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Blimble-footed. Club-footed. N. & S.W. 



*Blimbled. " T be terble bumbled," hard up, etc. N.W. (Aldbourne.) 



*Bummick. Cow or ox. - Go an' sar the bumniicks." S.W. (Deverill.) 



Builgey. The inhabitants of Imber near Heytesbury, are derisively styled 



"Imber Bungeys" by their neighbours. S.W. 



Burn-bake, (l), (2), and (3), ^.-N.W, 



Bush-magpie. Pica caudata, Magpie. N. & S.W. 



" The old myth of the existence of two species — i.e., the ' Bush Magpie ' 

 and the ' Tree Magpie ' — is still firmly believed in here." — (Birds of 

 Marlborough.) • It should be noted that the so-called "Bush Mag." has a 

 very much shorter tail than the " Tree Mag.," and is a smaller bird in every 

 way. 



Butt. A hassock, usually of plaited straw. N. & S.W. 



Butter-and-EggS. Add:— {3) A method of sliding, similar to the 

 "Cobbler's Knock." N.W. 



" I can do butter-and-eggs all down the slide. . . . The feat . . . 

 consists in going down the slide on one foot, and beating with the heel and 

 toe of the other at short intervals." — Ashen Faggot. 



Button. " He's a button short," or, " He hasn't got all his buttons," he is 

 somewhat deficient in intellect. N. & S.W. 



By. (1) For, " I hadn't the money to do't by her." N. & S.W. 



(2) With. " I caan't doo nothen by her." N. & S.W. 



Caddie. (2) Add .—Sometimes Cattel in S. Wilts. 



(6) Add : — " How did you like the sermon, John ? " — Aw, thur, Zur, 

 'food a bin a main sight better if a hadden caddled the Scriptur so ! " There 

 was an old Wiltshire cobbler who used always to word his bills for making 

 boots and doing small repairs to them thus : — " Making and caddling Mr, 

 So-and-so's boots." 



CaddleSOme. Add:— (2) Troublesome. N. & S.W. 



Caddly. Of weather, stormy, uncertain. N.W. 

 *Caffy Cottrel. A simpleton.— (Hist, of Chipp.) N.W. 

 *Caffy Noodle. A simpleton. S.W. 

 Calvary. "False Hop — called 'Calvary' from the spots of blood on the 

 leaf." — (Diogenes' Sandals, p. 85.^ S.W. 



*Candle-and-lantern fair. See quotation : — 



"We used [at Warminster] to call one of the smaller fairs (1 believe il 

 was the August one) " Candle-and-lantern Fair," presumably from the 



