The following table is based on the glossary from Wessex Dialect by Norman Rogers (Moonraker Press, 1979), reproduced with the kind permission of the author’s estate.
-wrack | suffix | -vraksen |
30¼ square yards | n | Lug |
5½ yards | n | Lug |
Active (of children) | adj | Shuttle |
Adze | n | Tomahawk, Tommy Hacker |
Afraid | adj | Afear'd, Avear'd |
Ajar | adj | A-Sam, Ashard |
Alleyway | n | Drang, Drong, Drung |
Ant | n | Emmet |
Antirrhinum, Wild | n | Dogsmouth |
Any time | adv | Anywhen |
Apple, small | n | Griggle |
Apron, coarse | n | Touser |
Argue | v | Arg |
Aspen | n | Aps |
Awkward | adj | Bungersome, Clumbersome, Comical |
Bailiff | n | Hind |
Barber | n | Scallywap |
Basket | n | Maund |
Bat (mammal) | n | Airy Mouse, Bitbt, Flitmouse, Flittermouse, Rear-Mouse |
Bear | v | Abear |
Bedroom | n | Chamber |
Beetle | n | Blackbob |
Before | prep/adv | Afore |
Begin | v | Gin |
Begin to freeze (of water) | v | Catch |
Belch | v | Barge, Belk, Boke, Glutch |
Bellow | v | Bellock |
Bellow (of cattle) | v | Belve, Blare |
Beside | prep | Anunt |
Bewilder | v | Dodder, Dudder |
Bindweed | n | Bedbind, Gravelwind, Groundlily, Reed-Bind, Willowind, Withywind |
Blacken | v | Blatch |
Blister | n | Amper. Bladder |
Blue-Veined (of cheese) | adj | Blue-Vinnied |
Bobbin | n | Quill |
Boggy | adj | Stuggy |
Boil | n | Amper, Aps, Pinswell |
Bottle taken into fields by workers | n | Costeril, Plough Bottle |
Bounce (ball) | v | Dap |
Bow (of legs) | v | Sproddle |
Bow-Legged | adj | Scrow-Legged |
Brand New | adj | Flam New, Flame New |
Brand sheep | v | Dap |
Brazen | adj | Vorus-Norus |
Brick put in oven to show by change of colour when food is ready | n | Gauge Brick |
Brittle | adj | Brickle, Brickly, Bruckle, Bruckly |
Bundle | n | Faggot |
Bundle of thatching straw | n | Elm |
Burn Turf | v | Burny Bake, Burny Beat, Denshire, Devonshire |
Butt (of animall) | v | Bunt |
Butt (of cattle) | v | Horch, Hunch, Pelch |
Carcase of chicken | n | Frame |
Cartshed | n | Linhay |
Chaff | n | Cavings |
Chapped | adj | Hazzled, Sprayed |
Chatter of birds | n | Charm, Cherm |
Chew | v | Cham, Munge |
Chicken | n | Coupy |
Chilblain | n | Childag, Springdag |
Chilly | adj | Parky |
Chimney | n | Tun |
Chink | n | Scoth |
Chitterling | n | Knotling |
Christmas Eve | n | Ashen Faggot Night |
Chunk | n | Snowell |
Churchyard | n | Litton |
Churchyard Gate | n | Lych Gate |
Churchyard Path | n | Lich-Path |
Clappers (for bird scaring) | n | Clackers |
Clothes basket | n | Flask |
Clothes post | n | Linepost |
Club-Footed | adj | Pumple-Footed |
Clumsy | adj | Blunderstone, Clumble Fisted, Scrammish, Scrammy |
Clumsy person | n | Gawk |
Cold | adj | Froared, Shrimpy, Shuddered |
Complain | v | Quirk |
Congeal | v | Catch |
Corn measure | n | Strickle, Stritch |
Couch Grass | n | Stroil |
Cough | v | Bussock, Hackle, Hask |
Cow | n | Dummock, Hummock |
Cow, child's word for | n | Ahmoo |
Cowman | n | Fogger |
Cowpat | n | Cow Clat, Turdstool |
Cowshed | n | Boosing, Pine, Shippon, Skillin, Skilling |
Cowslip | n | Cowflop, Cowslop, Tisty-Tosty |
Cramped | adj | Dunched |
Creak | v | Scroop |
Cream | n | Ream |
Creep | v | Scrobble |
Crouch | v | Coupy, Croupy, Croupy Down |
Crumb | n | Pith |
Crunch | v | Scrump |
Crush | v | Squat |
Dandelion | n | Pissabed, Shitabed |
Dandruff | n | Scurf |
Dawdle | v | Sloom |
Deaf | adj | Dunch, Dunny |
Delirium Tremens | n | Delirious Tremor, Niddy-Noddy |
Dent | v | Squat |
Dibber | n | Pogger |
Disorder | n | Hallege |
Donkey | n | Mokus, Nessock, Nirrup |
Door Jamb | n | Durn |
Drain | n | Sink |
Drain in water-meadow | n | Drawn |
Drain under road | n | Drock |
Drink avidly | v | Goggle, Golk, Guddle, Guggle |
Droppings | n | Truckles |
Drought | n | Dryth |
Drunk | adj | Zozzled |
Drunk tank | n | Blindhouse |
Duck (children's word) | n | Dilly |
Dung fork | n | Evil |
Ear | n | Bus, Wicker |
Early morning snack | n | Dewbit |
Earthenware (1) | n | Cloam |
Earthenware (2) | adj | Cloamen |
Earthworm | n | Eass, Iss |
Eat greedily | n | Flabber |
Eaves | n | Oaves |
Egg | n | Coupy-Egg |
Embankment, railway | n | Batter |
Empty | v | Empt |
Entice | v | Toll |
Ewe lamb | n | Chilver |
Ewe under two years old | n | Chilver Hog |
Exhausted | adj | Bellowed Out, Daggled, Lagged Out, Spun Out, Spunned Out |
Extinguish | v | Dout |
Farmyard | n | Barken |
Farrow | v | Var |
Fastening | n | Steart |
Fatigue | n | Beatness |
Feeble-minded | adj | A Button Short |
Feed animals | v | Sar |
Fester | v | Fewster |
Fidget | v | Fuddeck |
Fire, indoor | n | Bonny |
Firewood | n | Bavins, Puffs |
Flagged (of floor) | adj | Clausen |
Flail | n | Threshels |
Flick | v | Fitch (2) |
Flop down (eg into chair) | v | Flump |
Flower | n | Tutty |
Flowers, pressed | n | Peepshow |
Fluster | n | Fantaig, Puzzivant |
Food | n | Bait, Tackle, Tommy |
Fool | n | Gapesnatch |
Foolish | adj | Chuckle-Headed |
Footbridge | n | Clam, Clammer |
Forage | v | Mouch |
Forget | v | Disremember |
Freckles | n | Brands, Murfles, Speckles, Summerface, Summerfolds, Summermoulds |
Friends (as a form of address) | int | Soce |
Frighten | v | Galler, Gallow, Gally |
Frozen | adj | Scrammed, Shrammed, Srammed, Starved |
Frumenty | n | Furmity |
Funnel | n | Tundish, Tunigar, Tunnel |
Furrow | n | Veer |
Gaiters | n | Bams, Stogs |
Gap (in hedge) | n | Shard |
Gathering on smock | n | Snail Creeper |
Gemini, by | int | Jimminy |
Germander Speedwell | n | Bird's Eye |
Getting drunk | v | Empting Cloam |
Girl | n | Child,Maid, Maiden, Wench |
Glean | v | Lease |
Go | v | Dap |
Goose-Grass | n | Clide, Clites, Clivers, Cly, Hairif, Sticky Buttons, Sweethearts |
Gossip (1) | v | Chackle |
Gossip (2) | n | Chatter Mag, Magger |
Grandfather | n | Gramfer |
Grandmother | n | Grammer |
Grow abundantly | v | Diggle |
Guttering | n | Shoot |
Guzzle | v | Slobber |
Hack | v | Agg |
Hair | n | Mazzard |
Hand | n | Pake |
Hand (children's word) | n | Pud, Puddy |
Hand brace | n | Wimble |
Handbarrow | n | Pair of Trucks |
Handle | n | Stale |
Hangnail | n | Backfriend, Liversick, Nailspring, Ravel-Back |
Hat | n | Cady |
Haw | n | Aglon, Eggle, Egglet, Eglon, Gipsy Nut, Hag, Hagag, Hawberry, Mayberry, Pigberry, Pighale, Pigshell |
Hay, line of | n | Hatch |
Hayloft | n | Tallet |
Hayrick | n | Cratch |
Haystack | n | Pook |
Hazel | n | Halse |
Hazel wand used to keep hedge in place | n | Edder, Ether |
Head over Heels | adj | Pitchpoll |
Healthy | adj | Bobbish, Brave, Gay, Knicky |
Hiccups | n | Yewcums |
Hill | n | Bache |
Hill, steep | n | Pitch |
Hillock | n | Knap |
Hoarse | adj | Hoozled, Oozed |
Hock of pork | n | Forespur, Vorspur |
Honestly | adv/int | Jonnick |
Hook | v | Huck, Uck |
Horse, restless | n | Jibber |
House-dweller | n | Housewallah |
Hungry | adj | Lear, Leary, Thirdle, Thirl |
Hunk | n | Hunch |
Hurdle | n | Flake |
Hurry | v | Scrabble, Shackle |
Hurtle | v | Purdle, Scauter |
Icicle | n | Clinker, Clinkerbell, Cocklebell, Conkerbell, Dagger, Daggler, Daglet, Icecandle, Icedaggle, Icelet, Icybell |
Idiot | n | Uckle |
Idle | v | Lop, Lollup |
Idleness, personification of | n | Lawrence |
Image (as in "the spitting image of") | n | Daps |
Impertinent | adj | Peart |
Irrigation channel in water-meadow | n | Carriage |
Jiminy! | int | Gemini |
Judgement Day | n | Latterlammas |
Kidney fat of pig | n | Flare, Flay, Flead |
Knee straps | n | Strads |
Knock-Kneed | adj | Napkneed |
Laburnum | n | Golden Chain |
Ladybird | n | Colly Cow, Lady Cow |
Lane | n | Trullen |
Lavatory | n | Duddekin, Dunnekin, Dunnick, Dyke |
Left-Handed | adj | Back-, Cam-, Click-, Clicky-, Coocky-, Cunny-, Gammy-, Marlborough-, Scoochy-, Scram-, Scrammy-, Skiffle-, Skiffy-, Skivvy-, Squiffy-, Squippy-, Squiver-, Squivver-, Watty-Handed |
Line of hay waiting to be pooked | n | Roller, Wake, Wallow, Wally |
Lively (of child) | adj | Lissom |
Loads | n | Diggles |
Log | n | Chump, Plock |
London Pride (flower) | n | Hen and Chicken |
Look | v | Looksee |
Lop-sided | adj | All-a-Hoh |
Lover, male | n | Fancy Man |
Lukewarm | adj | Lew-Warm |
Lunch | n | Nammet, Nunch |
Mad | adj | Mazed |
Mallet | n | Beetle |
Mannerism | n | Gait |
Mantlepiece | n | Clavel, Clavy |
Marble, alabaster | n | Alley |
Marble, clay | n | Clay |
Marble, stone | n | Stoner |
Mark out furrows with plough | v | Veer Out |
Matted | adj | Clit |
Mend fishing nets | v | Bait, Beet |
Merry-Go-Round | n | Willigog |
Migraine | n | Megrims |
Miller | n | Millard |
Mind | int | Min |
Miser | n | Skinger |
Mixed up | adj | Allemang |
Mole (animal) | n | Want |
Mould | n | Vinny |
Mouldy | adj | Fenny |
Mousetrap | n | Mousesnap |
Muckspread | v | Spurdle, Spurl |
Mud, wet | n | Slub |
Muddy | v | Smaam, Smarm |
Near | prep | Handy |
Nearly | adv | Anewst |
Neck | n | Niddixk |
Needle | n | Neald |
Neigh | v | Bray, Wicker, Winker |
Nettle | n | Ettle |
Newt | n | Evet |
Nor yet | n | Nit |
Oak-Apple | n | Shitsack |
Oak-Apple Day | n | Shitsack Day |
Offal | n | Hange, Henge |
Opposite | prep | Anunt, Overright |
Paddock | n | Butt, Parrock, Piddle, Plat, Splat |
Palm (of hand) | n | Pane |
Pansy, Wild | n | Love an' Idols, Love-A-Lido, Loving Idols, Nuffin-Idols |
Pantry | n | Panterny |
Paralytic | adj | Lattyprack |
Pardon? | int | Nan? |
Parsnip | n | Pasmet |
Passageway | n | Opeway |
Pierce | v | Pog |
Pig fat | n | Fleck, Flick |
Pig fat used for wrapping faggots | n | Apron, Caul Fat, Flare, Flay, Flead |
Pigeon-Toed | adj | Hen-Toed, Pin-Toed |
Pigsty | n | Lewze |
Pimply | adj | Ampery |
Pitchfork | n | Prong |
Plain | n | Plat |
Pliable | adj | Weathe |
Plimsolls | n | Daps |
Plough, Wooden | n | Sole, Sull, Sully |
Polecat | n | Fitch, Fitchew, Fitchy |
Pork from mature pig | n | Pigmeat |
Pork loin | n | Griskin |
Potato | n | Rambler |
Potato shoot | n | Chimp |
Pour (of chimney smoke) | v | Tundle |
Prattle | v | Mag |
Press | v | Brize |
Procrastinating | adj | Latterlamsical |
Prop up | v | Trig |
Protecting crops from birds | v | Bird Keeping, Bird Starving |
Puddle | n | Gullet |
Pump | n | Plump |
Quarrel | v | Caddle |
Quarry | n/v | Quar |
Quiver | v | Biver, Whiver |
Raisin | n | Fig |
Ramble (of climbing plant) | v | Rangle |
Rancid (of bacon) | adj | Rafty, Rasty, Rusty, Rutchy |
Red dye | n | Erding, Reddle |
Redleg | n | Arse Smart, Yes Smart |
Remember | v | Mind |
Replenish fire | v | Bait, Beet |
Retch | v | Boke, Keck, Urge |
Rick | n | Mow |
Rickyard | n | Mowyard |
Roll | v | Truckle |
Romani | n | Deddickie |
Root (of pig) | v | Howk |
Rotten | adj | Daddocky, Purred, Purreyed |
Rotten (of eggs) | adj | Settly, Setty |
Rough | adj | Rowey |
Rough Music | n | Hooset |
Runt | n | Cady, Dack, Dallpig, Darling, Darrel, Dilling, Dorrel, Joey, Nestle-Bird, Nestle-Drash, Nestle-Drish, Nestle-Drudge, Nestle-Tripe, Nurk, Nuzzle-Bird, Nuzzle-Drash, Nuzzle-Drish, Nuzzle-Drudge, Nuzzle-Tripe, Squeaker |
Saddle girth | n | Guss |
Salting Trough | n | Zilt |
Sandman (in nursery tales) | n | Dustman |
Sandy-Coloured | adj | Badger-Pied |
Scarecrow | n | Bucca, Dudman, Hodmadod, Mammet, Mawkin |
Scold | v | Becall, Bullyrag, Yop |
Scour cloth | v | Bray |
Scrap of meat left over when fat has been rendered | n | Grave |
Scrump | v | Shriggle |
Selvedge of woven cloth | n | List |
Settle (of snow) | v | Pitch |
Shaft (of cart) | n | Dill, Filler, Limber, Sharp, Thill |
Shaft Horse | n | Diller, Filler, Thiller |
Shelf | n | Tack |
Shower (of rain) | n | Scat, Scud |
Shrew | n | Harvest Row, Screwel, Shear-Crop, Sherry, Shro-Crotch |
Sickle | n | Reap-Hook, Shekel |
Sickly | adj | White-Livered |
Side (of wagon) | n | Dripple, Thripple |
Sieve | n/v | Rudder |
Silly | adj | Avelin, Cavvy |
Sink, kitchen | n | Trough |
Sit | v | Couch |
Skeleton | n | Frame, Rames |
Skirt | n | Tail |
Slattern | n | Slammock |
Slouch | v | Louch |
Small object | n | Firk, Grig |
Smoke | n | Smeech |
Smooth | adj | Shuant, Suant |
Snack | n | Crib, Crust |
Snake's Head Fritillary | n | Oaksey Lily |
Soaking Wet | adj | Sobbing Wet |
Sometime | adv | Somewhen |
Soot | n | Blatch, Smeech |
Sooty | adj | Blatch |
Sore | adj | Teart |
Sow, young | n | Hilt |
Spar of hurdle, upright | n | Sail |
Spark | n | Blanker |
Spring onion | n | Gibble |
Squat | v | Quat |
Squint | v | Squinny |
Squirrel | n | Scug, Scuggy, Sqwug |
St Vitus Dance | n | St Fifer's Dance, St Viper's Dance |
Stake of hurdle | n | Vossel |
Stay | v | Bide |
Steep | adj | Cleeve |
Stickleback | n | Bannis, Bannistickle |
Sticky | adj | Cabby, Clabby, Cleaty, Gammy |
Stomach (of calf) | n | Poke, Trin |
Stook | v | Goat, Hile, Stick, Stitch, Stock |
Straps to keep bottoms of trousers from trailing in mud | n | London Yorks, Yorks |
Strut | v | Vamp |
Stubble | n | Arrish |
Stubble field | n | Errish |
Stumble | v | Clumper |
Stupid | adj | Dumbel, Dummel, Puggled |
Stye | n | Quailaway, Wisk, Wist |
Swallow | v | Glutch, Quilt |
Swampy | adj | Squishy |
Sweat | v | Heave |
Sweet | n | Cally |
Sweet (children's word) | n | Poppy |
Sweets | n | Jumblies |
Swell | v | Plim |
Swingle-trees of plough | n | Whippence |
Tadpole | n | Catpole, Pohead, Tomtoddy |
Take offence | v | Miff |
Tangled | adj | Clatted, Clatty. Clitty, Harled, Taffled, Tazzled |
Taste | n | Smatch |
Tea leaves, used | n | Greets, Grounds, Grouts, Gruts |
Tear | v | Break, Rant, Scag |
Tease | v | Betwit, Twit |
Teasel, worn | n | Went |
Test for weight | v | Heft, Teft |
Thatching Spar | n | Spick |
Three playing cards of same value | n | Prail |
Threepenny bit | n | Joey |
Threshing floor | n | Midstay, Midstead |
Throat | n | Quilter |
Throw | v | Dub |
Throw stick | v | Squail |
Throwing stick | n | Squailer |
Thrush (disease) | n | Whitemouth |
Tine of pitchfork | n | Grain |
Tree stump | n | Moot, More, Stowell |
Trembling | v | Nother |
Tuft of grass | n | Mop |
Tumour | n | Amper (1) |
Turnip | n | Turmet |
Twilight | n | Dimmet, Dimpsey |
Uncertain (of weather) | adj | Caddlesome, Caddling, Catchy |
Unpunctual | adj | Latterlamsical |
Unwell | adj | Cliney, Rough, Wallish, Wallowish |
Up Jenkins | n | Tippet |
Urine | n | Fleet, Seg, Sig |
Valley | n | Bache, Bottom |
Vegetable matter found in wool | n | Spile |
Very | adv | Main |
Wagon, front of | n | Hound |
Wallflower | n | Bleeding Heart |
Walnut | n | Bannut |
Warm | adj | Lew |
Warmth | n | Lewth |
Warp (weaving) | n | Chain |
Warren, rabbit | n | Conigre |
Wasp | n | Apple Bee, Apple Drane, Apple Drone |
Water Meadow | n | Floating Meadow, Ham |
Water-Pepper | n | Arse Smart, Yes Smart |
Weasel | n | Fairy |
Weave hedge | v | Splash |
Weft | n | Abb, Shoot |
Wet (of weather) | adj | Lipping |
Wet-footed | adj | Watchet, Wetchet |
Wheelbarrow | n | Pot, Putt |
Wheeze | v | Oozle, Tizzick |
Whinny | v | Nutter |
Whitlow | n | Nimpingang |
Whittle | v | Shirp, Squittle |
Whoa | int | Wey |
Whore's brood (insult) | n | Husbird, Whizbird |
Willow | n | Withy |
Windy | adj | Blusterous |
Winnow | v | Wim |
Wire separating warp threads in loom | n | Heddle |
Within reach | adv | Handpat |
Wood, rotten | n | Daddock |
Woodlouse | n | Baker, Crooger, Gladdigoaster, Gramfer |
Workmate | n | Butty |
World | n | Wordle |
Wreathe | v | Vreathe |
Wren | n | Cutty |
Yeast | n | Barm |
Yellow Toadflax | n | Dogsmouth |
Yes | adv | Aye |
You know? | int | Astore |