Questions about BL/BO and Miscellaneous Words

Reference code: FOL.QUES/33
Level of description: Series
Title: Questions about BL/BO and Miscellaneous Words
Scope and content: "Please mark X in the appropriate column to indicate whether each word with the form and meaning given is commonly used in your area, or known to you but no longer heard, or quite unknown. If you know the word in a sense or form other than that given, please give your own meaning or spelling in the last column."
BLESSED SICKNESS – epilepsy
BLEST – to boast
BLAST – to boast
BLAURIG – a blur or blot
BLUCHERS – boots
BLIBBER – to blubber or cry
BLIBE – a boil
BLUID (rhymes with bid) – blood
BLIDDER-BLADDER – a fat person
BLIG – a muddle or mess
BLIN’ BARNEY – blind man’s buff
BLIND EYE – a poppy
BLIN’ STANE – heedlessly (e.g. to run blin’ stane)
BLINDER – a cow’s blinker
BLINDING ALONG – travelling very fast
BLINDERING ALONG – travelling very fast
BLING PEG – forever (e.g. ‘you can sit there till Blind Peg sees you’)
BLINGER – a bright, high-tempered fellow
BLISTER – an annoying fellow
BLITHE-MEAT – an annoying person
THE NORTHERN BLOCK – the head (‘BLOCK’ alone is not required)
BLOCK – hide-and-seek
BLOG – push in, hammer a nail in
BLOOD AN NOUNS – an oath
BLOODSHED – bloodshot (of eyes)
BLORRY – a blot, to blot
BLOSS – sweetheart
BLO (W) SY – boy’s game, blowing cigarette cards on a windowsill – please describe the game briefly overleaf
BLOUNDER – a heavy blow
BLOW – to stand someone a drink
BLOWER – handkerchief
BLOW-IN – newcomer to a district
BLOWNER – blustery, windy
BLUE – to cheat someone
TILL ALL WAS BLUE – forever, without stop
BLUE BELLY – a Protestant Dissenter
BLUE BLIND – completely intoxicated
BLUE COW – a grey cow
BLUIT – a fish (some kind of skate or thornback?), state which dish
BLUNKIT – bleary, faded, washed-out looking
BLUNTHER – person of hasty temper and unguarded speech
BLURRAGH – ill-made porridge or other dish
BLUSHIN – a pustule, suppurating sore
BLUTTER-STICKS – retort meaning ‘nonsense, fiddlesticks.’
BLUTTER-WHEET (1) – a person of no importance
BLUTTER-WHEET (2) – a term of endearment to a child
BOA – WHOA, call to hose to stop
BOAT WI- A LID – a steamship
BOB – a fish’s bite at bait
BOB AN EYE – to close an eye, to sleep
BOCKEN – a cobbler (how do you spell this word?)
BOCKAGE – armful of turf
BODACH – well-to-do person, a swell
BODYLILTY (1) – head-over-heels
BOGGART – bogey-man – (we are not concerned with the form BOGEY)
BODYLILTY (2) – bodily
BOGEY-HOLE (1) – hole used in playing marbles
BOGEY-HOLE (2) – dark corner where strange things may happen (really, or used just to scare children)
BOHAN – hut, shelter in bad weather
BOILAGHS – fields
BOILER – scullery in farmhouse
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. The smallest pig (or other animal) in a litter?
2. An undersized person?
3. Would this apply to (a) a grown-up? (b) a child?
DO YOU KNOW THE EXPRESSION: “The boy wi’ the peg in his hat” for Death? If so, what is its origin?