I hail from Dorchester, the County Town of Dorset, a County in the West/South-West of England - this, not definitive list, shows some of the words used in it's dialect.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A | |
| A-cothed | Disease |
| A-drawen | Drawing, for example "He be a-drawen a picture." |
| A-feard | Afraid (Dorset motto, "Who's a-feard?") |
| A-lassen | Lest |
| A-stoggd | Having your feet stuck in either clay or dirt |
| A-stooded | Stood (as a waggon) immovably in the ground |
| A-strout | Stretched out |
| A-vroze | Frozen |
| A-zet | Set or planted |
| A-zew | 1) To be dry of milk; no longer giving suck "The cow's a-zew" 2) To sew a pond, to drain or draw it dry. |
| Agean | Against, for example "'e be runnin' agean thac strong wind." |
| Aggy | The act of collecting eggs |
| Ailen | illness, ailing (verb or noun) |
| Alik' | Like |
| All's | All this |
| Aller | The alder tree |
| Amper | Pustules "I be all out in an amper!" |
| Anby | At a near time, by and by |
| Anewst, or Aniste | At nearest |
| Anigh | Near, close by |
| Ankly | The ankle |
| Annan? | An interjectional exclamation. "What did you say?" |
| Any-when | At any time |
| Archet | Orchard |
| Arn | A contraction of "e'er a one" |
| Ash candles | The seed vessels of the ash tree |
| Asker | Water newt |
| At | To play at, to have at |
| Athirt | Across |
| Avore | Before |
| Awaked | Awake |
| Ax | To ask |
| Axen | Ashes |
| Ayer | Air |
| B | |
| Backhouse | Outhouse |
| Backside | backyard or rear of property |
| Bad | Synonym for ill |
| Ballyrag | To scold |
| Bandy | A stick used for beating dung out of the way, usually long and sturdy with a bent end |
| Bandylags | Crooked/bowed legs |
| Bankrout | Bankrupt |
| Barken | Barley |
| Barry | Borrow |
| Batch | Hillock |
| Battenbuoard | A tool for tamping thatch on a roof |
| Baven | A faggot of untrimmed branches |
| Beas' | Beast, usually refers to cattle |
| Beatplough | A tool used for cutting turf |
| Becall | To deride |
| Bee-pot | Beehive |
| Beens | Because, possible contraction of 'being as' |
| Beknown | Known about |
| Bennits | The bent tips of grasses and similar |
| Bibber | Shiver with cold |
| Biddle | Beetle |
| Bide | Dwell |
| Bird-kippy | To keep birds from the corn |
| Bit-an'-crimp | Every last scrap of something |
| Bit-an'-drap | A bite to eat and a drink |
| Blatch | Black or sooty |
| Blather | An uproar |
| Blooth | Blossom |
| Bottom | Steadfast |
| Brinton | Bold, audacious |
| Brockle | Broken |
| Bruckly | Brittle |
| Budget | A leather pouch for a whetstone |
| Bumbye | By-and-by |
| C | |
| Caddie | An uproar or carry-on |
| Caddle | Muddle |
| Car | Carry or move: to car hay is to stack hay |
| Cazelty weather | Extremely bad weather (casualty weather) |
| Chaw | Chew |
| Cheese-late | A floor for drying cheese |
| Chimley | Chimney |
| Chop | Sell, barter or exchange |
| Chump | A log of wood |
| Clavy | Mantelpiece |
| Clinker | Icicle |
| Cockle | Tangle |
| Cowlease | An uncut field, meadow |
| Cradlehood | Early stages of childhood, infancy, still in the cradle |
| Cricket | A low stool or chair for a child |
| Crousty | Grumpy, in a bad mood |
| Curdles | Hair curls |
| D | |
| Dabster | Someone who is skilled in something, an expert |
| Dadder | To confuse or bewilder |
| Dander | Vex, anger |
| Dewbit | A bite to eat taken first thing in the morning before breakfast |
| Doughbiaked | Feeble-minded |
| Dout | Put out a flame or fire, "Dout the candle" for example |
| Downdashious | Audacious |
| Drashel | The strip of wood or concrete at the bottom of a doorway, the threshold |
| Drawlatcheten | Idle, lazy |
| Drinky | Having consumed too much alcohol, inebriated |
| Drong | Squeeze or compress |
| Drongway | A narrow passage or alley; Most commonly a narrow footpath between two fenced fields |
| Duckish | Dark, gloomy |
| Dumbledore | Bumblebee |
| E | |
| Eet | Yet |
| Effets | Newts |
| Emmets | Ants |
| Evemen | Evening |
| F | |
| Faddle | To pack or bundle together |
| Fantod | Fuss |
| Fess | Pleased with, proud |
| Flummocks | To scare or frighten |
| Footling | Something worthless, beneath contempt |
| Footy | Insignificant, small, trivial |
| Frith | Thin twigs that have broken off from trees and bushes, historically used to make brushes; brushwood |
| G | |
| Gake | To stare open-mouthed, gawk, gape |
| Gallycrow | Scarecrow |
| Gannywedge | A wide yawn or to spread apart |
| Gilcup | A small, yellow flower of the Ranunculaceae family, common in meadows and pasture; Buttercup |
| Girt | Large, great |
| Glene | To joke with |
| Glutch | To swallow |
| Greygole | A small, blue woodland flower of the hyacinth family; Bluebell |
| Gwain | Going |
| Gwains-on | Rowdy behaviour (goings-on) |
| H | |
| Halterpath | A path for a horse and rider; Bridleway |
| Han'pat | Nearby, close at hand |
| Handy | Thereabouts, an approximation, "Ees 6' or somewhere 'andy" for example |
| Hatch | A small gate |
| Heal | To cover over |
| Hedlen | Headlong |
| Hethcropper | A horse or pony bred on a heath |
| Hidy-buck | Children's game, hide-n-seek |
| Ho | To be anxious or to show caution |
| Homhle | A duck |
| Honey-Zuck | A climbing plant of the Caprifoliaceae family; Honeysuckle |
| Hoss-stinger | Dragonfly |
| I | |
| Ice-candles | Icicles |
| Inon | Onion |
| J | |
| Joppety-joppety | Anxious, nervous trepidation |
| K | |
| Keech | To clear a riverbank of weeds |
| Kit | Friend or family, kin |
| L | |
| Lamploo | A game of tag in which those caught join hands with the pursuer/s to form a chain |
| Leery | Hungry |
| Lerret | A traditional, double-ended boat with a flat bottom and high sternposts, which can be launched from a steep bank or beach |
| Limber | Skinny, slim, slender |
| Limner | Painter and decorator |
| Lip | Basket |
| Lippen | Wet weather, rainy, sometimes also referred to as lippy |
| Lisome | Cheery, happy |
| Litter | Confusion |
| M | |
| Magot | An impulse or whim |
| Main | Strength, power |
| Mampus | A crowd |
| Mesh | Moss |
| Moud | Field mouse |
| N | |
| Nammet | A light lunch of meat |
| Near | Parsimonious, miserly |
| Peart | Healthy, vibrant, full of life |
| Peck upon | Dominate |
| Pelt | A rage, to feel angry |
| Piaviours | Flagstones |
| Piggyback, a pig a back, a pack a back | To carry a child on one's back with their arms around your neck and their legs around your waist. |
| Pisty poll | To carry a child on one's shoulders with their legs around your neck and their arms around your forehead. |
| Popples | Pebbles |
| Prog | Food |
| Span-new | Clean and shiny, like new |
| Sprak | Spry, lively |
| T | |
| Tilty | Grumpy, irritable, ill-tempered |
| Tinklebobs | Icicles |
| Torrididdle | A state of bewilderment or confusion |
| Toyear | This year; as in today, tomorrow etc. |
| Twanketen | Sad, melancholic |
| U | |
| Undercreepen | Devious, sly, underhand |
| Upsydown | Upside down, overturned |
| V | |
| Vang | To earn |
| Vinny | Veiny or mouldy, like the Dorset cheese, Blue-vinny |
| Vitty | Neat and proper |
| W | |
| Ware | Pond |
| Welshnut | Walnut |
| Werret | To concern or worry |
| Wont | Mole, small burrowing mammal of the family Talpidae |
| Woppen | Big, heavy |
| Wopsy | Wasp |
| Wordle | World |
| Y | |
| Yakker | Acorn |
| Yis | Earthworm |
| Yop | Speak rapidly, jabber |
| Z | |
| Zeale | Sack |
| Zet up | To anger, infuriate |
| Zummat | Something |
| Zwail | Swagger |
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