M - Z

I remember my dad being sluffed.No matter how we try eldest daughter always insists she hasnt done owt.And i usually make a mullock of things!
Maister
Master

Middlin
Moderate

Miln
A mill

Milner
Originally the one who put the cloth in the milling stocks

Mongi
Idle

Mule
Spinning machine

Mullock
Mess or muddle

Muff
Make a small noise

Mungo
Old rags and woollen material, shredded to be rewoven


Nogs
L-shaped pieces of iron placed on the beam to hold the warp

Noils
Short fibres of wool removed by the combing machine

Noit
Business

Nope
To hit, especially on the head


Okker
To hesitate

Olis
Always

Oss
To stir; move, to begin

Owt
Anything


Paand
Pound (£1)

Perch
To examine cloth by putting it over a rod, pole or perch, in order to remove burls or motes

Pick
To throw the shuttle

Piggin
A lading can or small vessel

Poise
Kick

Porty woof
Forty threads

Pund
Pound (lb) weight


Rordin
A Riding; a third part

Rovin
In wool spinning where the filaments are drawn out to a greater length

Rush
A festival


Saig
Saw

Saigins
Sawdust

Sam
To pick up or gather

Scribble
To give the first rough carding to wool or cotton

Shauve
Slice (of bread)

Shiftless
Helpless

Shivvins
Small bits of wood in the wool or bits off the yarn (shavings)

Shoddy
Waste material thrown off by machines, used for low priced cloth

Skep or skip
A willow basket

Skitter
To hurry one's work

Sliver
A long carding of wool

Slub
To draw out cardings into greater length

Sluffed
Disappointed, distressed

Stamperds
The four posts supporting a loom

Stocks
Part of milling machinery

Strinkle
To scatter or sprinkle

Sumpoil
Place to which surplus liquids flow


Taew
To strive

Tail goit
Channel from the mill

Tenter
Frame for stretching cloth to dry on tenter hooks

Thoil
To bear; endure; not begrudge; spare

Throng
Busy

Thrum
The ends 0f the warp cut off from a piece of cloth

Thump
Local name for a feast or fair

Tig
To touch (as in childrens games)

Toit
To keep in toil; to keep in good order

Tuner
One who tunes or sets the looms for weaving


Ummer
Local word for Hell


Wanty
A girth for a pack horse

Wappy
Quick; a short cut

Wassock
Daft

Wind
To wind bobbins

Wim wam
An impulse or fancy

Winteredge
Winter hedge; clothes horse

Wit
Commonsense

Worsit
Worsted

Wom
Home


Yark
To jerk; pull or snatch

Huddersfield dialect part 2 F - L

I'm definitely a fettler and we kept a lot of junk in our koil oil!!As a teenager i laked about alot and now i find I'm fast most of the time.

Fadge
Bundles of cloth or wool in a pack sheet skewered with wooden pack pricks

Fast
Puzzled

Fearnaught
A wool mixing machine

Fent

A fag end of cloth, three-quarters of a yard beyond the length of a piece. Weavers used to claim this to clothe their children

Fettle
To clean or set something in order

Fettler
A machine cleaner

Flit
Move

Fold
A collection of houses standing in a yard

Frame
To set about a task effectively

Fruzzins
Hairs coming off the cloth when finished or from yarn when wound. Loose fluff, often under a bed

Gainest
Nearest

Gers
Grass

Gig
A kind of knife used to remove knots from the cloth

Goit

Channel cut to carry water to the mill

Ginnil
A narrow passage between buildings

Hank
Thread wound on a large cylinder. A hank of wool or cotton is 840 yards; 560 yards in worsted

Jacks
Part of a loom

Jerry
A finishing machine that removed rough surface of cloth

Jip
Pain, punishment

Joss
The master

Knock on

To get on with a job

Koil Oil
Coal place

Kop
Catch

Lake
To be idle

Leck or weet
To wet as in wetting the cloth with stale urine to bring out the grease

Leet
To meet with

Lig
Lie down

Lithairse
Dye house; lister=dyer

Lumb
Chimney

Lurry
A wagon

M - Z Tomorrow

A -D Old Huddersfield dialect

My youngest daughter has been doing some homework about Huddersfield (The town where we live ) she has to find out as much as possible about its past.She came across some old Huddersfield dialect,i thought i would share it with you.

Most will come from the old textile mills that Huddersfield was famous for but i still remember my dad using a lot of it and still use some myself today.

My eldest daughter seems to have the broadest Yorkshire accent and no matter how many times you tell her something is broken she will always say its brokken.We still have a bit of a do now and again all donned up as a child i was told not to chunter and even now we still walk the dog along the cut.

Addle
To earn

Agate
At work, occupied with

Akkle
To dress or tidy up

Avverbreead
Haverbread made from oatmeal when wheat flour was expensive

Baht

Without

Balk
A large beam or beam of scales for weighing

Bat
Stroke; 'He's not struck a bat' - he's not done a stroke

Betty
A guard placed in front of the fire to keep the ashes in

Billy
A machine for slubbing cardings

Botch
To do a job carelessly

Brass
Money

Brokken
Broken

Brussen

Burst (applied to sacks); lucky (applied to a person)

Buffet
A small stool

Bunt
A bundle (of cloth)

Burl
Pick small pieces of hair etc. from cloth

Buzzer
Mill whistle or siren
Caird
A card or comb for dressing wool

Cal
Gossip

Capt
Suprised

Causey
A pavement, footpath

Chunter
Grumble

Clammed
Cold; hungry, kept short of food

Clicks
Hooks for moving packs of wool

Cop
Yarn spun on a spindle

Cropper
Cloth dresser

Crozzil
Hard cinder found in furnaces

Cut
Canal

Din
Noise

Do
A commotion, a lively time

Dollypawed
Left-handed

Donned up
Dressed in ones best clothes

Druft
A drying wind

F - L to follow