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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ... a fiddle; Crowder a fiddler, Crwth, Welsh. Ceum, Ceoom, a little bit, in the other parts of the kingdom, the word is confined generally to crumbs of bread. Cruma, Sax. Cue'lls, Caells, Christmas carols, still much in vogue in the West; the parish singers going about from house to house for the purpose. Some of these carols are of considerable antiquity. Karol, (Cornish) a choir, a song. Cuyn, coin, money. Deef, rotten, as a bad nut is said to be deef. Ding Dong, name of a Mine. Doat Figs, dried figs. Doodle, to trifle. Doust, Dousting, pelt, beat. Drang, a gutter or drain. Deeeving, driving, sometimes applied as hurrying. Deeuling, Deuling, talking in an imbecile manner, drivelling. Detjmbledrane, a drone. Brumble, to go about anything awkwardly. "Go take up these clothes here, quickly; where's the cowl-staff? look, how you drumble." (Merry Wives of Windsor, 3--3.) Durk, dark, blind. Durnes, the side posts of a door or gate. Born, (Cornish) the door-post. Duss'en, dost not. Dwaling, speaking in a confused way. Angl. Sax. dwelian, to speak rambling as a sick person. Empeent, impudent. Fade, to go, applied now more particularly to the Furrydance through the streets of Helstone, on the 8th of May. Fadge, to get on or fare, "How do'ee fadge 1" i.e. "How do you get on or do 1" also to suit or agree, from Ang. Sax. fegan. "We will have if this fadge not, an antic." (Love's Labour Lost, 5--1.) Fang, Fan GinG, to get, to seize, tanging, applied as earnings, from Angl. Sax. fangan. Fatching, fetching; fetching home, meaning, going homeward. Few, little, a few broth, meaning a little broth. Figgy Pudding, a plum-pudding; raisins being called figs. Fitty, clever, proper, becoming. Flam New, quite new. Flopt, flop, to drop down ...
