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Old Books - Kent
Essentials for Local Historians, Genealogists & Family Historians

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A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect
and Provincialisms in use in the County of Kent


AUTHORS: W D Parish & W F Shaw
FIRST PUBLISHED: 1888
THIS EDITION: 2008

CD-ROM £10.00
 


219 page paperback book.

Not just a work of reference, it's truly a good read!.

Book supplied as a PDF document on CD-ROM.


EXTRACT:

BLY [blei] sb. A resemblance; a general likeness. [A.S. bleo, hue, complexion.] (See Favour, which is now more commonly used in East Kent to describe a resemblance.)
“Ah ! I can see who he be; he has just the bly of his father.”

BOAR-CAT [boa-rkat] sb. A Tom-cat.

BOBBERY [bob-uri] sb. A squabble; a row; a fuss; a set out.

BOBBIN [bobbin] sb. A bundle of firewood (smaller than a fagot, and larger than a pimp), whereof each stick should be about 18 inches long. Thus, there are three kinds of firewood - the fagot, the bobbin, and the pimp. (See also, Bavin, Kilnbrush, &c.)

BOBBIN-TUG [bob-in-tug-] sb. A light frame-work of wheels, somewhat like a timber-wagon, used for carrying bobbins about for sale. It has an upright stick at each of the four corners, to keep the bobbins in their places.

BOBLIGHT [bob-leit] sb. Twilight.

BO-BOY [boa-boi] sb. A scarecrow.

BODAR [boa-dur] sb. An officer of the Cinque Ports whose duty it was to arrest debtors and convey them to be imprisoned in Dover Castle.

BODGE [boj] (1) sb. A wooden basket, such as is used by gardeners; a scuttle-shaped box for holding coals, carrying ashes, &c. (See also Trug.) The bodge now holds an indefinite quantity, but formerly it was used as a peck measure.
1519 “Paled for settyng of iij busshellis and iij boggis of benys and a galon . . . xvjd.”
MS. Accounts St. John's Hospital, Canterbury.

BODGE [boj] (2) sb. An uncertain quantity, about a bushel or a bushel and a half.
“Just carry this bodge of corn to the stable.”