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Villagers: 750 Years Of Life In An English Village
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Raahl to upset
Raahn Male Christian name
Rack-man in-orff Russian composer and pianist
Ravvel French composer
Reddish fleshy, pungent root crop
Resslin’th a village in Bedfordshire
Restrawnt a dining establishment
Retard no longer working
Reuwinned spoiled or destroyed, esp. of a crop, e.g. ‘thut ale reuwinned me be-trewt’
Rewbub edible garden plant
Rewd coarse, uncouth
Rewm space, e.g. ‘maker bidder rewm fruss’
Rewt part of plant below ground; a means of reaching a destination
Ritson the surname Richardson
R’ng incorrect; past tense of verb ‘to ring’, e.g. ‘Om r’ng the blusted bul but there’s n’bdee a-t’m’
Roar-in crying
Rode-a-Vader motorised cultivator with rotating blades
Rubbish weeds in a crop
Rullish a type of sauce, e.g. 'Fraard eggs need Yorksher rullish'
Rullygaytid demoted
Rullyin a motorsport
Ruttle-arse a fidget
S'jist to express a thought
Saarnce the systematic study of nature and the universe
Saarntist an expert in science
Satdee the day after Friday
Saul gorn there's nothing left
Sawft yielding to the touch; dopey e.g. ‘yaw sawft in the ed’
Sayink an undetermined or unspecified thing, e.g. ‘I know yaw bin uppter sayink’
Scuffle-oh a Dutch hoe
Screwed-inny close observation
Scribblin Lark the Yellowhammer, also called Yellow Bunting; from the squiggly markings on its eggs
Seckerterry a person who does clerical work for a business or organisation, e.g. ‘ooze Ohm Seckerterry now?’
Semitree a burial ground
Senny only, e.g. ’senny free quid’
Sepped other than, e.g. ‘yewken ev orl onnem sepped thut one’
Serjist propose or prompt
Sersaarty a formal association of people with similar interests, e.g. ‘Gamgy an Districked Istry Sersaarty’
Serstiffic't official document
Sewper-glew an adhesive, e.g. 'om sewper-glewed me fingers togither'
Sewper seeded outmoded
Sewzun female Christian name
Shadder dark shape cast by light rays on an opaque body
Sheews footwear
Shell something that will take place in the future, e.g. ‘shell I tull yew a thingertew?’
Share-in-em town on the north Norfolk coast
Shewb’t Austrian composer
Shletter must; have to, e.g. ‘shletter gidder a nair cut’
Shooky D’g lane leading off Cinques Road
Showpaan Polish-born pianist and composer
Shull hard outer casing
Shuller not deep; also ‘shall I?’ e.g. 'shuller or sharner?'
Shully small wooden holiday home
Shulter cover or protection, e.g. ‘yew bin angin round thut bus shulter agin?’
Shulves flat rectangular pieces of wood or metal hung at right angles on a wall
Simla city in India; almost alike
Singer dew a strong affirmation, e.g. ‘cord, singer dew!’
Singer don’t a strong negative, e.g.
‘cord, singer don’t!’
Sitch of the sort specified; for example
Sitchlike of the same kind; similar
Skullert'n internal bone structure
Slecked specially chosen; superior
Slep past tense of the verb to sleep, e.g. 'I slep liker log - w'k up in the far place'
S'lewshen the answer to a problem
Slewt a salutation in the military
Sly drool instrument with engraved scales for making complex calculations
Smewth having an even surface
Sment grey powder mixed with sand and water to form concrete
Sm’k vapour resulting from burning organic material
Smull fragrance or odour, e.g. ‘them sockser yawn smull like they’ve jist died’
Snaal terrestrial mollusc, e.g. 'a snaal's quickeren yew'
Snandrews golf course in Scotland
Sneerts a town in Cambridgeshire
Sneery nuff it will do
Snives a town in Cambridgeshire
Snotes alternative name for Sneerts
Snuff a suffiency, e.g. ‘snuff stuff ear, aint the?’
So l’ng farewell
Sparl to mar or damage
Specked probable or likely, e.g. ‘specked thus me woss r'ng agin’
Specktackler impressive or sensational
Spewn utensil for eating or preparing food
Sp’k conversed with, e.g. ‘ent sp’k tewwer fer rages’
Spull the constituent letters of a word; words believed to have magic powers, e.g. 'ee carn spull N-A-Y-I-N-K proply'
S't black deposit mainly consisting of carbon, formerly used as a fertiliser, e.g. 'om ser blaack c's om bin s't sowin agin'
Stahl the form or appearance of something, e.g. ‘me jaackit’s godder bidder stahl abowd it’
Stewpid not very clever
Stiddy firm, stable, e.g. ‘stiddy on ulse yawl spillit’
St'n pebble or small piece of rock
St’ng to be bitten by an insect,
e.g. ‘blusted worsp st’ng me on the backer me leg’
Street Church Street in Gamlingay, e.g. ‘yer Dad’s gorn down the street’
Stroll about exclamation of mild surprise, e.g. 'wull, stroll about!'
Stuff any market garden produce, e.g. ‘stuff aint sullin’
Sulf one’s own identity, e.g. ‘om sulf-imployed’
Sull exchange for money
Sullerd dish of cooked or raw vegetables and other ingredients usually served cold
Sullery vegetable plant with blanched stem
Sully female Christian name
Sullybrate to mark an occasion or event with festivities and rejoicing
Swoller migrant bird of summer
Swultrin hot weather
Symmetry burial ground
Tambreen a percussion instrument
Tar a rubber ring with an inner inflatable tube, placed over the rim of a wheel on a vehicle or bicycle
Tarred worn out or sleepy, e.g. ‘Doctor Johnson reckoned when a man’s tarred o’ London, ease tarred o’ life’
Tawft a village in Cambridgeshire
Termurrer the day after today
Tewantwenny the number 22
Tewber large brass instrument
Tew-fake an aching pain in or near a tooth
Tewn a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence, e.g. ‘the mewn in Jewn’s a nice tewn’
Tewsdee the day after Monday
The they, e.g. ‘dunno weir the are'
Them spouse or spouse's family, e.g.
'Jen an them are coming round Satdee'
Theyar there; in or at that place, e.g. ‘I pud it oover theyar’
Threw from beginning to end, e.g. ‘bin right threw the Chroniggle and aint found nayink to read yit’
Thus that is, e.g. ‘thus it iggzaackly!’
Thut that e.g. ‘is thut wotcher fink?’
Tibbles the surname Theobalds
Tidy a large amount or sum, e.g. ‘tidy mess yaw made’
T’m indoors, at home
Tool idiot; dimwit
Tore-lit lavatory
Traffulgger battle between English and French fleets in 1805
Tret past tense of treat
Trew factually correct
Trewth veracity, e.g. ‘Om tulling yer the trewth’
Tud-dar farewell
Tudor-lew a 16th century toilet; a farewell
Tull inform, relate
Tullent ability, skill, aptitude
Tully to correspond or agree
Tullygraaf national daily newspaper
Tullyphone instrument for transmitting speech
Tunnermunny description of immense wealth, e.g. 'Ease godder tunnermunny'
Twulve a dozen
Ulba a Mediterranean island; joint between fore and upper arms, e.g. ‘yew dunno yerrarse from yer ulba’
Ulben the surname Albone
Ulbert male Christian name
Ulfrid male Christian name 'I like them films be Ulfrid Ditchcock'
Ull the nether world; Hades
Ullen a male and a female Christian name, as well as a surname
Uller female Christian name
Ullerf’nt large pachyderm; clumsy person, e.g. ‘yaw liker clumsy gret ullerf’nt’
Ullerg’nt refined, tasteful
Ullerqu’nt expressing oneself in clear and fluent speech, e.g. ‘easern ullerqu’nt liddle bleeder, enny?’
Ullick male Christian name
Ullimentry fundamental, basic
Ulliss female Christian name; also the surname 'Ellis'
Ulligzarnder male Christian name, e.g. ‘Ulligzarnder the Grade were enny a liddle chap’
Ullycobder flying machine
Ullygayder large reptile, e.g. 'see yer laid her, ullygayder!'
Ulm species of tree, e.g. ‘we lorst orler ulms threw Dutch Ulm d’sease’
Ulse besides, in addition, e.g. ‘wod ulse dew yer warnt?’
Ulsie female Christian name
Ulterslee a village in Cambridgeshire
Unstaanton holiday resort in north Norfolk
Umbruller collapsible, circular canopy mounted on a central pole
Untind’n town in Cambridgeshire
Unyen vegetable plant with pungent rounded edible bulb, e.g. ‘unyens gorn wollop!’
Unyewze-you-wall out of the ordinary, unexpected
Us oneself, e.g. give us a fag, mole duck’
Utson the surname Hutchinson
Vaarlin stringed musical instrument
Varlet springtime flower, e.g. ‘ee aint iggzaactly a shrinkin varlet’
Varl’nt characterised by force or bloodshed
Vocab-yew-lairey all the words of a language, e.g. ‘Om godder wide wossname... vocabyewlairey, thus it’
Vullike in all probability, e.g. ‘year, vullike I shull’
Vullyew monetary or material worth
Vulvit smooth material, e.g. ‘Lizb'ff Taylor were in thut film ‘Blew Vulvit’’
Waagtaal a small black and white bird
Waarliss the radio, e.g. ‘we allwus listen tew 'Jisterminnit' on the waarliss’
Waahzlee small Cambridgeshire village
Wad what, e.g. ‘wad are yew tew dewin in thut tullyphone box?’
Waddever intensive form of what
Waddo a greeting (informal)
Wahl a period of time
Warder clear, colourless, odorless and tasteless liquid, e.g. ‘I like warder - jist so l’ng azzit’s got a bidder whisky in it’
Warder-lew London railway terminus
Warn desire or like, e.g. 'jew warn a cupperetea?'
Warncher require you, e.g. ‘warncher t’aarrer thut bidder ground om jist row-der-vaded’
Warnt was not, e.g. ‘thut warnt me wot dunnit’
Warnts needs, e.g. ‘thut warnts twenny minutes to free a clock’
Was were you, e.g. ‘oh, was?’
Wawer a major conflict, e.g. ‘me graandaad fort in the fust world wawer’
Weakertew up to a fortnight
Weir we are
Weir where, e.g. ‘weir didder leave me wullertons?’
Wessmedderbaanks area of
meadow south of Gamlingay brook and west of Potton road.
Wevver meteorological conditions
Willer might one?, e.g. ‘willer or wunner?’
Willer species of tree
Wimmy literally 'with my', e,g. 'I wen orf wimmy trowsers round me yankles'
Wollop a sudden crash in the price of market garden produce; or to hit, e.g. ‘doan jist stand theyar, wollop ’im!’
Wolnut a type of edible nut
Woman wife
Woostened idiot, e.g. ‘yew woostened yew!’
Wop me a greeting (informal), e.g. ‘wop me, Jimmy!’
Wore was, e.g. ‘wore it thut l’ng agoo?’
Wornid required, needed, e.g. ‘fied wornid tew, I wooder dun’
Worsp an insect
Woss what is, e.g. ‘woss the time?’
Wossname unspecified object, behaviour or attitude, e.g. ‘yew carn wossname canyer?’
Wossup is anything amiss?
Wulks edible shellfish
Wull satisfactory; in good health, e.g. ‘saul very wull, budder warnt wull’
Wullerton waterproof rubber boot
Wulls small port on the north Norfolk coast
Wullwullwull exclamation of mild surprise
Wunt refuse to do something, e.g. ‘ee wunt dew watcher tullim’
Wuss more inferior, less good, e.g. ‘yaw wuss than nayinker tall, man’
Wuth value, or deserving of, e.g. ‘thus ardly wuth sendin stuff t’markit’
Yaw you are
Yawlright a greeting (informal)
Yawn belonging to you, e.g. ‘thut aint marn, thus yawn’
Year affirmation, e.g. ‘year, specked so’
Yew you
Yewce capable of being used, e.g. ‘yaw nyver yewce nor ornam’nt’
Yewkerlaylee a small stringed instrument
Yew-neek the only one of its kind
Yew-nigh-tid combined; being in harmony, e.g. 'few listen to tew them common taters, when Newcarssel Yew-nigh-tid play Manchister Yew-nigh-tid, there's enny one Yew-nigh-tid playin, an thut aint Newcarssel'
Yewnyen combination of workers Yewnyen Jaack national flag, often hung by the vulgar outside their own homes
Yewneyversity an institution for higher learning
Yewrup a continent
Yewster was previously
Yewtar state in the USA
Yewtewb video streaming website
Yewth young person
Yewze-you-wall normal, as expected
Yiss affirmative
Yisty the day before today
Yit at a future time; despite, e.g. ‘en add time ter dew it yit, woman’
Yitterwaahl any time soon, e.g. 'Doan specked the bus'll come yitterwaahl'
Y’ng immature, youthful
Yull a loud cry or shout, e.g. ‘yew doan etter yull in me year’
Yuller a colour
Yuller-rammer wild bird, a type of bunting; see 'Scribblin Lark'
Zaarlerphone a percussion instrument
Zew a collection of animals
Zewkeenee type of baby marrow, e.g.
'I tull yew I doan warner zewkeenee, I warner cawjit'
Zullot a fanatic, e.g. ‘nayink wuss than a plittickle zullot baangin on yer door when there’s a kneeleckshun’