Two collections of Derbicisms containing words and phrases in a great measure peculiar to the natives and inhabitants of the county of Derby Volume 32, no. 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...which see. Crowdling is fawning; and slow, as crowdling along; in which sense they use it in Somersetshire. Gent. Mag. xvi. p. 406. Crozzel kroz-1, v. to cake together, as sea-coal does when water is thrown upon it. Small coal or slack crozzels in ordinary fires. fCuckingstool, sb. Old Plays, vi. p. 287. Cuckstool in Derbyshire; duckingstool in other places. So to be cucked. See Littleton's Dictionary. Obsolete, 1890. C, B. fCun, v. to cun one thanks--' Yet thanks I must you con'; Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, iv. 3. Obsolete, 1890. C, B. fCunning, adj. the sky looks cunning, suspicious, likely to rain. Obsolete, 1890. C, B. fCustenor fCussen, pp. casten, i. e. cast up; as cussen earth, earth that has been dug. Obsolete, 1890. C, B. D Dades daidz, or Dading-strings daidyi-stringzst.pZ. leading-strings for children. To dade a child. Dadingstrings in use; Dades obsolete. Daggl'd daag-'ld, pp. In other places Draggl'd draag-'Id. Both forms now used at Whittington: said of a woman having the lower portion of her clothes wet, from walking through wet grass, &c Dam daamnv, sb. It properly means the head or bay of a pond; but they use it in Derbyshire, by a metonymy, for the water of it or the pond itself; hence a Mill-dam is a mill-pond; Woodthorp Dam is the pond there, and fish is said to be catch'd in Woodthorp Dam. Dame darm, sb. i a low word of contempt us'd to women, though 2 once, and still in some cases, it expresses rank and quality. Sense 1 still in use; also applied without disrespect to elderly women, as, 'Old dame Moseley, ' aowd darm Mozliy. fDance, adj. nice, dainty. Some say danch. Obsolete, 1890. C, B. fDar daa'r, v. dare; also dear, and dearer; as, nar naarv, nearer. Used formerly, in the recollection of elderly people. Dark daa'rk, adj. blind..