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back bargain   -   a reversal of a previous bargain. After                                    accomplishing an exchange which is                                      advantageous to oneself, one calls out                                    immediately "Noo back-bargains!", unless                              the other person has already called out                                  "Back-bargains!"

backen   -   to keep back, to impede growth of crops. Often                          used to refer to the weather. 

back-end   -    Autumn (farming term) 

*back o'behint   -   back of behind, an out of the way location

backstone   -   a baking stone: a flat stone or iron plate, used                         for baking cakes upon.

*backward   -   old-fashioned, belonging to bygone times 

badge, badgin' hook    -   to cut with a badgin' hook, a kind of                           broad sickle or hook, used for cutting                                     corn and especially beans, trimming                                       hedges or hedge-banks. 

badger, higgler   -   a pedlar, a dealer in corn (Anglo Saxon byegar, byegeear    -    to buy)

"bad luck top end"   -   a daft fellow

badn's   -   sillness, disease 

baggin', baggin' time   -   a lunch, usually bread, cheese and                             beer, provided for harvestmen. The baggin is                           usually eaten in the field, and baggin' time                             is usually around 10 in the morning and 4 in                           the afternoon.

baggin'-needle   -   a strong needle for sewing sacks 

bag mouth   -   big mouth, everything known - "The bag mouth                           is open and now it's common knowledge!"

bally   -   belly 

bally-praid   -   belly-proud, fussy about food

bally-vengeance   -   stomach ache resulting from drinking                               anything sour 

bang   -   to beat, or get the better of 

bang-up   -   yeast made of hops, sugar and flour 

bannock   -   a crumpet

banow   -   conical basket

banter   -   a dispute, warfare of words, argument 

barge   -   a big person 

bark   -   to cough

barley   -   to claim, "I barley'd that bannock", "Barley mey..."                           means "I claim for myself..." 

barsta    -   loud noise 

basketle   -   a basketful 

batch-flour   -   ordinary baking flour as opposed to best

battin   -   a bundle of straw 

bawson, bawson-faced   -   fat, unwieldy, fat-faced 

baz   -   to throw hard "Baz a rotten turmit at his yed!" 

beast, beastings   -   the first milk from a cow after                                           calving

bedgown   -   Cheshire ladies' traditional old dress, worn                              everywhere except in bed!

bedeet   -   dirtied, soiled 

bed-favourite   -   a person who is fond of lying in bed in the                              morning 

beggar's velvet   -   fluff under bedsteads in untidy                                               houses

begin o'   -   to be the aggressor, to start something "I should                    never ha'said nowt to yo, if yo hadna begun o'                        mey" 

beiled ha'penny   -   a boiled halfpenny. If anyone is thought                                 to be weak or silly, he or she is said to                                  "want a beiled ha'penny" 

bent   -   a blade of grass 

*(and) better...   -   over and over again, "It's been mended                                   and better mended" "I've told 'im an' better                             told 'im"

besom(1)   -   a birch or heather broom (2) a mischievous                                                                            woman 

bezzle   -   to drink greedily (guzzle) 

biggen   -   (1)to grow big (2)to put on false airs 

Billy-go-nimbles   -   a comic name for an imaginary                                              disease

Billyminawky   -   a foolish or stupid fellow 

Billy O, "Like Billy O"   -    means very fast, like the wind 

bingy   -   sour

bit-bat   -   a bat

bitterbump   -   a bittern - presumably the 'bump' is the                                   strange call of the bittern.

blab   -   silly talk 

blackberry hatch   -    chickens hatched about the same time                                  as blackberries ripen - said to never                                         reach perfection

black Jack   -   black beetle - also known as a switch or                                 twitch clog!

blaht   -    a loud noise, to make a loud noise

blash   -   to blaze or flare up suddenly (flash) 

blather   -   boastful or non-sensical talk (from Icelandic bladr                     = nonsense) 

blether   -   cry

blob ait   -    "blob out" - to blab or blurt out

blobber   -    bubble 

blob-tongue   -   someone who blurts out a secret 

Bloody Rogers   -   variety of potato which vanished in the                                  potato blight

blow-ballies, blow-bellies   -   a pair of bellows

bluffinin   -   stout, bucksome 

blue buttons   -   devil's bit scabious (flower)

blunderpate, blunderskull   -   stupid head, block head 

blunge   -    to make a mess of

blusterous   -    stormy weather 

bob's heads   -     heads of flowers with spherical heads

bobberous   -    saucy "Don't you get bobberous with me, you                          young snicket!"

bobbish   -    lively, cheerful 

Bobby-dazzler     -    a fine, handsome woman or a fine                                          specimen 

bodge   -    to sew clumsily 

riding bodkin   -    to squeeze in where there is no room

boffle   -    to baffle, confuse 

bo-fissle   -   a course kind of thistle 

bogfownder   -   to perplex "Ah'm fairly bogfowndered" 

boggarty   -   scaredy - cat , one who is easily afraid

Boggy Bo / boggart   -    scarecrow (bug-a-boo)

bonder   -    to wander aimlessly about 

bong, bonk    -     bank of a river, lake etc..

boozy up!   -   said to cows when they are required to move                          aside in the boozies or stalls.

bowler   -   a hoop used in play 

brass   -      copper coins 

brawn   -    a boar pig 

bre'n'cheise   -    bread and cheese

bricknoggin   -   houses framed in oak timber and filled with                           brick work

bridneeze    -    bird's nest

brids'-pincushions    -    mossy growths on rose bushes 

brimble    -    bramble

bristle   -     to freshen, said of a breeze 

brock   -   badger

brockle   -    a fence broken by animals

browis, browes   -    gruel made by pouring hot water with                                      butter or cream over small lumps of                                        bread, seasoned with pepper and salt.

brundrit   -   trivet to hold a bakestone

buck   -    bread and butter

bucketle    -    bucketful 

buckle   -     form, condition (a bit like fettle in Lancs) "I'good                    buckle" - it's in good condition.

buggart, boggart, buggy-bo, buggin'   -    (1)a ghost, spectre,                                               hobgoblin, fairy (2)a scarecrow 

buller    -     a wild plum 

bull-face   -     wheat which has been twisted in various                               directions by wind and rain. "There's a many                           bull faces i'that wheeat" 

bull-young-uns    -    dead leaves, twigs and other rubbish                                      which accumulates in a deserted bird's                                  nest

buggy, buggy-comb   -   a louse, a fine toothed comb 

bung    -     a lot, a large quantity 

bunge    -    a bunch, a collection of things of different kinds 

burn-fire    -    a bonfire

bury   -    a potato-heap same as hogg 

bustle off    -    to take away, remove 

buttery    -    pantry 

butty    -   (1) a mate, buddy (2) a piece of bread and butter

buz   -   to throw violently , same as baz 

buzzock     -     a donkey 

*by nai    -   by now, by this time

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