This page gathers the 68 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Cornwall” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry.
- ake noun The groove made in a stone forming part of a killock.
- annet noun A black-legged kittiwake.
- b'y noun man; dude, guy
- bating adj Of the moon, when it is waning.
- belong verb To do something habitually or customarily.
- blens noun The bib or pout (Trisopterus, or Gadus, luscus), a common fish of the cod family, Gadidae.
- brace noun The mouth of a shaft.
- browse noun Bruised fish used as bait.
- bucca noun A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, traditionally believed to inhabit mines and coastal communities.
- cal noun wolfram, an ore of tungsten.
- canker noun A crab.
- chack noun A cheek (part of the face).
- chill noun A kind of lamp that burns fish oil.
- clunker noun The trachea or windpipe.
- cockle noun The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- coffin noun An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
- comb noun A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
- comby adj Formed of vertical plates, or combs.
- creener noun An ailing or sickly person.
- croggan noun A limpet shell.
- directly adv Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.
- dishwasher noun A European bird, the wagtail.
- doust verb To separate dust from ore.
- dousting noun A process for separating the dust from ore.
- dreckly adv Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.
- drekly adv At an unspecified time, ranging from straight away to a short or long time in the future; eventually
- emmet noun A tourist.
- ent verb To pour, especially of rain.
- ess particle Yes.
- fitty adv Properly; fitly.
- gallitrap noun Grass growing in a circle that possesses the magical power of compelling anyone standing within it to confess their wrongdoings.
- geek verb To look; to peep; to stare about intently.
- gook noun A bonnet (headwear).
- gorget noun A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
- gurgoe noun A boundary hedge.
- hedge noun A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- heller noun A noisy, rowdy, troublesome person; a hellion.
- jacker noun A Cornishman.
- kiddlywink noun A small pub only licensed to sell beer or cider.
- May game noun An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.
- niff noun A sulk or sullen mood.
- nigger noun A kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton-spinner.
- oggy noun A Cornish pasty.
- peach noun A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
- piggal noun A pickaxe.
- pope noun The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
- prong noun A fork (agricultural tool).
- round robin noun The fishing frog or sea devil (Lophius piscatorius), a species of monkfish.
- scaw noun An elder tree.
- scove noun Rich, pure tin ore.
- skew noun A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- slock verb To entice.
- smeech noun Acrid smoke or other stench.
- stank verb To trample.
- stickler noun A referee or adjudicator at a fight, wrestling match, duel, etc. who ensures fair play.
- suant adj Smooth, or proceeding smoothly.
- tacker noun A young child, especially a boy.
- teasy adj Irritable or angry.
- tinner noun The pied wagtail.
- touser noun A large coarse apron.
- truff noun The sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).
- turnip noun The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.
- tuss noun The penis.
- veer noun A piglet or a heifer.
- water-elder noun A guelder rose, a native shrub in the United Kingdom that thrives in damp, swampy, or limy woodland environments; skow-dower in Cornish.
- wheal noun A mine.
- ye pron You (the people being addressed).
- zawn noun A deep and narrow sea-inlet in the British Isles, especially Cornwall and the south-west, cut by erosion into sea-cliffs, and with steep or…