A General Dictionary of Provincialisms ...J. R. Smith, 1840 - 194 páginas |
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... counties , and others have been picked up by myself . Not to claim more merit than I ought , to myself , I shall proceed at once to acknowledge the debt I owe to the different authors from whom I have borrowed . The oldest work , I ...
... counties , and others have been picked up by myself . Not to claim more merit than I ought , to myself , I shall proceed at once to acknowledge the debt I owe to the different authors from whom I have borrowed . The oldest work , I ...
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... counties of Norfolk and Suffolk ) by the late Rev. Robert Forby , Rector of Fincham , Norfolk , was published by his friends after his decease in the year 1830 , and is by far the most valuable work I have met with . It is only to be ...
... counties of Norfolk and Suffolk ) by the late Rev. Robert Forby , Rector of Fincham , Norfolk , was published by his friends after his decease in the year 1830 , and is by far the most valuable work I have met with . It is only to be ...
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... counties in England , particularly in the names of places ; as Pen , for instance , a head . ' Penhurst and Penshurst , are from Pen , Brit . and Hurst , Sax . a wood - a place at the head of a wood . Ceaster , Brit . a city or ...
... counties in England , particularly in the names of places ; as Pen , for instance , a head . ' Penhurst and Penshurst , are from Pen , Brit . and Hurst , Sax . a wood - a place at the head of a wood . Ceaster , Brit . a city or ...
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... reasonably expected , found in the Eastern and Northern parts of the kingdom , those counties hav- ing been more contiguous to that part of the continent , whence the INTRODUCTION . ix . Danes made their incursions into Britain.
... reasonably expected , found in the Eastern and Northern parts of the kingdom , those counties hav- ing been more contiguous to that part of the continent , whence the INTRODUCTION . ix . Danes made their incursions into Britain.
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... counties of England , with the exception , perhaps , of Cornwall , as to form the vernacular tongue of the great mass of the people , and more particularly of those in the rural districts . As we have before observed , that , on the ...
... counties of England , with the exception , perhaps , of Cornwall , as to form the vernacular tongue of the great mass of the people , and more particularly of those in the rural districts . As we have before observed , that , on the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
applied Bailey beer Belg Berks bird blow bread Brit called cask cattle cheese Cheshire cloth coarse common corn Corruption counties Craven Craven Dialect Cumb Derby derived Devon Dillo dirty ditch Ditto dress drink dung East Sussex Essex Exmoor fasten fellow Fenning fire Forby Germ Glouc Goth grass Grose ground Hampshire Hants head heap hedge hence hole horse horse's idle implying intj iron Kent Lanc land Linc liquor means milk noise Norf North Northumb pass peas Perhaps person piece plough prep probably pron rain Rennet Scotch sheep signifies Somerset South stick stone straw Suff Suss Teut thick thing titmouse tree v. a. To beat v. a. To throw vessel walk Warw Welch West wheel whence wind wood wooden word York young
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