Wednesday 16 November 2011

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

2 comments:

  1. Not being from Yorkshire (though on the W. Yorkshire border) I haven't heard a few of these words but I have heard of 'baht' - on Ilkley Moor baht hat! :)

    I do say 'botch', I don't say 'brass' for money but would know what you were talking about if you said it to me, same with 'buffet' (not pronounced like 'buffey' but with the 't' emphasised), I do say 'chunter' often, and 'din' and 'donned up'.

    Language is fascinating.

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  2. Re: 'addle'. I would say 'addled' as to mean mixed up or confused.

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