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Dorset Dialect
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Alfred henry | Report | 15 Mar 2010 21:35 |
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acker(friend) blue slop(overall jacket)scavenger pit(rubbish dump) sope me bob(so help me god)tiddy vate(to decorate oneself)hethcropper(people from wareham dorset)squitters(diarrhoea)PLANTS broccolo(cauliflower)chipple(spring onion)tom putt(large eating apple their is a lot more words wich i try to use to keep the old Dialects allive |
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Jane | Report | 15 Mar 2010 21:39 |
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I don't know the Dorset speak but I grew up in Devon and always said the Squitters lol |
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Whirley | Report | 15 Mar 2010 21:47 |
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more, more |
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Alfred henry | Report | 15 Mar 2010 22:33 |
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this is a selection of old dorset insults he be a lop lolly (an idle person) that there bugger be a noggerhead(a very stupid person) the maid be puggled( a stupid woman) he be a fat as a barrow pig(hog)(Very fat man) thee zainy stunpol look at me lardies(wife belting husbands bum with a bisum(brush)after burning the bread)they be a family of huck mucks(dirty slovenly)this is the worst of the ones that are printable bigitty/bikety(conceited) (bigotty slack(a terrible term of abuse the final insult in an argument .she be a chattermag(a woman who chatters like a magpie. |
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