Lancashire Dialect Glossary E
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E law – O law (Oh Lord) – an interjection
Eary – every (SB)
Eautcumblin – a stranger
Eawer – our (SB)
Eawere – however (SB)
Eawl – an owl (SB)
Eawler – an owler, the alder tree (SB)
Eawlhole – the hole in a barn or other building, through which an owl passes and repasses, in going to and from its roosting place (SB)
Eawnce – ounce (SB)
Eawr, eaw’r, eawer, eaur – our, also hour
Eawt, eaut – out (A stroll, a short journey: ‘a bit ov an eawt, a yarbin’ eawt’)
‘There’s mony a gate eawt of eawr teawn-end’
Eawt-comer – one from another district (SB)
Eawther – author; (Awder, cymraeg) (SB)
Ebors – a place near Middleton
Eccles – icicles
Edder – the dragon fly
Editch – grass grown after the mowing
Edther, or Edder – adder (SB)
Edther-bowt – the dragon fly (SB)
Edther-crop – a spider; (adargop, cymraeg) (SB)
Ee – eyes
Ee-bree – eye-brow (SB)
Ee-seet – eye-sight (SB)
Eebreen, eebrees – eyebrows
Eem – ‘Aw connut eem to do it. Aw havn’t time’; ime, leisure; "conto eem to do this job" (SB)
Een – eyes; also even, as "aw'll een go forrud."
Een neaw – even now, directly (SB)
Eend – end; "awll see th' eend ont” (SB)
Eendneaw – by and by
Eendways – forward ‘So aw kept eendways on an’ to Owdham aw went’
Eet – did eat; pl. eetn (SB)
Egad – a minor oath
Egad or Igad; Egadlin or Igadlin – masked oaths (SB)
Egodsnum – in God’s name
Eigh – yes ‘Eigh, eigh; an so sey I too’
Elaw! – eh lord! (SB)
Elbow-grease – energy, as in scrubbing, polishing
Elder, more likely – as, "heed elder speak to me," he would more probably speak to me; also a cow's udder (SB)
Elt – to stir oaten dough before baking (SB)
Elze – else
‘Em – them ‘An aw hanged ‘em o’ th’ maiden to dry’
End – back-end, fore-end, far-end ‘At th’ far-end, meaning at the end of a task, the
point of exhaustion, or, at death’s door
Enoo – enough ‘Why – forty, mon, wur noan enoo!’
Enoof – enough
Er – our ‘Er Joseph’s welly blynt, poor lad; Er Timothy’s a foo’
Eite, eyt – eat ‘I’ll yet mi hat!’
Elsin – a sort of awl (SB)
Eshin – a pale (SB)
Esshole (or Asshole – SB) hole under the fire of some old Saddleworth houses to hold the ashes
Etten, ett’n – eaten
Exen – oxen (SB)
Expect – to suppose, to understand
Eyyron – iron (the eyy pron. as ‘heigh’); sometimes, eyurn (SB)