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Furness Dialect Dictionary

Eating & drinking

  • it - eat; ate.   "Let it it it hæ." "It let on it fat".
  • itten - eaten.
  • souk - to suck
  • chig - to chew.   "It taks some chiggan."
  • chiggle - to gnaw.   "chiggle it off."
  • naggel - to gnaw
  • bîte - bite [bît, bæat, bitten]
  • sup - to drink
  • sabble - to drink; to sup.   "Cum now, sabble."
  • rift or belk - to belch

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