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 7 of 19: from “gallow” to “hala”.
- gallow verb To frighten, alarm, scare, or terrify.
- gally verb To frighten, spook; to appall; to worry.
- gam verb To engage in social intercourse anywhere.
- gambrel noun A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
- gammet verb To play, frolic; amuse oneself, have a good time.
- gammock noun Fun, sport, play, frolic.
- gammon verb To joke, kid around, play.
- gander verb to ramble, wander
- gang noun A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- gangrel noun A tramp, vagrant, vagabond.
- gangway noun A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people.
- ganzy noun A pullover or sweater.
- gar verb To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).
- garbage noun Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
- gash adj ghastly; hideous
- gate noun Manner; gait.
- gaum noun Heed; attention.
- gawby noun A baby.
- gawkhammer noun A gawky or clumsy person.
- gawn noun A small tub or lading vessel.
- gay noun Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
- gear noun Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
- geason adj Rare; uncommon; scarce.
- ged noun The pike or luce.
- gedge verb To make a wry face.
- gee verb To agree; to harmonize.
- geg verb To walk carelessly or in a careless manner.
- geld noun A payment.
- generation noun Race, family; breed.
- gibs verb Pronunciation spelling of give.
- giddy adj Feeling great anger; furious, raging.
- gig noun A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.
- gim adj Neat; spruce.
- girl noun A roebuck two years old.
- girn verb To grimace; to snarl.
- give over verb To give up; abandon; stop.
- give up adj Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, etc.
- gizzing verb Grinning and laughing at someone.
- glaum verb To search (for something).
- glean noun A collection of something made by gleaning.
- glime verb To glance (at); to look sideways.
- glop verb To stare in amazement.
- glope verb To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.
- gloppen verb To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast
- glor noun Fat, especially as a soft mass.
- glore verb To gaze intently, stare.
- glow verb To look intently; to stare.
- glutch verb To swallow.
- gob stick noun A spoon.
- golding noun The corn marigold (Glebionis segetum).
- goloptious adj fine; splendid
- good verb To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- gooden verb To grow; improve; prosper.
- goodly adv Well; excellently.
- goodwilly noun A volunteer.
- gore noun A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
- gorget noun A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
- gorm verb To gawk; to stare or gape.
- gote noun A drainage pipe.
- gots verb Have, have got (1st person singular).
- gound noun Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
- gowk verb To retch; vomit.
- grain noun A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
- graith verb To dress (someone or oneself) or be dressed.
- grandpaw noun grandfather
- grasshop noun A grasshopper.
- greatsome adj Characterised or by size or greatness; huge
- griffe noun A person of mixed (black and white) race, especially the offspring of a mulatto (person of mixed black and white ancestry) and a person of…
- grig noun Heath or heather.
- grindery noun The materials used by leatherworkers.
- grip noun A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- gripple adj Griping; tenacious; gripping.
- grizzly noun A grating used to sieve stones by size, so as to keep stones out of the sluices (in hydraulic mining) or to control stone size in the feed…
- groaty adj Made or consisting of groats.
- grobble verb To make holes; dig, poke, pick out.
- groop noun A trench or small ditch.
- groover noun A miner.
- growler noun A pork pie.
- grubby noun Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
- grundel noun A kind of fish, the groundling.
- grundle noun A holloway; a kind of ancient road or track.
- gry verb To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).
- gubber-tushed adj Synonym of gobber-toothed; having large or protruding teeth, teeth that are misaligned, or a teeth that stand out.
- gull verb To flatter, wheedle.
- gullick noun A deep gully or ravine.
- gum noun A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- gunner noun The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
- gurry noun Diarrhoea.
- gurt adj Pronunciation spelling of great.
- gurts noun groats; hulled grain
- guttle verb Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
- gutty noun An urchin or delinquent.
- hackee noun The chickaree or red squirrel.
- hacker verb To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds; to stammer, to stutter; also, to mumble and procrastinate in one's speech; to hem and…
- hade noun State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.
- haggard noun A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
- hagworm noun A common snake, such as an adder or a viper.
- hain verb To hedge or fence in; enclose; protect by hedging.
- hain't contraction has not
- hala adj Embarrassed or ashamed.