Letter C - Glossary of words in ‘The Northern Cottage and other poems’ by George Dugall
Author: George Dugall
Date: 1824
Source: ‘Glossary’ — an appendix with notes to The Northern Cottage and other poems; written partly in the Dialect of the North of Ireland by George Dugall (Londonderry: William McCorkell, 1824)
Comments: George Dugall (c.1790-1855) lived most of his life at Portlough near Newtowncunningham in Donegal. His book of poems The Northern Cottage and other poems; written partly in the Dialect of the North of Ireland (sixteen of which were written in what he describes sometimes as ‘braid Scotch’ and sometimes as the ‘dialect of the North of Ireland’), also contains an extensive and separately compiled ‘Glossary’ of Ulster-Scots words. George Dugall describes this Glossary as “a tolerably correct analogical specimen of the language … worthy of the unprejudiced and philanthropic eye of research, [hoping that] the acute and erudite philologer will not despise the simple data”. Indeed Dugall’s poems (see Ulster-Scots Poetry 1800-1899) were “cast”, he says, in the scene of “that part of the North of Ireland” where the dialect “bears a strong affinity to that of Scotland”. His poems are even richer in Ulster-Scots vocabulary than the Glossary indicates, and so citations from his poetry have also been excerpted for the Academy’s Historical Dictionary (see Dictionary).
Doc. ref. no.: USLS/TB/Hist/1800-1899/009-c
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Ca’, to call; to name; to drive; to calve
Caddie, a lad
Cadger, a carrier
Caff, chaff
Cairn, a loose heap of stones
Calf-ward, an enclosure for calves
Caller, cool; fresh
Cam, came
Cannie, gentle; careful
Cantie, merry
Carl, an old man
Carlin, an old woman
Caul’, cold
Caup, a small wooden dish
Chap, a lad; a smart stroke
Cheep, chirp
Chiel, a young fellow
Chimlie, a chimney
Chire, a chair
Chitter, to chirp incessantly
Chow, to chew; cheek for chow; side by side
Claise, clothes
Claith, cloth
Clash, a piece of scandal, a busybody
Claver, to talk nonsense
Clavers, nonsense
Claut, to scratch; to scrape
Claw, to use the nails
Cleed, to clothe
Cleek, a small hook of wire &c.; to cajole; to wheedle
Cleet, a hoof
Clink, a blow; to jingle
Clips, a wooden implement for weeding grain, &c.
Clishmaclaver, silly talk
Clock, a beetle; to hatch
Cockernanny, the straw pinnacle of a corn stack
Cogue, a noggin
Collie, a kind of dog
Corbie, a raven
Corncraik, a land-rail
Cotter, a cottier
Cove, a cave
Cowe, to vanquish; to cut off
Cowp, to tumble; a fall
Cowt, a colt
Crack, to converse; a conversation
Craft, a croft; cunning
Craik, a harsh scream
Cranrough, a hoar-frost
Crap, crop
Craw, crow
Creel, a peculiar kind of basket
Creesh, dirty fat, &c.; to grease
Creeshie, greasy
Creen, a hollow continued sound; to hum a tune
Crouce, pert
Crunsh, to masticate
Curchie, a curtesy
Curlie, curled
Cutty, a short spoon or pipe
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