A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 15

Nosset _s._ a dainty dish such as is fit for a sick person

'Nottamy _s._ applied to a man become very thin (anatomy)

Nug _s._ unshapen piece of timber, a block

Nug-head _s._ a blockhead

Nuncle _s._ uncle _v.a._ to cheat

Nurt, or Nort nothing (w. of Parret)

Nuthen _s._ a great stupid fellow

Oak-web (wuck-ub) _s._ c.o.c.k-chafer, may-bug

Oak-wuck _s._ the club at cards

Oaves _s._ the eaves of a house

Odments _s. pl._ odd things, offals

Oh _v._ to long greatly

Old-man's-Beard _s._ clematis

Old-rot _s._ cow-parsnip (_heracleum_)

Onlight _v.n._ to alight from on horse-back

Ool will; o'ot wilt o'ot'n't wilt not

Ope _s._ an opening

Open-erse _s._ a medler (A S _open-oers_), a fruit used medicinally

Ordain _v._ to purpose

Orloge _s._ a clock (horologe)

Or'n _p.r.o.n._ either, ex. O'rm o'm, either of them

Ort _p.r.o.n._ aught, anything

Orts _s._ sc.r.a.ps, leavings

Oseny, or Osening _v._ to forbode, predict (A S _wisian_)

Ourn ours

Out-ax'd _part._ to have the bands fully published

Out-faring _s._ lying outside the borough

Over-get _v.a._ to overtake

Over-look _v.a._ to bewitch

Over-right (auver-right) _adv._ opposite

Ovvers _s. pl._ over-hanging bank of rivers, edge of rivers (A S _ofer_)

Pair-of-Stairs _s._ a staircase with two landings

Pallee _adj._ broad, as pallee-foot, pallee-paw

Palme _s._ catkins of the willow (_salix caprea_)

Pame _s._ the mantle thrown over an infant who is going to be Christened

Panchard-night _s._ Shrove-Tuesday night

Pank _v._ to pant

Papern _adj._ made of paper

Parget _v.a._ to plaster the inside of a chimney with mortar made of cow-dung and lime

Parrick _s._ a paddock

Paumish _adj._ handling awkwardly

Pautch, Pontch _v._ to tread in mire

Payze, 'Pryze _v._ to upraise with a lever (Fr. _peser_)

Peart _adj._ brisk

Pease _v._ to run out in globules

Peasen _s. pl._ of pea _adj._ made of peas, ex. Peasen-pudding

Peazer _s._ a lever

Peek, Peeky, Peekid _adj._ pinched in face by indisposition

Peel _s._ a pillow

Pen, Penning, Pine, Cow-pine _s._ an enclosed place in which cattle are fed