Culture

Gab talk, mouth, ‘he’d deeve ye with his gab’ ‘I’ll swing me han’ across yer gab’
Gabble talk quickly
Gainsome winning
Gait way of going/walking, ‘I’ll alter his gait before I’m through’
Gag joke. ‘you’re a quare gag!’, you are quite the joker
Gale torrent, a gale of words
Galoot  fool
Gallusues trouser braces
Galore abundance, food galore
Gam  fool
Gant  yawn
Gash  gap, ‘The cow made a gash in the hedge’
Gassoon boy
Gather to supperate
Gather collect, as in crowd, also a collection of money, harvest apples, also ‘he gathered himself up and pulled himself together’
Get  a child born out of wedlock
Girl  servant
Girsshe girl
Girn  grin, make screeching noise
Give  threatening verb as in ‘I’ll give it to ye, me boy’
Give in acknowledge, ‘I give in that you’re right’
Giving off scolding, ‘she’s forever giving off’
Gizzard heart, ‘there’s devil a hate o’ feeling in the gizzard of that one’
Glam  snatch
Glower stare
Glut  too much, a glut of rain, a glut of fruit
Go  a quantity, a go of water
Go-between intermediary
Go-by  dismissal, to pass over
Goings-on tricks, happenings
Gomeril fool
Gophen the full of two hands of anything
Grate  disturb
Great  friendly, ‘them two’s great again’
Greatly-shaken unfit, looking ill
No great shakes of little consequence
Greesha ashes of wood or turf
Griskin boiling meat
Grist  gist account ‘that’s the true grist of the story’
Grisset cam
Groun-stone grindstone
Grub  food, dirty, delve or toil:
Head full o’ grubs silly, fanciful
Gruellin’ beating
Gub  mouth, ‘close yer gub’ – be quiet!
Gulch  small, fat ‘a wee gulch of a body’
Gulder roar, ‘he gave a gulder out of him’
Gumption sense
Gunk  disappoint, confuse, astonish ‘he was really gunked!’

Earnest sum of money given to seal a bargain
Edge ‘she gave him the sharp edge of her tongue’
 ‘her temper’s a bit on edge’
Endeavour attempt, ‘I’ll do my endeavour to get it’
Erran  errand
Easy come by easily procured, ‘money’s not easy come by’
Even  impute, suggest ‘would you even the likes of that to me?’
Even one’s wit have words with, ‘I wouldn’t even my wit on ye’
Every  each, ‘there’s an egg in every nest’
Elsin  awl

Face  ‘the thing has no face on it’ [unlikely story]
  ‘it seems faceable’ [probable]
Fadge  portion, cake of bread, ‘give him a wee fadge for his pocket’
Failed  ill, ‘She’s looking failed recently’
Fall to  an invitation to eat
Fangled entangled, ‘the goat’s all fangled in the tether’
Farl  the fourth part [of griddle bread]
Farness distance, ‘What farness off do you live?’
Farntickles freckles
Fashion habit, ‘Looking wise is a fashion he has’
Fault  blame,‘he faulted him for spreading the story’
Favour ‘he is ill-favoured’, ‘he favours his mother’s side’ whereas his brother is ‘the dead spit of himself’
Feart  afread
Fetch  report, story ‘he always has some fetch in his mind’
Fickle  unsafe, ‘the ice is in a fickle state’, ‘a fickle fence’
Fidge  fidget, n. a small amount, ‘I couldn’t give a fidge’
Figary  trick
Find  notice, ‘do ye find the cool breeze now?’
Finished perfected, ‘a finished blackguard’, ‘a finished scholar’
Fire  throw, ‘he fired a stone at me’
Fissling rustling noise
Fizz  impress, ‘too much drink never fizzes him’

Take a fizzic! calm down!
Fix  condition, ‘in a fix’
Fell on stumbled, ‘the horse fell on me’
[in his] feet barefooted
Feth  faith
Fettle  condition, ‘in fine fettle’
Flake  beat, ‘he flaked the oul’ mare’
Flaming angry, ‘she was flaming’
Flammery flattery
Flatter  coax, ‘I’ll flatter it out of him yet’
Flipe  an untidy or careless woman
Flit  to change one’s abode
Flite  a scolding or silly person
Fly  sly, ‘he’s the fly boy’
  ‘she’d fly at ye with her tongue’
  ‘he let fly with his boot on me shin’
  ‘he let fly wi’ his fists’
Flush  a pool of water, a drain; with loads of money
Fluster confuse, hurry
Fogg  moss
Follow  trade, occupation, ‘what does he follow?’
Folly  follow, ‘he’d folly me anywhere’
Foot  ‘hay on foot’ [still uncut]  ‘child on foot’ [beginning to walk]
  ‘lost his foot [slipped]
Footing authority, ‘he’s no footing over me’
Footings small clamps of turf
Footy  small, mean
Footery awkward
Fornenst opposite
Forrad  forward
Ill-founded without foundation
Founder chill, ‘the cow has a founder on her’
Foxy  sly
Fozy  light, spongy
Framed made-up, ‘a framed story’
Freak  out of the ordinary
Free  loose-talking , ‘she’s too free wi’ her tongue’
From  at a distance, ‘I saw him from me a bit before it began’
Full-farmer well-to-do farmer
Full-drunk very drunk
Furbish to dress, brighten

Gather up  assemble and arrange, harvest, ‘gather ’em up there’ ‘Gather yerself up, there, before the priest comes’

Get-up  outfit  ‘some get-up she had on!’

Caddie boy, good-for-nothing person
Cadge  carry, ‘ye’ve had a long cadge o’ it’
Cadger little, sometimes applied to a pedlar
Cailey  gossip, round of calls on neighbours
Call  arrange, need, demand, right:
  ‘he’s called an auction’
  ‘you had no call to hit him!’
  ‘ * got the best call’ i.e. was in greatest demand
  ‘what call have ye to take that attitude?’
Called  spoke with abuse: ‘he called me out a name’
Came on happened: ‘What came on ye?’
Cant  Auction
Canty  jaunty: ‘A canty boy, him!’
Cap  to stop; a cover; takings from a collection
Care  family; ‘look after my care’ i.e. wife and children
Carried away: foolish, vain
Carry on misbehave
Case-equal similar; ‘they’re case-equal on truth-telling’
Case-hardened accustomed; ‘she’s case-hardened till he’s ways’
Cast  reject, reproach; ‘I cast that away’
  ‘he cast up her shortcomings to her face’
Casting-match quarrel
Causey the paved stones around the kitchen door
Cementing beating; ‘he got a well-deserved cementing’
Chanceable changeable
Chander scold
Change one’s feet put on dry socks/boots
Chap  blow; ‘he wants a chap on the lug’ [he deserves hitting]
Charge load, caution; charge the gun; I charged him to be civil
Chattered bruised, shattered
Chats  small; just chats of potatoes; wee chats like you!
Chay-cow a term used to soothe or call a cow
Check  chide
Cheek  impertinence
Cheep  talk; ‘if he cheeps, he’ll rue it!’
Chew upon it think it iver
Childer children
Chitter mutter; ‘chittering there to yerself like a looney!’
Chivvy chase
Clabber mud
Clamp  a covered heap [e.g. of potatoes]
Clart  a slovenly, dirty woman; ‘that clart, is it ye were with?’
Clarty  dirty, wet
Clash  repeat
Clash-bag story-teller [pejorative] ‘the worst clash-bag in the area’
Clash  blow; a clash on the face
Clat  to scrape
Clock  a hook, a thump; ‘I got a clock on the nose’
Clift  wise; ‘he’s on’y half-clift’
Clinch  agree, settle
Clip-blow a frolicsome boy or girl
Clipe  a thump; also a tell-tale
Clitter-clatter idle talk
Cliver  generous; ‘he’s cliver wi’ he’s money’
Clean  quite; ‘he’s clean done!’
Clemmed perished; ‘clemmed wi’ cold’
Clods  fragments of earth; also verb, to strike with …
Clocks  beetles
Clocking brooding [women or hens] ‘What’s she clockin’ on now?’
Cloots  feet
Close  secretive, mean; ‘she’s a close one’
  ‘he’s that close, he’d starve ye and him wi’ plenty’
Clout  rag, blow; ‘he’d a dirty clout for a hanky’ 
  ‘a clout on the head might mend he’s ways’
Clutch  flock of chicks
Coarse rough, stormy; ‘a coarse fellow’, ‘a coarse day’
Cock up to set up, ruin
Cocked-up conceited; ‘a cocked-up upstart’
  ‘aisy cocked-up’ – easily flattered by praise
Cod  a foolish person

Comic-cuts comic weekly like Beano, Dandy
Coggle shake
Cogly  unsteady
Cold-rifed a person who suffers from cold
Colley  soot smuts, as sometimes float round a room
Colloge gossip
Cogglety-corry see-saw
Condescend agree, assent; ‘she’ll condescend in the end’
Come at illicitly approach[ed]; ‘he was come at by the other side’
Come by respected; ‘he was well come by on both sides’
Come down drop caste; ”twas a come down for her till be marryin’ him’
Come in prove; ‘that’ll come in handy sometime’
Come round ‘he’s comin’ round’ [recovering] ‘he’ll come round to the right of it yit’ [accept the logic] ‘a man come round till his time of day’ [of his age]
Come over repeat; ‘he come over it again and again’
 ‘she can’t keep from comin’ over things’
Commerce dealings; ;have no commerce with him’
Connu-going easy-going
Con memorize
Consate pride
Conversible pleasant
Convoy large number; ‘a quare convoy there’
 Accompany; ‘he convoyed me part of the way’
Cop catch; cop the ball, ‘he’ll cop it when he’s da comes home’
Copies capers; ‘never heed her copies’
 ‘cutting copies’ – acting silly
Cop pig a young pig fed by hand
Corn [heart of] kind, thoughtful person
Cornaptious disagreeable
Country crop  rough, bowl-shaped haircut
Counted reckoned; ‘it’s not counted well to talk that way’
Coup upset; he couped the cart
Cove cave, souterrain
Cowe intimidate
Crab scold, [noun] short-tempered old woman
Crabbit adjective from above; ‘he’s that crabbit he’d differ from his own wife, if he had one’
Crack news; ‘what’s the crack?’
 Short time; ‘I’ll be with you in a crack’
Cranch crunch
Crap crop
Creepy a low stool, usually on 3 legs
Crig stub, as in ‘toe’
Croak about to die
Crowlie the runt, smallest of the litter
Crucify annoy, hurt; ‘she’d crucify ye with her tongue’
 ‘these boots have me crucified!’
Cruddle curdle
Cruel fine, big, very; a cruel big girl, cruel rich, a cruel funeral
Cruel hand unfortunate person; ‘his troubles have made a cruel hand of him’
Crulge crouch
Cut many! ‘the dog cut me’ [bit] ‘a cut of bread’
 ‘a cut of hay’ [auction term] ‘draw cuts’ [lots]
 ‘I’ll niver cut mate in that house again!’ [eat a meal]
Cutty small; a cutty spoon/pipe etc.  ‘a wee cutty’ [boy/girl]
 Applied also to worn-out spades, knives etc.
Cure tonic; ‘you’re a cure for sore eyes’
 ‘he’s a tarribe cure’ [he is fun]
Curleys kale
Cute astute; ‘a quare cute wee man’: cute hoor – one of the stars of the Mahon inquiry!