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query, is not this word related to the common term bogie *?) ; heat 

 (burnt turves — in Devonshire burnt garden refuse is called beat 

 or peat) ; bever (biver D) ; belve ; biddicks (bittacks D) ; bob- 

 ble E (a pebble — popple D) ; bran-new ; briming' (briny D, as 

 Carew has it) ; buUum ; bultys or boulter (bolter D) ; buts (bots D) ; 

 buckhorn ; barm. 



Cab; cabby; chibbals ; chuck; chuff; clam (a foot bridge) ; 

 dome E, clomen W (clomb D) ; clibby ; clickpawed (clickypaw D) ; 

 clout ; cluck (to crouch — cruck D) ; cluck (of a hen) ; clusty 

 (sometimes in Devon clisty, which in West Cornwall means soft 

 or sticky) ; clunk ; colewort ; coign (commonly spelt quoin) ; 

 coomb; creem (to creep, i.e. of the flesh); crib; cricket (a low 

 stool, seldom used in Devon, but common in the North of England) ; 

 crock ; crumped ; diet W (a kitten — not used in Devon ; but for- 

 ward children are sometimes called chits) ; chur ; clack ; clubbish 

 (occasionally D) ; cob ; crease. 



Daps ; davered ; derns (sometimes in Devon dorns) ; dish- 

 water ; disle ; drule ; dig (a rap) ; doust (chaff ; also to yield, give 

 up — this word is included in both glossaries, but in each case only 

 in one sense ; it is used in Devon in both) ; dribs ; drumble- 

 dory W (a cockchafer — -compare drumble drone, a bumble bee D). 



Evet. 



Faggot (a feminine term of reproach) ; fang (to take — vang D) ; 

 fitty (vitty D) ; fouse ; flasket ; flop ; freath E (a wattled gap in 

 a hedge — vreath D, a low hedge) ; flink. 



Gawky ; gladdy ; grab ; grainy (proud, haughty — in Devon it 

 has also the meaning of cross-tempered) ; greet (earth, soil — 

 query grit D, sand, small hard particles) ; grizzle ; gumptious ; 

 girts or gerts ; gulge ; glow W (to look sullen- — glower D) ; 

 glump W (sulkiness — glum D) ; gammets. 



Hack (to dig lightly) ; hallnut, also nuthall E (the hazel — 

 nutall D) ; haveage (W habit, E hneage — Devon, lineage) ; head 

 and henge; hekkymal (akkymal D) ; holm scritch (home screech D) ; 

 home (near to, close) ; hurts ; haps ; heap (" knacked al ov a 

 heap ") ; hood (wood, occasionally D). 



Jakes. 



Kern ; killick ; knap ; keyls (keels D) ; kicklish (ticklish D) ; 

 kink. 



Leary ; Lawrence (to idle — " Miky Lawrence's fever," to be 



