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A word once an hour. From A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County of Kent, by WD Parish, 1888. Created by @grouchomerckx.bsky.social. Built with https://bluebotsdonequick.com/

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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 53m

HIS-SELF, pron. Himself.
'Ah! when he's been married two or three weeks he won't scarcely know his-self. He'll find the difference, I lay!'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 1h

DEATH [deth] adj. Deaf.
'It's a gurt denial to be so werry death.'
'De ooman was so plaguey death
She cou'den make 'ar hear.'
—Dick and Sal, st. 59.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 2h

BAULLY [bau•li] sb. A boat. (See Bawley.)

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 3h

UNFORBIDDEN [un•furbid•n] adj. Uncorrected; spoiled; unrestrained; troublesome.
'He's an unforbidden young mortal.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 5h

GRABBY [grab•i] adj. Grimy; filthy.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 6h

SCORE, sb. In East Kent oxen and pigs are sold by the score; sheep and calves by the stone of 8-lbs.
Score was properly a cut; hence, twenty was denoted by a long cut on a notched stick.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 7h

RUMBAL WHITINGS [rum•bul wei•tingz] sb. pl. '… fishermen of Folkestone … choose eight of the largest and best whitings … and sell them apart from the rest; and out of this … is a feast made every Christmas Eve, which they call rumball.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 8h

THURROCK [thur•r'uk] sb. A wooden drain under a gate; a small passage or wooden tunnel through a bank.
In Sheppy, if the hares gain the refuge of a thurrock … they are considered to have gained sanctuary and are not molested

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 9h

BLIGH [blei] adj. Lonely; dull.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 10h

OLD MAN, sb. Southernwood. Artemisia abrotanum.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 11h

SO [soa•] interj. of correction or assent. Thus it is used in the way of correction, 'Open the door, the window so' i.e., open the door, I mean the window. It is also used for assent, e.g., 'Would you like some drink?' 'I would so.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 12h

LAY-INTO, vb. To give a beating.
'It's no use making friends with such beasts as them (bulls), the best way is to take a stick and lay into them.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 13h

REXON [reks•n] //. To infect, as with the small-pox, itch, or any other disorder. (See Wrexon.)

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 14h

RACE MEASURE [rais mezh•r] sb. Even measure; as distinguished from full measure, which is 21 to the score, as of corn, coals, &c.; while race measure is but 20.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 15h

BARBEL [baa•bl] sb. A sort of petticoat worn by fishermen at Folkestone. (See also Barvel.)

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 16h

BRAVE [braiv] adj. Large.
'He just was a brave fox.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 17h

SPITS [spit•s] sb. pl. Pieces of pine -wood, about the length and thickness of a common walking-stick, on which the herrings are dried. (See Herring-hang and Spit.]

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 18h

SCRATCH [skrach] (2) sb. A rough pronged prop, used to support a clothes' line; a pole with a natural fork at the end of it. An older form of the word Crutch.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 19h

YAR [yaar], YARE [yair] adj. Brisk; nimble; swift.
'Their ships are yare; yours, heavy.'
—Antony and Cleopatra, act iii. sc. 7.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 20h

DOLE-STONE [doa•l-stoa•n] sb. A landmark.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 21h

PELL [pel] sb. A deep place or hole in a river.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 22h

INNARDS [in•urdz] sb. The entrails or intestines; an innings at cricket.
'They bested 'em first innards.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 23h

PLACE [plais] sb. A barton; a courtyard.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 1d

FRENCH MAY [french mai] sb. The lilac, whether white or purple. Syringa vulgaris.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 1d

CRUMMY [krum•i] adj. Filthy and dirty, and covered with vermin.