Wednesday 16 November 2011

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

2 comments:

  1. Yep, use 'fettle' often, there is a 'ginnil' near my Mum and Dad's, 'kop' also used as in "You'll really kop for it now" - but also used as a teenager to mean kissing as in "Jill has kopped off with Bob". Interestingly (haha well I find it interesting) kop is Swedish for purchase or taking over. A lot of Northern dialect is Scandanavian in origin. Looking forward to your next instalment.

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