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 8 of 19: from “half-baked” to “keb”.
- half-baked noun A foolish or stupid person; a fool, an idiot.
- halfwise adv In half; into two halves.
- hallan noun The passage or space between the outer and inner door of a cottage; the partition between the passage and the room.
- halse verb To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
- hank verb To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
- hap verb To wrap, clothe.
- happen adv maybe, perhaps.
- har noun A hinge.
- hardbeam noun The common hornbeam or European hornbeam tree (Carpinus betulus).
- harvest noun The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- hasn't verb Has not/does not have: negative form of the lexical has
- haunch verb To throw with an underhand movement.
- haunt noun A ghost.
- headish adj Headstrong.
- heft verb To lift or lift up (something, especially a heavy object).
- hele verb To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
- helm noun The crown or top of something.
- hemmel noun A shed or hovel for cattle.
- hen adv Hence.
- here adv After certain determiners, especially 'this' and 'these', used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also this here.
- hern noun Corner, nook.
- het verb dialectal form of heat (“to make hot”)
- het up verb dialectal form of heat up
- hickey noun A pimple.
- hiddle noun A hiding-place; a sheltered spot.
- hideling adj Given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret.
- hie intj A call to turn a horse to the left.
- hield noun An incline; slope.
- hight verb To command; to enjoin.
- hinderable adj Causing hindrance or delay.
- hinderling noun A worthless, degenerate person or animal.
- hinge noun To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
- hit pron It.
- hoast noun A cough.
- hobble noun An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- hod noun A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a…
- hodmandod noun A snail.
- hog bed noun The meaning of this term is uncertain., possibly Polytrichum commune.
- hoity-toity noun A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.
- holk noun A hollow cavity.
- holm noun Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced…
- homely adj On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.
- hone verb To grumble.
- hope verb To wish.
- hoppet noun A handbasket for holding seeds while sowing.
- horse power noun Any of a class of machines that used draft horses as a source of power to an output shaft or sheave. Treadmill types and…
- hotter verb To vibrate; to rattle.
- hound dog noun Any hound, especially the bloodhound.
- house noun A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- hove verb To remain; delay.
- hoveller noun One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
- how intj What?, pardon?
- how'll contraction will, how about (as a proposal)
- huck noun A person's hip.
- hulch noun A thick slice, hunk.
- hulk verb To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
- humbuzz noun The cockchafer.
- hup intj A call to turn a horse to the right.
- hurkle verb To draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.
- husband noun A polled tree; a pollard.
- hyar adv here
- ice noun Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
- ickle noun An icicle.
- imell adv In the middle; between.
- imp noun Something added to or united with another to lengthen it out or repair it (such as an eke or small stand on which a beehive is placed, or a…
- in calf adj Of a cow: pregnant.
- inborrow verb To redeem or buy back from pawn; resume a pledge by restoring the money that has been lent on it.
- income noun A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
- infang verb To draw or take in.
- inkling noun A desire, an inclination.
- inlock noun Any corner or part of a common field plowed up and sowed with oats, etc. and sometimes fenced in with a dry hedge while the lave of the…
- innit contraction Contraction of isn't + it.
- insubordinate verb To rebel or defy authority.
- intake noun Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
- is verb present indicative of be; am, are, is.
- it's contraction There's, there is; there're, there are.
- jack up verb To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
- jacked up adj Bankrupt; insolvent; ruined; done for.
- jacketing noun A thrashing; a beating.
- jacky noun English gin.
- jag noun A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- jam up adj Splendid; wonderful; upstanding.
- jawhole noun A hole or an open drain into which sewage or waste water is thrown; the opening of a sewer; or a cesspool or cesspit, an underground pit or…
- Jenny Greenteeth noun pondweed or duckweed, which forms a mat-like surface on water and makes it look treacherously like dry land
- jessamy noun Jasmine.
- jick verb To avoid by a sudden jerk of the body, duck, dodge; to elude, evade.
- jigger noun An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
- jimmy noun Sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.
- joanie noun A small ornament of glass or china.
- jock noun Food; meals.
- jockey box noun A glove compartment.
- joll verb To bump, knock; push.
- jot verb To jerk or jolt (something); to jog.
- jow verb To knock, strike, bump.
- jowl verb To knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.
- jowter verb To grumble, growl, snarl.
- Kaintuck adj Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
- kaleworm noun Caterpillar.
- kayles noun The game of skittles or ninepins.
- keb verb Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.