"Ad rather keep him for a week than a fortneet", I thought that was an expression of surprise at someone's appetite.
What's that? - a wigwam for meddlers. (from my husbands grandmother who,though she lived in Hull had started off in Lancashire.)
His other grandma, from Beverley used "fezzening in" when people go at the food enthusiastically. She also used to connifogle her money away (according to Jim this word could be used for anything you want to hide, and doesn't imply dishonesty)