Northamptonshire Dialect - ABC

 A


Adam’s Ale - Water
Addner - Hadn’t
Agoo - Ago
Agen - Again
Aint - Am not
Air - Our
Aisy - Easy
Akkern - Acorn
Allus - Always
Alm - Elm tree
Almem - Made of Elm
Anclee - Ankle
Anear - Close to
Ang-Nail - A troublesome and disagreeable little piece of skin at the side of a fingernail
Arf - Half
Arg - To quarrel
Arm - I am
Arra - Either
Arra-one - Either one
Arrawig - See Arrawiggle
Arrawiggle - Earwig
Arter - By the side of or After
Arternoon - Afternoon
Aryer - Are you
As how - That
Atnun - Afternoon
Ax - Ask
Axing - Asking


B

Baan’t - Am not
Bacca - Tobacco
Baccy - See Bacca
Backa - See Bacca
Bakkuds - Backwards
Bait - A portion of food
Barley-bump - An idiot
Barnacles - Eye glasses
Barton Leek - Someone who comes from Earls Barton
Beggar-Banger - Someone whose role it was to bang, i.e. remove all beggars found in Brackley
Bekkus - Bakehouse
Belike - Perhaps
Bewottle - To confuse someone
Biddy - An old woman
Bin - Been
Birn - To borrow
Biz - Be
Black Parr - A name used to frighten children - like the Bogey-Man
Blarin - Loud talking
Blarmey - Blimey
Bluddy - Bloody
Bodge - a clumsy/unprofessional repair
Bosky - Intoxicated
Bossocking - Large, fat, gross or vulgar i.e. a bossocking woman
Bog - To move off as in Bog Off
Box Harry - To go without dinner
Braggadocia - Someone who boasts
Bread n Pullit - A poor persons meal
Brevit - To hunt or rummage
Brevit About - Rummaging about
Bruk - Brook
Brung - Brought
Bruzz - Bruise
Bumptious - Arrogant
Buffer - Fool
Buggut - Ghost
By - About


C

Cadge - Beg
Cadger - Beggar
Caffle - To quarrel
Caint - Can’t
Cank - A gossip
Canker - A small caterpillar
Chimbley - A chimney
Chopsin - Talking
Chrissma - Christmas
Chu - A shortened version of Utcher
Chops - Mouth
Chopsin - Gossiping
Chunter - To mumble
Clane - Clean
Clatter Bangin - A noisy, violent motion
Clen - Clean
Clit - To cleave tightly together
Clock-A-Clay - A ladybird
Clorth - Cloth
Coddy-Moddy - A species of seagull that flocks to Northamptonshire in the Autumn and Winter
Codger - An old man
Codgers end - A shoemakers thread
Conker - A cucumber
Corf - Cough
Corst - Cost
Crock - A pot or pan
Cudunt - Couldn’t
Cuff - Cough
Cum - Come
Cumbergounds - Useless trees


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