Lancashire Dialect Glossary Q
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Quate – quiet ‘As quate an’ waken as a meawse’
Quean – Queyn, a prostitute (SB)
Quere – queer (SB)
Quift – to quaff, to tipple (SB)
Quiftin-pots – drinking cups (SB)
Quo – quoth (SB)
Quock – to go a distance to work at the harvest. Reapers who go down to Lincolnshire at harvest are called quockers (SB)
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