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Jennings, James

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

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Tut'ty. _s._ A flower; a nosegay.
'Tword'n. It was not.
To Twick. _v. a._ To twist or jerk suddenly.
Twick. _s._ A sudden twist or jerk.
Twi'ly. _adj._ Restless; wearisome.
Twi'ripe. _adj._ Imperfectly ripe.


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Unk'et. _adj._ Dreary, dismal, lonely.
To Unray'. _v. a._ To undress.
To Untang', _v. a._ To untie.
To Up. _v. a._ To arise.
Up'pin stock. _g._ A horse-block. _See_ LIGHTING-STOCK.
Upsi'des. _adv._ On an equal or superior footing. _To be
upsides_ with a person, is to do something which shall be
equivalent to, or of greater importance or value than what has
been done by such person to us.
Utch'y. _pron._ I. This word is not used in the Western or
Eastern, but only in the Southern parts of the County of Somerset.
It is, manifestly, a corrupt pronunciation of _Ich_, or
_IchA"_, pronounced as two syllables, the Anglo-Saxon word for
I. _What shall utchy do?_ What shall I do.
I think Chaucer sometimes uses _iche_ as a dissyllable;
_vide_ his Poems _passim_.


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