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Jennings, James

"The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire"


Nif. _conj._ If.
Nill. _s._ A needle.
Nist, Nuost. _prep._ Nigh, near.
Niver-tha-near. _adv._ (Never-the-near), To no purpose,
uselessly.
Nona'tion. _adj._ Difficult to be understood; not
intelligent; incoherent, wild.
Nor'ad. _adv._ Northward.
Nora'tion. _s._ Rumour; clamour.
Nor'ra un, Nor'ry un. Never a one.
Norn. _pron._ Neither. _Norn o'm_, neither of them.
Nor'thering. _adj._ Wild, incoherent, foolish.
Nort. _s_. Nothing. West of the Parret.
Not-sheep. _s_. A sheep without horns.
Not. _s_. The place where flowers are planted is usually
called the _flower not_, or rather, perhaps, knot; a flower
bed.
Not'tamy. _s_. Corrupted from _anatomy_: it means very
often, the state of body, _mere skin and bone_.
Nottlins. _s. pl. See_ KNOTTLINS.
Num'met. _s_. A. short meal between breakfast and dinner;
nunchion, luncheon. Nuncle. _s_. An uncle.
To Nuncle. _v. a_. To cheat.
Nuth'er. _adv_. Neither.


O.

O'. _prep_. for of.
Obstrop'ilous.


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