8 Louise Pound 
crunkle, rumple, crease. “A yellow crunkled scrap.” Cf. crinkle, crumple, 
crease, wrinkle, rumple, etc. 
flawp, go about vulgarly and ostentatiously dressed; also a name given an 
awkward slovenly person. “Flaupen aboot frae mornin’ ta neet,” “A 
girt idle flawp.” Cf. flaunt, flout, flip, flop, flirt, awkward, etc. 
flaze, flare up, blaze. “This floor can’t flaze, for it’s made o’ poplar.” 
Cf. flare, fllame, flash, blaze, etc. 
flerk, jerk about, flourish, flip or flop. “Don’t keep flerking that in my 
face.” Cf. flourish, flip, flop, jerk. 
flump, fall heavily, or headlong; a fall accompanied by a noise. “He 
went down such a flump,” “A hawk flumps or flops as a bird,” “He 
fell down full flump.” Cf. fall plump, thump, bump, etc. 
friddle, trifle, potter, waste time. “He was friddlin’ on at his work.” 
Cf. fritter, trifle, fiddle, frivol, etc. 
glumpish, glum, gloomy, sullen. “Mary is glumpish to-day.” Noted in 
the Century Dictionary. Cf. glum, gloomy, lumpish, dumps, etc. 
scrawk, scratch, scrawl, mark; also squeak, shriek, scream. “ Just scrawk 
yer pen through this,’ “ Wha’dgee scrawk fur?” Cf. scratch, mark, 
scrawl; scream, squall, squawk, shriek, etc. 
screek, shriek, scream, creak, make a grating noise. “She skreek’d oot 
like a cat yawlin’,” “It skreeks so it gets my teeth on edge.” Cf. shriek, 
scream, squeak, creak, etc. 
screel, cry, shriek, squeal, scream. .“‘ What wi’ screalin’ wimmin.” Perhaps 
built from scream, shriek, shrill, squeal, etc. 
snaggle, giggle, snicker. “‘It must be a very fine game to have such a 
large score,’ I snaggle.” Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy, xxxvii, by 
Wallace Irwin. Cf. snicker, giggle, gag, haggle, etc. 
snuddle, nestle, cuddle. “Snuddled together like birds in a nest.” Built 
from snuggle, cuddle, huddle, etc. 
troddle, toddle, go. “The young things trodlin’.” Note trudge, trip, trot, 
toddle. 
That words of this type are the special product of modern 
times or contemporary conditions is by no means to be assumed. 
They are likely to be as old in language history as are fusion forms 
or hybrids, or composites in general. The words in the list cited 
are aggressively dialectal, it is admitted. Like all indefinite 
blends they tend to be telling, forceful words, not neutral; also 
they are predominantly rather ugly or unbeautiful formations. In 
words of special folk or dialect coinage there seems in general to 
be little striving for the attractive or agreeable. There is marked 
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