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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

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