314 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
I do Chorey [go out as a Chore Woman] and the two Boys do Bird keepey— 
that is One works as a smith—one spins one makes Lace one goes out as 
a Chore woman & two ave Bird keepers which Latter term were more to the 
purpose if expressed Bird frightener or driver.”— Cunnington MS. 
Yuckel. Add:—So called from its cry, Yue, yue. 
*Zaad-paul (? Zaat-poll, soft-head). This term used to be commonly applied 
about Aldbourne to an utterly good-for-nothing fellow, but is gradually 
dying out now. 
*Zam. To heat for some time over the fire, without letting it come to the 
boil. N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
*Zammy. ‘“‘Zammy tea,” half-cold, insipid tea. N.W. (Hullavington.) 
Zam-zodden. Long-heated over a slow fire, and so half spoilt. This and 
the last two words belong to Som. rather than Wilts. N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
The North Wilts Vocabulary here quoted as ‘‘ Cunnington MS.” contains the 
following words, those marked with a dagger (ft) not being in the original 
compiler’s hand:—f Arran, all a hoh, beet, brow, burrow, caddle, clavey, 
cham, tclap to the door, chism, cleet, clum, clyten, clytenish, dain, + desperd, 
+ douse, dunch, dunch-dumplin, dar, flick or flitch, +gallered, gabborn, glox, 
glutch, thit, to strike, hazon, harl, m. and v., hatch, heft, hike, + hitch, 
howe, howed-for, hop a bouts, hudgey, kitch, kerfs, lear, lew, lewth, limp, 
limber, mandy, miff, mothery ov muthery, most-in-deal, newst, nitch, +plye, 
to bend, +’Nan, quilt, rowney, rumple, to wrinkle, t rathe, rubble, shewent, 
shim, tskillin, shog, sleazey, slox, sprack, sultedge, swingeing, { sprawny, 
tack, teft, tthick and thuck, tine, to kindle, tine, to fence, tining, f tun, 
t+ tag, todge, t twit, twire, t vuddels, vinny, unkerd ov unkert, weeth, yat. 
A few other words, as acrass, chit, clout, hire, to hear, muxen, stowl, stole, 
won't, will not, and numerals dree to zix, are added in pencil at a later date 
At the end of the MS. there is a long note on plurals, adjectives, and 
pronouns in en, thic and thoc, and the free infinitive. 
