The Vocabulary of East Anglia;: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century, and Still Exists; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority, 2. kötetJ.B. Nichols and Son, ... and sold by Matchett and Stevenson, and Wilkin, Norwich; Raw, Ipswich; Sloman, Yarmouth; Deck, Bury; Loder, Woodbridge; Swinborne, Walter, and Taylor, Colchester; Guy, Chelmsford; and Deighton, Cambridge., 1830 - 281 oldal |
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adjective amongst ancient animal appears applied authority believed bird called certainly church coarse common commonly compound connected connexion Coriolanus corruption counties derivation DICTT dimin door doubt dressed East Anglia etymon exactly express fellow figuratively French give Gothic grass ground head HIGHLOWS hole horse instance Intens Johnson labour land language Marshalsea means mode nexion Nine men's morris Norfolk origin parish particular perhaps person phrase plough poor pretty probably pron pronounced pronunciation proper rain resemblance rest-harrow Romeo and Juliet rustic Saxon Saxon word seems sense servant short signifies Sir Thomas Browne SMUR soil sometimes sort spelled STOOR strong substantive Suffolk superstition supposed Teut ther thick thing tion tree Twelfth Night verb vowel vulgar walk white-thorn witch woman
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402. oldal - Boun ; the sacred uses are no more." [In several counties a small loaf of bread is annually baked on the morning of Good Friday, and then put by till the same anniversary in the ensuing year. This bread is not intended to be eaten, but to be used as a medicine, and the mode of administering it is by grating a small portion of it into water, and forming a sort of panada. It is believed to be good for many disorders, but particularly for a diarrhoea, for which it is considered a sovereign remedy. Some...
424. oldal - Its toughness has given rise to a number of local illustrations. In one, the cheese exclaims Those that made me were uncivil, For they made me harder than the d -1; Knives won't cut me; fire won't sweat me; Dogs bark at me, but can't eat me.
424. oldal - The flower stalk must be plucked carefully, so as not to injure the globe of seeds, and you are then to blow off the seeds with your breath. So many puffs as are required to blow every seed clean off, so many years it will be before you are married. Another plant of omen is the yarrow...
426. oldal - it was an old custom in Suffolk, in most of the farmhouses, that any servant who could bring in a branch of Hawthorn in full blossom on the 1st of May was entitled to a dish of cream for breakfast.
272. oldal - A joint of beef; or rather a piece than a joint. It does not seem to admit of any precise definition, but to signify any fleshy piece from the edges of the larger divisions of the hind quarter, the rump, loin, or leg.
431. oldal - The beard will pay for the shaving. — This is used when a person is paid for his labour by taking part or the whole of that which he is employed about, as cutting bushes, &c. In general it means the work will produce enough to pay itself. There is a good steward abroad when there is a wind frost — ie, you have no occasion to look to your labourers, they must work to keep themselves warm. God's lambs will play.
400. oldal - It is usually set about with some little solemnity on the morning before breakfast, as the ceremony must be performed fasting. The Bible is laid on the table unopened, and the parties who wish to consult it are then to open it in succession. They are not at liberty to choose any particular part of the book, but must open it at random. Wherever this may happen to be, the inquirer is to place his finger on any chapter contained in the two open pages, but without any previous perusal or examination.
402. oldal - This is nothing less than the power of accomplishing all human wishes, which miraculous property the water is still believed to possess. In order to attain this desirable end, the votary, with a due qualification of faith and pious awe, must apply the right knee, bare, to a stone placed for that purpose between the wells. He must then plunge to the wrist each hand, bare also, into the water of the wells, which are near enough to admit of this immersion. A wish must then be formed, but not uttered...
232. oldal - Forby, nine round holes are made in the ground, and a ball aimed at them from a certain distance ; or the holes are made in a board with a number over each, through one of which the ball is to pass. Nares thinks it is the same game with ninemen's morris, called in some places ninepennymarl.
434. oldal - The explanation given of this common saying is that people broke at Beccles and removed to Bungay and throve there. I made my obedience to him, but he would neither speak nor grunt.— This is said when a superior passes without returning your civility. A ground sweat cures all disorders — ie, in the grave all complaints cease from troubling. Give him that which...