Lancashire Dialect Glossary A
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A, aw – I ‘Aw mend mi stockins, pill th’ potates’
Ab, abby – Abraham. (SB)
Abaht – about ‘Aw’ll tell yo’ o abeawt it – gratis’
A-be, abee – alone ‘An’ thi’ never con let one a-be, a-be’
Abbo, abbut – but (‘Ah! but)
Abbut, awbut – all but, nearly (‘welly’)
Abeawt – about
Aboon – above ‘Hoo gi’s him brass, aboon his share’
Accéawnt – account. (SB)
Ackersprit – a potato with roots at both ends (SB)
Actilly – actually
Acurn – acorn.
Acwórd – accord (SB)
Acwordin – according (SB)
Addle – to get, to earn, to handle wages
Addlin – earning (SB)
Addlt – earned (SB)
Addle-yedded – empty-headed, unfruitful (an addle egg)
Adóo – labour, pains-taking. "They maydn mitch adoo on him." (SB)
Affeside or Affetside – a hilly district near Bury
Adzóoks, Adzouks – exclamations (SB)
Afore, afoore – before, previously to
Afterings – the last of a cow’s milk
Agate – working ‘He’s agate of his wark’,
also to go agate or accompany someone on a way
Agait, agate – on the way, going ‘They’d music agait, an aw whistl’t to th’ tune’
Agen, ageeean, ageeon – again ‘An’ he swears ‘at he’ll ne’er use a reedhook ageean’
Agen, agin – against
Agóg – desirous, earnest (SB)
Aighs – an adze (SB)
Ail – to be ill; Ailment, illness (SB)
Ailt – ailed ‘A swoipt it o’ off at a woint, Un aw never alit nowt sin!’
Aint – aunt (SB)
Ainty – aunty (SB)
Alays, awlus – always ‘Aaw awlus thowt ‘at keepin’ heawse wer sich a yezzy job’
Alley – a white marble to play with (SB)
Allocking’ – idling, killing time
Alooan – alone ‘An’ in a jiffy hoo wor gooan, An’ th’ foolish chap wor left alooan!’
Amno – am not
An’, un – and ‘An he went’ ‘Say ‘Aye,’ an’ be handy, my lass’
An – if
Ancliff – ankle
Annént – opposite to (SB)
A'ppern – apron, a part of dress (SB)
Appo, appu – apple ‘He towd um some appus Eve stole off a tree’
Ar – are (SB)
Areawnd – around
Ark – a large chest (SB)
Arnt – errand ‘I’d liefer o gon the arnt forty mile’
Arr – a mark, a scar (SB)
Arran, arrant, downright, notorious (SB)
Arranweb – spider’s web
Arsewood, Arsud – backward, unwilling (SB)
Arsey-varsy – heels over head (SB)
Arta, arto – art thou ‘Arto reet I’ thi yed, thinksto?’
Artono – art thou not? (SB)
Ash – ask
Ashe – ask (SB)
Ashelt – likely, probable (SB)
Ashin – asking (SB)
Ashler – free-stone (SB)
Asht – asked (SB)
Ashn – plural of ask (SB)
Asker, a newt (SB)
Ast – asked (SB)
Astid, ostid – instead
A'stite – as soon (SB)
As, at – that ‘They say as bacco’s pisenous’
‘At – that. ‘I thowt ’at yo’ knewn’ ‘The lark ’at builds id own wee nest’
Ate – eat ‘We connot ate yo’r fancy mate’
At’ll – that will ‘He’s one o’ those at’ll lend onybody a shillin, iv they’n give him
fourteen pence to stick to’
At’s – that is ‘There isn’t a chap at’s better kown I o’ that country side’
At't – at it (SB)
Atthatns – in that way; in that manner (SB)
Aw – pronoun I, as "aw went."
Awf – an elf; a sprite (SB)
Awkert – awkward, comical ‘Sherrup tha awkert beggar’
Aw’ll – I will
Awlúng – all owing to, occasioned by (SB)
Awlus – always
Aw'm – I am ‘God bless thee, love! awm fain tha’rt come’
Awméety – Almighty (SB)
Awnsert, –answered (SB)
Awse, oss – Offer, attempt ‘A mon ‘at plays a fiddle weel Should never awse to dee’
Aw’r – I were
Awsin, –offering (SB)
Awsler – ostler (SB)
Awst – offered (SB)
Aw’st – I shall
Awt-upón-the – out upon thee (SB)
Awter – alter
Awtert – altered ‘Heaw things are awter’d neaw’
Awts – refuse of hay ; left meat (SB)
Awtter – to alter (SB)
Aw'ttercáshun – altercation (SB)
Awtterin – altering (SB)
Awttert – altered (SB)
Aw've – I have
Awvish – queer, peevish (SB)
Ax, axe, axen – ask ‘They never seek my humble cot, To ax me heaw aw fare’
Axes – asks
Axt – asked
Axins – askings (banns of marriage)
Aye, –yes (SB)
Ayther – either ‘His wife could ayther sink or swim, For th’ difference as it med to him’
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