dick

From a Cumbric *deg, corresponding to Welsh deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg.

(Cumbria) Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.


lig

en-verb

lig (third-person singular simple present ligs, present participle ligging, simple past ligged or lag or lay, past participle ligged or laggen or lain)

ligs (present singular third-person)
ligging (participle present)
ligged (past)
lag (past)
lay (past)
ligged (participle past)
laggen (participle past)
lain (participle past)

From Middle English liggen, from Old English licgan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.

inh

His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(intransitive, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Teesdale) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.

(transitive, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Teesdale) To lay.


yonder

From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).

cog

See who yonder is.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 149:

"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there."

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Whose doublewide is that over yonder?

(archaic or dialect especially Cumbria, Southern US) At or in a distant but indicated place.

allá

less specific, somwhat like "over yonder"

allí

more specific, somewhat like "in/right yonder"


crack

en-noun

crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)

→ Finnish: crack

→ Swedish: crack

From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gi̇̀rgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʻ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).
Compare typologically English crevice derived from Latin crepō, Bulgarian пукнатина (puknatina) akin to пу́кам (púkam), Russian тре́щина (tréščina) akin to треск (tresk), щель (ščelʹ) akin to щёлкать (ščólkatʹ).

cog

(Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.


pimp

From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp.
Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

doublet

(Cumbria and Old Welsh) Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.


garbage

From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear

cog

garbidge (alternative obsolete pronunciation-spelling)

(England, dialectal, Cumbria, Lancashire, archaic) foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.


canna

I canna' change the laws of physics.

1966, “The Naked Time”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Scotty (James Doohan):

(Scotland, Cumbria, Jamaica) Contraction of can not: cannot.


cove

From Middle English cove, from Old English cofa (“chamber; den”), from Proto-West Germanic *kobō, from Proto-Germanic *kubô. Cognate with German Koben, Swedish kova. This word has probably survived as long as it has due to its coincidental phonetic resemblance to the unrelated word English cave. Also unrelated to Spanish cueva, which itself is a cognate of cave.

(Cumbria) A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.


fettle

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-fettle.wav

From Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepare (oneself) for battle, gird up; to shape; to be about to, or to ready (oneself) to stay; (adjective) shaped (well or poorly)”) [and other forms], which possibly:
* from Old English fetel (“belt, girdle, fettle”), from Proto-Germanic *fatilaz, further etymology unknown; or
* from Old English fetian (“to fetch”), from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”).
Compare Old English ġefetelsod (“provided with a belt; trimmed, polished, ornamented”).

nb...

fatelen, fetel, fetele, fetelen, fetle, fettel, fettil, fetyl, fitelen

cog

What’s yer fettle marra?

(Cumbria, Geordie) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.

Zustand

person’s mood or state, often assuming the worst


jarp

Borrowed from Scots jaup (“(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.; broken piece, fragment; light blow, slap; (verb) of water: to dash; to splash; to cause a splash by striking the surface of or throwing water; to bespatter or splash (mud, water, etc.); (obsolete) to knock about, manhandle”), perhaps from jalp, jilp (“to spill, splash, squirt”), probably originally imitative of a splash.

bor

Making these Easter or anytime decorated hard-boiled eggs is a tradition in northern England where they are known as paste eggs (or pace eggs as they are called in other areas). They are used in jarping competitions, in which each child holds an egg pointy end up and tries to crack their opponent's egg with one jarp, without breaking their own. Then everyone eats the eggs.

2017, Linda Tubby, “Flower-power Paste Eggs”, in Cracked: Creative and Easy Ways to Cook with Eggs, London: Kyle Books, →ISBN:

(Cumbria, Ireland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, games) The act of knocking one's pace egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries.

pääsiäismunien yhteen napautus

act of knocking one’s pace egg against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one’s own intact, an Easter custom in many countries


jarp

en-verb

jarp (third-person singular simple present jarps, present participle jarping, simple past and past participle jarped)

jarps (present singular third-person)
jarping (participle present)
jarped (participle past)
jarped (past)

Many of the lads, however, have a much speedier method of either adding to their store of food or losing their egg. They jaup or jarp them together, i.e. one lad strikes his egg against that of his opponent, when one or both are broken; if only one, it is forfeited and becomes the property of the conqueror.

1898, Richard Blakeborough, “Customs of the Year and Folklore”, in Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire […], London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press […], →OCLC, page 77:

Jarping hard-boiled eggs (sometimes the painted ones, but often we didn't want to sacrifice our laboriously decorated works of art) on Easter Monday; it was like conkers – you jarped one end of your pace egg against the end of someone else's and the winner was the egg that hadn't cracked, or still had one end intact.

1960s, Steve Roud, quoting a person from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, “The Children’s Year”, in The Lore of the Playground: One Hundred Years of Children’s Games, Rhymes & Traditions, London: Random House Books, published 2010, →ISBN, part 7 (Superstition and Tradition), page 481:

Here he [Sid Chaplin] learnt to swim and how to jarp Easter eggs; he played with penkers, and shutty ring with glass alleys, and sometimes the men joined in games of tipcat.

1987, Sid Chaplin, “The Night of the News”, in Michael Chaplin, Rene Chaplin, editors, In Blackberry Time, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Bloodaxe Books, →ISBN, page 72:

(transitive, Cumbria, Ireland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, games) To knock (a pace egg) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact.

napauttaa pääsiäismunia yhteen

to knock (a pace egg) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other’s egg and leaving one's own intact


marra

Cheers marra!

Alreet marra?

Hoo's it gaan marra?

(West Cumbria, Geordie, Mackem, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.


radge

en-adj

radge (comparative more radge, superlative most radge)

more radge (comparative)
most radge (superlative)

We met for the first time at the airport and ended up in Turkey – I’ve done a lot of radged things in my time but nothing like this.

2016 July 16, Joanna Morris, quoting Phil Stephenson, “Tinder date lands Darlington man in Turkey amid military coup”, in The Northern Echo, Darlington, UK:

That fight last night was radge

(Geordie, Scotland, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Birmingham) Violent or crazy.


spelk

From Middle English spelke, from Old English spilc, spelc (“a splint”), from Proto-West Germanic *spelku, from Proto-Germanic *spelkō, *spalkō, *spalkuz (“bast, splint”). Cognate with Old Norse spjalkir (“bars, rails”, plural).

cog

(Northumbria, Cumbria) A splinter, usually of wood.

(Northumbria, Cumbria) A wooden splinter caught under the skin.


divint

Contraction of the Geordie dee (“do”) + not. Cognate with Scots divvent. Also dinna in parts of Scotland and the north-east of England.

"Divint gan near the Seghill mine". Lyric from the Northumbrian folk song Blackleg Miner


hallan

Nails had been driven into the boards in every spot where a nail could possibly be inserted, and on these were hung the various articles of this curious museum. Exactly opposite the door there had been originally cut in the hallan an opening […]

1881, Chambers's Journal, volume 58, number 1, page 343:

Having successfully negotiated the threshwood, the visitor found himself in the hallan, which was about four feet wide. The hallan formed a convenient storage place for sacks of corn on the eve of market day and here, too, pigs were hung up […]

1981, William Rollinson, Life & Tradition in the Lake District, page 22:I:

(dialectal, Ireland, Scotland, Northumbria, Cumbria, Lancashire) The passage or space between the outer and inner door of a cottage; the partition between the passage and the room.


spile

From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spile (“splinter, peg”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spīlaz (“splinter, peg”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“prickle, pointed stick”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian spyl, German Speil (“chip, splinter, gore, wedge”), Danish spile, Dutch spijl.

cog

(obsolete or dialectal, Cumbria, Lancashire) A splinter.


yan

Along with ane and yen, a Cumbrian and Northumbrian form of one, from the Old English ān. An example is "yan, twee, tree, fower" for "one, two, three, four".


yan

From Brythonic numerals, with influence from Old English ān or modern Northern English yan or Northern English yen.

(Cumbria) One in Cumbrian sheep counting rhyme.


scut

en-verb

scut (third-person singular simple present scuts, present participle scutting, simple past and past participle scut)

scuts (present singular third-person)
scutting (participle present)
scut (participle past)
scut (past)

Origin unknown; perhaps from scut(tle), or related to Swedish scutla (“to leap”).

―A fat lot you know about it, Thunder! Wells said. I know why they scut.

1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 41:

(intransitive, originally Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.


lough

From Middle English lough, logh, luh, borrowed from Cumbric *luch, derived from Proto-Brythonic *luch, from Proto-Celtic *lokus (“lake, pool”).


lowp

lowp (third-person singular simple present lowps, present participle lowping, simple past and past participle lowpt or lowped)

lowps (present singular third-person)
lowping (participle present)
lowpt (participle past)
lowpt (past)
lowped (participle past)
lowped (past)


twining

en-noun

twining (countable and uncountable, plural twinings)

Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining [Cumbrian dialect for moaning]. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else.

2009 November 23, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, in The Guardian:

(British, uncountable, regional, Cumbria) complaining or grumbling


tethera

From Brythonic numerals, extended from a root *tri.

(Cumbria) three in Celtic sheep counting


tyan

From Brythonic numerals, from an assumed *dwau, from Proto-Brythonic *dọw.

(Cumbria) Two in Cumbrian sheep counting.


methera

From Brythonic numerals. Compare to Welsh mhedwerydd, nasal mutation of pedwerydd.

(Cumbria) four in sheep counting of Northern England.


sethera

From Brythonic numerals, extended from a root *hweh.

(Cumbria) six in Cumbrian sheep counting


lethera

From Brythonic numerals, from a mutation of an assumed *sext.

(Cumbria) seven in Cumbrian sheep counting


hovera

From Brythonic/Cumbric numerals, from an assumed *(h)oxt. Compare hwyth, the h-mutation of the Welsh form.

(Cumbria) Eight in Cumbrian sheep counting.


dovera

From Cumbric numerals, from an assumed Proto-Brythonic *naw (“nine”). For the initial consonant compare Lithuanian devyni and Proto-Slavic *devętь (“nine”).

(Cumbria) nine in Cumbrian sheep counting


yan-a-dick

From Cumbric *ün gwar ðeg. Literally yan a (and) dick and c.f. Compare Welsh un ar ddeg.

(Cumbria) eleven in Cumbrian sheep counting


tyan-a-dick

From Brythonic numerals. Literally tyan a (“and”) dick.

(Cumbria) Twelve in Cumbrian sheep counting.


tethera-a-dick

From Brythonic numerals. Literally tethera a (and) dick.

(Cumbria) thirteen in Cumbrian sheep counting


methera-a-dick

From Brythonic numerals. Literally methera (four) a (and) dick (ten).

(Cumbria) fourteen in Cumbrian sheep counting


bumfit

From Brythonic numerals (compare Welsh pymtheg), eventually from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp (“five”) + *deg (“ten”).

(Cumbria) Fifteen in Cumbrian sheep counting.


yan-a-bumfit

From Brythonic numerals. Literally yan a (and) bumfit.

(Cumbria) Sixteen in Cumbrian sheep counting.


tyan-a-bumfit

From Brythonic numerals. Literally tyan a (and) bumfit.

(Cumbria) Seventeen in Cumbrian sheep counting.


tethera-a-bumfit

(Cumbria) eighteen in Cumbrian sheep counting


methera-bumfit

From Brythonic, likely Cumbric, numerals. Literally an amalgamation of methera and bumfit.

(Cumbria) nineteen in Cumbrian sheep counting


giggot

From Brythonic numerals, from an assumed *gwigent, from Proto-Brythonic *ʉgėnt, from Proto-Celtic *wikantī.

(Cumbria) twenty in Cumbrian sheep counting


speel

speels (plural)
spool (alternative dialectal obsolete)
speil (alternative)
spele (alternative)
speal (alternative)
spiel (alternative)
spael (alternative)

(Cumbria, Lincolnshire) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.


tatie

Shortened form of potato + -ie; compare tater.


firtle

en-verb

firtle (third-person singular simple present firtles, present participle firtling, simple past and past participle firtled)

firtles (present singular third-person)
firtling (participle present)
firtled (participle past)
firtled (past)

Stop tha firtlin’ aboot.

(Cumbria) To mess around, to waste time.


forset

forset (third-person singular simple present forsets, present participle forsetting, simple past and past participle forset)

forsets (present singular third-person)
forsetting (participle present)
forset (participle past)
forset (past)
forsett (alternative)
fooarset (alternative)
foorset (alternative)
fwoorset (alternative)

From Middle English forsetten, from Old English forsettan (“to hedge in, obstruct, oppress”), equivalent to for- + set. Cognate with Dutch verzetten (“to move”), German versetzen (“to put, move, transfer, transpose”), Swedish försätta (“to go on, remove, set”).

cog

(transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.

(transitive, dialectal, figuratively, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To upset; hinder.

backset and forset

(transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.


cold fire

(dialectal, Cumbria, archaic) Fuel laid ready for lighting.


owwer

en-adv

owwer (comparative more owwer, superlative most owwer)

more owwer (comparative)
most owwer (superlative)

Nut owwer het


like smack

He ran down like smack.