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Ga, gave – as "he gameh." (SB)

Gab – talk, cheek ‘Too much gab’, ‘Neaw then, less gab’

Gabble – confused talk (SB)

Gablock – a gavelock, an iron bar, a weapon (SB)

Gad – to run about

Gadlin! Godlin! – an exclamation (SB)

Gadd – to run about (SB)

Gadding – cattle racing madly about a field. Also, gadding off on a holiday.

Gadster – one who gads (SB)

Gaffer – an agèd man (SB)

Gaight – gave it; gant – the same, "He gant meh." (SB)

Gainer – nearer:  "That's a gainer road." (SB)

Galker – a tub to hold wort (SB)

Galloway – a Scotch poney (SB)

Gallowses, galluses – braces (for trousers) ‘An’, Jack, hitch up thi galluses!’

Gam – sport, diversion, also plucky

Gam – crooked or disabled through injury. ‘A gam leg’

Gamm – sport, amusement; also game (SB)

Gammeh – gave me (SB)

Gammer – an agèd dame (SB)

Gan – gave ‘It wur nobbut last Monday aw sowd a good bed,

            Nay, very near gan it, to get us some bread’

'Gan – began

Gank – a deep narrow foot way (SB)

Gant – gave it (SB)

Gap – an opening, a breach in a fence (SB)

Gap-stake – a stake that stops up a gap (SB)

Garlun – a garland (SB)

Garth – a hoop (SB)

Gash – a slash, a wound (SB)

Gate – a way, a path ‘Hoo’s out o’ th’ gae o’ th’ carts now’

Gate – a road; also a fence, a bar that opens (SB)

Gate-way – a road through a gate (SB)

Gauby – a fool, clownish

Gaunt – lean, hungry (SB)

Gawbie – gawby, gawk – a dunce, stupid

Gawby – a clown, a dunce (SB)

Gawm – to comprehend with difficulty; to comprehend (SB)

Gawmble – to endeavour to comprehend (SB)

Gawmblin’ – a dull learner, a soft youth

Gawmblin – understanding imperfectly; one who is a half-fool (SB)

Gawmblt – played the fool (gambolled)

Gawmin – understanding; also considering, cogitating, "Whot arto gawmin abeawt." (SB)

Gawmless/gawmliss – without wit, stupid, without sense

Gawpe – to stare with mouth open

Gawpin – staring with the mouth open

Gawster – to boast (SB)

Gawsterin – swaggering (SB)

Gawsterin' – gaping

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Geaw – go (SB)

Geawl – dishcharge from weak eyes

Geawl, Geawml – matter exuding from tender eyes (SB)

Geawlt – festered, scabbed (SB)

Geawn – gown (SB)

Geawrse – grass (this about Todmorden.) (SB)

Geawse – guess; Geawst, guessed; Geawstn, they guessed. (SB)

Geawt – gout (SB)

Ged, ger – get ‘Aw cor’d tell heaw tha geds to see her’

Gee – to agree, to coincide, also a word meaning to go on (SB)

Geet – got; Geetn – we got; Getn – have got; Gi Geet, getten – got ‘When hoa’d getten o mopt up and sanded’ (SB)

Gee't, –give it (SB)

Gerr – get ‘Aye, an’ gerr it for nowt if he cud’

Gerrup – get up

Gerroff – get off ‘Gerrof wi’ thi bother’

Gett’n, – gotten

Geythur – gather

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Gi – give

Gies – gives

Gi’n – given

Gi's – gives

Gibberidge – stammering, broken speech

Giggle – to laugh (SB)

Giglin – laughing (SB)

Giglt – laughed (SB)

Gigln – we laugh (SB)

Gigler – one prone to giggle (SB)

Giglet – a blithe, lightsome young female (SB)

Gillers – lines of twisted hair, for fishing lines (SB)

Gill-hooter – an owl (SB)

Gimmi or Gimeh – give me (SB)

Gimmer – an old sheep (SB)

Gimlet – a boring tool (SB)

Gin – given

Ginnil – a narrow covered passage; an entry (SB)

Gird – a sudden pain in the bowels

Girn – to grin (SB)

Girnin – grinning (SB)

Girntn – they gran (grinned) (SB)

Glad – doors, bolts that move too easily, ‘This bolt is glad’

Gleawm – gloom (SB)

Gleawmy – gloomy (SB)

Gleawmt – gloomed (SB)

Gleawmin – glooming (SB)

Glent – glimpse, a glance, a sly look

Glendurt – stared; looked in amaze (SB)

Glent – to glance; talented, glanced (SB)

Glentin – glancing (SB)

Gley – to squint (SB)

Glim – glimmer

Glister – to glitter (SB)

Glisterin – glittering (SB)

Glistertn – they glittered (SB)

Glizzen – to sparkle (SB)

Glizzent – flashed, glittered

Glizznt – sparkled, glittered (SB)

Glizz'n – they sparkle (SB)

Gloor – to stare, fatuitously (SB)

Gloort – stared (SB)

Gloorin – staring (SB)

Gloortn – they stared (SB)

Gloove – a glove (SB)

Gloppen’d, gloppen’t – thunder-struck, frightened, stunned, greatly surprised

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Goad, a gaud – an ornament; also a custom, a way of doing a thing. "Nay, theaw'll not act i'that goad, willto?" (SB)

Goady – gaudy, fine (SB)

Goant – gaunt: rm. Wont (SB)

Goart – wounded, gored (SB)

Gob – mouth

Gob-oil – saliva’ Polishh it wi’ gob-oil’ (SB)

Gobb – a large piece of meat, a lump (SB)

Gobbin – an ignorant, clownish person (SB); an awkward clown

Gobslotch – a glutton (SB)

Goddil – God will; God’s will (SB)

Godsnum – God’s name

Golch – to swallow ravenously (SB)

Golsh – to belch or eject wind from the mouth

Gonnor – gander

Gonnerheead/ Gonnoryed – stupid, a dunce; blockhead (SB)

Goo, gooa – go "when wilto gooa;"

Gooan – gone

Gooas – goes ‘Well, put th’ dur to, when tha gooas’

Gooint' – going to (SB)

Good lorjus days – good Lord Jesus! What days! (an interjection)

            ‘Good Lorjus, Meary! Thou’rt so heasty’

Gooddit – Shrovetide (SB)

Goodsha – Goodshaw, near Backup (SB)

Gooer – a triangular piece of cloth stitched in a shirt (SB)

Gooin – going

Gooms – the gums (SB)

Gorse – furze (SB)

Gorse-cock – brown linnet

Gosh Bigosh – oaths (SB)

Gosterin – making a raucous noise

Gote – a water-course to a mill (SB)

Gowd – gold ‘Aw prize this bonnet moor nor gowd’

Gowden – golden

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Gradely, graidly, greadly – good, proper, right, thorough, complete, well, etc.

            ‘Let’s hev a bit o’ gradely talk’ ‘Fettled it gradely’

Gran – did grin (SB)

Grandge – a grinding with the teeth as when biting through celery

Granny – gronny - grandmother

Grash – trash, sour stuff; Grashin', eating trash (SB)

Graunch – to eat voraciously (SB)

Greadly or Graidly – properly, completely (SB). See also ‘gradely’.

Greawnd – ground; the earth (SB)

Greawp, group (SB)

Greawpn – they group (SB)

Greawpin – tho joining and binding of a tub (SB)

Greawt – thin wort (SB)

Greece or Greese – a little brow: also stairs; an ascent (SB)

Green – grown

Grese – grass (SB)

Grin – a noose to catch hares (SB)

Grindleston – a grindstone

Grip-yort – grip-yard: a platting of stakes and twisted boughs filled a up with earth; generally made to confine a water-course, and occasionally to form artificial banks and seats in pleasure grounds (SB)

Grip yortin – making a grip-yort (SB)

Groated – bribed, allowance of fourpence a-day to debtors

Grode – growed (SB)

Groo – grow

Gron-chilt – grand-child (SB)

Gron-dad – grandfather (SB)

Gronideer – a granidier (SB)

Gron-mam – grandmother (SB)

Gronny – grandmother

Groon – grown (SB)

Grooin – growing (SB)

Groop – the place where ordure falls in a shippon (SB)

Grooth – growth: of a certain growth (SB)

Grout – washings from an ale tub after home brewing

Gruant – a greyhound (SB)

Gruntin' herd – swinish herd

Groyn – a swine's snout (SB)

Gruminil – small coal: the riddlings of coal (SB)

Grund – ground, pulverized (SB)

Grunsil – groundsel, a herb (SB)

Gryev – a greve, or district of a place, as the gryeves or greves, in the ancient forest of Rossendale.

Gryev – a place in Spotland: Levin gryev, another place on the road betwixt Rochdale and Bacup (SB)

Guestless – properly ‘Grizzle-hurst’, a small wood, in Birkle (SB)

Guiders – sinews ‘Hoo’s ratched her guiders’

Gum – an exclamation ‘By gum, it’s gone some cowd to-neet’

Gurd – a fit, a start. A gurd o leawghin or laighin, is a fit of laughing.

Gusset – a square piece sewed into a shirt (SB)

Gutt – go to.  "Awst gutt Ratchda." (SB)

Guttle – to drink

Gwon – gone

Gwos – goes (often used by Edwin Waugh)

            ‘Then aw went to th’ Peel’s Arms to taste of their ale;

            They sup’n it so fast it never gwos stale’

Gwont – gone to, also gaunt (SB)

Gyrr – to purge (SB)

Gyrrd – purged. A gyrrd cawve, is one purged by having had too rich milk (SB)

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