A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire. George Edward Dartnell
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Название: A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire
Автор: George Edward Dartnell
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'The colt's tail is a cloud with a bushy appearance like a ragged fringe, and portends rain.'—Great Estate, ch. viii.
*Comb, Coom. (1) n. The lower ledge of a window (Kennett's Paroch. Antiq.). (2) n. Grease from an axle-box, soot, dirt, &c. Koomb (S.).—S.W.
Comb-and-Brush. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel.—S.W.
Combe, Coombe. (1) The wooded side of a hill (D.); used occasionally in this sense in both Wilts and Dorset.—N. & S.W. (2) A narrow valley or hollow in a hillside. This is the proper meaning.—N. & S.W. Used of a narrow valley in the woodlands in Gamekeeper at Home, ch. i.
Come of. To get the better of, to grow out of. 'How weak that child is about the knees, Sally!' 'Oh, he'll come o' that all right, Miss, as he do grow bigger.'—N. & S.W.
Come to land. Of intermittent springs, to rise to the surface and begin to flow (Agric. of Wilts, ch. xii).—S.W.
Comical. (1) Queer-tempered. 'Her's a comical 'ooman.'—N. & S.W. (2) Out of health. 'I've bin uncommon comical to-year.'—N. & S.W. (3) Cracky, queer. 'He's sort o' comical in his head, bless 'ee.'—N. & S.W. 'A cow he's a comical thing to feed; bin he don't take care he's very like to choke hisself.'—N.W. (Marlborough.) It should be noted that Marlborough folk are traditionally reputed to call everything he but a bull, and that they always call she!
Coney-burry. A rabbit's hole.—S.W. (Amesbury.)
Coniger, Conigre. This old word, originally meaning a rabbit-warren, occurs frequently in Wilts (as at Trowbridge) as the name of a meadow, piece of ground, street, &c. See Great Estate, note to ch. ix.
Conker-berries. See Canker-berries.
Conks, Conkers (i.e. conquerors). (1) A boy's game, played with horse-chestnuts strung on cord, the players taking it in turn to strike at their opponent's conk, in order to crack and disable it.—N.W. (Marlborough.) (2) Hence, the fruit of Aesculus Hippocastanum, L., Horse-chestnut.—N.W.
Coob. A hen-coop (H.): invariably so pronounced.—N. & S.W.
Cooby. A snug corner. See Cubby-hole.—N. & S.W.
Coom. See Comb.
*Coombe-bottom. A valley in a hillside (Great Estate, ch. iv). See Combe.
Coom hedder. (A.S.). See Horses.
Coop! Coop! The usual call to cows, &c., to come in.—N. & S.W.
Coopy-house. A very small house or cottage (S.). See Cubby-hole.—S.W.
*Cooted. Cut slanting, sloped off, as the ends of the upper part of an oblong hay-rick (D.).
'Hayricks are usually made round; sometimes oblong with cooted ends, not gable ends.'—Agric. of Wilts.
Cord. 'A cord of plocks,' a pile of cleft wood, 8 ft. long and 4 ft. in girth and width (D.).—N.W.
Corn-baulk. See Baulk (1).
Corndrake. Crex pratensis, the Landrail; almost invariably so called about Warminster and in some parts of N. Wilts.—N. & S.W.
*Corn-grate. The Cornbrash formation (Agric. of Wilts, p. 164).
*Corn Grit. Quarrymen's term for one of the building stone beds of the Portland series (Britton's Beauties of Wilts, vol. iii).
*Corn Pop. Silene inflata, Sm., Bladder Campion.—N.W. (Enford.)
Corruptions. Some of these are curious, and perhaps worth recording, as Rainball, rainbow (always used at Huish); Lattiprack, paralytic; Nuffin-idols, Love-in-idleness; Polly Andrews, Polyanthus. Also see Nolens-volens. Bronchitis is always Brantitus, and Jaundice always The Janders, plural. Persuade is always Suade. The crab-apple is usually Grab in N. Wilts. At Etchilhampton we find Plump for pump, and Moth for moss, while at Huish and elsewhere proud flesh is always Ploughed flesh. Pasmet, parsnip, and the universal Turmut, turnip, may be noted as illustrating a curious letter-change. Varley-grassey, gone green, is evidently from verdigris. In Great Estate, ch. iv, Jefferies traces Meejick ('a sort of a Meejick'=anything very strange or unusual) back to menagerie. Cavalry becomes Cavaltry, meaning horsemen, and crockery is usually Crockerty. Other more or less common perversions of words are Patty Carey, Hepatica; Chiny Oysters, China Aster; Turkemtime, turpentine; Absence, abscess (Cherhill); Abrupt, to approve (Huish); Tiddle, to tickle; Cribble, a cripple; Strive (of a tree), to thrive (Steeple Ashton); Hurly-gurly, a hurdy-gurdy (S.W.); Midger, to measure; Cherm, to churn (Slow, S.W.); Rumsey-voosey, to rendezvous, as 'He went a rumsy-voosing down the lane to meet his sweetheart'; Dapcheek, a dabchick; Drilly-drally, to hesitate, to dawdle over anything; Kiddle, a kettle.
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