Letter F - 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-f
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Fa’, fall, lot; to fall
Faddom, fathom
Fairin, a gift from one who has been at a fair
Fardin, farthing
Farl, one-fourth of a bannock when cut into quarters
Fash, trouble; to plague
Fasten-een, Shrove Tuesday
Faul’, fold
Faut, fault
Feart, frightened
Feck, much or many
Feckfu’, sturdy
Feckless, weak
Feght, fight; to fight
Fell, the under side of the skin; to knock down
Ferlie, a wonder; to wonder
Fidge, to fidget
Fiel’, field
Fien, fiend
Fissle, to rustle
Fit, foot
Fizz, hurry; bustle
Flainen, flannel
Fleech, to entice by flattery
Fleesh, fleece
Flighter, to flutter
Flinners, broken pieces
Forbye, besides
Forfoughen, exhausted
Forgather, to meet together
Forgie, to forgive
Fother, fodder
Fou, full; drunken
Frae, from
Frien, friend
Fur, furrow
Fyke, to writhe involuntarily
Fyle, to defile; to dirty
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