Questions about Check-List of B-words (3)

Reference code: FOL.QUES/30
Level of description: Series
Title: Questions about Check-List of B-words (3)
Scope and content: BIGGANS – oatmeal warmed in a pan
BILLY – an oil and wick lamp without a globe
BILLY-LAMP – as above
BILLYORE – a foolish person
BINDER – a knock or bang
BINTHERIN’ – a thrashing
BINDIN’ OF THE DROOTH – drizzly rain in the middle of a good spell of weather
BINNEL – an old rascal of a fellow
BINNER – to go along very quickly
BIRCH-BROTH – a thrashing
BIRD-MOUNTED – shy, mealy-mouthed, afraid to speak out from over-refinement or politeness
BIRD-CRADLE – a bird-trap
BIRK (this form with K) – to birch, scourge
BIRNS – the stumps of burnt heather
BIRSLE – to scorch something (as bread)
BIRTEEN – a small amount of hay
BIRTHY – plentiful
BLESSED SICKNESS – epilepsy
BLAST – seeds of undeveloped grain
BLEST – as above
DAINICK – a small amount of money given to a card-player by other players to enable him to continue for a round after losing all his cash
BIT (this form rhyming with standard fit, hit) – boot
FIT (this form rhyming with standard knit, hit) – foot
BILL (this form rhyming with standard mill) – bull
BLAB – a blister
BLEB – a blister
BLACK AS THE EARL O’HELL’S WAISTCOAT – pitch black
BLACK BALL – a bottle of stout
BLACK OR WHITE – at all – ‘He did not appear black or white’
BLADDOCK – a rough piece
BLAGAID – a stout, unwieldy person
BLAIN – boil, pimple – chilblain not required
BLALIN – blister
BLANTER – a special kind of oats growing in sandy soil
BLATTER – hefty, broad-built man – ‘bib blatter of a fellow’
BLAWIN HORN – to boast of something – ‘to make a b. h. of something’
BLAZER – a champion, something unusually big
BLAZON – praise
BLEAT – song or tune
BLADDOCK – potato frosted while growing
BLEDDOCH – as above
BLEEHIM ‘a bleehim of a cold – (please define)
BLEERICK – very small hearth fire
BLEERIE TEA – very weak tea
BLESSED BE THE MAKER – exclamation made after remarking that someone is particularly ugly