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Furness Dialect Dictionary
Co’in neeams'Calling names' - insults and names |
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Furness Dialect Dictionary
Co’in neeams
'Calling names' - insults and names
- gæapy - a foolish gaping person
- gætry - a fool; a staring person
- flîgæry - an extravagantly dressed woman
- gammerstang - 'a big girl with bad manners'
- dafty - a stupid person
- clot-heead - a stupid fellow
- dummel heead - a blockhead
- sap heead - a term of contempt
- bletherheead - a silly talkative person
- bletherskite - a garrulous person
- clat - a tell-tale.
- feckless - incompetent; feeble.
- flaach - a flatterer
- goamless - without gumption
- gomerel - a big bully (girt gomerel)
- mæzlin - one without much sense
- maffelhorn - a blunderer
- paaps - a muddler; one who poaps about
- slonk - an idle slinking fellow
- tæag - a term of contempt
- tæstrel - a violent, mischievous person
- taggelt - a useless, disreputable person
- wæster - a spendthrift; useless person