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 9 of 19: from “keck” to “lum”.
- keck noun The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
- kecks noun Trousers.
- kedlock noun Synonym of charlock (Rhampospermum arvense, syns. Sinapis arvensis, etc.)
- keeker noun An eye.
- keeve verb To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
- kelk verb To beat.
- kelp noun A hook or crook by which a pot is hung over a fire.
- kelter noun Rubbish; trifle; hodgepodge.
- kemp noun A coarse or bristly hair, whisker; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt.
- kern noun A corn; grain; kernel.
- ketch noun A pie or turnover.
- kex noun The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
- kid noun A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant.
- kill noun A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea.
- killesse noun A hip roof.
- kindful adj Of, relating to, or denoting a specified kind or sort; kindly.
- kindly adv Kind of, somewhat.
- king's cushion noun A four-handed seat made by two people crossing their hands and holding their own wrist with one hand, and holdin the wrist of the other…
- kink noun A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- kip verb To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- kipper adj lively; chipper; nimble.
- kite noun The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- kitling noun A young cat; kitten.
- kitty noun In full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”).
- kiver verb To cover.
- kiverlid noun A coverlet or comforter.
- knack verb To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
- knacker noun A collier's horse.
- knap noun A sudden, sharp blow, knock, or slap; a rap, a whack.
- knicker noun A kind of marble used in games, originally made of clay, baked hard and oiled.
- labrish adj Talkative, gossipy.
- lade noun The mouth of a river.
- lading-can noun A tin can (containing two or three quarts) used for taking hot water out of a boiler.
- lair noun A bed or resting place.
- lake verb To leap, jump, exert oneself; to play.
- laker noun One engaged in sport; a player; an actor.
- lamper noun A lamprey.
- lanch noun A large bed of flints.
- lathe verb To invite; bid; ask.
- lathing noun Invitation.
- lavant noun A shallow or more or less intermittent spring, or the stream of water (bourne) which feeds and springs forth from such a spring.
- lavish adj Rank or lush with vegetation.
- lavy adj Lavish; liberal.
- law verb To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
- lawyer noun The stem of a bramble.
- lax noun A salmon.
- lazy adj Wicked; vicious.
- leaful adj Faithful.
- leam verb To gleam; shine; glow.
- lease verb To gather.
- leasow noun (Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.
- leed noun Language; tongue.
- leer adj Thin; faint.
- lek verb To play.
- lend noun Loan (permission to borrow (something)).
- lesk noun The loin; flank.
- less conj unless
- lessen conj unless.
- lew adj Lukewarm, tepid.
- lib verb To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).
- lidden noun A saying, song or story.
- lift noun Air.
- ligger noun One who lies in bed.
- like adv Likely.
- linkster noun An interpreter; a person who understands more than one language.
- lippen verb To entrust; trust to (someone/something).
- lire noun Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
- lirk verb To jerk.
- lirt verb To deceive; beguile.
- lish adj active; nimble; lithe.
- liss verb To cease; stop.
- lit verb To run or light (alight).
- lite verb To expect; wait.
- lith noun A limb; any member of the body.
- lithe verb to thicken (gravy, etc.)
- lithen verb To thicken a broth or gravy with a thickening agent (e.g. flour, oatmeal, etc.)
- lither adj Lazy, slothful; listless.
- little house noun An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- loaden verb To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight
- loafer verb To loaf around; to be idle.
- loblolly noun Gruel.
- lode noun A watercourse.
- lofe verb To praise; commend.
- loggerhead noun A thistle-like flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed (Centaurea nigra).
- loggerheads noun The knapweed.
- loke noun The wicket or hatch of a door.
- longful adj Long (in duration).
- longsome adj Marked or characterised by longness or length; lengthy; long-lasting; protracted.
- loo verb To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
- loof noun The palm of the hand.
- look verb To check, to make sure (of something).
- loot noun A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
- loper noun A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.
- loun verb To beat; thrash.
- lounder verb To beat; to deal a heavy blow; to whack
- low noun A flame; fire; blaze.
- lowth noun Lowness.
- lubish adj Genuine; authorised; sterling.
- lug noun A rod or pole.
- lum noun A grove or wood; also, a woody valley.