Lancashire Dialect Glossary H
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Ha, hav, han – have ‘Come, give us a lift, yo’ ‘at han owt to give’
Hack – to cut bunglingly (SB)
Hacklin – cutting, lacerating (SB)
Hacklt – cut, jagged (SB)
Hackln – they hackle (SB)
Hackslaver – a disgusting fellow (SB)
Hackle – in rare form ‘In good hackle’
Haddle – barren, unfruitful (cymraeg, Hadlyd) (SB)
Hades – a place near Rochdale (SB)
Hadloont – headland of a ploughed field (SB)
Hadn – we had (SB)
Hadno’ – had not
Hadnoyo – had not you? (SB)
Hadnyo – had you? (SB)
Hadto – hadst thou? (SB)
Hadtono – hadst thou not. (SB)
Hafe, hauve, hawf, hoave – half
‘Aw wish tha on yon hoss’s back
On th’ road to Hell, i’ hafe a crack’
Haft – the, handle of a knife or other cutting tool (SB)
Haffle – to hesitate, to shuffle: "Whot arto hafflin abeawt?" (SB)
Hag and Haggus – the belly (SB)
Hag – a witch, a malicious old woman (SB)
Hag-gate – a place near Royton (SB)
Haggoknows – an ungainly blockhead (SB)
Haggus or Heygus – pottage made of herbs, meal, and butter (SB)
Haginow – to skulk about imposing on people
Haig – a haw; the berry of the hawthorn (SB)
Haight or Ha-it – have it (SB)
Hairum Scairum – a wild fellow (SB)
Hal – Henry; Hal o'Nabs – Henry of Abrahams (SB)
Halliblash – a great blaze, probably from holyblash, a holy, or sacred fire (SB)
Halloe – halloo, to shout (SB)
Halloday – a play day, a holiday (SB)
Hammi or Hameh – have me: "Wilto hameh?" wilt thou have me? (SB)
Hammil – a hamlet (SB)
Hammil-scoance – the lantern of the village: the village Solomon (SB)
Han – we have (SB)
Hanch – to snap, to bite at. "Th' dhog hancht at him." (SB)
Hanch-appo, or apple – the amusement of snap-apple. (SB)
Hangum, hongum – hang them
Hanker – to desire, to covet: "He's hankering after summut." (SB)
Hanni – have you? (SB)
Hanno – have not: "I hanno, we hanno, they hanno." (SB)
Hap – to cover, to wrap up: also to smooth bed clothes. "Mam, hapmeh op," cover me with bed clothes: "Hap em deawn," smooth them down. (SB)
Happed – lapped, tucked ‘Hoo geet him to bed an’ happed him up weel’
Happen – perhaps, it may be
Happin – covering (SB)
Hapt – covered (SB)
Hapn – they cover (SB)
Haptnt – they cover (SB)
Harbor-londs – a place at Middleton (SB)
Hard-melcht – hard to milk: scant of milk (SB)
Harper-heigh – or hey, a township near Manchester (SB)
Harr – higher (SB)
Harrin – snarling (SB)
Harm – to repeat after another, in mockery. "He harms after meh." (SB)
Harry – to hurry, to tease (SB)
Harrid – hurried, tired (SB)
Harstone – hearthstone ‘An’ th’ harstone’s as white as new snow’
Hask or Harsk – dry, parched
Hast, hasta, hasto – have you
Hately – hateful, bad tempered: "Dunne be so hately." (SB)
Haupney – halfpenny
‘Even poets must get fewer haupneys nor kicks’
Haust or Hawst – a cough (SB)
Haustin – coughing: Hoste, Danish (SB)
Hav – have (SB)
Havin – having (SB)
Havn – we had (SB)
Haver – oats
Haver-bread – oat-bread
Haver cake – oaten bread (SB)
Hawmbark – a horse collar (SB)
Hawms – the back part of the human thigh, next to the knee joint (SB)
Hawms, haulms – horse-gearing: the irons which go round the collar (SB)
Hawmpo, or Hawmple – to halt, to limp (SB)
Hawpney – halfpenny (SB)
Hawp – a tall clumsy person (SB)
Hawve – half: Hawvin, halving (SB)
Hawse – a horse (SB)
Hawse-goad, horse-gowd or gaud – ornament for a horse (SB)
Hawt – to halt, to limp (SB)
Hawttin – limping: also standing still, resting (SB)
Hawtter – halter (SB)
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Healo, or Yealo – bashful, shy: "com, drink, men, an dunno be so healo." (SB)
Heau, heaw – how ‘Says he, ‘Heaw are ta’ Willie?’’
Heaur, heawr – hour ‘We han an heawer for noon’
Heause, heawse – house ‘I carena’ for titles, nor heawses, nor longs’
Heaw – how; "Heaw, arto?" how art thou? (SB)
Heaw-leech, heaw-leets – how happens it?
‘Heaw lets theaw’rt not at thi wark?’
Heawer – hour: Awr, cymraeg (SB)
Heawl – to howl: Yeawl, the same (SB)
Heawnd – a hound (SB)
Heawnge – slump: a large piece of bread or other food; "Cut thesel a good heawnge." (SB)
Heawngin-obeawt – lounging, skulking (SB)
Heawse – house (SB)
Heawse-wark, house-work (SB)
Heck (‘Oh heck!, By heck!, Had they heck!) – exclamation
Heck – a half door (SB)
Hed – had ‘Yo’ ne’er knew when yo’ hed him’
Hed – did heed, minded
Hedd, –heeded: "he hedd meh.” (SB)
Heddish – after-grass (SB)
Hee – high (SB)
Hee-er – higher (SB)
Heeist – highest (SB)
Hee-witch – a wizard (SB)
Heegh – high (in some localities) (SB)
Heegher – higher (SB)
Heeghist – highest (SB)
Heer – hear, at this place
Heer – hoar, also a mist (SB)
Hee’r – he was ‘Hee’r asleep’; Heer gooin, he was going, Heer stonnin, he was standing. (SB)
Heeve, hove – lifted (SB)
Heewaymon – highwayman (SB)
Heffer – a heifer (SB)
Heggled – badly off, harassed
Heigh – high ‘Some furniture we value heigh’
Heigh-go-mad – mad, shouting or galloping like mad (SB)
Heigher – higher
Heir’t – inherited ‘Where aw’ve a gill thae’s nine or ten,
Thae mun ha’ heir’t a fortin!’
Helder – rather ‘Aw’d helder not go’
Helder or Elder, more likely – udder of a cow (SB)
Helt – likely (SB)
Helter – a halt
Heps – fruit of the briar (SB)
He’re – he was ‘And Betty crept round, while he’re dozing away’ (SB)
Herple – to halt, or limp: "he coom herplin after." (SB)
Het, height – named (SB)
Hetter – keen, eager (obs.) (SB)
Hev – have
Hey-go-mad – like mad
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Hiddle – to hide (SB)
Hiddlin – hiding (SB)
Hiddlance – in secrecy (SB)
Hidin’ (a good hidin’) – punishment, beating, thrashing
Hie – hasten ‘Hie-the’’
Hiein – hastening (SB)
Hig – vexed, in a temper; a passion, pettish anger "Hee's in a great hig." (SB)
Hill – to cover: "Hill meh op," cover me with bed clothes; "Unhill meh," uncover me;
Bed-hillin, bed-clothes. (SB)
Hinder – to prevent (SB)
Hippin-cloth – a child's clout (SB)
Hippings – stepping stones over a stream.
Hitter – to fester, to corrode (SB)
Hittert – festered, scabbed (SB)
Hittin – hitting (SB)
Hittnt – we hit (SB)
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Ho, hoe – hall, ancient mansion
Hob – hot shelf near fire, also a clown
‘Ther’s some nice bacon collops on th’ hob’
Hob – a dunce, a gawby (SB)
Hobbil – a dull fool (SB)
Hobs – ledges near a fire place (SB)
Hobble – an entanglement, a dilemma: also to limp (SB)
Hobblety-hoy – a clumsy, thriving lad (SB)
Hobgoblin – a demon: an evil spirit (SB)
Hobnob – to sit chatting over drink (SB)
Hobthurst – an ungainly dunce: "Theaw great hobthurst." Tim Bobbin describes it as an apparition "haunting only woods," but in that sense it is not now understood. (SB)
Hogg – hug, to carry on the back (SB)
Hoggin – carrying on the back; the o in this word also is sounded broad and full, as in doe, roe, woe (SB)
Hogg-muttn – mutton of a year old sheep; the o sounded as above (SB)
Hollin – the holly (SB)
Hollinwood – nr. Oldham (SB)
Hommer – a hammer (SB)
Hommerin – hammering (SB)
Hommertn – we hammered (SB)
Hond – hand ‘Wi mi hat i mi hont un mi clogs full o stumps’
Hondle – handle (SB)
Hondlin – handling (SB)
Hondltn – we handled (SB)
Hongry – hungry (SB)
Hong – hang (SB)
Hongin – hanging (SB)
Hongnt – we hung (SB)
Honk – to bank, to put a noose on a nail or hook, is to "honk it on." (SB)
Honk – also hank of yarn (SB)
Hons – hands
Hont – hand
Hontle – handful
Hoo/hoo’d/hoo’ll/hoo’r – she/she’d/she would/she was
‘Hoo’re oather weyshin’, cleeanin up,
Or else hoo had to bake’
Hoo shanno – she shall not (SB)
Hooa – who ‘Hooa ses so?’; "Hooas dun that." (SB)
Hooam – home [see also whoam]
Hooant – swelled hard in the flesh (SB)
Hoo-er – a courter, one seeking the affections of a female
Hooin’ – courting
Hooined – poor and ill fed
Hoo-justice – a female justice (SB)
Hook (tak’ her hook) – go ‘Let her tak’ her hook, an’ stop’
Hoo'll, hoo will – she will (SB)
Hoo’s, hoost – she is, she shall
Hopple – to walk badly
Hoor or Whoor – a prostitute (SB)
Hoor – she was, as, "hoor beawn to Ratchda.” (SB)
Hoose – she is, " hoose gon a milkin” (SB)
Hoost – she shall (SB)
Hopper – a sort of basket (SB)
Hoppet – a small basket (SB)
Horty – hearty (obs.) (SB)
Hotchin, or Hutchin – to limp, to keep shifting, as if uneasy (SB)
Hotter – to stir up, to potter the fire (SB)
Hotterin' – mad, very angry (SB)
Hough – a hoof, a foot (SB)
How – the whole: "How leath, on a halliblash." (SB)
How-row – a hubbub, a tumult (SB)
Howd, howt – hold ‘Howd thi’ noise, an’ then aw’ll gie thee
Owt tha likes’
Howd-te-tung – hold thy tongue
Howdin – holding (SB)
Howdn – they hold (SB)
Howe – a hill; Howe-side, a hill side (SB)
Howse – to stir up, to potter: "Howse that foyer." (SB)
Howsome – wholesome (SB)
Hoyd – a hide or skin: also to hide, to conceal (SB)
Hoyle – hole
Hoyr – to hire (SB)
Hoyrin – hiring (SB)
Hoyrtn – we hired (SB)
Hoyst – ice; Hoysty, icy (SB)
Hoyse – hose (SB)
Hoyts – long rods or sticks (SB)
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Hubbon – the hip; Huggon, the same, (but little used in South Lancashire) (SB)
Huckle – to stoop, to bend with age (SB)
Hucklin – stooping (SB)
Huckln – they stoop (SB)
Hud – hid, hide ‘Aw’d had it ole th’ time hud at eawr back dur’
Huddle – to crowd together (SB)
Huddlt – crowded (SB)
Huddlin – crowding (SB)
Huffed – offended ‘He’s huffed at summat’
Hug – to carry
Hugger-mugger – to conceal; Not so understood, but as a jumble, confusion (SB)
Hugginbund – hipbound, stiff in the hips
Huggins – hips; Huggons, the same (SB)
Hump-stridd'n – sitting a-stride (SB)
Hummobee, –the large field bee (SB)
Hundersfield, –from Hunder, hounder; and field, Hundersfield, nr. Rochdale (SB)
Huntly bruck – near Bury (SB)
Hunt-lone – in Chadderton (SB)
Hur – her ‘But aw could stare at nowt but hur,
When gooin’ eawt a-Mayin’
Hure – hair (also yure)
Hurn – a horn (SB)
Hursel – herself
Hury – hairy (SB)
Hush, huysh – hush (secret, illegal liquor)
Hush-shop – a place where ale is sold without a license (SB)
Husht – silence ‘Husht! There’s somebry at th’ dur!’; also to keep silent: "husht, dunno spyek." (SB)
Hutch – get closer ‘So hutch up closer to mi breast’, ‘Hutch op, mack reawm’; "hutch a bit fur!" "whot arto hutchin so close for?" (SB)
Hutchin – moving further, nearer on a seat (SB)
Hutherin – a loud, roaring wind
Huzz – a humming noise, like bees
Huzzif – from huswif, house-wife, a needle case.
Huzzit – the letter Z.
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