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 4 of 19: from “cops” to “drill”.
- cops noun The connecting crook of a harrow.
- cornobble verb To slap or strike someone on the head.
- cotted adj matted; tangled
- cotton-picking adj An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value.
- cow noun A chimney cowl.
- cowp noun A reversal of fortune; an unexpected misfortune.
- crab verb To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- crackleberry noun The high-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata, native to eastern North America, or the fruit of this shrub
- crag noun The neck or throat.
- crane noun Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
- crank adj Hard; difficult.
- crew noun A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
- cricket noun A wooden footstool.
- cringe noun A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
- cripple noun Scrapple.
- crisp noun The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.
- crock verb To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
- crocket noun The tips of the antlers of an adult stag.
- croodle verb To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
- crop noun The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- crotched adj cross; peevish
- croup verb To croak, make a hoarse noise.
- crowd noun A fiddle.
- cruck verb To make lame.
- cruckle verb To stumble after inverting or everting one's foot; to roll (but not necessarily sprain) one's ankle.
- crump adj Hard or crusty; dry baked
- crut noun A dwarf.
- cull noun A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
- cupalo noun Pronunciation spelling of cupola.
- cur noun A sheepdog or watchdog.
- cutwith noun The cross-bar or similar fastening at the end of the beam of a plough or harrow to which the gear of the draught animals is attached.
- daddle verb To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
- daddocky adj rotten; decayed (of wood)
- daff verb To daunt.
- daffodilly noun A daffodil.
- dag verb To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
- daggum adj goddamn
- dapper noun A plimsoll.
- dar noun A fish found in the Severn River; a dart or dace.
- darg noun A day's work.
- dat det Pronunciation spelling of that.
- dateless adj Thick-headed.
- dawk verb To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
- deaf adj Decayed; tasteless; useless.
- deafen verb To stun, as with noise.
- deech noun Dirt (or grime) ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc.
- deedy adj Genuine, authentic; actual, real.
- deef adj deaf
- delf noun A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
- demic adj Dysfunctional; broken
- dere noun Hurt; harm; injury.
- dern adj Hidden; secret; private.
- desperate adv Desperately.
- devil noun A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- dey noun A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
- dicky noun A hedge sparrow.
- dig noun A tool for digging.
- dike verb To be well dressed.
- dilling noun The runt of a litter.
- dink adj Finely dressed, elegant; neat.
- dip noun Fried bread.
- dipsey noun A sinker attached to a fishing line.
- directly adv Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.
- dirten adj Dirty; filthy
- dis det Pronunciation spelling of this.
- dishwasher noun A European bird, the wagtail.
- dit verb To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit).
- dize verb To put tow on a distaff.
- dizen verb To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
- dizzy adj simple, half-witted.
- do verb Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- dobber noun A large marble.
- dobbin noun Sea gravel mixed with sand.
- dodman noun A land-based snail.
- doesn't verb Dost not
- doff verb To undress (oneself); to divest, to strip.
- dogbit adj Bitten by a dog.
- doggone adj Euphemistic form of goddamned.
- dogwater noun The very core of someone; used as an intensifier.
- dole noun A void space left in tillage.
- done verb simple past of do; did.
- dooced adj Deuced.
- dook noun A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.
- dort noun A sulky or sullen mood; the sulks.
- doty adj Senile; in one's dotage
- doubler noun A tenement house having two families on each floor.
- douce adj Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
- doucker noun grebe
- dought verb alternative past of dow
- douth adj Snug; comfortable; in easy circumstances.
- dow verb To be worth.
- doy noun A term of address to a young child.
- drant verb To drawl; to drone.
- drawk verb To drench with water.
- dreave verb To drive; drive out; drive away; expel.
- dreely adv Highly; largely; nobly; earnestly.
- dretch noun A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler.
- drib verb To beat; thrash; drub.
- drifty adj Abounding with driving snow or drift.
- drill verb To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.