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A word once an hour. From A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County of Kent, by WD Parish, 1888. Created by @grouchomerckx.bsky.social. Built with https://bluebotsdonequick.com/

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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 5m

SPITS [spit•s] sb. pl. Pieces of pine -wood, about the length and thickness of a common walking-stick, on which the herrings are dried. (See Herring-hang and Spit.]

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 1h

SCRATCH [skrach] (2) sb. A rough pronged prop, used to support a clothes' line; a pole with a natural fork at the end of it. An older form of the word Crutch.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 2h

YAR [yaar], YARE [yair] adj. Brisk; nimble; swift.
'Their ships are yare; yours, heavy.'
—Antony and Cleopatra, act iii. sc. 7.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 3h

DOLE-STONE [doa•l-stoa•n] sb. A landmark.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 4h

PELL [pel] sb. A deep place or hole in a river.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 5h

INNARDS [in•urdz] sb. The entrails or intestines; an innings at cricket.
'They bested 'em first innards.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 6h

PLACE [plais] sb. A barton; a courtyard.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 7h

FRENCH MAY [french mai] sb. The lilac, whether white or purple. Syringa vulgaris.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 8h

CRUMMY [krum•i] adj. Filthy and dirty, and covered with vermin.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 9h

GRANDLY [grand•li] adv. Greatly: as, 'I want it grandly.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 10h

PINNOCK [pin•uk] sb. A wooden drain through a gateway. (See Thurrock.)

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 11h

CLEDGY [klej•i] adj. Stiff and sticky.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 12h

FANTOD [fan•tud] adj. Fidgetty; restless; uneasy.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 13h

BISKINS [bisk•inz] sb. pl. In East Kent, they so call the two or three first meals of milk after the cow has calved. (See also Beasts, Bismilk, Poad-milk.)

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 14h

KEPT GOING [kep• goa•ing] vb. Kept about (i.e., up and out of bed); continued to go to work.
'He's not bin well for some time, but he's kep' going until last Saddaday he was forced to give up.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 15h

PUTTOCK-CANDLE [put•uk-kand•l] sb. The smallest candle in a pound, put in to make up the weight.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 16h

OUTROOPE [outroo•p] sb. An auction of household goods.
—Sandwich Book of Orphans.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 17h

SHAVE [shaiv] sb. Corrupted from shaw, a wood that encompasses a close; a small copse of wood by a field-side. (See also Carvet.)

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 18h

FIRE-FORK, sb. A shovel for the fire, made in the form of a three-pronged fork, as broad as a shovel, and fitted with a handle made of bamboo or other wood.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 19h

BRENT [brent] adj. Steep. In a perambulation of the outbounds of the town of Faversham, made in 1611, 'the Brent' and 'the Brent gate' are mentioned.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 20h

DOINGS [doo•ingz] sb. pl. Odd jobs. When a person keeps a small farm, and works with his team for hire, he is said to do doings for people.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 21h

SHIP-GATE [ship•gait]. A sheep-gate or moveable hurdle in a fence.

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 22h

DICKY [dik•i] adj. Poorly; out of sorts; poor; miserable.
'When I has the dicky feelins', I wishes I hadn't been so neglackful o' Sundays.'

A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 23h

MEWSE [meuz] sb. An opening through the bottom of a hedge, forming a run for game.

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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · 1d

ABITED [ubei•tid] adj. Mildewed.