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Thread #163316   Message #3894949
Posted By: Jim Carroll
20-Dec-17 - 01:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: anyone recognise these words?
Subject: RE: BS: anyone recognise these words?
Layette's common everywhere, I think (a dictionary word)
Drindle is a small, slow run of water in Suffolk
Drindle - also dawdle in Suffolk
Beddy is greedy in the North of England
Nib is the handle of a scythe in Derbyshire
Chit - to germinate, whence 'chits' - children, also first sprouts of corn from the seed (Lost Beauties of the English Language, Charles Mackay (1874)
Jim Carroll