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 6 of 19: from “flay” to “gallock”.
- flay verb To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
- fleak noun A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
- fleam noun The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
- fleet noun An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- flet noun Floor; bottom; lower surface.
- fletcher noun A weir or dam.
- flew adj shallow; flat
- flinder noun A butterfly or moth.
- flippant adj Nimble; limber.
- flirt noun A brief shower (of rain or snow).
- flit verb To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
- flite noun a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.
- flittern noun The bark obtained from young oak trees.
- floor noun The ground.
- flusker verb To flutter; to fly irregularly.
- fluster verb To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
- fo' prep Pronunciation spelling of for.
- fod noun forehead, particularly a large one
- fodder verb To feed animals (with fodder).
- fog noun Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- foh num Pronunciation spelling of four
- fold noun The Earth; earth; land, country.
- folly verb To follow.
- footy adj Having foots (settlings).
- forby adj Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
- forcasten adj Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
- fordrive verb To drive away; expel.
- foreday noun The earlier part of the day; the morning or early afternoon.
- foredeal verb To store; lay past; keep in reserve; hoard.
- foreign noun An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
- foreset verb To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
- foretop noun An erect tuft of hair.
- foreway noun A highroad.
- foreyear noun The early part of the year; spring.
- forfare verb To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
- forfight verb To exhaust or overfatigue (oneself) with fighting.
- forflutter verb To disorder; discompose.
- forhow verb To forsake; quit; abandon; desert.
- forjudge verb To condemn judicially (to a penalty).
- forktail noun A salmon in its fourth year of growth.
- forlet verb To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.
- fornigh adv Very near
- forrard adv Forward.
- forsee verb To neglect; overlook; disregard; despise.
- forset verb To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
- forshame verb To dare; presume; have the face to.
- forspeak verb To injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; to affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon…
- forspread verb To spread; extend.
- forstand verb To understand; comprehend.
- fortake verb To mistake; make a mistake.
- forthan conj For this reason; therefore.
- forwander verb To wander until weary; wander far and wide.
- forward noun Agreement; covenant.
- foryield verb to pay back; recompense.
- fossick verb To be troublesome.
- fother verb To feed animals (with fother).
- fouse verb To tumble, disarrange, rumple.
- fouter noun A despicable fellow.
- fouth noun Abundance; plenty.
- fouthy adj Ample; plentiful; free in giving; generous; hospitable.
- frail noun Synonym of flail.
- fraise noun Commotion.
- fraist verb To try; test; prove; put to the proof; make trial (of).
- frame verb To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- franzy adj cross; bad-tempered
- freak noun A fellow; a petulant young man.
- fremd adj Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.
- fremsome adj Unfamiliar.
- fret noun A ferrule, a ring.
- fridge verb To chafe or rub (something).
- friggle verb To fiddle, fumble, potter around.
- frightful adv Frightfully; very.
- frim adj Flourishing; thriving
- frist verb To grant respite; especially, to give a debtor credit or time for payment.
- frith noun Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.
- frock noun A frog.
- fromward adv Forth; forward.
- frosh noun A frog.
- frostfish noun A smelt.
- frother verb To comfort.
- frow adj Brittle; tender; crisp
- frowsty adj Of an atmosphere: not fresh; close, musty, stuffy; of an object: having a musty, stale odour.
- fry verb To make a brushwood drain.
- fuddle noun A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.
- fuff verb To puff.
- fule noun fool
- fulth noun Fullness; abundance; plenty.
- funk out verb To back out in a cowardly way; to chicken out.
- furlong noun An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
- fusome adj Handy, deft-handed, workmanlike.
- futz noun An objectionable woman.
- gad noun A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.
- gade noun A pike.
- gain adj Straight, direct; near; short.
- gainly adj Proper; suitable; becoming.
- gainstand verb To stand against; resist, oppose; withstand.
- gait noun A sheaf of corn.
- gaiter noun The dogwood, or a similar shrub.
- gale verb To cry; groan; croak.
- gallock noun The left hand.