268 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Whiss-gigg. (2) Add :—s.w. 
*% - 4 
Whist, Weist. Wretched. (Hist. of Chipp.) A Devon word. 
White-listed. Streaked, or “listed” with white, as a badger’s face is. S.W. 
Whiver. (1) Add :—*'The wind whivers over the roof.” N. &S.W 
* = 
Whoopum-poopum. The bassoon, “A do play th’ ’oopum-poopum at 
Church o’ Zundays.” S.W. 
*Wiggle. To inveigle. S.W. 
Wiggle-wants. Briza media, L., Quaking Grass. S.W. 
*Wiltshire disorder. The “ Goggles”’ in sheep. 
“The reason, perhaps, why this complaint has been lately [1794] known 
as the Wiltshire disorder, is, that most of the Wiltshire wethers are sold off 
when lambs, and are fattened before they are two years old; and the pushing 
them with high keep at so early an age, will most assuredly discover the 
goggles, if they be in the blood.”’—Davis, Agric. of Wilts, p. 146. 
*Wiltshire eye. See quotation :— 
“The ‘Wiltshire eye’ is known to recruiting officers. It is a muddy 
hazel-grey very prevalent in the county, and common also in the West 
Riding of Yorks. The recruiting surgeons seem to have classified it as hazel, 
but some would call it grey. I makeit neutral. . . . Eyes ofa neutral 
undecided tint between light and dark, and green brown and grey. 
the ‘Wiltshire eye.’”—Wiélts Notes and Queries, vol.i, p. 566, ‘siiadas or 
condensed from Beddoe’s Races of Britain, pp. 145, 251. 
Winding-sheet. A flat fold of grease down the side of a guttering candle, 
supposed to forebode a death in the house. N. & S.W. 
Within-amost. ‘I done it within-amwost,” just managed to doit. “He 
got there within-amwost,” only just got there. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Wivel, Add :—To veer about, as wind, N. & S.W. 
Wrappers, Wroppers, or Rappers. Flowers of Digitalis purpurea, 
L., Foxglove. 
Y. <Add:—The “free infinitive” in Y is still used in S. Wilts occasionally, as 
Tl milky,” will undertake to do the milking, if engaged as farm servant. 
Yap. (2) Add:—s.w. 
Yawt, or Yaught. (1) Add:—Also Yote. (S.) S.W. 
(2) To pour into, as molten metal; to solder in. 
“1593-4, 29 Ib of leade to yote in the hookes that the new dore hangs — 
in.”’— Parish accounts. 
Yeomath. Add :—Compare ‘‘ Yew-game,” for “ Yule-game,’’ in Cotgrave. 
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