The praise of York-shire ale wherein is enumerated several sorts of drinks : with a description of the humors of most sorts of drunckards : to which is added, a York-shire dialogue, in its pure natural dialect, as it is now commonly spoken in the North parts of York-shire : being a miscellanious discourse or hotch-potch of several country affairs, begun by a daughter and her mother, and continued by the father, son, uncle, neece, and land-lord : after which follows a scold between Nell and Bess, two York-shire women.

An Alphabetical CLAVIS, Uunfolding the Meaning of all the York-shire Words made use of in the aforegoing DIALOGƲE.

A.

• ISe Arfe; that is I am afraid.
• Auters; signifies strange work, or strange things.
• Amell; is Between.
• Awne; Signifies own.
• To Rive all dawds; is to tear all in pieces.
• Ackwards; is when a beast lies back∣wards and cannot rise.
• ...

• What ailes this deaur; is what's the matter with this door.
• An Aumry; is a Cupboard to put bread or meat in.
• Awd; is Old.
• Awdfarrand; is grave and sober.
• Aboon; is above,
• To set one Agog; is to make one long or desire,
• Asta; Signifies as thou,
• An Atchison; is a Scot'ch Coyne worth fower Bodles,
• An Arvill; is a Funeral.
• To look Agye is to look aside.

B.

• A Barne; is a Child,
• A Battin; is the Straw of two Sheaves foulded together.
• Behawfe; is behalf.
• ...

• ... To Batt'n; signifies to feed or like well.
• Beestlings; is the first milk after Calv∣ing.
• Belive; is in the Evening,
• Burne, is water.
• To blend, is to mix or put together.
• Baurghwans, are horse Collars,
• To bide billinge at, is to abide work∣ing at.
• Breckins, signifies Fearn.
• A Bauke, is a Balke.
• Blendings, are Beans and Pease mixed together.
• Bigg, is of the nature of Barly, and makes good Malt.
• A Bull segg, is a gelded Bull,
• Backon, is Bacon.
• Beclarted, is Besmeared or Bedaub∣ed.
• A bend Kitt, is a kind of a great Can with a Cover.
• ...

• ... A Bleacher, is a whitester of Cloath.
• A Bakin, is Corn put up to send to th•• Mill for bread.
• A Beck, is a River.
• Bannocks, are Cakes baked before th•• fire.
• A Back-stone, is a stone or iron to bak•• Cakes on.
• Blithe, is glad.
• Breests, are breasts.
• A Brawne, is a Boar.
• Booke and bane, signifies lusty an•• strong.
• To bleare, is to roar and cry.
• Twolve Bodles, signifies two pence,
• To be browden on a thing, is to be fon•• on a thing.
• Birlady, is by our Lady.
• A batting stock, is a beating stock,
• Beath, is both.
• Breau, is supping Meat, or Gravy and fat for brewis, &c.

C.

• CRockie, is a little Scotch Cowe.
• Cawven, is Calved.
• A Cowe cleening, is the bag that hangs at the Cows Box after she hath new Calved.
• A Cawfe, is a Calfe.
• Cawd, is cold.
• Caell, are Potage.
• To Ceauke, is to Cook.
• To Clawt; is to tear or pull.
• Cassons, are dryed Cow turds,
• Caffe, is Chaffe.
• Like to clem, is very dry ready to choak.
• A Carle Cat, is a dog-Cat, or Hee Cat.
• Nought Cottens weell, is Nothing goes right.
• Cud, is could.
• ...

• Chaumber, is a Chamber.
• A Crawe, or a Crake, is a Crow.
• To Cover, is to recover.
• Clathes, are Clothes.
• Cumber, is trouble.
• A Caingel, is a toothy crabbed fel∣low.
• To keep a clutter, is to make a grea••¦stir.
• Coyea, is quoth you.
• To Ceaul, is to cool.
• To Clapperclawe, is to work earnestly or beat or Fight earnestly.
• A Crammer, is a Bowle sewer.
• To Cool ones Haggas, is to beat on•• soundly.

D.

• ISe dinge, that is I shall beat.
• Deft, is pritty.
• ...

• Daft, is fond or foolish.
• Deaun, is done.
• A Dubler, is a Dish to lay Meat on.
• Dench'd, is finely Mouthed or Curi∣ous.
• Draffe, is Graines.
• Deau, is do.
• A Deaur, is a door.
• Degg-bound, is mightily swelled in the Belly.
• Dittin, is Morter to stop up the Oven withal.
• Dayugh, is Dough.
• To Deet, is to wipe and make clean.
• To Dodd Sheep, is to cut the wool away about their Tailes.
• To Datther, is to Tremble with cold.
• Duz, signifies does.
• Deftly, is softly or leasurely.
• A Dovening, is a slumber.
• ...

• Din, is noyse.
• A Durdam, is a great noyse or stir.
• To dree, is to hold out, or be able to go.
• A dree way of, is a long way off,
• A drape, is a Cow to be fatted that gives no milk.
• A Dike, is a little Pond or watery place.
• To Don, is to put ones Clothes on,
• A dozand leauke, is an old withered look.
• Dusta, is does thou.
• Driblets, are small inconsiderable things.
• Dowl'd, is dead or flatt, and not brisk.
• Drust, signifies drest.
• To deck one self, is to make them trim and fine.

E.

• EEn, are Eyes.
• Ewes, is an Ʋdder,
• Ey, ey; is Yes, Yes.
• Eard, is Earth.
• Ewn, is an Oven,
• Earnder, is the forenoon,
• Eldin, is Wood and sticks for the fire,
• Eath, is easie.
• Earning, is Rennet to make Cheese with∣all.

F.

• FLaid, is afraid.
• Feaut, is a foot.
• Fra, is from
• Finnd, is find.
• Fawt, is fault.
• Faine, is glad.
• ...

• Feawls, is Fooles.
• Fund, is found.
• Flung, is thrown.
• Fleaure, is floor.
• Faugh, is Fallow.
• Fondly, is foolishly.
• Fowkes, is Folk.
• Feck, is the most or greatest part.
• Fogg, is fresh Grass that comes after Mowing.
• Feald, is hid.
• Fruggin, is a Pole to stir in the Oven when it is heated to stir the ashes up.
• Flyer, is to laugh.
• Feard, is afraid.
• To be feld, is to be knocked down.
• Flur'd, is all Ruffled.
• A Flan head, is a broad large head.
• Feausan, is Taste or moisture.
• Flowter, is when one is angry or af∣fraid.
• ...

• ... To Fettle, is to make ready, or pre∣pare.
• A Filly, is a Mare Foale, or young Mare,
• To Fest, is to tye.
• A Flirtigiggs, is a wanton fond Lass.
• Fell, is fierce and keen.
• A Flight, is a Scoulding-match.

G.

• BY Grape, is by grope.
• To Greet, is to weep.
• Geay, is go.
• Town-gate, is the Town Street.
• Gang, is go.
• Groats, are Oatmeal.
• Gawts and Gilts, are Hog-pigs, and Sow-pigs.
• Gor, is miery or dirty.
• Grip'd, is delv'd to drain away wa∣ter.
• ...

• Geause, is a Goose.
• To Goame, is to mind.
• Grise, is Swine.
• Girse, is Grass.
• Glorr fatt, is very fat.
• God Morn, is a good Morning to you.
• Goddeen, is a good Evening.
• Garne, is yarne.
• To Gawve, is to stare.
• Grisely, is ugly.
• A Gully, is a house Knife, to cut bread, &c.
• Gunny and furr'd, is sore running eyes.
• Gammerstang, is a great foolish wanton Girle.
• Greaun, is a Month.
• Greese, signifies Staires into a Cham∣ber.
• Gammashaes, are course Cloath Stoc∣kings that butten upon other Stoc∣kins to keep one warm.
• ...

• ... To Gobble, is to eat greedily.
• A Glisse, is a sudden sight of a thing by chance.
• A Glead, is a Kite.
• Granny, is a Grand-mother.
• Glincks and Glimes, signifies to look cunningly.
• Grath, is Riches.
• Godspenny, is an Earnest-penny,
• To Gloom, is to frown and be sullen.
• Grane, is to groan
• To Glent, is to start aside.
• Golore, is great plenty, or abundance,

H.

• TO Hye, is to make hast.
• Harnes, signifies Braines,
• To Hipe, is to push with the Head,
• Haud, is hold.
• Hame, is Home,
• Hobb, is Robert.
• ...

• Haver, is Oates
• An Hurn, is a hoal behind the Chim∣ney.
• Hinderends, are the Off all of Corn when it is winnowed.
• Haet, is hot.
• Hames, are the crooked pieces of wood that are put upon Horse Collars.
• An Hopper, is a Seed-lip, or Basket the Husband-men put their Seed-Corn in, when they sowe their Land.
• An Hemble, is an Hovel or house to put Cattel under, or Wayns or Carts into.
• An Haver Riddle, is a Sive they use in Winnowing of Oates.
• Harden, is Hempen.
• Hing, signifies hang.
• Helters, is Halters.
• ...

• Holes and hurles, are odd dark blind holes in a house.
• Hes, is hath.
• Howle, is hungry.
• Hesta, is has thou.
• Heauldy, is one that is tender and cannot endure much cold.
• Hushta, signifies to hold fast or mind ones feet.
• Hawves, is halves.
• Height nor Ree, signifies a wilful per∣son that will not be perswaded to any thing, but what they list.
• Hustle, is to shrug ones Shoulders.
• Heart-speaun, is the hole betwixt the Breast and Belly.
• Hause, is the Throat.
• Houghs, are the Leggs and Thighs.

I.

• ILfavart, is unhansome.
• To Jet the Heck, is to put one to the door.
• Jybe, is to mock or Jeer,
• Ista, signifies art thou,
• Ilkin, is each one.
• Jobber Nowle, signifies a Logger-head.
• Jerkin, is a kind of a jacket or upper Dublet with four Skirts or laps.
• An Inckline, signifies to have know∣ledge or hear of a thing.
• Ise, signifies sometimes I shall, and som∣times I am.
• Ist, signifies is it.
• Jarbl'd, is dagled or dirty.
• Ingle, signifies fire.

K.

• A Keaustril, is a great bon'd course Creature.
• A Keauke, is a Cook.
• Knawe, is Know.
• To Kedge, is to fill one very full.
• A Kite, signifies the belly.
• Kirne Milk, is butter Milk,
• Knarl'd, is eaten and torn with the Teeth.
• A Kneet, is a Knight.
• Keen, signifies Fierce or earnest.
• Knawn, is known,
• To Kittle, is to Tickle.
• Kye, are Cowes.
• A Kirne, is a Chirne.
• A Kirk, is a Church.
• Kelk signifies to Groan.

L.

• TO Late, is to seek.
• A Laer, is a Barn.
• Lig, is to lye.
• Leauke, is to look or behold.
• Never Lin, signifies not to tire or give over.
• Lang, is long.
• To Lite, is to Rely on, or trust to.
• Liggin, is lying or resting.
• Lyth ye, Lyth ye, is as much as to say hark ye, hark ye.
• To Lug, is to tug, pull or bite.
• A Libber, is a Gelder.
• Leeter, is Lighter.
• For'th lang Lane, is when a thing is borrowed with an intention never to be pay'd again.
• Leetsome, signifies to be pritty Chear∣ful.
• ...

• Leather, is rather.
• Lawer, is lower.
• Lownd, is calm and mild.
• Loppon, is Leaped.
• A Langsettle, is a long Wainscot Bench to sit on.
• A Loft, is a Chamber.
• To Leet, is to alight.
• A Lantom, is a pritty distance, or way off.
• Laith, is loath.
• A Layer-father, is an Instructer, Teach∣er, or prompter.
• To Lit, is to dye.
• Lucken Brow'd, is hanging knit Brows.
• Thou lees, is thou lyes.

M.

• TO mack, is to make.
• Mirk, is dark.
• To mar, is to spoil.
• Mistetch, signifies to get an ill use o•• Custom.
• Mell, is Between.
• Mare, is more.
• To Meause, is wonder or admire.
• Mun, is must.
• Maut, is Malt.
• Meay, is moe.
• A Meer, is a Mare.
• Maugh, is a brother-in-Law.
• Meeterly, is indifferent.
• Mawks, are Maddocks.
• Mislicken'd, is disappointed.
• Mains flaid, is much afraid.
• Mickle is much.
• ...

• Meauted, is thought, dreamed, or fear∣ed.
• A Make, is a fellow, or companion.
• Mence, is handsomness, or Credit.
• To marvil, is to admire or wonder.
• Misken, is not to know.
• Mains fain, is very glad.
• Mains fine, is very fine.
• Meaun, is the Moon.
• Meause as you use, that is when one judgeth another according to their own doings.
• Mawkie, is full of Maddocks.
• To Morne, is to morrow.

N.

• NAr, is near.
• Neen, signifies Eyes.
• Nut, is not.
• Nean or Neayn, is none.
• Neay, is no.
• A Newke or Neawke, is a Corner.
• Neet, is night.
• Neem, is Ʋncle.
• Neer Rack, is never matter; or take no care.
• Neawn, is Noon.
• Nawn, is own.
• Nowther, is neither.
• Neest, is next.
• Naupe and Nevill, is to beat and strike.

O.

• OƲght, is any thing.
• Onny, is any.
• Ownder, is the afternoon.
• Owse, is an Ox.
• Odd Charrs, signifies triffling business, or small Errands.
• Ommost, is almost.

P.

• TO putt, is to push with the head.
• Pratty; is handsome, or pritty.
• Preauf, is proof.
• To plew, is to plow.
• To mack the Pot play, is to make the Pot boyl.
• Pokes, are Sacks.
• Pudding-pock, is the Pudding bag.
• A Pleugh, is a Plough.
• ...

• It ploshes, signifies to be all wet under foot.
• Perry, is a little Cur Dog.
• Pusom'd, is poyson'd.
• A Pownd, is a Pond of water.
• To preaze, is to presse towards a plac•• or endeavour to go that way.
• The Paete, is the head.
• Preasure, is Rennet to make Chees•• withal.
• A Pringle, is a little silver Scotc•• Coine about the bignesse of a penny with two xx. on it.
• Pybald, is to be of two Colours.
• To prate, is to talk saucily.

R.

• A Rape, is a Rope.
• To Rout, is to roare.
• Rive, is to tear.
• ...

• Reek, is smoak.
• A Reckincrewke, is the pot hanger.
• I Reed, is I advise.
• Reant, is root.
• Remmon'd, is removed.
• A Reel, is an instrument Women wind their linnen or hempen yarne on.
• A Rock, is a Distaffe.
• Ream Kit, is the Cream pot.
• Reasty, is when Bacon is yellow and taste rank.
• Reet, is right: To Reet a thing down, ir to make it smooth.
• Riggin, is the Ridge of an house.
• Reeks, is it smokes.
• Rame, is to Rove, Rake, scrape, or pull.
• Rencky, is great and large.
• Ranck, is thick or throng.
• To rue, is to repent.
• ...

• Rife of Tongue, is quick and nimble of Tongue.
• Reefie, is Scabby or Itchy,

S.

• SIne, is since.
• Sike, is such.
• Seaun, is quickly.
• A Skeell, is a Milk Pale, or Water Pale.
• Sell, signifies self.
• To Suckle, is to let a Calf suck the Dam or Mother.
• Streay, is Straw.
• Strangly, is strongly.
• Swamp, is empty or smal.
• A Sile, is a strainer for Milk.
• To Spang ones gates, is to make hast.
• Snithe, is very cold and piercing.
• Seaure, is sure.
• Smiddy, is a Black-Smiths Shop.
• ...

• Specks, are long thin pieces of Iron which Husband-men nail upon their Ploughs, to save them from wear∣ing.
• A Sock, is the Plough share to put on the Nose of the Plough.
• Sawt, is salt.
• A Stag, is a young Colt.
• Sarraes, signifies serves.
• A Shack-fork, is a stick with two grains which Thrashers use to shake up the Straw with all, that all the Corn may fall out from amongst it.
• Steauls, are Stools to sit on.
• Swingle-trees, are crooked piecs of wood to which the Horse Traces are made fast behind the Horses.
• Strang, is strong.
• Seavy, is full of Rushes.
• ...

• A Seave, is a Rush that is drawn through in grease, which in ordina∣ry poor houses, they light up and burn instead of a Candle.
• To Saw Corn, is to sow Corn.
• A Steg, is a Gander.
• To steek or steck, is to shut.
• A stand Heck, is a Cratch that stands on feet in a Fold-Yard, for Cattel to eat their Fodder out on.
• A Sneck, is a latch of a door or Gate,
• To slate a Beast, is to hound a Dog at him.
• To stick, is to Butcher and kill a thing.
• To stramp, is to tread upon.
• Skitter, is when Cattel Scoure, or shite thin.
• Slocken, is to quench the thirst.
• ...

• Side Lanyells, are hopples for Hor∣ses.
• A Stane, is a stone.
• A Sneauskin, is a leather which Wo∣men have fast at their Distaff, and lay upon their thigh to twirle their Spindle upon.
• A Spence, is a little place made with Wainscot, or a Lattice to set Milk or drink in.
• To Slake heat, is to scale or loose heat.
• Sammaron, is a Cloath betvveen Lin∣nen and Hempen, not altogether so course as the one, nor fine as the other.
• A Seck, is a Sack.
• Sheaun, are Shooes.
• Slovvn, is stoln.
• A Sark, is a shirt.
• ...

• Sowle, is all kind of moyst or supping Victuals.
• To Storken, is to cool, or wax stiff or hard.
• Seay, is so.
• To speer out a thing, is to enquire after a thing.
• To speer the Deaur, is to shut the door.
• To whemmele a Bowlover a thing, is to cover it with a Bowle.
• Snawke, is to smell.
• Snurles, are the Nostrils.
• To Snite, is to blow the Nose.
• A Stee, is a Stye or Ladder.
• To semper, is to smile.
• To stown, is when a thing smarts.
• Not to see a stime, is to be blind, and see nothing at all.
• A Saul, is a soul.
• Sad, is sorrowful or Melancholly.
• ...

• Stanfra, is backward, or unwilling.
• Sud, is should.
• A Stiddy, is an Anvill.
• Spatterdashers, are things to put above ones Stockings to keep them clean from mire and dirt.
• To run on snack-snarles, is to run on heaps headlong together.
• Where it never stack, is where it ne∣ver stuck.
• Sporn, is shut or closed.
• Sesta, is sayest thou.
• Stickle but hast, is very great hast, or speed.
• To snoutband one, is to be very an∣gry and hasty with one.
• Stark at the Rent, is very dear at the Rent.
• To scrat, is to scratch.
• Sattl'd, is settled.
• Sackless, is guiltless, or innocent.
• ...

• ... To Swelt, is to dye.
• A Saind, is a Messenger or message.
• A Soape, is a little quantity or sup.

T.

• A Tee, is the string the Cow Legs are made fast withal whilest she is milked.
• Tinye, is little.
• Well tidded, is when a Cow hath a good Ʋdder, and promiseth fair for store of milk.
• Tweay, is two.
• Thur, is these.
• Tane, is taken.
• Tawke, is talk.
• Tewh, is tough.
• ...

• Teaut, is to it.
• Teaume, is time.
• Teng'd, is stung or sting'd.
• A Teaup, is a Ram.
• Like to tawme, is like to swound.
• Traild, is pull'd and dragged up and down.
• Teau, is to.
• A Tantril, is an idle tatling Wo∣man.
• Titter, is quicker or sooner.
• A Drull, is a mucky fowl Quean.
• Tack, is to take.
• Tengs, are Tonges.
• Twonty, is twenty.
• Trouts, are Curds.
• Trash, is green fruit, as Apples, &c.
• Timerous to please, is ill to please.
• Touch-wood, is rotten Wood laid by

• to dry, that it may take fire at any spark given by a flint and steel.

V.

• VArra, is very.
• Ʋnscape, is to put one in mind of a thing that is not Convenient.
• Ʋncuths, signifies News.
• To Ʋrle, is to draw ones self up on a heap.
• An Ʋnderlout, is a kind of a slave, or Drudge.
• An Ʋneuth Dog, is a strange Dog.
• Ʋnsawncy, is unluckie, or not fortu∣nate.
• To unfest, is to untye or unloose.

W.

• WArk, is work.
• Weese, is we shall.
• Whaugh, is a word of Admiration, as God bless us, &c.
• Wally, Wally, is Good lack, good lack or Oh me, Oh me.
• War, is were.
• Wad, is would.
• A Whye, is an Heifer.
• To waite, is to know.
• Whore, is Where.
• Wya, is well.
• Wheay, is Who.
• Whickens, are roots of Weeds.
• Whins, are Furz.
• Wellaneerin. is Lackady, or Alas, alas.
• To Whaug one, is to beat one.
• Wrang, is wrong.
• ...

• ... A whanck, is a great piece.
• A Whelk, is a great fall.
• Wont, is dwelt or lived.
• A wreck, is aboundance.
• Whewts of Girfe, are young fresh Piles or blades of Grass.
• Whig, is Clarified Whey, put up with Herbs to drink.
• A Whean Cat, is a shee Cat.
• Warse, is worse.
• Wayes is mee, is woes me.
• Whilk, is which.
• Weell, is well.
• Wancle, is uncertain or changeable Weather.
• Weay, is sorrowful.
• Wilta, is will thou.
• To winch, is to Kick.
• Whesht, Whesht, is peace, peace.
• Wadta, is would thou.
• Weand, is Mad.
• ...

• ... A Wee bitt, or Wirly bitt.
• To Wreak, is to fret and be angry.

Y.

• YAn, is one.
• Yauds, are Horses.
• Yowes, are Yewes.
• A Yat, is a Gate.
• Yance, is once.
• To Yeaud, is to go.
• To Yeauke, is to Itch.
• The Yane, is the breath.

FINIS.