144 Contributions towards a fViltshire Glossary. 



Quean. "The Saxon word quean, woman, is still used without any ob- 

 jectionable meaning, but its use is rare." — Leisure Hour, Aug., 1893. N.W. 



(Castle Eaton.) 



Quiddle. (1) n. A fussy person ; one hard to satisfy in trifling matters 



of diet, etc. S.W. 



(2) n. To make a fuss over trifles. S.W. 



*Quiet Neighbours. Centranthus ruler, D.C., Red Spur Valerian. S.W. 



(Longbridge Deverill.) 

 Quiff. Add: — "Mr. F. J. Kennedy, secretary of the Belfast Angling 

 Association . . . . ' worked a quifE,' to use a slang phrase, on a well- 

 known Lagan jio&cher."— Fishing Gazette, 20th Aug., 1892, p. 154. 

 Quill. Add: — See note in Folk-Etymology, p. 310. To " Quill a person " 

 in the language in use at Winchester College is to please, or humour him. 

 This is very near the Wilts use. 

 Quilt. (1) Add : — This is used of swallowing in the natural way, while 



glutcli is to swallow with difficulty. (C.) 

 Quirk. Add: — To grunt (Slow). A frog often quirks, and a toad some- 

 times. S.W, 

 Quob. Add : — W. of Eng. quoh, a bog ; quoh-mire, Salop ; O.E. quave, to 



Kandy . (l) Add : — A woman who used to be a regular attendant at all the 

 tea-meetings and other gatherings of the kind in her neighbourhood in N. 

 Wilts was usually spoken of as being " a randy sorto' a 'ooman" — randy 

 apparently being there applied to such gatherings, 

 ^rfrf:— S.W. to both (1) and (2). 



Kamp. A curve. S.W. 



xiapid. " A rapid pain," " rapid weather," i.e., very violent. Always so used 

 at Clyffe Pypard. " This may be compared with the Latin use of rapidus. 

 Cf. Virgil's rapidus cestus (Bucol. ii., 10), and rapidus sol (Georg. ii., 321), 

 =:strong, violent." — Smythe- Palmer. N.W. 



*Rattle-basket. Fricaeinerea? Heskth. Heard only from one person. S.W. 



(Deverill.) 



Raves. Add:-s.w. 



Red-Robins. Lychnis diurna, Sibth., Red Campion. N. & S.W. 



Reed. Unthreshed and unbroken straw reserved for thatching. A Somerset 

 and Devon word. " Reed " is seldom used in Wilts, where ordinary threshed 

 straw, made up into elms, is the common material. S.W. 



Revel. Add : — There was a revel held at Cley Hill formerly, on Palm Sunday, 

 and one at Kington Langley on the Sunday following St. Peter's Day. 



