A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 11

Hevel-twine _s._ a fine sort of twine

Hike off _v._ to steal away slily, to skulk off

Hirdd.i.c.k, Rudd.i.c.k _s._ robin, ruddock

Hird-in, Hird-out _v._ to remove one's goods. Transp. for rid

Hirn, Hurn, Hirnd _v._ _pret._ and _part._ to run (A S _yrnan_)

Hive, or Heave _v._ to urge in vomiting

Hizy-prizy _s._ Nisi-prius

Hoak _v._ to goar as an ox

Hob _v._ to laugh loudly _s._ a clown

Hob _s._ a cheek of a grate

Hod _s._ a sheath, a cover

Hoddy _adj._ hearty

Hog, Hogget _s._ a sheep or horse one-year old

Hogo _s._ strong savour or smell (Fr. _haut gout_)

Holders _s._ fangs of a dog

Holmen _adj._ made of holm or holly, as Holmen Clavel a holly mantle piece

Holme-screech _s._ the missel-thrush, from its eating the berries of the holly or holme tree

Homany _s._ a noise, disturbance

Home-to _adv._ up to

Honey-suck _s._ red clover

Hoop _s._ a bullfinch, ex. c.o.c.k-hoop, hen-hoop

Hoppet _v._ to hop

Hornen, Harnin _adj._ made of horn

Horse-G.o.dmother _s._ a masculine woman

Houzen _s._ houses

Hove _v._ and _s._ to hoe, ex. To hove banes, hove turmits with an auld hove

How _v._ to long for

Huck-muck _s._ strainer over the faucet

Hud _s._ as of gooseberry, the skin, hull, husk

Huf-cap _s._ a weed commonly found in fields

Hug _s._ the itch

Hulden _v._ to conceal, harbour

Hulley, or Holley _s._ a basket-trap for eels

Hull _v._ to hurl

Hum-drum _s._ a three-wheeled cart

Humacks _s._ wild-briar stocks on which to graff roses

Ich (soft), _p.r.o.n._ I 'Cham I am; 'Ch'ool I will; 'Ch'ood I would, &c.

Idleton _s._ an idle fellow

Infaring _adj._ lying within, as an infaring t.i.thing, _i.e._, a t.i.thing within a borough

Insense _v._ to inform

Ire _s._ iron, "ire or mire" said of stiff clay soil

Ire-gaer _s._ iron work or gear

Ize _pr._ I, ex. Ize warrant you wunt

Jib _s._ the wooden stand for a barrel

Jigger _s._ a vessel of potter's ware used in toasting cheese

Jitch, Jitchy, Jissy _adj._ such, ex. Jitch placen, such places

Joan-in-the-wad _s._ will-of-the-wisp

Jonnick _adv._ fair, straight-forward

Jot _v._ to disturb in writing, to strike the elbow

Junket _s._ curds and cream with spices and sugar, &c., from Ital.

_giuncata_, cased in rushes; from _giunco_, a rush; a name given in Italy to a kind of cream-cheese