ULSTER SCOTS LANGUAGE ST JOHNSTON AND CARRIGANS
The spellings given below reflect only how people in our area pronounce the words and expressions.
Somebody pointed out that like most languages, there are
more words that insult women than there are that insult men!
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Ulster-Scots |
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English Translation |
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A |
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I |
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Abeen |
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Above |
| Abeen aal | Above all | |
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Aal |
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All |
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Aal dolled up |
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All dressed up (woman) |
| Aal happed up | All wrapped up against the cold | |
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A bad plant |
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Bad person |
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A deeney no naeboody |
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I don’t know anybody |
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A deeney no unyboody |
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I don’t know anybody |
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A coodnay dee it |
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I couldn’t do it |
| A got a bad scar | I got a bad scare | |
| A heeney a cleek | I haven't got any money to click | |
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A heeney a spunk |
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I’m out of breath |
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A heeney got nein |
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I haven't got any |
| A heid case | Insane | |
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A hurted maysell |
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I hurt myself |
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Ain (like N) |
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Own eg me ain is my own |
| A just fair hate the sight o 'er / 'im | I hate the sing of her or him a lot | |
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A lock of |
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A little |
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A lotta |
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A lot of |
| Aminta | Aren't I? | |
| Amang | Among | |
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A moonlacht flit is a shourt sit |
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A moonlight flit is a short sit – means it is bad luck to move house in the dark and means you won’t be long where you are going |
| An oul footer | A person who does a job slowly and incompetently | |
| An oul hoy | A gullible idiot | |
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A Notion of |
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In love with |
| A nuver knowed 'er | I never knew her | |
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A rotten taste |
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Tastes bad or tastes as if it has gone off |
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A rung them |
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I rang them |
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A waiting on |
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On their/her/his death bed |
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A wee bit |
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A little |
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A wee taste |
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A little |
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A wee while |
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A little while |
| A wheen | A few | |
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A young ain |
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A young one |
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Aboot |
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About |
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Aaff |
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Off |
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Afeard oh |
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Afraid of |
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Alane |
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Alone |
| Am haingin' on | I'm hanging on, that is surviving | |
| Am naw weal | I'm unwell | |
| Ankered | Anchored | |
| Aperul | April | |
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Are freens |
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Are related |
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Argay |
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Argue |
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Aroon |
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Around |
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Ashey pet |
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Lazy dog or cat |
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At aaal |
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At all |
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Awa |
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Away |
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Awa our the water |
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Away abroad |
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Aye |
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Yes |
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Baaby |
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Baby |
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Baak |
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Back |
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Bad crowd |
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Bad bunch |
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Bad luckin |
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Ugly |
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Bad oul luck aboot her |
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Sinister looking |
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Baddest |
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Worst |
| Badly Shuck | Badly shaken ie frightened | |
| Baag | Bag | |
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Balded |
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Bald |
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Ban |
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Band |
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Bare pelt |
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Naked |
| Bee-st | Cattle | |
| Behint | Behind | |
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Bennistur |
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Banister |
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Ben-she |
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Banshee |
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Bertay |
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Bertie |
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Big lump |
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Grown up |
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Big stone |
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Rock |
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Biship |
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Bishop |
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Bisom |
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Broom |
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Blaak |
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Black |
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Blaakberries |
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Blackberries |
| Blak Fast | Black Fast - refers to the custom of taking only black tea and nothing else on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday | |
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Blak luckin |
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Dark looking |
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Blak Smith |
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Blacksmith |
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Blid |
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Blood |
| Bliddin' | Bleeding | |
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Blissud Virgun |
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Blessed Virgin |
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Blondie |
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Blond woman |
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Bokin |
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Vomiting |
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Borned |
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Burned |
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Boulted |
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Enraged |
| Bourn | Born | |
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Bow-Day |
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Body |
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Boyz O boyz |
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Boys O Boys, an expression of sympathy |
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Brae |
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Road going up a small hill |
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Brattle-of-Thunder |
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Clap of Thunder |
| Bren-Han | Brendan | |
| Brens | Brains | |
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Breedman |
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Breadman |
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Brig |
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Bridge |
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Brock |
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Rubbish |
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Broon |
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Brown - colour and surname |
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Brothan/Brochan |
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Porridge |
| Bugger | Annoying person | |
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Busted the ball |
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Burst the ball |
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Caat |
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Cat |
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Cack |
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Excrement |
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Cahederal |
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Cathedral |
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Cal |
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Call |
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Cannae |
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Cannot |
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Cannae get our |
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Can't get over (ie still annoyed about something or amazed at) |
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Cannae heed dim |
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Can't believe |
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Cannel |
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Candle |
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Carrickan |
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Carrigans |
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Catherin |
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Catherine |
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Caught |
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Got pregnant unexpectedly |
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Chalkie |
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Stupid awkward female |
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Chased ‘er |
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Got rid of |
| Chats Vury Broad | Talks in a strong acce | |
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Cheer |
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Chair |
| Cheerio | Goodbye | |
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Cherlie |
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Charlie |
| Chitterin' | Chattering | |
| Chitter | Chatterer | |
| Chou | Chew | |
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Clabbered |
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Person or clothes covered in mud |
| Clash | Slap | |
| Clat-in | Sneaking about looking for something to take or steal | |
| Cleared | Went away fast | |
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Cleas |
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Clothes |
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Clergy |
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Protestant minister |
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Clift |
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Frivolous and daft woman |
| Coap it our | Turn it over | |
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Cochern |
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Corcoran |
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Coddin |
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Joking |
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Com doon |
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Come down |
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Com roon |
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Come round |
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Come oot a priest |
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Was ordained a priest |
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Comin |
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Coming |
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Conceit in |
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Fond of a person |
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Confessions |
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Confession |
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Coo |
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Cow |
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Cooont |
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Count |
| Cooonter | Counter | |
| Cooonty | County | |
| Coorse | Course, meaning course and also rough-looking | |
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Cowl |
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Cold |
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Crabbit |
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Always complaining |
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Crahadoes |
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Craighadoes |
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Cretur |
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Poor thing |
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Crickit fiel |
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Cricket field |
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Croke |
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Die |
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Croon |
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Crown |
| Cud | Could | |
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Cudnay luck at ‘im |
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Couldn’t look at him - meaning he is too irritable |
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Curser |
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User of bad language |
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Cutterment |
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Accessory or strange person |
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Cuttie |
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Girl |
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Dawn |
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Done |
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Dear |
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Expensive |
| Dear Buy | Have a lot to put up with | |
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Dearn |
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Dare |
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Dee |
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Do |
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Deef |
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Deaf |
| Deek | Ditch | |
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Deeney |
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Don't |
| Deep | Religiously bigoted | |
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Dees-nae |
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Doesn't |
| Dees-nae no uf 'es comin' or gan | Unintelligent | |
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Deid |
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Dead |
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Den |
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Dan |
| Denner | Dander, walk | |
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Did ye get bathed? |
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Did you get a bath? |
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Diddies |
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Woman's breasts |
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Didnae |
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Didn’t |
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Dinnae |
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Don’t |
| Duked oot | Look out / duck out | |
| Dukin' | Ducking or hiding | |
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Dunt |
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Bump |
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Divil |
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Devil |
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Divilment |
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Mischief, harmless practical joking |
| Don 'er ooot | Done her out, ie outwitted her, took trade away from her for himself or herself | |
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Done ‘im |
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Defrauded him |
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Donnell |
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O Donnell |
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Doon on me oaxters |
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Hunched down in an almost sitting position |
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Doon on me hunkers |
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Hunched down in an almost sitting position |
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Dor |
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Door |
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Dose |
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Annoying person |
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Dotery |
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Doting/Unintelligent |
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Doubelin |
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Dublin |
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Doug |
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Dog |
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Dour |
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Unfriendly |
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Drap |
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Drop |
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Drap O Whusk-Kay |
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Drop of Whiskey |
| Dren | Drain | |
| Droon | Drown | |
| Drooned/Droonded | Drowned | |
| Druve | Drove | |
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Dry bokin |
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Vomiting when nothing comes up |
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Dudgie |
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Duddy |
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Dunno |
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Don't know |
| E Hut 'im a clash | He hit him a slap | |
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E Felled ‘im |
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He hit him |
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Eat my meat |
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Have a meal |
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Efter |
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After |
| Efter-neen | Afternoon | |
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Epple |
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Apple |
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Eppetite |
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Appetite |
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Er |
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Her |
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Erm |
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Arm |
| Eaythar | Either | |
| Epplies | Applies | |
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Expectin |
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Is pregnant |
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Eye |
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Always |
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Faal |
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Fall |
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Fae (like fay) |
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From |
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Failed |
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Ailed, not looking well |
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Fairly getting up |
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Growing up fast |
| Falt | Fault | |
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Fand o |
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Fond of |
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Fastin |
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Going to communion |
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Feard |
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Afraid |
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Feither |
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Father |
| Fella | Fellow | |
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Fell oot |
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Have become enemies |
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Femelie |
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Family |
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Ferm |
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Farm |
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Fermer |
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Farmer |
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Fermyerd |
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Farmyard |
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Feel |
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Field |
| Feel o beast | Field of Cattle | |
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Fit |
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Foot |
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Fitball |
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Football |
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Fleer |
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Floor |
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Flet |
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Flat as in lying down flat |
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Flit |
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Move house |
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Fly |
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Crafty |
| Folly | Follow | |
| Footerer | Somebody who takes too long to do something and who cannot do it well | |
| Footering | Playing aimlessly with something, doing a job too slowly and incompetently | |
| Footery | A job or task that requires a lot of attention to small detail and which takes time to do | |
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Forby |
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As well as, in addition |
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Forgee |
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Forgive |
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Fornenst |
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Opposite |
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Foundered |
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Cold |
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Frien |
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Friend |
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Full |
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Drunk |
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Full-im |
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Film |
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Gallow-Ses |
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Braces for holding up trousers |
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Gan |
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Going |
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Gan doon tay |
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Going down to |
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Gane way |
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Going out with (romantically) |
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Gan awa tay |
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Going away to |
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Gannie |
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Going to |
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Gan on for to bay |
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Going to be |
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Gansie |
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Jersey |
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Gappy |
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Stupid |
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Gawd |
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God |
| Gee | Give | |
| Geen | Gave | |
| Geen 'im a hemmrin' | Gave him a beating up | |
| Geid | Gave | |
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Gerdin |
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Garden |
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Get the chimley red |
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Get the chimney cleared and unblocked |
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Getherrin |
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Gathering |
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Gid |
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Good |
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Git |
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Get |
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Git ooot |
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Get out |
| Gled | Glad | |
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Gleek |
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Glance |
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Gless |
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Glass |
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Glesses |
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Glasses or spectacles |
| Goes too hard | Goes too fast | |
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Gone awa |
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Go away |
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Gone may fut |
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Go on my foot |
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Got a teeth oot |
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Got a tooth extracted |
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Goul-Lynn |
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Shouting |
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Gouls |
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Shouts |
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Granfeither |
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Grandfather |
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Gread |
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Great |
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Grave yerd |
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Graveyard |
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Gress |
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Grass |
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Grouwin |
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Growing |
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Guid |
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Good |
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Guldering |
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Shouting |
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Gulpin |
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Ignorant Fellow |
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Gunked |
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Disappointed |
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Guvvermint |
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Government |
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Ha’penny |
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Half Penny |
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Hae |
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Have |
| Haal | Hall | |
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Half-wit |
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Stupid person |
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Hallaeve |
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Halloween |
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Hame |
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Home |
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Hame work |
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Home work |
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Handling |
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Trouble, row |
| Hanted | Haunted | |
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Hard oul lick |
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Miser |
| Hard Luckin oul chou | Hard looking old chew, meaning somebody is ugly and or rough looking | |
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Harem |
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Harm |
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Hateful luckin |
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Ugly |
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Have a sore teeth |
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Have toothache |
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Hayney |
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Have not |
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Hayney Time |
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Have no time |
| Heared | Heard | |
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Heared tell of |
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Heard of |
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He cut his stick |
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He went off |
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Hedged |
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Interrupt lovers |
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Heed |
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Head |
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Heed naw right |
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Head not right |
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Heeney |
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Haven't |
| He heas naebody belangin' tay 'im | He has nobody that belongs to him, ie relations | |
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Heis |
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Has |
| Heis 'im aaal raised | Has him all agitated | |
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He heis nae boudy belangin tay ‘im |
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He has no relatives |
| Hemmer | Hammer | |
| Hemmerin | Hammering with hammer | |
| Herp | Harp | |
| Herplin' aboot | Jumping about | |
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He’s Done |
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He’s ready to die, weakened by old age |
| Hidden | Secretive | |
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Hirpling |
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Limping |
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Hit |
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It |
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Hits rotten |
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Its foul tasting |
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Hit it a kick |
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Kick it |
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Hit wuz stole |
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It was stolen |
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Hoakin |
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Poking through somebody else’s belongings |
| Hoarse & Kert | Horse & Cart | |
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Hoaxter |
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Dishonest person |
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Holy pict-ur |
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Religious Picture |
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Hoose |
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House |
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Hoover |
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Vacuum cleaning |
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Hourn |
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Horn |
| Hoy | Foolish person | |
| Hoy up | Egg a person to do something strange or stupid | |
| Howl | Hold | |
| Howlt | Grab | |
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Hubble |
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Problem |
| Hunted 'im | Got rid of him | |
| Hur beauty man bay covered | Said about an unattractive woman who has found a man, means her beauty must be covered, man is the local word for must | |
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Ice pop |
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Ice lolly |
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I doubt |
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I believe or think |
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Ignorant |
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Rude |
| Ignorant as be-damned | Very rude and unmannerly | |
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Im |
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Him |
| Isnay Gan | Isn't Going | |
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It’s cat aal the gether |
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Its annoying altogether |
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It’s ill |
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Its bad |
| It's ill a aal the gether | Its terrible altogether | |
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Jaa |
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Jaw |
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Jake |
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Jack, the name Jack or to jack something up |
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Jake-Da |
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Jackdaw |
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Jamie |
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James |
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Jamity God! |
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Swear word, a form of blasphemy |
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Kaheleen |
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Kathleen |
| Kep |
Cap |
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Kerds |
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Cards |
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Keepin’ rightly |
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Keeping well, as in healthy |
| Kerry | Carry | |
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Keevin |
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Kevin |
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Kilt |
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Killed |
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Kin-ah |
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Kind of |
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Kittel |
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Have kittens |
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Kittelens |
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Kittens |
| Knowed | Knew | |
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Kooont |
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Count |
| Kooonter | Counter | |
| Kooonty | County | |
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Laa |
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Law |
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Laached |
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Laughed |
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Laacht |
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Light |
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Lang |
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Long |
| Lang Gauge | Language | |
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Laft |
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Loft |
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Lee |
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Leave |
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Leek |
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Like |
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Leek niethin |
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Like nothing |
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Lene |
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Lane |
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Let on |
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Pretend |
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Lezy |
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Lazy |
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Liffer |
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Lifford |
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Limon aid |
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Lemonade |
| Lit | Let (allow) | |
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Lizabith |
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Elizabeth |
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Lowsed |
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Lost |
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Luck at the shoop o that |
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Look at the shape (state) of that |
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Lucking |
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Looking |
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Ma heid’s awa |
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I’m unable to think |
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Mack |
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Make |
| Mack Up | Make-up | |
| Mackin Up Oul Phrases | Making up stories, lies | |
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Man |
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Must |
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Mare |
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More |
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Mare o |
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More of |
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Margit |
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Margaret |
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McLaaghlin |
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McLaughlin |
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Meetin hoose |
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Presbyterian Church |
| Menners | Manners | |
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Merch |
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March - to march and the Month of March |
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Merchin |
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Marching |
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Merriet |
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Married |
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Mi |
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May (the month) |
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Midden |
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Rubbish tip |
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Middlin |
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Half good and half bad |
| Midnacht | Midnight | |
| Minis | Minutes | |
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Minit |
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Minute |
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Miserable |
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Don't want to spend money, miserly |
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Money |
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Many |
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Money he’s she? |
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How many has she? |
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Moonlacht |
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Moonlight |
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Moose |
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Mouse |
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Moose trap |
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Mouse Trap |
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Mooses |
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Mice |
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Mooth |
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Mouth |
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Mournin |
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Morning |
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Muck Anulty |
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McNulty |
| Muck Boor-tay | McBrearty | |
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Mulk |
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Milk |
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Murray |
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Mary |
| My n hoose | My own house | |
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Nacht |
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Night |
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Nay boudy |
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Nobody |
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Nay guid |
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No good |
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Naw |
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No |
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Naw a hate of that |
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There is nothing of that ie not true |
| Naw the cut | A bad person | |
| Naw thorough | Not thoroughly sane | |
| Naw too square | Not thoroughly sane | |
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Naw weal |
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Not well |
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Naw wise |
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Insane |
| Near Han | Hear hand or nearby | |
| Neb | Beak of a bird, tip of a pen | |
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Nee-Am-Min |
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Complaining, Cat Meowing |
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Nee-Am-Mirror |
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Complainer |
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Nein |
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None |
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Neithin |
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Nothing |
| Nell | Nail | |
| Nelled | Nailed | |
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New ance |
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Something new |
| Nigh-boors | Neighbours | |
| Nix Setterday etc | Next Saturday. Means not the Saturday following but the one after that. For example, this Mi is this May meaning the May closest in time while next May means the first May after that | |
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Noo |
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Now |
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Nuver |
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Never |
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Nuver heared ‘er |
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Never heard her |
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Och |
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Oh |
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Odd |
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Anti-social |
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Oil cloth |
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Lino |
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Only a Cod |
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Only a joke, untrue |
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On Pups |
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A dog is pregnant |
| O' | Of | |
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Ooor |
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Our or hour |
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Ooot |
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Out |
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Ooota |
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Out of |
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Oor |
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Hour |
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Oor boyz |
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My children or our children. Even if the family is all girls this expression is used! |
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Ospital |
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Hospital |
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Oul |
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Old |
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Oul boy |
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Father |
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Oul doll |
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Mother |
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Oul folk |
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Old people |
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Oul hussy |
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Mother |
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Oul lick |
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Sycophant, flatterer |
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Oul wan |
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Expression of contempt for a person |
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Our the wire |
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Over the wire fence |
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Oxter |
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Armpit |
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Pack With |
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Friendly with |
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Paint on her |
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Wearing makeup |
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Paterick |
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Patrick |
| Payhin' | Panting | |
| Pen | Pain | |
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Perty |
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Party |
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Phota |
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Photo |
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Pie |
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Pay |
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Pied |
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Paid |
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Pit ‘er oot |
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Put her out |
| Poke-It | ||
| Poochin | Poaching - ie catching fish without licence or permit | |
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Poosin |
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Poison |
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Poosined |
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Poisoned |
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Poosiner |
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Poisoner - an annoying person |
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Pounay |
Pony |
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Prisbyterian |
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Presbyterian |
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Prodison |
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Protestant |
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Purdies |
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Potatoes |
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Q |
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Hugh |
| Quare | strange | |
| Quare and nice | Very nice | |
| Quare folk | Strange or useless people | |
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Racht |
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Right |
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Rare |
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Strange |
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Rare lukin |
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Strange looking |
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Ray-phouw |
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Raphoe |
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Renn |
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Rain |
| Reashes | Reeds | |
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Reek |
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Smoke |
| Red | Rid | |
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Rid |
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Red |
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Roon |
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Round |
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Roonaboot |
Roundabout |
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Ruuse a hanlin |
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Stirred up a row |
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Ruckus |
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Fuss, this word is used in Scotland too |
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Saang |
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Song |
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Scallops |
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Briars used to fasten thatch to roofs |
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Scelp your bum |
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Slap your bum, said to a child as a mild threat to put the child across one’s knee |
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School messter |
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School master |
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Scowl |
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Tell off |
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Scowler |
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Person always telling people off |
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Scrangin |
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Rummaging through somebody else's private items |
| Screayching | Shrieking - comes from schreichog reilige- the banshee as graveyard screecher | |
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Scunnered |
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Fed up or disgusted with |
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Seek |
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Sick |
| Sef | Safe | |
| Sefty | Safety | |
| Sek | Sack | |
| Sem | Same | |
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Setterday |
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Saturday |
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Shap |
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Shop |
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Shead |
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Shed |
| She lit a big gowl ooota 'her | She let a big roar out of her | |
| She's vury curious | Shes very eccentric and antisocial | |
| Shough | Drain along the roadside | |
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Showort |
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Short |
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Showurts |
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Shorts |
| Showrtly | Shortly | |
| Shray-hin' | Shrieking | |
| Shraychs | Shrieks | |
| Shuck | Shook | |
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Shuwld-er |
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Shoulder |
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Sib-bred |
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Animals fathered and mothered by animals that were too closely related |
| Skimpit | Skimpy, small | |
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Slak |
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Careless and untidy, slack |
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Slap |
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A gap in a fence and sometimes a hedge that a person can get through |
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Sleeked |
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Crafty and devious |
| Slipped 'is heed | Slipped his head - used locally to describe the act of getting a girl pregnant and then abandoning her | |
| Slud | Slid, slide | |
| Slype | Drag, slut | |
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Smirt |
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Smart |
| Smittled | Spread an illness to | |
| Snowdraps | Snowdrops | |
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Soo |
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Sow |
| Sook(ed) | Suck(ed) | |
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Soorah |
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Sarah |
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Sore heid |
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Sore head, more specifically a headache |
| Snowdraps | Snowdrops | |
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Sowl |
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Soul or sole of shoe |
| Spoot | Spout | |
| Spootin' | Spouting | |
| Stan | Stand | |
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Stap |
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Stop |
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Station hoose |
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Station House |
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Stat-Yay |
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Statue |
| Stoke | Gypsy - derogatory | |
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Sub |
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Loan |
| Sung it | (He/She) Sang it | |
| Sure | Shower | |
| Sure o ren | Shower of rain | |
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Surgery |
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Doctors |
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Swalla |
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Swallow the bird or to swallow |
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Sweeled aroon |
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Wrapped around |
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Sweetays |
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Sweets |
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Sweltered |
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Too hot |
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Swully |
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Swilly |
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Taal |
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Tall |
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Tae |
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To |
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Tam |
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Tom or Tom Cat |
| Tamatas | Tomatoes | |
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Tammy |
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Tommy |
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Tams |
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Tom cats |
| Tangs | Tongs | |
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Tap |
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Top |
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Tappy |
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Stupid woman |
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Tartles |
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Rags, untidy clumps of hair that hang down |
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Tay |
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Tea |
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Taybag |
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Teabag |
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Teeth paste |
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Toothpaste |
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Teethache |
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Toothache |
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Tell |
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Tail |
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Tell of her eye |
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Saw with the corner of her eye |
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Tellyveeshion |
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Television |
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Tematas |
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Tomatoes |
| Tevverd | So annoyed that one can't think - Ma heid's tevvered | |
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That road |
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That way |
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That’s ill all the gether |
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That’s terrible |
| That's naw hit | That's not it | |
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The bus man |
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Bus driver |
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The cure |
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Taking a drink to cure a hangover to undergo a rite or consume something provided by a folk healer with alleged healing powers |
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The day |
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Today |
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The evil |
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A cyst |
| The gether | Together | |
| The night | Tonight | |
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Them folk |
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Those people |
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Them wans |
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Those people |
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The morn night |
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Tomorrow night |
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The morra |
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Tomorrow |
| The nacht | Tonight | |
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The night |
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Tonight |
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The picktours |
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The cinema |
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The rail |
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Railway |
| The slap | Opening in hedge | |
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Thick |
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Obstinately resentful and angry |
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Thinking lang |
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Missing something terribly so that the time seems very long |
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Thinks he is somethin |
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Conceited |
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Thole |
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Endure or tolerate a pain or situation or person |
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Thon |
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That |
| Thou | Thaw | |
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Thran |
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Contrary and always looking for an argument |
| Threed | Thread | |
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Thrigged up |
Dressed up very well |
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| Thru-Gan | Mischievous, badly behaved | |
| Thunner | Thunder | |
| Thurs a wile drouth on may | I am very thirsty | |
| Thurs a wile hunger on may | I am very hungry | |
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Tick us tay |
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Take us to |
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To oakster 'im up |
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To help someone to walk, eg a drunk man |
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Toon |
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Town |
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Towel |
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Told |
| Towel aff | Told off, scolded | |
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Tray-ann |
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Train |
| Tray-al | Trail, slut | |
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Tuck |
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Took |
| Understud | Understood | |
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Unknownst |
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Unknown to or unnoticed |
| Unmennerly | Unmannerly | |
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Un-nay |
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Any |
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Urchin |
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Hedgehog |
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Vease |
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Vase |
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Vit |
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Vet |
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Vury |
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Very |
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Waal |
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Wall |
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Waal paper |
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Wall paper |
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Waddin |
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Wedding |
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Wak |
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Walk |
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Wakind |
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Wakened |
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Wall |
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Will - as in last will |
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Wan |
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One |
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Wane |
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Baby or child |
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Wather |
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Weather |
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Way ‘er |
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With her |
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Weanish |
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Childish |
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Weal |
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Well – as in healthy |
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Weal Mended |
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Well-Mended, that is, looking healthier |
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Wee cuttie |
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Wee girl |
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Wee filla |
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Wee fellow |
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Wee folk |
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Fairies |
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Wee lass |
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Little or young girl |
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Wee toady |
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Tiny child or toddler |
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Wee ‘un |
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Wee one or child |
| Well met | Compatible (derogatory) if two people were bad and became friends they would be said to be well met | |
| We wuz al badly scared | We were all badly scared | |
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Whar |
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Where |
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Whit |
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What |
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White |
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Insincerely charming |
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Wi |
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With |
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Widinsday |
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Wednesday |
| Widow-man | Widower - the expression seems to come from the Irish which had widowers as fear baintreach meaning male widow | |
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Wile |
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Very, wild |
| Wile-luckin | Ugly | |
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Willa |
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Willow |
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Winda |
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Window |
| Wiped 'er eye | Wiped her eye is what a woman does when she steals another woman's boyfriend | |
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Wireless |
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Radio |
| Wit | Wet | |
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Wolson |
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Wilson |
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Wrang |
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Wrong |
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Wud nay |
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Wouldn’t |
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Ye |
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You |
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Yella |
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Yellow |
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Yonder |
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Over there |
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Young folk |
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Young people |
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Yous |
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You (plural) |
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