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Aa | have not, am not
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| Aanchboon | haunch bone
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| Aass | buttocks
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| Abac(backer) | backwards, take back
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| Ackidock | aqueduct
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| Adrenchen | soaked
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| Afar(furder) | afar, eg "He went furder than me"
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| Ah | yes
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| Aither | either
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| Aive | heave, lift
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| Aks(axe) | ask
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| Anent | against, next to
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| Anny(Onny) | any
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| Anunst | against, next, eg "The housen anunst hisen"
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| Ar | our
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| Armole | a euphemism, used only as a vulgar retort
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| Aud(oud) | old
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| Babby | baby
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| Backen | delay, keep back
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| Bai(bay) | am not, eg "I bay gooin' ter tell yow agen"
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| Balies | belly or bellows
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| Bamfoozle | puzzle, bemuse
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| Bawk | hinder or confuse
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| Belloil | hammering, thrashing
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| Beezum | a broom of birch, also playfully a pert young woman
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| Bibble | pebble
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| Bile | boil
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| Bin(ben) | been, have been, are, have
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| I bin | affirmative reply to question
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| Blaberen | to talk idly
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| Blart | cry
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| Blenchen | to flinch
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| Blether | a bladder, eg "Blether yed" - a fool.
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| Blobmouth | blabbermouth, eg "'Ers a right blobmouth. Tell 'er terday, the world knows tomorrer"
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| Blowse | bloom, especially on fruit trees
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| Blubren | crying, eg "Ar kids blubren agen"
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| Bobowler | large moth
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| Boffle | hinder
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| Bofumble | bemuse
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| Bonk | small hill
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| Broo'us | brewhouse or outhouse
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| Bost | burst, past tense Bosted
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| Bostin | literally "bursting" but actually "very good indeed" eg "We 'ad a bostin time" or "Ers a bostin wench"
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| Breffus | breakfast
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| Bunny-fire | bonfire
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| Bunt | push, shove, jostle
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| Cack | excretia, eg "The babbie's cacked 'erself"
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| Cade | spoil (a child) eg "cade and cosset"
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| Caggy | left-handed
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| Cagel | to hoe
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| Cag-mag | gossip
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| Caggy | left-handed
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| Camplin | gossiping
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| Catlick | hasty wash
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| Caw(cor) | cannot, eg "I cor goo the'er terday"
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| Chate | cheat
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| Chops | mouth
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Fittle |
Chimdy | chimney
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| Chuffed | pleased
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| Chuky | chicken, fowl (children's word)
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| Chunter | grumble under one's breath
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| Clane | clean
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| Clack | uvula, eg "Just stop yer clack"
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| Clobber | clothes
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| Clomber | climb
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| Codge | a poor job, eg "He's made a right codge of it"
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| Coddin | joking, eg "Goo on, yum coddin me"
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| Cooss | cross
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| Coost | could you ?, also negative "thee coosnt"
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| Cost | can you ?, also negative "I cosn't" - I cannot
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| Crack | fun, entertainment
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| Craw | crop of a bird, as in "that sticks in my craw" - I cannot believe it
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| Croddle | huddle together
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| Craunch | crunch
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| Cut | canal
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| Dahb | daub, smear
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| Day(day) | did not, eg "I day see 'im comin"
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| Desay | dare say, very likely
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| Dishle | cup of tea
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| Dock | to stop or hold back wages
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| Doe | do not, as in reply to question: "I doe"
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| Dollop | large quantity, usually of food
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| Donny | hand (children's word)
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| Dowl | down, soft hair on the face
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| Duck | evade, dodge
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| 'E | he, pronoun used to describe the husband or household head
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| Faggots | Black Country dish made from pig's organs, onion, sage, bread crumbs
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| Fai(r)ther | father
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| Fettle | excellent condition
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Scuft |
Fittle | food, victuals
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| Flen | fleas
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| Flics | cinema
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| Forby | nearby, at hand
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| Franzy | irritable, particularly fretful children
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| Frit | frightened, eg "doe be frit"
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| Frowtsy | dishevelled
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| Fun | found
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| Gaffer | master, employer, perhaps husband
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| Gain | handy, skilful
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| Gammitin | playing the fool
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| Gammy | lame
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| Ganzy | an under-vest
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| Gawby | a simpleton
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| Gawk | an ill dressed person, or to stare, eg "Who am yow gawkin' at ?"
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| Gawp(gorp) | open mouthed, staring
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| Gillyvor | wall flower
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| Ginnel | entry between houses
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| Glad-iron | smoothing iron
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| Glass'us | glass house
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| Gleed | ember
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| Gob | a piece of something
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| Gob | spit, or mouth, eg "Shut yer gob" or "'Er's got a right gob on 'er"
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| Gobble | gabble
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| Goo | go, eg "Am yow gooin' ter the flics ?"
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| Grawty(Grorty) | groat (grain) eg "groaty dick" - a local dish, mixture of groats and meat stewed together
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| H | this sound is not used
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| Ift | heave, lift
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| Ike | beckon forward
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| Ivver-ovver | hesitate, eg "Stop yer ivverin' an' ovverin' an' get on wi'it"
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| Jeth(jed) | death (dead)
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| Jiffy | brief moment, eg "E woe be a jiffy"
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| Job | poke out, excrete
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| Jole | bread pan, large earthenware crock
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| Joobus | suspicious, dubious
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| Kell | the lining around a faggot
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| Keffle | lumbering, awkward, person
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| Kench | to sprain, especially the back
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| Ketch | catch
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| Ketchpit | cesspool
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| Kiddle | dribble
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| Lamp | to beat or thrash, eg "Ee giv' 'im a right lampin'"
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| Lather | ladder
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| Lezzer | a meadow
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| Lickle | little
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| Lief | as soon as
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| Loff | laugh
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| Lommock | (OR lummock) clumsy, lumbering, eg "Yow big lommock"
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| Lover | common term of endearment to children
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Trankle |
Lungeous | play roughly, inclined to horseplay
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| Madden | to make wild, annoy
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| Maitrum | matron (of a hospital)
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| Maulers | hands
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| Maunch | to chew carefully (as with no teeth)
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| Meegrum | facial contortion, eg "He's got the meegrums" - bad tempered
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| Mither | to be disturbed in one's sleep, to be pestered
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| Mo | must not
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| Moach | to idle about in a bored fashion
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| Monty | pert, precocious
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| Mucker | confusion, eg "All of a mucker"
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| Mumchance | dolefully, dejectedly, bored
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| Mun | must
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| Munch | ill treat, eg "sly munchin" - sly pinching or poking
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| Myther | to bother, to irritate, or be irritated by
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| Nairun | none, not one
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| Naither | neither
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| Nash | soft, suscetible to cold, weak
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| Natty | tidy, neat
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| Nerker | a mischievious boy
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| Niggle | to find fault in insignificant things
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| Nineter | a terrible man, a tartar
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| Node | known, eg "I've nowd 'im for 'ears"
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| Noggen yedded | stupid, thick
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| Noggin | thick piece of bread
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| Noo | new
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| Nuss | nurse
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| Ockerd | awkward
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| Ode | old, eg "Th' ode lad" - the devil
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| Odge | push, eg "Odge up" - move up a bit
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| 'Ond | hand
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| Omber(Ommer) | hammer
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| Ood | would
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| Ooman | woman
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| Oot | will you
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| Opple | apple
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| Oss | horse
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| Ote | hold, eg "Ketch ote on it" - take hold of it
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| O'thatnin' | in that way
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| O'thisnin' | in this way
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| Owern | my husband, my son, my daughter, often used by women to denote member of family
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| Owsen | houses
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Zowk |
Pail | beat, eg "I'll gi' 'im a good pailin' when 'e cums whum".
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| Passnip | parsnip
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| Pikelet | muffin
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| Pither | potter aimlessly about
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| Pittle | pickle
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| Potch | forestall
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| Pothery | close or stuffy
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| Powk | sty on the eye
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| Puss | purse
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| Rantan | violent mood, eg "on the rantan"
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| Raunge | climb clumsily over a gate
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| Rawling | carry a weight too heavy
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| Rawm | to strain in reaching or stretchings
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| Reesty | rancid (of fat, butter, or cheese)
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| Rile(Roile) | scramble about
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| Rodny | an adle fellow
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| Sad | heavy, as in bread that does not rise
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| Saft | stupid, soft (in the head)
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| Saided | sated, glutted
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| Sawny | simpleton
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| Scratchings | remains left after rendering lard, regarded as a Black Country delicacy
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| Scuft | to box the ears
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| Shommock | to walk with a shuffle
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| Siden | out of perpendicular
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| Skraze | graze, scratch
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| Skrobble | a tangle of wool, string, and the like
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| Slake | to slash or cut with a whip
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| Snape | to snub
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| Splod | flat-footed
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| Spockle | to cover with drops of moisture
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| Spottle | splash
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| Sock | liquid manure
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| Soople | to soften, make supple
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| Squob | old fashioned settle
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| Stale | steal
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| Steen | stew jar or earthenware pot
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| Stond | to stand
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| Suck | sweets
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| Suff | sewer or drain, eg "Up the suff" - down the drain
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| Sup | to sip, a sip, drink
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| Sussifikut | certificate
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| Swelth | swelling
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| Swilker | to spill or splash
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| Swopson | a heavily built woman, used in a semi-humorous sense
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| Tack up | improvement in the weather, eg "It'll tack up tonight"
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| Tacky-bonk | a pit mound
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| Tai(tay) | tea, also "it isn't"
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| Tabber | to tap repeatedly
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| Tank | sharp blow
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| Tek | take
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| Tek after | to resemble, look like physically, mentally, or emotionally
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| Tewthree | a few, two or three, always used as a noun preceded by "a"
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| Thrial | group of three, used only inthe card game of Cribbage
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| Thrope | thrash
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| Tizzicky | having an irritating dry cough
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| Tittle | tickle
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| Tranklements | small possessions, bits and pieces, paraphernalia
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| Trapes | walking aimlessly about, eg "Trapesin' in an' ott like a dog at a fair"
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| Trussen | to trust
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| Tummy | a snack, especially a collier's mid-morning snack
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| Tunky | a fat pig, eg "As fat as a tunky"
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| Unkyoothe | uncouth
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| Volve | valve
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| Welly | nearly, eg "Welly clemmed to jeth"
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| Wench | girl, still commonly used by parents towards daughters
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| Werrit | worry
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| Whimsey | pit head winding gear
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| Wiouten | without
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| Wool | whole, often of a brick : "A wooly 'un"
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| Wurse(Wuss) | worse
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| Wum(Whum) | home
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| Yawle-Yaup | bawl, shout or cry loudly
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| Yed | head
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| Yer | your
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| Yow | you
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| Yum | you are
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| Zowk | yelp, cry out
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| Zad | the letter Z
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