent strenuously deny that Blether is any other than of Kentish dialect origin. Blethering is often heard in the Weald of Kent and, of course, has connections with "to blether". Yet again, argument mars its lead, this time over Blethering, for Blethering is most definitely a piece of Irish dialect, confined to Co. Galway. In the ordinary way of talking, the word Blether has been corrupted to Blithering, and quite possibly the corruption Blithering has been altered, though still corrupt, by Kentish brogue to these words, Blether and Blethering. "Hark to him blether, the ow'd fool. Blethering all the time he be 'bout summat or t'other." "Shet (shut) your blethering you numb-skull. They made a monkey out of ye instead of a schollard (scholar) 'Plushy' Skinner!" "Blether, blether, blether all the time! It's a wonder where you get all that nonsense from to talk about. Even parson don't carry on quite as bad as 'e." Special Note:- Since starting this second volume, I was able, while on a visit to Egerton and Mundy Bois, near Ashford to pin-point the true Kentish meaning of Blether. After this quite recent research into this puzzling word I am now definitely of the opinion that, in its particular way it is of Kentish Weald dialect origin but only because of altered meaning of the English word Blether, caused possibly by the misconception of some person or persons, in the distant past, once the correctness of Blether (To talk a lot of nonsense). In Kentish Wealden dialect it means to talk a lot, to "carry on", in a more or less angry manner. To be argumentative. To annoy a person with over-much talking. To make a lot of talk, of a seemingly unending nature, over some trifle of common knowledge, UnInterjection:sting speech "Our old school gaffer (school master) will blether along for hours over nothing. Whoi only yes'dy he blethered all the first lesson on about smoking making you not grow up tall. Whoi my fayther tolt me that 'im and his brother Bill started chewing bacca when they was ten years old at school. Moi fayther and me Uncle Bill both nigh on six fut oigh (high), so I reckon our school gaffer be nothin' but a blethering old idjit, surelye!" "When you start to blether like that, kip yer temper. No need to lose yourself over what you don't rightly know the rights of." "Don't keep on blethering an it. I'm right and oi knows oi am. Your one o' they blethering argifiers, wot wont admit unself in the wrong." "When her ladyship opened up our Garden Fete I thot she would never stop her blether. All about our noble, hard-working modern farming generation etcetera! Parson 'e say 'Most Interjection:sting. So educative to the rural mind.' "In'tresting!' oi says to parson. "Heddicative! Whoi in moi young days, 70 year agon, when oi wuz ten and left skule at eight yearn (years) it wuz FARMIN'! And hemmed (damned) hard work from 4 o'clock in the marnin' till 8 o'clock at noight, yayer (year) in, yayer out. Oi wuz Carter's mate, and our owd farmer 'e did pay Carter 12/6 a week for the two an' us - oi got the half-crown! Work! Don't make oi doi (die) o' larfing parson-sir, and her leddyship up there yender (yonder) on that there nostrum ( he meant rostrum) when everyone knows the yenger (younger) generation just sits on their backsides on a tractor an' ploughs: an' cows be milked by 'lectricity: an' chickuns aint allowed to 'atch their own iggs: and cows have calves by incineration (he means insemination), harvesting, an' carrying, an' stocking an' thrashing (threshing) all be done boi a contraption of mechanicle-ness with a crew of ile (oil) smelly young-uns that ye cairn't tell t'other from which, kaze (because) the men they dresses more loike goils (girls) and them hiking hussies (flirting females) adongs (dresses) up like the man! Noble - 'ard-working - surelye parson-sir that be the most awfullester blether oi ever heard. Good arternoon!"

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BLEWITS

Noun: Tricholoma undum. - so called in Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. 1925-35.

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BLIGH blei

Adjective: Lonely; dull

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BLISSEN

Noun, plural: Blisses. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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BLIV

Verb: Corruption of 'Believe'. Believe; believed "I bliv I haant caught sight of him dis three months." (see also Bluv)

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BLOOD blud

Noun: A term of pity and commiseration, In East Kent, the expression, poor blood, is commonly used by the elder people, just as the terms - "poor body," "poor old body," "poor soul," and "poor dear soul," are used elsewhere.

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BLOODINGS blud-ingz

Noun, plural:.Black puddings

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BLOOMAGE bloo-mij

Noun: Plumage of a bird.

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BLOUSE blouz

Verb: (1) To sweat; perspire profusely. "I was in a bousing heat." is a very common expression. "An dare we strain'd an stared an bloused, And tried to get away; But more we strain'd, de more dey scroug'd And sung out, 'Give 'em play'." - Dick and Sal., st 71

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BLOUSE blouz

Noun: (2) A state of heat which brings high colour to the face; a red-faced wench.

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BLOUSING blou-zing

Adjective: Sanguine and red; applied to the colour often caused by great exertion and heat, "a blousing colour.".

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BLUE BOTTLES bloo bot-lz

Noun: (1) The wild hyacinth. Scilla nutans.

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BLUE BOTTLES

Noun, plural: (2) Blowflies. - J.H.Bridge.

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BLUE SLUTTERS bloo-slut-rz

Noun: A very large kind of jelly fish. - Folkestone. (see also Galls, Miller's-eyes, Sea-nettles, Sea starch, Sluthers, Slutters, Stingers, Water-galls)

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BLUNDER blund-ur

Noun: (1) A heavy noise, as of a falling or stumbling. "I knows dere's some rabbits in de bury, for I heerd de blunder o' one."

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BLUNDER blund-ur

Verb: (2) To move awkwardly and noisily about; as, when a person moving in a confined space knocks some things over, and throws others down. "He was here just now blundering about."

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BLUSTROUS

Adjective: Blustering. "Howsomever, you'll find the wind pretty blustrous, I'm thinking."

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BLUV

Verb: Corruption of ' Believe'. Believe; believed. " I bliv I haant caught sight of him dis three monts." (see also Bliv)

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BLY

Noun: (2) Look; feature. "This man has the bly of his brother" - He is like him at first sight . 'What is worth noticing is that the Kentish word is not the West Saxon or Southern form 'blee' or bleo (Anglo-Saxon bleo) , but the Old Frisian blie, bli.'

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BLY blei

Noun: (1) A resemblance; a general likeness. Anglo.Saxon bleo, hue. complexion. "Ah! I can see who he be; he has just the bly of his father." (see also Favour, which is now more commonly used in East Kent to describe a resemblance)

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BOAR -CAT boa-rkat

Noun: A Tom-cat.

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BOBBERY bob-uri

Noun: A squabble; a row; a fuss; a set out.

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BOBBIN bob-in

Noun: A bundle of firewood (smaller than a fagot, and larger than a pimp), whereof each stick should be about 18 inches long. Thus, there are three kinds of firewood - the fagot, the bobbin, and the pimp. (see also Baven, bavin, kiln-brush, pimp)

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BOBBIN-TUG bob-in-tug

Noun: A light frame-work of wheels, somewhat like a timber-wagon, used for carrying bobbins about for sale. It has an upright stick at each of the four corners, to keep the bobbins in their places. (see also Tug)

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BOBLIGHT bob-leit

Noun: Twilight.

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BO-BOY boa-boi

Noun: A scarecrow.

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BOCLE

Noun: Buckle. Use of 'o' for 'u'. Old Frisian; onder and op for under and up.

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BODAR boa-dur

Noun: An officer of the Cinque Ports whose duty it was to arrest debtors and convey them to be imprisoned in Dover Castle.

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BODGE

Noun: (4) Alley bodge, used between rows of hops. - L.R.A.G.

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BODGE boj

Noun: (1) A wooden basket, such as is used by gardeners; a scuttle-shaped box for holding coals, carrying ashes, etc The bodge now holds an indefinite quantity, but formerly it was used as a peck measure. 1519 - "Paied for settyng of 3 busshellis and 3 boggis of benys and a galon. . . 56d - MS. Accounts St John's Hospital, Canterbury (see also Trug, Trugg)

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BODGE boj

Noun: (3) An uncertain quantity, about a bushel or a bushel and a half. "Just carry this bodge of corn to the stable."

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BODGE

Noun: (2) A trug, or gardener's basket. Usually of wood and of a special construction and size. For other instances of Bodge see Volume on "Kentish (Wealden) Dialect" completed in 1935, the first of these works on the dialect of Kent. "Give me that there bodge young George so's I kin put enough o' these new 'taters in it for cook."

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BODILY-ILL bod-ili-il

adj.Phrase: A person ill with bronchitis, fever, shingles, would be bodily-ill; but of one who had hurt his hand, sprained his ankle, or broken his leg, they would say: "Oh, he's not, as you may say, bodily-ill."

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BOFFLE bof-l

Verb: (1) To baffle; to bother; to tease; to confuse; to obstruct. "I should ha' been here afore now, only for de wind, that's what boffled me."

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BOFFLE bof-l

Noun: (2) A confusion; a blunder; a thing managed in a confused, blundering way. "If you both run the saäme side, ye be saäfe to have a a boffle." - Cricket Instruction.

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BOIST boist

Noun: A little extempore bed by a fireside for a sick person. Boist, originally meant a box with bedding in it, such as the Norwegian beds are now. (see also Baist, Beist, Byst)

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BOLDRUMPTIOUS boa-ldrumshus, bold-rumshus

Adjective: Presumptuous. "That there upstandin' boldrumptious blousing gal of yours came blarin' down to our house last night all about nothin'; I be purty tired of it."

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BOLTER

Noun: A young wild rabbit, until it attains the age of six months or thereabouts. The young of the tame or domestic rabbit are never referred to as such. "By gar! you should have seen the young bolters down by Park Wood in old Sir Henry Dering's time! Hundreds of 'em! Now look there today: if you can count a dozen young 'uns you'r mighty lucky, and it's the same with the pheasants; hardly nary (nearly) three brace in all thet wood.". "Young Charlie, my nibs, 'e do like running after they little bolters 'long the old Thorne Ruffets. Gits angry with his little old self de little old boy do when he finds he can't catch they no-how."

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BOND bond

Noun: The wiff or wisp of twisted straw or hay with which a sheaf of corn or truss of hay is bound. "Where's Tom? He's with feyther making bonds."

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BONELESS boa-nlus

Noun: A corruption of Boreas, the north wind. "In Kent when the wind blow violently they say, 'Boneless is at the door.' "

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BONK

Verb: To hit on the head. Onometopoeic. (see also Bop (2)

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BOOBY-HUTCH boo-bi-huch

Noun: A clumsy, ill contrived, covered carriage or seat.

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BOOTSHOES

Noun, plural:. Thick boots; half-boots. "Bootshoe high," is a common standard of measurement of grass. "Dere an't but terr'ble little grass only in de furder eend of de fill, but 'tis bootshoe high dere."

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BOP

Verb: (1) To throw anything down with a resounding noise.

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BOP

Verb: (2) To hit on the head. "I'll bop you one." - Woolwich district. L.R.A.G. 1920's. (see also Bonk)

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BOROW bor-oa

Noun: A tithing; the number of ten families who were bound to the king for each other's good behaviour. "That which in the West country was at that time, and yet is, called a tithing, is in Kent termed a borow." - Lambarde, Perambulation of Kent, p 27.

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BORROW-PENCE

Noun, plural:. An old name for ancient coins; probably coins found in the tumuli or barrows. (see also Bald -pates, Dwarfs- money, Hegs pence)

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BORSHOLDER boss-oaldur

Noun: A head-borough; a petty-constable; a constable's assistant. At Great Chart they had a curious custom of electing a dumb borsholder. This is still in existence, and is made of wood, about three feet and half an inch long; with an iron ring at the top, and four rings at the sides, by means of which it was held and propelled when used for breaking open the doors of houses supposed to contain stolen goods. (There is an engraving of it in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol 2 p 86.) (see also Bostler)

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BORSTAL bor-stul

Noun: "A pathway up a hill, generally a very steep one." (Perhaps from Anglo Saxon beorg a hill, stal a seat, dwelling.) Borstal Heath, acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works for an open space in 1878, is situated in the extreme south-eastern suburb of London, and is one of the most beautiful spots on Kent, abounding in hills, ravines, glens, and woods. Snakes, owls, and hawks abound in its vicinity, and the Heath was formerly occupied by a pure race of gipsies. At Whitstable there is a steep hill called Bostal Hill. (see also Bostal)

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BOSCHE

Noun: Bush Use of 'o' for 'u'. Old Frisian; onder and op for under and up.

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BOSS-EYED boss-eid

Adjective: Squinting; purblind.

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BOSTAL bost-ul

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BOSTLER bost-ler

Noun: A borsholder or constable. "I reckon, when you move you'll want nine men and a bostler, shaän’t ye?" (se also Borsholder)

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BOULT boalt

Verb: To cut pork in pieces, and so to pickle it.

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BOULTING TUB boa-lting tub

Noun: The tub in which the pork is pickled. 1600 - "Item in the Buntinghouss, one boultinge, with one kneadinge trofe, and one meal tub." - Boteler Inventory, Memorials of Eastry, p 228.

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BOUNDS

Noun: The Phrase: se, no bounds, is probably the one of all others most frequently on the lips of Kentish labourers, to express uncertainty. "There ain't no bounds to him, he's here, there, and everywhere."

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BOUT bout

Noun: A period of time; a "go", or turn. In Sussex, it answers to a "day's work;" but in East Kent, it is more often applied to a period of hard work, or of sickness, e.g. "Poor chap, he's had a long bout of it."

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BOY-BEAT boi-beet

Adjective: Beaten by a person younger than oneself. "My father, he carried the sway at stack building for fifteen year; at last they begun to talk o' puttin' me up; 'Now I've done,' the ole chap says - 'I wunt be boy-beat;' and so he guv up, and never did no more an't."

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BOY-CHAP

Noun: A young man. "You are only a boy-chap." - Lynstead. Peter Lambert. 1963.

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BRACK brak

Noun: A crack; a rent; a tear,in clothes. 1602 - "Having a tongue as nimble as his needle, with servile patches of glavering flattery, to stitch up the bracks, etc." - Antonio and Mellida. "You tiresome boy, you! when you put on dat coat dare wasn't a brak in it, an' now jest see de state ids in!"

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BRAKE-PLOUGH brai-k-plou

Noun: A plough for braking, or cleaning the ground between growing plants.

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BRAKING brai-king

Verb: Clearing the rows betwixt the rows of beans with a shim or brake-plough.

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BRAND-IRONS brand-ei-rnz

Noun, plural:.The fire-dogs or cob-irons which confine the brands on an open hearth. "In the great parlor. . . ..one payër of cob-irons, or brand-yrons." - Boteler Inventory, Memorials of Eastry, p 225. (see also Andirons, Cob-iron, Firedogs)

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BRANDY COW band-i kow

Noun: A cow that is brindled, brinded, or streaked.

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BRAUCH brauch

Noun: Rakings of straw. (see also Brawche)

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BRAVE braiv

Adjective: Large. "He just was a brave fox."

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BRAWCHE brauch

Noun, plural:.Rakings of straw. (see also Brauch)

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BREAD

Noun: Bread. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Bryead)

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BREAD-AND-BUTTER bren-but'ur

Noun: In Kent these three words are used as one substansive, and it is usual to prefix the indefinite article and to speak of a brenbutter. "I've only had two small brenbutters for my dinner."

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BRECKIE

Noun: The word Breakfast shortened and slightly corrupted. Usually used by parents, mostly mothers, to their young children. Used in a coaxing manner when trying to get the young kiddies and babies to drink and eat their first meal of the day. "Now children, hurry up with your breckie, and off to school the lot an ye!" "There's mother's little boy, den! Come now loike a good chappie and eat up your nice brekky." "I've eaten my fill o' breckie, grandma! Can oi get down now please?" (see also Brekky)

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BREDALE

Adjective: Bridal. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Bredale (K) = Bridal (N)

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BREDGROME

Noun: Bridegroom. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Bredgrome (K) = Bridegroom (N)

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BREKKY

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BREN

Noun: Bran. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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BRENG

Verb: Bring. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Breng (K) = Bring (N)

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BRENT brent

Adjective: Steep. In a perambulation of the outbounds of the town of Faversham, made in 1611, "the Brent" and "the Brent gate" are mentioned. The Middle-English word Brent most commonly meant "burnt"; but there was another Brent, an adjective, which signified steep, and it was doubtless used here in the latter sense, to describe the conformation of the land.

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BRES

Noun: Brass. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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BRET bret

Noun: (1) To fade away; to alter. Standing corn so ripe that the grain falls out, is said to bret out. (see also Brit)

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BRET bret

Verb: (2) A portion of wood torn off with the strig in gathering fruit. (see Spalter, Spolt)

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BRIEF breef

Adjective: (2) Common; plentiful; frequent, rife. "Wipers are wery brief here," i.e. Vipers are very common here.'

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BRIEF breef

Noun: (1) A petition drawn up and carried around for the purpose of collecting money. Formerly, money was collected in Churches, on briefs, for various charitable objects, both public and private; and in some old Churches you may even now find Brief Book, containing the names of the persons or places on whose behalf the Brief was taken round, the object, and the amounts collected. Public briefs (see Communion Office, rubrics after the Creed), like Queen's Letters, have fallen into disuse; and now only private and local Briefs are in vogue.,

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BRIMP brimp

Noun: The breeze or gad fly which torments bullocks and sheep. (see also Brims, Brimsey)

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BRIMS brimz

Noun: The breeze or gad fly which torments bullocks and sheep. Kennett, MS Lans., 1033, gives the Phrase: se - "You have brims in your tail," i.e. "You are always restless." (see also Brimp, Brimsey)

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BRIMSEY brimz-I

Noun: Kennett, MS Lans., 1033, gives the Phrase: se - "You have brims in your tail," i.e. "You are always restless." (see also Brimp, Brims)

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BRISH brish

Verb: To brush; to mow over lightly, or trim, 1636 - "For shredinge of the ashes and brishinge of the quicksettes . . . 6d. " - MS. Accounts of St John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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BRISHING-HOOK

Noun: A sickle or bagging hook. - Peter Lambert. 1970's. (see also Bagging-hook)

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BRIT brit

Verb: To knock out; rub out; drop out. Spoken of corn dropping out, and of hops shattering. (see Bret 1)

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BROACH broach

Noun: A spit. This would seem to be the origin of the verb, "to broach a cask," "to broach a subject."

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BROCK brok

Noun: An inferior horse. The word is used by Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 7125. (see also Brockman, Brok)

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BROCKMAN brok-man

Noun: A horseman. The name Brockman is still common in Kent. (see Brock, Brok)

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BROK brok

Noun: An inferior horse. The word is used by Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 7125. (see also Brock, Brockman)

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BROKE broak

Noun: A rupture.

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BROND

Brand. The use of 'o' for 'a'. The Old Frisian, which has been quoted in support of these forms has brond, hond, lond, for brand, hand, and land.

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BROOK bruok

Verb: To brook one's name, is to answer in one's disposition to the purport of one's name. In other places they would say, "Like by name and like by nature." "Seems as though Mrs Buck makes every week washin' week; she brooks her name middlin', anyhows."

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BROOKS bruoks

Noun, plural:. Low, marshy ground, but not necessarily containing running water or even springs.

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BROOM-DASHER broom-dash-ur

Noun: One who goes about selling brooms; hence used to designate any careless, slovenly, or dirty person. "The word dasher is also combined in haberdasher."

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BROTHREN

n.p. Brothers. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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BROTTLE

Verb: Brittle. Wood that splits off easily is said "to brottle off well". - R Cooke.

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BROWN-DEEP brou-n-deep

Adjective: Lost in reflection.

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BROWSELLS brou-ziz

Noun, plural:. The remains of the fleed of a pig, after the lard has been extracted by boiling.

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BROWSELS

Noun, plural:. This name is given to a dish of hard-cooked odds and ends of meat of all kinds mixed with fat, the whole forming a hard cake, difficult to break and extremely hard to chew. It is supposed, and quite possible is, very nutritive. This peculiar foodstuff was manufactured by the village butcher at Pluckley, a Mr G Homewood, over 30 years ago, though this dish has not been made for many years now, the memory of the word remains to this day. (see also Browzels)

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BRUCKLE bruk-l

Adjective: Brittle.

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BRUFF bruf

Adjective: Blunt; rough; rude in manner.

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BRUMPT brumpt

Adjective: Broken; bankrupted. "I'm quite brumpt," i.e., I have no money.

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BRUNGEON brunj-yun

Noun: A brat; a neglected child.

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BRUSH bruosh, brush

Verb: To trim hedges; to mow rough grass growing thinly over a field. "Jack's off hedgebrushing" 1540 - "To Saygood for brusshyng at Hobbis meadow. . . 6d." - MS Accounts St. John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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BRUSS brus

Adjective: Brisk; forward; petulant; proud.

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BRUT brut

Verb: (1)To browse or nibble off young shoots. In the printed conditions of the sale of Kentish cherry-orchards, there is generally a clause against "excessive brutting," i.e. that damage so done by purchasers must be paid for.

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BRUT brut

Verb: (2)To shoot, as buds or potatoes. "My taturs be brutted pretty much dis year." (see also Spear (2)

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BRUT brut

Verb: (3)To break off young shoots (bruts) of stored potatoes. (see also Spear (3)

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BRYEAD

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BRYEST

Noun: Breast. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Breost (breste). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic

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BRYESTEN

Noun, plural:.Breasts. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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BUCK buk

Noun: (2) A pile of clothes ready for washing. It is now (1885) some 60 years ago since the farmers washed for their farm servants, or allowed them a guinea a year instead. Then the lye, soap, and other things were kept in the bunting house; and there, too, were piled the gaberdines, and other things waiting to be washed until there was enough for one buck. Shakespeare uses the word buck-basket for what we now call "a clothes basket." "Fal. . . . They conveyed me into a buck-basket; rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. . . ." - Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3 Sc 5.

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BUCK buk

Verb: (3) To fill a basket.

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BUCK buk

Verb: (1) To wash.

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BUCKING CHAMBER buk-ing

Noun: The room in which the clothes were bucked, or steeped in lye, preparatory to washing.

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BUCK-WASH buk-wash

Noun: A great washing-tub, formerly used in farm-houses, when, once a quarter, they washed the clothes of the farm servants, soaking them in strong lye.

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BUD bud

Noun: A weaned calf that has not yet grown into a heifer. So called, because the horns have not grown out, but are in the bud. "His cow came to the racks a moneth before Christmas, and went away the 21 of January. His bud came at Michaelmas." - Boteler MS. Account Book of 1652.

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BUFF buf

Noun: A clump of growing flowers; "a tuft or hassock." "That's a nice buff of cloves " (pinks).

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BUFFLE-HEADED buff-l-hed-id

Adjective: Thick headed; stupid. "Yees; you shall pay, you truckle bed, Ya buffle-headed ass." - Dick and Sal, st.84.

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BUG

n&vb(3) To become outwardly irritable; to get upset very easily. "He's got the bug in him 'smarning has farmer." (He's in a very short-tempered state, this morning, is farmer). "It's no good getting buggy (irritable) with all the house over your old tuth-ache; woi don't ye get on your old grit-iron (bicycle) and cycle into Aishfort (Ashford) an' get it pulled out, you miserable old thing!" (see also Buggy)

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BUG bug

Verb: (1) To bend.

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BUG bug

Noun: (2) A general name for any insect, especially those of the fly and beetle kind; e.g. Maybug. Lady-bug, June-bug, July-bug.

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BUGGY

n&vb To become outwardly irritable; to get upset very easily. "He's got the bug in him 'smarning has farmer." (He's in a very short-tempered state, this morning, is farmer). "It's no good getting buggy (irritable) with all the house over your old tuth-ache; woi don't ye get on your old grit-iron (bicycle) and cycle into Aishfort (Ashford) an' get it pulled out, you miserable old thing!" (see also Bug)

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BULL-HUSS bul-hus

Noun: The large spotted dog-fish. Scyllium catalus.

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BULLOCK bul-uk

Noun, plural:. A fatting beast of either sex.

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BULL-ROUT bul-rout

Noun: The goby.

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BULL'S FOOT

Phrase: "Don't know 'A' from a bull's foot" - unknown origin. J.W.Bridge. L.R.A.G.

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BUMBLE bumb-l

Verb: To make a humming sound. Hence, bumble bee, a humble bee.

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BUMBLESOME bumb-lsum

Adjective: Awkward; clumsy; ill-fitting. "That dress is far too bumblesome." "You can't car' that, you'll find it wery bumblesome."

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BUMBULATION bumbulai-shn

Noun: A humming noise.

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BUMBULUM

Noun: See Camden, where it means a fart.

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BUNT bunt

Verb: (1) To shake to and fro; to sift the meal or flour from the bran.

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BUNT bunt

Verb: (2) To butt. "De old brandy-cow bunted her and purty nigh broke her arm."

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BUNTING bunt-ing

Adjective: (1) The bunting house is the out-house in which the meal is sifted. "Item in the chamber over the buntting house, etc." "Item in the Buntinge houss, one boulting with one kneading trofe, and one meale tub." - Boteler Inventory; in Memorials of Eastry, pp 225, 228. (se also Bunt 1)

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BUNTING bunt-ing

Noun: (2) A shrimp.

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BUNTING - HUTCH bunt-ing-huch

Noun: A boulting hutch, i.e. the bin in which meal is bunted or bolted. 1600 - "Item in the buntting house, one Bunting hutch, two kneading showles, a meale tub with other lumber there prized at. . . 6s 8p." - Boteler Inventory; Memorials of Eastry, p 226.

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BUONE

Noun: Bone. 'The only examples of this kind (of pronounciation) that are to be found in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, are buone = bone, guo = go, guode =good, guos =goose.'

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BURR bur

Noun: (1) A coagulated mass of bricks, which by some accident have refused to become separated, but are a sort of conglomorate.

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BURR bur

Noun: (3) The blossom of the hop. "The hops are just coming out in burr."

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BURR bur

Noun: (2) The halo or circle round the moon is so called, e.g. "There was a burr round the moon last night" The weather-wise in East Kent will tell you, "The larger the burr the nearer the rain."

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BURR

n,adj,Verb: (4) A bear (the animal); bare (emply or naked); bear (to hold up, to hold) It is the Wealden brogue form with the rolling R, giving to it the unmistakable richness of this part of Kent's speech. "Look at they young-uns, a-bathing in the old hoss-pond as burr an they was born." "Taycher (teacher) tolt (told) us that polar-burrs be only found at the North Pole."

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BURY berr'-i

Noun: A rabbit burrow.

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BUSH bush

Noun: Used specially and particularly of the gooseberry bush. "Them there bushes want pruning sadly."

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BUTT but

Noun: A small flat fish, otherwise called the flounder. They are caught in the river at Sandwich by spearing them in the mud, like eels. But at Margate they call turbots butts.

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Verb: To be. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Beon (ben). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Byenne)

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BY GAR

Interjection: Corruption of the old oath "By God" used a great deal in the past but now dying out. Often heard in old-colonized parts of the USA and Canada where Kentish emigrants went with others on the covered wagon trails to find new homes across the Atlantic and to found villages and towns, that have retained in the more rural areas much of the Kentish brogue. The "By Gar" and By Garlly" have the Canadian and the US nasal twang in them by the ousting of the O by the A. The nasal changes are very noticable, though the Wealden dialect, fundamentally, remain. Most of my mother's people, the Piles of Pluckley, my great and great-great uncles took the new trails to help open up the New Far West over a century ago, when the great landrushes were on and also the gold-rushes, when California was taking shape, and the Red Indians still rode the land, burning, killing and plundering. They and many more of the old artisan families of the Kent Weald, took with them a far greater range of rich, uncorrupted dialect which today is more spoken in the rural districts from LeAdjective: lle to Carson City, than where it first originated - the Kentish Weald, the Ashford Valley, and the countryside of Malmains and West Kent. (see also By Golly)

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BY GOLLY

Interjection: (see By Gar)

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BY-BUSH bei-bush

Adjective: In ambush, or hiding. "I just stood by-bush and heard all they said."

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BYEAM bye-am

Noun: Beam. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Beam)

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BYENNE

Verb: To be. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Beon (ben) It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic (see also By)

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BYSACK bei-sak

Noun: A satchel, or small wallet.

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BYST beist

Noun: A settle or sofa. (see Baist, Beist, Boist)

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BYTHE beith

Noun: The black spots on linen produced by mildrew. (see Abited)

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BYTHY bei-thi

Adjective: Spotted with black marks left by mildew. "When she took the cloth out it was all bythy."

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CACK

Noun: Faeces. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.E.A.G. 1920's.

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CACKLE

vb,n To laugh. Perhaps also 'talk' as in "cut the cackle". - L.R.A.G.

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CAD kad

Noun: A journeyman shoemaker; a cobbler; hence a contemputous name for any assistant. "His uncle, the shoemaker's cad."

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CADE kaid

Noun: A barrel containing six hundred herrings; any parcel, or quantity of pieces of beef, less than a whole quarter. "Cade. - We John Cade, so termed of our supposed father. Dick - Or rather, a stealing of a cade of herrings." - King Henry 4 Part 2, Act 4 Sc 2 (see also Card)

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CADE-LAMB kaid-lam

Noun: A house-lamb; a pet lamb. (see also Hob-lamb, Sock-lamb)

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CADLOCK ked-luk

Noun: Charlock. Sinapis arvensis. (see also Kilk, Kinkle (1) & (2)

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CAILES kailz

Noun, plural:. Skittles; ninepins.

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CAKE-BAIL

Noun: A tin or pan in which a cake is baked.

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CALIVER kal-ivur

Noun: A large pistol or blunderbuss. 1600 - "Item in Jonathan Boteler's chamber fower chestes with certain furniture for the warrs, vis., two corslettes, one Jack, two musketts, fur one Horseman's piec, fur one case of daggs, two caliurs, fur with swords and daggers prized at. . . . . £4." - Boteler Inventory; Memorials of Eastry, p 225.

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CALL caul

Noun: A word in every-day use denoting necessity, business, but always with the negative prefixed. "There ain't no call for you to get into a passion."

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CALL-OVER kaul-oa-vur

Verb: To find fault with; to abuse. "Didn't he call me over jist about."

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CALLOW

Noun: (2) (see also Uncallow)

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CALLOW kal-oa

Adjective: (1) Smooth; bald; bare; with little covering; also used of underwood thin on the ground. " 'Tis middlin' rough in them springs, but you'll find it as callow more, in the high woods." In Sussex the woods are said to be getting callow when they are just beginning to bud out. (see also Uncallow)

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CANKER-BERRY kank-ur-ber-I

Noun: The hip; hence canker-rose, the rose that grows upon the wild briar. Rosa canina. "The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses." - Shakespeare - Sonnets, 54 (see also Haulms and figs)

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CANT kant

Noun: (1) A portion of corn or woodland. Every farm-bailiff draws his cant furrows through the growing corn in the spring, and has his cant-book for harvest, in which the measurements of the cants appear, and the prices paid for cutting each of them.

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CANT kant

Verb: (2) To tilt over; to upset; to throw. "The form canted up, and over we went."

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CANT kant

Noun: (3) To push, or throw. "I gave him a cant, jus' for a bit of fun, and fancy he jus' was spiteful, and called me over, he did."

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CANTEL kant-l

Noun: An indefinite number; a cantel of people, or cattle; diminutive of cant (1). A corner or portion of indefinite dimension; a cantel of wood, bread, cheese, etc. "See how this river comes me cranking in, And cuts me, from the best of all my land, A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out." - King Henry 4 Pt 1, Act 3 Sc 1 (see also Kintle)

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CANTERBURY-BELLS

Noun, plural: The wild campanula. Campanula medicus. The name is probably connected with the idea of the resemblance of the flowers to the small bells carried on the trappings of the horses of the pilgrims to the shrine of S. Thomas, at Canterbury. There are two kinds, large and small; both abound in the neighbourhood of Canterbury.

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CAP kap

Noun: Part of the flail which secures the middle-band to the handstaff or the swingel, as the case may be. A flail has two caps, viz., the hand-staff cap, generally made of wood, and the swingel cap, made of leather.

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CAPONS kai-punz

Noun, plural:.Red herrings. (see the list of Nicknames - Ramsgate)

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CAR kaa

Verb: To carry, "He said dare was a teejus fair Dat lasted for a wick; And all de ploughmen dat went dare, Must car dair shining stick." - Dick and Sal, st 8

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CARD kaad

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CARF

Noun: (2) Carf of hay. Dick staggered with a carf of hay, To feed the bleating sheep; Proud thus to usher in the day, While half the world's asleep. - Dick & Sal st 2.

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CARF kaaf

Noun: (1) A cutting of hay; a quarter of a stack cut through from top to bottom. "Dick staggered with a carf of hay To feed the bleating sheep; Proud thus to usher in the day, While half the world's asleep." - Dick and Sal, st. 2 (see also Karfe)

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CARPET-WAY kaa-pit-wai

Noun: A green-way; a smooth grass road; or lyste way.

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CARRY-ON kar-r'i-on

Verb: To be in a passion; to act unreasonably. "He's been carrying-on any-how."

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CARTEN

Noun, plural: Carts. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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CARVET kaa-vet

Noun: A thick hedge-row; a copse by the roadside; a piece of land carved out of another. Used in the neighbourhood of Lympne, in Dr. Pegge's time; so, also, in Boteler MS. Account Books, there are the following entries - "The Chappell caruet at Sopeshall that I sold this year to John Birch at 5 0.0. the acre, cont(ained) beside the w(oo)dfall round, 1 acre and 9 perches, as Dick Simons saith, who felled it. "I have valued one caruet at Brinssdale at 7.0.0.the acre, the other caruet at 6.0.0. the acre." "The one caruet cont(ained) 1 yerd and 1 perch; the other halfe a yerd want(ing) 1 perch." (i.e. one perch wanting half a yard.) (see also Shave)

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CAST kaast

Noun: (2) To be thwarted; defeated; to lose an action in law. "They talk of carr'ing it into court, but I lay he'll be cast."

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CAST kaast

Noun: (1) The earth thrown up above the level of the ground by moles, ants, and worms, and therefore called a worm-cast, an emmet-cast, or a mole-cast, as the case may be. "Them wumcaastes do make the lawn so wery unlevel." (see also Castie)

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CASTIE

Noun: The accumulation of earth over the nests of field-ants, the Common Red Ant (Rubrus Formica); also the heaps of earth upturned by moles and the exhausted mould excreted by the burrowings of earthworms. "That field be just a rare mass of ammet-casties (ant casts). "They mole-casties be a-spoilin' the grass down in the old Prebbles' Hill Meadows." "Brish (sweep) off those worm-casties off the lawn young Henry, and obsarve that they do make wunnerful top soil, and the orls (holes) that they wurrums (worms) have made help to take fresh-air and water well down into the sile (soil)". (see also Cast 1)

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CATER kai-tur

Verb: To cut diagonally.

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CATERWAYS kai-turwaiz

Adjective: Obliquely; stantingly; crossways. "He stood aback of a tree and skeeted water caterways at me with a squib."

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CAT'SBRAINS

Noun: Ground overlying gravel with spots of sand in it. 1295, Hadlow Manor Rolls - Castebreye; 1433, Hadlow Manor Rolls - Cattysbrayn; 1465, Will of William Pawley of Hadlow - Great Cattysbrayn. - Wing-Commander W.V.Dunbreck, 1954.

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CAVING ka-vin

Noun: (1) The refuse of beans and peas after threshing, used for horse-meat. - W.Kent. Called torf, toff in E. Kent. (see also Tauf, Toff, Torf)

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CAVING

Noun: (2) The refuse of beans and peas after threshing, used for horse-meat. - W.Kent. Called torf, toff in E. Kent. Also used of oats - J.H.Bridge (see also Tauf, Torf, Toff)

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CAWL kaul

Noun: A coop.

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CAXES kaks-ez

Noun, plural:.Dry hollow stalks; pieces of bean stalk about eight inches long, used for catching earwigs in peach and other wall-fruit trees.

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CEREMONY ser-r'imuni

Noun: A fuss; bother; set-out. Thus a woman once said to me, "There's quite a ceremony if you want to keep a child at home half-a-day. " By which she meant that the school regulations were very troublesome, and required a great deal to be done before the child could be excused. - W.F.S.

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CHALD

Adjective: Cold. The Northumbrian dialect retained, as it still does, many pure Anglo-Saxon words containing the long sound of 'a', which the Southern dialect changed into 'o'. This word contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, resembles the Northumbrian form.

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CHALK WEED

Noun: Lepidium Draba L. - Minster, Thanet. L.R.A.G.

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CHAMBREN

Noun, plural: Chambers. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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CHAMPIONING champ-yuning

Noun: The lads and men who go round as mummers at Christmastide, singing carols and songs, are said to go championing. Probably the word is connected with St George the Champion, who is a leading character in the Mummers play,

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CHANGES chai-njiz

Noun, plural:.Changes of raiment, especially of the underclothing; body-linen, shirts, or shifts. "I have just put on clean changes," i.e., I have just put on clean underclothing. 1651 - " For two changes for John Smith's boy, 4s. 0d. For two changes for Spaynes girle, 2s. 10d." - MS. Overseers' Accounts, Holy Cross, Canterbury.

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CHANGK chank

Verb: To chew.

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CHARNAIL

Noun: A hinge. Perhaps Char-nail, a nail to turn on. 1520 - " For 2 hookis and a charnelle 2p." - MS Accounts St Johns' Hospital, Canterbury. 1631 - "For charnells and hapses for the two chests in our hall." - MS,. Accounts St Johns' Hospital, Canterbury. (see also Charnell)

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CHARNELL

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CHARRED chaa-d

Adjective: Drink that is soured in the brewing. If, in brewing, the water be too hot when it is first added to the malt, the malt is said to be charred and will not give its strength, hence beer that is brewed from it will soon turn sour. The word charred thus first applies properly to the malt, and then passes to the drink brewed from it. To char is to turn; we speak of beer being "turned."

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CHART chaa-t

Noun: A rough common, overrun with gorse, broom, bracken, etc. Thus we have several places in Kent called Chart, e.g. Great Chart, Little Chart, Chart Sutton, Brasted Chart.

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CHARTY chaa-ti

Adjective: Rough, uncultivated land, like a chart.

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CHASTISE chastei-z

Verb: To accuse; to examine; cross question; catechize. "He had his hearings at Faversham t'other day, and they chastised him of it, but they couldn't make nothin' of him."

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CHAT

Noun: A rumour; report. "They say he's a-going to live out at Hoo, leastways. that's the chat."

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CHATS chats

Noun, plural:. Small potatoes; generally the pickings from those intended for market.

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CHATSOME chat-sum

Adjective: Talkative.

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CHAVISH chai-vish

Adjective: Peevish; fretful.

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CHEAK

Noun: Cheek. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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CHEAP

Adjective: Cheap. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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CHEASTE

Noun: Strife. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Chyaste)

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CHEE chee

Noun: A roost. "The fowls are gone to chee." Hen-chee. (see also Gee (1)

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CHEEGE cheeg

Noun: A frolic.

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CHEER cheer

Noun: Constantly used in North Kent, in the Phrase: se, "What cheer, meat?" as a greeting; instead of "How d'ye do, mate?" or "How're ye getting on?" ( Is 'What cheer'abbreviated to 'Whatyer'? L.R.A.G.)

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CHEERLY chee-rli

Adjective: Cheerfully. "The bailiff's boy had overslept, The cows were not put in; But rosy Mary cheerly stept To milk them on the green." - Dick and Sal, st 1.

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CHEESE-BUGS chee-z-bug

Noun: The wood-louse. (see also Mankie-peas, Monkey-peas, Pea- bugs, Peasie-bugs)

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CHEESE-IT

Verb: A corruption of cease, or cease it: to stop; to desist; to cease worrying; etc. "Chiese (or cheese-it) will yer! Keep on a-throwing my bonnet over the idge (hedge). " "Chiese aworrying! All will come aright. Remember what the old gaffer told us yayers ago - Rome wadn't builded in a day - nit (not) a yayer, neither." (se also Chiese).

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CHEF chef

Noun: (1) The part of a plough on which the share is placed, and to which the reece is fixed.

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CHEF

Noun: (2) Chaff. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word. Old English - Caff.

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CHEQUER BERRIES

Noun: Fruit of the service tree. Formerly sold as such in Maidstone Market, - Hanbury and Marshall, Flora of Kent. In Essex called "saars". There is a Chequertree Farm in Isle of Oxney. - Sedlescombe, Battle . M.P.Roper. 1972.

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CHERCHEN

Noun, plural:. Churches. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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CHERRY APPLES cher-r'i ap-lz

Noun, plural:. Siberian crabs, or choke cherries.

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CHERRY- BEER

Noun: A kind of drink made from cherries. "Pudding-pies and cherry-beer usually go together at these feasts (at Easter.) - Brand's Popular Antiquities, ed. Ellis 1. 180

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CHIDLINGS chid-linz

Noun, plural:. Chitterlings.

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CHIESE

Verb: (1) A corruption of cease, or cease it: to stop; to desist; to cease worrying; etc. "Chiese (or cheese-it) will yer! Keep on a-throwing my bonnet over the idge(hedge). " "Chiese aworrying! All will come aright. Remember what the old gaffer told us yayers ago - Rome wadn't builded in a day - nit (not) a yayer, neither." (see also Cheese-it)

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CHIESE

Verb: (2) Choose. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Cheose (chese). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic (see also Chyese)

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CHILLERY chil-uri

Adjective: Chilly.

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CHILL-WATER chil-wau-tr

Noun: Water luke-warm.

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CHILTED chilt-id

pp. Strong local form of chilled, meaning thoroughly and injuriously affected by the cold.

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CHINCH chinch

Verb: To point or fill up the Interjection:tices between bricks, tiles, etc, with mortar. - East Kent.

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CHIP

Noun: A small basket for containing strawberries, raspberries and other small soft fruits. - MidKent. (see also Punnet)

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CHITTER chit-ur

Noun: The wren. "In the North of England they call the bird Chitty Wren."

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CHIZZEL chiz-l

Noun: Bran.

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CHOATY choa-ti

Adjective: Chubby; broad faced. "He's a choaty boy." (see also Chuff)

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CHOCK chok

Verb: To choke. Anything over-full is said to be chock-full.

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CHOCKERS

Noun, plural:. Heavy footwear, of the hob-nailed, sprigged or steel-tipped variety of workmen's boots. "Look at his Chockers! They be worse than a warship with armour-plating." - North Kent. (see also Choggers, Choppers)

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CHOFF chof

Adjective: Stern; morose.

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CHOGGERS

Noun, plural:. Heavy footwear, of the hob-nailed, sprigged or steel-tipped variety of workmen's boots. "Hey sonny! Just you run over to my allotment and stomp down those big old lumps o' clay earth with your nice new Choggers." - North East Kent. (see also Chockers, Choppers)

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CHOICE chois

Adjective: Careful of; setting great store by anything. "Sure, he is choice over his peas, and no mistake."

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CHONGE

Change. The use of 'o' for 'a'. The Old Frisian, which has been quoted in support of these forms has brond, hond, lond, for brand, hand, and land.

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CHOP

Verb: To exchange. A levelhanded chop is an even exchange. - R Cooke.

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CHOPPERS

Noun, plural:. Heavy footwear, of the hob-nailed, sprigged or steel-tipped variety of workmen's boots. With regard to the word Choppers, this is used only in the following sense, that the heavy boots are used to kick a person's feet from under them in a fight or brawl; or to hack or to trip a man in a game of football. To kick or hack - to chop; to cut Away, their supports, i.e. feet. A footballer, who has for the most part of his playing days been given to fouling other players by chopping them over with his chockers or choggers ( in this instance Football Boots), often gains the nickname of "Chopper" - like Chopper Brown, Chopper Lee, etc. "When 'Chopper' Lee saw the referee was blind to his position, he took Adjective: ntage of it and chopped the rival centre forward's legs from under him, with his choggers." - North East Kent. (see also Chockers, Choggers)

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CHOP-STICKS chop-stiks

Noun, plural:. Cross-sticks to which the lines are fastened in pout-fishing. "Two old umbrella iron ribs make capital chop-sticks." - F. Buckland.

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CHRIST-CROSS kris-kras

Noun: The alphabet. An early school lesson preserved in MS. Rawl, 1032, commences "Christe crosse me speed in alle my worke." The signature of a person who cannot write is also so called. "She larnt her A B C ya know, Wid D for dunce and dame, An all dats in de criss-cross row, An how to spell her name." - Dick and Sal, st 57.

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CHUCK

Verb: (2) To throw. - L.R.A.G.

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CHUCK chuk

Noun: (1) A chip; a chunk; a short, thick clubbed piece of wood; a good thick piece of bread and cheese; the chips made by sharpening the ends of hop-poles.

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CHUCK-HEADED chuk-hed-id

Adjective: A stupid, doltish, wooden-headed fellow. (see also Chuckle-headed)

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CHUCKLE-HEADED chuk-l-hed-id

Adjective: A stupid, doltish, wooden-headed fellow. (see also Chuck-headed)

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CHUFF chuf

Adjective: Fat; chubby (see also Choaty)

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CHUFFED

Verb: To be pleased. - L.R.A.G.

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CHUFFER

Noun: A very big, or hearty, eater. "By Golly! Our young Willum (William) can't half chuffer, He'll eat us out of house and home, surelye!" "He do chuffer life a pig, and with less manners, believe me."

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CHUMMIE chum-I

Noun: (1) A chimney sweep.

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CHUMMIES

Noun: (2) House sparrows - The Kentish Note-Book 1, pp 300-1. (see also Chums, Sparr)

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CHUMS

Noun: House sparrows - The Kentish Note-Book 1, pp 330-1. (see also Chummies, Sparr)

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CHUNK chungk

Noun: A log of wood.

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CHUNTER

Verb: To grumble. "Don't you dare chunter at me my gal: I'm yere mither (your mother) and I won't a-stand forrit (for it)". "All 'e do is chunter, chunter, chunter." "Stop your chuntering grandpa.! You've a good daughter to look after you since your poor Annie died. If you was in Hothfield Workhouse you'd have summat to holler 'bout. You be free to come and go. You can enjoy your pipe o' baccy, and go up The Street (The Street is the local name for the main road - or street- through a village in the Weald and Ashford districts), to the "Black Hoss" (horse) every evening for your pint of o' ale - so, stop a-chuntering, dan ye!"

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CHURCHING

Noun: The Church service generally, not the particular Office so called. "What time's Churchin' now of afternoons?"

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CHYASTE

Noun: Strife Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Cheaste)

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CHYESE

Verb: Choose. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Cheose (chese). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Chiese)

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CHYEW

Verb: Chew. Exactly correspondoing to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic

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CLAD-HOPPERS

Noun, plural:. Name given by country people to large or heavy boots. "Young Bill ain't arf got a tidy pair of clod hoppers on today." "Stomp them large lumps of earth down with your clophoppers, Tommy." "Oi wants a payer (pair) of Sunday boots, not them there great clad-hopper things." (see also Clod-hoppers)

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CLAM klam

Noun: A rat-trap, like a gin.

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CLAMP klamp

Noun: A heap of mangolds, turnips, or potatoes, covered with straw and earth to preserve them during the wInterjection: It is also used of bricks. "We must heal in that clamp afore the frostes set in."

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CLAMS klamz

Noun, plural:. Pholades. Rock and wood-boring molluscs.

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CLAPPERS klap-urz

Noun, plural:. (1) Planks laid on supports for foot passengers to walk on when the roads are flooded.

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CLAPPERS

Adjective: (2) To go very fast. "To go like the clappers." - L.R.A.G.

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CLAPSE klaps

Noun: A clasp, or fastening. 1651 - "For Goodwife Spaynes girles peticoate and waistcoate making, and clapses, and bindinge, and a pocket, 0.1.8d." - Overseers' Accounts, Holy Cross, Canterbur.y

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CLAT klat

Verb: To remove the clots of dirt, wool, etc. from between the hind legs of sheep. (Romney Marsh) (see also Dag (1) (L.R.A.G. in 'Notes on A Dictionary of Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms' queries a connection between Clat and the Northumbrian Clart as in Clarty. Does Clayt (clay or mire) equal Clart.)

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CLAUEN

Noun, plural: Claws. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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CLAVEL klav-l

Noun: A grain of corn free from the husk. (see also Clevel, Clevels)

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CLAYT klaait

Noun: Clay, or mire. (see also Cledge, Clite)

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CLEAN kleen

Adjective: Wholly; entirely. "He's clean gone, that's certain." 1611 - "Until all the people were passed clean over Jordan." - Joshua Ch 3 v 17.

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CLEANSE klenz

Verb: To turn, or put beer up in a barrel.

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CLEAPE

Verb: Call. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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CLEDGE klej

Noun: Clay; stiff loam. (see also Clayt, Clite)

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CLEDGY klej-i

Adjective: Stiff and sticky.

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CLEPPER

Noun: Clapper. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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CLEVEL klev-l

Noun: (1) A grain of corn, clean and free from the husk. As our Blessed Lord is supposed to have left the mark of a Cross on the shoulder of the ass' colt, upon whom He rode at His triumphal entry into Jerusalem (St Mark Ch 11 v 7); and as the mark of a thumb and fore-finger may still be traced in the head of a haddock, as though left by St Peter when he opened the fish's mouth to find the piece of money (St Matthew Ch17 v 27), even so it is a popular belief in East Kent that each clevel of wheat bears the likeness of Him who is the True Corn of Wheat (St John Ch 12 v 24). As a man said to me at Eastry (1887) - "Brown wheat shews it more than white, because it's a bigger clevel." To see this likeness the clevel must be held with the seam of the grain from you. - W.F.S. (see also Clavel, clevels)

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CLEVELS

Noun, plural:. (2) Wheat grains "Look at they chevels; ain't they rare beauties? Seems we're going to have a fine wheat-harvesting this yurr."" - Wealden. (see Clavel)

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CLEVER klev-ur

Adjective: In good health. Thus, it is used in reply to the question, "How are you to-day?" " Well, thankee. not very clever," i.e. not very active; not up to much exertion.

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CLIMBERS klei-murz

Noun: The wild clematis; clematis vitalba, otherwise known as old man's beard.

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CLINKERS klingk-urz

Noun, plural:. The hard refuse cinders of a furnace, stove, or forge, which have run together in large clots.

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CLIP klip

Verb: To shear sheep.

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CLITE kleit

Noun: Clay. (see also Clayt, Cledge)

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CLITEY klei-ti

Adjective: Clayey.

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CLIVER kliv-r

Noun: Goose-grass; elsewhere called cleavers. Gallium aperine.

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CLODGE kloj

Noun: A lump of clay.

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CLOD-HOE

Noun: The clod-hoe of the Canterbury type is a medium shafted hoe with a heavy iron-head with two flattish prongs some six inches long, three inches in width between inner edges of the prongs. The prongs are usually half-an-inch wide, making an overall tilling capacity of four inches width. The clod-hoe of the Wealden type is a medium shafted hoe with a heavy ironhead with a single prong or blade, flat in character, about one and a half inches in width where is comes from the head, gradually broadening to approximately four inches at the cutting or tilling edge. Clod hoes are utility hoes, as they can be used for weeding, making furrows, banking up potato rows etc, and reversed, the heavy head will knock out the hardest clays to a fine tilth.

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CLOD-HOPPERS

Noun, plural:.Name given by country people to large or heavy boots. "Young Bill ain't arf got a tidy pair of clod hoppers on today." "Stomp them large lumps of earth down with your clophoppers, Tommy." "Oi wants a payer (pair) of Sunday boots, not them there great clad-hopper things." (see also Clad--hoppers)

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CLOSE kloas

Noun: The enclosed yard, or fenced-in field adjoining a farm house. Thus, at Eastry we speak of Hamel Close, which is an enclosed field immediately adjoining Eastry Court. So, a Kentish gentleman writes in 1645: "This was the third crop of hay some closes about Burges had yealded that yeare." - Bargrave MS Diary. The word is often met with in Kentish wills; thus, Will of Thomas Godfrey, 1542, has, "My barne. . .with the closses in the same appertayning."

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CLOUT

Verb: (3) To hit. - L.R.A.G.

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CLOUT klout

Noun: (2) A clod or lump of earth, in a ploughed field.

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CLOUT klout

Noun: (1) A blow with the palm of the hand. "Mind what ye'r 'bout or I will gie ye a clout on the head."

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CLOUTS

Noun: (4) Clothes. - L.R.A.G.

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CLUCK kluk

Adjective: Drooping; slightly unwell; used, also, of a hen when she wants to sit. "I didn't get up so wery early dis marnin' as I felt rather cluck."

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CLUNG

Noun: (2) Wet, unworkable ground, (? from Cling), otherwise called steelly. - R.Cooke. (see also Steelly)

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CLUNG klung

Adjective: (1) Withered; dull; out of temper.

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CLUNK

Verb: To clump, as in "To clump about". This word, like so many others is of a bastard-dialect nature. It is neither pure dialect, or alteration through the brogue or a corruption. "Stop they clunking about the house in they clod-hoppers (heavy boots) you've got on." "It fell down clunk (fell heavily). " I'll gie ye such a clunk (hard blow) ower the head in a minute." "Don't 'ee clunk about young-un." Though this word is often used with regard to its relationship to heaviness, I have not actually heard it in regard to a clump i.e. a clump of trees, clump of flowers, clump of bushes..

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CLUTHER kludh-ur

Verb: (2) To make a noise generally, as by knocking things together. Used also of the special sound made by rabbits in their hole, just before they bolt out, e.g., "I 'eerd 'im cluther," i.e. I heard him make a noise; and implying, "Therefore, he will soon make a bolt." A variant of clatter.

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CLUTHER kluth-r

Noun: (1) A great noise.

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CLUTTER klut-r

Noun: (1) A litter. "There's always such a lot of clutter about his room."

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CLUTTER klut-ur

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COADCHER

Noun: Cold-Cheer, meaning a cold meal, or a hot meal that has been allowed to grow cold. The Sussex dialect calls it Coadgear and it means exactly the same. "Hey, old ooman (wife) what does ye call this? Ivery (every) noight this cold-weather week oive only had coadcher to come 'ome to. Bread and cheese and pickles aint no meal for a wukkin (working) man this time o' yurr." "It may hev (have) ben hot when you made it mither (mother) but it be only coadcher now, anyways." - Wealden.

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COAL-SHOOT koa-l-shoo-t

Noun: A coal scuttle.

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COARSE koars

Adjective: Rough, snowy, windy weather.

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COB kob

Verb: To throw gently.

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COBBLE kob-l

Noun: An icicle. (see also Aquabob, Cock-bell, Cog-bell, Icily)

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COB-IRONS kob-eirnz

Noun, plural: And-irons; irons standing on the hearth, and intended to keep the brands and burning coals in their place; also the irons by which the spit is supported. "One payer of standing cobyrons." . . . . "One payer of cob-irons or brand-irons.". . . . "Item in the Greate Hall. . . . a payer of cob-irons." - Boteler Inventories in the Memorials of Eastry. (see also Andirons, Brand-irons, Firedogs)

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COCK-BELL kok-bel

Noun: An icicle. The Bargrave MS. Diary, describing the weather in France in the wInterjection:of 1645 says, "My beard had sometimes yce on it as big as my little finger, my breath turning into many cock-bells as I walked." (see also Aquabob, Cobble, Cog-bell, Icily)

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COCKER kok-ur

Verb: To indulge; to spoil, Ecclus.Ch 30 v 9. - "Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid."

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COCKLE kok-l

Noun: A stove used for drying hops.

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CODDLE

Verb: To mess about or to fuss around. "Oh dear me, Annie! I wish you wouldn't coddle about the house on your half-day, but run off home to see your parents, or even go into the pictures in town for a couple of hours." "My old grandpa's always coddling about in his toolshed for something or other."

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CODDLER

Noun: One who coddles, or fusses. "If there was ever a greater or more vexatious coddler than your fayther (father) ever born, I'd sure liken (like ) to see him.".

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COG-BELLS kog-bel

Noun, plural:. (1) Icicles. Lewis writes cog-bells; and so the word is so pronounced in Eastry. "There are some large cog-bells hanging from the thatch." (see also Aquabob, Cobble, Cock-bell, Icily)

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COG-BELLS

Noun, plural:. (2) See Congbells (2). Cog-bells is merely the alteration of Cong to Cog - i.e. the dropping of the N through the habitual word-laziness of the Wealden folk.

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COILER-HARNESS

Noun: The trace harness.

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COLD koald

Noun: In Phrase: se, "Out of cold." Water is said to be out of cold when it has just got the chill off.

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COLLAR kol-ur

Noun: Smut in wheat.

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COLLARDS

Noun, plural:. Spring greens.- Nicky Newbury. 1973.

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COLLARMAKER kol-ur-mai-kur

Noun: A saddler who works for farmers; so called, because he has chiefly to do with the mending and making of horses' collars.

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COMB koam

Noun: An instrument used by thatchers to beat down the straw, and then smooth it afterwards.

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COMBE koom

Noun: A valley. This word occurs in a great number of place-names in Kent.

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COME kum

Preposition: . On such a day, or at such a time when it arrives. "It'll be nine wiks come Sadderday sin' he were took bad."

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COMPOSANT kom-puzant

Noun: The luminous appearance sometimes seen on the masts and yards of ships at sea, the result of electricity in the air. "Besides hearing strange sounds, the poor fisherman often sees the composant. As he sails along, a ball of fire appears dancing about the top of his mast; it is of a bluish, unearthly colour, and quivers like a candle going out; sometimes it shifts from the mast-head to some other portion of the vessel, where there is a bit of pointed iron; and sometimes there are two or three of them on different parts of the boat. It never does anybody any harm, and it always comes when squally weather is about. "Englishmen are not good hands at inventing names and I think the Folkestone people most likely picked up the word from the Frenchmen whom they meet out at sea in pursuit of herrings." - F. Buckland

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CONCLUDE konkleu-d

Verb: To decide. "So he concluded to stay at home for a bit."

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CONE koan

Verb: To crack or split with the sun, as timber is apt to do; as though a wedge had been inserted in it. A derivative of Anglo-Saxon cinan, to split.

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CONE-WHEAT koan-weet

Noun: Bearded wheat. (see also Durgan-wheat)

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CONGBELLS

Noun, plural:. (1) The drips of mucous from an inflamed nose or droplets of moisture that have made their way from the eyes when made to weep by cold winds into the nose and been exuded at the tips of the nasal organ. Cong is the further corruption of the slang Conk, or Nose. Bells is the name given to the drops of water or mucous which they are supposed to resemble! Thus Cong (conk; nose) - Bells (drips or drops).

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CONGBELLS

Noun, plural:. (3) The fruits of the grape-vine are also called congbells and I once heard a lad, who did not known what they were remark to the owner of the vine, "That I likes them little-ballhangdowns, sir."

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CONG-BELLS

Noun, plural:. (2) Very short icicles hanging from trees, buildings etc. especially if they are dripping in a thaw. Also icicles formed by frozen breath on a man's beard or moustache. (see also Cogbells)

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CONJURE

vb,adj To be skilled in work; to be helpfull at work. "Yes, Peter. He is a very conjurable man. There beant (be not) a job on this farm that he can't do real good-like." "Ask old Harry to help us to conjure this sack of oats up onto the top o' this wagon." "Let him alone a-while and he'll conjure that old ile (oil) engine to go." "It was pretty to watch them thurr (there) ship dogs (sheep-dogs) conjure they ship (sheep) in to they folds."

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CONNIVER konei-vur

Verb: To stare, gape. "An so we sasselsail'd along And crass de fields we stiver'd, While dickey lark kept up his song An at de clouds conniver'd"

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CONTRAIRIWISE contrai-r'iweiz

Adjective: On the contrary.

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CONTRAIRY contrai-r'I

Adjective: Disagreeable; unmanageable. "Drat that child, he's downright contrary to-day."

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CONYGARTHE kun-igaarth

Noun: A rabbit warren. Lambarde, 1596. - "The Isle of Thanet, and those Easterne partes are the grayner; the Weald was the wood; Rumney Marsh is the meadow plot; the North downes towardes the Thaymse be the conygarthe or warreine."

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COOCH-GRASS

Noun: Triticum repens, a coarse, bad species of grass, which grows rapidly on arable land, and does much mischief with its long stringy roots. (see also Couch-grass)

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COOL-BACK kool-bak

Noun: A shallow vat, or tub, about 12 or 18 inches deep, wherein beer is cooled. "Item in the brewhouse, two brewinge tonns, one coole-back, two furnisses, fower tubbs with other. . . £6 14s. - Boteler Inventory, Memorials of Eastry, p 226.

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COOM

Noun: Grease, after thickening on wheels etc and becoming worn out, is called coom. - R. Cooke.

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COOPEONS

Noun, plural:. Coupons. "Don't give up all they coopeons off the ration books this week. We may need some for next week if we can't get into town where's there a more variety of stuff to choose from that aint on the ration."

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COP kop

Verb: (2) To throw; to heap anything up .

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COP kop

Noun: (1) A shock of corn; a stack of hay or straw (see also Shock)

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COP

Verb: (4) To catch. "You'll cop it" Is there a connection between 'to cop' and 'copper' or policeman? - J. H.Bridge.

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COP

Verb: (3) To hit; and extension of 'to catch'. "He copped him one on the jaw." - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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COPE koap

Verb: To muzzle; thus, " to cope a ferret" is to sew up its mouth.

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COPSAN

Noun: Head of a sluice in Teynham Marshes. - Sittingbourne. W.C.B.Purser. 1935.

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COPSE kops

Noun: A fence across a dyke, which has no opening. A term used in marshy districts.

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CORBEAU kor-boa

Noun: The fish Cottus gobio, elsewhere called the miller's thumb, or bull-head. (see also Miller's thumb)

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CORD-WOOD kord-wuod

Noun: A pile of wood, such as split-up roots and trunks of trees stacked for fuel. A cord of wood should measure eight feet long x four feet high x four feet thick.

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CORSE kors

Noun: The largest of the cleavers used by a butcher.

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COSSET kos-it

Verb: To fondle; to caress; to pet.

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COSSETY kos-iti

Adjective: Used of a child that has been petted, and expects to be fondled and caressed.

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COST koast

Noun: A fore-quarter of a lamb; "a rib".

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COTCHERING koch-uring

partc Gossiping.

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COTCHULL

Adjective: Upset. "He be cotchull today. His wife be in the Cottage Hospital to have her young-un born." "If you aint a good boy, to your old grandma, you'll mak me rare cotchull, you will.".

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COTERELL kot-ir'el

Noun: A little raised mound in the marshes to which the shepherds and their flocks can retire when the salterns are submerged by the tide.

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COTTON kot-on

Verb: To agree together, or please each other. "They cannot cotton no-how!"

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COUCH-GRASS kooch-grass

Noun: Triticum repens, a coarse, bad species of grass, which grows rapidly on arable land, and does much mischief with its long stringy roots. (see also Cooch-grass)

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COUGE koag

Noun: A dram of brandy.

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COUPLING BAT kup-lin bat

Noun: A piece of round wood attached to the bit (in West Kent), or ringle (in East Kent), of two plough horses to keep them together.

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COURT koart

Noun: The manor house, where the court leet of the manor is held. Thus, Eastry Court is the old house, standing on the foundations of the ancient palace of the Kings of Kent, wherein is held annually the Court of the Manor of Eastry (see also Court Lodge)

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COURT FAGGOT koart fag-ut

Noun: This seems to have been the name, anciently given, to the best and choicest fagot. 1523 - "For makyng of ten loodis of court fagot, 3s. 4d." - Accounts of St John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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COURT LODGE koart loj

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COURT-CUPBOARD koart-cub-urd

Noun: A sideboard or cabinet used formerly to display the silver flagons, cups, beakers, ewers, etc., i.e., the family plate, and distinquished from "the livery cupboard", or wardrobe. In the Boteler Inventory, we find that there were in the best chamber "Half-a-dowson of high joynd stooles, fower low joynd cushian stooles, two chayers, one court cubbard, etc." - Memorials of Eastry, p 225; and again on p 227; "In the greate parler, one greate table. . . one courte cubbard, one greate chayer, etc." "Away with the joint-stools, remove the court cupboard, look to the plate." - Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Sc.5.

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COVE koav

Noun: A shed; a lean-to or low building with a shelving roof, joined to the wall of another; the shelter which is formed by the projection of the eaves of a house acting as a roof to an outbuilding. (see also Coved, Coven)

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COVED koa-vd

Adjective: With sloping sides; used of a room, the walls of which are not perpendicular, but slant inwards, thus fowming sides and roof. "Your bedsteddle couldn't stand there, because the sides are coved." (see also Cove, Coven)

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COVE-KEYS koa-v-keez

Noun, plural:. Cowslips. (see also Culver Keys, Horsebuckle, Lady-keys (2), Paigle, Pegle)

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COVEL kov-l

Noun: A water tub with two ears.

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COVEN koa-vn

Adjective: Sloped; slanted. "It has a coven ceiling." (see also Cove, Coved)

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COVERLYD kuv-urlid

Noun: The outer covering of the bed which lies above the blankets; a counterpane. In the Boteler Inventory we find "In the best chamber . . . one fether bedd, one blanckett, one covertleed. Item in the lower chamber. . . . two coverleeds . Item in the middle chamber. . . a coverlyd and boulster." - Memorials of Eastry, p 224. (see also Covertlid)

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COVERTLID kuv-urtlid

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COW kou

Noun: (1) A pitcher.

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COW

Verb: (3) To be afraid of. "He cowed at going down that well." - R Cooke.

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COW' kou

Noun: (2) The moveable wooden top of the chimney of a hop-oast or malt-house. (see also Cowl)

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COW-CRIB kou-krib

Noun: The square manger for holding hay, etc., which stands in the straw-yard, and so is constructed as to be low at the sides and high at the corners.

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COWL koul

Noun: The moveable wooden top of the chimney of a hop-oast or malt-house. (see also Cow')

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COW-MOUTH

Adjective: When the stub is left with an uneven cut, hollow in the middle, this is called a cow-mouth cut. - R Cooke.

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COW-PIE

Noun: Pudding pie. - Rochester district. Nicky Newbury's grandmother. 1973. (see also Pudding Pie)

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CRACK-NUT krak-nut

Noun: A hazel nut, as opposed to cocoa nuts, Brazil nuts, etc.

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CRAMP-WORD

Noun: A word difficult to be understood. "Our new parson, he's out of the sheeres, and he uses so many of these here cramp-words."

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CRANK krangk

Verb: (2) To mark cross wise.

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CRANK krangk

Adjective: (1) Merry; cheery.

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CREAM kreem

Verb: To crumble. Hops, when they are too much dried are said to cream, i.e. to crumble to pieces.

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CREET kreet

Noun: A cradle, or frame-work of wood, placed on a scythe when used to cut corn.

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CREFT

Noun: Craft. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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CRIPS krips

Adjective: Crisp. Formed by transposition, as Aps for Asp, etc. (see also Crup)

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CRIPT kript

Adjective: Depressed; out of spirits. (see also Cruppish.)

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CROCK krok

Verb: (2) To put away; lay by; save up; hide. "Ye'd better by half give that butter away, instead of crocking it up till it's no use to nobody."

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CROCK krok

Noun: (1) An earthen pan or pot, to be found in every kitchen, and often used for keeping butter, salt, etc. It is a popular superstition that if a man goes to the place where the end of the rainbow rests he will find there a crock of gold. A.D. 1536 - "Layd owt for a crok. . . ." - Accounts of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury

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CROCK BUTTER krok but-ur

Noun: Salt butter which has been put into earthernware crocks to keep during the wInterjection:

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CROFT krauft

Noun: A vault.

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CROSHABELL krosh-ubel

Noun: A coutezan.

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CROUCHEN

Noun, plural:.Crosses. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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CROW kroa

Noun: The fat adhering to a pig's liver; hence, "liver and crow" are generally spoken of and eaten together.

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CROW-FISH kroa-fish

Noun: The common stickleback. Gasterosteus aculeatus.

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CRUMMY krum-I

Adjective: Filthy and dirty, and covered with vermin.

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CRUNDLE

Verb: (2) To crumple. "Don't 'ee crundle (crumple) up that newspaper, your grandfayther hasn't read it yet."

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CRUNDLE

Verb: (1) To crumble; to crush, to break up into small pieces; to disintegrate. With the dialect the' m' of crumble has been replaced with the letter 'n', "Now be a good boy and crundle that bread into your nice hot soup." "I'm just going to crundle up these here clods then I'll be in to supper."

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CRUNDLED

Verb: Crumbled. "They crundled up the stones with the steam-roller." "The old wall crundled down in pieces."

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CRUNDLING

Crumbling. "The old house is gradually crundling away".

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CRUP krup

Adjective: (2) Crisp. "You'll have a nice walk, as the snow is very crup." (see also Crips)

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CRUP krup

Noun: (1) The crisp, hard skin of a roasted pig, or of roast pork (crackling); a crisp spice-nut; a nest. "There's a wapses crup in that doated tree." (see also Crips)

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CRUPPISH krup-ish

Adjective: Peevish; out of sorts. A man who has been drinking overnight will sometimes say in the morning: "I feel cruppish." (see also Cript)

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CRYEPE

Verb: Creep. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Creope (crepe). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic

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CUCKOO BREAD

Noun: The wood sorrel. Oxalis acetosella.

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CUCKOO-CORN

Noun: Corn sown too late in the spring..

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CUCKOO-PINT

Noun: The wild arum. (see also Kitty-come-down-the-lane-jump-up-and-kiss-me, Lady-keys (1), Lady-lords)

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CUCKOO'S BREAD AND C

Noun: The seed of the mallow.

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CULCH kulch

Noun: (2) Any and every kind of rubbish, e.g., broken tiles, slates, and stones. "Much may be done in the way of culture, by placing the oysters in favourable breeding beds, strewn with tiles, slates, old oyster shells, or other suitable culch for the spat to adhere to." - Life of Frank Buckland. (see also Pelt, Sculch, Scultch, Scutchel)

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CULCH kulch

Noun: (1) Rags; bits of thread; shoddy.

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CULL kul

Noun: (2) The culls of a flock are the worst; picked out to be parted with.

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CULL kul

Verb: (1) To pick; choose; select.

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CULVER KEYS kulv-urkeez

Noun: The cowslip. Primula veris. (see also Cove-keys, Horsebuckle, Lady-keys (2), Paigle, Pegle)

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CUMBERSOME kumb-ursum

Adjective: Awkward; inconvenient. "I reckon you'll find that gurt coät mighty cumbersome."

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CURRANTBERRIES kur-r'unt-ber-r'iz

Noun, plural:. Currants.

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CURS kurs

Adjective: Cross; shrewish; surly.

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CYPRESS sei-prus

Noun: A material like crape. 'In Sad cypress let me be laid' Shakespeare. (see also Cyprus)

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CYPRUS sei-prus

Noun: A material like crape. (see also Cypress)

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DABBERRIES dab-eriz

Noun, plural:. Gooseberries. (see also Goosegogs, Guozgogs)

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DAFFY

Noun: (2) A small quantity of spirits. "He's fond of his daffys." - J.H.Bridge.

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DAFFY daf-I

Noun: (1) A large number or quantity, as " a rare daffy of people."

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DAG dag

Noun: (2) A lock of wool that hangs at the tail of a sheep and draggles in the dirt.

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DAG dag

Verb: (1) To remove the dags or clots of wool, dirt, etc., from between the hind legs of a sheep. (see also Clat)

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DAGG

Noun: A large pistol. Boteler Inventory, 1600. - "Item in Jonathan Boteler's chamber: fower chestes with certain furniture for the warrs, viz., two corslettes, one Jack, two muskets furnished, one horseman's piec furnished, one case of daggs, two caliurs with swords and daggers, prized at . . . .£4. - Memorials of Eastry, p 22.

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DAG-WOOL

Noun: Refuse wool; cut off in trimming the sheep.

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DAMPIFIED

Adjective: Denotes that the air is inclined to be, or feel, damp, a situation foretelling imminent rain. "We look like getting some rain mighty soon: the air is quite dampified."

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DAMPING

Verb: To drizzle with rain, though not actually raining. "No it aint raining yet, mum: it's only damping.". (see also Dampified)

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DANG dang

Interjection:A substitution for "damn." "Dang your young bóánes, doänt ye give me no more o' your sarce."

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DAN'L

Noun: The smallest animal in a litter of kittens, puppies or piglets. "Considering he wur a dan'l pup, he's sure growed up into a tidy sized darg (dog)." (see also Anthony-pig, Dannel, Runt)

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DANNEL

Noun: The smallest animal in a litter of kittens, puppies or piglets. Really the correct use of dannel, as spoken in the Weald is for the smallest of a littler of piglets. "He may be the dannel of the pack (litter), but he sure is a real lively old young 'un, that there squeaker (piglet)". (see also Anthony-pig, Dan'l, Runt)

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DAPPY

Adjective: Half-witted. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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DARVEL

Noun: Devil. A combination of Kentish Wealden and Kentish Gipsy dialects. "They younguns be regular young darvels." (see also Dar'vl)

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DAR'VL

Noun: Devil. A combination of Kentish Wealden and Kentish Gipsy dialects. "They younguns be regular young darvels." (see also Darvel)

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DAWTHER dau-dhur

Verb: To tremble or shake; to move in an infirm manner. "He be getting' in years now, and caant do s'much as he did, but he manages jus' to dawther about the shop a little otherwhile." (see also Dodder)

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DAWTHER-GRASS dau-dhur

Noun: A long shaking grass, elsewhere called Quaker, or quaking, grass. Briza media. (see also Dodder-grass)

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DAWTHERY dau-dhur'I

Adjective: Shaky; tottery; trembling; feeble. Used commonly of old people - "He begins to get very dawthery.

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DEAD

Verb: Dead. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Dyad, Dyead)

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DEAD-ALIVE ded-ulei-v

Adjective: Dull; stupid. "It's a dead-alive place."

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DEAF

Noun: Deaf. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Dyeaf)

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DEAL deel

Noun: (1) A part; portion. Anglo-Saxon doel, from doelan, to divide; hence our expression, to deal cards, i.e. giving a fair portion to each; and dole, a gift divided or distributed. Leviticus Ch 14.v 10 - "And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs withour blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and two tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil." (see also Doleing)

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DEAL dee-l

Noun: (2) The nipple of a sow, bitch, fox or rat.

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DEATH deth

Adjective: (1) Deaf. "It's a gurt denial to be so werry death." "De ooman was so plaguey death She cou'den make 'ar hear." - Dick and Sal, st 59

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DEATH

Noun: (2 )Death. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Dyath)

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DEATHNESS deth-ness

Noun: Deafness.

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DEAU

Noun: Dew. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Dyau)

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DEE

Noun: Day. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Present dialect form i.e. 1863.

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DEEK dee-k

Noun: A dyke or ditch. The " i " in Kent and Sussex is often pronounced as i in French. (see also Dick)

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DEEKERS dee-kurz

Noun, plural:. Men who dig ditches (deeks) and keep them in order. (see also Dykers)

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DEN

Noun: A wooded valley, affording pasturage; also a measure of land; as in Somner, Antiquities of Canterbury, p. 27, ed. 1703, where we read: "The Manor of Lenham, consisting of 20 ploughlands and 13 denes." This word den is a very common one as a place-name, thus there are several Denne Courts in East Kent; and in the Weald especially, den is the termination of the name of many parishes, as well as of places in those parishes, thus we have Biddenden, Benenden, Bethersden, Halden, Marden, Smarden, Tenterden, Ibornden, etc. (see also Dene, Denne)

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DENCHER-POUT dench-ur-pout

Noun: A pout, or pile of weeds, stubble, or rubbish, made in the fields for burning, a cooch-fire, as it is elsewhere called. (see also Densher-pout)

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DENE dee-n

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DENIAL dener-ul

Noun: A detriment; drawback; hindrance; prejudice. "It's a denial to a farm to lie so far off the road."

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DENNE den

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DENSHER-POUT den-shur-pout

Noun: A pout, or pile of weeds, stubble, or rubbish, made in the fields for burning, a cooch-fire, as it is elsewhere called. (see also Dencher-pout)

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DESTINY dest-ini

Noun: Destination. "When we have rounded the shaw, we can keep the boat straight for her destiny."

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DEVIL-IN-THE-BUSH

Noun: The flower otherwise called Love-in-the-mist. Nigella damascena.

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DEVILLED BLACKBERRI

Adjective: Late, i.e. October, fruiting blackberries. Possibly a connection with the country saying "Pick blackberries in October. The Devil takes over." - Pat Winzar. 1982.

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DEVIL'S THREAD

Noun: A weed that grows out in the fields. among the clover; it comes in the second cut, but does not come in the first. Otherwise called Hellweed. Cuscuta epithymum. (see also Hellweed)

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DEWLAPS

Noun, plural:. Coarse woollen stockings buttoned over others, to keep the legs warm and dry.

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DIAKNEN

Noun, plural:. Deacons. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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DIBBER dib-ur

Noun: An agricultural implement for making holes in the ground, wherein to set plants or seeds. (see also Dibble)

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DIBBLE dib-l

Noun: An agricultural implement for making holes in the ground, wherein to set plants or seeds. (see also Dibber)

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DICK dik

Noun: A dyke or ditch. The " i " in Kent and Sussex is often pronounced as i in French. (see also Deek)

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DICKER OF LEATHER

Noun: Ten hides or skins - John Kersey. Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum, 1708. The word is used in an inventory of an Egerton tanner, a Wealden family. Kent Archives Office

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DICKY dik-I

Noun: Poorly; out of sorts; poor; miserable. "When I had the dicky feelin', I wishes I hadn't been so neglackful o' Sundays."

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DICKY-HEDGE-POKER dik-i-hej-poa-ker

Noun: A hedge-sparrow. (see also Mollie)

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DIDAPPER

Noun: The dab-chick. (see also Divedapper)

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DIDOS dei-doaz

Noun, plural:.Capers; pranks; tricks. "Dreckly ye be backturned, there he be, a-cutting all manner o' didos."

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DIEPE

Adjective: Deep. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Deop (depe). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Dyepe)

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DIERE

Dear. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Deore (duere, dure, dere). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic (see also Dyere)

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DIN-A-LITTLE

Adjective: Within a liitle; nearly. "I knows din-a-little where I be now."

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DIRTY-MONEY

Noun: Monies paid for exceptionally dirty jobs or unhealthy work. - Chatham, Rochester, Strood and district, Royal Naval Dockyard workers. (see also Unker; unker-money)

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DISABIL dis-ubil

Noun: Disorder; untidy dress. French Déshabillé. "Dear heart alive! I never expected for to see you,sir! I'm all in a disabil."

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DISGUISED

Adjective: Tipsy. "I'd rááther not say as he was exactly drunk, but he seemed as though he was jes' a little bit disguised."

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DISH-MEAT dish-meet

Noun: Spoon meat, i.e. soft food, which requires no cutting up and can be eaten with a spoon.

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DISHWASHER dish-wosh-r

Noun: The water wagtail. Generally called "Peggy Dishwasher."(see also Peggy, Peggy Washdish)

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DISSIGHT disei-t

Noun: That which renders a person or place unsightly; a blemish; a defect. "Them there tumble-down cottages are a great dissight to the street."

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DIVEDAPPER

Noun: The dab-chick. (see also Didapper)

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DO doo

Verb: To do for anyone is to keep house for him. "Now the old lady's dead, Miss Gamble she goos in and doos for him."

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DOATED doa-tid

Adjective: Rotten. Generally applied to wood. "That thurrock is all out-o'-titler; the helers are all doated." (see also Doited)

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DOB dob

Verb: To put down. "So den I dobb'd him down de stuff, A plaguey sight to pay " - Dick and Sal, st 82

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DOBBIN dob-in

Noun: Temper. "He lowered his dobbin, " i.e. he lost his temper.

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DODDER dod-ur

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DODDER-GRASS dod-ur-grass

Noun: A long shaking grass, elsewhere called Quaker, or quaking, grass. Briza media. (see also Dawther- grass)

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DODGER doj-ur

Noun: A night-cap.

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DOELS doa-lz

Noun, plural:. The short handles which project from the bat of a scythe, and by which the mower holds it when mowing. The several parts of the scythe are: a) the scythe proper, or cutting part, of shear steel; b) the trai-ring and trai-wedge by which it is fastened to the bat; c) the bat or long staff, by which it is held when sharpening, and which is cut peeked, so that it cannot slip; and d) the doles, as above described.

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DOG dau-g, dog

Noun: (1) An instrument for getting up hop-poles, called in Sussex a pole-putter. (see also Hopdog (2)

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DOG

Verb: (2) To follow another's footsteps. "She dogged him home." - J.H.Bridge.

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DOGS dogz

Noun, plural:. Two pieces of wood connected by a piece of string, and used by thatchers for carrying up the straw to its place on the roof, when arranged for thatching.

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DOGS' DAISY

Noun: The May weed, Anthemis cotula; so called, "'Cause it blows in the dog-days, ma'am."

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DOG-WHIPPER dog-wip-ur

Noun: The beadle of a church, whose duty it was, in former days, to whip the dogs out of church. The word frequently occurs in old Churchwardens' accounts.

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DOINGS doo-ingz

Noun, plural:. Odd jobs. When a person keeps a small farm, and works with his team for hire,. he is said to do doings for people.

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DOITED doi-tid

Adjective: Decayed (used of wood). "That 'ere old eelm (elm) is regular doited, and fit for nothing only cord wood." (see also Doated)

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DOLE doa-l

Noun: (1) A set parcel, or distribution; an alms; a bale or bundle of nets. "60 awins make a dole of shot-nets, and 20 awins make a dole of herring nets " - Lewis, p.24

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DOLE doa-l

Noun: (2) A boundary stone; the stump of an old tree left standing. (see also Dole-stone, Dowal, Dowl)

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DOLEING doa-ling

Noun: Almsgiving (see also Deal)

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DOLE-STONE doa-l-stoa-n

Noun: A landmark. (see also Dole (2), Dolly, Dowal, Dowl)

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DOLING doa-ling

Noun: A fishing boat with two masts, each carrying a sprit-sail. Boys, in his History of Sandwich, speaks of them as "ships for the King's use, furnished by the Cinque Ports."

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DOLLOP

Noun: (5) A portion "A dollop of lard." - Plumstead ,West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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DOLLOP dol-up

Noun: (1) A parcel of tea sewn up in canvas for smuggling purposes; a piece, or portion, of anything, especially food. "Shall I give ye some?" "Thankee, not too big a dollop."

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DOLLOP

Noun: (2) A canvas bag for holding tea used by old Kentish smugglers up to some fifty years ago. "And down in that little dell, back o' old Colonel Cheeseman's house at Chart Court (i.e. part of Little Chart parish) the smugglers used to rest their ponies and have supper. Then off they'd go again, alongside o' Little Chart Church, and by the old secret smuggler's way to Ashford, with their dollops of tea, all a neatly packed on they ponies backs."

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DOLLOP

Noun: (3) A long bramble. "I tore my pinnie on a great scratchy dollop, mum! There's a lot of them along the old hedge down the bottom of the garden. Perhaps uncle will swop (cut) 'em off with his brish-hook later on, aye?"

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DOLLOP

Noun: (4) A lump of anything that is semi-fluid or soft in texture. "Jimmie! run you out with the pail and shovel and scrape up that great dollop of hoss manure out of the rord (road)" "Now eat up that dollop of porridge! It's got real treacle on it, and it will help warm ye up no end." "Dang ye! Look at they dollops of mud ye've brought in an yer boots all over my nice clean floor."

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DOLLY

Noun: A tree marker to delineate boundary in coppice wood. - Peter Lambert. (see also Dolestone, Dole (2), Dowal, Dowl)

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DOLLYMOSH dol-imosh

Verb: To demolish; destroy; entirely spoil.

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DOLOURS dol-urz

Verb: A word expressive of the moaning of the wind, when blowing up for rain.

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DOLPHIN dol-fin

Noun: A kind of fly (aphis) which comes as a blight upon roses, honeysuckles, cinerarias, etc.; also upon beans. It is sometimes black, as on beans and honeysuckles; and sometimes green, as on roses and cinerarias.

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DONNY

Noun: A hand; donnies is the plural. These words are only used in connection with very young children and babies. "Shake your donny to dear grandma, then, baby." "She likes you auntie: look at her shaking her donnies to you, the dear little thing."

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DOODLE-SACK doo-dl-sak

Noun: A bagpipe.

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DORICK doa-rik

Verb: A frolic; lark; spree; a trick. "Now then, none o' your doricks."

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DOSS dos

Verb: To sit down rudely.

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DOSSET dos-it

Noun: A very small quantity of any liquid.

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DOUGH doa

Noun: A thick clay soil.

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DOVER-HOUSE doa-vur-hous

Noun: A necessary house.

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DOWAL dou-ul

Noun: A boundary post. 1630 - "Layd out for seauen dowlstones. .18p. For . . . to carrye these dowl stones from place to place, 2s. - MS Accounts, St Johns' Hospital, Canterbury. (see also Dole, Dole stone, Dolly, Dowl)

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DOWELS dou-lz

Noun, plural:. Low marshes.

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DOWL dou-l

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DOWN doun

Noun: A piece of high open ground, not peculiar to Kent, but perhaps more used here than elsewhere. Thus we have Up-down in Eastry; Harts-down and North-down in Thanet; Leysdown in Sheppey; Barham Downs, etc. The open sea off Deal is termed the Downs.

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DOWNWARD dou-nwur'd

Adjective: The wind is said to be downwards when it is in the south.

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DOZTREN

Noun, plural:. Daughters. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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DRAB drab

Verb: To drub; to flog; to beat

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DRABBLES

Noun: Drabs. "He calleth or wyffs ill facid hores and drabbles." - Act Book Rochester 9f 195b in Hammond, The Story of an Outpost Parish, p 169.

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DRAGGLETAIL drag-ltail

Noun: (1) A slut, or dirty, untidy, and slovenly woman.

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DRAGGLE-TAIL

Noun: (2) A slut; a dirty woman; a slatternly housewife. "Considering she ain't got no younguns, she be a rare draggle-taile." "If you don't wash yourself young Liza, you'll grow up into nothing more than a lazy draggle-tail." A slatternly female is sometimes referred to as a "draggle-tailed sheep", on account of the filthy condition of such a poor animal's tail and hindquarters and organs of excretion and urination. To call a woman in Kent a "draggle-tailed sheep" is to factually insult her in the highest and bitterest mode possible amidst a rural community.

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DRAGGLE-TAIL

Noun: (4) A long-tailed sheep. "If old 'Squeaker' Pile don't soon catch and cut that draggle-tailed ship's (sheep's) tail, it will be fuller of maggots than old Ma Henniker's cheese is o' mites or a stargog (starling) full o' fleas."

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DRAGGLE-TAIL

Noun: (3) A long-tailed (old fashioned) skirt. "Look at that draggle-tail she's a-wearing! Must have belonged to her great-grandmither I should say."

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DRAGON'S TONGUE drag-unz tung

Noun: Iris foetidissima.

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DRAUGHT dr'aa-ft

Noun: The bar, billet, or spread-bat, to which the traces of all horses are fixed when four are being used at plough.

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DRAWHOOK drau-uok

Noun: An implement for cleaning out dykes, and freeing them of weeds, consisting of a threetined fork, bent round so as to form a hook, and fitted to a long handle. - East Kent. 1627 - "For mending on of the drawe hoockes." - MS. Accounts, St John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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DRAW-WELL drau-wel

Noun: A hole or well sunk for the purpose of obtaining chalk.

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DRAY drai

Noun: (1) A squirrel's nest.

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DRAY drai

Noun: (2) A word usually applied to places where there is a narrow passage through the slime and mud.

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DREAN dree-un

Verb: (2) To drip. "He was just dreäning wet when he came in."

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DREAN dree-un

Noun: (1) A drain.

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DRECKLY-MINUTE drek-li-min-it

Adjective: Immediately; at once; without delay; contracted from "directly this minute." (see also Minute (2)

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DREDGE drej

Noun: A bush-harrow. To drag a bundle of bushes over a field like a harrow.

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DRILL dril

Verb: To waste away by degrees.

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DRIV driv

Verb: To drive. "I want ye driv some cattle!" "Very sorry, but I'm that druv up I caan't do't!"

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DRIZZLE driz-l

Verb: To bowl a ball close to the ground.

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DROASINGS droa-zingz

Noun, plural:. Dregs of tallow.

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DROITS droit-s

Noun, plural:. Rights; dues; customary payments.

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DROKE droa-k

Noun: A filmy weed very common in standing water.

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DROPHANDKERCHIEF drop-angk-urchif

Noun: The game elsewhere called "kiss-in-the-ring".

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DROP-ROD

Verb: "To do drop rod" is an expression used of carrying hay or corn to the stack, when there are two wagons and only one team of horses; the load is then left at the stack, and the horses taken out of the rods or shafts, and sent to bring the other wagon from the field.

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DROSE droa-z

Verb: To gutter. Spoken of a candle flaring away, and causing the wax to run down the sides. "The candlestick is all drosed," i.e., covered with grease. (see also Drosley)

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DROSLEY

Verb: To gutter. Spoken of a candle flaring away, and causing the wax to run down the sides. "The candlestick is all drosed," i.e., covered with grease. (see also Drose)

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DROVE-WAY droa-v wai

Noun: A road for driving cattle to and from the marshes, etc, wherein they pasture.

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DRUMMER

Noun: A fully grown rabbit. The name being derived from the noise, or 'drumming' of the strong hind legs, upon the ground, when a large rabbit is surprised and scared, and runs hard to its burrow, giving earth-tremor warnings to any other rabbits in the immediate vicinity. (see also Jonnie)

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DRUV druv

Verb: Driven. "We wunt de druv."

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DRYTH drei-th

Noun: Drought; thirst. "I call cold tea very purty stuff to squench your dryth."

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DUFF duf

Noun: A dark coloured clay.

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DULL dul

Verb: To make blunt. "As for fish-skins - 'tis a terr'ble thing to dull your knife." - Folkestone.

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DULLING UP

Adjective: It becomes dull now and then; cloudy. "It keeps dulling up." - Landlord of 'Chiltern Hundreds', Boxley. J.W.Bridges 1932.

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DUMBLEDORE dumb-ldoar

Noun: A bumble bee; an imitative words allied to boom, to hum.

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DUN-CROW dun-kroa

Noun: The hooded or Royston crow, which is found in great numbers in North Kent during the wInterjection: Corvus cornix.

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DUNES deu-nz

Noun, plural:. Sand hills and hillocks, near the margins of the sea. At Sandwich, thieves were anciently buried alive in these dunes, or sand-hills. Boys' in his ' History of Sandwich', pp. 464-465, gives us the "Customal of Sandwich" from which it appears that ". . .in an appeal of theft or robbery if the person be found with the goods upon him, it behoves him to shew, on a day appointed, how he came by them , and, upon failure, he shall not be able to aquit himself. . .If the person, however, upon whom the goods are, avows that they are his own, and that he is not guilty of the appeal, he may acquit himself by 36 good men and true . . . and save himself and the goods. When the names of the 36 compurgators are delivered to the Bailiff in writing they are to be distinctly called over. . . and, if any one of them shall be absent, or will not answer, the appellee must suffer death. But if they all separately answer to their names, the Bailiff, on the part of the King, then puts aside 12 of the number, and the Mayor and Jurats 12 more, thereby agreeing together in fixing of the 12 of the 36 to swear with the Appellee that he is not guilty of the matters laid to his charge . . . The Accused is first sworn that he is not guilty, kissing the book, and then the others come up as they are called, and separately swear that the oath which the Appellee has taken is good and true, . . and that he is not guilty of what is alleged against him, kissing the book, . . by which the Appellee is acquitted and the Appellant becomes liable to an attachment, and his goods are at the disposal of the King. If, however, one of the 12 withdraws his hand from the book and will not swear, the Appellee must be executed; and all who are condemned in such cases are to be buried alive, in a place set apart for the purpose, at Sandown (near Deal) called 'The Thief Downs', which ground is the property of the Corporation." (see Guestling (1)

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DUNG DOLLEY

Noun: A cart for carrying manure through hop alleys in the summer time. - R Cooke. (see also Hop Dolley)

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DUNK

Verb: To throw down, up, or upon. "Dunk that old rubbish up here into the old car!" "Don't dunk that dirty old shirt down on my nice clean washing you idjit." "Dunk that truss o' hay down there by the barn-door, Willum!" "Real ockard (awkward) be young Garge. I sez to 'im, dunk it down 'ere - where the ground be dry - but no! 'e gooed (went) an' dunked it down in all that slub (semi-liquid manure) - by the old sow's stoi (stye)."

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DUNNAMANY dun-umeni

adj.Phrase: (1) I don't know how many. "'Tis no use what ye say to him, I've told him an't a dunnamany times." (see also Dunnamenny)

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DUNNAMENNY

adj.Phrase: (2) Don't know how many. "There's a tidy lot of chickens up at the poultry farm, but dunnamenny." (see also Dunnamany)

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DUNNAMUCH dun-umuch

adj.Phrase: I don't know how much.

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DUNTY dunt-I

Adjective: Stupid; confused. It also sometimes means stunted; dwarfish.

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DURGAN-WHEAT durg-un-weet

Noun: Bearded wheat. (see also Cone-wheat)

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DWARFS-MONEY

Noun: Ancient coins. So called in some places on the coast. (see also Bald-pates, Borrowpence, Hegs pence)

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DWINDLE

Noun: A poor sickly child. "Ah! he's a terr'ble poor little dwindle, I doän’t think he wun't never come to much."

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DYAD

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DYATH

Noun: Death. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Death)

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DYAU

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DYEAD

Verb: Dead. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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DYEAF

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DYEPE

Adjective: Deep. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Deop (depe) It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic (see also Diepe)

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DYERE

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DYEVELEN

Noun, plural:. Devils. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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DYKERS dei-kurz

Noun, plural:. Men who make and clean out dykes and ditches. 1536 - "Paid to a man for helping the dykers." - MS. Accounts, St. John's Hospital, Canterbury. (see also Deekers)

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DYSTER dei-str

Noun: The pole of an ox-plough.

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EAR ee-r

Verb: To plough. "Eryng of land three times." - Old Parish Book of Wye, 28 Henry 8. "Caesar, I bring thee word: Menocrates and Menas, famous pirates, Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound With Keels of every kind . . . " - Anthony and Cleopatra, Act 1 Sc 4

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EAREN

Noun, plural:. Ears. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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EARING eer-r'ing

Noun: Ploughing, i.e., the time of ploughing. . . . "And yet there shall be five years in the which there shall be neither earing nor harvest." - Genesis Ch 45 v 6

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EARTH urth

Verb: To cover up with earth. "I've earthed up my potatoes"

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EAXE ee-uks

Noun: An ax, or axle.

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ECHE ee-ch

Noun: (1) An eke, or addition; as, an additional piece to a bell rope, to eke it out and make it longer. So we have Eche-End near Ash-next-Sandwich. 1525 - "For 2 ropes for eches for the bell ropys, 2d." Accounts, St. Dunstan's, Canterbury..

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ECHE ee-ch

Verb: (2) To eke out; to augment.

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ECKER ek-ur

Verb: To stammer; stutter.

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EDDER

Noun: Adder. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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EDDEREN

Noun, plural:. Adders. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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EELM ee-lm

Noun: Elm (see also Elvin)

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EEL-SHEER ee-lsheer

Noun: A three-pronged spear for catching eels.

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E'EN A'MOST ee-numoa-st

Adjective: Almost. Generally used with some emphasis.

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EEND ee-nd

Noun: A term iNoun, plural:oughing; the end of a plough-furrow. Two furrows make one eend. Always so pronounced. "I ain't only got two or three eends to-day, to finish the field." (see also End)

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EFFET ef-it

Noun: An eft; a newt. Anglo-Saxon, efete.

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EIREN

Noun, plural:. Eggs. Old English ei, an egg.

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ELDERN eld-urn

Noun: The elder tree, and its wood.

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ELE

Noun: Awl. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word. Old English - Ale and Owel.

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ELEVENSES elev-nziz

Noun: A drink or snack of refreshment at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Called in Essex, Beevors; and in Sussex, Elevener. (see also Bever, Leavener, Progger, Scran)

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ELLINGE el-inj

Adjective: Solitary; lonely; far from neighbours; ghostly. 1470 - "Nowe the crowe calleth reyne with a eleynge voice." - Bartholomaeus de proprietatibus rerum. (see also Uncous, Unky)

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ELMESSEN

Noun, plural:. Alms. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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ELVIN el-vin

Noun: An elm. Still used, though rarely. (see also Eelm)

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EMMET em-ut

Noun: An ant. (see also Horse emmet)

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EMMET CASTS em-ut kaa-stiz

Noun: Ant hills. (see also Ammut-cast)

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END end

Noun: A term iNoun, plural:oughing; the end of a plough-furrow. Two furrows make one eend. Always so pronounced. "I ain't only got two or three eends to-day, to finish the field." (see also Eend)

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ENOW enoun. Enough. "Have ye got enow?"

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ENTETIG ent-itig

Verb: To introduce.

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EPPEL

Noun: Apple Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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EPS eps

Noun: The asp tree. (see also Aps (1)

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ERNFUL urn-ful

Adjective: (1) Lamentable. "Ernful bad", lamentably bad.

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ERNFUL urn-ful

Adjective: (2) Sorrowful. "ernful tune," sorrowful tunes.

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ERSH ur-sh

Noun: The stubble after the corn has been cut. (see also Grattan, Gratten, Gratton (1) & (2), Podder-gratten, Rowens)

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ESS es

Noun, plural:. A large worm.

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ESSHE

Noun: Ash. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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EVEN (to make)

Verb: "Also now of late on of our neybors namyd John Andrew lying uppon his bed sore sike a biding the mercy of God sent on of his sonnes to the vicar to com to hym yt he might make hym selfe even with god and the worlde." - Act Book of Rochester 9 fol 195b in Hammond 'The Story of an Outpost Parish' p 167. (see also Make even)

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EVERYTHING SOMETHI ev-rithing sup-m

Noun: Something of everything; all sorts of things. "She called me everything something,"i.e.she called me every name she could think of.

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EYESORE ei-soar

Noun: A disfigurement; a dissight; something which offends the eye, and spoils the appearance of a thing; a detriment. "A sickly wife is a great eyesore to a man."

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EYLEBOURNE ai-lboarn

Noun: An Interjection:ittent spring. "There is a famous eylebourn which rises in the parish (Petham) and sometimes runs but a little way before it falls into the ground." - Harris's History of Kent, p 240. (see Nailbourn)

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EZEN

Noun, plural:.Eyes. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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FACK fak

Noun: The first stomach of a ruminating animal, from which the herbage is resumed into the mouth.

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FADER faa-dur

Noun: Father. Extract from the will of Sir John Spyoer, Vicar of Monkton, A.D.1450 . . . . "The same 10 marc shall be for a priest's salary; one whole yere to pray for my soule, my fadyr soule, my modyr soul, and all crystyn soules." - Lewis, p.12. The pronounciation still prevails.

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FAGGS fagz

Interjection: Adjective: A cant word of affirmation; in good faith; indeed; truly. Shakespeare has: "I' fecks" = in faith, in A WInterjection:s Tale, Act 1 Sc 2, where we see the word in process of abbreviation. (see also Fags)

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FAGS fagz

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FAIRISIES fai-r'iseez

Noun, plural:. Fairies. This reduplicated plural of fairy - fairyses - gives rise to endless mistakes between the fairies of the story-books and the Pharisees of the Bible. (see also Pharisees)

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FAIRY-SPARKS fai-r'i-sparks

Noun, plural:. Phosphoric light, sometimes seen on clothes at night, and in former times attributed to the fairies. Otherwise called "shell-fire".

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FAKEMENT fai-kmu'nt

Noun: Pain; uneasiness; distress. "Walking does give me fakement to-day." - Sittingbourne.

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FALL faul

Noun: (2) A portion of growing underwood, ready to fell or cut.

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FALL faul

Verb: (1) To fell; to cut down.

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FANTEEG fanteegn. A state of worry; excitement; passion. "We couldn't help laughing at the old lady, she put herself in such a fanteeg."

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FANTOD fan-tud

Adjective: Fidgetty; restless; uneasy.

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FARDLE faa-dl

Noun: A bundle; a little pack. Amongst the rates or dues of Margate Pier and Harbour, Lewis gives - "For every fardle. . . 1d." Italian, Fardello.

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FARGO

Noun: A bad smell. "Them privies want emptying, surelye! Pooh! What a fargo!" "They old pig-sties sure be chucking out a rare fargo!" (see also Fogo, Hoogoo, Hum (2), Hussle, Ponk, Wiff)

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FAT fat

Noun: A large open tub; a vat; a ton or tun. "And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil." - Joel Ch 2 v 24. (see also Ton, Tun)

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FATTEN fat-un

Noun: A weed.

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FAVOUR fai-vur

Verb: To resemble; have a likeness to another person. "You favour your father," i.e., you have a strong likeness to your father. "Joseph was a goodly person and well-favoured." - Genesis Ch 39 v 6 (see also Bly)

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FAYER

Adjective: (2) Honest. "I'll say he's a fayer and honest a eggler, you'll meet in many aday."

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FAYER

Adjective: (1) Fair. "Her hayer (hair) be as fayer as the ripe corn."

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FAZEN fai-zn

Adjective: The fazen eel is a large brown eel, and is so called at Sandwich in contradistinction to the silver eel.

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FEAR fee

Verb: To frighten. "To see his face the lion walk'd along Behind some hedge, because he would not fear him." - Shakespeare - Venus and Adonis.

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FEASE feez

Noun: (2) A feasy, fretting, whining child. Formed from the Adjective: feasy.

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FEASE feez

Verb: (1) To fret; worry. (see also Frape (1)

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FEASY fee-zi

Adjective: Whining; peevish; troublesome. "He's a feasy child." (see also Tattery)

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FEETENS fit-nz

Noun, plural:. Foot-marks; foot-prints; hoof-marks. "The rain do lodge so in the horses' feetens."

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FELD feld

Noun: A field - Sittingbourne. In other parts of Kent it is usually "fill". "Which way to Sittingbourne?" "Cater across that ere feld of wuts (oats)." (see also Fild, Fill)

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FELLET fel-it

Noun: A portion of a wood divided up for felling; a portion of felled woods.

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FELLOWLY fel-oali

Adjective: Familiar; free.

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FELTHE

Noun: Filth. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Felthe (K) = Fulthe (S) = Filth (see also Velthe)

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FENAGE

Verb: (1) To cancel. "You can fenage that agreement maister, I'll have no more to do with ye!"

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FENAGE

Verb: (2) To finish. "We can fenage this field tonight if the moon holds good."

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FENAGE

Verb: (3) To stop. "Hey, you boys! Give over running - fenage, will ye? If ye don't, I'll have the constable on ye."

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FENAGE

Noun: (4) The end. "Well that's the fenage of it, thank the Lord!"

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FENNY fen-I

Adjective: Dirty; mouldy as cheese.

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FERE

Noun: Fire. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Fere (K) = Fur (S) = Fire (N) (see also Vere)

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FESS

Verb: (1) Confess. "They made him fess he stole the apples." Fessed - "The old poacher fessed he were in the wood last night."

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FESS

Noun: (2) Mentally disturbed. "Stop banging on that old pail, you get me on quite a fess."

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FESSED

Verb: Puzzled. "I've tried to add these sums but they've got me fessed, sir."

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FESSED UP

Verb: Mental puzzlement of a useless, vacillating character. "All this rushing and tearing around get me all fessed up."

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FESSER

Noun: (1) Knowledge, a personal type of scholarship. Also a shortened form of Professor, used, though very rarely as a nickname. Mr Horton was given this nickname, he was the only 'fesser' in the parishes of Pluckley, Egerton and Little Chart. "That's old 'Fesser' Horton, he do know a rare mighty lot about the birds and beasties, like his old fayther did, who was gamekeeper to old Sir Edward Dering and afterwards to his son Sir Henry."

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FESSER

Noun: (2) Confessor. "He stood as fesser for them all."

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FET fet

Verb: To fetch.

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FEW feu

Adjective: This word is used as a substantive in such Phrase: ses as "a good few," "a goodish few," which mean "pretty many," or "a nice little lot."

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FICKLE fik-l

Verb: To fickle a person in the head with this or that, is to put it into his head; in a rather bad sense.

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FID fid

Noun: A portion of straw pulled out and arranged for thatching. Four or five fids are about as much as a thatcher will carry up in his dogs.

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FIDDLE FART-ARSE

Noun: A fidgetty character of pernickety habits. - West Kent. L.R.A.G 1920's.

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FIDDLER fid-lur

Noun: The angel, or shark-ray. "We calls these fiddlers because they're like a fiddle." The following couplet is current in West Kent: "Never a fisherman need there be, If fishes could hear as well as see."

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FIDGET-ARSE

Noun: See under "Fiddle arse about" in Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang. - West Kent. L.R.A.G.1920's. (see also Fidgetty bum.)

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FIDGETTY BUM

Noun: See under "Fiddle arse about" in Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang. - West Kent. L.R.A.G.1920's. (see also Fidget-arse)

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FIELD-ROOM

Noun: Corn cut green is said to want much field-room or to require standing a long time before it is fit to carry. - R Cooke.

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FILD fild

Noun: A field (see also Feld, Fill)

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FILL fil

Noun: A field. (see also Feld, Fild)

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FILL-NOR-FALL fil-nor-faul

An expression frequently used as to any person or anything lost. "My old dog went off last Monday, and I can't hear neither fill-nor-fall of him."

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FINGER-COLD fin-gur koal-d

Adjective: Cold to the fingers; "We shall very soon have the wInterjection:'pon us, 'twas downright fingercold first thing this morning." (see also Hand-cold)

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FINKLE fin-kl

Noun: Wild fennel. Faniculum vulgare.

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FIRE-BLAST

Noun: When in dry weather hop-leaves turn yellow, this is called 'fire-blast', also 'putting on the yellow stockings'. - R Cooke. (see also Yellow stockings, putting on)

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FIREDOGS

Noun, plural:. And-irons; irons standing on the hearth, and intended to keep the brands and burning coals in their place; also the irons by which the spit is supported. "One payer of standing cobyrons." . . . . "One payer of cob-irons or brand-irons.". . . . "Item in the Greate Hall. . . . a payer of cob-irons." - Boteler Inventories in the Memorials of Eastry. (see also Andirons, Brand-irons, Cob-irons)

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FIRE-FORK

Noun: A shovel for the fire, made in the form of a three-pronged fork, as broad as a shovel, and fitted with a handle made of bamboo or other wood. "Item in the kitchen. . . . one payer of tongs, one fire-forke of iron, etc." - Boteler Inventory, Memorials of Eastry, p. 227.

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FIRK

Verb: (3) To play the fool; to fool about. "Now stop firking around when I'm getting yer fayther's tea ready."

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FIRK

Verb: (4) To poke about. "It was wet yesterday, so I was able to firk around in the toolshed and put things ship-shape."

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FIRK

Verb: (2) To scratch. "They brambles do firk yer arms when gathering blackberries."

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FIRK

Verb: (1) To look after No.1 "I'm not a greedy bloke, but I do like to firk for myself."

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FLABERGASTED flab-urgastid

Adjective: or pp. Astonished and rather frightened.

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FLAM

Verb: (1) To deceive or cheat.

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FLAM

Noun: (2) A falsehood.

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FLAW flau

Verb: To flay; to strip the bark off timber. "I told him to goo down into de wood flawin', and he looked as tho' he was downright flabbergasted."

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FLAZZ

Adjective: Newly fledged.

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FLECK flek

Noun: Hares; rabbits; ground-game. "They killed over two hundred pheasants, but not but terr'ble little fleck." (see also Flick)

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FLEED fleed

Noun: The inside fat of a pig, from which lard is made.

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FLEED-CAKES flee-kaiks

Noun, plural: .Cakes made with the fresh fleed of a pig.

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FLEEKY flee-ki

Adjective: Flaky; in flakes.

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FLEET fleet

Noun: (1) A creek; a bay or inlet; a channel for the passage of boats and vessels, hence the name of North-fleet. Anglo-Saxon, fleot. "A certain Abbot. . . made there a certain flete in his own proper soil, through which little boats used to come to the aforesaid town (of Mynster). - Lewis p. 78 The word is still used about Sittingbourne, and is applied to sheets of salt and brackish water in the marshes adjoining the Medway and the Swale. Most of them have no communication with the tidal water, except through water-gates, but they generally represent the channels of streams which have been partly diverted by draining operations. (see also Flete)

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FLEET fleet

Noun: (4) Every Folkestone herring-boat carries a fleet of nets, and sixty nets make a fleet.

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FLEET fleet

Verb: (3) To skim any liquor, especially milk.

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FLEET fleet

Verb: (2) To float. The word is much used by North Kent bargemen, and occasionally by "inlanders." "The barge fleeted about four o'clock to-day."

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FLEET MILK

Noun: (2) Milk that has been de-creamed and fully separated of all its fats content. Another name is skim-milk. (see also Flit-milk)

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FLEET MILK

Noun: (1) Skimmed milk. ( see also Flit milk).

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FLEETING-DISH

Noun: A shallow dish for cream. ( see Fleet (3)

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FLEG

Noun: Flag. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Present dialect form i.e. 1863.

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FLETE fleet

Noun: A creek; a bay or inlet; a channel for the passage of boats and vessels, hence the name of North-fleet. Anglo-Saxon, fleot. "A certain Abbot. . . made there a certain flete in his own proper soil, through which little boats used to come to the aforesaid town (of Mynster). - Lewis p. 78 The word is still used about Sittingbourne, and is applied to sheets of salt and brackish water in the marshes adjoining the Medway and the Swale. Most of them have no communication with the tidal water, except through water-gates, but they generally represent the channels of streams which have been partly diverted by draining operations. (see also Fleet 1)

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FLICK flik

Noun: (1) The hair of a cat, or the fur of a rabbit. (see Fleck)

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FLICK

Noun: (2) Cow hair, used with clay in timber-framed houses. - Ron Baldwin. 1976.

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FLICKING-TOOTH-COMB flik-in-tooth-koam

Noun: A comb for a horse's mane.

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FLIG

Noun: The strands of grass.

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FLINDER flin-dur

Noun: A butterfly.

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FLINDER-MOUSE flind-ur-mous

Noun: A bat. (see also FlInterjection:mouse, Flitter-mouse)

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FLINTER-MOUSE flint-ur-mous

Noun: A bat. This form is Interjection:ediate between flinder-mouse and flitter mouse. The plural form is flInterjection:mees

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FLIT-MILK flit-milk

Noun: (1) Skim milk; the milk after the cream has been taken off it. (see also Fleet milk)

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FLIT-MILK

Noun: (2) Milk that has been de-creamed and fully separated of all its fats content. Another name is skim-milk. (see also Fleet-milk)

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FLITTER-MOUSE flit-ur-mous

Noun: A bat. (see also Flinder-mouse, FlInterjection:mouse)

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FLOAT float

Noun: A wooden frame, sloping outward, attached to the sides, head, or back, of a cart, enabling it to carry a larger load than would otherwise be possible.

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FLOWER flou-r

Noun: The floor (always pronounced thus).

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FLUE floo

Adjective: Delicate; weak; sickly. In East Kent it is more commonly applied to persons than to animals.

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FLUFF fluff

Noun: Anger; choler. "Dat raised my fluff." - Dick and Sal, st 74

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FLUMP

Noun: A fall causing a loud noise. "She came down with a flump on the floor."

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FLY-GOLDING

Noun: A lady-bird.also called a lady-cow. - R Cooke. (see also Bug (2), Lady-bug, Lady-cow, Golding, Mary-gold, Merrigo)

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FOAL'S FOOT

Noun: Colt's foot. Fussilago farfara.

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FOBBLE

Verb: To play about where there is a possibility of danger. "Don't 'ee fobble about on top o' that old chalk-hole (chalk quarry) or maybe ye'll get yerself kilt (killed) or injured."

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FOBBLER

Noun: A person who plays the fool; a 'silly ass'. "Look at that fobbler trying to stand on that post atop o' that barbed-wire fence." "He do talk such silly rot. He be a regular fobbler, I do say!" "Ye don't have to call me a fobbler just a-cause I was throwing stones at that old bottle on the style."

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FOBBLING

Verb: Playing about; to play around or about. "I wish they noisey young-uns would stop fobbling about right outside the door on a Sunday artnoon, when a body wants to have half-anhour wi her Bible, and to have a nice nap 'fore tea-time."

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FODDER

Noun: Fodder. R. Cooke (see also Fother)

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FODGEE

Noun: A farthing. - Maidstone. Fred Amies. L.R.A.G. 1977.

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FOG fog

Noun: The second crop of grass. From Low Latin, fogagium, or foragium. (See also Aftermath, Aftermeath)

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FOGO foa-goa

Noun: A stench. (see also Fargo, Hoogoo, Hum (2), Hussle, Ponk, Wiff)

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FOLD-PITCHER foald-pich-r

Noun: An iron implement, other-wise called a peeler, for making holes in the ground, wherein to put wattles or hop-poles. (see also Peeler)

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FOLKESTONE GIRLS foa-ksun galz

Noun, plural:. Folkestone girls; the name given to heavy rain clouds. - Chilham. "De Folkston gals looked houghed black; Old Walter'd roar'd about; Says I to Sal 'shall we go back?' 'No, no!' says she, 'kip out.' " - Dick and Sal, st 23 (See also Folkestone Lasses, Folkestone Washerwomen)

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FOLKESTONE LASSES foa-ksun las-sez

Noun, plural:. Folkestone girls; the name given to heavy rain clouds. - Chilham. "De Folkston gals looked houghed black; Old Walter'd roar'd about; Says I to Sal 'shall we go back?' 'No, no!' says she, 'kip out.' " - Dick and Sal, s 23 (See also Folkestone Girls, Folkestone Washerwomen)

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FOLKESTONE WASHER

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FOLKESTONE-BEEF foa-ksun beef

Noun: Dried dog-fish. "Most of the fishermen's houses in Folkestone harbour are adorned with festoons of fish hung out to dry; some of these look like gigantic whiting. There was no head, tail or fins to them, and I could not make out their nature without close examination. The rough skin on their reverse side told me at once that they were a species of dog-fish. I asked what they were? 'Folkestone-beef,' was the reply." - F. Buckland.

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FOLKS foa-ks

Noun, plural:. The men-servants. - East Kent. "Our folks are all out in de fill."

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FOOTROAD

Noun: A foot-path.- R Cooke.

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FOR for

Preposition: . Used in adjectival sense, thus, "What for horse is he?" i.e., What kind of horse is he. "What for day is it?" i.e., What kind of day is it.

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FORCED foa-st

Verb: Obliged; compelled. "He's kep' going until last Saddaday he was forced to give up."

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FORE-ACRE for-u'-kur

Noun: The headland; the land at the ends of the field where the furrows cross. (see also Forical)

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FORECAST foa-rkaast

Noun: Forethought.

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FORE-DOOR foa-r-doar

Noun: The front door. "He came to the fore door."

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FOREHORSE foa-r-hors

Noun: The front horse in a team of four. - East Kent.

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FOREIGNER fur-inur

Noun: A stranger who come out of the sheers, and is not a Kentish man. (see also Furriner)

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FORE-LAY foa-r-lai

Verb: To way-lay. "I slipped across the field and fore-laid him."

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FORELONG

Preposition: . Before long; very soon. "I'll be there forelong. Soons (as soon as) I fenaged this job.

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FORERIGHT foa-rr'eit

adj.or Adjective: Direct; right in front; straight forward. "It (i.e., the river Rother) had heretofore a direct and foreright continued current and passage as to Appledore, so from thence to Romney." - Somner, Ports and Forts, p 50.

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FORESTAL foa-rstul

Noun: A farm-yard before a house; a paddock near a farm house; the house and home-building of a farm; a small opening in a street or lane, not large enough to be called a common. As a local name, forstalls seem to have abounded in Kent; as for instance, Broken Forestall, near Buckley; Clare's Forstall, near Throwley, and several others. (see also Forstal, Fostal (1) & (2)

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FORICAL for-ikl

Noun: A headland iNoun, plural:oughing (see also Fore-acre)

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FORSTAL for-stul

Noun: (1) A farm-yard before a house; a paddock near a farm house; the house and homebuilding of a farm; a small opening in a street or lane, not large enough to be called a common. As a local name, forstalls seem to have abounded in Kent; as for instance, Broken Forestall, near Buckley; Clare's Forstall, near Throwley, and several others. (see also Forestal, Forstal (2), Fostal)

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FORSTAL

Noun: (2) see Gordon Ward's note on 'Forestall' in Arch. Cantiana 746 pp 207-209

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FOTHER

Noun: Fodder - R. Cooke (see also Fodder)

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FOUT fou-t

Verb: Fought; being p.t. and pret. of to fight. - Sittingbourne. "Two joskins fout one day in a chalk pet, until blood run all over their gaberdines.".

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FOWER fou-ur

num.Adjective: Four. So pronounced to this day in East Kent, and constantly so spelled in old documents.

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FOY foi

Noun: A treat given by a person on going abroad or returning home. There is a tavern at Ramsgate called the Foy Boat. "I took him home to number2, the house beside 'The Foy'; I bade him wipe his dirty shoes, that little vulgar boy." - Ingoldsby Legends, MisAdjective: ntures at Margate.

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FOYING foi-ing

part.Victualling ships; helping them in distress, and acting generally as agents for them. "They who live by the seaside are generally fishermen, or those who go voyages to foreign parts, or such as depend upon what they call foying." - Lewis, p 32

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FRAIL fr'ail

Noun: (1) A small basket; a flail. The flail is rapidly disappearing and going out of use before the modern steam threshing machine. It consists of the following parts: a) The hand-staff or part grasped by the thresher's hands; b) the hand-staff-cap (made of wood), which secured the thong to the hand-staff; c) the middle-bun or flexible leathern thong, which served as the connecting link between hand-staff and swingel; d) the swingle-cap made of leather, which secured the middle-bun to the swingle; e) the swingel (swinj-l) itself, which swung free and struck the corn. There is a proverbial saying, which alludes to the hard work of threshing: "Two sticks, a leather and thong, Will tire a man be he ever so strong."

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FRAIL frail

Adjective: (2) Peevish; hasty.

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FRAPE fraip

Verb: (1) To worry; fidget; fuss; scold. "Don't frape about it." (see also Fease)

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FRAPE fraip

Noun: (2) A woman of an anxious temperament, who grows thin with care and worry. "Oh! she's a regular frape."

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FRENCH MAY french mai

Noun: The lilac, whether white or purple. Syringa vulgaris. (see also Laylock, Lielock)

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FRESH CHEESE fresh cheez

Noun: Curds and whey.

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FRIG

Verb: To keep hopping, jumping or moving about in an erratic manner. To figet. "He can't keep still a minute Muss Homewood, always on the frig!". "I do wish 'e would stop frigging about Clara when I'm a-trying to get you ready for school." (see also Nettle-frig)

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FRIGGER

Noun: (1) Fidgeter. "Look 'ee yurr, effen (if you do not) keep still, you little frigger, I won't take you up the street to see your grandma, so there."

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FRIGGER

Noun: (2) A person who moves about from place to place, situation to situation, or one who wants a lot of sizing up from time to time; one who is up to all kinds of cute dodges, business ones or otherwise is referred to as "An Old Frigger". "If you be buying or a-selling anything to old man Turk, watch 'un! He be a regular old frigger, and slyer than any fox, and a darnsight more craftier than a weasel !"

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FRIGHT-WOODS

Noun, plural:. A hedge or coppice. A thin, scrubby wood, with little or no timber, and consisting mainly of inferior growths such as are found on poor soils, Interjection:ixed with heath, etc. Though some of the old woods bearing this name may now, by modern treatment, have been made much thicker and more valuable, they are also still called, as of old, fright-woods, as the Fright Woods, near Bedgebury. In the MS. Accounts of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury, we find frith used for a quick-set hedge - "To enclose the 7 acres with a quyk fryth before the Fest of the Purification." (see also Frith)

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FRIMSY frimz-i

Adjective: Slight; thin; soft.

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FRITH

Noun: A hedge or coppice. A thin, scrubby wood, with little or no timber, and consisting mainly of inferior growths such as are found on poor soils, Interjection:ixed with heath, etc. Though some of the old woods bearing this name may now, by modern treatment, have been made much thicker and more valuable, they are also still called, as of old, fright-woods, as the Fright Woods, near Bedgebury. In the MS. Accounts of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury, we find frith used for a quick-set hedge - "To enclose the 7 acres with a quyk fryth before the Fest of the Purification."

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FRORE froa-r

pp. Frozen. ". . . . The parching air Burns frore and cold performs the effect of fire." - Milton, Paradise Lost, 2. 595. (see also Fruz)

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FRUITING

Verb: Fruit picking.

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FRUZ fruz

pp. Frozen. (see also Frore)

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FRY

Free. Old Frisian Fri = Old Kentish Fry. (see also Vry)

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FURBRATS

Noun: Fire-brats. The insect Lupisma Saccharina, often found in old houses, especially in and around the fire-places. They resemble tiny shrimps and have the same actions and appearance as the common fresh-water shrimps. Children who are rather prone to spending too much time in front of fires in the wInterjection:times are also termed furbrats or firebrats.

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FURNER furn-r

Noun: A baker. French, fournier

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FURREN PEASIES

Noun: 'Foreign' pea-pickers. This particular example of Kent dialect is most confined to the districts around Maidstone, up to roughly a three mile radius and rarely, if ever, heard beyound these limits. "They be furren-peasies from Chatham Town beyent (beyond) Blue Bell Hill, up there!"

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FURRICK fur-r'ik

Verb: To forage; to hunt about and rummage, and put everything into disorder whilst looking for something. (see also Furridge)

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FURRIGE fur-r'igj

Verb: To forage; to hunt about and rummage, and put everything into disorder whilst looking for something. (see also Furrick)

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FURRINERS

Noun: Not foreigners in the true sense, but any person living outside of a parish. Each parish is 'foreign' to others; the people of different parishes are 'foreigners' to each other. "Who be they fellers, Garge?" "Well, surelye, Chawse (Charles), they be furriners up from Headcorn!" (Headcorn being about 3 miles away) (see also Foreigner)

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GABERDINE gab-urdin

Noun: A coarse loose frock; a smock frock sometimes called a cow-gown, formerly worn by labouring men in many counties, now fast disappearing. "You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." - Merchant of Venice, Act 1 Sc 3. "Next he disrob'd his gaberdine, And with it did himself resign." - Hudibras, Pt 1 Canto 3.

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GADS gadz

Noun, plural:. Rushes growing in marshy ground.

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GAFFER gaf-ur

Noun: A master. "Here comes our gaffer!"

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GAGEY gai-ji

Adjective: Uncertain; showery; spoken of the weather. "Well, what d'ye think o' the weather? will it be fine? It looks to me rather gagey."

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GALEY gai-li

Adjective: Boisterous; stormy. "The wind is galey," i.e., blows in gales, in fits and starts.

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GALLIGASKINS

Noun, plural:. Trowsers.

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GALLIVANT ABOUT

Verb: Tantamount to 'gadding about'. - West Kent.

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GALLON gal-un

Noun: Used as a dry measure for corn, flour, bread, potatoes. In Kent these dry goods are always sold by the gallon. "I'd far rather pay a shilling for a gallon of bread than have it so very cheap."

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GALLS gaulz

Noun, plural:. Jelly fish. (see also Blue Slutters, Miller's-eyes, Sea-nettles, Sea starch, Sluthers, Slutters, Stingers, Water-galls)

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GALORE guloa-r

Noun: Plenty.

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GAMBLE STICK gamb-l-stik

Noun: A stick used to spread open and hang up a pig or other slaughtered animal. (see also Gambrel)

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GAMBREL gamb-ril

Noun: A stick used to spread open and hang up a pig or other slaughtered animal. (see also Gamble Stick)

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GAMMY gam-I

Adjective: Sticky; dirty.

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GANCE gaans or gans

Adjective: Thin; slender; gaunt, "Them sheep are doing middlin', but there's here and there a one looks rather gance."

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GANGWAY gang-wai

Noun: A thoroughfare; a passage; an entry. Properly a sea term.

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GARBAGE gaa-bij

Noun: A sheaf of corn, Latin garba; a cock of hay; a fagot of wood, or other bundle of the product or fruits of the earth.

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GARP

Verb: To stare overlong in a bad mannered way. To stare openly at a person, especially if in a conversation or doing anything considered private or personal. Staring with the mouth open. "Don't stand there all a garp, while we are talking. Be off with you, you ill-mannered besom." "He aint got no manners! Always garping about into people's gardens, and windows."

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GARPED

Verb: Stared. "We said 'good morning' to him and he just stood and garped back at us."

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GARRET gar-r'it

Verb: To drive small wedges of flint into the joints of a flint wall.

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GARRETED

Adjective: The Phrase: se, "not rightly garreted," means, something wrong in "the top storey". Spoken of a weak and silly person, whose brain is not well furnished.

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GASKIN gas-kin

Noun: Prunus avium, a half-wild variety of the damson, common in hedgerows, and occasionally gathered to send to London, with the common kinds of black cherry, for the manufacture of "port wine."

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GATE gait

Noun: A way from the cliffs down to the sea: - Ramsgate, Margate, Kingsgate, Sandgate, Westgate. "Through these chalky cliffs the inhabitants whose farms adjoin to them, have cut several gates, or ways into the sea, for the conveniency either of fishing, carrying the sea ooze on their lands, etc. But these gates or passages, they have been forced to fill up in time of war, to prevent their being made use of by the enemy to surprise them, and plunder the country." - Lewis, Tenet p 10.

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GATTERIDGE TREE gat-ur'ij tree

Noun: Prickwood. Euonymus Europaeus.

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GAU gau

Interjection:An exclamation, in constant use, expressive of doubt; surprise; astonishment. (see also Geu, Goo)

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GAUSE gaus

Adjective: Thin; slender.

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GAVELKIND gav-l-kend

Noun: An ancient tenure in Kent, by which the lands of a father were divided among all his sons; or the lands of a brother, dying without issue, among all the surviving brothers; a custom by which the female descendents were utterly excluded, and bastards inherited with legitimate children.

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GAY gai

Adjective: Lively; hearty; in good health. "I don't feel very gay this morning."

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GAYTHER

Verb: To gather up "Now young Willum, you jist gayther up all they old bines and tie 'em all up to-gayther."( see also To-gayther)

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GAYZELS gai-zlz

Noun, plural:. Black currants, Ribes nigrum; wild plums, Prunis communis.

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GEAT ge-ut

Noun: Gate.

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GEE jee

Noun: (1) A lodging; roost. (see also Chee)

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GEE jee

Interjection:(2) Go to the off side; command to a horse. - West Kent.

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GELT

Guilt. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Gelt (K) = Gult (S) = Gilt(N) = Guilt

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GENTAIL

Noun: (2) A gentil; a maggot used for fishing. - J.H.Bridge.

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GENTAIL jen-tail

Noun: (1) An ass.

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GENTLEMAN

Noun: A person who from age or any other cause is incapacitated from work. "He's a gentleman now, but he just manages to doodle about his garden with a weedin'-spud."

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GERLOND

Noun: Garland. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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GERS

Noun: Grass. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340 , contains this word.s. Old English - gars

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GEU geu

Interjection:An exclamation, in constant use, expressive of doubt; surprise; astonishment. (see also Gau, Goo)

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GIBLETS jib-lets

Noun, plural:. Rags; tatters.

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GIDDYHORN

Noun: There is a Giddyhorn Toll, north of Westwell, and a Giddyhorn Lane in Maidstone.

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GIFTS gifts

Noun, plural:. White specks which appear on the finger nails and are supposed to indicate something coming, thus - "A gift on the thumb indicates a present. A gift on the fore-finger indicates a friend or lover. A gift on the middle finger indicates a foe. A gift on the fourth finger indicates a visit to pay. A gift on the little finger indicates a journey to go." - W.F.S.

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GIG gig

Noun: A billet, or spread bat, used to keep the traces of plough horses apart.(see also Billet, Spread-bat)

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GILL gill

Noun: A little, narrow, wooded valley with a stream of water running through it; a rivulet; a beck.

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GIMMER gim-ur

Noun: A mistress. "My gimmer always wore those blue and white checked aprons." (1817)

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GIN gin (not jin)

Verb: Given. "I cou'd a gin de man a smack." - Dick and Sal, st 86.

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GIVE giv

Verb: To give way; to yield; to thaw. "It gives now," i.e. it is thawing. So, too, the Phrase: se, "It's all on the give," means, that a thaw has set in.

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GIVE OVER give oa-vur

Verb: To leave off; to cease; to stop. "Give over! will ye! I wun't have no more an't."

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GIVEY giv-i

Adjective: The ground is said to be givey when the frost breaks up and the roads become soft and rotten.

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GLEAN

Noun: A handful of corn tied together by a gleaner.

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GLED

Glad. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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GLIMIGRIM

Noun: Punch. "Tom Julmot, a rapscallion souldier, and Mary Leekin, married by license, January 4th, 1748-9. Caspian bowls of well acidulated glimigrim." - Extract from Parish Register of Sea Salter, near Whitstable.

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GLINCE glins

Adjective: Slippery. "The ice is terr'ble glincey."

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GLINCEY glins-i

Adjective: Slippery. "The ice is terr'ble glincey."

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GLOOM

Noun: (2) An anvil - Steer 'Essex Inventories'.

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GLOOM

Noun: (1) An oven; a grate; a grate back. 416 pounds of gloom - Baldwin Duppa inventory for Hollingbourne Hall, 1789.

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GLY

Noun: Glee. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic

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GO goa

Verb: To get about and do one's work. "He's troubled to go." i.e., he has great difficulty in getting about and doing his work. "He's gone in great misery for some time," i.e., he has gone about his work in great pain and suffering.

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GOANNA

Noun: Guano. - R Cooke.

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GOD'S GOOD Godz good

Noun: Yeast; barm. It was a pious custom in former days to invoke a benediction, by making the sign of the cross over the yeast. (see also Barm, Siesin, Sizzing)

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GOFF gof

Noun: The commonest kind of apple.

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GOGS

Noun, plural:.Berries - L..E.A.G. (see also Goosegogs, Snottygogs)

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GOING goa-in

Noun: The departure. "I didn't see the going of him."

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GOING TO'T goa-in tuot

Going to do it; as "do this or that;" the answer is "I am going to-t." The frequency with which it is used in some parts of Kent renders the Phrase: se a striking one.

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GOL gol

Noun: A young gosling. (see also Gull)

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GOLDING goa-lding

Noun: A lady-bird, so called from the golden hue of its back. (see also Bug (2), Fly-golding, Lady-Bug, Lady Cow, Marygold, Merrigo)

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GOLLOP gol-up

Verb: (1) To swallow greedily; to gulp. "You golloped that down as if you liked it."

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GOLLOP

Verb: (2) To bolt or eat food; or to drink greedily. "Now don't you gollop your food like a pig!" "If it was beer, instead o' medicine the doctor had given ye, ye'd a-golloped that down soon enough."

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GOO goo

Interjection:(1) An exclamation, in constant use, expressive of doubt; surprise; astonishment. (see also Gau, Geu)

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GOO

Verb: (2) To go. "I'll goo on the errand grandma."

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GOODING guod-ing

Noun: The custom of going about asking for gifts on St Thomas' Day, December 21. Still kept up in many parts of Kent.

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GOODMAN

Noun: An old title of address to the master of a house. 1671 - "To Goodman Davis in his sicknes . . . 6p" - Overseers' Accounts, Holy Cross, Canterbury. ". . . If the goodman of the house had known in what watch the theif would come, he would have watched." - St. Matthew, Ch 24 v 43.

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GOODY guod-i

Noun: The title of an elderly widow, contracted from goodwife. "Old Goody Knowler lives agin de stile."

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GOOED

Verb: Went. "He be gooed down Alvey Lane, to see old Muss Austin over at Honey Farm, sir."

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GOOING

Verb: Going. "Ire (I am) a-gooing into the packtures (pictures, cinema) at Ashford to see "Blood and Sand", sartnoon."

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GOOSEBRING

Verb: Goose-berrying. To gather or to pick gooseberries. Goose + B and R of berry + ing = goosebring

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GOOSEGOGS

Noun, plural:. Gooseberries. - West Kent. L.E.A.G.1920's. (see also Dabberries, Guozgogs)

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GO-TO goa too

Verb: To set. "The sun goes to."

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GOULE goul

Noun: Sweet willow. Myrica gale.

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GOYSTER goi-stur

Verb: To laugh noisily and in a vulgar manner. A goystering wench is a Tom-boy.

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GRABBY grab-i

Adjective: Grimy; filthy. ( see also Grubby)

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GRACIOUS-HEART-ALIV

Interjection: A Kentish exclamation of utter surprise. Possibly this is of Roman Catholic origin with the Gracious Heart part of this exclamation. No doubt its earliest beginning was due to someone crying out the religious call of "Gracious Heart - Alive!", over some supposed dead person having been heard about, or turned up after a long period of exile, or presumed missing, in a living state. (see also Hearts Alive!)

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GRAN NIGH gran nei

Adjective: Very nearly.

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GRANABLE granai-bl

Adjective: Very. "De clover was granable wet, So when we crast de medder, We both upan de hardle set, An den begun concedir." - Dick and Sal, st 22.

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GRANADA gran-aada

Noun: A golden pippin,

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GRANDLY grand-li

Adjective: Greatly: as, "I want it grandly."

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GRANDMOTHER'S NIGH

Noun: The flower called monk's hood or aconite. Aconitum napellus.

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GRAPE-VINE graip-vein

Noun: The vine which bears grapes. In other counties, when they say vine, they mean a grapevine, as a matter of course; so, when they use the word orchard, they mean an apple-orchard; but in Kent, it is necessary to use distinquishing terms, because we have apple-orchards, and cherry-orchards, hop-vines and grape-vines.

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GRAT

Adjective: Great. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Great)

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GRATTAN grat-un

Noun: Stubble; a stubble field, otherwise called ersh, or eddish, grotten, podder-gratten. (see also Ersh, Gratten, Gratton (1) & (2), Podder-gratten, Rowens)

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GRATTEN grat-un

Noun: (1) Stubble; a stubble field, otherwise called ersh, or eddish, grotten, podder-gratten. (see also Ersh, Grattan (1) & (2), Grotton, Podde-gratten, Rowens)

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GRATTEN grat-un

Verb: (2) To feed on a gratten, or stubble field. To turn pigs out grattening, is to turn them out to find their own food.

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GRATTON grat-un

Noun: (1) Stubble; a stubble field, otherwise called ersh, or eddish, grotten, podder-gratten. (see also Ersh, Grattan, Gratten, Gratton (2), Podder-gratten, Rowens)

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GRATTON

Noun: (2) Stubble. Nicky Newbury uses Gratton for Stubble, and says it is a Kentish word - L.R.A.G. 1978. (see also Ersh, Grattan, Gratten, Podder-gratten, Rowens)

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GRAUM grau-m

Verb: To grime; dirty; blacken.

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GREAT grait

Noun: (2) "To work by the great" is to work by the piece.

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GREAT gurt

Adjective: (1) Very; as "great much," very much. Commonly pronounced gurt.

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GREAT CHURCH grait church

Noun: The Cathedral at Canterbury is always so called at Eastry. "That fil belongs to the Great Church," i.e. is part of the possessions of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.

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GREATEN grai-tn

Verb: To enlarge.

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GREEDS greedz

Noun, plural:. Straw thrown on to the dung-hill.

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GREEDYGUTS

Noun, plural:. A glutton. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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GREEN-BAG

Noun: The bag in which hops are brought from the garden to the oast. (see also Poke, Pook).

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GREYBIRD grai-burd

Noun: A thrush.

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GRIDGIRON grij-erin

Noun: Gridiron.

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GRID-IRON

Noun: An old bicycle. Also Grit-iron, old grid and old grit. Sometimes referred to as a rattletrap. No doubt likening an old rickety cycle to a griddle-iron, used in cooking over open fire. meaning that one might get along riding on a griddle-iron just as well and as comfortably. (see also Grit-iron)

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GRINNYGOG

Noun: Perhaps someone with a grinning, stupid face. "You stand there just like a grinnygog." - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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GRINSTONE grin-stun

Noun: A grindstone.

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GRIP grip

Noun: A dry ditch; but about Sittingbourne it is applied to natural channels of a few feet in width, in the saltings on the Kentish coasts. "I crawled along the grip with my gun in my hand until I got within a few rods of 'em."

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GRIPES, To give the

Phrase: You exasperate me. "You give me the gripes." - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. (see also Willies)

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GRIPING grei-pin

Verb: The name given in North Kent to the operation of groping at arms' length in the soft mud of the tidal streams for dabs and flounders.

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GRIST greist

Noun: Anything that is ground - meal, flour.

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GRISTING grei-sting

Noun: The flour which is got from the lease-wheat. ( see also Grysting)

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GRIT grit

Verb: To set the teeth on edge; to grate.

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GRIT-IRON

Noun: An old bicycle. Also Grid-iron, old grid and old grit. Sometimes referred to as a rattletrap. No doubt likening an old rickety cycle to a griddle-iron, used in cooking over open fire. meaning that one might get along riding on a griddle-iron just as well and as comfortably. "Clattering old thing! You might as well chuck that old grit-iron you ride into the pond and buy a decent bicycle for once."

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GRIZZLE griz-l

Verb: To fret; complain; grumble. "She's such a grizzling woman."

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GRIZZLEGUTS

Noun: A constantly crying or fretful child. From 'to grizzle'. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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GROSS groas

Adjective: Gruff, deep-sounding.

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GROVETT groa-vit

Noun: A small grove or wood. "Just by it is a grovette of oaks, the only one in the whole island." - Lewis, p.115

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GRUBBY grub-i

Adjective: Dirty. "You are grubby, and no mistake." (see also Grabby)

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GRUPPER grup-ur

Noun: That part of a harness of a cart-horse which is called elsewhere the quoilers; the breeching. - East Kent.

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GRUPPER-TREE grup-ur-tree

Noun: That part of the harness of a cart-horse which is made of wood, padded next to the horse's back, and which carries the redger. - East Kent.

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GRY

Noun: Grey. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic

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GRYSTING grei-sting

Noun: The flour which is got from the lease-wheat. (see also Gristing)

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GUESS-COW ges-kou

Noun: A dry or barren cow.

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GUESTING gest-ing

Verb: Gossipping.

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GUESTLING ges-lin

Noun: (1) An ancient water-course at Sandwich, in which it was formerly the custom to drown prisoners. (see Dunes)

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GUESTLING gest-ling

Noun: (2) The ancient court of the Cinque Ports, held at Shepway, near Hythe, and other places. "In July, 1688, the Common Council of Faversham commissioned their Deputy-Mayor, two Jurats, the Town Clerk, and a Commoner ' to go to a guestling, which was summoned from the ancient town of Winchelsea, to be holden at the town and port of New Romney, on Tuesday, July 21st;' and 'there to act on the town's behalf, as they should find convenient.' They were absent at the guestling five days." - Archaeologia Cantiana, 14. p 271.

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GUILE-SHARES gei-l-shairz

Noun, plural:.Cheating shares; division of spoils; or shares of "wreckage." "Under the pretence of assisting the distressed masters (of stranded vessels) and saving theirs and the merchant's goods, they convert them to their own use by making what they call guile-shares." - Lewis, 34.

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GULL

Noun: A young gosling. (see also Gol)

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GULLIDGE gul-ij

Noun: The sides of a barn boarded off from the middle; where the caving is generally stored.'

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GUMBLE gumb-l

Verb: To fit very badly, and be too large, as clothes.

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GUNNER gun-ur

Noun: A man who makes his living by shooting wild fowl, is so called on the north coast of Kent and about Sheppey.

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GUO

Verb: Go 'The only examples of this kind (of pronounciation) that are to be found in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, are buone = bone, guo = go, guode =good, guos =goose.'

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GUODE

Adjective: Good. 'The only examples of this kind (of pronounciation) that are to be found in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, are buone = bone, guo = go, guode =good, guos =goose.'

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GUOS

Noun: Goose 'The only examples of this kind (of pronounciation) that are to be found in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, are buone = bone, guo = go, guode =good, guos =goose.'

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GUOZGOGS

Noun, plural: Gooseberries. (see also Dabberries, Goosegogs)

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GURT gurt

Adjective: Great.

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GUTTER GRUB gut-ur-grub

Noun: One who delights in doing dirty work and getting himself into a mess; a low person.

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GUTTERMUD gut-urmud

Noun: The black mud of the gutter, hence any dirt or filth. "As black as guttermud.";

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GUT-WEED

Noun: Sonchus arvensis.

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HAAZES haa-ziz

Noun, plural:. Haws. Fruit of Crataegus oxyacantha. (See also Aazes, Harves, Haulms and Figs)

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HADN'T OUGHT hadn't aut

Phrase: Ought not. "He hadn't ought to go swishing along as that, no-how." (see also No ought)

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HAGGED hagid

Adjective: Thin; lean; shrivelled; haggard. "They did look so old and hagged; " spoken of some maiden ladies living in another parish, who had not been seen for some time by the speaker.

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HAGISTER hag-ister

Noun: A magpie.

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HAIR hair

Noun: The cloth on the oast above the fires where the hops are dried.

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HALF MOON

Noun: 5 bushel basket measures, especially for hops. - East Kent. Nicky Newbury. (see also Moon)

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HALF-AMON haaf-ai-mun

Noun: A half-amon, is a hop, step and jump. (see also Amon)

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HALF-BAPTIZED

Privately baptised. "Can such things be!" exclaimed the astonished Mr. Pickwick. "Lord bless your heart, sir," said Sam, "why, where was you half-baptised? - that's nothin', that a'nt." - Pickwick Papers, Ch 13.

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HALM haam

Noun: Stubble gathered after the corn is carried, especially pease and beans' straw; applied, also, to the stalks or stems of potatoes and other vegetables. (see also Hame, Haulm, Helm)

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HALMOT hal-mut

Noun: The hall mote; court leet or manor court; from the Saxon heal-mot, a little council.

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HALZEN

Noun, plural:. Saints. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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HAME haim

Noun: Pease straw. (see Halm, Haulm, Helm)

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HAMPER hamp-ur

Verb: To injure, or throw anything out of gear. "The door is hampered.".

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HAMPERY ham-pur'i

Adjective: Shaky; crazy; ricketty; weak; feeble; sickly. (see also Ampery)

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HAND-COLD

Adjective: Cold enough to chill the hands. "There was a frost down in the bottoms, for I was rightdown hand-cold as I come up to the great house." (see also Finger-cold)

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HANDFAST

Adjective: Able to hold tight. "Old George is middlin' handfast to-day" (said of a good catch at cricket.)

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HANDFUL

Noun: An anxiety; to have a handful is to have as much as a person can do and bear. "Mrs S. says she has a sad handful with her mother."

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HAND-HOLD

Noun: A holding for the hands. "'Tis a plaguey queer job to climb up there, there an't no handhold."

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HANDSTAFF hand-staaf

Noun: The handle of a flail.

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HANGER hang'r

Noun: A hanging wood on the side of a hill. It occurs in the names of several places in Kent - Betteshanger, Westenhanger, etc.

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HANK hangk

Noun: A skein of silk or thread. So we say a man has a hank on another; or, he has him entangled in a skein or string. (see also Hink)

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HAPPY-HO

Adjective: Apropos. "My father was drownded and so was my brother; now that's very happy-ho!" meaning that it was a curious coincidence.

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HAPS haps

Noun: (1) A hasp or fastening of a gate. - P. 1631 - "For charnells and hapses for the two chests in our hall." - MS. Accounts, St John's Hospital, Canterbury. (see also Hasp, Hapse)

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HAPS haps

Verb: (2) Happens. "Now haps you doänt know."

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HAPSE haps

vb To fasten with a hasp; to fasten. In the Weald of Kent hapse is used for the verb, and hasp for the noun, e.g. "Hapse the gate after you!" "I can't, the hasp is gone." (see also Haps (1), Hasp)

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HARBOUR

Verb: To entice away. "'Tis the big one what harbours the little one away from home." - R Cooke.

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HARCELET haa-slit

Noun: The heart, liver and light of a hog. (see also Harslet, Haslet)

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HARD-FRUIT

Noun: Stone-fruit, plums etc.

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HARDHEWER haa-dheur

Noun: A stonemason. The word occurs in the articles for building Wye Bridge, 1637.

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HARKEE

Verb: (1) Hark; Hark ye; Listen. "Harkee, Bob! That old dog-fox be a-calling down in Frite Wood."

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HARKEE

Verb: (2) To listen and keep quiet, "Now, harkee! There's a something moving in that old ditch running out of Thorne Pond."

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HARKY haa-ki

Interjection: Hark! (see also Harkee (1) & (2))

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HARSLEM haa-zlum

Noun: Asylum. "When he got to settin' on de hob and pokin' de fire wid's fingers, dey thought 'twas purty nigh time dey had him put away to de harslem."

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HARSLET haa-zlet

Noun: The heart, liver and light of a hog. ( see also Harcelet, Haslet )

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HARVES haa-vz

Noun, plural:. Haws. (see also Aazes, Haazes, Haulms and Figs)

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HARVEST haa-vist

Verb: To gather in the corn; to work in the harvest-field, e.g. "Where's Harry?" "Oh! he's harvesting 'long with his father."

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HARVESTER haa-vistur

Noun: A stranger who comes into the parish to assist in the harvest.

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HASLET haz-lit

Noun: (1) The heart, liver and light of a hog. ( see also Harcelet, Harslet )

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HASLET

Noun: (2) Cf the Northern English word, Haslet, a kind of preserved meat, possibly containing offal.

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HASP haasp

Noun: A hasp or fastening of a gate. - P. 1631 - "For charnells and hapses for the two chests in our hall." - MS. Accounts, St John's Hospital, Canterbury. (see also Haps (1), Hapse)

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HASSOCK

Noun: (2) Immature ragstone. - J.H.Bridge. 1949.

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HASSOCK has-ok

Noun: (1) A large pond.

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HASSOCKS

Noun, plural:. (2) A corruption of Tussocks: rough, tough clumps of grasses in isolated positions in fields or in the grass verges of roadsides.

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HASSOCKS

Noun, plural:. (1) Stone chippings used instead of gravel for making up paths and private minor roads.

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HASTY hai-sti

Adjective: Heavy; violent. Often used of rain. "It did come down hasty, an' no mistake."

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HATCH hach

Noun: A gate in the roads; a half-hatch is where a horse may pass, but not a cart.

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HATCH-UP hach up

Verb: To prepare for. "I think it's hatching up for snow." "She's hatching up a cold."

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HATY

Verb: To hate. Anglo-Saxon conjugation.

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HAUL hau-l

Verb: To halloo; to shout.

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HAULM haum

Noun: Stubble gathered after the corn is carried, especially pease and beans' straw; applied, also, to the stalks or stems of potatoes and other vegetables. (see also Halm, Hame, Helm)

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HAULMS AND FIGS hau-mz und figz

Noun, plural:. Hips and haws, the fruit of the hawthorn (Crataegus oxyacantha) (see also Aazes,Haazes, Harves) and the dog-rose (Rosa canina) (see also Wind-bibber, Canker-berry)

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HAVE hav

Verb: To take; lead; as, "Have the horse to the field." "Have her forth of the ranges and whoso followeth her let him be slain with the sword." - 2 Chronicles, Ch 23 v 14.

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HAW hau

Noun: A small yard or inclosure. Chaucer has it for a churchyard.

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HAWK hauk

Verb: To make a noise when clearing the throat of phlegm. An imitative word. "He was hawking and spetting for near an hour after he first got up."

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HAWMELL

Noun: A small close or paddock.

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HAYNET

Noun: A long net, often an old fish net, used in cover shooting to keep the birds and flick from running out of the beat.

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HAY-SHOVE

Noun: A hay-shove is a pitchfork for loading hay on a wagon. - Example given to Maidstone Museum, March 1953. L.R.A.G. (see also Shove)

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HEADLANDS

Noun, plural:. The ends of a field where the horses turn iNoun, plural:oughing etc.- R Cooke.

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HEAF heef

Noun: The gaff-hook used by fishermen at Folkestone.

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HEAL heel

Verb: To hide; to cover anything up; to roof-in. "All right! I'll work 'im; I've only just got this 'ere row o' taturs to heal in." (see also Hele)

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HEALDE

Verb: Hold. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Hiealde, Hyealde)

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HEAP

Noun: Heap. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Hieap, Hyeap)

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HEARNSHAW

Noun: Heron. (see Shakespeare) (see also Hern, Hernshaw, Kitty Hearn, Kitty Hearnshrow)

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HEART haat

Noun: Condition; spoken of ground. "My garden's in better heart than common this year."

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HEARTENING

Adjective: Strengthening. "Home-made bread is more heartening than baker's bread."

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HEART-GRIEF

Noun: Severe grief.

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HEARTH hee-rth

Noun: Hearing; hearing-distance. "I called out as loud's ever I could, but he warn't no wheres widin hearth."

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HEARTS ALIVE! haats ulei-v

Interjection: An expression of astonishment at some strange or startling intelligence. "Heart's alive! what ever upon ëarth be ya got at?" (see also Gracious-heart-alive!)

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HEAVE heev

Verb: To throw; to heave a card; to play it; it being, as it were, lifted up or heav'd, before it is laid down upon the table.'

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HEAVEDEN

Noun, plural:. Heads. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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HEAVE-GATE heev-gait

Noun: A gate that does not work on hinges, but which has to be lifted (heaved) out of the sockets or mortises, which otherwise keep it iNoun, plural:ace, and make it look like a part of the fence.

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HEAVENSHARD hevnz-haa-d

Adjective: Heavily; said of rain. "It rains heavenshard."

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HEAVER hee-vur

Noun: A crab - Folkestone. "Lord, sir, it's hard times; I've not catched a pung or a heaver in my stalkers this week; the man-suckers and slutters gets into them, and the congers knocks them all to pieces." (see also Ponger, Pung, Punger)

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HEAW

Verb: Hew. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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HEBBE

Verb: Have. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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HEDDE

Verb: Had. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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HEED heed

Noun: Head.

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HEEVE heev

Verb: (2) To hive bees.

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HEEVE heev

Noun: (1) A hive; a bee-hive. "I doän’t make no account of dese here new-fangled boxes and set-outs; you may 'pend upon it de old heeves is best after all."

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HEFT hef-t

Noun: The weight of a thing, as ascertained by heaving or lifting it. "This here heeve'll stand very well for the wInterjection: just feel the heft of it."

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HEG

Noun: A hag; a witch; a fairy. "Old coins found in Kent were called hegs pence by the country people."

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HEIST

Verb: Word used by a carter to make a horse lift its foot. - R Cooke.

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HELE heel

Verb: To cover. (see also Heal)

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HELER hee-ler

Noun: Anything which is laid over another; as, for instance, the cover of a thurrick or wooden drain.

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HELLE

Noun: Hill. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Helle (K) = Hulle (S) = Hill (N)

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HELL-WEED

Noun: A peculiar tangled weed, without any perceptible root, which appears in clover, sanfoin or lucerne, and spreads very rapidly, entirely destroying the plant. Curiously enough, it appears in the second cut of clover, but does not come in the first. Cuscuta epithymum. (See Devil's Thread.)

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HELM helm

Noun: Stubble gathered after the corn is carried, especially pease and beans' straw; applied, also, to the stalks or stems of potatoes and other vegetables. (see also Halm, Hame, Haulm)

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HELVING helv-in

partc. Gossiping, or "hung up by the tongue." - Tenterden. "Where have you been helving?"

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HEM

Adjective: An intensive Adjective: rb - very, exceedingly. "Hem queer old chap, he is!"

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HEM-A-BIT

Not a bit. "I aint hem-a-bit left, old mate!"

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HEMITORY

Noun: Fumitory, the plant. - R Cooke

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HEM-OF-A-WAY

Phrase: A long way; A very hem-of-a- way = a very long way. "It's a hem-of-a-way round by the road: but if you cuts caterwise (across) through the fields, it will save you nearly two miles." (see also Limb-of-a-way)

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HEMWOODS hem-wuodz

Noun, plural:. Part of a cart-horses' harness which goes round the collar, and to which the tees are fixed; called aimes (hames) in West Kent.

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HEN AND CHICKENS

Noun: The ivy-leaved toad-flax, otherwise called Mother of Thousands; and sometimes Roving Sailor. Linaria vulgaris. (see Weasel-snout)

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HENG

Verb: Hang. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Present dialect form i.e. 1863.

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HENNEN

Noun, plural:. Hens. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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HERE AND THERE A ONE

adj.Phrase: Very few and scattered. "There wasn't nobody in church today, only here and there a one."

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HERN

Noun: Heron. "My o my! Look at that hern! They sure have got mighty big wings" (see also Hearnshaw, Hernshaw, Kitty Hearn, Kitty Hearnshrow)

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HERNRY

Noun: Heronry. A heronry may consist, like a rookery, of a great number of nests, situated in almost inaccessable positions in tall trees. "I knowed of a hernry in some oak trees, just off the railway line about a mile beyent Pluckley station on the way to Ashford. But that was a good many years agoo now, and they may and they beeant (may-be-not) there now,"

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HERNSHAW hurn-shau

Noun: A heron. (see also Hern, Hearnshaw, Kitty Hearn, Kitty Hearn Shrow)

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HERRING-FARE her-r'ing-fair

Noun: The season for catching herrings, which begins about the end of harvest.

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HERRING-HANG

Noun: A lofty square brick room, made perfectly smoke-tight, in which the herrings are hung to dry.

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HERRING-SPEAR

Noun: The noise of the flight and cries of the red-wings; whose migration takes place about the herring fishing time. "I like's to hear it," says an old Folkestone fisherman, "I always catches more fish when it's about."

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HERTEN

Noun, plural:. Hearts. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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HEST

Verb: Hast. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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HESTEN

Noun, plural:. Behests. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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HETCH

Verb: To move. "Hetch a bit there and let me pass." Variations of Hetch, Hitch, Hotch mean the same in most instances. Sometimes several of these words will be used in a speech - "Oi went hotching (walking) a-down the hill, and hetch-up (pulled up) at the bottom, for the storm water was a-rushing over the rord-way. So I hitched meself over the bank and the old fence and cut through the beech wood. Oi must have hitched (pulled) me innards a bit when oi hitched-up (climbed or moved up) they bank, for my old guts were sore; but the doctor ,who oi seed smarning (this morning) said it wor nothing to worrit about." (see also Hitch, Hotch)

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HETCH-UP

Verb: (1) To move up. "Now then, Harry, hetch-up, and make room for your poor old mum!" "Wait till I've a-hetched me trousers a bit: the blinkin' braces must have stretched a tidy bit" (also Hitch-up, Hotch-up)

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HETCH-UP

Verb: (2) To lift up. "Gie us a hetch-up with this sack o' corn Pete." (also Hitch-up; Hotch-up)

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HETHER hedh-ur

Adjective: Hither. "Come hether, my son."

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HEYCOURT hai-koart

Noun: The High Court , or principal Court of the Abbot's Convent of St. Augustine's, Canterbury.

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HICKET hik-it

Verb: To hiccup, or hiccough.

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HIDE

Noun: A place in which smugglers used to conceal their goods. There were formerly many such places in the neighbourhood of Romney-marsh and Folkestone.

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HIDE AND FOX heid und foks

Noun: Hide and seek; a children's game. "Hide fox, and after all." - Hamlet, Act 4 Sc 2, means, let the fox hide and the others all go to seek him.

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HIEALDE

Verb: Hold Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also healde, hyealde)

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HIEAP

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HIGGLER hig-lur

Noun: (1) A middleman who goes round the country and buys up eggs, poultry, etc , to sell again. So called, because he higgles or haggles over his bargains.

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HIGGLER

Noun: (2) Phippen's Directory for Maidstone, 1845, p 49. Under Miscellaneous Tradesmen:- Fearn, J. Higgler, Marsham Street.

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HIGH-LOW

Verb: (1) To seek all over the place; to search high and low. "We searched high-low for they young ducks but couldn't find they. Seems to me that a fox like as not worked they away into the wood and driv them off and killed them some quiet place."

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HIGH-LOW

Noun: (2) High-heeled ladies shoes. The shoes are low at the front in comparison with them being high at the back. "Look at that besom! Wearing they break-your-neck high-lows. They be no good for honest country gals; though I did see them French gals wear them in Paris when I was out there in t'army in '14-18, mairt."

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HIJIMMY KNACKER

Noun: The horse game. - West Kent. L.R.A.G.1920's.

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HIKE heik

Verb: (1) To turn out. "He hiked 'im out purty quick."

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HIKE

Verb: (2) To walk, carrying a load. - J H Bridge.

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HILL hil

Noun: The small mound on which hops are planted; a heap of potatoes or mangold wurzel.

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HINE

pro. Him. Preserved in the modern provincialism en or un, as "I see en" - "I see him."

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HINK hingk

Noun: (2) A hook at the end of a stick, used for drawing and lifting back the peas, whilst they were being cut with the pea-hook. The pea-hook and hink always went together.

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HINK hingk

Noun: (1) A skein of silk or thread. So we say a man has a hank on another; or, he has him entangled in a skein or string. (see also Hank)

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HIS

pro. Them. (Hise) In the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340'

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HISE

pro. Her. The accusative of Hi, she. In the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340.

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HIS-SELF

pro. Himself. "Ah! when he's been married two or three weeks he won't scarcely know hisself. He'll find the difference, I lay !."

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HIST

Verb: A call; a signal. "Just give me a hyste, mate, when 'tis time to goo." (see also Hoist, Hyste)

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HITCH

Verb: (2) To move or walk. "My old grand-dad goes a-hitching along the rord more like a young-un than an old-un." (also Hetch; Hotch)

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HITCH

Verb: (4) To pull or draw up. "Hitch us a bucket o' water from the well, John, then I'll water they hens and lock 'em up for t'night." (also Hetch; Hotch)

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HITCH

Verb: (3) To hold. " Don't keep hitching on to me skirts Bessie! Walk along side o' me like a lady instead of a country gawp." (also Hetch; Hotch)

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HITCH

Verb: (1) To move. "Oi wish these people waiting for the bus would hitch along a bit." (also Hetch, Hotch)

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HITCH-OVER

Verb: To move over; to push over. "Give oi a hitch-over this wall. (also Hetch-over; Hotchover)

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HITCH-UP

Verb: (2) To get married. "Our Bill and young Liz be getting hitched-up end o' June." (also Hetch-up; Hotch-up)

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HITCH-UP

Verb: (1) To push up; to move up, "Give me a hitch-up this tree." "My boss give me a hitch-up (promotion) at my job this week." (also Hetch-up; Hotch-up)

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HOATH hoa-th

Noun: Heath; a word which is found in many place-names, as Hothfield, Oxenhoth, Kingshoth. (see also Hoth)

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HOBBL'D hobl-d

pp. Puzzled; baffled; put to a difficulty.

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HOBBLE hob-l

Noun: An entanglement; difficulty; puzzle; scrape. "I'm in a regular hobble."

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HOB-LAMB

Noun: A lamb that had been brought up on the bottle, when the parent sheep may have died, or had more lambs born than possible to cope with regarding their feeding.. "Say, my Janie! Look at they hob-lamb o' farmers, how he do follow the maid all over the place, like a pet dog! For Mary there she surelye did a-feed that poor little motherless lambkin from the hour that it was born." (see also Cade-lamb, Sock-lamb)

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HOCKATTY KICK hok-utikikn. A lame person.

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HOCKER-HEADED hok-ur-hed-id

Adjective: Fretful; passionate.

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HODENING hod-ning

partc. A custom formerly prevelant in Kent on Christmas Eve; it is now discontinued, but the singing of carols at that season is still called hodening. (see Hoodening)

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HOG-BACKED hog-bakt

Adjective: Round backed; applied to a vessel when, from weakness, the stem and stern fall lower than the midddle of the ship.

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HOG-HEADED

Adjective: Obstinate. "He's such a hog-headed old mortal, 'taint no use saying nothing to him."

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HOG-PAT

Noun: A trough made of boards.

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HOILE hoi-l

Noun: The beard or stalk of barley or other corn. (see also Iles)

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HOIST

Verb: A call; a signal. "Just give me a hyste, mate, when 'tis time to goo." (see also Hist, Hyste)

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HOLL hol

Verb: To throw; to hurl. "Ha! there, leave off hulling o' stones." (see also Hull (2)

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HOLLY-BOYS AND IVY-G

Noun, plural:. It was the custom on Shrove Tuesday in West Kent to have two figures in the form of a boy and girl, made one of holly, the other of ivy. A group of girls engaged themselves in one part of the village in burning the holly-boy, which they had stolen from the boys, while the boys were to be found in another part of the village burning the ivy-girl, which they had stolen from the girls, the ceremony being, in both cases, accompanied by loud huzzas.

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HOLP hoalp

Verb: Helped; gave; delivered. "Assur also joined with them, and have holpen the children of Lot." Psalm 83 v 8. "What did you do with that letter I gave you to the wheelwright?" "I holp it to his wife."

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HOLP-UP

Verb: Over-worked. "I dunno as I shaänt purty soon look out another plááce, I be purty nigh holp-up here, I think."

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HOLT hoal-t

Noun: A wood. Much used in names of places, as Bircholt, Knockholt, etc.

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HOME-PEASIES

Noun, plural:. Home or Local pea-pickers. "The home-peasies are the best to employ because they don't grumble so much about their work or the payments." - Maidstone and Aylesford area.

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HOME-PICKERS

Noun, plural:. Local pickers for hop or friut picking. - Weald , Mid-Kent and Ashford Valley areas .

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HOMESTALL hoa-mstaul

Noun: The place of a mansion-house; the inclosure of ground immediately connected with the mansion-house.

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HOMMUCKS hom-uks

Noun, plural:. Great, awkward feet.

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HOND

Noun: Hand. The use of 'o' for 'a'. The Old Frisian, which has been quoted in support of these forms has brond, hond, lond, for brand, hand, and land.

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HONDEN

Noun, plural:. Hands. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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HONGE

Verb: Hang. The use of 'o' for 'a'. The Old Frisian, which has been quoted in support of these forms has brond, hond, lond, for brand, hand, and land.

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HOODENING huod-ning

Noun: The name formerly given to a mumming or masquerade. Carol singing, on Christmas Eve, is still so called at Monkton, in East Kent. The late Rev. H. Bennett Smith, Vicar of St. Nicholas-at-Wade, the adjoining parish to Monkton. wrote as follows in 1876, - "I made enquiry of an old retired farmer in my parish, as to the custom called Hoodning. He tells me that formerly the farmer used to send annually round the neighbourhood the best horse under the charge of the wagoner, and that afterwards instead, a man used to represent the horse, being supplied with a tail, and with a wooden (pronounced ooden or hooden) figure of a horse's head, and plenty of horse-hair for a mane. The horse's head was fitted with hob-nails for teeth; the mouth being made to open by means of a string, and in closing made a loud crack. The custom has long since ceased."

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HOOGOO hoo-goo

Noun: A bad smell; a horrible stench.; evidently a corruption of the French haut gout. "A Kentish gamekeeper, noticing a horrible stench, exclaimed: "Well, this is a pretty hoogoo, I think!" (see also Fargo, Fogo, Hum (2), Hussle, Ponk, Wiff)

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HOOK huok

Noun: An agricultural tool for cutting, of which there are several kinds, viz., the bagging-hook, the ripping-hook, etc.

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HOP

Noun: (2) Wood fit for hop- poles.

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HOP hop

Verb: (1) To pick hops. "Mother's gone out hopping."

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HOP DOLLEY

Noun: A cart with wooden sides and 3 iron wheels, used for trundling through the hop alleys. - Term used in Faversham district. L.R.A.G. (see also Dung dolley etc)

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HOP-BIND hop-beind

Noun: The stem of the hop, whether dead or alive. (see also Bine)

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HOP-DOG hop-dog

Noun: (1) A beautiful green caterpillar which infests the hop-bine, and feeds on the leaves.

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HOP-DOG hop-dog

Noun: (2) An iron instrument for drawing the hop-poles out of the ground, before carrying them to the hop-pickers. (see Dog (1)

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HOPE hoap

Noun: A place of anchorage for ships.

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HOPKIN hop-kin

Noun: A supper for the work-people, after the hop-picking is over. Not often given in East Kent now-a-days, though the name survives in a kind of small cake called huffkin, formerly made for such entertainments. (see also Huffkin, Hufkin,Wheatkin)

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HOPPER hop-ur

Noun: A hop-picker. "I seed the poor hoppers coming home all drenched."

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HOP-PERIWINKLE

Noun: A horse game, played by Maistone boys. "Buck, buck, how many fingers have I up." In West Kent and South East London the game is called Woptiddywopwop. - L.R.A.G. 1930's & 1940's.

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HOPPING hop-ing

Noun: The season of hop-picking. "A fine harvest, a wet hopping." - Eastry Proverb..

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HOP-PITCHER hop-pichur

Noun: The pointed iron bar used to make holes for setting the hop-poles, otherwise called a dog, a hop-dog, or a fold-pitcher.

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HOP-SPUD

Noun: A three-pronged fork, with which the hop grounds are dug.

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HORN haun

Noun: A corner.

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HORN-FAIR

Noun: (1) An annual fair held at Charlton, in Kent, on St. Luke's Day, the 18th of October. It consists of a riotous mob, who, after a printed summons, disperse through the adjacent towns, meet at Cuckold's Point, near Deptford, and march from thence, in procession through that town and Greenwich to Charlton, with the horns of different kinds upon their heads; and, at the fair, there are sold ram's horns, and every sort of toy made of horn; even the ginger-bread figures have horns. It was formerly the fashion for men to go to Horn-fair in women's clothes.,

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HORN-FAIR

Noun: (2) My grandfather, Christopher Allen, went to the Horn Fair when a young man. - see R.H.Goodsall, A Third Kentish Patchwork. p 104.

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HORNICLE

Noun: (2) A dragonfly. - J H Bridge.

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HORNICLE horn-ikl

Noun: (1) The hornet.

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HORNY-BUG

Noun: A cockchafer. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. 1920's.

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HORSE hors

Noun: (1) The arrangement of hop-poles, tied across from hill to hill, upon which the pole-pullers rest the poles, for the pickers to gather the hops into bins or baskets.

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HORSE hors

Verb: (2) To tie the upper branches of the hop-plant to the pole.

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HORSE EMMETS hor-z em-utz

Noun, plural:. Large ants. (see also Emmet)

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HORSE PEPPERMINT hors pep-r-mint

Noun: The common mint. Mentha sylvestris.

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HORSEBUCKLE hor-sbuk-l

Noun: A cowslip. Primula veris. (see also Cove-keys, Culver Keys, Paigle, Pegle)

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HORSE-KNOT

Noun: The knap-weed; sometimes also called hard-weed. Centaurea nigra.

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HORSE-LOCK hors-lok

Noun: A padlock. AD 1528 - "Paid for a hors lock . . . 6d." - Accounts of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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HORSENAILS hors-nailz

Noun, plural:.Tadpoles. Probably so called because, in shape, they somewhat resemble large nails.

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HORSE-ROAD hors-road

Noun: In Kent, a road is not divided as elsewhere, into the carriage-road and the foot-path; but into the horse-road and the foot-road. This name carries us back to the olden times when journeys were mostly made on horseback.

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HORSES

Noun, plural:.To set horses together, is to agree. "Muster Nidgett and his old 'ooman can't set their horses together at all, I understand'."

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HORT hort

Verb: Hurt. "Fell off de roof o' de house, he did; fell on's head, he did; hort 'im purty much, I can tell ye."

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HOTCH hotsh

Verb: (1) To move awkwardly or with difficulty in an irregular and scrambling way. French, hocher, to shake, jog, etc. "He hotched along on the floor to the top of the stairs." "I hustled though the crowd and she hotched after me." So, when a man walking with a boy keeps him on the run, he is described as keeping him hotching."

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HOTCH

Verb: (2) To move. (also Hetch, Hitch).

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HOTCH-UP

Verb: (2) To be worried; to be at a loss; to be unable to cope. "Our poor old squire be all hotched-up with money difficulties they do say over the new taxes, and tis said he be a'gooing to sell the estate!"

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HOTCH-UP

vb (3) To be cornered; to be trapped; to be penned in. "The sheep dog got the old sheep hotched-up in a corner of the field."

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HOTCH-UP

Verb: (1) To move up. (also Hetch-up, Hitch-up)

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HOTH hoth

Noun: Heath; a word which is found in many place-names, as Hothfield, Oxenhoth, Kingshoth. (see also Haoth)

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HOUGHED huff-id

Verb: past p. from hough, to hamstring, but often used as a mere expletive. "Snuff boxes, shows and whirligigs, An houghed sight of folks." - Dick and Sal, st 9.

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HOUSE houz

Verb: To get corn in from the fields into the barn. "We've housed all our corn."

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HOUSEL hous-l

Noun: Household stuff and furniture. "I doän’t think these here new-comers be up to much; leastways, they didn't want a terr'ble big cart to fetch their housel along; they had most of it home in a wheelbar'."

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HOVEL hov-l

Noun: (2) A piece of good luck; a good haul; a good turn or times of hovelling. In some families, the children are taught to say on their prayers, "God bless father and mother, and send them a good hovel to-night."

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HOVEL hov-l

Verb: (1) To carry on the business of a hoveler.

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HOVELER hov-iler

Noun: A hoveler's vessel. A Deal boat-man who goes out to the assistance of ships in distress. The hovelers also carry out provisions, and recover lost anchors, chains and gear. They are first-rate seamen, and their vessels are well built and well manned.

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HOVER hov-r

Adjective: (1) Light; puffy; raised; shivery; hunched-up. Hence, poorly, unwell.

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HOVER

Adjective: (3) The ground or soil is huver when it is friable or loosely bound together. - Nicky Newbury and Billy Buck. 1973. (see also huver)

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HOVER hov'r

Verb: (2) To throw together lightly. There is a special used of this word with regard to hops. In East Kent it is the custom to pick, not in bins, but in baskets holding five or six bushels. The pickers gather the hops into a number of small baskets or boxes ( I have often seen an umbrella stand used), until they have got enough to fill the great basket; they then call the tallyman, who comes with two men with the greenbag; one of the pickers (generally a woman) then comes to hover the hops; this is done by putting both hands down to the bottom of the great basket, into which the hops out of the smaller ones are emptied as quickly but gently as possible, the woman all the while raising the hops with her hands; as soon as they reach the top, they are quickly shot out into the green bag before they have time to sag or sink. Thus, very inadequate measure is obtained, as, probably, a bushel is lost in every tally; indeed, hovering is nothing more than a recognized system of fraud, but he would be a brave man who attempted to forbid it.

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HOVVER

Verb: To be cold, shivery, cramped with the cold. "They poor old chickens are all of a hovver this morning with the cold." (see also Hover (1), Huvver, Kivver (2)

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HOVVERED-UP

(2) A mess, a tangle, all lumped together. "This ball of binding twine be all hovvered-up, farmer." "Your garden be hovvered-up with weeds, Chawse."

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HOVVERED-UP

Verb: (1) Pinched with the cold. "Look at poor old Muss Steves all hovvered-up now the weather be turned right wInterjection:."

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HOVVERY

Adjective: Cold, cramped up and shivering. "I feel mighty hovvery today with all this snow about and the biting old wind." (see also Huvvery)

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HOWSOMEDEVER hou-sumdev'r

Adjective: Howsoever. "But howsomdever, doant ram it down tightm but hover it up a bit." (see also Howsomever)

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HOWSOMEVER hou-sum-ev-r

Adjective: Howsoever. "But howsomdever, doänt ram it down tight, but hover it up a bit." (see also Howsomedever)

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HUCK huk

Noun: (1) The husk, pod, or shell of peas, beans, but especially of hazel nuts and walnuts. (see also Hull (1), Shuck(1)

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HUCK huk

Verb: (2) To shell peas; to get walnuts out of the pods. "Are the walnuts ready to pick?" "No, sir, I tried some and they won't huck." (see also Shuck (2)

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HUCKING GLASS BRIDG

Phrase: Does not exists. "Like Hucking Glass Bridge." - Maidstone. W.C.Clifford. L.R.A.G. 1949.

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HUCK-OUT

Verb: To pull anything out. "Huck-out they clothes from the linen cupboard, Janie!

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HUCKS

Noun, plural:. (2) The fruit cases of cultivated edible green peas. "Hurry up and shell these pea-hucks, Ethel, or we shant have dinner ready by time fayther comes home!" (see also Shucks)

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HUCKS

Noun, plural:. (1) A corruption of Hocks. According to the way the word Hucks is used it can mean either Ankles, Feet or Legs. "That girl sure has got a pair o' pretty hucks." "Shift your hucks you lazy varmint! Oi do'ant want good-for-nothing tramps a-sleeping their time away under my corn shocks."

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HUFFKIN huf-kin

Noun: A kind of bun or light cake, which is cut open, buttered, and so eaten. (See also Hopkin, Hufkin, Wheatkin)

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HUFFLE huf-l

Noun: A merry meeting; a feast.

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HUFKIN huf-kin

Noun: A kind of bun or light cake, which is cut open, buttered, and so eaten. (See also Hopkin, Huffkin, Wheatkin)

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HUGE heuj

Adjective: Very. "I'm not huge well." Sometimes they make it a dissyllable, hugy. The saying hugy for huge is merely the sounding of the final e, as in the case of the name Anne, commonly pronounced An-ni. It is not Annie. (see also Hugy)

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HUGY heuj-i

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HULL hul

Verb: (2) To throw; to hurl. "He took and hulled a gurt libbet at me." (see also Holl)

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HULL hul

Noun: (1) The shell of a pea. "After we have sheel'd them we throw the hulls away." ()see also Huck (1), Shuck (1)

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HUM hum

Verb: (1) To whip a top.

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HUM

vb,n.(2) To smell badly or to stink. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. (see also Fargo, Fogo, Hoogoo, Hussle, Ponk, Wiff)

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HUNG UP hung up

Verb: Hindered; foiled; prevented. "He is quite hung up," i.e., so circumstanced that he is hindered from doing what otherwise he would.

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HURR hur

Adjective: Harsh; astringent; crude; tart. "These 'ere damsons be terr'ble hurr."

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HURRUP

Verb: To walk swiftly with long strides. - S.B.Fletcher.

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HUSBAND huz-bund

Noun: A pollard.

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HUSS hus

Noun: Small spotted dog-fish. Scyttium canicula. (see also Robin-huss)

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HUSSLE hus-l

Verb: (1) To wheeze; breathe roughly. "Jest listen to un how he hussles."

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HUSSLE

Verb: (2) To smell strongly or badly. "It doesn't half hussle." Possibly used by Chatham naval ratings. -Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. (see also Farggo, Fogo, Hoogoo, Hum (2), Ponk, Wiff)

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HUSSLING hus-ling

Noun: A wheezing; a sound of rough breathing. "He had such a hussling on his chest."

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HUSSY hus-i

Verb: To chafe or rub the hands when they are cold.

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HUTCH huch

Noun: The upper part of a wagon which carries the load. A wagon consists of these three parts: 1) the hutch, or open box (sometimes enlarged by the addition of floats) which carries the corn or other load, and is supported by the wheels; 2) the tug, by which it is drawn; and 3) the wheels on which it runs.

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HUVER

Adjective: The ground or soil is huver when it is friable or loosely bound together.- (Nicky Newbury and Billy Buck. 1973. (see also Hover (3)

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HUVVER

Verb: To be cold, shivery, cramped with the cold. "They poor old chickens are all of a hovver this morning with the cold." (see also Hover (1, Hovver, Kivver (2)

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HUVVERY

Adjective: Cold, cramped up and shivering. "I feel mighty hovvery today with all this snow about and the biting old wind." (see also Hovvery)

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HUXON huks-n

Noun, plural:. The hocks or hams.

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HYEALDE

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HYEAP

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HYSTE heist

Noun: A call; a signal. "Just give me a hyste, mate, when 'tis time to goo." (see also Hist, Hoist)

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ICE eis

Verb: To freeze. "The pond iced over, one day last week."

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ICH

pro. I

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ICILY ei-sili

Noun: An icicle. (see also Aquabob, Cobble, Cock-bell, Cog-bell)

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IDDEN

Verb: Is not; Isn't. "It idden in there!"

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IKEY ei-ki

Adjective: Proud.

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ILES eilz

Noun, plural:. Ails, or beards of barley. (see also Hoile)

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ILLCONVENIENT il-konveen-yunt

Adjective: Inconvenient.

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IN 'OPES in-oaps

Phrase: For 'in hopes'. It is very singular how common this Phrase: se is, and how very rarely East Kent people will say I hope; it is almost always, "I'm in 'opes." If an enquiry is made how a sick person is, the answer will constantly be, "I'm in 'opes he's better;" if a girl goes to a new place, her mother will say, "I'm in 'opes she'll like herself and stay."

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IN SUNDERS in sun-durz

Adjective: Asunder. "And brake their bands in sunder." - Psalm 107 v 14.

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INKSPEWER ink-speu-r

Noun: Cuttlefish. (see also Man-sucker, Squib (2), Tortoise)

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INNARDLY in-urdli

Adjective: Inwardly. "He's got hurt innardly som'ere." "He says his words innardly." i.e., he mumbles.

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INNARDS in-urdz

Noun: The entrails or intestines; an innings at cricket. "They bested 'em first innards."

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INNOCENT in-oasent

Adjective: Small and pretty; applied to flowers. "I do think they paigles looks so innocent-like."

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INSIDE

Noun: Workers in Woolwich Arsenal used to say they worked "inside"; probably a reference to the Arsenal walls.

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INTERFERE in-turfee-r

Verb: To cause annoyance or hindrance. "I was obliged to cut my harnd tother-day, that's what Interjection:eres with me."

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INTERRUPT in-turruptVerb: To annoy; to Interjection:ere with anyone by word or deed; to assault. A man whose companion, at cricket, kept running against him was heard to say; "It does Interjection:upt me to think you can't run your right side; what a thick head you must have!"

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IRE

Verb: I am. "Ire a-gooing now," "What d'ye think ire a-doing of?"

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ISLAND ei-lund

Noun: In East Kent the island means the Isle of Thanet. "He lives up in the island, som'er," i.e. , he lives somewhere in Thanet.

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ITCH ich

vb (2) To be very anxious.

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ITCH ich

Verb: (1) To creep.

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IVY GIRL ei-vi gurl

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JACK

Noun: A turnspit. "Imprimis one Jacke lyne and weight...15s." 1681 Will of John Bateman of Greenway Court, Hollingbourne. (KAO PRe 27/29/86).

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JACK IN THE BOX

Noun: A reddish-purple, double polyanthus.

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JACK IN THE HEDGE

Noun: A plant, white kilk.

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JACK-UP jak-up

Verb: To throw-up work; or give up any-thing from pride, impudence, or bad temper. "They kep' on one wik, and then they all jacked-up!"

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JAUL jau-l

Verb: To throw the earth about and get the grain out of the ground when it is sown, as birds do. "The bothering old rooks have jauled all de seeds out o' the groun'."

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JAWSY jau-zi

Adjective: Talkative. From the jaws.

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JIM-JAMS

Phrase: "You give me the jim-jams" the same as "you give me the pip." - West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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JOCK jok

Verb: To jolt; (the hard form of jog).

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JOCKEY jok-i

Adjective: Rough; uneven.

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JOCLET jok-lit

Noun: A small manor, or farm.

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JOIND-STOOL joi-nd-stool

Noun: A stool framed with joints, instead of being roughly fashioned out of a single black. "Item, in the great parlor, one table, half-a-dowsin of high joind-stooles. . . " - Memorials of Eastry, p 225. (see also Joynd-stool)

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JOKESY joa-ksi

Adjective: Full of jokes; amusing; full of fun. "He's a very jokesy man."

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JOLE joal

Noun: The jowl, jaw or cheek; proverbial expression, "cheek by jole" = side by side. "He claa'd hold on her round de nick An' 'gun to suck har jole," (i.e. to kiss her.) - Dick and Sal, st 67.'

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JOLLY jol-i

Adjective: (1) Fat; plump; sleek; in good condition, used to describe the condition of the body, not of the temperament.

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JOLLY

Verb: (2) To be in good health. "Ire feeling jolly this marnin', but I was real peekd-up (queer), this toime, yistday." "She's a rare jolly-looking (very healthy looking) young woman, be Annie Hills."

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JONNIE

Noun: A fully grown wild rabbit. (see also Drummer)

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JOSKIN

Noun: A farm labourer (more especially a driver of horses, or carter's mate,) engaged to work the whole year round for one master.

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JOSS-BLOCK jos-blok

Noun: A step used in mounting a horse.

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JOUN jou-n

Verb: Joined. "He jouned in with a party o' runagate chaps, and 'twarn't long before he'd made away wid all he'd got."

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JOY jau-i

Noun: The common English jay.

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JOYND-STOOL joi-nd-stool

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JUDGMATICAL

Adjective: With sense of judgment.

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JULY-BUG jeu-lei-bug

Noun: A brownish beetle, commonly called elsewhere a cockchafer, which appears in July. (see also May-bug)

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JUNE-BUG jeu-n-bug

Noun: A green beetle, smaller than the July-bug, which is generally to be found in June. (see also Bug)

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JUST

intensive Adjective: Very; extremely. "I just was mad with him." "Didn't it hurt me just?"

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JUSTLY just-li

Adjective: Exactly; precisely; for certain. "I cannot justly say," i.e. I cannot say for certain.

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JUST-SO just-soa

Adjective: Very exactly and precisely; thoroughly; in one particular way. "He's not a bad master, but he will have everything done just-so; and you wunt please him without everything is justso, I can tell ye!"

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JUT jut

Noun: A pail with a long handle.

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KARFE kaa-f

Noun: The cut made by a saw; the hole made by the first strokes of an axe in felling or chopping wood; from the verb to carve. (see also Carf)

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KEALS keelz

Noun, plural:. Ninepins.

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KECHENE

Noun: Kitchen.Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Kechene (K) = Kitchen (N)

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KEEKLEGS kee-klegz

Noun: An orchis. Orchis mascula. (see also Kites legs)

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KEELER kee-lur

Noun: (1) A cooler; being the special name given to a broad shallow vessel of wood, wherein milk is set to cream or wort to cool. In the Boteler Inventory, we find: "In the milke house one brinestock, two dozen of trugs, 9 bowles, three milk keelers, one charne and one table. - Memorials of Eastry, p 228. "Half a butter-tub makes as good a keeler as anything."

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KEELER

Noun: (2) An oblong wooden tub in which country housewives did their washing. It was sometimes referred to as a shawl, but only when mounted upon trestles. (see also Shaul (2), Shaw (2), Shawl, Showle)

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KEEN

Noun: A weasel.

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KEEP-ALL-ON

Verb: To continue or persevere in doing something. "He kep-all-on actin' the silly."

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KEG MEG

Noun: (2) A contributor to Kent Messenger (1949) goes under this pen man. - L.R.A.G.

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KEG-MEG keg-meg

Noun: (1) A newsmonger; a gossip; a term generally applied to women.

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KELL kel

Noun: A kiln.

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KELTER

Verb: To be out of alignment. "Lookee yurr, young fellers! This hay-stack be all out-o-kelter, and I'm mighty annoyed 'bout it. So get some stout poles and prop 'un up, in case we get a southard gale and blow it over!"

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KEMPEN

Noun, plural:. Warriors. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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KEN

Noun, plural:. (3) Kine. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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KEN

Noun: (1) Kin. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Ken (K) = Kun (S) = Kin (N)

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KEN

Noun: (2) Kine. (Cows) Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Ken (K) = Kine (N)

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KEND

Adjective: Kind. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Ken (K) = Kund (S) = Kind (N)

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KENTISH FIRE

Noun: A form of applause: CLAP CLAP clap clap clap. (See "Kentish Express" 1.2.1952.) "I have been wondering if, by any chance, this form of applause could have been brought over to Kent by the Flemish weavers when they came about 1333. The first patients to our V.A.D. Hospital in Southborough in 1914 were all Belgiums. Most of them spoke French, but some only spoke Flemish. At our first entertainment for these soldiers, we were astonished that they all applauded together in rhythm. It is difficult to describe in writing how this clapping went, but the beats were like this:---- ---- - - - The effect was quite remarkable. They said they always applauded in this way. It would be most Interjection:sting if "Kentish Fire" could be traced to this Flemish applause, but as I never heard the Kentish variety I could not compare them." - Grace Clarke, Cranbrook. Kent & Sussex Journal vol 1 no 3 April-June 1952.

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KENTISH MAN

Noun: A name given by the inhabitants of the Weald to persons who live in other parts of the county.

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KEPT GOING kep-goa-ing

Verb: Kept about (i.e., up and out of bed); continued to go to work. "He's not bin well for some time, but he's kep' going until last Saddaday he was forced to give up."

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KERN kur-n

Verb: To corn; produce corn. "There's plenting of good kerning land in that parish."

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KESS

Noun: Kiss. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Kess (K) = Kuss(S) = Kiss (N)

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KEST

Kast. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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KETE

Noun: Kite. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Kete (K) = Kite (N)

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KETH

(2) Kith. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Keth (K) = Kuth (S) = Known

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KETH

(1) Cuth (Known, as in Uncouth and Kith) Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Keth (K) = Cuth (S) = Known

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KETTLE-MAN ket-l-man

Noun: Lophius piscatorius, or sea-devil.

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KEYS keez

Noun, plural:. Sycamore-seeds. "The sycamore is a quick-growing tree, but troublesome near a house, because the keys do get into the gutters so, and in between the stones in the stableyard."

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KIBBERED

Adjective: Very cold and shivery. "I'm right kivvered today, down here by the river in this hard East wind off the Medway." - North East Kent.

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KICK-UP-JENNY kik-up-jin-i

Noun: A game played, formerly in every public-house, with ninepins (smaller than skittles) and a leaden ball which was fastened to a cord suspended from the ceiling, exactly over the centre pin; when skilfully handled the ball was swung from the extreme length of the cord, so as to bring down all the pins at once.

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KIDDLE kid-l

Verb: To tickle. (see also Kittle (1)

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KIDELS

Noun, plural:. Fishing nets. - West Kent.

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KIDWARE kid-wair

Noun: Peas; beans, etc.

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KILK kilk

Noun: Charlock. Sinapis arvensis, the wild mustard. (see also Cadlock, Kinkle (1) & (2)

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KILLED-DEAD

Verb: Killed outright; killed instantaneously. - Weald and Ashford district.

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KILN-BRUSH kil-n-brush

Noun: A large kind of fagot, bound with two wiffs or withs, used for heating kilns. (see also Baven, Bavin, Bobbin, Pimp, Wiff)

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KINDLEY kei-ndli

Adjective: Productive; used with reference to land which pays for cultivation. "Some on it is kindly land and som' on it ain't."

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KING JOHN'S MEN, one of

A term applied to a short man. "He's one of King John's men, six score to the hundred." Six score, 120, was the old hundred, or long hundred.

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KINK kingk

Verb: (2)To hitch; twist; get into a tangle.

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KINK kingk

Noun: (1) A tangle; a hitch or knot in a rope. "Take care, or you'll get it into a kink."

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KINKLE kingk-l

Noun: (3) A tangle; a hitch or knot in a rope. "Take care, or you'll get it into a kink." (see also Kink 1)

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KINKLE kingk-l

Noun: (1) Charlock. Sinapis arvensis, the wild mustard. (see also Cadlock, Kilk, Kinkle (2)

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KINKLE

Noun: (2) A brassica plant, charlock or kilk. ( see also Cadlock, Kilk, Kinkle (2)

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KINTLE kint-l

Noun: A small piece; a little corner. So Bargrove MS. Diary, 1645. - "Cutt owt a kinkle." (see also Cantel)

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KIPPERED kip-urd

Adjective: Chapped; spoken of the hands and lips, when the outer skin is cracked in cold weather. "My hands are kippered."

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KIPPER-TIME

Noun: The close season for salmon. AD 1376 - "The Commons pray that no salmon be caught in the Thames between Gravesend and Henly Bridge in kipper-time, i.e. between the Feast of the Invention of the Cross (14 Sept) and the Epiphany (6 Jan), and that the wardens suffer no unlawful net to be used therein. " - Dunkin's History of Kent, p 46.

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KISSICK

Noun: The spot that is most dry or sore in a Kissicky throat.

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KISSICKY

Adjective: A sore or dry throat.

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KISSICKY-THROAT

Noun: A sore throat. "My, I have a kissicky-throat today! There's a kissick right at the back which keeps making me cough, and me throat is getting more kissicky than ever!"

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KITES LEGS keets-legs

Noun: Orchis Mascula. (see also Keeklegs)

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KITTENS kit-nz

Noun, plural:. The baskets in which fish are packed on the beach at Folkestone to be sent by train to London and elsewhere.

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KITTLE

Noun: (3) Kettle. "Now Emmie! Put the kittle on the fire, while I cut the bread against the men coming home from work!"

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KITTLE kit-l

Verb: (1) To tickle. (see also Kiddle)

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KITTLE kit-l

Adjective: (2) Ticklish; uncertain; difficult to imagine. "Upon what kittle, tottering, and uncertain terms they held it." - Somner, of Gavelkind, p 129. (see also Kittlish)

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KITTLISH kit-lish

Adjective: Ticklish; uncertain; difficult to imagine. "Upon what kittle, tottering, and uncertain terms they held it." - Somner, of Gavelkind, p 129. (see also Kittle)

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KITTY HEARN kit-i hurn

Noun: The heron. (see also Hearnshaw, Hern, Hernshaw, Kitty Hearn Shrow)

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KITTY HEARN SHROW kit-i hurn shroa

Noun: The heron. - Chilham. (see also Hearnshaw, Hern, Hernshaw, Kitty Hearn)

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KITTY-COME-DOWN-TH

Noun: The cuckoo pint is so called in West Kent. Arum maculatum (see also Cuckoo-pint, Lady-lords, Lady-keys(1)

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KITTY-RUN-THE-STREET

Noun: The flower, otherwise called the pansy or heartsease. Viola tricolor.

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KIVVER

Verb: (2) To shiver. "I be all of a kivver! Can't keep warm no-how. Think I'll stop indoors this afternoon instead of going up onto the Lines to watch the Marines play Chatham Town." - North East Kent - the Medway Towns district of Chatham, Rochester, Gillingham and Strood, also the Isle of Sheppey. (see also Hover (1), Hovver, Huvver)

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KIVVER

Verb: (1) To cover. "Kivver yourself up or you'll be a-catching of a rare cold now the weather has changed so suddenly." "If you kivver up they potatoes, Bill and I kivver up these, we shall have all the rows kivvered up by suppertime and dark!" - Wealden and Ashford District.

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KIVVERY

Adjective: Shivery. "You look all kivvery, Bert. Better have a glass of hot ale with some ginger in it and turn into bed 'afo you develop a chill." - North East Kent.

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KNAW

Verb: Know. The Northumbrian dialect retained, as it still does, many pure Anglo-Saxon words containing the long sound of 'a', which the Southern dialect changed into 'o'. This word contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, resembles the Northumbrian form.

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KNET

Verb: Knit. Present dialect form i.e. 1863. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'.

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KNOLL noa-l

Noun: A hill or bank; a knole of sand; a little round hill; used iNoun, plural:ace names - Knowle, Knowlton.

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KNOWED noa-d

Verb: Knew. "I've knowed 'im ever since he was a boy."

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KNUCKER nuk-r

Verb: To neigh.

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LACE lais

Verb: To flog. The number of words used in Kent for chastising is somewhat remarkable.

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LADY COW

Noun: Ladybird. (see also Bug (2) ,Fly-golding, Lady-bug, Golding, Marygold, Merigo)

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LADY-BUG lai-di-bug

Noun: A lady-bird. This little insect is highly esteemed. In Kent (as elsewhere) it is considered unlucky to kill one, and its name has reference to our Lady, the blessed Virgin Mary, as is seen by its other name, Mary-gold. (see also Bug (2), Fly-golding, Golding, Lady Cow, Marygold, Merigo)

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LADY-KEYS lai-dikee'z

Noun, plural:. (1) Lords and ladies; the name given by children to the wild arum. Arum maculatum. (see also Cuckoo-pint, Kitty-come-down-the-land-jump-up-and-kiss-me, Lady-Lords)

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LADY-KEYS

Noun: (2) Cowslip flowers. - J. H Bridge. (see also Cove-keys, Culver-keys, Horsebuckle, Paigle, Pegle)

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LADY-LORDS lai-di-lordz

Noun, plural:. Lords and ladies; the name given by children to the wild arum. Arum maculatum. (see also Cuckoo-pint, Kitty-come-down-the-lane-jump-up-and-kiss-me, Lady-keys (1))

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LAID IN lai-d in

Verb: (1) A meadow is said to be laid in for hay, when stock are kept out to allow the grass to grow.

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LAID-IN

Verb: (2) This means that a field or fields have been either raked over with a harrow or a type of ancient harrow made from brush-wood and weighed down with heavy baulks of timber or large rocks lashed into position upon the top of the brush-wood harrow. The metal-harrow and the brush-wood harrow both serve the same purpose, which is to break up any droppings of manure; the soft tops of mole and ant-hills; the castes of worms, and to brush up and scratch the ground generally, and so help to clear the surface and aerate it. The brush-wood harrow, a home or farm affair, is generally supposed to be a more effective harrow than the metal type, and of course, not so damaging. Any type of grassland, worked over in this manner, be it meadow, pasture, lawn or grass poultry run, or harvested land to be left to become grass-land is said to be 'laid-in' if harrowed in this way.

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LAIN lain

Noun: A thin coat (laying) of snow on the ground. "There's quite a lain of snow."

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LAMBREN

Noun, plural:. Lambs. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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LANG

Adjective: Long. The Northumbrian dialect retained, as it still does, many pure Anglo-Saxon words containing the long sound of 'a', which the Southern dialect changed into 'o'. This word contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, resembles the Northumbrian form.

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LANT-FLOUR lau-nt-flou-r

Noun: Fine flour.

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LASH OUT lash out

Verb: To be extravagant with money etc; to be in a passion. "Ye see, he's old uncle he left 'im ten pound. Ah! fancy, he jus' did lash out upon that; treated every-body he did."

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LASHHORSE losh-us

Noun: The third horse from the plough or wagon, or horse before a pinhorse in the team. - East Kent.

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LAST laast

Noun: (1) Ten thousand herrings, with a hundred given in for broken fish, make a last.

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LAST laas-t

Noun: (2) An ancient court in Romney Marsh, held for levying rates for the preservation of the marshes.

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LATCHETTY

Adjective: Loose or falling to pieces. "Heard but occasionally at the present time is the word 'latchetty', meaning loose or falling to pieces. Examples of its use are:- 'The bolts on the barndoor are getting mighty latchetty (loose).'; 'The old picture frame is latchetty (falling to pieces.'. " Kent(ish?) Express. 1.2.1952

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LATH ? laidh, lath

Noun: The name of an annual court held at Dymchurch. One was held 15th June 1876, which was reported in the Sussex Express of 17th June, 1876. (see also Lathe (1) & (2), Lath days, Lay days)

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LATH DAYS

Noun, plural:. "Laghedays", Hundred Courts. - Hammond, 'The Story of an Outpost Parish' p 156. (see also Lath, Lathe (1) & (2), Lay days)

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LATHE laidh

Noun: (2) To meet. (see also Lath, Lath days, Lathe (1), Lay days)

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LATHE laidh

Noun: (1) A division of the county of Kent, in which there are five lathes, viz., Sutton-at-Hone, Aylesford, Scray, St Augustine's. amd Shepway. Anglo-Saxon, laeth. (see also Lath, Lathe (2), Lath days, Lay days)

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LATHER ladh-ur

Noun: Ladder. "They went up the lather to the stage." - MS. Diary of Mr John Bargrave, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1645. Mr Bargarve was nephew of the Dean of Canterbury of that name, and a Kentish man. The family were long resident at Eastry Court, in East Kent. This pronounciation is still common.

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LAVAST lav-ust

Noun: Unenclosed stubble.

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LAWYER laa-yur

Noun: A long thorny bramble, from which it is not easy to disentangle oneself.

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LAY

Noun: (2) The term Ley is a general agricultural term not confined to Kent, but the corruption from Ley to Lay is mostly Kentish in origin. The lay system is divided into two groups: short term and long term. Short-term lays is land land laid down for either pasture or meadow then after two or three year good cropping for fodder or silage, the grass is ploughed in and corn or root crops planted. Long-term lays is land laid down for an indefinate number of years as pasture or meadow land. Short term lays were used extensively during the war years 1939-45. The Old Ley at Pluckley near Ashford was used as a demonstration unit during the war. This pasturage was laid-down before the 1914-1918 war as a permanent lay but served as a shortterm lay during the 1939-45 war.

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LAY lai

Noun: (1) Land untilled. We find this iNoun, plural:ace-names, as Leysdown in Sheppey. (see also Ley)

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LAY DAYS

Noun, plural:. Possibly the same as Lath days or Laghedays. "Laghedays", Hundred Courts. - Hammond, 'The Story of an Outpost Parish' p 156. (see also Lath, Lathe (1) & (2), Lath days)

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LAYING-IN

Noun: The process of raking fields with a harrow. (see Laid-in)

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LAY-INTO

Verb: To give a beating. "It's no use making friends with such beasts as them (bulls), the best way it to take a stick and lay into them."

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LAYLOCK

Noun: Lilac. - R Cooke. (see also French May, Lielock)

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LAYSTOLE lai-stoal

Noun: A rubbish heap. "Scarce could he footing find in that fowle way, For many corses, like a great lay-stall Of murdered men, which therein strowed lay Without remorse or decent funerall." - The Faerie Queene, 1 v 53.

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LEACON lee-kun

Noun: A wet swampy common; as, Wye Leacon, Westwell Leacon.

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LEAD leed

Noun: (1) The hempen rein of a plough-horse, fixed to the halter by a chain, with which it is driven.

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LEAD leed

Noun: (2) Way; manner. "Do it in this lead," i.e., in this way.

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LEAF

Noun: Leaf. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Lyaf, Lyeaf)

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LEARN lurn

Verb: To teach. "O learn me true understanding and knowledge." - Psalm 119 v 66 (Prayer Book version).

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LEAS

Verb: Lost. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.' (see also Lyeas)

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LEASE leez

Verb: To glean; gather up the stray ears of corn left in the fields.

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LEASE-WHEAT lee-zweet

Noun: The ears picked up by the gleaners.

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LEASING lee-zing

partc. Gleaning.

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LEASTWISE lee-stweiz

Adjective: At least; at all events; anyhow; that is to say. "Tom's gone up int' island, leastwise, he told me as how he was to go a wik come Monday."

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LEATHER

Verb: To beat. "Catched 'im among de cherries, he did: and leathered 'im middlin', he did."

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LEAVENER lev-unur, lev-nur

Noun: A snack taken at eleven o'clock; hence, any light, Interjection:ediate meal. (see Bever, Elevenses, Progger, Scran)

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LEAWDE

Verb: Lewd. (i.e. Lay - Ecclesiastical). Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, Noun: doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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LEDDRE

Noun: Ladder. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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LEER leer

Noun: Leather; tape. "I meane so to mortifie myselfe, that in steede of silks I wil weare sackcloth; for owches and braceletes, leere and caddys; for the lute vse the distaffe." - Lilly's Euphues, ed. Arber, p 79.

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LEES leez

Noun: (2) A row of trees planted to shelter a hop-garden. (see also Lew)

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LEES leez

Noun: (1) A common, or open space of pasture ground. The Leas (leez) is the name given at Folkestone to the fine open space of common at the top of the cliffs.

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LEE-SILVER

Noun: A composition paid in money by the tenants in the wealds of Kent, to their lord, for leave to plough and sow in time of pannage.

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LEETY lee-ti

Adjective: Slow; begin-hand; slovenly. Thus they say: "Purty leety sort of a farmer, I calls 'im."

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LEG-TIRED

Adjective: "Are ye tired, maäte?" "No, not so terr'bly, only a little leg-tired."

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LEME

Noun: Limb. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Leme (K) = Lime (N) = Limb

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LENDEN

Noun, plural:. Loins. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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LERRY ler-r'i

Noun: The "part" which has to be learnt by a mummer who goes round championing. - Sittingbourne. (see also Lorry, Lurry)

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LESTE

Last Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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LET

Verb: To leak; to drip. "That tap lets the water."

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LETCH let-ch

Noun: A vessel, wherein they put ashes, and then run water through, in making lye.

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LEW loo

Noun: (1) A shelter. Anglo-Saxon hléow, a covering; a shelter.

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LEW loo

Adjective: (3) Sheltered. "That house lies lew there down in the hollow."

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LEW loo

Noun: (2) A thatched hurdle, supported by sticks, and set up in a field to screen lambs, etc, from the wind. "The lambs 'ud 'ave been froze if so be I hadn't made a few lews."

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LEW loo

Verb: (4) To shelter, especially to screen and protect from the wind. "Those trees will lew the house when they're up-grown," i.e., those trees will shelter the house and keep off the wind when they are grown up.

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LEY lai

Noun: Land untilled. We find this iNoun, plural:ace-names, as Leysdown in Sheppey. (see also Lay)

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LIB

Verb: To get walnuts of the trees with libbats.

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LIBBAT

Noun: A billet of wood; a stick. 1592 - "With that he took a libbat up and beateth out his brains." - Warner. Albion's England. (see also Libbet)

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LIBBET

Noun: In the first volume of "Kentish (Wealden) Dialect" (1935), mention is made of Libbet as pertaining to a piece of wood, generally nine to twelve inches long, and mostle used by children to knock down nuts and fruit from trees. (see also Libbat)

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LIBBET AND DADDY

Noun: A childhood game. The 'Daddy' is a spronged stick, forming a three-sided pyramid-like structure. The 'Libbet' is the piece of wood placed under the three-pronged 'Daddy'. It is played (though rarely now) by boys; one throws a 'Libbet' at the 'Daddy' and tries to knock it over, then, should he do so, he and also the other players make a rush to get the 'Libbet' that the 'Daddy' protected. Whoever succeeds in getting the 'Libbet' becomnes the thrower, and so the game continues. The libbet as mentioned in the "Kentish (Wealden) Dialect (1935)" was also used at Kentish Fair coconut shies, in lieu of a ball, some 75 years ago.

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LID lid

Noun: A coverlet.

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LIEF leef

Adjective: Soon; rather; fain; gladly. "I'd as lief come to-morrow."

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LIEF-COUP leef-koop

Noun: An auction of household goods, (see also Litcop, Outroope)

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LIELOCK

Noun: Lilac. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. (see also French May, Laylock)

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LIERN

Verb: Learn. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Lyern)

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LIESE

Verb: Loose. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Leose (lese). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic (see also Lyese)

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LIEVE

Dear. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic (see also Lyeve)

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LIGHT leit

Noun: (2) The droppings of sheep. (see also Sheep's treddles, Treddles)

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LIGHT leit

Noun: (1) The whole quantity of eggs the hen lays at one laying.

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LIGHT UPON leit upon

Verb: To meet; to fall in with any person or thing rather unexpectedly. "He lit upon him goin' down de roäd."

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LIGHTLY lei-tli

Adjective: Mostly.

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LIKE leik

(2) Adverbial suffix to other words, as pleasant-like, comfortable-like, home-like, etc. "It's too clammy-like."

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LIKE leik

Verb: (1) To be pleased with; suited for; in Phrase: se, to like one's self. "How do you like yourself?" i.e., how do you like your present position and its surrounding"

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LIMB

Noun: A young rascal; a naughty child. "I don't known whatever that young limb will be up to next!"

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LIMB-OF-A-WAY

Adjective: A long way; at a good distance. "How far be it to Chart Forstal, sir? Why it be a limb-ofa-way! Quite three or four mile from here, even the shortest way!" (see also Hem-of-a-way)

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LINCH lin-ch

Noun: A little strip of land, to mark the boundary of the fields in open countries, called elsewhere landshire or landsherd, to distinquish a share of land. In Eastry the wooded ridge, which lies over against the church, is called by the name of the Lynch. (see also Lynch)

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LINGER ling-ur

Verb: To long after a thing. "She lingers after it."

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LINGERING ling-uring

Adjective: Used with reference to a protracted sickness of a consumptive character. "He's in a poor lingering way."

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LINGY linj-i

Adjective: Idle and loitering.

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LINK link

Verb: To entice; beguile; mislead. "They linked him in along with a passel o' good-for-nothin' runagates."

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LIPPEN

Noun, plural:. Lips. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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LIRRY lir-r'i

Noun: A blow to the ear.

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LISHY lish-i

Adjective: Flexible; lissome. Spoken of corn, plants and shrubs running up apace, and so growing tall and weak.

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LISS

Noun: A bridle path or road. A word much in use 50 years ago, particular to Barham and district. "You'll get there qucker if you take the old liss road."

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LISSOM lis-um

Adjective: Pliant; supple. Contracted from lithesome.

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LIST

Adjective: The condition of the atmosphere when sounds are heard easily. "Ir's a wonderful list morning."

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LITCOP lit-kup

Noun: An auction of household goods, (see also Lief-coup, Outroope)

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LITHER lidh-ur

Adjective: Supple; limber; pliant; gentle.

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LIT-IN

Verb: Went in. "They lit-in all unexpected, and all we had in the house was bread and cheese."

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LIT-OUT

Verb: (1) Went out. This expression is widely used in the USA, especially in the old cow-hand districts, being another instance of Kentish dialect that old pioneers took with them on the covered-wagon trails, and where all along the routes to the Californian seaboard it became one of the most popular expressions of the 'new' language of the later settlers and cowboys. "He litout to Denver."

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LIT-OUT

Verb: (2) Went off. "Butcher Pile lit-out to Ashford early this morning with Muss Maylam's young bulls, an' I doubt ef (if) you'll catch him and his mate up 'fore they gets there."

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LIVERY livur-i

Adjective: The hops which are at the bottom of the poles, and do not get enough sun to ripen them are called white livery hops.

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LOB lob

Noun: To throw underhand.

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LOB-LOW

Verb: (2) To duck down; to lie low. "Look out Bob! Lob-low in this ditch. If the farmer catches us in his meadow now he's laid it in for hay, he won't arf whop us!"

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LOB-LOW

Verb: (1) To fly low, as rooks do in windy weather; flying just off the ground, or clearing the tops of hedges. "The old rooks aint half a lob-lowing today in this gale!"

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LODGE loj

Verb: (2) To lie fast without moving. "That libbat has lodged up there in the gutter, and you can't get it down, leastways not without a lather."

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LODGE loj

Noun: (1) An outbuilding; a shed, with an implied notion that it is more or less of a temporary character. The particular use to which the lodge is put is often stated, as a cart-lodge, a wagonlodge. "The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers." - Isaiah, Ch 1 v 8. "As melancholy as a lodge in a warren." - Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Sc 1.

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LODGED loj-d

Adjective: Laid flat; spoken of corn that has been beated down by the wind or rain. "We'll make foul weather with despised tears, Our sighs, and they shall lodge the summer corn." - Richard 2, Act 3 Sc 3. (also Macbeth, 4.1.55)

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LOLLOP

Verb: To lounge about; to lollop about. There was a Wiltshire verb 'to lollop' which is equivalent to 'to lounge'. - Ralph Whitlock 'Wiltshire' p 198.

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LOMPEN

Noun, plural:. Lamps. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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LOMPY lomp-i

Adjective: Thick; clumsy; fat.

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LOND

Noun: Land. The use of 'o' for 'a'. The Old Frisian, which has been quoted in support of these forms has brond, hond, lond, for brand, hand, and land.

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LONESOME loan-sum

Adjective: Lonely.

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LONG-DOG

Noun: (2) Wealden for any type of dog or hound long in the body; such as dachshunds, whippets, greyhounds and the gipsies' and dealers' mongrel lurcher-dogs.

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LONG-DOG long-dog

Noun: (1) The greyhound.

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'LONG-OF

abbr. Along of. "Be you a'coming 'long-of us?"

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LONGTAILS

Noun, plural:. (2) Pheasants. - J H Bridge.

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LONGTAILS long-tailz

Noun, plural:. (1) An old nickname for the natives of Kent. In the library at Dulwich College is a printed broadside entitled "Advice to the Kentish long-tails by the wise men of Gotham, in answer to their late sawcy petition to Parliament." - Fol. 1701.

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'LONG-WITH

abbr. Along with. "Be you a-coming 'long-with us."

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LOOK UPON luok upun

Verb: To favour; to regard kindly. "He's bin an ole sarvent, and therefore I dessay they look upon 'im."

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LOOK'EE

Verb: Look!; Look over there!; Look here! Also "Lookee-here" i.e. "Look you here!" "Look-ee who's coming down the road."

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LOOKER luok-ur

Noun: (1) One who looks after sheep and cattle grazing in the marshes. His duties with sheep are rather different from those of a shepherd in the uplands.

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LOOKER luok-ur

Verb: (2) To perform the work of a looker. "John? Oh! he's lookering."

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LOOKING-AT luok-ing-at

Noun: In Phrase: se, "It wants no looking-at," i.e., it's plain; clear; self-evident.

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LOPE-WAY loap-wai

Noun: A private footpath.

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LORCUS-HEART lau-kus-hart

Interjection: As, "O lorcus heart," which means "O Lord Christ's heart."

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LORRY lor-r'i

Noun: Jingling rhyme; spoken by mummers and others. (see also Lerry, Lurry)

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LOSH-HORSE

Noun: The third horse of a team. (see also Rod-horse)

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LOST

Verb: Lust. Use of 'o' for 'u'. Old Frisian; onder and op for under and up.

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LOVE luv; loov

Noun: A widow. "John Stoleker's loove." - Burn's History of Parish Registers, p 115. 1492 - "Item rec. of Belser's loue the full of our kene. . . 16s 8d. Item rec. of Sarjanti's loue. . . 13s 5d. Item payde for the buryng of Ellerygge's loue and her monythis mynde. . . 4s" - Churchwardens' Accounts of St Dunstan's, Canterbury. 1505 - "Rec of Chadborny's loove for waste of 2 torchys (at his funeral). . . 8d. Rec. of Chadborny's widow for the bequest of her husband. . . 3s 4d." - Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Andrew's, Canterbury.

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LOVY

Verb: To love. Anglo-Saxon conjugation.

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'LOW lou

Verb: To allow; to suppose, e.g. "I 'low not." for "I allow not."

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'LOWANCE lou-ans

Noun: An allowance; bread and cheese and ale given to the wagoners when they have brought home the load, hence any recompense for little jobs of work. (see also Allowance)

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LOWEY loa-i

Noun: The ancient liberty of the family of Clare at Tunbridge, extending three miles from the castle on every side. "The arrangements made by the King for the wardship of Richard of Clare and the custody of the castle appear to have given umbrage to the Archbishop. who (circa, A.D. 1230) made a formal complaint to the King that the Chief Justiciary had, on the death of the late Earl, seized the castle and lowey of Tunbridge, which he claimed as fief of the archbishopric." - Archaeologia Cantiana, 16, p 21

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LOWS loaz

Noun, plural:. The hollows in marsh land where the water stagnates.

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LUBBER HOLE

Noun: A place made in a haystack when it is three-parts built, where a man may stand to reach the hay from the men in the wagon, and pitch it up to those on the top of the stack.

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LUCKING-MILL

Noun: A fulling-mill.

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LUG, SIR PETER lug, Sir Peter

Noun: The person that comes last to any meeting is called Sir Peter Lug; lug is probably a corruption of lag. (see Peter-Grievious)

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LUG-SAND lug'-sand

Noun: The sand where the lugworm is found by fishermen searching for bait.

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LURRY lur-r'i

Noun: Jingling rhyme; spoken by mummers and others. (see also Lerry, Lorry)

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LUSHINGTON

Noun: A man fond of drink. "He's a reg'lar lushington, 'most always drunk."

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LUSTY lust-i

Adjective: Fat; flourishing; well grown; in good order. "You've growed quite lusty sin' we seed ye last."

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LYAF

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LYEAF

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LYEAS

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LYERN

Verb: Learn. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Liern)

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LYESE

Verb: Loose. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. Usual Old English forms = Leose (lese). It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dy-epe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Liese)

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LYEVE

Dear. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic (see also Lieve)

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LYNCH lin-ch

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LYSTE-WAY list-wai

Noun: A green way on the edge of a field. This word occurs in a M.S. dated 1356, which describes the bounds and limits of the parish of Eastry, "And froo the weye foreseyd called wenis, extende the boundes and lymmites of the pishe of Easterye by a wey called lyste towards the easte." - Memorials of Eastry, p 28. (see also Went)

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MABBLED mab-ld

Verb: Mixed; confused. "An books and such mabbled up." - Dick and Sal, st 70.

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MAD mad

Adjective: Enraged; furious. "Being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them." - Acts, Ch 26 v 11

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MADE-A-FOOLIN'-OF

Verb: To make a fuss of a child or animal. "I don't know what we shall do with ye when your Auntie has gone back. She's proper made-a-foolin'-of ye, since she came over to us on her holidays."

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MAGGOTY mag-uti

Adjective: Whimsical; restless; unreliable. "He's a maggoty kind o' chap, he is."

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MAID maid

Noun: A little frame to stand before the fire to dry small articles. (see also Tamsin)

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MAKE EVEN

Verb: (see Even, to make)

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MAKE OFF

Verb: To make out; to understand.- R Cooke.

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MAMMICK

Verb: To eat untidily; in a pig-like way. "Drat ye, young Stevie! Doant mammick your food like that. There's more bread and jam on the floor than in your innards!"

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MAN OF KENT

Phrase: A title claimed by the inhabitants of the Weald as their peculiar designation; all others they regard as Kentish men.

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MANKIE-PEAS

Noun, plural: The common wood-lice. They are also called peasie-bugs and pea-bugs, as they resemble, when rolled up into a ball, small black pea-like bodies. "Look at they mankie-peas, grandpa! Millions of 'em, in that old log Harry has just broken open!" (see also Cheese-bugs, Monkey-peas, Pea-bugs, Peasie-bugs)

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MANNISH man-ish

Adjective: Like a man; manly. "He's a very mannish little chap."

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MAN-SUCKER man-sukr

Noun: The cuttle-fish - Folkestone. (see also Inkspewer, Squib (2), Tortoise)

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MARCH mar-ch

Noun: Called in East Kent "March many weather."

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MARM maam

Noun: A jelly.

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MARSH maa-sh

Noun: In East Kent the Marsh means Romney Marsh, as the Island means the Isle of Thanet in East Kent, or Sheppy in North Kent. Romney Marsh is the fifth quarter of the world which consists of Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Romney Marsh. (see also Mash, Mesh, Mush)

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MARY SPILT THE MILK

Noun: Lungwort.- Alice Clarke. 1975.

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MARYGOLD mar-r'igold

Noun: A lady bird. The first part of the name refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the latter, gold, to the bright orange, or orange-red, colour of the insect. This little insect is highly esteemed in Kent, and is of great service in hop-gardens in eating up the fleas and other insects which attack the hops. (see also Bug (2), Fly-golding, Golding, Lady-bug, Lady Cow, Merrigo)

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MASH mash

Noun: A marsh. (see also Marsh, Mesh, Mush)

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MATCH-A-RUNNING

Noun: A game peculiar to Kent, and somewhat resembling prisoner's base. (see also MatchRunning , Stroke-bias)

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MATCH-ME-IF-YOU-CAN

Noun: The appropriate name of the variegated ribbon-grass of our gardens, anciently called our lady's laces, and subsequently painted laces, ladies' laces, and gardener's garters. Phalaris arundinacea.

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MATCH-RUNNING

Noun: A game peculiar to Kent, and somewhat resembling prisoner's base. (see also Match-aRunning , Stroke-bias)

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MATE mait, mee-ut

Noun: A companion; comrade; fellow-labourer; friend; used especially by husband or wife to one another.

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MAUDRING mau-dring

Verb: Mumbling.

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MAUN maun

Noun: A large round, open, deep wicker basket, larger at the top than bottom, with a handle on each side near the top (some have two handles, others of more modern pattern have four); commonly used for carrying chaff, fodder, hops, etc, and for unloading coals. Shakespeare uses the word - "A thousand favours from a maund she drew, Of amber, crystal and of braided jet." - Lover's Complaint, st 6. (see also Maund (1), Moan)

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MAUND maand, maund

Noun: (1) A large round, open, deep wicker basket, larger at the top than bottom, with a handle on each side near the top (some have two handles, others of more modern pattern have four); commonly used for carrying chaff, fodder, hops, etc, and for unloading coals. Shakespeare uses the word - "A thousand favours from a maund she drew, Of amber, crystal and of braided jet." - Lover's Complaint, st 6. (see also Maun, Moan)

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MAUND

Noun: (2) A hay-cock is called a maund of hay (? a mound of hay)

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MAUNDER mau-nder

Verb: (1) To scold; murmur; complain.

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MAUNDER mau-nder

Verb: (2) To walk with unsteady gait; to wander about with no fixed purpose.

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MAW

Verb: Mow. The Northumbrian dialect retained, as it still does, many pure Anglo-Saxon words containing the long sound of 'a', which the Southern dialect changed into 'o'. This word contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, resembles the Northumbrian form.

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MAXHILL

Noun: A dungheap. (see also Maxon (1) & (2), Maxul, Misken, Mixon)

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MAXON

Noun: (1) A dungheap. (see also Maxhill, Maxon (2), Maxul, Misken, Mixon)

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MAXON

Noun: (2) A dung or manure Maxon is a specially built-up box-like oblong of stable, cow-shed or pig-sty manure: sometime separately, sometimes of all three. Some of these manure-heaps measure many yards in length and width, and sometimes are as much as six feet in height. (see also Maxhill, Maxon (1), Maxul, Misken, Mixen)

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MAXUL maks-l

Noun: A dungheap. (see also Maxhill, Maxon (1) & (2), Misken, Mixon)

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MAY HILL mai hil

Noun: Used in the Phrase: se, "I don't think he'll ever get up May hill," i.e., I don't think he will live through the month of May. March, April and May especially, owing to the fluctuations of temperature, are very trying months in East Kent. So, again, the uncertain, trying nature of this month, owing to the cold east or out winds, is further alluded to in the saying - "Ne'er cast a clout Till May is out."

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MAY-BUG mai-bug

Noun: A cockchafer, otherwise called a July-bug.

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MAYER

Noun: Mayor, a civic dignitary.

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MAY-WEED

Noun: Anthemis cotula.

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MAZZARD maz-urd

Noun: Prunus avium.

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MEACH mee-ch

Verb: To creep about softly. (see also Meecher)

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MEAKERS

Noun, plural:. Mice; the common house-mice or field mice. "Ye shall soon have to shift that old foggotstack. Too many o' they meakers be a-nesting in there, and too many of 'em a-finding their way into the cottages as well." (see also Meece, Mickie)

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MEAL

Noun: Ground wheat or any other grain before it is bolted. In bolting, the bran is divided into two qualities, the coarser retains the name of bran, and the finer is called pollard.

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MEASURE-FOR-A-NEW-J

Verb: To flog; to beat. "Now, you be off, or I'll measure you for a new jacket."

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MEASURING-BUG

Noun: The caterpillar.

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MEECE mees

Noun, plural:. (1) Mice. "Jus' fancy de meece have terrified my peas." (see also Meakers, Mickie)

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MEECE

Noun, plural:. (2) Mice Present dialect form i.e. 1863. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'.

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MEECHER

Verb: To creep about softly. (see also Meach)

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MEEN

Verb: To shiver slightly.

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MEENING meen-ing

Noun: An imperfect fit of the ague.

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MEGPY meg-pi

Noun: The common magpie.

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MELK

Noun: (2) Milk. Present dialect form i.e. 1863. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'.

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MELK

Noun: (1) Milk.Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Melk (K) = Milk (N)

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MELLE

Noun: Mill. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Mele (K) = Mill (N)

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MELT melt

Noun: A measure of two bushels of coals.

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MENAGERIE menaaj-uri

Noun: Management; a surprising and clever contrivance. "That is a menagerie!"

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MEND

Mind. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Mend (K) = Mund (S) = Mind (N)

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MENDMENT

Noun: (1) Manure. (see also Amendment)

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MENDMENTS

Noun, plural:. (2) Manure; the droppings of any bird or animal; animal excretions.

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MENNYS men-is

Noun: A wide tract of ground, partly copse and partly moor; a high common; a waste piece of rising ground. There are many such in East Kent, as Swingfield Minnis, Ewell Minnis, etc. (see also Minnis)

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MENTLE

Noun: Mantle Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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MERCIFUL mer-siful

Adjective: Used as an intensive expletive, much in the same way as "blessed" or "mortal" are used elsewhere. "They took every merciful thing they could find."

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MERRIGO mer-r'goa

Noun: A ladybird. (see also Marygold, of which Merrigo is a corruption ) (see also Bug (2), Fly-golding, Golding, Lady-bug, Lady Cow, Marygold)

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MERSC

Noun: Marsh Use of 'e' for 'a'. Present dialect form i.e. 1863.

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MERSS

Noun: Marsh. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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MESH mesh, maish

Noun: A marsh. (see also Marsh, Mash, Mush)

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MESS-ABOUT

Verb: To waste time. "Don't keep all-on messing-about like that, but come here directlyminute."

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MESSEN

Noun, plural:. Masses. (Ecclesiastical) Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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MESS-OF-FOOD

Noun: A good substantial mess, or basin or platefull of hot food, the quantity and quality of which will fully satisfy even the hungriest of farm-workers.

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METT met

Noun: A measure containing a bushel. Anglo-Saxon metan, to measure. 1539 - "Paid for a mett of salt 11d" - MS Accounts, St John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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MEWSE meuz

Noun: An opening through the bottom of a hedge, forming a run for game.

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MICKIE

Noun: The house or field mouse. Mickie has become a generally accepted slang term outside of the Kentish Weald, where it originated, for the common mouse. "Our pantry cupboard is full of little mickies!" "He's as quiet as a mickie." (see also Meakers, Meece)

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MICKIE, TO TAKE THE

Phrase: To make a fool of a person, in a quiet and often round about way. This universal term "To take the mike (or the mickie) out of me" is really of Weald origin. This came about through the actions of a certain rustic at Pluckley, near Ashford, trying to catch a mouse that had jumped up another farm-hand's sleeve. The helper, who soon has an enthusiastic audience, kept fooling about, not trying to catch the mouse at all, but simply to get it to move from one part of his friend's anatomy to another, until at last the exasperated rustic shouted to his 'helper': "Are you trying to take the mickie out of me?" thereby implying that he did not think his chum was trying to dislodge the mouse, but simply making him look a fool in front of the other farm hands. The farm-hand who coined this Phrase: se was "Plushy" Austin of Honey Farm, Pluckley.

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MIDDLEBUN mid-lbun

Noun: The leathern thong which connects the hand-staff of a flail with the swingel.

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MIDDLEMAS mid-lmus

Noun: Michaelmas.

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MIDDLING mid-ling

Adjective: A word of several shades of meaning, from very much or very good, to very little or very bad. The particular sense in which the word is to be taken for the time is determined by the tone of the speaker's voice alone.

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MIDDLINGS

Noun: An instalment of shoe-money, sometimes given to the pickers in the middle of the hopping time.

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MILCH-HEARTED milch-haat-id

Adjective: Timid; mild; tender-hearted; nervous. "Jack won't hurt him, he's ever so much too milch-hearted."

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MILL mil

Verb: To melt.

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MILLER'S EYE mil-urz ei

Noun: To put the miller's eye out is when a person, in mixing mortar or dough, pours too much water into the hole made to receive it; then they say, "I reckon you've put the miller's eye out now!" - Eastry.

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MILLER'S THUMB mil-urz-thum

Noun: A fish which is otherwise known as bull-head. Cottus gobio. (see also Corbeau)

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MILLER'S-EYES mil-urz-eiz

Noun, plural:. Jelly-fish. - Dover (see also Blue Slutters, Galls, Sea-nettles, Sea Starch, Sluthers, Slutters,Stingesr, Water-galls)

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MIND meind

Noun: (1) To be a mind to a thing; to intend; purpose; design it. The complete Phrase: se runs thus, "I'm a mind to it."

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MIND meind

Verb: (2) To remember. "Do you mind what happen'd that time up in Island?"

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MINE mein

Noun: Any kind of mineral, especially iron-stone.

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MINNIS min-is

Noun: A wide tract of ground, partly copse and partly moor; a high common; a waste piece of rising ground. There are many such in East Kent, as Swingfield Minnis, Ewell Minnis, etc. (see also Mennys)

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MINT mint

Noun: The spleen.

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MINTY mint-i

Adjective: Full of mites, used of meal, or cheese.

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MINUTE min-it

Noun: (2) Directly-minute, immediately. (see also Dreckly-minute)

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MINUTE min-it

Noun: (1) A Kentish man would say, "a little minute," where another would say, "a minute." So, "a little moment," in Isaiah ch 24, v 20, "Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation by overpast."

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MISCHEEVIOUS

Adjective: Mischievous.

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MISERY mis-ur'i

Noun: Acute bodily pain; not sorrow or distress of mind, as commonly. "He's gone in great misery for some time."

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MISHEROON

Noun: Mushroom. (see also Musheroon, Rooms)

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MISKEN mis-kin

Noun: A dunghill. (see also Maxhill, Maxon (1) & (2), Maxul, Mixon)

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MISS

Noun: Abbreviation of mistress. Always used for Mrs., as the title of a married woman.

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MIST mist

impers. Verb: "It mists," i.e., rains very fine rain.

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MISTUS mis-tus

Noun: Mistress; the title of a married woman. "My mistus and me's done very well and comfortable together for 'bove fifty year; not but what we've had a misword otherwhile, for she can be middlin' contrairy when she likes, I can tell ye."

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MISWORD mis-wurd

Noun: A cross, angry, or abusive word. "He's never given me one misword."

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MITHERWAY

Interjection: Phrase: Come hither away. A call by a wagoner to his horses.

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MITTENS mit-nz

Noun, plural:. Large, thick, leathern gloves without separate fingers, used by hedgers to protect their hands from thorns.

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MIXON miks-un

Noun: A dung-heap; dung-hill. Properly one which is made of earth and dung; or, as in Thanet, of seeweed, lime and dung. Anglo-Saxon, mix, dung; mixen, a dung-hill. (see also Maxhill, Maxon (1) & (2), Maxul in Eastry, Misken)

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MIZMAZE

Noun: Confusion; a puzzle. "Time I fell off de stack, soonsever I begun to look about a little, things seemed all of a mizmaze." 1678 - "But how to pleasure such worthy flesh and blood, and not the direct way of nature, is such a mizmaze to manhood." - Howard, Man of Newmarket.

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MIZZLE

Noun: A mist-like rain falling very lightly. "Twouldn't be so bad if it was just a mizzle, but we can't go all that way without our coats now it be mizzling real hard."

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MIZZLING

Verb: A mist-like rain falling heavily.

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MOAN

Noun: A basket, used for carrying chaff or roots for food; and for unloading coals. (see also Maun, Maund)

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MODREN

Noun, plural:.Mothers. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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MOKE moak

Noun: A mesh of a net.

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MOLLIE mol-i

Noun: A hedge sparrow; otherwise called Dicky-hedge-poker.

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MONEY mun-i

Noun: The Phrase: se, "good money," means good pay, high wages. "He's getting good money, I reckon."

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MONEY-IN-BOTH-POCKE

Noun: Lunaria biennis. The plant otherwise known as honesty, or white satin-flower, as it is sometimes called from the silvery lustre of its large circular-shaped saliques, which, when dried, were used to dress up fire-places in summer and decorate the chimney-mantels of cottages and village inns. The curious seed-vessels, which grow in pairs, and are semitransparent, show the flat disc-shaped seeds like little coins within them, an appearance which Noun: doubt originated the name, Money-in-both-pockets.

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MONEY-PURSE mun-i-pus

Noun: A purse. "He brought our Jack a leather cap An' Sal a money-puss" - Dick and Sal, st 16.

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MONEY-SPINNER

Noun: A small spider supposed to bring good luck.

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MONKEY-PEAS mun-kipees

Noun: Wood-louse; also the ligea oceanica, which resembles the wood-louse, and lives in the holes made in the stone by the pholades. (see also Cheese bug, Mankie-peas, Pea-bugs, Peasie-bugs)

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MONT munt

Noun: Month.

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MOOCH

Verb: (2) To slouch; to move about in a lazy, slovenly or flat-footed manner. "There you go again! Mooching along, with your head on the ground. Wearing out they hard-earned boots and likely you'll run yourself into a telegraph-pole or a moty-car!"

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MOOCH mooch

Verb: (1) Dawdle.

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MOON

Noun: 10 bushel basket measures, especially for hops.- East Kent. Nicky Newbury. (see also Half -moon)

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MOOR moor

Noun: Swampy and wet piece of ground.

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MOORNEN moo-rneen

Noun: A moor hen.

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MOOT moo-t

Noun: The root or stump of a tree, which when felled, is divided into three parts; 1st, the moot; 2nd, the stem; 3rd, the branches.

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MORE moa-r

Adjective: Used of size or dimensions; as "as big more," i.e., as big again.

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MORT mor-t

Noun: Abundance; a large quantity; a multitude. A mort of money, apples, birds, men, etc. (see also Mot)

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MOSES moa-ziz

Noun: A young frog. - East Kent.

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MOSTEST moa-stist

Adjective: Farthest; greatest distance. "The mostest that he's bin from home is 'bout eighteen miles." East Kent people seldom travel far from home.

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MOST-TIMES moa-st-teimz

Adjective: Generally; usually.

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MOT mot

Noun: Abundance; a large quantity; a multitude. A mort of money, apples, birds, men, etc. (see also Mort)

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MOTHER OF THOUSAND mudh-ur uv thou-zundz

Noun: Linaria cymbularia.

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MOTHERY mudh-ur'i

Adjective: Out of condition; muddy; thick; with a scum or mould on it. "The beer's got pretty mothery, seeminly."

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MOVE

Noun: An action or plan. "Well, that's a middlin' silly move, let be how 'twill."

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MOWL moul

Noun: Mould.

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MUCH much

Verb: (1) To fondle; caress; pet. "However did you manage to tame those wild sheep?" "Well, I mutched 'em, ye see."

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MUCH much

Adjective: (2) Used with regard to the state of the health. "How are ye to-day?" "Not much, thank ye."

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MUCH OF A MUCHNESS

Adjective: . Phrase: se. Very much alike; as like as two peas.

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MUCH AS EVER much az ev-r

Adjective: Hardly; scarcely; only just; with difficulty. "Shall ye get done (i.e. finish your job) today?" "Much as ever."

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MUCK muk

Verb: (1) To dirty; to work over-hard.

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MUCK muk

Noun: (2) A busy person. "De squire was quite head muck over this here Jubilee job."

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MUCK ABOUT muk ubou-t

Verb: (1) To work hard. "He's most times mucking about somewhere's or another."

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MUCK ABOUT

Verb: (2) To fool about.

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MUCK-ABOUT

Verb: (2) To fool about; to fool around. "Go on! muck-about my boy! But if you'r still amucking about, times I'm ready to take you out, I'll give 'ee such a bannicking ye'll not know whether you be on yer head or yer heels!" - Ashford and Wealden.

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MUCKED UP muk-t-up

Adjective: All in confusion and disorder. "I lay you never see such a place as what master's study is; 'tis quite entirely mucked-up with books."

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MUCK-UP

Verb: To lift up. "Hey mister! Gie us a muck-up into the cart with this here bale o' hay, will ye?" - Ashford and District.

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MUDDLE ABOUT mud-l ubou-t

Verb: To do a little work. "As long as I can just muddle about I don't mind."

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MULLOCK mul-uk

Verb: To damp the heat of an oven. A diminutive of Old English mull, which is merely a variant of mould.

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MUNTON munt-n

Noun: The mullion of a window. This is nearer to the medieval form munnion.

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MUSH mush

Noun: A marsh. (see also Marsh, Mash, Mesh)

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MUSHEROON mush-iroon

Noun: A mushroom. French, moucheron. (see also Misheroon, Rooms)

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MUSTER must-r

Noun: Mister (Mr.), the title given to an employer, and often contracted into muss. The labourer's title is master, contracted into mass. "Where be you goin'. Mass Tompsett?" "Well, I be goin' 'cross to Muss Chickses."

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NABBLER nab-lur

Noun: An argumentative, captious person; a gossip; a mischief-maker.

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NACKERS

Noun, plural:. Testes - Plumstead, West Kent. L.E.A.G. 1920's).

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NAIL nai-l

Noun: A weight of eight pounds.

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NAILBOURN nai-lburn, nai-lboarn

Noun: An Interjection:ittent stream. Harris, in his History of Kent, p 240, writes, "There is a famous eylebourn which rises in this parish (Petham) and sometimes runs but a little way before it falls into the ground;" and again at p 179, Harris writes, "Kilburn saith that AD 1472, here (at Lewisham) newly broke out of the earth a great spring;" by which he probably meant an eylebourn or nailbourn. " Why! the nailbourn's begun to run a' ready." (see also Eylesbourne)

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NARL

Noun: (2) Nail. "You go ask the shipwright for some four inch narls." "Those narls aint no good for them timbers, try these!" - Medway district.

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NARL

Noun: (1) A knot of wood. These words - Narl, Narlie and Narlie-wood - are almost extinct. I know of only one old man in the whole of the Medway Towns (Chatham, Rochester, Gillingham and Strood) - at least to my knowledge- who uses the above expressions in regards to wood-knots and knotted timber. - North-East Kent and Medway district.

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NARLIE

Adjective: Well knotted wood; poor timber. - North-east Kent, and Medway district. (see also Narl)

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NARLIE-WOOD

Adjective: Well knotted wood; poor timber; useless for building purposes. - North-East Kent, and Medway district. (see also Narl)

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NASE

Noun: Nose. The Northumbrian dialect retained, as it still does, many pure Anglo-Saxon words containing the long sound of 'a', which the Southern dialect changed into 'o'. This word contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, resembles the Northumbrian form.

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NATCHES nach-ez

Noun: The notches or battlements of a church tower.

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NATE nait

Noun: Naught; bad.

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NATIVE nai-tiv

Noun: Native place; birthplace. "Timblestun (Tilmanstone) is my native, but I've lived in Eastry nearly forty years come Michaelmas."

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NATURE nai-chur

Noun: Way; manner. "In this nature," in this way.

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NAWN STEERS naun steez

Noun, plural:. Small steers. Cf. French nain, dwarf.

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NAZT

Not. The Northumbrian dialect retained, as it still does, many pure Anglo-Saxon words containing the long sound of 'a', which the Southern dialect changed into 'o'. This word contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, resembles the Northumbrian form.

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NEAT neet

Verb: To make neat and clean.

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NEB neb

Noun: A peg used to fasten the pole of an ox-plough to the yoke.

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NEEGAR

Noun: The larva of the ladybird. - R Cooke. (see also Nigger, Nigyar)

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NE'ER A ONCE

Adjective: Not once.

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NEGHEND

Noun: Nineth. 'The Old Kentish numerals, as exhibited in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, are identical with the Northen forms, but are no doubt of Frisian origin.'

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NEGRO

Noun: "Had discourse with Partridge; he says the Negro attacks turnips proceeding in straight rows, and when at the end of the row returns again in a parallel manner." - G M Arnold, Robert Pocock 80.

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NEIGHBOUR

Verb: To associate. "Though we live next door we don't neighbour."

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NESS nes

Noun: A promontory; a cape; a headland. Seen iNoun, plural:ace names as Dungeness, Sheerness, etc. French, Nez; Scandinavian, Naze. So the English sailors call Blanc Nez, opposite Dover, Blank-ness or Black-ness.

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NET net

Noun: A knitted woollen scarf.

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NETTLE-FRIG

Noun: A fidget; a restless person; generally applied to a child. Derived from the fidgetting or contortions of a person or child stung on the legs by stinging-nettles. "Sit still Nance! You'r a proper nettle-frig." - Wealden. (see also Frig)

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NETTLEN

Noun, plural:. Nettles. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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NEWLAND neu-lund

Noun: Land newly broke-up or ploughed.

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NICKOPIT nik-upitn. A bog; a quagmire; a deep hole in a dyke.

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NIDGET nij-it

Noun: A shim or horse-hoe with nine irons, used for cleaning the ground between the rows of hops or beans.

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NIEDE

Need. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian.. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic (see also Nyede)

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NIGGER

Noun: The larva of the ladybird. - R Cooke. (see also Nigger)

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NIGGLING nig-lin

Adjective: Trifling; petty; troublesome on account of smallness. "There, I tell ye, I aint got no time for no sich niggling jobs."

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NIGYER

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NIMBLE DICK nimb-l dik

Noun: A species of horse-fly or gad-fly, differing somewhat from Brims.

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NIPPER nip-ur

Noun: A nickname given to the youngest or smallest member of a family.

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NISY nei-si

Noun: A ninny; simpleton.

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NIT

Noun: The egg of a louse or small insect. "Dead as a nit," is a common expression.

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NITTY NINEHAIRS

Noun: Name given to a bald-headed man. - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. 1920's.

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NO OUGHT noa aut

Adjective: l. Phrase: Ought not. "The doctor said I no ought to get out." The expression "you ought not" is seldom used; it is almost invariably no ought. A similar use of prepositions occurs in such Phrase: ses as up-grown, out-asked, etc. (see also hadn't ought)

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NO PRINCIPLE

This expression is only applied in Kent to people who do not pay their debts.

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NO SENSE

Adjective: Phrase: Nothing to speak of; nothing to signify. "It don't rain; leastways, not no sense."

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NOD nod

Noun: The nape of the neck. With this are connected noddle, noddy; as in the nursery rhyme - "Little Tom Noddy, All head and no body."

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NOHOW noa-hou

Adjective: In no way; not at all. "I doänt see as how as I can do it, not nohow."

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NONCE nons

Noun: The Phrase: se "for the nonce", means for the once, for that particular occasion; hence, on purpose with design or intent.

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NONE nun

Adjective: "None of 'em both," i.e., neither of 'em.

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NONE-SO-PRETTY

Noun: The name of the little flower, otherwise known as London pride. Dianthus barbatus.

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NOOKIT

Noun: A nook.

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NO-RABBITS-CAUGHT!

Phrase: Wealden and Ashford for 'Nothing done'. "By goodness, young Ern! Here it is dinnertime, and no rabbits caught!" Meaning that nothing had been, or seemingly been, done up to dinner-time.

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NORATION noar'ai-shun

Noun: A fuss; a row; a set out or disturbance by word or deed. "What a noration there is over this here start, surelye!"

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NOTCH noch

Verb: "To notch up," to reckon or count; alluding to the old method of reckoning at cricket, where they used to take a stick and cut a notch in it for every run that was made.

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NOWNAGEN

abbr. Now and again; now and then.

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NOYES noiz

Adjective: Noisome; noxious; dangerous; bad to travel on. "I will it be putt for to mende fowle and noyes ways at Collyswood and at Hayne." - Lewis, p 104.

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NUNCHEON nunch-yun

Noun: A mid-day meal. The original meaning was a noon-drink, as shewn by the old spelling, none-chenche, in Riley's Memorials of London, p 265. "When laying by their swords and truncheons They took their breakfasts or their nuncheons." - Hudibras, pt 1, canto 1.

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NURITY neu-r'iti

Noun: Goodness. "The bruts run away with all the nurity of the potato." - West Kent.

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NUTHER nudh-ur

conj. Neither; giving an emphatic termination to a sentence. "And I'm not going to it, nuther," i.e. I am not going to it, you may be sure!

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NYEDE

Need. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Niede)

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NYKKEN

Noun, plural:. Necks. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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OARE oar

Noun: Seaweed; seawrack. This is the name of a parish in North Kent, near Faversham, thich is bounded on the north by the river Swale, where probably great quantities of seeweed collected. ". . . To forbid and restrain the burning or taking up of any sea oare within the Isle of Thanet." - Lewis, p.89. (see also Sea-waur, Waur, Waure)

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OAST oast

Noun: (1) A kiln for drying malt or hops, but anciently used for any kind of kiln, as a bryk-host, i.e. brick-kiln. - Old Parish Book of Wye, 34 Henry 8th. Canon W.A. Scott-Roberston , says, "This name for a kiln was used in Kent long before hops were introduced." In a deed, dated 28 Edward 1 (copied by Mr Burt, in the Record Office), we find, "Roger de Faukham granting to William be Wykewane, and Sarah, his wife, 3 acres of land which 'jacent apud le Lymoste in parochia de Faukham." "During Wat Tyler's insurrection, some of the insurgents went to a place called the Lymost, in Preston-next-Faversham, on the 5th of June, 1381, and ejected. . . goods and chattels of Philip Bode, found there, to wit, lime, sacks, etc" - Archaeologia Cantiana, 3.90. In a lease, dated 1455, and granted by the Churchwardens of Dartford to John Grey and John Vynor, we read, "The tenants to build a new kime-oast that shall burn eight quarters of lime at once." - Landale's Documents of Dartford, p. 8. Limehouse, a suburb of London seems to have been named from a lym-oste; it was not formed into a parish until the 18th century. In a valuation of the town of Dartford, 29 Edward 1., we find mention of "John Ost, William Ost and Walter Ost."

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OAST

Noun: (2) "And paid for 300 nails for mending of la Hoste in the bakery ...12p" - The Steward's Account 3 Henry 6 (1424-25) of Maidstone College of Priests. Maidstone College Steward's Compotus 1424-5 (in Maidstone Museum) has:- "And paid for 300 nails for mending of le Hoste in the bakery ...12d." (trans)

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OBEDIENCE oabee-dyuns

Noun: A bow or curtsey; an obeisance. " Now Polly, make your obedience to the gentleman; there's a good girl."

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OF ov

Preposition: . Used for with, in Phrase: se, "I have no acquaintance of such a person."

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OFF FROM

Verb: To avoid; prevent. "I couldn't be off from going, he made such a point of it."

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OFF OF

From. "I fell off of the bridge." This may not be entirely Kentish. - L.R.A.G.

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OFFER of-ur

Verb: To lift up; to hold up anything for the purpose of displaying it to the best Adjective: ntage. I once heard a master paperhanger say to his assistant, when a customer was inspecting some wall-papers, "Just offer this paper up for the lady to see."

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OLD

Adjective: This word is constantly applied to anything or anybody without any reference to age.

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OLD MAN

Noun: Southernwood. Artemisia abrotanum.

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OLIVE

Noun: Oyster catcher. " 'Olive' I found was the local name of the oyster catcher which until recent years used to breed on this coast. It is now extinct here. Its flesh is stated to be of a dark colour but palatable." - Letter from Arthur Finn, Westbrooke House, Lydd, Kent to Arthur Hussey. 11 March 1910.

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Un. Onneathe: Unneathe; Ondo: Undo etc. The use of 'o' for 'u'. Old Frisian; onder and op for under and up

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ONE EYED

Adjective: Cock-eyed.

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ONE-EYED

Adjective: Inconvenient; a general expression of disapproval. "That's a middlin' one-eyed place." "I can't make nothin' of these here one-eyed new-fashioned tunes they've took-to in church; why they're a'most done afore I can make a start."

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OO oo

Noun: In Phrase: se, "I feel all of a oo," i.e., I feel ill; or, "That's all of a oo," i.e., that is all in confusion.

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OOD ood

Noun: Seaweed; also wood.

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ORDER

Noun: To be "in order" is a common expression for being in a passion. "When the old chap knows them cows have been out in the clover he'll be in middlin' order; he'll begin to storm and no mistake!"

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ORNARY aun-ur'i

Adjective: Ordinary; common; poor; inferior; bad. "Them wuts be terr'ble ornary." (see also Ornery)

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ORNERY

Adjective: (1) An unfriendly expression, or disparaging expression, upon anything or person. "That's an ornery old cow, I'm sure!" "What an ornery old cottage!"

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ORNERY

adj (3) Ordinary A corruption of ordinary. "There's nothing wonderful about the size o' they taters! They be just ornery.". (see also Ornary)

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ORNERY

Adjective: (2) Bad-tempered. "He be an ornery old cuss!" "She's the most ornery woman I ever did see."

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OTHERSOME udh-ursum

Phrase: Some others. "And some said, what will this babbler say? Othersome, he seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods." - Acts, Ch 17 v 18.

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OTHERWHERE-ELSE udh-urwair'els

Adjective: Elsewhere.

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OTHERWHILE udh-ur-wei-l

Adjective: Occasionally. "Every otherwhile a little," i.e., a little now and then. "And otherwhiles with bitter mocks and mowes He would him scorn." - Faerie Queen, b 6, c 7. 49.

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OUR SAVIOUR'S FLANNE Our Saiv-yurz flan-l

Noun: At Bridge , near Canterbury, this name is given to Echium vulgare (L), and at Faversham to Verbascum thapsus (L) - Britten's Dictionary of English Plant Names.

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OURN ou-urn

poss.Adjective: Ours. (see also Hisn, Your'n)

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OUT ou-t

Adjective: A north, north-east, or east wind. "The wind is out to-day." i.e., it is in the east, northeast, or north. (see also Upward)

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OUT-ASKED ou-traa-st

adjl.Phrase: se. Used of persons whose banns have been asked or published three times, and who have come out of the stage unchallanged.

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OUTFACE outfai-s

Verb: To withstand; resist face to face; brazen it out

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OUT-OF-DOORS

Adjective: Out of fashion. "I played de clarrynet, time we had a band in church and used to sing de psalms; but 'tis all upset now; dere's nothing goos down but a harmonium and a passel o' squallin' children, and dese here new-fangled hymns. As for poor old David, he's quite entirely put out of door."

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OUTROOPE outroo-p

Noun: An auction of household goods. - Sandwich Book of Orphans. (see also Lief-coup, Litcop)

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OUTRUNNINGS

Noun, plural:. Straggling wood beyond a hedge-row, not measured-in with the part to be cut.

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OUTSTAND outstandVerb: To oppose; to stand out against, either in making a bargain or an assertion. "He outstood me that he hadn't seen him among de currants."

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OVEN uv-n

Noun: "To go to oven," is to bake.

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OVER oa-vur

Preposition: . To. "I'm gooing over Oare," i.e. I'm going to Oare.

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OVER-RUN oa-vur'un

Verb: To overtake and pass.

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OXBIRD oks-burd

Noun: The common dunlin. Tringa variabilis. Called Oxybird in Sheppy.

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PACK

Noun: A litter. "Our old bitch-dog have got a rare pack o' puppies." "Susan, our black cat, have just had a pack of five kittens." - North East Kent, Chatham, Rochester and district.

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PADDOCK pad-uk

Noun: A toad. (see also Puddock, Puttock)

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PADDY pad-i

Adjective: Worm-eaten.

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PAIGLE pai-gl

Noun: Cowslip - East Kent. (see also Cove-keys, Culver-keys, Horsebuckle, Lady keys (2), Pegle)

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PAILED

Verb: To pile. "They pailed all the potatoes into a great heap." "I've got a good job now and I be a-pailing up the pound-notes." -- North-East Kent, Chatham, Rochester and district.

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PALM-TREE paa-mtree

Noun: The yew tree. Dr. Pegge says: "They will sometimes, on Palm Sunday, dress a church with yew-branches, which I think very strange, because this was always esteemed a funeral tree, but after they once called it the palm-tree, the other mistake follow'd as it were on course." - See Gentleman's Magazine, December 1779, p 578. To this day (1885) the old people in East Kent call the yew-tree the palm tree, and there is, in the parish of Woodnesborough, a public house called The Palm-tree, which bears for its sign a clipped yew tree. - See Memorials of Eastry, p 116.

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PALTER pau-ltur

Verb: To wreck or pilfer stranded vessels and ill-use ship-wrecked sailors.

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PANDLE pand-l

Noun: A shrimp. (low Latin, pandalus)

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PARCEL paa-sl

Noun: A portion; a quantity; as "a parcel of bread and milk." "He took a good parcel of bread and milk for breakfast." (see also Passel)

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PARGE paa-j

Verb: To put on an ordinary coat of mortar next to brick-work and tiling.

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PARGET paa-jit

Noun: Mortar.

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PARMY

Adjective: Parmy ground is so called when of the consistancy of new soap. Holding water almost like a piece of crockery.

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PARNCH

Noun: The stomach, but only when speaking of the stomachs of rabbits, hares and sheep. - Wealden. (see also Parncher, Pauncher, Parnch-bag, Rabbit-pauncher)

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PARNCH-BAG

Noun: A rabbit's stomach. "He be nothing but a rabbit-parncher! I've seed him blow off many a parnch while shooting down in the Dering Wood. When 'e be out shootun, it's a mighty hard job to avoid the poor creatures' parnch-bags that he do blow off all over the place! He's never hit a flying pheasant in all his life. I doubts if he could hit a flying elephant!" - Wealden. (see also Paunch, Pauncher, Parncher,Rabbit-pauncher)

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PARNCHER

Noun: A very poor shot; an almost useless type of gun-sportsman. Very often prefixed by the word rabbit - a rabbit-pauncher. A pauncher, parncher or rabbit-parncher describes a shot, so poor, that the sportsman can only manage to hit a running rabbit at very close range, and even then, to aim so low as to blow off the underparts, or paunch, of the rabbit. This word rabbitpauncher is not considered an insult, only a term of utter disparagement by gamekeepers and beaters, towards such guns. - Wealden. (see also Parnch, Parnch-bag, Pauncher, Rabbitpauncher)

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PAROCK par-r'uk

Noun: A meeting to take an account of rents and pannage in the Weald of Kent. "When the bayliff or beadle of the lord held a meeting to take account of rents and pannage in the Weilds of Kent, such a meeting was called a parock." - Kennett MS. Parock is literally the same word as paddock.

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PART paat

Noun: This word is frequently used redundantly, especially after back, e.g., "You'll be glad to see the back part of me," i.e., to see my back, to get me gone.

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PARTIAL paa-shul

Adjective: Fond of. "I be very partial to pandles."

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PASS THE TIME O' DAY

Verb: To salute those you meet on the road with "good morning", "good afternoon," or "good evening," according to the time of day. "I don't know the man, except to pass the time o' day."

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PASSELL pas-l

Noun: A parcel; a number. "There was a passell o' boys hulling stones." (see also Parcel)

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PATTERN pat-rn

Verb: To imitate. "I shouldn't think of patterning my mistress."

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PAUNCHER

Noun: A very poor shot; an almost useless type of gun-sportsman. Very often prefixed by the word rabbit - a rabbit-pauncher. A pauncher, parncher or rabbit-parncher descibes a shot, so poor, that the sportsman can only manage to hit a running rabbit at very close range, and even then, to aim so low as to blow off the underparts, or paunch, of the rabbit. This word rabbitpauncher is not considered an insult, only a term of utter disparagement by gamekeepers and beaters, towards such guns. - Wealden. (see also Parnch, Parnch-bag, Parncher, Rabbitpauncher)

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PAWL pau-l

Noun: A pole; a stake; a strut or prop, placed against a lodge or other building to support it.

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PAY-GATE pai-gait

Noun: A turnpike gate.

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PEA-BUGS

Noun: (2) The common woodlice. (see also Cheese-bugs, Mankie-peas, Monkey-peas, Peasiebugs)

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PEA-BUGS

Noun: (1) The wood-louse. (see also Cheese bugs, Mankie-peas, Monkey-pea, Peasie-bugs)

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PEA-HOOK pee-huok

Noun: The implement used in conjunction with a hink for cutting peas. It was like a rippinghook, only mounted on a longer handle.

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PEA-HUCKERS

Noun, plural:. Pea-pickers. "They can't get pea-huckers for love-nit-money this year! They do say as they'll have to try and get some foreigners from Ashford."

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PEA-HUCKING

Verb: (2) To shell peas, to take them out of their shells, pods or hucks. "Don't throw they peahucks all over the kitchen young Ada! What with the mess your a-making, and the most peas you're a-eating instead o' saving, you're a great heap; I'm sure!"

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PEA-HUCKING

Verb: (1) Pea-picking. "The women be busy pea-hucking down in the Chapel Field"

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PEAL peel

Noun: A long-handled, broad, wooden shovel, used for putting bread into the oven. 1637 - "Payed for a peale for the kitchen, 1s, 3d." - MS Accounts, St John's Hospital, Canterbury. (see also Peel)

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PEART pi-urt

Adjective: Brisk; lively. "He's bin out of sorts for a long time, but he's gettin' on better now ever s'much; he's quite peart this mornin'." 1592- "There was a tricksie girle, I wot, albeit clad in gray, As peart as bird, as straite as boulte, as freshe as flowers in May." - Warner, Albion's England.

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PEASIE-BUGS

Noun: The common woodlice. (see also Cheese-bugs, Mankie-peas, Monkey-peas, Pea-bugs)

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PEASIES

Noun, plural:. General Kent dialect for peas. "Pick then peasies now, like a good girl."

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PECK pek

Noun: A heading knife, used by fishermen.

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PECK, to put to

Phrase: To put to inconvenience. "You shan't be put to peck about it as long as I can help it." - R Cooke.

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PEDIGREE ped-igree

Noun: A long story; a rigmarole "He's made a middlin' pedigree over it."

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PEEK peek

Verb: To stare; gape; look at. "An dare we pook't and peeked about To see what made it stick up." - Dick and Sal, st 47.

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PEEKINGS pee-kingz

Noun, plural:. Gleanings of fruit trees.

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PEEKY pee-ki

Adjective: Looking ill, or poorly; often used of children when out of sorts. French, pique. "He's peart enough to-day agin', but he was terr'ble peeky yesterday."

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PEEL peel

Noun: A long-handled, broad, wooden shovel, used for putting bread into the oven. 1637 - "Payed for a peale for the kitchen, 1s, 3d." - MS Accounts, St John's Hospital, Canterbury. (see also Peal)

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PEELER pee-lr

Noun: A round iron bar, used for making the holes into which hop-poles or wattles are placed. (see also Fold-pitcher)

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PEGGY

Noun: (2) A water wagtail .- J H Bridge, S B Fletcher, L R A G. (see also Peggy (1), Dishwasher, Peggy Dishwasher, Peggy Washdish)

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PEGGY peg-i

Noun: (1) A water wagtail. (see also Dishwasher, Peggy Dishwasher, Peggy Washdish)

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PEGGY WASHDISH peg-i-wash-dish

Noun: A water wagtail. (see also Dishwasher, Peggy, Peggy Dishwasher)

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PEGGY-DISHWASHER

Noun: (2) Water wagtail. - J H Bridge, S B Fletcher, L R A G. (see also Dishwasher, Peggy, Peggy Washdish)

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PEGGY-WASHDISH

Noun: (2) Water wagtail. - J H Bridge, S B Fletcher, L R A G. (see also Dishwasher, Peggy, Peggy Dishwasher)

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PEGLE pee-gl

Noun: A cowslip . Primula veris. "As yellow as a pegle." (see also Cove-keys, Culver-keys, Horsebuckle, Lady-keys (2), Paigle)

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PELL pel

Noun: A deep place or hole in a river.

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PELT peltn. Rags; rubbish, etc. (see also Culch, Sculch, Scultch, Scutchel)

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PENT pent

Noun: (French, pente, a slope or declivity.) There is a place called "The Pent", on a hill-side, in the parish of Posting.

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PERK purk

Verb: To fidget about restlessly. "How that kitten doos keep perking about."

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PESTER-UP

Verb: To bother; to hamper; to crowd. "He'd got so much to carry away, that he was reg'lar pestered-up, and couldn't move, no form at all."

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PET

Noun: (2) A pit Present dialect form i.e. 1863. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'.

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PET

Noun: (1) A pit. (see also Pette)

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PETER GRIEVOUS

adj.Phrase: (2) Used by my grandmother and grandfather Allen when I was a small boy.- L R A G.

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PETER-GRIEVOUS pee-tur-gree-vus

adj.Phrase: (1) Fretful; whining; complaining. (see also Lug, Sir Peter, where the name, Peter, is also introduced; hence, it would seem not unlikely that the words were first used sarcastically of ecclesiastics.)

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PETH peth

Verb: To pith; to sever the spinal cord or marrow of a beast.

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PETTE

Noun: Pit. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Pette (K) = Put (S) = Pit (N) (see also Pet)

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PETTYCOAT pet-ikoat

Noun: A man's waistcoat.

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PHARISEES far-r'iseez

Noun, plural:. Fairies. (see also Fairisies)

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PICK UPON pik up-on

Noun: To tease; annoy; make a butt of. "They always pick upon my boy coming home from school."

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PIG-GATE

Noun: A six-barred gate. A high gate, of a strong build, with deep earthing points at either end. The only type of gates to fully secure full grown and active pigs in their pounds or sties. - Wealden.

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PIG-POUND pig-pou-nd

Noun: The pig-sty.

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PIG-SCRAPER

Noun: That article was used for scuttering i.e. scraping pigs. - Lenham. W Coppins.1948. (see also Scutter)

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PIKY pei-ki

Noun: A turnpike traveller; a vagabond; and so generally a low fellow.

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PILCH pilch

Noun: A triangular piece of flannel worn by infants.

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PILLOW-BERE pil-oa-bee-r

Noun: A pillow case. (see also Pillow-coots)

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PILLOW-COOTS pil-oa-koo-ts

Noun, plural:. Pillow coats or pillowcases. Amongst other linen in one of the chambers at Brook-street, we find "syx pillow-coots." - Boteler Inventory in Memorials of Eastry, p. 229. (see also Pillow-bere)

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PIMP pim-p

Noun: A small bundle of cleft wood, used for lighting fires. (see also Baven , Bavin, Bobbin, Kilnbrush, Wiff.)

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PINEN

Noun, plural:. Pains. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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PIN-HORSE pin-us

Noun: The second horse of a team, next in front of the rod-horse. - East Kent.

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PINIES pei-niz

Noun, plural:. Peonies. Paeonia.

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PINNER pin-ur

Noun: The little button or fastening of a cupboard door. Allied to pin and pen.

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PINNOCK pin-uk

Noun: A wooden drain through a gateway. (see also Thurrock)

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PISEN

Noun, plural:. Peas. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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PITHERED

Adjective: Pinched with cold. - J H Bridge.

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PITTER pit-ur

Verb: To loosen the earth or throw it up lightly; to throw it up gently; also in Phrase: se "To pitter about," meaning to go about fussing or fidgetting. Sometimes miswritten pither.

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PITTERING-IRON pitur-ing-eiron

Noun: A poker.

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PLACE plais

Noun: A barton; a courtyard.

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PLAGUESOME plai-gsum

Adjective: Troublesome.

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PLANETS plan-its

Noun, plural:. "It rains by planets," when showers fall in a small compass, in opposition to general rain.

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PLASH plash

Noun, plural: To repair a live hedge, by cutting half through some of the stems near the ground and then bending the upper parts down, and keeping them so by means of hooked sticks driven into the bank. 1536 - "Payd . . . for dykying and plasshing off the hegd." - MS. Accounts , St. John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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PLAT

Noun: Diminutive of 'plot'.

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PLATTY plat-i

Adjective: Scattered; uncertain; here and there; uneven; fastidious. Used of a thin crop of corn, or of a child who is sickly and dainty.

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PLAY THE BAND

Phrase: Instead of saying "The band is going to play," it is common to hear "They are going to play the band.

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PLAY UPON plai upon

Verb: To dwell upon; to work; to worry. "It plays upon her mind."

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PLAYSTOOL plai-stool

Noun: An old word which apparently meant a public recreation ground, though certainly lost as such now, yet the word is very common throughout Kent as the name of a field which was once parish property. It is easy to see that playstool is a corruption of playstall, i.e., a play place, exactly as laystole is a corruption of laystall. The plestor at Selborne, mentioned by Gilbert White, is the same word.

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PLENTY plent-i

Noun: A plenty; enough. "There, there, that's a plenty."

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PLOG plog

Verb: (2) To clog; to hamper; to retard; to be a drawback or disAdjective: ntage. "I reckon it must plog him terribly to be forced to goo about wid a 'ooden- leg."

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PLOG plog

Noun: (1) The block of wood at the end of a halter, to prevent its slipping through the ring of the manger. An Interjection:ediate form betweeNoun, plural:ug and block. Elsewhere called a clog.

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PLONK DOWN

Verb: To place down abruptly.

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PLONT

Plant. The use of 'o' for 'a'. The Old Frisian, which has been quoted in support of these forms has brond, hond, lond, for brand, hand, and land.

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PLOT plot

Noun: A plan; design; sketch; drawing. "Given to Mr. Vezy for drawing a plot for a house, £02.00s.00p" - Expense Book of James Master, Esq., 1656-7.

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PLUMP plump

Adjective: Dry; hard. "A plump whiting," is a dried whiting. "The ways are plump," the roads are hard.

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POACH poach

Verb: To tread the ground into holes as the cattle do in wet weather. (see also Stoach, Stoch, Stotch)

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POACHY poa-chi

Adjective: Full of puddles. Description of ground which has been trampled into mud by the feet of cattle.

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POAD MILK poa-d milk

Noun: The first few meals of milk that come from a cow lately calved. (see also Beasts, Biskins, Bismilk)

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POCKET pok-it

Noun: A measure of hops, about 168 lbs.

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PODDER pod-r

Noun: A name given to beans, peas, tares, vetches, or such vegetables as have pods.

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PODDER-GRATTEN pod-r-grot-n

Noun: Podder-stubble; the stubble of beans, peas, etc. (see also Ersh, Grattan, Gratten, Gratton (1) & (2), Rowens)

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PODGE poj

Noun: A pit or hole; a cesspool. (see also Poke (2)

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PODLY

Adjective: Oats are called podly which do not root well and though they look green do not produce corn - R Cooke. (see also Pothery)

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POINTING-POST poi-nting-poast

Noun: A sign-post, finger-post, direction post, standing at a corner where two or more ways meet, and pointing out the road travellers should take. (see also Bishop's-finger)

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POKE poak

Noun: (1) A sack. Hence, the proverbial Phrase: se, "To buy a pig in a poke," i.e., to buy a pig without seeing it; hence, to make a bad bargain. "His meal-poke hang about his neck Into a leathern whang, Well fasten'd to a broad bucle, What was both stark and strang." - Robin Hood, 1, 98. The word is also specially used for the "green-bag" in which hops are conveyed from the garden to the oast. (see also Green-bag, Pook)

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POKE poak

Noun: (2) A cesspool. (see also Podge)

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POLDER poa-ldur

Noun: A marsh; a piece of boggy soil. "In Holland the peat polders are rich prairies situated below the level of the sea, containing a stratum of peat more or less thick" There is in Eastry a place now called Felder land, but anciently "Polder land." There is also a place still called Polders, between Sandwich and Woodnesborough.

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POLP poa-lp

Noun: Pulp. The name given to a modern food for cattle, consisting of roots, chaff, grains, fodder, etc, all mashed and cut up small, and mixed together. - East Kent.

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POLRUMPTIOUS polrum-shus

Adjective: Rude; obstreperous.

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POLT poa-lt

Noun: (2) A peculiar kind of rat-trap.

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POLT poa-lt

Adjective: (3) Saucy; audacious.

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POLT poa-lt

Verb: (1) To knock; to beat; to strike.

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PONGER pong-ur

Noun: The large edible crab, Cancerpagurus, is best known by this name in North Kent; the name crab being restricted to the common shoe-crab. (see also Heaver, Pung, Punger)

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PONK

Verb: To stink.- Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G. 1920's. (see also Fargo, Fogo, Hoogoo, Hum (2), Hussle, Wiff)

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POOCH OUT poo-ch out

Verb: To protrude. Rarely used except in speaking of the lips "When I axed him for a holiday, I see his lip pooched out purty much; didn't like it much, he didn't."

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POOCHY poo-chi

Noun: A bathe; a paddle in shallow water. "Let's go and have a poochy."

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POOK poo-k

Noun: (2) The poke or peak of a boy's cap.

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POOK

Noun: (3) The peak of a man's cap. "Don't 'ee keep pulling down that pook over your eyes, young Ashley! It do make you look like a gippo."

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POOK

Verb: (4) To glare, and to push out, or pout out, the lips at another person in an angry and defiant manner. "No matter how much you pook young feller, you bain't going out tonight. So settle yourself down, and try an' make your miserable life happy indoors, for once't in a while."

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POOK pook

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POOR poo-r

Adjective: As, "poor weather;" "a poor day." "'Tis terr'ble poor land."

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POPEING poa-ping

partc.To go popeing is to go round with Guy Fawkes on the 5th of November. "Please, sir, remember the old Pope." (see also Remembering)

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POPY poa-pi

Noun: The poppy. Papaver. (see also Red petticoat)

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PORSE

Noun: Purse. Use of 'o' for 'u'. Old Frisian; onder and op for under and up.

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POST HOLES poa-st hoalz

Noun, plural:. Holes dug in the ground for the insertion of gate or fencing posts; it is used in North Kent as a comic word for nothing. "What have ye got in the cart there?" "Oh! only a load of postholes." - Sittingbourne.

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POST-BIRD poa-st-burd

Noun: The common spotted fly-catcher. Muscicapa grisola.

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POTHER-HOOK podh-ur-huok

Noun: A hook used for cuting a hedge.

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POTHERY podh-uri

Noun: (1) Affected by a disease to which sheep and pigs are liable; it makes them go round and round, till at last they fall down.

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POTHERY

Adjective: (2) Oats are called podly which do not root well and though they look green do not produce corn. - R Cooke. (see also Podly)

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POTTHERED

Verb: Upset and muddle-minded. "Every since young Bill's girl threw him over, and went out wi the baker's son, he has been proper potthered !"

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POTTHER-HEADED

Adjective: Absent-minded; forgetful. "Parson be getting proper potther-headed these days! I reckon it be nigh on time he retired hisself, and give up the big rectory, and went and settled down in a smaller place and took things quieter a bit."

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POTTHERY

Adjective: To be in a muddled state. "Since I put the chickens in their new run they have been real potthery. Just like some humans they be: don't like being changed around to new places, not as I blames 'em either!"

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POUNCE pou-ns

Noun: A punch or blow with a stick or the closed fist. "I thoft I'd fetch him one more pounce, So heav'd my stick an' meant it." - Dick and Sal, st 76

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POUT pou-t

Noun: (2) The Phrase: se. "Plays old pout," seems equivalent to "Plays old Harry," and similar expressions. Probably a variant of pouk, which, in Middle English, means "the devil". "I've been out of work this three days, and that plays old pout with you when you've got a family."

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POUT pou-t

Noun: (1) A small round stack of hay or straw. In the field hay is put up into smaller heaps, called cocks, and larger ones, called pouts; when carted it is made into a stack. (see also Powt)

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POUTERS pou-turz

Noun, plural:. Whiting-pouts. - Folkestone.

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POWT pou-t

Noun: A small round stack of hay or straw. In the field hay is put up into smaller heaps, called cocks, and larger ones, called pouts; when carted it is made into a stack. (see also Pout (1))

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PREDE

Noun: Pride. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Prede (K) = Prude (S) = Pride (N)

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PREHAPS pree-hapz

Adjective: Perhaps.

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PRESENT prez-unt

Adjective: Presently; at present; now.

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PRETTY BETTY

Noun: Flowering Valeriana rubra. This plant grows luxuriantly at Canterbury, on some of the walls of St. Augustine's College.

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PRETTY NIGH purt-i nei

Adjective: Very nearly. "'Tis purty nigh time you was gone, I think."

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PRICK UP THE EARS

Verb: A proverbial saying is "You prick up your ears like an old sow in beans."

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PRICKLE prik-l

Noun: A basket containing about ten gallons, used at Whitstable for measuring oysters. Two prickles equal one London Bushel. One prickle equals two wash (for whelks). But the prickle is not exact enough to be used for very accurate measuring.

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PRICKYBAT prik-ibat

Noun: A tittlebat.

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PRIM prim

Noun: The privet. Ligustrum vulgare.

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PRINT printAdjective: Bright; clear; starlight; light enough to read by. "The night is very print;" "The moon is very print;" "The moonlight is very print."

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PRITCHEL prich-l

Noun: An iron share fixed on a thick staff for making holes in the ground.

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PRODIGAL prod-igl

Adjective: Proud. "Ah! he's a proper prodigal old chap, he is."

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PROGGER

Noun: A mid-morning refreshment, about 10.30am, consisting generally of a cup of tea and a bun or slice of cake. "Call the hands young Willie, to come to the barn for a wee bit o' progger. Mary will be here in a minute with the can o' tea and cakes." Heard in many parts of Kent. (see also Bever, Elevenses, Leavener, Scran)

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PROLE proa-l

Noun: (2) A stroll; a short walk, such as an invalid might take. "He manages to get a liddle prole most days, when 'tis fine."

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PROLE proa-l

Verb: (1) To prowl.

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PROMISING

Adjective: "The weather looks promising", that is it looks as if it is going to be fine, Whilst I was walking along Lower Frant Road, Maidstone, 9 March 1975, a man said to me "It doesn't look promising." within 10 minutes there was a downpour. - L R A G.

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PROPER prop-ur

Adjective: Thorough; capital; excellent; beautifull; peculiarly good or fitting. "Moses. . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child." - Hebrews, Ch 11 v 23.

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PROPERLY prop-urli

Adjective: Thoroughly. "We went over last wik and played de Feversham party; our party bested 'em properly, fancy we did!"

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PROWL

Verb: To seek prey; to wander about in search of prey; and to rove about generally in search of prey or with intent to rob persons or to steal from out-buildings. This acquired word had become part of the Kentish dialect, especially in the Ashford and Charing valleys and villages south of these districts, up to a distance of some six miles. Also means a pleasurable walk or stroll, with no specific finishing or turning-back point in mind. "Well it be a nice Sunday evening now, after all the rain we've had today. The sun be out and quite warm, so what about a nice prowl down the old Swan Lane and then come home round-a-bouts? We can gauge out time for a drink as we go. Don't know where we might get to: though we could get out Crocken Hill way, and so call off and see old Tampsett at the 'Queen's Arms' down the Forstal."

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PRULE proo-l

Noun: A gaff-hook. - Folkestone.

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PUCKER puk-er

Noun: A state of excitement or temper. "You've no call to put yourself in a pucker."

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PUDDING TIME

Noun: Midday meal time. - Stockbury. Billy Buck.

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PUDDING-PIE

Noun: (2) A Wealden tart made of custard and plentifully be-sprinkled with dried currants. Pudding-pie was considered a rare delicacy by the old-time country folks. I have known my great-uncle Ted 'Butcher' Pile, of Pluckley, who worked all his life as Stock and Herdsman for the Maylams of Pluckley, when on one of his perodical visits to my grandmother near the old Fir Toll, sit down and eat, at a sitting, a pudding-pie twelve inches in diameter and on average an inch in thickness, with a pot of scalding tea. He consistered that a 'homely snack'!" (see also Cow-pie)

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PUDDING-PIE

Noun: (1) A flat tart made like a cheese-cake, with a raised crust to hold a small quantity of custard, with currents lightly sprinkled on the surface. These cakes are usually eaten at Easter - but a Kent boy will eat them whenever he can get them. 1670 - "ALB. And thou hadst any grace to make thyself a fortune, thou wou'dst court this wench, she cannot in gratitude but love thee, prethee court her. "LOD. I'll sell pudding-pies first." - Benjamin Rhodes. Flora's Vagaries (a comedy) (see also Cow-pie)

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PUDDOCK pud-uk

Noun: A large frog. (see also Paddock, Puttock)

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PUG pug

Noun: Soft ground; brick-earth, ready for the mould.

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PULL pul

Verb: To pull up before the magistrates; to debilitate. "If he knocks me about again I shall pull him." "The ague's properly pulled him this time."

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PULL-BACK pul-bak

Noun: A drawback; a hindrance; a relapse after convalescence.

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PUMPIN pump-in

Noun: Pumpkin. "I know 'twas ya grate pumpin 'ead Fust blunnered through de glass." - Dick and Sal, st 81.

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PUNG pung

Noun: The large edible crab, Cancerpagurus, is best known by this name in North Kent; the name crab being restricted to the common shoe-crab. (see also Heaver, Ponger, Punger)

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PUNGER punj-ur

Noun: The large edible crab, Cancerpagurus, is best known by this name in North Kent; the name crab being restricted to the common shoe-crab. (see also Heaver, Ponger, Pung)

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PUNNET

Noun: A small basket for containing strawberries, raspberries and other small soft fruits.- MidKent. (see also Chip)

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PUNNET pun-it

Noun: A pottle, or small basket, in which strawberries are sold.

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PURTY TIGHT purt-i tei-t

Adjective: Phrase: se. Pretty well, very fairly . "Now, Sal, ya see had bin ta school, She went to old aunt Kite; An' so she was'en quite a fool, But cud read purty tight." - Dick and Sal, st 56.

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PUTCH puch

Noun: A puddle; pit or hole. A putch of water.

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PUTTAS put-us

Noun: A weasel; a stoat. (see also Puttice)

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PUTTICE put-is

Noun: A weasel; a stoat. (see also Puttas)

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PUTTOCK put-ok

Noun: (1) A large frog. (see also Paddock, Puddock)

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PUTTOCK put-ok

Noun: (2) A kite. So Puttock's-down, a place in the ancient parish of Eastry, now in Worth parish, means kite's-down.

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PUTTOCK-CANDLE put-uk-kand-l

Noun: The smallest candle in a pound, put in to make up the weight.

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PUT-UPON put-uponVerb: To worry and bother a person by giving him an unfair amount of work, or exacting from him time, strength, or money, for matters which are not properly within his province. "He's so easy, ye see, he lets hisself be put-upon by anybody."

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QUANT kwont

Noun: A young oak sapling; a walking stick; a long pole used by bargemen.

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QUARRELS

Noun, plural:. Quarries, or panes of glass. "Item for newe leadinge of the wyndow and for quarreles put in in Tomlyn's hale (hall) wyndowe. beinge 20 foote of glasse and 28 panes . . . 7s 8d. - Sandwich Book of Orphans.

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QUEER kwee-r

Verb: To make or cause to feel queer; to puzzle. "It queers me how it ever got there." "I'll queer 'em." "But what queer'd me, he said, 'twas kep All roun about de church." - Dick and Sal, st 10

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QUEER-STREET kwee-r-street

Noun: An awkward position; great straits; serious difficulties. "But for that I should have been in queer-street."

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QUEEZEY

Adjective: Fearful or afraid; not too sure about a thing or person. "Even to look at that old house makes me feel real queezey." "I'm queezey about going out after dark, especially as there is such a lot of coshing going on these days." - North-East Kent and Medway district.

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QUELETT

Noun: A small pipe or a piped stream - Arch. Cant. 59, 108 footnote 2.

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QUERN kwurn

Noun: A handmill for grinding grain or seed. "Item in the mylke house. . . two charnes, a mustard quearne." - Boteler Inventory, Memorials of Eastry.

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QUICK kwik

Noun: Hawthorn, e.g. a quick hedge is a hawthorn hedge.

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QUICKEN kwik-en

Noun: The mountain ash. Pyrus aucuparia.

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QUID kwid

Noun: The cud. "The old cow's been hem ornary, but she's up again now and chewing her quid."

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QUIDDY kwid-i

Adjective: Brisk.

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QUILLY kwil-i

Noun: A prank; a freak; a caper.

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QUITTER FOR QUATTER kwit-r fur kwat-r

Phrase: One thing in return for another. (see also Whicket for whacket)

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QUOT kwot

pp or Adjective: Cloyed; glutted.

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QWAYER

Adjective: Queer. Pronounced as spelt. "This sudden change in the weather makes me feel right qwayer." "That accident happened most qwayerly, it did." - Mid-Kent.

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QWAYERLY

Adjective: Queerly, pronounced as spelt. "That accident happened most qwayerly, it did."

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RABBIT-PAUNCHER

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RABBIT'S MOUTH rab-its mouth

Noun: The snap-dragon. Antirrhinum majus.

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RACE MEASURE rais mezh-r

Noun: Even measure; as distinquished from full measure, which is 21 to the score, as of corn, coals, etc; while race measure is but 20. But full in this case has reference to the manner of measurement. When the bushel is heaped up it is full; when struck with strickle mand made even it is race measure.

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RACKSENED raks-nd

Adjective: Overrun with; given up to. "That oast yonder is racksended with rats."

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RAD rad

Noun: A rod; a measure, 16.5 feet. A rod of brickwork is 16.5 feet square; but an ancient rod seems to have been 20 feet. "And then also the measurement of the marsh (i.e. Romney Marsh) was taken by a rod or perch, not of 16.5 feet, which is the common one now, but of 20 feet in length." - Harris's History of Kent, p.349.

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RADDIS-CHIMNEY rad-is-chim-ni

Noun: A chimney made of rods, lathes, or raddles, and covered with loam or lime.

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RADDLE rad-l

Noun: A green stick, such as wattles or hurdles are made of. In some counties called raddlings. Raddle is simply the diminutive of rad or rod.

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RADDLE-HEDGE rad-l-hej

Noun: A hedge made of raddles.

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RADE raid

Adjective: or Adjective: Coming before the usual time; early. Milton has rathe. "Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies." - Lycidas, 1, 142.

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RADICAL rad-ikl

Noun: A wild, ungovernable, impudent, troublesome fellow. "He's a rammed young radical."

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RAFE

Noun: A rush. "That young-un is always in a rafe, you'd think he hadn't a minute to live, surelye!" "Now there's no need to start getting into a rafe, grandma. We've plenty of time, and the train won't be in for an hour or more yet." - Wealden.

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RAFF raf

Noun: Spoil; plunder.

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RAFT raa-ft

Noun: A crowd of people; a rabble. "There was such a raft of people there."

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RAGGED JACK rag-id jak

Noun: Meadow lychnis. Lychnis flos-cuculi.

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RAIN-BUG

Noun: A black beetle - S B Fletcher.

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RAMMED ram-d

A substitute for a worse word.

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RAN ran

Noun: A Folkestone herring net, which is about thirty yards long, is made of four rans deep; and there are sixty meshes to a ran.

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RANGERS rai-njurz

Noun, plural:. The bars with which the herring-hangs are fitted. Upon these rangers are placed the spits upon which the herrings are hung up.

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RAPID

Adjective: Violent; severe; as applied to pain. An old woman in Eastry Union Workhouse, who was suffering from sciatica, told me that "It was rapid in the night;" where there was no allusion to quickness of movement, but to the severity of the pain.

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RASTY raa-sti

Adjective: Rank; rancid; rusty; spoken of butter or bacon. (see also Reasty)

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RATH

prop. Soon. "Tomorrow will be rath I nougth" (tomorrow will be soon enough). -(Act Book Rochester 9f. 195b, in Hammond 'The Story of an Outpost Parish' p 167.

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RATTLEGATE rat-lgait

Noun: A hurdle or wattle.

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RAVEL-BREAD rav-l-bred

Noun: White-brown bread.

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RAW rau

Adjective: Angry - Sittingbourne.

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RAYER

Adjective: Rare. "They be mighty rayer flowers you've got there, squire." "That be a rayer stamp: they do call un a penny-black, though to oi it looks more brown and black, I thinks." - MidKent.

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REACH reech

Noun: A creek.

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REASTY ree-sti

Adjective: Rusty; rancid; rank. (See also Rasty)

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REAVE

Verb: Rob. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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RECKON rek-un

Verb: To consider; to give an opinion. "I reckon" is an expression much used in Kent to strengthen observations and arguments. "I reckon we shall have rain before night."

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RED PETTICOAT

Noun: The common poppy; sometimes also called red-weed. Papaver. (see also Popy)

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REDGER rej-r

Noun: A ridgeband; a chain which passes over a horse's back to support the rods.

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REECE re-s

Noun: A piece of wood fixed to the side of the chep, i.e., the part of the plough on which the share is placed.

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REEMER ree-mur

Noun: Anything good. "I wish you'd seen that catch I made forty year agoo, when we was playin' agin de Sussex party. Ah! that just was a reemer, I can tell ye! Dey all said as how dey never seed such a catch all their lives."

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REEMING ree-ming

Adjective: Very good; superior.

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REEVE reev

Noun: A bailiff. (see Reve)

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REFFIDGE ref-idj

Adjective: Rufuse; good-for-nothing; worthless. "I never see so many reffidge taturs as what there is this year." (see also Refuge)

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REFUGE ref-euj

Adjective: Refuse; the worst of a flock, etc. "I sold my refuge ewes at Ashford market for thirty shillings." (see also Reffidge)

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REG

Noun: (2) Rag. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Present dialect form i.e. 1863.

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REG

Noun: (1) Rig. Back; ridge Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. (Reg (K) = Rug (S) = Rig (N) = Back, Ridge.

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REGULAR

Adjective: Quite. "The ground was reg'lar crup."

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REMEMBERING

partc. To go round with Guy Fawkes on 5th November is called remembering. "George and me went round remembering and got pretty nigh fower and threepence." (see also Popeing)

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RENNET

Noun: The herb Gabium verum, yellow bedstraw. (see also Runnet)

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RENTS rents

Noun, plural:. Houses; cottages. A.D.1520 - "For a key to Umfrayes dore in the rentis." - Accounts of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury. There is a street in London named Fullwood's Rents.

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REVE reev

Noun: A baliff. 1596 - "In auncient time, almost every manor had his reve, whose authoritie was not only to levie the lord's rents, to set to worke his servaunts, and to husband his demeasnes to his best profit and commoditie; but also to governe his tenants in peace, and to leade them foorth to war, when necessitie so required." - Lambarde's Perambulations, p 484 (see also Reeve)

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REVEN

Noun, plural:. Sheriffs. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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REXON reks-n

pp. To infect. as with the small-pox, itch or any other disorder. (see alsoWraxon, Wrexon)

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REZON rez-un

Noun: A wall-plate; a piece of timber placed horizontally in or on a wall, to support the ends of girders or joists.

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RIB rib

Noun, plural:. A stick about 5ft long and the thickness of a raddle. Ribs are done up into bundles, with two wiffs, and are used for lighting fires and making raddle-fences.

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RIBSPARE rib-spair

Noun: The spare rib.

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RICE reis

Noun: Small wood; a twig; a branch. Hamble, in Hants, is called Hamble-le-rice. (see also Roist)

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RID rid

Verb: Rode. "He rid along with him in the train o' Tuesday."

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RIDDLE-WALL rid-l-waul

Noun: A wall made up with split sticks worked across each other.

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RIDE reid

Verb: (1) To rise upon the stomach. "I caan't never eat dese here radishes, not with no comfort, they do ride so."

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RIDE reid

Verb: (2) To collect; to ride tythe, is to ride about for the purpose of collecting it.

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RIDE reid

Noun: (3) An iron hinge on which a gate is hung and by which it swings and rides. "Item paid for makinge a newe doore in John Marten's house, the rydes, nayles and woork, 2s 8d." - Sandwich Book of Orphans. (see also Archaeologia Cantiana 4, 220)

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RIDER rei-dur

Noun: A saddle-horse. "He kips several riders."

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RIDGES TO PLOUGH IN

Phrase: To plough a certain number of furrows one way and then a similar number the contrary.

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RIG rig

Noun: The common tope. Galeus vulgaris.- Folkestone.

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RIGHT

Noun: The Phrase: se, "To have a right to do anything," means, it is right that such a thing should be done. "I sed old Simon right to pay A'cause he was de fust an't." - Dick and Sal, st 79.

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RIGHTS reits

Noun, plural:. To go to rights; to go the nearest way. To do anything to rights, is to do it thoroughly.

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RIGHT-UP

Adjective: Upright; erect. "That right-up tree."

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RING ring

Noun: A row. (see also Ringe (2)

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RINGE rinj

Noun: (3) A long heap in which mangolds are kept for the wInterjection:

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RINGE rinj

Verb: (4) To put up potatoes, mangolds etc, into a ringe. "Well, Job, what have you got to do tomorrow?" "I reckon I shall be ringeing wurzels."

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RINGE rinj

Noun: (2) Wood, when it is felled, lies in ringes before it is made up into fagots, etc.

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RINGE rinj

Noun: (1) A large tub containing 14 or 16 gallons, with which two servants fetch water from a distant place; a pole, which lies upon the shoulders of the bearers, being passed through two iron rings or ears.

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RINGLE ring-l

Noun: (1) A ring put through a hog's snout; and generally for any ring, such as a ring of a scythe. A.D. 1531 - "Paid for a ryngle to a cythe. . . 1d." - Accounts of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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RINGLE

Verb: (4)"Unryngled hogs" - Blean Court Baron, 8 Oct, 15 Eliz 1, in Wilson, 'With the Pilgrims to Canterbury' p 59.

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RINGLE ring-l

Verb: (2) To put a ring through a pig's snout.

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RINGLE ring-l

Verb: (3) An iron ring that forms the bit of a horse at plough.

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RIP rip

Noun: (3) A pannier or basket, used in pairs and slung on each side of a horse for carrying loads, such as fish, salt, sand, etc. "Two payer of ripps, five payells, etc." - Boteler Inventory, in Memorials of Eastry, p 226. (see also Ripper)

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RIP rip

Verb: (2) To cover a roof with laths and tiles, etc. Thus, to unrip the roof of a stable or outbuilding, is to take off the tiles, slates, etc, and to rip it, or new rip it, is to put on fresh laths and replace the tiles. May 3rd, 1850. - "Visited and ordered the north and south side of the chancel roofs to be ripped and relaid; a window in the south side of the church to be generally repaired once every year. . . James Croft, Archdeacon." - Memorials of Eastry, p 206. 1640 - "For ripping of Broth, Vause's house." - MS. Accounts, St John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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RIP rip

Verb: (1) To reap. So pronounced to this day. In one of the Boteler MS. Account Books (1648-

1652), we have, "Disbursed from the beginning of harvest. . . Item more for ripping of pease, 6s. . . Item for ripping of wheat at 3s. 4d." (Se also Ripping hook)

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RIPE reip

Noun: A bank; the sea shore, as "Lydd Ripe." In East Kent, the village of Ripple derives its name from the same Latin word, ripa.

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RIPPER rip-r

Noun: A pedler; a man who carries fish for sale in a rip or basket. (see also Rip (3)

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RIPPING-HOOK rip-ing-huok

Noun: A hook for cutting and reaping (ripping) corn. Unlike the sickle, the ripping-hook had no teeth, but could be sharpened on a whetstone. (see also Rip (1)

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RISH rish

Noun: A rush. "There be lots o' rishes in them there meyshes."

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RIT rit

Verb: To dry hemp or flax.

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RITS rits

Noun, plural:. The ears of oats are so called, and if there is a good crop, and the ears are full and large, they are said to be well ritted.

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RIVANCE rei-vuns

Noun: Last place of abode. "I don't justly know where his rivance is," i.e., where he came from or where he lived last. - East Kent. Short for arrivance. (see also Arrivance)

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ROAD-BAT roa-d-bat

Noun: A bat or piece of wood what guides the coulter of a plough.

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ROAD-PROUD

Adjective: Crops which look well from the road, but are not so good as they look, are said to be roadproud.

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ROBIN-HUSS rob-in-hus

Noun: The small spotted dog-fish. Scyllium canicula. - Folkestone. (see also Huss)

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ROBIN-ROOK rob-in-ruok

Noun: A robin redbreast. (see also Ruddock)

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RODFALL

Noun: Sometimes in a wood there is a belt of wood about a rod (16.5ft) deep, not belonging to the same owner as the bulk of the wood, and felled art a different tiem; as, "The wood belongs to Mus' Dean, but there's a rodfall joins in with Homestall."

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ROD-HORSE rod-us

Noun: A horse in the shafts or rods. The four horses of a team are called 1) the rod-horse; 2) the pin-horse; 3) the losh-horse; 4) the fore-horse.

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RODS rodz

Noun, plural:. The shafts of a cart or wagon. "He was riding on the rods when I see'd him."

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ROIL roil

Verb: To make a disturbance; to romp in a rough and indecent manner.

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ROIST roi-st

Noun: A switch; brushwood, before it be made up into fagots. (see also Rice)

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ROMANCE roamans

Verb: To play in a foolish manner; to tell exaggerated stories. "My son never romances with Noun: one." - Weald.

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ROMNEY MARSH Rum-ni Maa-sh

Noun: Romney Marsh is considered to be a place so completely by itself, that there is a saying in Kent and in East Sussex, that the world is divided into five parts - Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Romney Marsh.

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ROOKERY ruok-ur'i

Noun: A dispute accompanied with many words; a general altercation. "He knocked up a hem of a rookery."

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ROOK-STARVING

partc. Scaring rooks. "That boy, he's rook-starvin' down in the Dover field."

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ROOMS roomz

Noun, plural:. Mushrooms; as they say grass for (asparagus) sparrowgrass. (see also Misheroon, Musheroon)

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ROOTLE roo-tl

Verb: To root up. "The pig must be ringled, or else he'll rootle up all the bricks in the stye."

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ROTEN

Noun, plural:. Roots. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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ROUGH ruf

Adjective: (2) Cross; of uncertain temper; diffficult to please. "I lay you'll find 'im pretty rough."

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ROUGH ruf

Noun: (1) A small wood; any rough, woody place. (see also Roughet, Roughit, Ruffets, Ruffits

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ROUGHET ruf-it

Noun: A small wood. (see also Rough (1), Roughit, Ruffets, Ruffits)

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ROUGHIT

Noun: A small wood. (see also Rough (1), Roughet, Ruffets, Ruffits)

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ROUND TO UPON

Verb: To act badly towards. "I don't know why but he has rounded upon me ever since."

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ROUNDLE rou-ndl

Noun: Anything round; the part of a hop-oast where the fires are made, which is generally circular.

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ROUND-TILTH

Noun: The system of sowing of land continously without fallow.

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ROUSEY

Adjective: Bad-tempered. "He be a rare rousey old feller! Flies off'n the pan-handle quickern anything." "That's a rousey bloomin' dorg: don't 'ee go nigh un, case he sets into ye with his teeth!" - North-East Kent and Medway Towns.

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ROWENS rou-inz

Noun, plural:. Stubble. (see also Ersh, Grattan, Gratten, Gratton (1) & (2), Podder-gratten) The second mowing of grass; the third cut of clover - East Kent. 1523 - "Rec. of Cady for the rowen gras, 14d" - Accounts of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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ROYSTER roi-stur

Verb: To play roughly and noisily. From sb. roister, a bully; French, rustre, a ruffian.- Cotgrave. "That there old Tom-cat has been a-roysterin' all over de plaäce, same as though he was a kitten; I reckon we shall have some weather before long."

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RUBBER rub-r

Noun: A whetstone. The mowers always carry one in a leathern loop attached to the back of their belts.

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RUBBIDGE rub-ij

Noun: Rubbish; weeds.

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RUBBLE

Noun: A rabble, as used in describing a noisy crowd of people, or to describe a noisy herd of cattle or other collection of animals or birds. Often used to describe an ordinary town crowd of people or a bunch or knot of visitors or shoppers. "My goodness! I've never seen such a rubble as when the dockyard men leave the Yard at going-home time!" - Chatham and Luton, near Chatham.

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RUBBLE-OF-NOISE

Adjective: The confusion of noise made by a talking, moving crowd. "I never heard such a rubbleof-noise before, until I happened to be passing the Cinema, in the High Street, just when the kiddies were rushing out after the Saturday morning children's matinee!" - Chatham and Luton, near Chatham.

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RUCK ruk

Noun: An uneven, irregular heap or lump; a wrinkle or uneven fold in cloth, linen, silk, etc. About Sittingbourne, when a man is angry, he is said "to have his ruck up."

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RUCKLE ruk-l

Noun: A struggle.

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RUDDLE rud-l

Verb: To make a fence of split sticks plaited across one another.

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RUDDLE-WATTLE rud-l-wat-l

Noun: A hurdle made of small hazel rods Interjection:oven. (see also Raddles)

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RUDDOCK rud-uk

Noun: The robin redbreast. "The ruddock would With charitable bill - O bill, sore-shaming Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie Without a monument! - bring thee all this." - Cymbeline, Act 4 Sc 2, 224 (see also Robin-rook)

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RUDE HEART

Adjective: . By heart. "She read the psalms down; but lor! she didn't want no book! she knowed 'em all rude heart."

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RUDY reu-di

Adjective: Rude.

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RUFFETS

Noun, plural:. A long strip of tangled woodland or rough woodland, corrupted to Ruffets, or Ruffits. Thorne Ruffets and Pluckley Thorne, Pluckley. There is also a wide rough area in Dering Wood (part of the old Forest of Andromeda) at Pluckley, where part of the old Roman road remains, called the Frite (Frithe= Forest) Ruffets, and also known as 'The Brambles". (see also Rough (1), Roughet, Roughit, Ruffits)

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RUFFITS

Noun, plural:. Small woods, containing little or no large timber trees, and consisting mostly of nutwood or ash saplings, or a mixture of both, with a tangled and almost impenetrable undergrowth or underbrush of wild brambles. Small woods that have been neglected. These ruffets are excellant places for wild rabbits and most of these 'wild' woods abound with these animals, which are hunted out once or twice a year with guns, dogs and ferrets. There are generally one or two, or more of such 'wild' little woods in most parishes:the following are in and around Ashford district - Thorne Ruffits, Dering Wood Ruffits (only a certain part here), Rectory Ruffits, Rose Court Ruffits, all in Pluckly parish. Mundy Bois Ruffits and PinchCrust Ruffits at Mundy Bois, a hamlet in Egerton parish. Roundwood Ruffits and Pincushion Ruffits, in Charing parish. - Wealden, Mid-kent, Ashford and district. (see also Rough (1), Roughet, Roughit, Ruffets)

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RUGGLE-ABOUT rug-l-ubou-t

Verb: A term used by old people and invalids to express walking or getting about with difficulty. "I'm troubled to ruggle-about."

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RUMBAL WHITINGS rum-bul wei-tingz

Noun, plural:. "The present minister, Mr Sacket, acquainted me with an odd custom used by the fishermen of Folkestone to this day. They choose eight of the largest and best whitings out of every boat, when they come home from that fishery, and sell them apart from the rest; and out of this separate money is a feast made every Christmas Eve, which they call rumball. The master of each boat provides this feast for his own company, so that there are as many different entertainments as there are boats. These whitings they call also rumball whitings. He conjectures, probably enough, that this word is a corruption from rumwold; and they were anciently designed as an offering for St. Runwold, 'to whom a chapel,' he saith, 'was once dedicated, and which stood between Folkestone and Hythe, but is long since demolished.'" - Harris's History of Kent, p 125.

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RUN AGIN run uginVerb: To run against, i.e. to meet. "I'm glad I run agin ye."

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RUNAGATE run-ugait

Noun: A wild, reckless, dissolute young man; a good-for-nothing fellow. Corruption of renegade. French, renégat. "But let the runagates continue in scarceness." - Psalm 48, 6 (Prayer Book version)

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RUN-A-HEAD run-uhedVerb: To be delirious. "He was running-a-head all night long."

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RUNNET run-it

Noun: The herb Gabium verum, yellow bedstraw. (see also Rennet)

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RUNNING run-ing

Noun: Stroke-bias. An old sport peculiar to Kent, and especially the eastern part of the county; it consists of trials of speed between members of two or more villages, and from the description of it given in Brome's Travels over England (1700), it appears to have borne some resemblance to the game of prisoners' base.

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RUNT runt

Noun: A small pig; a diminutive or undersized person. (see also Anthony-pig, Dannel; Dan'l)

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RUSH rush

Noun: The rash, or spotted fever.

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RUSTY rust-i

Adjective: Crabbed; out of temper.

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RUT rut

Verb: To keep a rut. To be meddling and doing mischief.

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RUTTLE

Noun: (2) A cold on the chest; a looseness of phlegm in the throat, lungs or stomach, caused to function by hard coughing or heavy laboured breathing. "That's a nasty old ruttle you've got there, when you corf, grandad! Best go up and see Doctor Littledale from Charing when 'e do come down to the village in the morning."

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RUTTLE rut-l

Verb: (1) To rustle; to rattle. "I doänt like to hear him ruttle so in his throat o' nights; I am most feared he wun't be here long."

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RUTTLING

Adjective: Chestiness; a cold on the chest. "You've got a rare ruttling on your poor little chest tonight, Polly. I'll give you some ginger in a drop of hot ale; and rub in some warm camphorated oil on your chest."

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SACK

Verb: To give the sack; to discharge. "I reckon he gets the sack on Monday."

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SAFE-SOWN saif-soan

Adjective: Self-sown; said of corn which comes up from the previous year's crop.

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SAG sag, saig, seg

Verb: To sink; bend; give way; to be depressed by weight. A line or rope stretched out sags in the middle. The wind sags. Compare Anglo-Saxon ságan, to cause, to descend. "The mind I sway by and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear." - Macbeth, Act 5 Sc 3.

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SAGE saij

Noun: They have a saying round Appledore that when a plant of sage blooms or flowers then misfortune is nigh. It rarely flowers, because household requirements generally keep it well cut. My informant told me of a man who saw the sage in his garden in bloom; he was horrified, and told his daughter to cut off all the blossoms, but before she could do so, he met with an accident, by which he was killed.

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SAIME saim

Noun: Lard. (see also Seam)

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SAINT'S-BELL sai-nts-bel

Noun: The small bell, which is rung just before the service begins. "The only Saint's-bell that rings all in." - Hudibras 3, c.2, 1224. 1678 - In the Character of a Scold we have - "Her tongue is the clapper of the Devil's saint's-bell, that rings all into confusion." Saint's-bell, is simply the old sanctus-bell, formerly rung at the elevation of the host, and now put to a different use.

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SALTERNS sau-lturnz

Noun, plural:. Marshy places near the sea, which are overflowed by the tide. - North Kent. (see also Saltings, Salts)

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SALTINGS sau-ltingz

Noun, plural:. Salt marshes on the sea-side of the sea-walls; generally rich alluvial land, but too much cut up by the grips to be of much use for grazing. - North Kent. (see also Salterns, Salts)

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SALTS salts

Noun, plural:. Marshy places near the sea, which are overflowed by the tide. - North Kent. (see also Salterns, Saltings)

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SALVEY sal-vi, saav-i

Adjective: Close; soapy; spoken of potatoes that are not floury.

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SAND-RATE sand-rait

Noun: The ray. Raia clavata - Folkestone.

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SAP sapVerb: To catch eels with worms threaded on worsted; elsewhere called Bobbing.

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SARE sair

Adjective: Tender; rotten; worn; faded; as "My coat is very sare."

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SARTIN saat-in

Adjective: Stern; severe; stedfast. "He knowed there was something up, he did look that sartin at me."

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SASH COUF CASE

Noun: Really the frame that held the glass in - a door half sashed with glass, now nearly always used of a window which rises and falls over a wheel - a sash window, though they would still speak of French sashes, or windows which open like doors.

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SAUCE

Noun: For sauciness. "I don't want none o' your sauce."

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SAY sai

Verb: (1) To try; to essay. "When a hog has once say'd a garden, you'll be troubled to keep him out."

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SAY sai

Verb: (2) "Give us something to say," means, give us a toast.

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SAY SWEAR sai swair

In the Phrase: se, "Take care or I shall say swear," i.e., don't exasperate me too much,or, "if you go on, I shall say swear," i.e., I shall be thoroughly put out and use any amount of bad language.

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SCAD skad

Noun: A small black plum, between a damson and a sloe; a bastard damson, which grows wild in the hedges. The taste of it is so very harsh that few, except children, can it eat it raw, nor even when boiled up with sugar. (see also Skad)

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SCADDLE skad-l

Adjective: Wild; mischievous; spoken of a dog that worries sheep; of a cat that poaches; of a cow that breaks fences; and of a boy that is generally thievish, inclined to pilfer, mischievous and troublesome. From the verb to scathe. (see also Sceddle)

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SCALLION skal-yun

Noun: The name given to the poor and weakly plants in an onion bed, which are thinned out to make room for the growth of better ones.

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SCARCEY skai-rsi

Adjective: Scarce.

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SCAREFUL skai-rfl

Adjective: Frightful; that which tends to scare.

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SCEDDLE sked-l

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SCHOAT shoat

Noun: A kneading trough. (see also Scout, Shoat)

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SCIMMINGER skim-injur

Noun: A piece of counterfeit money.

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SCITHERS sith-urz

Noun: Scissors

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SCITTLE sit-l

Adjective: Skittish.

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SCOASE skoa-us

Verb: To exchange. "I'll scoase horses with you." (see also Scorse)

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SCOFF skau-f

Verb: To gobble; eat greedily. "You've scorfed up all the meat purty quick, ain't ye?" (see also Scorf)

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SCOONING

Verb: To peep; to pry about. "Now what be ye a-scooning about for in my barn, youngster?" "We cot him a-scooning through the windy at our young Sarah when she was a-having her Friday bath!" - Wealden and Ashford district.

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SCOPPLE skop-ul

Noun: A broad wooden shovel used by the threshers. (see also Scubbit, which is the word used in East Kent.)

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SCORE

Noun: In East Kent oxen and pigs are sold by the score; sheep and calves by the stone of 8lbs. Score was properly a cut; hence, twenty was denoted by a long cut on a notched stick.

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SCORF skau-f

Verb: To gobble; eat greedily. "You've scorfed up all the meat purty quick, ain't ye?" (see also Scoff)

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SCORSE skoa-us

Verb: To exchange. "I'll scoase horses with you." (see also Scoase)

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SCOTCHEN

Noun: A badge; shortened from escutcheon. "For 2 dosen skotchens of lede for the poore people of the citie (of Canterbury), that they myght be knowen from other straunge beggars." - Historical MSS. Commission, Appendix to Ninth Report, 155a.

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SCOURGE skurj

Verb: To sweep with a besom.

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SCOUT skou-t

Noun: A kneading trough. (see also Schoat, Shoat)

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SCRABBLE

Verb: (1) To climb over loose surfaces, hedges, banks etc. "Don't 'ee go and scrabble over that heap of gravel, my boy!"

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SCRABBLE

Verb: (5) To scratch. "Don't 'ee scrabble me! If 'ee do I'll give 'ee such a smacking, you badtempered child."

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SCRABBLE

Verb: (2) To poke or probe about in loose refuse etc. "You can scrabble about in that old refuse heap as much as you like: bit I don't think ye'll find your shilling: like looking for a needle in a haystack."

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SCRABBLE

Verb: (3) To pull things about. "Don't scrabble those things all over the place, Johnnie! You'll be making more mess than your help's worth."

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SCRABBLE

Verb: (4) To struggle, as with a person or animal. "Pack up that scrabble-ing about, while I wash behind your ears, you dirty boy!"

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SCRAN skran

Noun: A snack of food; the refreshment that labourers take with them in to the fields. "What scran have ye got?" (see also Bever, Elevenses, Leavener, Progger)

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SCRAP skrap

Verb: To fight; restricted to the encounters between children.

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SCRAPS skraps

Noun: Herrings which, being broken, cannot be hung up by their heads to dry. (see also Tietails)

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SCRATCH skrach

Noun: (2) A rough pronged prop, used to support a clothes' line; a pole with a natural fork at the end of it. An older form of the word crutch.,

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SCRATCH skrach

Verb: (1) To do anything in a hurried, hasty, scrambling way. "I scratched out of bed and struck a light."

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SCRATCH ALONG skrach ulong

Verb: To pull through hard times. "Times is bad, but I just manage somehows to keep scratching along."

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SCRAWL

Verb: To lay corn by the agency of the wind and blow it together into a tangle. - R Cooke.

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SCREECH-OWL skreech-oul

Noun: The common swift. Cypsellus apus. - Sittingbourne.

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SCROOCH skrooch

Verb: To make a dull, scraping noise.

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SCROOGE skrooj

Verb: To squeeze or crowd; to push rudely in a crowd. "An dare we strain'd an' stared an' blous'd, An tried to get away; But more we strain'd de more dey scroug'd An sung out, 'Give 'em play.'" - Dick and Sal, st 71. (see also Scrouge)

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SCROUGE skrou-j

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SCROW skroa

Noun: A cross, peevish, ill-natured person.

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SCRUMP skrump

Noun: A stunted, badly-grown apple; a withered, shrivelled, undersized person. - North Kent. "This orchard isn't worth much, one sieve out of four 'ull be scrumps." "The old gen'lman does look a little scrump, doänt he?"

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SCRUMPING

Verb: To steal apples from an orchard , 'To go scrumping". - Plumstead, West Kent L.R.A.G. 1920's.

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SCRUNCH skrunch

Verb: To crunch.

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SCRY skraai, skrei

Noun: A large standing sieve, against which, when it is set up at an angle on the barn floor, the corn is thrown with a scubbit to clean and sift it. It is used also for sifting coal.

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SCUBBIT skub-it

Noun: A wooden shovel. That form of scubbit now used by maltsters and hop driers has a short handle; that formerly used by farmers for moving corn on the barn floor, prior to the introduction of the threshing machine, had a long handle. (see also Scoppel)

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SCUBBIT

Noun: A hop shovel. - J H Bridge. (see also Scuppet)

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SCUFFLING skuf-ling

Adjective: A scuffling apron is one to do hard or dirty work in.

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SCULCH skulsh

Noun: Rubbish; trash. Generally used with reference to the unwholesome things children delight to eat. A variant of Culch. (see also Culch, Pelt, Scultch, Scutchel)

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SCULL

Verb: To cull. "Scull those weeds out from the young lettuce plants, Willie, my boy." - Wealden and Ashford district.

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SCULLED

Verb: (1) Culled. "I've sculled all the little plantlings from the big ones fayther! Can I plant these small ones in my bit of garden, now?" - Wealden and Ashford District.

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SCULLED

Verb: (2) To pick about here and there. "I've sculled all over the garden with the hoe, and I couldn't find much bear-bine to chop out."

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SCULLING

Verb: In English usage 'sculling' means to paddle a boat around-about in a small area with the aid of an oar or oars. In the early corruption of the use the meaning was: - Moving about in a restricted area such as a garden. A mode of walking about in a very restricted area and continually getting in the way of others.

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SCULLING-ABOUT

Verb: To hang about; to spy about; to be loitering about and inclined to inquisitiveness or nosiness. "Don't 'ee come sculling-about in here ye nosey varmint! Be off wid ye! I've lost a few chickens just lately and I've a right mind to tell village constable who I think the thief be!" "If I catch ye a-sculling-about in my cherry orchard again, I'll put my stick acrost your shoulders! Speaking to your fayther don't seem to do no good: nit a-askin' the school-gaffer to warm ye! So I'll warm 'ee if I as much sees ye a-touching the hedge or fence arount my orchard! Off with ye this minnit - off!"

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SCULTCH skulch

Noun: Rubbish; trash. Generally used with reference to the unwholesome things children delight to eat. A variant of Culch. (see also Culch, Pelt, Sculch, Scutchel)

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SCUPPER skup-ur

Noun: A scoop or scooper.

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SCUPPET

Noun: A hop shovel. - J H Bridge. (see also Scubbit)

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SCUT

Noun: (2) In English usage the word 'scut' means 'short-tailed'. In Kentish dialect the scut of a rabbit is the white underpart of the tail which a rabbit shows as it flips its short tail up and down spasmodically, as it moves about, walking, hopping or running. "That rabbit sure showed us his scut, Bill ! Even the old dog couldn't get near 'un! One thing 'bout a rabbit, as soon as it moves, even when its middling dark like, the white fur under his tail shows him up and gives 'un away.!" - Ashford and district.

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SCUT skut

Noun: (1) The tail of a hare or rabbit.

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SCUTCHEL skuch-ul

Noun: (1) Rubbish. (see also Culch, Pelt, Sculch, Scultch)

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SCUTCHEL

Noun: (2) The trimmings of wood put inside a faggot.

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SCUTTER

Verb: To scrape. "That article was used for scuttering pigs". - Lenham. W Coppins. J W Bridge. 1948.

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SEA COB see kob

Noun: A sea gull. (see also Sea Kitty)

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SEA GRAPES

Noun, plural:. The eggs of the cuttle-fish.

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SEA KITTY see kit-i

Noun: A sea gull. (see also Sea Cob)

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SEA SNAIL see snai-l

Noun: A periwinkle.

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SEA STARCH

Noun: Jelly-fish - Dover. (see also Blue Slutters, Galls, Miller's-eyes, Sea-nettles, Sluthers, Slutters, Stingers, Water-galls)

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SEALT

Noun: Salt. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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SEAM seem

Noun: (2) A sack of eight bushels is now called a seam, because that quantity forms a horseload, which is the proper and original meaning of seam. The word is used in Domesday Book. "To Mr Eugh, a twelve seames of wheate at twenty shillings the seame. . . Item unto Mr Eugh, a twenty seames of peas and tears (i.e., tares) at thirteene the seame." - Boteler MS. Account Books. (see also Seme)

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SEAM seem

Noun: (1) Hog's lard.

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SEA-NETTLES

Noun: Jelly-fish. - Dover. (see also Blue Slutters, Galls, Miller's-eyes, Sea starch, Sluthers, Slutters, Stingers, Water-galls)

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SEARSE seers

Verb: To strain or shift, as through a sieve or strainer.

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SEASON see-zn

Verb: To sow corn. Also said of the condition of land for sowing. "I'm going wheat seasoning today." "That Dover fill's nice and plump now after the rain. We shall get a season."

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SEA-WAUR see-waur

Noun: The wrack, ore or sea weed used largely in the Island of Thanet and elsewhere, for making maxhills. (see also Oare, Waur, Waure)

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SECOND-MAN

Noun: Amongst farm servants there is a regular gradation of ranks; the first-man is the wagoner, par eminence, who has charge of the first team and is assisted by his "mate," the second-man has charge of the second team and is assisted by his "mate," and so on; whilst there is generally a "yard man," whose duty it is to look after the stock in the yard, and an odd man whose title, "all work," describes his duties. When a number of men are going along the road, with their respective teams the first man will be found leading, the second man next, and so on; each walking with his horses.

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SEE see

pt.t. Saw. "I see him at Canterbury yesterday. (see also Seed)

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SEED see-d, sid

Verb: Saw. ( see also See)

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SEED-CORD seed-kord

Noun: A box or basket used by the sower for holding the seed, and suspended from his neck by a cord or strap. It was an instrument of husbandry in common use before the invention of the seed drill, and generally contained some five or six gallons of seed. (Boteler MS. Asccount Book, 1653) (see also Seed-Kod, Seed-lip)

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SEED-KOD seed-kod

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SEED-LIP seed-lip

Noun: The wooden box, fitting the shape of the body in which the sower carries his seed. (see Seed-cord, Seed-kod)

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SEEMING see-ming

Adjective: Apparently. (see also Seemingly)

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SEEMINGLY see-mingli

Adjective: Apparently. (see also Seeming)

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SEEN seen

Noun: A cow's teat.

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SELK

Noun: Silk. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Selk (K) = Silk (N)

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SELYNGE sel-inj

Noun: Toll; custom; tribute. "The Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury. . . used to take in the stream of the water or river Stoure, before the mouth of the said Flete, a certain custom which was called Selynge, of every little boat which came to an anchor before the mouth of the said Flete." - Lewis, p 78. The parish of Sellindge, near Hythe, probably takes its name from some such ancient payment.

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SEME seam

Noun: A sack of eight bushels is now called a seam, because that quantity forms a horse-load, which is the proper and original meaning of seam. The word is used in Domesday Book. "To Mr Eugh, a twelve seames of wheate at twenty shillings the seame. . . Item unto Mr Eugh, a twenty seames of peas and tears (i.e., tares) at thirteene the seame." - Boteler MS. Account Books. (see also Seam)

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SEN sen

vb.pp. Seen. "Have ye sen our Bill anywheres?"

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SENGREEN sin-grin

Noun: Houseleek. Sempervivum tectorum. Anglo-Saxon singréne, ever-green; the AngloSaxon prefix sin, means "ever".

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SENNE

Noun: Sin. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Senne (K) = Sunne (S) = Sin (N) (See also Zenne)

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SENSE sen-s

Adjective: Phrase: Used with the negative to mean "Nothing to signify;" anything inadequately or faultily done. "It don't rain, not no sense," i.e., there is no rain to speak of.

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SEP sep

Noun: The secretion which gathers in the corners of the eyes during sleep. Allied to sap. - Eastry.

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SERE seer

Adjective: Dry, as distinct from green wood; not withered, as sometimes explained. The term is usually applied to firewood. "They say that Muster Goodyer has a lot of good sere fagots to sell."

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SERVER surv-r

Noun: Where there are no wells, as in the Weald of Kent, the pond that serves the house is called the server, to distinquish it from the horse-pond.

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SESS ses

Noun: A levy; a tax; a rate; an assessment. 1648-1652 - "Item to John Augustine, 18s, for a church sesse. . . Item to Mr Paramore, 17s and 6d., for a sesse to the poore." - Boteler MS. Account Book. (see also Sesse)

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SESSE ses

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SESSIONS sesh-nz

Noun: A disturbance; a fuss. "There's goin' to be a middlin' sessions over this here Jubilee, seemin'ly."

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SET set

Adjective: (3) Firm; fixed in purpose; obstinate. "He's terrible set in his ways, there ain't no turning an 'im."

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SET set

Noun: (2) A division in a hop-garden for picking, containing 24 hills.

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SET set

Verb: (1) To sit; as, "I was setting in my chair."

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SET UP

Verb: A word expressing movement of several kinds, e.g., a man "Sets up a trap for vermin," where they would ordinarily say, "Sets a trap ;" a horse sets up, i.e., he jibs and rears; whilst the direction to a coachman, "Set up a little," means, that he is to drive on a yard or two and then stop.

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SET-OUT set-out

Noun: A great fuss and disturbance; a grand display; and event causing exciment and talk. "There was a great set-out at the wedding."

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SEVEND

Noun: Seventh. 'The Old Kentish numerals, as exhibited in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, are identical with the Northen forms, but are no doubt of Frisian origin.'

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SEVEN-WHISTLERS

Noun: The note of the curlew, heard at night, is called by the fishermen the seven-whistlers. "I never thinks any good of them, there's always an accident when they comes. I heard 'em once one dark night last wInterjection: They come over our heads all of a sudden, singing, 'Ewe-ewe,' and the men in the boat wanted to turn back. It came on to rain and blow soon afterwards, and was an awful night, sir; and, sure enough, before morning a boat was upset and seven poor fellows drowned. I knows what makes the noise, sir; it's them long-billed curlews; but I never likes to hear them."

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SEW soo

Verb: (2) To dry; to drain; as, "To sew a pond," i.e., to drain it and make it dry.

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SEW soo

Adjective: (1) Dry. "To go sew," i.e., to go dry; spoken of a cow.

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SEWELLS seu-elz

Noun, plural:. Feathers tied to a string which is stretched across part of a park to prevent the deer from passing.

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SHADDER shad-ur

Verb: To be afraid of. (see also Shatter (4)

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SHAGGED shag-id

Adjective: Fatigued; fagged; tired out. "An' I was deadly shagged." - Dick and Sal, st.48.

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SHAKE-A-DONNIE

Verb: To shake or wave the hand upon departure, to another person or persons. Confined to very young children. "Now little Mary, shake-a-donny to grandma! We're going home to tea now, my pretty one!" (see also Donnie)

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SHALE shail

Noun: The mesh of a fishing net.

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SHALES'S prob. shailz

Noun, plural:. Tenements to which no land belonged. - Lewis, 75. (see also Shalings)

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SHALINGS shai-lingz

Noun, plural:. Tenements to which no land belonged. - Lewis, 75. (see also Shales's)

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SHARN BUG sharn-bug

Noun: The stag beetle. (see also Shorn bug)

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SHATTER shat-ur

Verb: (4) To be afraid of. (see also Shadder)

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SHATTER shat-ur

Verb: (1) To scatter; blow about; sprinkle. "Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year." - Milton, Lycidas, 5.

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SHATTER shat-ur

Noun: (2) A sprinkling, generally of rain. "We've had quite a nice litttle shatter of rain." "There'll be a middlin' shatter of hops."

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SHATTER

Verb: (3) To rain slightly.

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SHAUL shau-l

Adjective: (1) Shallow; shoal.

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SHAUL shau-l

Noun: (2) A wooden tub with sloping sides. The shaul was of two kinds, viz - (1) The kneadinge showle, used for kneading bread, generally made of oak, and standing on four legs, commonly seen in better class cottages. Of which we find mention in the Boteler Inventories - "Item in the bunting house one bunting hutch, two kneding showles, a meale tub with other lumber ther, prized at 6s. 8d." - Memorials of Eastry, p 226. And (2), the washing shaul, made of common wood, without legs. (see also Keeler (2), Shaw (2), Shawl, Showle)

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SHAVE shaiv

Noun: Corrupted from shaw, a wood that encompasses a close; a small copse of wood by a fieldside. (see also Carvet)

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SHAW

Noun: (2) An oblong wooden tub on trestles in which housewives did their washing previous to 1914. -Wealden. (See also Keeler (2), Shaul (2), Shawl, Showle)

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SHAW shau

Noun: (1) A small hanging wood; a small copse; a narrow plantation dividing two fields.

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SHAWL

Noun: An oblong wooden tub on trestles in which housewives did their washing previous to 1914. -Wealden. (see also Keeler (2),Shaul (2). Shaw (2), Showle)

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SHAY shaai

Noun: (2) A shadow; dim or faint glimpse of a thing; a general likeness or resemblance. "I caught a shay of 'im as he was runnin' out of the orchard, and dunno' as I shaänt tark to 'im next time I gets along-side an 'im."

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SHAY shaai

Adjective: (1) Pale; faint-coloured. "This here ink seems terr'ble shay, somehows."

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SHE shee

Noun: In Phrase: se, "A regular old she;" a term of contempt for anything that is poor, bad or worthless; often applied to a very bad ball at cricket.

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SHEAD sheed

Noun: A rough pole of wood. "Sheads for poles."

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SHEAL

Verb: To peal, scale off; used of the scales or flakes of skin peeling off a person who has been ill of measles, scarlet fever, etc. Allied to scale, shell; and used in the sense of shell in Bargrave MS. Diary, 1645: "Before they come to the press the walnuts are first shealed, then dryed in the sunne." (see also Sheel)

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SHEAR sheer

Noun: A spear; thus they speak of an eel-shear.

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SHEAT sheet

Noun: A young hog of the first year. "John Godfrey, of Lidd, in his will, 1572, gave his wife one sowe, two sheetes." (see also Shoot, Shut)

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SHEE-GASHIE-ATE

Phrase: Feel in health. "How do you Shee-gashie-ate, mate?" Peculiar to the parishes of Pluckley, Little Chart and Egerton (with Mundy Bois) all near Ashford. These extra-ordinary words are of a spontaneous origin. They were 'invented' or coined by a Mr Jack Collins, a farm worker of Mundy Bois, back in 1922.

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SHEE-GASHIE-ATING

Phrase: Keeping in health; 'getting on now' "How are you Shee-gashie-ating?" (How are you keeping in health). "How are you a-Sheeg-ashie-ating, now-a-days, mairt?" (How are you getting on with your job; or How are your prospects now-a-days?) - Peculiar to Pluckley, Little Chart and Egerton, with Mundy Bois. (see also Shee-gashie-ate)

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SHEEL shee-l

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'SHEEN shee-n

Noun: Machine. "Or like de stra dat clutters out, De 'sheen a thrashing carn," - Dick and Sal, st 77.

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SHEEP-GATE ship-gait

Noun: A hurdle with bars.

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SHEEP'S TREDDLES shipz tred-lz

Noun, plural:. The droppings of sheep. "There's no better dressing for a field than sheep's treddles." (see also Light (2), Treddles)

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SHEER shee-r

Adjective: Bright; pure; clear; bare. Thus, it is applied to the bright, glassy appearance of the skin which forms over a wound; or to the appearance of the stars, as an old man once told me, "When they look so very bright and sheer there will be rain."

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SHEERES sheerz

Noun, plural:. All parts of the worlds, except Kent, Sussex or Surrey. A person coming into Kent from any county beyond London, is said to "Come out of the sheeres;" or, if a person is spoken of as living in any other part of England, they say, "He is living down in the sheeres som' 'ere's." (see also Shires)

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SHEER-MOUSE shee-r-mous

Noun: A field or garden mouse. Probably a mere variation from shew-mouse.

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SHEER-WAY shee-r-wai

Noun: A bridle-way through grounds otherwise private. So Lewis writes it, Shire-way, as a way separate and divided from the common road or open highway. (se also Shire-way)

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SHELL-FIRE shel-feir

Noun: The phosphorescence from decayed straw or touchwood, etc., sometimes seen in farmyards. (see also Fairy-sparks)

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SHENT

Verb: To chide; reprove; reproach. "Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?" - Coriolanus, Act 5, Sc.3. (see also Shunt)

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SHEPPEY shep-i

Noun: Sheep-island. The inhabitants of the isle at the mouth of the Thames call themselves "sons of Sheppey," and speak of crossing the Swale on to the main land, as "going into England;" whilst those who live in the marshes call the higher parts of Sheppey, the Island, as indeeed it once was, being one of the three isles of Sheppey.

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SHIDE sheid

Noun: A long slip of wood; a plank; a thin board, etc. 1566 - "For a tall shyde and nayle for the same house, 1d." - Accounts of St. Dunstan's. Canterbury. (see also Shyde)

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SHIFT shift

Verb: (1) To divide land into two or more equal parts.

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SHIFT shift

Noun: (2) A division of land.

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SHIM shim

Noun: A horse-hoe, used for lightly tilling the land between the rows of peas, beans, hops, etc.

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SHINGLE shing-l

Noun: A piece of seasoned oak about 12 inches long by 3 inches wide, quarter inch in thickness; used in covering buildings, and especially for church spires in parts of the country where wood was plentiful, as in the Weald of Kent.

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SHINGLER shing-lur

Noun: A man who puts on shingles; a wood-tiler. In the Parish Book which contains the Churchwardens' Accounts of the Parish of Biddenden, we find the following entries: - March, 1597, "To Abraham Stedman, for nayles for the shingler to use about the shingling of the church at Biddenden, at 4d. the hundred. . . 2s.8d. August, 1600, "To the shingler for 2000 shingles at 16s. the thousand. . . 32s.0d. To him for the laying of the two thousands . . . 12s.4d. July, 1603, "Item payde to Newman the shingler for 2000(?) of the shingles . . . £2.8s.0d. It may be noted that one of the Editors has before him a shinglers bill for repairing a church spire in the present year (1887), in which the following items will shew that the prices have "riz" considerably in 300 years:- 20 and three quarters lbs copper nails, at 1s.7d. . . .£1.12s.8d. 150 new shingles, at 1d. . . .£1.9s.2d. Time, 14 and a half days, at 4s., 12 and a half days, at 5s. . . £6.0s.6d.

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SHINING STICK shei-ning stik

Noun: A thin peeled stick, formerly carried by farm labourers at statute fares, to shew that they sought work for the coming year. "He sed dere was a teejus fair Dat lasted for a wik; An all de ploughmen dat went dare Must car dair shining stick." - Dick and Sal, st. 8.

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SHINY-BUG

Noun: The glow-worm

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SHIP ship

Noun, plural:. Sheep. The word sheep must have been pronounced in this way in Shakespeare's time, as we see from the following:- "Twenty to one, then, he is shipp'd already, And I have play'd the sheep (pronounced ship) in loving him." - Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1, Sc 1.

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SHIP-GATE ship-gait

Noun: A sheep-gate or moveable hurdle in a fence.

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SHIRES sheirz

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SHIRE-WAY sheir-wai

Noun: A bridle-way. (see also Sheer-way)

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SHOAL-IN

Verb: To pick sides at cricket or any game. "After the match, they had a shoal-in among theirselves."

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SHOAT shoa-t

Noun: A kneading trough. (see also Schoat, Scout)

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SHOAVE shoav

Noun: A kind of fork used to gather up oats when cut. (see also Shove)

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SHOCK shok

Noun: (1) A sheaf of corn. "I see that the wind has blowed down some shocks in that field of oats." (see also Cop (1)

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SHOCK

Noun: (2) A number of sheaves, when corn was tithed in kind then, and then every tenth shock belonged to the incumbent.

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SHOCKLED shokl-d

pp. Shrunk; shrivelled; wrinkled; puckered up; withered. "A face like a shrockled apple." (see also Shrockled)

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SHOE-MONEY

Noun: When strangers pass through the hop-garden their shoes are wiped with a bundle of hops, and they are expected to pay their footing, under penalty of being put into the basket. The money so collected is called shoe-money, and is spent on bread and cheese and ale, which are consumed on the ground the last day of hopping. The custom of wiping the shoes of passersby is also practiced in the cherry orchards, in the neighbourhood of Faversham and Sittingbourne.

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SHOOLER shoo-lr

Noun: A beggar.

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SHOOLING shoo-ling

part. Begging. "To go shooling."

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SHOOT shoot

Noun: A young pig of the first year. (see also Sheat, Shut)

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SHOP-GOODS

Noun, plural:. Goods purchased at a shop, especially groceries.

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SHORE shoar

Noun: A prop; a strut; a support. "M.E. schore - Icel. skorda, a prop; stay; especially under a boat. . . so called, because shorn or cut off of a suitable length.

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SHORN BUG shorn-bug

Noun: The stag beetle. (see also Sharn bug)

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SHORT-WORK shaut-wurk

Noun: Work in odd corners of fields which does not come in long straight furrows.

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SHOT shot

Noun: A handful of hemp.

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SHOT-FARE shot-fair

Noun: The mackerel season, which is the first of the two seasons of the home fishery. It commonly commences about the beginning of May, when the sowing of barley is ended.

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SHOT-NET shot-net

Noun: A mackerel net.

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SHOTTEN shot-n

Adjective: "The proprietor of the Folkestone hang told me that at the beginning of the season all the fish have roes; towards the end they are all shotten, i.e., they have no roes." - F.Buckland.

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SHOTVER-MEN shot-vur-men

Noun, plural:. The mackerel fishers at Dover; whose nets are called shot-nets. There is an old saying - "A north-east wind in May Makes the shotver-men a prey." The N.E. wind being considered favourable for fishing.

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SHOUL shou-l

Noun: A shovel (not to be confounded with Shaul)

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SHOUN shou-n

Verb: Shone. "And glory shoun araöund."

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SHOVE

Noun: A hay-shove is a pitchfork for loading hay on a wagon. Perhaps shove means a shovel. - Example given to Maidstone Museum, March 1953. L.R.A.G. (see also Shoave)

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SHOWLE shou-l

Noun: A wooden tub with sloping sides. The shaul was of two kinds, viz - (1) The kneadinge showle, used for kneading bread, generally made of oak, and standing on four legs, commonly seen in better class cottages. Of which we find mention in the Boteler Inventories - "Item in the bunting house one bunting hutch, two kneding showles, a meale tub with other lumber ther, prized at 6s. 8d." - Memorials of Eastry, p 226. And (2), the washing shaul, made of common wood, without legs. (see also Keeler (2), Shaul (2), Shaw (2), Shawl)

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SHOWS FOR shoa-z fur

Verb: It looks like. "It shows for rain."

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SHOY shoi

Adjective: Weakly; shy of bearing; used of plants and trees.

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SHRAPE shraip

Verb: To scold or rate a dog.

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SHREAP shreep

Verb: To chide; scold. (see also Shrip)

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SHRIP shrip

Verb: To chide ; scold. (see also Shreap)

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SHRIVE shreiv

Verb: To clear the small branches from the trunk of a tree. "Those elm-trees want shriving."

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SHROCKLED shrokl-d

pp. Shrunk; shrivelled; wrinkled; puckered up; withered. "A face like a shrockled apple." (see also Shockled)

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SHRUGGLE shrug-l

Verb: To shrug the shoulders.

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SHUCK shuk

Verb: (2) To shell peas, beans, etc. (see also Huck (2)

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SHUCK shuk

Verb: (3) To do things in a restless, hurried way, as, e.g., to shuck about. (see also Shuckle)

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SHUCK shuk

Noun: (1) A husk or shell; as bean shucks, i.e. bean shells. It is sometimes used as a contemptuous expression, as, "A regular old shuck." (see also Huck (1), Hull (1)

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SHUCKISH shuk-ish

Adjective: Shifty; unreliable; uncertain; tricky. "Looks as though we be going to have a lot of this shuckish weather."

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SHUCKLE shuk-l

Verb: To shuffle along, or slink along, in walking. (see also Shuck (3)

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SHUNT

Verb: To chide; reprove; reproach. "Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?" - Coriolanus, Act 5, Sc.3. (see also Shent)

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SHUT shut

Noun: (1) A young pig that has done sucking. (see also Sheet, Shoot)

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SHUT shut

Verb: (2) To do; to manage.

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SHUT-KNIFE

Noun: Pen-knife. A knife with one or more blades, that can be opened and shut, the blades opening out from a metal case, and closing or shutting down with the cutting edge safe in its own compartment. - Wealden and district. (also Shet-knife - Kentish Wealden Dialect, 1935, vol 1) (see also Stick-knife)

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SHUT-OF shut-of

Verb: To rid oneself of; to drive away. "I lay you wun't get shut-of him in a hurry."

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SHUT-OUT shut-out

Phrase: Exceedingly cold. "You look quite shut-out."

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SHYDE

Noun: A long slip of wood; a plank; a thin board, etc. 1566 - "For a tall shyde and nayle for the same house, 1d." - Accounts of St. Dunstan's. Canterbury. (see also Shide)

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Verb: See. Exactly corresponding to Old Frisian. It is probable, from the forms bry-est, dyepe, etc, that these words were dissyllabic. (see also Zi)

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SICKEL-EARED

Adjective: Barley when ripe curves its ears, which is thus called.

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SICKLE sik-l

Noun: A curved hook for cutting corn. The sickle or wheat-hook (whit-uok) had a toothed blade, but as it became useless when the teeth broke away, the reaping -hook (rip-ing-uok), with a plain cutting edge, took its place, only to give way in its turn to the scythe, with a cradle on it.

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SIESIN see-zin

Noun: Yeast; barm. (see also Barm, God's Good, Sizzing)

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SIEVE siv

Noun: A measure of cherries. containing a bushel, 56lbs. In West Kent, sieve and half-sieve are equivalent to a bushel and half-bushel.

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SIFTER sift-ur

Noun: A fire shovel.

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SIG sig

Noun: Urine.

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SIGHT seit

A great number or quantity. "There was a sight of apples lying on the ground."

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SIMPLE simp-l

Adjective: Silly; foolish; stupid; hard to understand. "Doän't be so simple, but come along dreckly minnit."

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SIMSON sim-sun

Noun: The common groundsel. Senecio vulgaris.

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SIN sin

Adjective: Since. "Knowing his voice, although not heard long sin." - Faerie Queen, b.6.111,44.

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SINDER sind-ur

Verb: To settle or separate the lees or dregs of liquor.

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SINDERS sind-urz

Adjective: Asunder.

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SIPID sip-id

Adjective: Insipid. "I calls dis here claret wine terr'ble sipid stuff."

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SISSLE sis-l

Verb: To hiss or splutter. "De old kettle sissles, 'twun't be long before 'tis tea-time, I reckon." (see also Sissling)

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SISSLING sis-ling

Verb: To hiss or splutter. "De old kettle sissles, 'twun't be long before 'tis tea-time, I reckon." (see also Sissle)

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SIVER sei-vur

Noun: A boat load of whiting. - Folkestone.

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SIZING sei-zing

Noun: A game of cards, called "Jack running for sizing."

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SIZZING siz-ing

Noun: Yeast or barm; so called from the sound made by beer or ale working. (se also Barm, God's Good, Siesin)

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SKAD skad

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SKARMISH skaamish

Noun: A fight; row; bit of horse-play.

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SKEER'D skee-rd

Adjective: Frightened. "Dractly dere's ever so liddle bit of a skirmish he's reglur skeer-d, he is."

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SKELE

Noun: Skill (Reason) Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Skele (K) = Skill (N) = Reason

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SKENT skent

Verb: To look askant; to scowl.

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SKEVALMEN skev-ulmen

Noun, plural:. From scuffle, a shovel. Men who cleaned out the creek at Faversham were so called in the town records of the seventeenth century.

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SKILLET skil-it

Noun: A stewpan or pipkin.

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SKIP-JACK skip-jak

Noun, plural:. The sand-hopper. Talitrus saltator. - Folkestone.

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SKIVER skiv-ur

Noun: A skewer. In East Kent, in wInterjection:time, men come round, cut the long sharp thorns from the thorn bushes, then peel, bleach and dry them, and sell them to the butchers to use in affixing tickets to their meat.

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SKUT skut

Verb: To crouch down.

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SKYANCE

Noun: (1) Originally a corruption of 'science'. a word first used as a make-shift word for 'a trade' or a persons profession.

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SKYANCE

Noun: (2) To be puzzled. - Chatham and district only.

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SKYANCE-ING

Verb: To earn one's living in one of the petty dealer trades, such as dealing with rags, bones, bottles, rabbits, skins, cheap left-off clothing and second-hand furniture of little or no value. To use one's brains in getting a living out of, generally, waste products. - Chatham and district only.

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SKYANCER

Noun: A person getting a living from small dealing,and trading, mostly from waste materials. - Chatham and district only.

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SLAB slab

Noun: A rough plank; the outside cut of a tree when sawn up.

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SLACK slak

Adjective: Underdressed; underdone; insufficiently cooked; applied to meat not cooked enough, or bread insufficiently baked. "The bread is very slack today."

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SLAGGER slag-ur

Verb: To slacken speed; to walk lame; to limp. "An so we slagger'd den ya know, An gaap't an stared about; To see de houses all a row, An signs a-hanging out." - Dick and Sal, st 32.

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SLAINT slai-nt

Verb: To miscarry; to give premature birth; to slip or drop a calf before the proper time. In Eastry it is pronounced slaint. (see also Slant)

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SLANK slangk

Noun: A slope or declivity.

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SLANT slan-t

Verb: To miscarry; to give premature birth; to slip or drop a calf before the proper time. In Eastry it is pronounced slaint. (see also Slaint)

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SLAPPY slap-i

Adjective: Slippery through wet. The form sloppy, meaning wet but not slippery, is common everywhere.

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SLATS slat-s

Noun, plural:. Thin; flat; unfilled pea-pods..

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SLAY-WATTLE slai-wat-l

Noun: A hurdle made of narrow boards.

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SLAY-WORM

Noun: The slow-worm. An English lizard, that now only has the rudiments of legs, and possessing a tail that can be shed at will when in danger of being captured by a hold upon its rearmost parts. (see also Slorry, Sloy-worm)

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SLEEPER

Noun: A dormouse.

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SLICE

Noun: A Wheelwright's slice, like a small iron peel.

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SLICK slik

Adjective: Slippery.

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SLIMMUCKS slim-uks

Noun: A slinking fellow.

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SLIPPER slip-ur

Noun: (1) A curious eel-like fish, with an ugle pert-looking head, and frill down the back (like the frill to an old beau's dining-out shirt), and a spotted and exceedingly slimy body. So called at Herne Bay, because it slips from the hand so easily. (see Life of Frank Buckland, p 171)

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SLIPPER slip-ur

Noun: (2) The small sole. - Folkestone.

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SLIVER sliv-ur

Verb: (2) To slice; cut off a thin portion.

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SLIVER sliv-ur

Noun: (1) A thin piece of split wood; a slice; a stiff shaving; a splInterjection: Allied to Slice, from Slit. Anglo-Saxon sléfan, to cleave. "There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke." - Hamlet, Act 4, Sc 7.

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SLOBBED slob-d

pp. Slopped; split.

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SLOP slop

Noun: A short, round smock frock, of coarse materials, slipped over the head, and worn by workmen over their other clothes.

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SLORRY slor-r'i

Noun: A slow-worm, or a blind worm. (see also Slay-worm, Sloy-worm)

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SLOSH slosh

Noun: Dirty water; a muddy wash; liquid mud. They are both formed from the sound, hence slosh represents rather "a muddy wash," which makes the louder noise when splashed about, and slush, "liquid mud," which makes a duller sound. (see also Slush)

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SLOY-WORM sloi-wurm

Noun: A slow-worm. Anguis fragilis. (see also Slay-worm, Slorry)

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SLUB slub

Noun: A slimy wash; liquid mud. Lord Hale, in his work, De Jure Maris et Brachiorum Ejusdem, pt 1. ch 7, alludes to "The jus alluvionis, which is an increase of land by the projection of the sea, casting and adding sand and slub to the adjoining land whereby it is increased, and for the most part by insensible degrees."

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SLUMMICKY

Adjective: A slummicky woman is a slovenly, down-at-heel person. - West Kent. L.R.A.G., Woolwich, Fred Cooper, Gravesend.

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SLURRY slur-r'i

Noun: Wet, sloppy mud.

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SLUSH slush

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SLUTHERS sluth-urz

Noun, plural:. Jelly fish (see also Blue Slutters, Galls, Millers-eyes, Sea-nettles, Sea starch, Slutters, Stingers, Water-galls)

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SLUTTERS slut-urz

Noun, plural:. Jelly fish. (see also Blue Slutters, Galls, Millers-eyes, Sea-nettles, Sea starch, Sluthers, Stingers, Water-galls)

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SMAAMER smaa-mur

Noun: A knock.

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SMACK-SMOOTH smak-smoodh

Adjective: Flat; smooth; level with the ground. "The old squire had the shaw cut down smacksmooth."

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SMART

Adjective: Considerable. "I reckon it'll cost him a smart penny before he's done."

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SMICKERY smik-ur'i

Adjective: Uneven; said of a thread when it is spun.

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SMIRK smurk

Verb: To get the creases out of linen, that it may be more easily folded up. "Oh! give it a smirking, and you'll get it smooth."

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SMITHERS smidh-urz

Noun, plural:. Shivers, or splInterjection:.

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SMOULT smoa-lt

Adjective: Hot; sultry.

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SMUG smug

Verb: To steal.

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SNAG snag, snaig, sneg - East Kent

Noun: A name applied to all the common species of garden-snails, but especially to the Helix aspersa. (Anglo-Saxon snaeg-el; snag is a variant of snake, a creeping thing). In West Kent the word is applied to a slug, whilst snails are called shell-snags.

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SNAGGLE snag-l

Verb: To hack, or carve meat badly; to nibble.

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SNATAGOG snat-ugog

Noun: A yewberry. (see also Snodgog, Snottygobs)

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SNEAD sneed

n.. The long handle or bat of a scythe. - West Kent. The family of Sneyd, in Staffordshire, bear a scythe in their arms.

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SNIGGER snig-ur

Verb: To cut roughly, or unevenly.

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SNIRK snurk

Verb: To dry; wither. "You had better carry your hay or it will all be snirked up, sure as you're alive."

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SNIRKING snurk-in

Noun: Anything withered. "As dry as a snirking."

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SNITCH

Verb: To snitch something is to steal it. - L R A G.

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SNITCHED

Adjective: Cold.- Nicky Newbury 1973.

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SNOB snob

Noun: A cobbler. By no means a tern of contempt.

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SNODEN

Noun, plural:. Pieces. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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SNODGOG snod-gog

Noun: A snodberry, or yewberry; just as a goosegog is a gooseberry. (see also Snatagog, Snottygobs)

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SNOODS snoodz, snuodz

Noun, plural:. Fishing lines. The lines laid for ness-congers are seventy-five fathoms long, and on each line are attached, at right angles, other similar lines called the snoods; twenty-three snoods to each line, each snood nine feet long. - Folkestone.

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SNOTTYGOBS

Noun, plural:. Yew berries. - information from Gertie Scott, who used the words at Barham Abbey in her youth. (see also Snatagog, Snodgog)

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SNYING snei-ing

Adjective: Bent; twisted; curved. This word is generally applied to timber.

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SO soaInterjection: of correction or assent. Thus it is used in the way of correction, "Open the door, the window so," i.e., open the door, I mean the window. It is also used for assent, e.g. "Would you like a drink?" "I would so."

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SOB sob

Verb: To soak, or wet thoroughly. "The cloth what we used to wipe up the rain what come in under the door is all sobbed with the wet."

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SOCK sok

Noun: (1) A pet brought up by hand; a shy child that clings to its nurse, and loves to be fondled.

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SOCK sok

Verb: (2) To shroud or wrap a corpse in grave-clothes; to sew a body in a winding sheet. 1591 - "Paid for a sheet to sock a poor woman that died at Byneons, 1s 6d." - Records of Faversham. 1643 - "Bought 2 ells of canvass to sock Margaret Abby in, 2s 6d " 1668 - "For Dorothy Blanchet's funeral, for laying her forth and socking, 8s 0d" - Overseers' Accounts, Holy Cross, Canterbury. (see also Sork)

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SOCK

Verb: (3) To hit. - West Kent & London. L.R.A.G.

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SOCK

Verb: (5) To prepare a person for burial . "Item paid to the Widow Prower for to help sork him . . . .6d". - Hoo All Hallows Overseers Book sub 1679 in Hammond 'The Story of an Outpost Parish' p 124. ( see also Sork)

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SOCK

Noun: (4) A hit. "A sock on the jaw." - West Kent & London. L.R.A.G.

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SOCK-LAMB sok-lam

Noun: (1) A pet-lamb brought up by hand. (see also Cade-lamb, Hob-lamb)

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SOCK-LAMB

Noun: (2) A lamb that has been brought us from birth by bottle and hand fed. -Wealden and district. (see also Hob-lamb)

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SOCKLE sok-l

Verb: To suckle.

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SOFT

Adjective: Half-witted, hence "a softy". - Plumstead, West Kent. L.R.A.G.

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SOIL soi-l

Verb: (2) To scour or purge. The use of green meat as a purge gives rise to this old East Kent saying - "King Grin (i.e., green), Better than all medcin'."

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SOIL soi-l

Noun: (1) Filth and dirt in corn; as the seeds of several kinds of weeds and the like.

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SOLE soal

Noun: A pond, or pool of water. Lewis says, "A dirty pond of standing water;" and this it probably was in its original significance, being derived from Anglo-Saxon sol, mud, mire (whence E. Verb: sully), allied to the Danish word söl, and the German suhle, mire. It enters into the name of several little places where ponds exist, e.g., Barnsole, Buttsole, Maidensole, Solestreet, etc. The Will of Jno, Franklyn, Rector of Ickham, describes property as being "Besyde the wateringe sole in thend (i.e., the end) of Yckhame-streete."

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SOLIN solin

Noun: A Domesday measure of land which occurs only in that part of the Domesday Record which relates to Kent. It is supposed to contain the same quantity of land as a carucate. This is as much land as may be tilled and laboured with one plough, and the beasts belonging thereto, in a year; having meadow, pasture and houses for the householders and cattle belonging to it. The hide was a measure of land in the reign of the Confessor; the carucate, that to which it was reduced in the Conqueror's new standard. From Anglo-Saxon sulk, a plough. "The Archbishop himself holds Eastry. It was taxed at seven sulings." - Domesday Book. (see also Suling, Sulling, Swilling-land)

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SOME-ONE-TIME

Adjective: Now and then. "'Taint very often as I goos to Feversham, or Lunnon, or any such place, but some-one-time I goos when I be forced to it."

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SOME'RS sum-urz

Adjective: Somewheres, for somewhere. "Direckly ye be back-turned, he'll be off some'rs or 'nother."

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SONNIE sun-i

Noun: A kindly appellative for any boy. "Come along sonnie, you and me 'll pick up them taturs now 'tis fine and dry."

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SORK

Verb: To prepare a person for burial . "Item paid to the Widow Prower for to help sork him . . . .6d"- (Hoo All Hallows Overseers Book sub 1679 in Hammond 'The Story of an Outpost Parish' p 124. ( see also Sock (2) & (5)

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SOSS sos

Noun: (1) A mess. If anyone mixes several slops, or makes any place wet and dirty, we say in Kent, "He makes a soss."

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SOSS sos

Verb: (2) To mix slops, or pour tea backwards and forwards between the cup and the saucer. "When we stopped at staashun, dere warn't but three minutes to spare, but howsumdever, my missus she was forced to have a cup o' tea, she was, and she sossed it too and thro middlin', I can tell ye, for she was bound to swaller it somehows." (see also Sossel)

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SOSSEL sos'ul

Verb: To mix slops, or pour tea backwards and forwards between the cup and the saucer. "When we stopped at staashun, dere warn't but three minutes to spare, but howsumdever, my missus she was forced to have a cup o' tea, she was, and she sossed it too and thro middlin', I can tell ye, for she was bound to swaller it somehows." (see also Soss (2)

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SOTLY sot-li

Adjective: Softly.

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SOW BREAD sou-bred

Noun: The sowthistle, or milkthistle. Sonchus oleraceus.

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SOWSE-TUB sous-tub

Noun: A tub for pickling meat.

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SPADDLE spad-l

Verb: To make a dirt or litter; to shuffle in walking.

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SPALT spau-lt, spolt

Adjective: Heedless; impudent.

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SPALTER spolt-ur

Verb: To split up and break away, as the underside of a branch when it is partially sawn or cut through, and then allowed to come down by its own weight. (see also Bret (2), Spolt)

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SPAN span

Verb: To fetter a horse,

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SPANDLE spand-l

Verb: To leave marks of wet feet on the floor like a dog. The Sussex word is spaniel.

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SPANISH span-ish

Noun: Liquorice. "I took some Spanish, but my cough is still terrible bad, surely."

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SPANNER span-ur

Noun: A wrench; a screw-nut. "Hav' ye sin my spanner anywheres about?" "Yis, I seed it in the barn jest now."

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SPARR spar'

Noun: The common house-sparrow; as, arr for arrow; barr for barrow. "Who killed cock-robin? I said the sparr, With my bow and arr." (see also Chums, Chummies)

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SPARTICLES

Noun, plural:. Spectacles; Eye-glasses, "They be a moity foine payer o' sparticles, ye be a-wearing, mate!" - Ashford and district.

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SPAT spat

Noun: A knock; a blow. "He ain't no ways a bad boy; if you gives him a middlin' spat otherwhile, he'll do very well."

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SPATS spats

Noun, plural:. Gaiters, as though worn to prevent the spattering of mud.

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SPEAN speen

Noun: The teat of an animal; the tooth or spike of a fork or prong. (see also Speen)

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SPEAR spee-r

Noun: (1) A blade of grass, or fresh young shoot or sprout of any kind.

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SPEAR spee-r

Verb: (2) To sprout. "The acorns are beginning to spear." (see also Brut)

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SPEAR spee-r

Verb: (3) To remove the growing shoots of potatoes. "Mas' Chuck's, he ain't got such a terr'ble good sample ot taturs as common; by what I can see, 'twill take him more time to spear 'em dan what 'twill to dig 'em up." (see also Brut (2)

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SPEARK

Noun: Spark. Dissyllabic pronounciation contained in the 'Ayenbite of Inwyt, 1340. 'This practice not only agrees with the present custom of the Frisians, but was, no doubt, that of the Anglo-Saxons.'

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SPEARKEN

Noun, plural:. Sparks. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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SPECK spek

Noun: The iron tip or toe of a workman's boot.

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SPEEN spee-n

Noun: The teat of an animal; the tooth or spike of a fork or prong. (see also Spean)

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SPEER-WORTY spee-rwurt-i

Adjective: The liver of a rotten sheep when it is full of white knots, is said to be speer-worty. There is a herb called speer-wort (Rangniculus lingua, great spear-wort; R.flammula, lesser spearwort), which is supposed to produce this disorder of the liver, and from thence it has its name.

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SPILE

Noun: The upright pointed piece of wood in fencing nailed to the cross-piece. - R Cooke.

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SPILLED spil-d

pp. Spoilt. And so the proverb, "Better one house filled than two spill'd."

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SPILT spil-t

Verb: Spoilt. "I are goin' to git a new hat; this fell into a pail of fleet-milk that I was giving to the hogs and it got spilt." - Sittingbourne.

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SPINDLE spin-dl

Noun: The piece of iron which supports the wreest (or rest) of a turn-wreest plough.

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SPINDLY

Adjective: Weakly; spindleshanks

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SPIT spit

Noun: (2) The depth of soil turned up by a spade or other tool in digging. "The mound is so shallow that it is scarce a spit deep."

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SPIT spit

Noun: (1) A double or counterpart. "He's the very spit of his brother."

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SPITS spit-s

Noun, plural:. Pieces of pine-wood, about the length and thickness of a common walking-stick, on which herrings are dried.

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SPLASH splash

Verb: To make a hedge by nearly severing the live wood at the bottom, and then Interjection:eaving it between the stakes; it shoots out in the spring and mades a thick fence.

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SPLUT splut

Verb: Past of split. "It was splut when I seed it."

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SPLUTHER spludh-ur

Verb: To splutter.

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SPOLT spol-t

Verb: To break. "A terr'ble gurt limb spolted off that old tree furder een da laäne las' night." (see also Bret (2), Spalter)

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SPONDULICKS

Noun: Money - West Kent. L.R.A.G. 1920's.

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SPONG spong

Verb: To sew; to mend. "Come here and let me spong that slit in your gaberdin."

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SPONSIBLE. spons-ibl

Adjective: Responsible; reliable.

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SPOTTY spoti

Adjective: Here and there iNoun, plural:aces; uneven; scattered; uncertain; variable. Said of a thin crop. "The beans look middlin' spotty, this year."

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SPRAT-LOON sprat-loon

Noun: The red-throated diver; a bird common on the Kentish salt waters. - North Kent.

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SPRAY-FOOT sprai-fuot

Adjective: Splay foot. (see also Spry-foot)

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SPREAD-BAT spred-bat

Noun: The bat or stick used for keeping the traces of a plough-horse apart. (see also Billet, Gig)

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SPRING

Noun: A young wood; the undergrowth of wood from two to four years old.

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SPRING-SHAW spring-shau

Noun: A strip of the young undergrowth of wood, from two to three rods wide.

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SPROCKET sprok-it

Noun: A projecting piece often put on at the bottom or foot of a rafter to throw water off. 1536.- "Payed for makyng sproketts and a grunsyll at Arnoldis. . . 2d." - MS. Account , St John's Hospital, Canterbury.

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SPROG sprog

Noun: A forked sprig of a tree. - Sittingbourne.

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SPROLLUCKS sprol-uks

Noun: One who sprawls out his feet.

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SPRONKY spronk-i

Adjective: Having many roots.

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SPRY sprei

Noun: (1) A broom for sweeping the barn-floor; formerley used in the threshing of corn. Allied to sprig.

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SPRY sprei

Adjective: (2) Smart; brisk; quick.

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SPRY-FOOT sprei-fuot

Adjective: Splay foot. (see also Spray -foot)

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SPRY-WOOD sprei-wuod

Noun: Small wood; spray wood.

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SPUD spud

Noun: (1) A garden tool for getting up weeds.

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SPUD spud

Verb: (2) To get up weeds with a spud.

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SPUR-FISH spur-fish

Noun: The pike dog-fish. Spinax acanthias. - Folkestone.

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SQUAB skwob

Noun: (1) A pillow; a cushion; especially the long under-cushion of a sofa. Lewis, p 158, in his account of the way in which Mrs Sarah Petit laid out £146 towards the ornamenting of the parish church of St John Baptist, Thanet, mentions, "Cushions or squabs to kneel on, £5. 8s. 0d."

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SQUAB skwob

Noun: (2) An unfledged sparrow.

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SQUASHER

Noun: Swastika. - Noted only in the village of Leeds, near Maidstone.

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SQUASHER-MARK

Noun: Swastika mark, or symbol. "Now that there cat o' our'n be a mighty pretty one: it do have a squasher-mark all over it!"- Noted only in the village of Leeds near Maidstone.

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SQUASHLE skwosh-l

Verb: To make a splashing noise. "It was so wet, my feet squashled in my shoes."

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SQUAT skwot

Verb: (1) a) To make flat; b) To put a stone or piece of wood under the wheel of a carriage, to prevent its moving.

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SQUAT skwot

Noun: (2) A wedge placed under a carriage-wheel to prevent its moving.

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SQUATTED skwot-id

pp. Splashed with mire or dirt.

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SQUAYER

Adjective: Square. "That box don't look squayer to me!" - parts of the Weald only.

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SQUIB skwib

Noun: (2) Cuttle-fish; so called because it squirts sepia. Sepia officinalis. (See Inksqper, Mansucker, Squib (1), Tortoise)

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SQUIB skwib

Noun: (1) A squirt; a syringe. "He stood back of the tree and skeeted water at me caterwise with a squib."

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SQUIRREL-HUNTING

Noun: A rough sport, in which people used formerly to assemble on St. Andrew's Day (30th November), and under pretence of hunting squirrels, commit a good deal of poaching. It is now discontinued.

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SSEDE

Noun: Shade. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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SSEL

Verb: Shall. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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SSEP

Noun: Shape. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The 'Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.

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STABLEN

Noun, plural:.Stables. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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STADDLE stad-l

Noun: A building of timber standing on legs or steddles, to raise it out of the mud. Poor dwellings of this kind were formerly common enough in small fishing towns, such as Queensborough. The word occurs repeatedly in the Queensborough Records of the time of Queen Elizabeth, as for instance, "De viginti sex domibus que vulgariter vocantur, the old staddeles, or six and twentie houses." Staddle is now used only for the support of a stack of corn. It is a drivative of the common word stead. Anglo-Saxon stéde, Icel. stadr, a stead, place; and Anglo-Saxon stathol, a foundation, Icel. stödull, a shed. Stead can still be traced in Lynsted, Frinsted, Wrinsted, Bearsted, and other names of places in Kent, and in such surnames as Bensted, Maxted, etc. (see also Steddle)

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STADEL

Noun: The step of a ladder. (see also Stale, Stales, Stath)

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STALDER stau-ldur

Noun: A stillen or frame to put barrels on. (see also Stillen)

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STALE stail

Verb: To put stales or rungs into a ladder. 1493 - "Item payde to John Robart for stalyng of the ladders of the church, 20d." - Accounts of Churchwardens of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury. (see also Stadel, Stales, Stath)

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STALES stailz

Noun, plural:. The staves, or risings of a ladder, or the staves of a rack in a stable. From Anglo-Saxon, stoel, stel, a stalk, stem, handle. Allied to still, and stall; the stale being that by which the foot is kept firm. (see also Stadel, Stale, Stath)

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STALKER stau-kur

Noun: A crab-pot, or trap made of hoops and nets. - Folkestone.

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STAMMEL

Adjective: The name given to a kind of woollen cloth of a red colour. "Item paied to George Hutchenson, for a yard and a half of stanmel cloth to make her a petticote, at 10s 6d. the yard, 15s.9d." - Sandwich Book of orphans. (see also Stanmel)

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STAND stand

Verb: To stop; to be hindered. "We don't stand for weather."

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STANMEL

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STARF TAKE YOU

Interjection:Phrase: An imprecation in Kent, from Anglo-Saxon steorfa (a plague). "What a starf be ye got at now?" is also another use of the same word.

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START staat

Noun: A proceeding; a business; a set-out. "This's a rum start, I reckon."

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STARVE-NAKED staav-nai-kid

Adjective: Stark naked. Starved in Kent, sometimes means extremely cold, as well as extremely hungry.

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STATH stath

Noun: A step of a ladder. (see also Stadel, Stale Stales)

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STAUNCH stau-nsh

Verb: To walk clumsily and heavily.

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STAYERS

Noun, plural:. Stairs. "Now off you go up the stayers, and into bed!" - Parts of the Weald only.

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STEADY sted-i

Adjective: &Adjective: Slow. "I can git along middlin' well, if I go steady."

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STEAN steen

Verb: To line, or pave with bricks or stones. Hence the name of the Steyne at Folkestone and at Brighton. In Faversham Churchyard we read, "In this steened grave rest the mortal remains, etc." (see also Steene)

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STECH

Noun: Stick. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Stech (K) = Stick (N)

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STEDDLE sted-l

Noun: A frame on which to stand anything, e.g., a bedsteddle, i.e., a bedstead; especially a framework for supporting corn stacks. "Item in the best chamber, called the great chamber, one fayer standing bedsteddle," "Item in the chamber over the bunting house, two boarded bedsteddles." - Boteler Inventory in Memorials of Eastry, p 224,225. (see also Bedsteddle)

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STEELLY

Adjective: Stiff, unkind working, ground.

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STEENE

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STEEP steep

Verb: To make anything slope. To steep a stack, is to make the sides smooth and even, and to slope it up to the point of the roof.

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STENG

Verb: Sting. Old Kentish 'e' replaces Northern ' i' and Southern 'u'. Steng (K) = Sting (N)

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STENT sten-t

Noun: A word used by the oyster dredgers in North Kent, to denote that amount or number of oysters, fixed by the rules of their association, which they may dredge in one day. This quantity, or number, is much less than it would be possible to get up; hence, stent is probably formed from stint, and means, a restricted amount.

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STERREN

Noun, plural:. Stars. Noun forming plural in 'en'.

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STEVE

Noun: Staff. Use of 'e' for 'a'. Old Frisian bend=band; stef=staff; sterk=stark; weter= water. The' Ayenbite of Inwyt', 1340, contains this word.