By G. E. Dartnell and the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 269 



Yoppingal. Pious viridis, Green Woodpecker. N.W., occasionally. 



Zaill. (2) To cook imperfectly. Meat not sufficiently "browned" by the 

 lire is " zammed " or " sammed." 



Notes and Queries, 6th Series, IV., Aug, 6th, 1881, pp. 106-7. 



" Wiltshire Provincialisms. — An old friend, a native of Wilts, has kindly 

 sent me a note of the following provincialisms, now almost obsolete. . . . 

 W.M.B." 



The list comprises fifty words : — Aumoo ; Avish : Bakkylamb ; Buffler ; 

 Caddie; *Codnogger ; *Collyfodger ; Cham; Cleavy ; Climhtack ; 

 *Dabby-nointer ; Dad d iky ; Daglett ; Duddered ; Dumbledar ; Dunch ; 

 Drunge ; Forum-snorum ; Gearn ; Hailed ge ; Happering ; Hayto ; 

 Heel-out ; *Horse-conber ; Hud -me -dud ; Jakkypig ; Knawse of a 

 knawsness ; Loppett ; Lumper; Nunny-fudget ; Nawst ; JPlim ; Ply; 

 Pure, quite pure ; Scob ; Scrigs ; Shramd ; Slat; * Stopper •hock ; Snop ; 

 Squish; Squish- gun ; Stocky; St owl ; Tack; Toilet; Teart ; Vinney ; 

 Yaut ; To yard it up. We have as yet been unable to obtain any 

 confirmation of the words marked with an asterisk, but the others have 

 already been given in Wilts Words, or appear in the present paper, under 

 one form or another, with the exception of " Scob, a dark hole or cupboard," 

 which is merely an old school term, applied at the Grammar School, 

 Marlborough, to the boxes with hinged lids, forming seats to the desks. 

 The word occurs in the school accounts at least as far back as 1660, and is 

 used in a somewhat similar sense at Winchester. The definitions given are 

 fairly accurate, except that Teart and Vinney are treated as nouns, instead 

 of adjectives. Judging from internal evidence, the compiler was probably 

 from North Wilts. As the greater part of the words given may be said to 

 be still in common use, the statement that they are "now almost obsolete " 

 needs some qualification. 



History of Chippenham. By Rev. J. J. Daniell. 1894. 



History of Warminster. By the same. 1879. 



Diogenes' Sandals. By Mrs. Arthur Kennard. 1893. Scene near Salisbury. 



Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Wilts. 

 By Gr. A. Cooke. New edition, circa 1S;{;>. 



Wiltshire Notes and (Queries. Vols. I. and II. 



Birds of Marlborough, being a Contribution to the Ornithology r 

 the District. \\\ Everard F. im. Thurn. l s 7". Contains nmny looal 

 I iird-naro.es. 



