A Kentish Word-bot

MUCH [much] (1) vb. To fondle; caress; pet.
'However did you manage to tame those wild sheep?' 'Well, I mutched 'em, ye see.'

CLINKERS [klingk•urz] sb. pl. The hard refuse cinders of a furnace, stove, or forge, which have run together in large clots.

LAID IN [lai•d in] vb. A meadow is said to be laid in for hay, when stock are kept out to allow the grass to grow.

NUTHER [nudh•ur] conj. Neither; giving an emphatic termination to a sentence.
'And I'm not going to it, nuther' i.e., I am not going to do it, you may be sure!

NOD [nod] sb. The nape of the neck. With this are connected noddle, noddy; as in the nursery rhyme—
'Little Tom Noddy,
All head and no body.'

HOLP-UP, vb. Over-worked.
'I dunno as I shaänt purty soon look out another plȧȧce, I be purty nigh holp-up here, I think.'

BRUSS [brus] adj. Brisk; forward; petulant; proud.
'Dese 'ere bees be middlin' bruss this marnin', there ain't no goin' into de garden for 'em, they've bit me three times already.'

NURITY [neu•r'iti] sb. Goodness.
'The bruts run away with all the nurity of the potato.' West Kent.

PITTER [pit•ur] vb. To loosen the earth or throw it up lightly; to throw it up gently; also in phrase 'To pitter about,' meaning to go about fussing or fidgetting. Sometimes miswritten pither.

SARTIN [saat•in] adj. Stern; severe; stedfast.
'He knowed there was something up, he did look that sartin at me.'

MABBLED [mab•ld] vb. Mixed; confused.
'An books and such like mabbled up.'—Dick and Sal, st. 70.

BING-ALE [bing•ail] sb. Ale given at a tithe feast.

BRIMP [brimp] BRIMS [brimz] BRIMSEY [brimz•i] sb. The breeze or gad fly which torments bullocks and sheep.
Kennett, MS. Lans., 1033, gives the phrase—'You have brims in your tail,' i.e., 'You are always restless.'

DOSSET [dos•it] sb. A very small quantity of any liquid.

HAPPY-HO, adj. Apropos.
'My father was drownded and so was my brother; now that's very happy-ho!' meaning that it was a curious coincidence.

RIDDLE-WALL [rid•l-waul] sb. A wall made up with split sticks worked across each other.

DISSIGHT [disei•t] sb. That which renders a person or place unsightly; a blemish; a defect.
'Them there tumble-down cottages are a great dissight to the street.'

CLAM [klam] sb. A rat-trap, like a gin.

INNOCENT [in•oasent] adj. Small and pretty; applied to flowers.
'I do always think they paigles looks so innocent-like.'

HEEVE [heev] (1) sb. A hive; a bee-hive.
'I doant make no account of dese here new-fangled boxes and set-outs; you may 'pend upon it de old heeves is best after all.'

SWALLOWS [swal•oaz] sb. pl. Places where a stream enters the earth and runs underground for a space, were formerly so called in the parish of Bishopsbourne.

COST [koast] sb. A fore-quarter of lamb; 'a rib.'

IKEY [ei•ki] adj. Proud.

HAND-HOLD, sb. A holding for the hands.
''Tis a plaguey queer job to climb up there, there an't no hand-hold'

CLAPPERS [klap•urz] sb. pl. Planks laid on supports for foot passengers to walk on when the roads are flooded.

LIEF-COUP [leef-koop] sb. An auction of household goods.

BALD-PATES [bau•ld-pai•ts] sb. pl. Roman coins of the lesser and larger silver were so called in Thanet, by the country people, in Lewis's time.

PUT-UPON [put•-upon•] vb. To worry and bother a person by giving him an unfair amount of work, or exacting from him time, strength, or money, for matters which are not properly within his province.

KEEKLEGS [kee•klegz] sb. An orchis. Orchis mascula. (See Kites legs.)

COLD [koald] sb. In phrase, 'Out of cold.'
Water is said to be out of cold when it has just got the chill off.