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Lancashire Dialect Glossary C 

Ca, co, coed, coen, coes – call, calls ‘”Oh, yigh,” said th’ lad; “They co’n me things,

Sometimes, - ‘ats bad to bide”’

Cackle – to prate; to talk over much (SB)

Cadge – to stuff the belly, also to beg (obs.) (SB)

Cadger – a beggar (SB)

Caldermoor – near Littleborough (SB)

Call – to abuse people verbally

Cals – calicos

Calimanco – a kind of worsted stuffs

Cam – to wear awry (SB)

Cambeshur – a farm in Heaton (SB)

Cambril – the heel; the fetlock (SB)

Cam'd – awry, cross, ill-natured (SB)

Cammed – crooked

Camp – to talk together ‘He thinks I come a-campin’ him

            An nod a cooartin’ thee’

Camperknows – ale pottage, in which are put sugar, spices, &c. (SB)

Camplin – children talking saucily to their elders

Cankart – ill-tempered, peevish (SB)

Cank – to talk about a thing (SB)

Cankin – chatting (SB)

Cankin-pleck – a place to cank in (SB)

Canna, conna, conno – can not

Cant – healthy, cheery; cheerful, comfortable (SB)

Canty – cheerful, chatty (SB)

Cappel – A piece of leather on the toes of clogs

Cappil – a patch on a shoe (SB)

Caps – beats; to out-do, to exceed - That caps o" (SB)

Capt – astonished, surprised, beaten ‘Aw’m capt at folk wantin’ to wed’

Car – cower, ceawer – cover, lie, also sit ‘But neaw aw ha’ to car mi deawn

            Un rest whol Sunday’s o’er’

Careno – care not (SB)

Cark – to be careful, anxious (SB)

Carlins – boiled peas eaten on Care Sunday, the Sunday before Palm Sunday (SB)

Car'n – the pl. of care.  "We car'n" (SB)

Carrid, carried (SB)

Carrin, carron – carrion (SB)

Carry – red, curdy, rusty (SB)

Carr-weatur – red curdy water (SB)

Carry-pleck – a place boggy with carr-water (SB)

Casey-moor – Kersal-moor (SB)

Cat-hole – a place in Unsworth (SB)

Catter – to lay up, to thrive in the world (SB)

Catterwawin – courting, keeping company as lovers (SB)

Cauf, cawf – calf ‘Whose cow ud cauved, or who wur brewin’

Cauvelicked – the hair parted on the wrong side of the head

Cawbruck, –Calderbrook, near Littleborough (SB)

Cawd – called

Cawthermoor – Calder-moor, nr, Littleborough (SB)

Cawve or Kawvo – a calf (SB)

Cayther – a cradle, sometimes called a sorrow box [see also kayther]

Ceaw or Keaw – a cow (SB)

Ceawper – a cooper (SB)

Ceawnsil – counsil (SB)

Ceawrse – course, to runs hare (SB)

Ceawnter – a slow gallop, also a counter (SB)

Ceawnslaver – silly, non-sensical talk (SB)

Ceckle – to retort impertinently (SB)

Chaff – to chew, (obs.)

Chag – a small branch of a tree

Chap – a man.  "Yon chap" (SB)

Char – (charwoman) – wash ‘While hoo went eawt to char’; to work at occasional jobs (SB)

Charn – a churn (SB)

Charn-curdle – a churn staff (SB)

Cheamber, choamber – chamber (SB)

Cheer – chair (SB)

Chen – chain (SB)

Chep – cheap ‘This moorland breeze is noan so bad;

            It’s chep, so get thy share’

Chepn – cheapen (SB)

Cher, cheer, cheor – chair ‘Come, lad, just draw thi cheor up, do’

Chet – cheat ‘But it’s ole to no use, he’ll be chetted, he’ll see’

Chett – cheat (SB)

Chetter – cheater (SB)

Cheyney – China ware (SB)

Chez, chuseheaw – choose how [See also ‘shuzheaw]

Chieve – to prosper (SB)

Childer – children ‘Come whoam to thi childer an’ me’

Chilt chylt – child ‘Then he turn’t hissel o’er, like a chylt tir’t wi’ play’

Chink – to cough violently (SB)

Chinkin – coughing; the chink-cough (SB)

Chilther – children. [Ed. see also 'Childer.'] (SB)

Chimley – chimney (SB)

Chilt – child (SB)

Childer – children (SB)

Chlog – clog, a shoe with a wooden bottom; the o sounded broad and full, as in doe, roe, woe (SB)

Chloggy – glutinous, adhesive (SB)

Choance – chance (SB)

Choange – change (SB)

Choke – chalk, also to suffocate (SB)

Chomp – to chew (SB)

Chompin – chewing (SB)

Chockful – quite full (SB)

Chomplin – chewing vigorously (SB)

Chops – face, mouth ‘They didn’t walk eawt wi’ a tab i’ ther chops’; the cheeks (SB)

Choughin-yed – a blockhead (SB)

Chovin dish – an old holed bucket filled with hot cinders and placed under a hanloom

in winter to warm the warp so that there would be fewer broken threads

Chuck – to throw ‘Aw chucked it away’

Chuck – a hen, a word to call hens (SB)

Chump (off his chump) – not quite ‘all there’, senseless, silly

Chunner, chunter – talk low in a grumbling fashion ‘There’s some fooak are olez on t’

chunner, an’ there’s nob’dy can tell wot abeawt’; to murmur (SB)

Chuntin – Murmuring sulkily

Churn milk – buttermilk (SB)

Churngetting – a night-after the harvest

Clack – a wordy noise (SB)

Claggy – sticky, pasty ‘It claggs i’ mi meauth’

Clamm’d, clemm’d – starved, insufficiently fed, not enough to eat ‘Heaw they’re

clemmin’ an’ starvin’ poor weavers loike me’

Clammer – to climb, or a great noise

Clap – to put a thing in a place (SB)

Clate – clatter, tiresome prate (SB)

Clatter – a noise, a racket (SB)

Cleaut – cleawt, clout – a hefty slap with the hand ‘Aw’ll gi thi a cleawt on th’ lug’

Cleaw – a flood-gate at a water course (SB)

Cleawd – a cloud (SB)

Cleawdy – cloudy (SB)

Cleawdin – clouding (SB)

Cleawkin – twine (SB)

Cleawkin-grin, a game-snare of twine (SB)

Cleawn – clown

Cleawt – a clout, a patch (SB)

Cleawted – patched (SB)

Cleawtin – patching (SB)

Cleawtch – to clutch (SB)

Cleawtches – clutches (SB)

Cleawtchn – we clutch (SB)

Cleek – to catch at hastily (SB)

Cleekin – catching (SB)

Cleeon, clen, clennin’ – clean, cleaning ‘It isn’t stuffed wi’ fither-deawn;

But th’ flocks are clen and new’

Clem – to starve for want of food; clem'd, famished (SB)

Clemm’d – starved for want of food

Clemmin – famishing (SB)

Clinker— hobnail; a strong nail for shoes (SB)

Clip – embrace ‘Mon ‘at clips yon ’ll ha’ a hontful’; to embrace, to cling around the neck; clipn, pl. of clip (SB)

Clivver – clever (SB)

Cloakn – the sharp part, cramp of a horse-shoe; coakn, the same (SB)

Clockin – clucking of a hen (SB)

Clocks – ornaments woven into a stocking. "He's stockings wi clocks” (SB)

Clod – to throw missiles (SB)

Cloddin – throwing (SB)

Clodn – pl. of clod (SB)

Clog-agen – might be said of a widow likely to remarry ‘Hoo’ll clog agen’

Clog – shoe with wooden sole edged with clog-irons

Clog-merk – ‘A clog-merk were wor than a crime’

Clompin – setting the feet down heavily

Cloise – close, near to (SB)

Clooas – clothes ‘An sich a meawth, an’ sich a nooas!

            An’ bein’ drest I’ th’ blackest clooas’

Cloof, a clough, a cleft, a hollow place (SB)

Clough, cloof – a wooded dell or valley

Clout – a cloth, a rag, as in ‘dish clout’ ‘As wake as a weet dish-clout’

Cloyse – a closure, a field (SB)

Clutter – gathered in heaps

Clozzum – to embrace, to hold fast, to clutch (SB)

Clozzums – embraces, clutches (SB)

Clozzumt – clutched; pl. clozzumn (SB)

Clum – climed; pl. clumn (SB)

Clutter – to crowd together (SB)

Cluttert – strewed thickly, as, "th' feelt is cluttert wí daisies" (SB)

Coakn – the sharp part of a horse shoe (SB)

Cob – lump of coal‘Aw’ve just mended th’ fire wi’ a cob’; a lump, a piece of coal; also to exceed, to surpass, as "that cobs o;" "that's a cobber" (SB)

Cob – throw ‘Cob thi cap at him’, ‘Cobbing a pigeon’

Cock – a heap, a prominence; "a hay-cock."

Cockers – stockings, hose without feet (SB)

Cockstangs – two poles used for carrying cocks of hay to the bar (SB)

Cockstride – a short distance (once said to be the distance between two single beds!)

Cod, coddlin’ – banter, hoax ‘Tha’rt nobbut coddin’ (Kidding)

Coddle – to nurse; to parboil (SB)

Codlin – parboiling; also a particular sort of apple (SB)

Coddlt – parboiled (SB)

Codger – a quaint or eccentric character ‘Owd Time,-he’s a troublesome codger’

Coe – to call by name, also to asperse, as "he co'd him finely” (SB)

Coe'say – a causeway (SB)

Coers – inviters, calling birds, also ‘o’-to-becoers’

Cogley – rough, stony ‘A cogley road’

Coil – a small cock of hay

Collop – a slice, as "a collop o' beak'n," a slice of bacon (SB)

Collyhurst – a place near Manchester (SB)

Comn – is come; pl. comn, SB)

Connut – cannot ‘Hoo connut bake or brew thi’ sen’

Cooat – coat ‘Just poo thi cooat off, wilta lad?

            Aw see it’s getten torn’

Coom – came ‘he coom’ ‘A mon in a shurt coom an’ geet in a tub’; pl. coomn (SB)

Con – can

Con'to – canst thou (SB)

Con'tono – canst thou not (SB)

Con'no – cannot (SB)

Con'-ha' – can have; con'ni – can I? (SB)

Conny – agreeable, snug (SB)

Condle – to get angry; probably from, kindles. "Lord heaw he condles" (SB)

Consarn – concern (SB)

Consarnin – concerning (SB)

Constre – to construe (SB)

Cooth – a cold (SB)

Conno’ – cannot

Coo-dove – a term of endearment

Cooat – coat ‘Just poo thi cooat off, wilta lad?

            Aw see it’s getten torn’

Coom – came ‘he coom’ ‘A mon in a shurt coom an’ geet in a tub’; pl. coomn (SB)

Cop – a ball of spun thread (SB)

Cop/cops/copp’d – catch/catches/caught ‘Cop howd o’ that end’

Coppi-nook – a place near Oldham (SB)

Copster – a spinner (SB)

Copthroad – a singular elevation of rock near Rochdale (SB)

Cornd/corn’t – cannot

Cor-kin-pin – a large pin (SB)

 ‘Cose – because ‘Hoo cried, ‘cose her feyther weren’t theer’

Coss, cuss – curse ‘So aw care no’ a cuss for yo o-o’

Cos'tn – pl. of cost (SB)

Costril – a small barrel (SB)

Cote – a cot, a small cottage (SB)

Cotter – to kick ‘Aw’ll cotter thi weel’

Cotter – a pin to fasten a bolt (SB)

Cottert – fastened, secured (SB)

Cowd – cold ‘Aw’m gooin’ neaw as cowd as leeod’

Cowd – cold; also raked together.  "He's cowd it ov a rook" (SB)

Cowd-hurst – Cold-hurst, on North Moor, Oldham (SB)

Cowd-greave – Cold-greave near Rochdale (SB)

Cowfe – to cough (SB)

Cow'kn – a straining to vomit (probably obs.) (SB)

Cowm – near Rochdale (SB)

Cown – Colne in Lancashire (SB)

Cowe-rake – a rake for ordure or mud (SB)

Cowt – a colt (SB)

Cowtish – frisky, colt-like (SB)

Coyls – coals (SB)

Coyl-rook – coal-deposit (SB)

Crachinly – weak, feeble

Crack – a gossip, a chat

Crack – nothing to boast about ‘nowt to crack on’

Crag-cloof – at Chadderton (SB)

Cracklin – a thin cake (SB)

Cram, crom – to stuff, to put in a place

Cramm’d – stuffed

Cram’d, cramm’d – cross, vexed ‘His partner could be clam’d or cram’d

            An’ th’ universe idsel – be d___d’; snappish, ill-tempered (SB)

Cranky – ill-tempered ‘Cranky side eaut’

Crap – money. "My crap's o done" (SB)

Cratch – manger; a rack for hay (SB)

Cratchinly – ill made, broken-down, weak; feebly,weakly (SB)

Crayter – creature ‘My owd wife, hoo’s a good owd crayter’

Creatur – creature (SB)

Creawd – crowd (SB)

Creawn – crown (SB)

Creawntn – we crowned (SB)

Creawse – amourous, lascivious (SB)

Creawtch – to crouch (SB)

Creel – frame to wind yarn upon; also a spotted hen of a particular breed (SB)

Creem – to give privately "Aw creemt-nip a bit" (SB)

Creemt – put aside (SB)

Crib – a pen for a calf; a small house, or apartment (SB)

Crick – a local pain; a tension.  "A crick ith neck" (SB)

Cricket – a low seat; a log of wood used to sit upon.  "Poo that cricket to'th' foyer" (SB)

Crill – to shiver, to chill; crilly, chilly (SB)

Crimble – to crumble ; also a place near Rochdale (SB)

Crimble i’ th’ poke – go back on a bargain, to be cowardly; to run off a bargain (SB)

Crink – a pain in the neck, a stiffness (SB)

Crinkle – to bend under a weight; to rumple a thing (SB)

Cripplehole – a square hole left in a high wall for sheep to go through

Croddy – a feat ‘I set him a croddy (I did that which he could not do)’; Croddy, or craddy, a feat, a surpassing act, a challenge.  "There's a croddy;" "he set em o' a croddy" (SB)

Croe – a crow, a rook; to crow as a cock (SB)

Crom – to cram; crompy – full of action, restless. "He's very crompy" (SB)

Crompton – a township, betwixt Oldham and Rochdale (SB)

Cronk – the note of a raven; cronky, rough, uneven (SB)

Cronked – sat down ‘He’s cronked i’ th’ corner’

Cronky-shay, Cronkyshaw – a rough barren moor, near Rochdale (SB)

Crony – a true companion soul ‘Hev yo’ just an owd crony to tawk to,

            Or a book, when yo’ve finisht yo’ work?’

Croot – crooked

Crope – crept, also crippled; croppn, have crept (SB)

Crop’n – crept into

Cruckle – to sink down ‘He cruckled to th’ floor’

Crud – to curdle (SB)

Cruddle – to break into curds (SB)

Cruddled – curdled, congealed milk

Crudely – curdy (SB)

Cruds – curdled milk (SB)

Crummy – crumbly, falling to crumbs (SB)

Crummil, –Cromwell [Oliver] (SB)

Crumpy – to be out of humour (SB)

Crumsa – Crumpsal, as now erroneously spelled; formerly Crummesall, a township near Manchester (SB)

Crunner – coroner (SB)

Cruttle – to stoop down; to bend, to sink down from weakness. "He cruttlt to'th' yerth;" pl. cruttltn (SB)

Cryez – the creas; measles (SB)

Cub – a whelp; an ignorant, presuming, young person (SB)

Cubbert/cubbort – cupboard ‘An’ open’t mony a cubbort door

            Afore he knelt to pray’

Cuckud – a cuckold (SB)

Cud – could ‘I cud like a saup mysel’

Cudn – pl. of cud (SB)

Cudd – food, part digested, of a cow (SB)

Cuddle – to embrace, to fondle (SB)

Cudto – couldest thou? (SB)

Cudtono – cudst thou not; pl. cudn (SB)

Culler – colour; cullert – coloured (SB)

Cumbert – cumbered (SB)

Cunnin – cunning (SB)

Cunnin-corner – a place in Saddleworth (SB)

Cup o' sneeze – a pinch of snuff (SB)

Curn – corn (SB)

Curtner – a curtain (SB)

Curtnurs – curtains

Cut – the canal ‘Come whoam! Bi sharp! Pig’s fo’n i’ t’ cut!’

Cute – acute, quick, penetrative; cutely, acutely, quickly

Cuteniss – acuteness (SB)

Cutter – to make much of, as a fowl of her young (SB)

Cword – a cord; cwordin, cording, twine; cworded, corded (SB)

Cworse – coarse (SB)

Cwot – coat (SB)