| A TUTTY OF BLOSSOM | Covered in blossom. | |
| AS WAS | Reference to a married lady using her maiden name. Often used by people who have known her since she was a child. | "I bin talking to Joan Allen as was." |
| BENOGS | Small fish - probably sticklebacks. | |
| BOW | Bridge. | |
| CAN'T ABIDE | Dislike. | "I can't abide her." |
| CHOITY | Choosy. | |
| COOPY | Child's name for a hen. | |
| COOPY DOWN | Crouch down. | "Coopy down and pick up that pin for me." |
| DABSTER | Skilled. | "She's a dabster for sewing." |
| DADDICKY | Wobbly, insecure, unsafe. | "The fence is getting daddicky." |
| DAPS | Plimsolls. | |
| D'BLOW WELL | Flowers well.
'Blow' to rhyme with 'cow'. | |
| DISHWASHER | Pied Wagtail bird. | |
| DOT AND CARRY ONE | Walking with a limp. | |
| DRANGWAY | Unmetalled lane, entrance way, right of way. | "You'll have to drive down the drangway to the house or field." |
| DUMPSEY | Beginning to get dark. | "Better go in now it's getting dumpsey." |
| EMMETS | Ants. | |
| EVETS | Newts. | |
| GETTING UP ALONG | Getting old. | |
| GRAMFERS | Woodlice. | |
| GRIBBLE | A sucker from a tree or shrub. | |
| GRIPES AND BENS | Drainage channels and the ridges between them. | |
| HALF A YARD OF PUMP WATER | Often used to describe a person's straight hair. | |
| HAPPER ON | Talk a lot. | "How you do happer on." |
| HATCH | Gate. | |
| JANNOCK | Unfair. | "Tidn't jannock." |
| LARRUP | Trudging. |
"I bin larruping the fields looking for mushrooms." |
| MAGS DIVERSIONS | A loud and confused argument. | "It'll be mags diversions when the others find out." |
| MALL or MAUL | A tool with a long handle like a spade, made of a roundish piece of wood with metal bonds either end. It was used to break up the heavy lumps of clay. | "I'm going to maul that bit of garden." |
| MOMICK | Nuisance, full of mischief. | "That dog's a momick." |
| ONE SIDE OF IT | Past its best. | |
| PEAK | Hay fork. | |
| PLIM or PLIMMED UP | Swollen | "That door have plimmed up and won't open properly." |
| POTATO RHAIMS | Haulms | |
| POWN | Tread on. | "Don't pown on that bit of garden." |
| PUDDIES | The hands of babies or small children. | |
| PURL | Turning, twirling, to fall over. | "She went purling. He's purling his hoop along the pavement." |
| QUARTER D' THREE | Walking with toes pointed outwards. | "Old Charley de always walk quarter d'three." |
| RAIDS | Fence like superstructure on a wagon to prevent hay from falling off. | |
| RAYBALLING | Catching eels using a ball of worms threaded on a wire. | |
| RETCHUP | Unreliable. | "There's no retchup in him." |
| RUCTIONS | Telling off. | "There'll be ructions when you get home." |
| SCAD | A short light shower of rain. | "No need to put your coat on it's just a scad." |
| SCAMMISH | Awkward, uncontrolled. Often used to describe a left handed person. | "He's going at that a bit scammish.." |
| SCREWS or SCREW | Rheumatism. | |
| SHERD | Gap. | "Must stop up the sherd in the hedge" |
| SPAN | A hobble. | "Cows were spanned around their back legs for outdoor milking" |
| SPITTING THISTLES | Hoe out the thistles. | |
| SPITTLE THE POTATOES | Earth up the potatoes | |
| SPRACK | Lively. | "You'm sprack and spry today." |
| SPREATHE | Chap or make sore. | |
| STIVVER | Walk. | "I'm going to stiver on.." |
| TEART | Tender | "My fingers a bit teart where that splinter went in." |
| TRIG UP | Support | "That fence needs trigging up." |
| TWO DOUBLE | Bent over. | "The rheumatism have bent her two double." |
| UR | Reference to a person, male or female. | "He's a good boy idn't ur?" |
| VINNID | Gone off. | "You can't eat that it's gone vinned." |
| YES or YESSES | Large worms. | |
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