Letter P - 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-p
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Paddle, to walk as a child
Pang, to cram
Pawkie, sly, crafty
Pegh, a sudden jerk of the breath
Pet, a domesticated sheep, bird, &c. an indulged child
Pettle, a stick kept for cleaning a plough
Phraise, a wonder
Pickle, a single grain; a small quantity
Plew, to plow
Pou, to pull
Pouk, to pluck
Poussie, a cat
Pouther, powder
Pow, the head
Pownie, a little horse
Preen, a pin
Prent, print; to print
Prie, to taste
Prig, to cheapen
Puddock-steel, a mushroom
Pun, a pound; to impound
Pyle, a single grain
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