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Furness Dialect Dictionary

Insects


braken clock - lady bird

  • clock - a beetle
  • braken clock - lady bird
  • tom-beedel - cockchafer
  • fleea - a flea
  • flee - a fly
  • maak - a maggot
  • maak flee - blue bottle fly
  • horse stang - the dragon-fly
  • cleg - the horse fly; gad fly
  • hully-butterflee - any large heavy moth
  • wamp - a wasp
  • bummel bee - the Humble bee
  • thrush louse - wood louse
  • attercop - spider
  • pissmîres - ants
  • fleuk - liver fluke in sheep

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