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Yoppingal. Picus viridis, Green Woodpecker. N.W.., occasionally. 
Zam. (2) To cook imperfectly. Meat not sufficiently “browned’’ by the 
fire is ‘‘zammed”’ or “ sammed.”’ 
Bibliographical Ayvenvda. 
Notes and Queries, 6th Series, IV., Aug. 6th, 1881, pp. 106-7. 
“Wiltshire Provincialisms.—An old friend, a native of Wilts, has kindly 
; sent me a note of the following provincialisms, now almost obsolete. 
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The list comprises fifty words :—Awmoo; Avish: Bakkylamb ; Buffler ; 
Caddle ; *Codnogger ; *Collyfodger ; Cham; Cleavy; Climbtack ; 
*Dabby-nointer ; Daddiky ; Daglett ; Duddered ; Dumbledar ; Dunch ; 
_Drunge ; Forum-snorum ; Gearn; Halledge; Happering; Hayto ; 
Heel-out ; *Horse-conber ; Hud-me-dud ; Jakkypig ; Knawse of a 
knawsness; Loppett; Lumper; Nunny-fudget; Nawst; Plim; Ply; 
Pure, quite pure; Scob; Scrigs; Shramd ; Slat ; *Slopper-hock ; Snop; 
Squish; Squish-qgun; Stocky; Stowl; Tack; Tallet; Teart ; Vinney ; 
Yaut; To yaut it up. We have as yet been unable to obtain any 
confirmation of the words marked with an asterisk, but the others have 
already been given in Wilts Words, or appear in the present paper, under 
one form or another, with the exception of ‘* Scob, a dark hole or cupboard,” 
which is merely an old school term, applied at the Grammar School, 
Marlborough, to the boxes with hinged lids, forming seats to the desks. 
The word occurs in the school accounts at least as far back as 1660, and is 
used in a somewhat similar sense at Winchester. The definitions given are 
fairly accurate, except that Teart and Vinney are treated as nouns, instead 
of adjectives. Judging from internal evidence, the compiler was probably 
from North Wilts. As the greater part of the words given may be said to 
be still in common use, the statement that they are “now almost obsolete ”’ 
needs some qualification. : 
History of Chippenham. By Rev. J.J. Daniell. 1894. 
story of Warminster. By the same. 1879. 
Birds of Marlborough, being a Contribution to the Ornithology of 
_ the District. By Everard F. im. Thurn. 1870. Contains many local 
