This page gathers the 1,860 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Dialectal” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 18 of 19: from “vang” to “witherwise”.
- vang verb To take; undertake for.
- vell verb To cut the turf from, as for burning.
- vessel noun Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
- vinnewed adj mouldy
- violet noun Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).
- wacken adj Lively; sharp; wanton.
- wad noun Plumbago, graphite.
- waff verb To bark; to woof.
- waffle verb Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- waggie noun The pied wagtail, a small passerine bird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, a subspecies of the white wagtail, found in Britain and Ireland.
- waker adj Watchful; vigilant; alert.
- wald verb To govern; inherit.
- wall noun A spring of water.
- wallop noun A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- wallow adj Tasteless, flat.
- walt verb To roll; tumble
- wamble verb To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach).
- wanchancy adj Unlucky; unchancy.
- wanger noun A contemptible person, neutral variant of a swear word.
- wanhope noun Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
- want noun A mole (Talpa europea).
- wanthriven adj Stunted; ill-grown; decayed; in a state of decline.
- wanty noun A girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.
- wapper verb To exhaust; to tire out.
- warbird noun Synonym of scarlet tanager.
- ware verb To be ware or mindful of something.
- wariangle noun Any of various aggressive shrikes of the genus Lanius, such as the red-backed shrike or great grey shrike, sometimes known as butcherbirds.
- wark noun Pain; ache.
- warp noun A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters…
- warple verb To intertwine; twist; entangle.
- warry verb To curse; execrate; abuse; speak evil of.
- wary verb To curse, revile.
- washy adj Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labour.
- waster noun An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
- water noun A body of water, almost always a river, sometimes a lake or reservoir, especially in the names given to such bodies.
- 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.
- water-witch noun The storm petrel.
- wath noun A ford.
- waver noun A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.
- wavey noun The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)
- waw noun A wall.
- wax noun A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- waxen adj Grown.
- ways to go noun A long distance to travel or a significant amount of work left to be done.
- weaky adj moist; damp; clammy
- wear verb To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- wearish adj Sickly, wizened, feeble.
- weasand noun The oesophagus; the gullet.
- weather-gaw noun An instance of some phenomenon in the sky said to signal bad weather, such as an incomplete or secondary rainbow, or a parhelion or sun…
- weel noun A whirlpool.
- weeny adj Minuscule; tiny.
- weet weet noun The common European sandpiper.
- weeze verb To ooze, exude; drain away; distil gently.
- welk verb to soak, steep.
- well off adj Of a person or thing: in a good position or circumstance.
- welly adv Almost; nearly.
- welt verb To decay.
- wench noun A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.
- wester adj Western, westerly.
- westy adj Dizzy, giddy, confused.
- whang noun A blow; a whack.
- what pron That; which; who.
- wheen noun A little; a small number.
- whemmel verb To engulf, to submerge.
- where'n conj where
- whet noun An occasion to do something; a go, a turn.
- whew verb To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.
- whid noun A quarrel.
- whiffler noun The goldeneye (duck).
- whig noun Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
- whiles conj while, whilst
- whinnock noun The smallest pig in a litter; the runt.
- whip the cat verb To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do.
- whitewall noun The spotted flycatcher.
- whither verb To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
- whittle noun A baby's flannel; a baby's woollen napkin; a flannel petticoat.
- whizzle verb To whiz or whirl along; to move with a hissing sound.
- who det whose
- whole-footed adj heavy-footed
- wholly adv Very; to a great extent.
- whoost verb To cough.
- whyfor adv why; for what reason
- wick noun A maggot.
- wicked adj Active; brisk.
- wicket noun A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
- wieldy adj Able to wield one's body well; active, dexterous.
- wight adj Strong; stout; active.
- willy noun A willow basket.
- wilsome adj Willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- windle noun The redwing.
- wine noun Wind.
- wingle verb To bend or twist; wriggle back and forth.
- wink-a-peep noun An eye.
- winker noun An eye.
- winly adv Quietly.
- wis adv Certainly, surely.
- wise verb To instruct.
- wisp verb To rumple.
- wither- prefix Against, in opposition to; in return; counter-; contrary (to); in the opposite direction (of or to); backwards.
- witherwise adv In the opposite or wrong direction; contrariwise.