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Furness Dialect Dictionary

Body

  • heead - head
  • yar - hair
  • toppin - the forelock
  • bær scoap - bald head
  • scoap - the scalp
  • fæas - face
  • een - eyes
  • nooas - nose
  • lug - the ear
  • gob - mouth (occasionally mun)
  • wang-tooth - a molar
  • assel-teeath - molar teeth
  • throppel - the windpipe
  • shoadher - shoulder
  • cræzy bæan - the funny bone
  • neeaf - the fist
  • fing-er - finger
  • thoum - thumb
  • lisk - the groin
  • hook bæan - hip bone
  • thee (thin sound) - thigh
  • speel-bæan - the side bone of the leg [presumably fibula]
  • foot (sound as root) - a foot
  • tæa - toe

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