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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 · 3m

OUTROOPE [outroo•p] sb. An auction of household goods.
—Sandwich Book of Orphans.

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

SHAVE [shaiv] sb. Corrupted from shaw, a wood that encompasses a close; a small copse of wood by a field-side. (See also Carvet.)

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

FIRE-FORK, sb. A shovel for the fire, made in the form of a three-pronged fork, as broad as a shovel, and fitted with a handle made of bamboo or other wood.

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

BRENT [brent] adj. Steep. In a perambulation of the outbounds of the town of Faversham, made in 1611, 'the Brent' and 'the Brent gate' are mentioned.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 4h

DOINGS [doo•ingz] sb. pl. Odd jobs. When a person keeps a small farm, and works with his team for hire, he is said to do doings for people.

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

SHIP-GATE [ship•gait]. A sheep-gate or moveable hurdle in a fence.

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

DICKY [dik•i] adj. Poorly; out of sorts; poor; miserable.
'When I has the dicky feelins', I wishes I hadn't been so neglackful o' Sundays.'

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

MEWSE [meuz] sb. An opening through the bottom of a hedge, forming a run for game.

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

ABITED [ubei•tid] adj. Mildewed.

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

SPONSIBLE [spons•ibl] adj. Responsible; reliable.

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

TEDIOUS [tee•jus] adj. and adv. Acute; violent; excessive; 'tedious bad;' 'tedious good.' Also, long, but not necessarily wearisome, as we now commonly understand the word.

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

STOCK [stok] (3) sb. A trough; a stoup; usually in composition, as a holy water-stock; a brine-stock; a pig-stock. Probably so called because it was originally made by hollowing out the stock of a tree.

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

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

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

BUTT [but] sb. A small flat fish, otherwise called the flounder. They are caught in the river at Sandwich by spearing them in the mud, like eels. But at Margate they call turbots butts.

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

SEA-NETTLES, sb. Jelly-fish.—Dover.

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

ABIDE [ubei•d] vb. To bear; to endure; to tolerate; to put-up-with. Generally used in a negative sentence, as:
'I cannot abide swaggerers.' —II. Henry IV. act ii. sc. 4.

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

CHAMPIONING [champ•yuning] partc. The lads and men who go round as mummers at Christmastide, singing carols and songs, are said to go championing. Probably the word is connected with St. George the Champion, who is a leading character

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

SPRING-SHAW [spring-shau] sb. A strip of the young undergrowth of wood, from two to three rods wide.

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

SPIT [spit] (1) sb. A double or counterpart.
'He's the very spit of his brother.'

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

MISTUS [mis'tus] sb. Mistress; the title of a married woman.
'My mistus and me's done very well and comfortable together for 'bove fifty year; not but what we've had a
misword otherwhile'

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

BAIST [baai•st] sb. The frame-work of a bed with webbing.—Weald. (See also, Beist, Boist.)

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

DANG [dang] interj. A substitution for 'damn.'
'Dang your young boanes, doänt ye give me no more o' your sarce.'

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

EMMET-CASTES [em•ut kaa•stiz]. Ant hills. (See Cast.)

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

SPOLT [spol•t]. To break.
'A terr'ble gurt limb spolted off that old tree furder een de laäne las' night.' (See Spalter.)

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

MATCH-RUNNING, MATCH-A-RUNNING, sb. A game peculiar to Kent, and somewhat resembling prisoner's base. (See also Stroke-bias.)