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\"CS_p5.414_-_Longleat,_Wiltshire_-_Morris's_County_Seats,_1880\"<\/a>

Longleat, Wiltshire: Morris’s County Seats, 1880. From Volume II of The County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland<\/i>, by Francis Orpen Morris.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1893, George Edward Dartnell and the Reverend Edward Hungerford Goddard published Glossary of Wiltshire Words<\/a><\/em>\u2014it is, as intuitive readers will have guessed, a glossary of words used in the county of Wiltshire. The \u201cFolk-speech,\u201d as the authors call it, is full of evocative terms, some of them familiar\u2014jumble<\/em> and caterpillar<\/em>\u2014and others entirely puzzling. (Evidence suggests that Wiltshire residents were often puzzled; they have about three dozen words for the condition.) The best entries tend to be common words with new definitions. S<\/em>mart<\/em>, for instance, used to mean \u201ca second swarm of bees\u201d;\u00a0goggles\u00a0<\/em>was \u201ca disease in sheep.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the most novel words with annotations from the authors. <\/p>\n

\n

Ahmoo<\/strong>. A cow; used by mothers to children, as \u2018Look at they pretty ahmoos a-comin\u2019!\u2019\u2014S.W. (Som. bord.)<\/p>\n

Afterclaps<\/strong>. Consequences, results. Atterclaps (S.).\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

All-a-hoh<\/strong>. All awry (A.B.C.H.Wr.); also All-a-huh. Unevenly balanced, lop-sided. A.S. aw\u00f3h<\/em>. \u2018That load o\u2019 carn be aal-a-hoh.\u2019\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Berry-moucher<\/strong>. (1) A truant. See Blackberry-moucher and Moucher (A.).\u2014N. & S.W. (2) Fruit of Rubus fruticosus<\/em>, L., Blackberry. See Moochers.\u2014N.W. (Huish.) Originally applied to children who went mouching from school in blackberry season, and widely used in this sense, but at Huish\u2014and occasionally elsewhere\u2014virtually confined to the berries themselves: often corrupted into Penny-moucher or Perry-moucher by children. In English Plant Names Mochars, Glouc., and Mushes, Dev., are quoted as being similarly applied to the fruit, which is also known as Mooches in the Forest of Dean. See Hal., sub. Mich.<\/p>\n

Birds\u2019-wedding-day<\/strong>. St. Valentine\u2019s Day.\u2014S.W. (Bishopstone.)<\/p>\n

Biver<\/strong>. To tremble, quiver, shiver as with a cold or fright (S.). Cp. A.S. bifian<\/em>, to tremble.\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bless m\u2019 zoul, if I dwon\u2019t think our maester\u2019s got the ager! How a hackers an bivers, to be zhure!\u2019\u2014Wilts Tales, p. 55.<\/p>\n

Blow<\/strong>. Sheep and cattle \u2018blow\u2019 themselves, or get \u2018blowed,\u2019 from over-eating when turned out into very heavy grass or clover, the fermentation of which often kills them on the spot, their bodies becoming terribly inflated with wind. See the description of the \u2018blasted\u2019 flock, in Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. xxi.\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Blue Cat<\/strong>. One who is suspected of being an incendiary. \u2018He has the name of a blue cat.\u2019 See Lewis\u2019s Cat.\u2014S.W. (Salisbury.)<\/p>\n

Buddle<\/strong>. To suffocate in mud. \u2018There! if he haven\u2019t a bin an\u2019 amwoast buddled hisel\u2019 in thuck there ditch!\u2019 Also used in Som.\u2014N.W. (Malmesbury.)<\/p>\n

Cag-mag<\/strong>. Bad or very inferior meat (S.).\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Chinstey<\/strong>. n.<\/em> The string of a baby\u2019s cap.\u2014N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) A horse\u2019s chin-strap.\u2014S.W. Compare:\u2014<\/p>\n

\u2018Oh! Mo-ather! Her hath chuck\u2019d me wi\u2019 tha chingstey [caught me by the back-hair and choked me with the cap-string].\u2019\u2014The Exmoor Scolding, p. 17.<\/p>\n

Crumplings<\/strong>, Crumplens<\/strong>. Small, imperfectly grown apples.\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Daglet<\/strong>. An icicle (A.H.S.Wr.). See Daggled.\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

\u2018Thatched roofs are always hung with \u201cdaglets\u201d in frost.\u2019\u2014Village Miners.<\/p>\n

Dain<\/strong>. Noisome effluvia (A.B.C.H.Wr.). Formerly applied mainly to infectious<\/em> effluvia, as \u2018Now dwoan\u2019t \u2018ee gwo too nigh thuck there chap; he\u2019ve a had the small-pox, and the dain be in his clothes still.\u2019 (See Cunnington MS.). Now used of very bad smells in general.\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Dapster<\/strong>. *(1) A nimble boy.\u2014S.W. (Deverill). (2) A proficient (S.). See Dab.\u2014S.W.<\/p>\n

Fashion<\/strong>. The farcey, a disease in horses (A.H.Wr.). Fr. farcin<\/em>.\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

\u2018An old Wiltshire farmer, when his grand-daughters appeared before him with any new piece of finery, would ask what it all meant. The girls would reply, \u201cfashion<\/em>, gran\u2019v\u00e1ther!\u201d when the old man would rejoin, \u201cHa! many a good horse has died o\u2019 th\u2019 fashion!\u201d\u2018\u2014Akerman.<\/p>\n

Flowse<\/strong>. (1) v. act.<\/em> You \u2018flowse,\u2019 or splash, the water over you in a bath.\u2014N. & S.W. (2) v. neut.<\/em> Water is said to be \u2018flowsing down\u2019 when rushing very strongly through a mill hatch. A horse likes to \u2018flowse about\u2019 in a pond.\u2014S.W. (3) n.<\/em> The rush of water through a hatch.\u2014S.W. (4) n.<\/em> Occasionally also applied to the narrow walled channel between the hatch gate and the pool below.\u2014S.W.<\/p>\n

Flucksey<\/strong>. adj.<\/em> \u2018A flucksey old hen,\u2019 i.e. a hen who makes a great fuss over her chickens.\u2014S.W. (Bishopstrow, &c.) Cope\u2019s Hants Glossary has:\u2014\u2019Flucks<\/em>, to peck in anger like a hen.\u2019<\/p>\n

Gaam<\/strong>. (1) v.<\/em> To smear or bedaub with anything sticky. Gaamze (Village Miners). (2) n.<\/em> A sticky mass of anything. See Gam.\u2014N. & S.W. Many years ago, at a Yeomanry ball in a certain town in N. Wilts, the Mayor, who had done his duty manfully up to then, stopped short in the middle of a dance, and mopping his face vigorously, gasped out to his astonished partner, a lady of high position, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t know how you<\/em> be, Marm, but I<\/em> be ael of a gaam o\u2019 zweat!\u2019\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Garley-gut<\/strong>. A gluttonous person. Perhaps connected with gorle<\/em>, to devour eagerly (see Halliwell).<\/p>\n

\u2018\u201cLet\u2019s go to bed,\u201d says Heavy-Head, \u201cLet\u2019s bide a bit,\u201d says Sloth, \u201cPut on the pot,\u201d says Garley-gut, \u201cWe\u2019ll sup afore we g\u2019auf\u201d [go off].\u2019\u2014Nursery Rhyme.<\/em><\/p>\n

Glory-hole<\/strong>. A place for rubbish or odds and ends, as a housemaid\u2019s cupboard, or a lumber room.\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Goggles<\/strong>. A disease in sheep (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xiv).\u2014N.W. (Castle Eaton.)<\/p>\n

Grammered in<\/strong>. Of dirt, so grained in, that it is almost impossible to wash it off. Grammered: Begrimed (H.).\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Hullocky!<\/strong> \u2018Hullo! look here!\u2019 exclamation denoting surprise, or calling attention to anything (S.). This is usually pronounced Hellucky<\/em>, and is a contraction of \u2018Here look ye!\u2019 Also Yellucks<\/em>.\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Jiffle<\/strong>. At Bishopston, N. Wilts, an old bell-ringer was recently heard to accuse the younger men of having got into a regular \u2018jiffle\u2019 (? confusion) while ringing. We have not met with the word elsewhere, but Hal. and Wright have jiffle<\/em>, to be restless, var. dial.<\/p>\n

Long Eliza<\/strong>. A kind of long blue earthen jar, formerly often seen in cottages.\u2014N.W. (Berks bord.)<\/p>\n

\u2018The high black chimney-shelf was covered with crockery of a low type of beauty; pink and yellow china dogs shared their elevated station with \u201clong Elizas\u201d and squat female figures.\u2019\u2014Dark, ch. i.<\/p>\n

Minty<\/strong>. Of cheese, full of mites (A.).\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Moonied up<\/strong>. Coddled and spoilt by injudicious bringing up. \u2018Gells as be moonied up bean\u2019t never no good.\u2019\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Pigeon-pair<\/strong>. When a woman has only two children, a boy and a girl, they are called a \u2018pigeon pair.\u2019\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Nurly<\/strong>. Of soil: lying in lumps.\u2014S.W. (Bratton.)<\/p>\n

Parson<\/strong>. In carting dung about the fields, the heaps are shot down in lines, and are all of much the same size. Sometimes, however, the cart tips up a little too much, with the result that the whole cartload is shot out into a large heap. This is known as a \u2018Parson.\u2019\u2014N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)<\/p>\n

Pissing-candle<\/strong>. The least candle in the pound, put in to make up the weight (Kennett\u2019s Paroch. Antiq.). Cp. Norman French peiser<\/em>, to weigh.\u2014Obsolete.<\/p>\n

Quanked<\/strong>. Overpowered by fatigue (A.). Compare Cank.<\/p>\n

Rumple<\/strong>, v.<\/em> To seduce. The full force of the word can only be given by futuere<\/em>, as:\u2014\u2019He bin rumplin\u2019 that wench o\u2019 Bill\u2019s again laas\u2019 night.\u2019\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Shitsack<\/strong>, or Shitzack<\/strong>. An oak-apple (H.Wr.). Oak-apple and leaf (S.).\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Skimmenton<\/strong>, Skimmenton-riding<\/strong>. A serenade of rough music got up to express disapproval in cases of great scandal and immorality. The orthodox procedure in N. Wilts is as follows: the party assembles before the houses of the offenders, armed with tin pots and pans, and performs a serenade for three successive nights. Then after an interval of three nights the serenade is repeated for three more. Then another interval of the same duration and a third repetition of the rough music for three nights\u2014nine nights in all. On the last night the effigies of the offenders are burnt. Housset is the same thing. The word and the custom have emigrated to America.\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Smart<\/strong>. A second swarm of bees.\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Spurl<\/strong>. To spread dung about the fields (S.). Also Spear, Spur, and Spurdle.\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Taffety<\/strong>. Dainty in eating (S.).\u2014S.W.<\/p>\n

Tiddlin\u2019 lamb<\/strong>. A lamb brought up by hand (A.). See Tiddle (1).\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Toad-stabber<\/strong>. A bad blunt knife (S.). Commonly used by boys about Clyffe Pypard.\u2014N. & S.W.<\/p>\n

Vamplets<\/strong>. Rude gaiters to defend the legs from wet (A.H.). Cf. Bams. Also used in the New Forest. See Cradock Nowell, ch. xviii, \u2018Not come with me … and you with your vamplets on, and all!\u2019 where the word is applied to shooting gaiters.\u2014N.W.<\/p>\n

Zam-zodden<\/strong>. Long-heated over a slow fire, and so half spoilt. This and the last two words belong to Som. rather than Wilts. A.S. s\u0101m-soden<\/em>, half boiled.\u2014N.W. (Malmesbury.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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