156 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 



Dawk. Add :— " This seems to be identical with A.S. dale, dole, Dut. and 

 Dan. dolk, Icel. ddlkr, Ger. dolch,B\\ meaning a sharp piercing instrument, 

 skewer, dagger, etc." — Smy the -Palmer. 



*Dick-and-his-team. The Great Bear. " I know the north star; there 

 it is ... . And the Great Bear ; the men call it Dick and His Team." 

 — Greene Feme Farm, ch. 6. Compare Jack -and-his-team. 



*Diggled. ^rf«? :— Diggles is used as a noun, as:— "Let's go a black - 

 berryin' ; there's diggles [abundance, plenty] up Grovely." — Mr. Sloiv. 



JJrock. (3) Add: — "Where meaning a water way, it is usually spoken 

 of as a Drock-Way, ' drock ' alone being the passage over the ditch." — 

 Miss E. Boyer-Brown. N.W. (Castle Eaton.) 



*Drucked. Filled to overflowing {Slow). 



*Droy. n. A thunderbolt {Aubrey's Wilts MS.). Obsolete. 



r alarie. Add -. — " Used about Wilton, but not so extensively as its synonym 

 rumjpusP — Mr. Slow. 



Featish. Add-. — " How's your voice ? " " Aw, featish [fairish]. I zucked 

 a thrush's egg to clear un." — Greene Feme Farm, ch. 1. " ' Ees, this be 

 featish tackle,' meaning the liquor was good." — Ihid, ch. 7. " A' be a 

 featish-looking girl, you." — Ibid, ch. 1. 



Folly. Add: — " ' Every hill seems to have a Folly,' she said, looking round, 

 ' I mean a clump of trees on the top.' " — Ibid, ch. 6. There is a clump of 

 Scotch Firs on the top of Compton Down, called " The Long Folly." 



Friggle. Add : — (3) To fidget, to worry about a thing. " He freggled 

 [fidgetted] hisself auver thuck paason as come a bit ago." — Ibid. ch. 7. 



Froughten. Add :— " Lor, Miss, how you did froughten I ! "—Ibid, ch. 7. 



Fullmare. n. In my childhood I remember being told more than once by 

 a servant at Morden, near Swindon, N.W., that a colt which was playing 

 about in a field near was " a fullmare." Could this possibly have been a 

 survival of the old word " Folymare, a young foal," which is given by 

 Halliwell and Wright as occurring in a fifteenth century MS. at Jesus 

 College, Oxford P I have never heard the word elsewhere. — G.E.D. 



GraapuS. n. a fool, a stupid fellow. " What be at, ye girt gaapus ! " 



N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, etc.) 



Goggles. .4rfc?:—" Guggles, the empty shells of snails— not the large 

 brown kind, but those of various colours." — Miss F. Bayer-Brown. N.W. 



(Castle Eaton.) 

 Gold. Nodules of iron pyrites in chalk. " On past the steep wall of an ancient 

 chalk-quarry, where the ploughboys search for pyrites, and call them thundei'- 

 bolts and ' gold,' for when broken the radial metallic fibres glisten yellow." 

 — Greene Feme Farm, ch. 5. Heard once near Clyffe Pypard, years 

 3.go.—G.E.I). 



