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Furness Dialect Dictionary

leeakin’

looking

  • see - to see [see, saa, seen]
  • leeak - to look; examine; inspect
    "Leak t'sheep"
  • keck - to peep; to pry
  • peeakan - peeping
  • sken - to squint
  • pee - to aim by closing one eye
  • glîm - to give a side glance
  • glip - to look sharply about; give hurried glances
  • gloppen - to stare in astonishment; be startled; be scared
  • gloor - to stare open eyed
  • gækan - staring about
  • clap - to put (or to set)   "clapt eyes on it."
  • læt - to seek; to search for
  • soût - sought  "Its soût efter."

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