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Don’t
you know the difference between quackle and twizzle?
– well you will by the end of this page!
As
well as those, there are plenty more for you to gets to grips
with – but before you get yourself all in a slarver
I’d take something for that tizzick if I wuz you!
Anyway,
these should be plenty enough Norfolk words to be going on
with for the minute and – hey! – there’s only
one more page to go and there’ll be no more excuses for
not sounding just like us in future, will there?
Q
| Dialect
word(s) |
Meaning |
| Quackle |
To
strangle or choke: “He wuz suffen raw –
he put his hands around my neck so tight they were fit
to quackle me!” |
| Queer |
Ill,
sick : “I dun’t harf feel queer!” |
R
| Dialect
word(s) |
Meaning |
| Rabbit |
To
cut a groove, rebate, in carpentry. |
| Rafty |
Damp
, raw weather. |
| Rare |
Anything
unusual: “Thass a rare fine pheasant yew’ve
got there, bor!” |
| Raw |
Angry,
displeased: “Maw wuz hoolly raw wi me for duttying
up her troshall.” |
| Reasty |
Rancid. |
| Rent |
Tear:
“I blundered down in the street an’ rent
me trousers.” |
| Rimer |
Hoar
frost: “Blass me, thass a right ole rimer this
mornin.” |
| Ruck |
To
crease: “What hev yew bin doin now, my mawther?
Yar skut’s orl rucked up!” |
| Run |
To
leak: “Dunt yew use that there kittle, corse
that run, that dew!” |
| Run
on (go on) |
To
exaggerate, to grumble: “For Gawd’s searke,
gi yar tongue a rest an stop goin on about the wather
– yew do run on, yew do, an’ thass a fact!” |
S
| Dialect
word(s) |
Meaning |
| Sadly |
Unwell:
“He took tuh his bed, corse he wuz so sadly.” |
| Screws |
Rheumatic
aches and pains. |
| Shannock |
A
native of Sheringham; born of true Sheringham stock. |
| Shanny |
Scatter-brained. |
| Shiver |
A
splinter: “I're gotta shiver in me finger.” |
| Shuck |
An
untidy person. Also Old Shuck, the phantom hell-hound
that roams the cliffs looking for his dead master. |
| Shruck,
shrook |
Past
tense of shriek: “She shrook out when she saw
Old Shuck and took to har bed.” |
| Shud |
Shed. |
| Sight |
A
great (or small) number: “There wunt a sight
onnem there, there wunt – I thort there woulda bin
a sight more than that!” |
| Slarver |
To
drool or dribble; also, to talk rubbish. |
| Slop |
A
fisherman’s smock worn over his gansey. |
| Sluss,
slusspot |
Alcoholic
drink, one who drinks too much. |
| Smur |
Fine
rain, drizzle. |
| Snew |
Snowed.
“That snew an' snew all day!” |
| Snob |
Shoemaker
or cobbler. |
| Sorft |
Silly:
“All the squit yew come out with, yew must be sorft!” |
| Sosh
(on the) |
Uneven,
slanting, out of true: “On the sosh.” |
| Splar,
splaar |
To
spread out: “Dunt she splar her feet out when
she walk?” |
| Spuffle |
To
waffle, speak pompously: “He do spuffle, dunt
he?” |
| Squit |
Norfolk
nonsense: “He talk a load o’ squit.” |
| Stewkey
blews |
Cockles
caught at Stiffkey. |
| Stingy |
Mean,
cruel, cold: “Ony sixpence pocket money was a
bit stingy.” Or: “That wuz stingy ole weather
yisterday.” |
| Swimmers |
Norfolk
dumplings. |
T
| Dialect
word(s) |
Meaning |
| Ta,
ter |
The,
this, that or it: Ter year. |
| Tempest |
Thunderstorm. |
| Thack |
Thrash
or thump: “He wuz rude ter my sister, so I hoolly
thacked him aside the lug.” |
| Tidy |
Good,
fair: “Thass a tidy step to the busstearshun.” |
| Time |
While:
“I hed a sleep time Maw cooked the dinner.” |
| Titchy |
Touchy,
irritable. |
| Tittermatorter |
See-saw.
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| Titty-totty |
Very
small. |
| Tizzick |
A
tickly cough. |
| Tricolate |
To
spruce up or repair: “He tricolated the shud
suffin masterous.” |
| Trosh |
To
thresh. |
| Troshel,
throshel |
Doorstep,
threshold. |
| Truck |
Anything
to do: “He ent yar sort – yew dunt watta
hev any truck wi him!” |
| Twizzle |
To
rotate, spin or twist rapidly. |
How
did you get on? Are you ready for the final selection of Norfolk
dialect words and their meanings? Click the link to U–Z
to complete you lesson in Broad Norfolk.
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