Furness Dialect Dictionary
Ill thing
Sick person
- peekt - sick
- badly - sick, unwell
- waa - ill
- wankel or wæk - weak; feeble
- cockly, topply, keckly, or jiggly - unsteady
- waffy - a feeling of faintness
- pæasty - pale (faced)
- wark - to ache, commonly applied to the head, tooth, ear, belly etc
- heead wark - headache
- bed-fast - confined to bed
- sæar - sore; painful
- smittal - infectious; contagious
- rîsh - rash; a rash
- ang-er - inflammation
- arr - a scar, scratch, mark
- kîle - a boil; abscess
- pouk - a boil; a pimple