A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Nosset _s._ a dainty dish such as is fit for a sick person
'Nottamy _s._ applied to a man become very thin (anatomy)
Nug _s._ unshapen piece of timber, a block
Nug-head _s._ a blockhead
Nuncle _s._ uncle _v.a._ to cheat
Nurt, or Nort nothing (w. of Parret)
Nuthen _s._ a great stupid fellow
Oak-web (wuck-ub) _s._ c.o.c.k-chafer, may-bug
Oak-wuck _s._ the club at cards
Oaves _s._ the eaves of a house
Odments _s. pl._ odd things, offals
Oh _v._ to long greatly
Old-man's-Beard _s._ clematis
Old-rot _s._ cow-parsnip (_heracleum_)
Onlight _v.n._ to alight from on horse-back
Ool will; o'ot wilt o'ot'n't wilt not
Ope _s._ an opening
Open-erse _s._ a medler (A S _open-oers_), a fruit used medicinally
Ordain _v._ to purpose
Orloge _s._ a clock (horologe)
Or'n _p.r.o.n._ either, ex. O'rm o'm, either of them
Ort _p.r.o.n._ aught, anything
Orts _s._ sc.r.a.ps, leavings
Oseny, or Osening _v._ to forbode, predict (A S _wisian_)
Ourn ours
Out-ax'd _part._ to have the bands fully published
Out-faring _s._ lying outside the borough
Over-get _v.a._ to overtake
Over-look _v.a._ to bewitch
Over-right (auver-right) _adv._ opposite
Ovvers _s. pl._ over-hanging bank of rivers, edge of rivers (A S _ofer_)
Pair-of-Stairs _s._ a staircase with two landings
Pallee _adj._ broad, as pallee-foot, pallee-paw
Palme _s._ catkins of the willow (_salix caprea_)
Pame _s._ the mantle thrown over an infant who is going to be Christened
Panchard-night _s._ Shrove-Tuesday night
Pank _v._ to pant
Papern _adj._ made of paper
Parget _v.a._ to plaster the inside of a chimney with mortar made of cow-dung and lime
Parrick _s._ a paddock
Paumish _adj._ handling awkwardly
Pautch, Pontch _v._ to tread in mire
Payze, 'Pryze _v._ to upraise with a lever (Fr. _peser_)
Peart _adj._ brisk
Pease _v._ to run out in globules
Peasen _s. pl._ of pea _adj._ made of peas, ex. Peasen-pudding
Peazer _s._ a lever
Peek, Peeky, Peekid _adj._ pinched in face by indisposition
Peel _s._ a pillow
Pen, Penning, Pine, Cow-pine _s._ an enclosed place in which cattle are fed
