Bishops foot – when something has been burned to the pan when boiling. 'The bishop has set foot in it or 'it's been bishopped'.

Bizon – shame or scandal

Black bowwowers – brambles

Blaze – to take a salmon at night using a three pronged barbed dart called a Leister

Bloacher – any large animal

My mammy bid me gan to bed

My daddy he said 'No'

My mammy said if I wan na gan, she'd fetch the Boggle-Bo - Bo-Man – Hobgoblin/kidnapper

Boothaler – robber

Byspelt – mischievous person

Chance bairn – an illegitimate child

Choller – double chin

Curse of Scotland – the nine of diamonds. William Duke of Cumberland was said to have written his order for the battle of Culloden on the back of the card.

Cutty – a short knife

Dag – a small gun

Delf – a pit from which ironstone has been dug

Derwentwater lights – the Aurora Borealis

Deuse – the devil or evil spirit

Drunkards cloak – a large barrel

Elflocks – tangled hair

Ell Mother – stepmother

Fairy money – found treasure, the location must never be disclosed.

Fat Hen – a goose

Fause – cunning, sharp, clever

Fendy – clever at providing for oneself

Flay – to frighten

Fleking eather – a large dragonfly

Flesher – a butcher

Fout – a spoilt child

Frim – handsome

Fuddle – to intoxicate fish whilst poaching

Fusba – a giant puffball

Gadger/gauger – an exciseman / customs officer

Gantree – a stand for ale barrels

Gavelock – a crowbar

Ged – a pike

Girngaw – the cavity of the mouth

Gorocock – red grouse

Greybeard – a stone or earthenware jug

Greyhen – a large stone bottle

Gully - a large sharp knife

Hair – a small quantity of anything

Half Marrow – a middle sized lad

Half rocked innocent – a fool

Hammie – a coward

Hause – neck or throat

Hidlins – done by stealth, secretly

Hirst – a woody bank

Hob Collingwood – The four of hearts – unlucky

Hope – the head of a valley

Jagger Galloway – a pony with a saddle for carrying lead in Teessdale. Jagger is Scots for a peddler

Jennick – true and proper

Joskin – a masons labourer

Keed – to peep

Keld – The still part of a river

Keslop – the belly or stomach

Kirok – a large pile of stones

Kisting – a funeral

Kite – the belly

Kitty – Jail

Knap – the brow or projection of a hill (nab)

Knowe – top of a hill

Lamb – to beat soundly/leather/lather

Lashy - cold/wet

Lig – to lie down

Lob cock – a sluggish person also Lurdane

Mab – to dress carelessly

Maunderer – a tedious, weary speaker

Meggy money legs – a millipede

Mere stone – boundary stone

Merry dancers – Aurora Borealis

Muck worm – a miser

Mugger – a hawker of pots

Old Bendy/hooky/scratch/nick – the devil

Old Peg – inferior cheese

Old trot – old woman

Pickatree – woodpecker

Powsoddy/pansoddy – a pudding placed under a roast. AKA Yorkshire pudding, Auld Wife's Sod, Cinder catcher

Purdy – a thick set fellow

Pyrray Dancers – Aurora Borealis

Quicken tree – mountain ash

Rack rider – a small trout

Rain Bird – woodpecker

Rone – a thick covering of bushers/whin

Skadely – a sly thief

Skelly– the Dace/chubb/roach

Skew the dew – a splay footed person

Smartle – to melt or waste away

Snaw broth – melted snow

Snot – the burned wick of a candle

Sough – to sigh like the wind

Spanker Eel – a Lamprey

Sunderland Fitter – the Knave of Clubs

Taplash – bad small beer, dregs

Thruff stone – a flat tomb stone

Thruntu – stout, robust, strong built.

Threeskin – three weeks since

Unlicked cub – an ignorant, unpolished youth

Vaig – to roam

Vamp - to pawn an item

Wain – a cart drawn by oxen

Wame – the belly

Wankelly – uncertain weather - vairable

Wark – Seaweed

Weather Gleam – A clear sky on the horizon – spoken of objects seen on the ridge of a lofty hill, so as to appear as if in the sky. In this situation, as dr willan observes, a man looks gigantic, he seems to be clad in radiance, like one of Ossian's departed heroes.

Wheal - the deepest part of a river.

Wet-hand – drunk

Windy wallets – a noisy fellow

Yaud/Yawd – horse

Yuck – to itch