A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 24

Want-wriggle _s._ mole-track

War _v. pret. of the verb_ "_to be_" I war, he war, we war, &c.

Wash-dish _s._ the wag-tail

Wa.s.sail _v._ drinking success to the apple crop

Way-zaltin _s._ a play in which two persons standing back to back interlace each others arms, and by bending forward alternately raise each other from the ground

Weepy _adj._ moist, abounding in springs

Welch-nut _s._ walnut (Ger. _welsche-nuss_)

Well _s._ a running spring, a source (Ger. _quelle_, as distintinguished from a wenk or wink)

Weng _s._ the front rack of the sull

Wevet _s._ a spider's web

Whippences _s._ bodkins or swingle-bars of a plough

Whipper-snapper _s._ a little, active, nimble fellow

Whipswhiles _s._ a short interval, as between the strokes of a whip

Whister-twister _s._ a smart blow on the side of the head

Whiver _v._ to hover, to flutter. Whiver-minded _adj._ wavering

Widow-man _s._ a widower

Wim _v._ to winnow. Wim-sheet, Wimmin-sheet, Wimmindust _s._

Windle, Windle-thrush _s._ red-wing

Wink _s._ an excavated or sunken well (Query supplied with a Winch?)

Wipes _s._ f.a.ggots for draining or fencing

Wisht _adj._ sad, untoward

Without unless, except

Woek, Wuk _s._ oak

Woeks _s._ clubs on playing cards, from their shape

Wont-heeave, Want-snap _s._ a mole-hill, mole-trap

Wood-quist _s._ wood-pigeon, cushat

Wood-wall _s._ woodp.e.c.k.e.r

Worra _s._ part of the centre of the old spinning-wheel

Wosberd, Whisbird, Whosbird _s._ a term of reproach.

Wrede _v._ to spread abroad, as wheat is said to wrede when several stalks shoot out of the ground from a single grain.

Wrick _v.s._ strain

Wride _v.n._ to stretch, to expand

Wring _s._ press, ex. A cider-wring

Writh-hurdles _s._ plated hurdles

Wrizzled, Wrizzly _adj._ shrivelled up, wrinkled

Yails _s._ the uprights in hurdles

Yal, Yalhouse, Yarm, Yel, &c. _s._ ale, alehouse, arm, eel, &c.

Yap _v._ to yelp like a cur

Yappingale, Yaffler, Yuckle _s._ woodp.e.c.k.e.r

Yea.s.s _s._ an earthworm _pl._ yea.s.ses

Yeo _s._ main drain of a level

Yeth _s._ hearth. Yeth-stone hearth-stone

Yoak _s._ the grease in wool

Yoaky _adj._ greasy, applied to wool as it comes from the sheep

Yokes _s._ hiccups

Yourn yours

Yow _v._ to cut the stubble short, to cut with a hook

Zam _v.a._ to heat for some time over a fire, but not to boil

Zam-sod, Zam-sodden half baked

Zand-tot _s._ sand hill