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T’, ta, tee – thou

T’ th’ – the ‘It’s true as owt i’ th’ Bible’

Ta, tay, tey – take ‘Tay yor hurry, I haven’t supped o mi’ tay yet’

Ta'care – take care (SB)

Tae – take (SB)

Ta’en, Taen – taken ‘An’ this es th’ test aw’ve taen I’ hand’

Tae't, Ta't, Tak't – take it (SB)

Tae't-the – take it thee (SB)

Tak – take (SB)

Tameh – take me (SB)

Tan – taken (SB)

Tandle-hills – hills near Middleton (SB)

Tan't – taken it (SB)

Tantrum – in a passion; a fit of impatience (SB)

Tarry – to stay, to remain at a place (SB)

Tarryin – remaining (SB)

Tarrid – remained (SB)

Tarryn – they remain (SB)

Tarridn – they remained (SB)

Tat – that; Ta't – take it (SB)

Ta't the – take it thee (SB)

Tata or Tat-ha – a child's word for going out "Gooin a tat-ta." (SB)

Tatchin – the end of a cobbler's thread (SB)

Tatchin’-end – waxed thread used by cobblers

Tatchins – ends of threads (SB)

Tato – potato

Taw – a game at marbles: also a favourite marble used to knuckle with (SB)

Tawk – talk (SB)

Tawk – talk ‘Dust thin Rimes mun owlus tawk stump Loncashire?’

Tawkin – talking (SB)

Tawkn – they talk (SB)

Tawknt – they talked (SB)

Tawkt – talked.

Tawm – to tame (SB)

Tawmin – taming (SB)

Tawmt – tamed (SB)

Tawmn – they tame (SB)

Tawmtn – they tamed (SB)

Tawm – Tome, or Toom, to swoon; also a belching of water from the mouth.

Tay – tea ‘Reitch deawn that ham, for Robin likes

            A relish to his tay’

Taylior – a tailor; also a family name (SB)

Teadn – they had (SB)

Tearn – they were (SB)

Teastril – a person of slight character: also a small keg (SB)

T'eat – to eat: "Nowt t'eat." (SB)

Teaw – pull (tow), work hard

Teaw – thou: "Wheer arteaw comn fro?" (SB)

Teawe – in two, in several pieces: "He pood it i'teawe." (SB)

Teawil – a towel (SB)

Teawin – teasing, persuading, urging (SB)

Teawn – town ‘I stood beside Tim Bobbin’s grave,

            ‘At looks o’er Ratchda’ teawn’

Teawst – or Theawst, thou shalt (SB)

Teawze – to tease (SB)

Teawzin, teasing (SB)

Teawzn – they tease (SB)

Teawznt – they teased (SB)

Teawzle – to tussle, to pull about; Teawzlt, tussled (SB)

Teawzlin – tussling (SB)

Teawzln – they tussle (SB)

Teawzt – teased (SB)

Teawzltn – they tussled (SB)

Tebb – Edmund; Tebby and Lebby – the same (SB)

Tedd – to turn hay in the field (SB)

Tedded – turned hay (SB)

Teddin – turning hay (SB)

Teddn – they turn hay (SB)

Teddnt – they turned hay (SB)

Tedds – turns hay (SB)

Tee – teed, tees – tie, tied, ties ‘What sense is there e tele so black

            That’s teed to th’ heeod, an rows o’ the back?’

Tee – thee, as, "whot tee?" spoken contemtuously, or in surprise: "Is tat tee?" rm. with, see. (SB)

Teein – tying; Teed, tied (SB)

Teem – pour, poured out ‘It teems deawn wi’ rain’

Teem – to pour; Teemin, pouring; Teems, pours (SB)

Teemn – they pour (SB)

Teemtn – they poured (SB)

Teen, they tie; Teedn, they tied, also a rope, a band; "A keaw-tee," a hair rope to bind the legs of cows whilst they are being milked (SB)

Teeny – tiny, little, pettish, fretful (SB)

Teer, to rend, to tear (SB)

Teerin, tearing; Teern, they tear; Teertn, they tore; also Teer, they are; Tearn, they were (SB)

Temd – poured out SB)

Tem’d – poured

Temdn – they poured (SB)

Tems – a sieve (SB)

Tennil – a large basket (SB)

Tent – to attend (look after – tenter), watch ‘Hoo sews, an’ tents er Joe’,

‘Tent or shut the door’ A good yard dog is said to be a rare tenter.

Tented – watched (SB)

Tenter, a watcher (SB)

Tenters – wooden frames formed of strong posts and movable rails, which being fixed in a field, and studded with tenterhooks, are used to stretch and dry flannel pieces upon (SB)

Tenter-croft – a piece of land in which tenter frames are placed (SB)

Tenter-hook – a kind of nail with a hook at the driving end, whereby to hook flannels whilst they dry (SB)

Tentin – watchin (SB)

Tentn – they watch (SB)

Tentnt – they watched (SB)

Tents – watches (SB)

Tew, teaw – toil, struggle, persevere ‘Aw tew hard for what bit aw get’

Teytch – teach

Teytchin – teaching (SB)

Teytcht – taught (SB)

Teytchn – they teach (SB)

Teytchnt – they taught (SB)

Th’ – abbreviation of thou or the, ‘Th’lad camplt (the lad prated, he was saucy)’

Th' Wilderniss – a place in Hopwood (SB)

Th' Yettns – the Great and Little Heatons, near Manchester (SB)

Th' Gallows – name of a place near Milnrow (SB)

Tha, thi – thee

Thad – that ‘Come, hang thi cap up; shut thad door’

Thaddle, thattle – that’ll – that will ‘That’ll do’

Tharcake – parkin (It was a custom in the coutryside to bake tharcake

on the 5^th of November)

Tharcake – a cake made from meal, treacle, and butter, and used on the night of the fifth of November (SB)

Thatch – hair, covering

That'll – that will: "Tha'll doo.” (SB)

That'n – that way; Athatns, in that way (SB)

The, thi – thy

The’ – thee ‘I’ll ha’ the’’

Thearn – they were (SB)

Theau – theaw – thou ‘Oh, Theau who made o’ th’ universe’

Theaw – thou; (SB)

Theaws – thou has (SB)

Theawst – thou shalt (SB)

Theawrt, thou art. (SB)

Theaw'll, Theawll – thou wilt, will

Theawm – thumb (SB)

Theawmin – thumbing (SB0

Theawm-screw – thumb-screw (SB)

Theaw'rt – thou art

Theawsun – thousands

Thed – theaw had: "Thed better not." (SB)

Theegh – thigh (SB)

Theer – there ‘Don’t stand theer lookin’ so daft’; "Thee-er, that'll doo." (SB)

Theese – these; Tees – the same; Teesn or Theesn – these han, these have. (SB)

Thefnicute or Fefnicute – a sneaking, hypocritical person (SB)

Ther – their ‘He’re moore content than ony sich

            Wi’ handles to ther name’

Thesel – thisel - thyself

They'd – they had or they would have had

Theym – them (SB)

They’n – they han’, they have; or they will (SB)

Theyrn – they wurn, they were (SB)

Thible, thibble – a porridge slice or spoon, a shaped stick for stirring porridge

            ‘Sin’ th’ day hoo broke mi now i’ th’ fowd,

            Wi’ th’ end o’ th’ porritch-thible

Thible or Thibble – a bit of flat wood, about a foot in length, to stir porridge or furmetry with. (SB)

Thick (geet thick) – made friends ‘Now hoo wur thick wi’ booath’

Thin – than: rm. w. in. (SB)

Think – thing: used contemptuously: "Whot sitch a think as thee?" (SB)

Thill – to draw in the shafts of a cart (SB)

Thill-hawse – the shaft horse (SB)

Thillin – drawing in shafts. (SB)

Thilld – drawn in shafts (SB)

Thilln – they draw in shafts (SB)

Thilldn – they drew in shafts (SB)

Thisn – in this way: "Sithe, he dus't a thisn." (SB)

Thoad – thawed (SB)

Thoan – thawn (SB)

Thooal or Thoal – to afford, to put up with (SB)

Thooan or Thoan – thawn, wet, damp (SB)

Thooant – thawed (SB)

Thodden – solid, a thodden cake was made with plenty of fat

Thoddn – sadden, doughy (SB)

Thoddn bread – doughy bread (SB)

Thoe – to thaw (SB)

Thoin – thawing (SB)

Thole – to afford ‘A shillin’ is o’ aw con thole’

Thong – a leathern tie, or band; Thonk, the same (SB)

Thoose or Thooze (SB) – those

Thoosn – those will (SB)

Thoosr – those are (SB)

Thorpe – a fold of houses near Rotyon (SB)

Thowt – thought ‘I welly thowt it shook its yed’

Thrang, thrung, thrunk – throng, very busy ‘Twur thrunk as Eccles wakes, mon’

Thrang, Thrung, Thrunk – throng, a crowd; also busy, beset with affairs. "Dustono see heaw thrunk I am." (SB)

Thrap-wife – a by word: "As throng as Thrap-wife." (SB)

Thrapt or Thryept – disputed, denied, contended (SB)

Thrave – twenty-four sheaves of corn (SB)

Thraw – to argue, to dispute (SB)

Threap – threeap – to argue, to dispute

Threed – thread (SB)

Threedy – thready (SB)

Threedneeld – thread-needle (SB)

Threed-mill – in Crompton (SB)

Threshin – laboured walking

Thrift – a pain in the hips or joints of the limbs, incidental to young persons (SB)

Thrimble – to trifle, to hesitate, to crumble bread: "Whot dusto ston thrimblin theer for?" (SB)

Thrimmo – ill spun yarn (SB)

Throddy – short, dumpy (SB)

Throe – a forked stick, which is used by laying it across a mug or tub, to support a sieve, whilst milk or other liquid is drained through it. (SB)

Throo – through (SB)

Throos – big stones built in a wall to bind the little stones together

Throssle – throstle, a singing bird (SB)

Throtteen – thirteen, (not generally used.) (SB)

Throttle – to gripe the throat, to choak with griping (SB)

Throttlin – choaking (SB)

Throttlt – choaked (SB)

Throttln – they choak (SB)

Throttltn – they choaked (SB)

Throyt – throat Throoat, in some localities (SB)

Thrum – the end of a warp (SB)

Thrums – ends (SB)

Thrung – very busy

Thrut – thrust, thrown ‘Wheer owd hands, when useless, aren’t thrut into th’ street’

Thrutch – thrust, push ‘There’s th’ most thrutchin’ where there’s th’ least reawm’

Thrutchin – pushing, pressing (SB)

Thrutchins – the last pressed whey, when cheese is made (SB)

Thrutchn – they push (SB)

Thrutcht – pushed (SB)

Thrutchnt, –they pushed (SB)

Thrutn – they threw (SB)

Thump – a blow

Thumping – striking, also anything large

Thunge – to fall with a loud noise

Thunner – thunder

Thunner-bowt – thunderbolt (SB)

Thunnerin – thundering (SB)

Thunnert – thundered (SB)

Thunners – it thunders (SB)

Thur – their/there ‘thur stoode (there stood)’

            ‘Whoy, Sur, I conno see

            What thur wur in ‘um that shid freeten me’

Thurn – a thorn (SB)

Thurston or Thorston-fowd – in Unsworth (SB)

Thwack – a hard blow, a sudden fall: "He fell thwack o'th' floor." (SB)

Thwang – a heavy fall, a blow, or a large piece of meat: "He took a thwangin lump." (SB)

Thwite – to cut with a knife (SB)

Thwittle – a wooden-hafted knife (SB)

Thwol – to thole, to afford, allow, provide (SB)

Tice – entice ‘Hoo tice’t him to church, an’ poor Tummy wur done’

Tick – credit

Tickle-butt – headlong, impetuous: "He ran tickle-butt." (SB)

Tie-up – a written plan for con­necting weaver's geering

Tift – a state of good or bad condition for the performance of an undertaking: "He's sure to win; he's i'very good tiff." (SB)

Tike – an overgrown man or beast; a remarkable human or brute: "He's a fine tike." (SB)

Tilli – till I: "Tarry tilli come." Tillhoo, till she. (SB)

Timmersum – some-what timid. (SB)

Tin or Toyn – rm. with in: to shut, to close: "Tin th' dur" – shut the door; Tin'd – shut. (SB)

Tinge – a tick, a small red bug (SB)

Tis – this: "Whot tis article?" (SB)

Ti – thy "Iz tat ti tit?" (SB)

Tine – thine: "Iz tat tine?" (SB)

Tit – a nag, a horse (SB)

Titherup – a hard gallop (SB)

Titivate – to make tidy

Titter – to laugh; also a ring worm (SB)

Titty – teat

Titty-bottle – child’s feeding bottle (also diddy)

Titty-meawse – titmouse, a bird (SB)

Tizeday – Tuesda (nearly obs.)  (SB)

To – thou; as Wilto – wilt thou? Munto – must thou? Hasto – hast thou? (SB)

Tone – the one, as, "Th' tone on us mun dooit," the one of us must do it. (SB)

Tono – thou not; as Ar tono? – art thou not? Dartono? – darest thou not? Hastono? –hast thou not? (SB)

Too, to – on the spot, in contact with; as, "He went too em;" "Put that dur too," shut that door. (SB)

Toart, tort – toward ‘But fooak as lookt tort Pendle hill’

Togs – clothes

Toirt, tyert, toyart, tyrt – tired

To-morn – tomorrow ‘To-morn he may be beggin’ for a lift on the way’

Tone, t’one – the one

Tone t’other – the one the other

Tooart – toward (SB)

Tookn – pl. of took. Aw took; we tookn. (SB)

Toose or Thoose – those. (SB)

Toot – to pry; Tootin, prying; Toots, pries (SB)

Tooted – pryed (SB)

Tooting – spying about suspiciously

Tootn – they pry (SB)

Tootnt – they pryed (SB)

Torn – turn –‘He’re up to o their slippery tricks

            An’ torn’d his coat like winkin’

Tomorn – tomorrow (SB)

Toppin – a tuft of hair on the forehead

T’ord – toward; Tort, the same (SB)

Tore – to endeavour strenuously; Torin, labouring assiduously and faring hardly; Torin on, to contrive to exist by the hardest labour, and on the barest means: "Aye poor things, they hanno a greadly livin, theyn nobbut a torin on;" "Theyn a very hard torin on." (SB)

Tory-rory – hey-go-mad. (SB)

T’oth’ – to the

T’other, tother – the other ‘What doest think he did, tother day?’

Tothri, too'thri, tuthri – two or three (abbreviation)

            ‘Some say Chorla’h a sleepy than,

            But I know a twothree that it’s ta’n dahn’

Touchus – easily disturbed and annoyed

Tow – toll; Towd, tolled (SB)

Towd – told ‘He towd um Methusalem livt a lung toime’

Towdn – they informed (SB)

Towf – tough (SB)

Towfymoon – honeymoon “May aw their life be good an’ sweet, One endless towfymoon” (Teddy Ashton)

Towffy – toffy (SB)

Toynt – shut, fastened (SB)

Toynin – shutting. "Toyne th' dur," shut the door (SB)

Toyar – to tire (SB)

Toyerin – tiring (SB)

Toyers – tires (SB)

Toyert – tired (SB)

Toyern – they tire (SB)

Toyertn – they tired (SB)

Toyersum – tiresome (SB)

Tow – to toll bells (SB)

Towin – tolling (SB)

Town – they toll (SB)

Towdn – they tolled (SB)

Towt – taught ‘His hands wur towt to throw a shuttle’

Traips – to go on a useless errand (SB)

Traipsin – going about uselessly, tiresomely (SB)

Tramp – a foot traveller (SB)

Tramps – travels on foot (SB)

Trampin – travelling on foot (SB)

Trampt – travelled on foot (SB)

Trampn – they travel on foot (SB)

Trampnt – they travelled on foot (SB)

Trashes – worn out shoes (SB)

Traunce, or Treawnce – a tedious walk, a roundabout journey.

Treawnce – to prosecute, to bring to punishment: "Awll treawnce the rascot." (SB)

Treawt – a trout (SB)

Treddle (Troedlas, cymraeg), traddle – part of a loom (SB)

Treddles – traddles (SB)

Treddlin – working the treddles. (SB)

Trest – a strong bench, a butcher's block (SB)

Trewil – a trowel (SB)

Trig – to trip hastily, to walk with a kind of trot

Trig – to run at a measured pace; "He trig'd it nicely; He's trig'd an gon off."

Trindle – a wheel of a barrow; also to bowl a hoop; Trindlin, bowling; Trindlt, bowled.

Trindle – a fringe, a ruff: as a trindlt shurt, a shirt with a ruffle at the breast (SB)

Trindln – they bowl (SB)

Trindltn – they bowled (SB)

Trippit – a quarter of a pound (SB)

Trot – to joke, to satirize, to provoke; also to mystify, to mislead by way of amusement to the trotter; Trottin, joking (SB)

Trotted – joked (SB)

Trottn – they joke (SB)

Trottnt – they trotted. In the days of Pitt's wars, and paper money, "Bowtn trotters" excited the curiosity, and the caution also, of every stranger who stopped in the town. (SB)

Troves – a place in the township of Castleton, near Rochdale (SB)

Trub-smithy – on the road betwixt Middleton and Rochdale.  The door of an old public house there is supposed to be the spot where the unlucky adventure of Tummus and his cawve took place; vide Tummus and Meary. (SB)

Tum – Tom; Red Tum-nook, at Oldham (SB)

Tumd – slightly carded; tumd wool (SB)

Tunchil – (Celtic, a circle) a place in Butterworth, near Rochdale (SB)

Tung – tongue ‘Her tung – it makes me fair go cowd’

Tung or Tonge – a township near Middleton (SB)

Tungs – fire irons, tongs (SB)

Tup – to strike or butt with the head

Tuppence – two pence (SB)

Turmit – a turnip (SB)

Tupshinned – to kick the heels towards each other when walking

Turney – an attorney: "Then he, being dresst, all in his best, An fittin for a jurney, Every body at he met? Took him to be a turney." (SB)

Tussle or Teawzle – to struggle in play: to pull, to romp; also to have a bout at wrestling or fighting: "Theydn a sharp tussle for it." (SB)

Tuttle – an awkward person in shape and manner. (obs.) (SB)

Twaddle – gossip, silly prate; Twadlin, prating (SB)

Twaddlt – prated (SB)

Twaddles – prates (SB)

Twaddln – they prate (SB)

Twaddltn – they prated (SB)

Twain – two (SB)

Twamp – to thrash ‘Aw twamped him’

Twang – to walk crookedly, also dialect speech

Twattle – tattle (SB)

Twattlt – tattled (SB)

Twattln – they tattle (SB)

Twattltn – they tattled (SB)

Twazy – nasty tempered

Twindles – twins (SB)

Twindlin – a twin (SB)

Twindlt – twin-born (SB)

Twinge – a shooting pain, a pang (SB)

Twinter – a year old heifer (SB)

Twirl-poo – a whirlpool (SB)

Twitch – to pinch, to nip (SB)

Twitch-clock – the black beetle; Twitchin, nipping; Twitcht, nipped (SB)

Twitcher – a keen bitten person; a nipper (SB)

Twitchn – they nip (SB)

Twitchnt – they nipped (SB)

Twitter – to titter, to laugh (SB)

Twitterin – tittering (SB)

Twitters – titters (SB)

Twittern – they titter (SB)

Twittertn – they tittered (SB)

Twod – a toad (SB)

Twod-stump – the toadstool, a fungus (SB)

Twod-rudd – the spawn of toads (SB)

Twos or Tooas – the toes (SB)

Twund – twined (SB)

Twundn – they twined (SB)

Twur, 'Twur – it were, it was

Twy – twice (SB)

Tyke – see Tike (SB)

Tyem – a team; Tyemster, driver of a team (SB)

Tyemin – team-driving (SB)

Tyert – excrement (SB)

Tyesty or Tyestyment – the New Testament (SB)

Tyez – to tease, to importune, to annoy (SB)

Tyezin – teasing; Tyest, teased; Tyezer, teaser (SB)

Tyezn – they tease (SB)