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
At work, occupied with
Akkle
To dress or tidy up
To dress or tidy up
Avverbreead
Haverbread made from oatmeal when wheat flour was expensive
Haverbread made from oatmeal when wheat flour was expensive
Baht
Without
Balk
A large beam or beam of scales for weighing
A large beam or beam of scales for weighing
Bat
Stroke; 'He's not struck a bat' - he's not done a stroke
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
A guard placed in front of the fire to keep the ashes in
Billy
A machine for slubbing cardings
A machine for slubbing cardings
Botch
To do a job carelessly
To do a job carelessly
Brass
Money
Money
Brokken
Broken
Broken
Brussen
Burst (applied to sacks); lucky (applied to a person)
Buffet
A small stool
A small stool
Bunt
A bundle (of cloth)
A bundle (of cloth)
Burl
Pick small pieces of hair etc. from cloth
Pick small pieces of hair etc. from cloth
Buzzer
Mill whistle or siren
Caird
A card or comb for dressing wool
Mill whistle or siren
Caird
A card or comb for dressing wool
Cal
Gossip
Gossip
Capt
Suprised
Suprised
Causey
A pavement, footpath
A pavement, footpath
Chunter
Grumble
Clammed
Cold; hungry, kept short of food
Cold; hungry, kept short of food
Clicks
Hooks for moving packs of wool
Hooks for moving packs of wool
Cop
Yarn spun on a spindle
Yarn spun on a spindle
Cropper
Cloth dresser
Cloth dresser
Crozzil
Hard cinder found in furnaces
Hard cinder found in furnaces
Cut
Canal
Canal
Din
Noise
Do
A commotion, a lively time
A commotion, a lively time
Dollypawed
Left-handed
Left-handed
Donned up
Dressed in ones best clothes
Dressed in ones best clothes
Druft
A drying wind
A drying wind
F - L to follow
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! :)
ReplyDeleteI 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.
Re: 'addle'. I would say 'addled' as to mean mixed up or confused.
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