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Somerset Dialect and Accent

Selected Somerset vocabulary

  • "Acker"  – acre
  • "Affeard" - afraid
  • "Agoon" - soon
  • "Agging" - egging on

 

  • "Allernbatch"  – old sore
  • "Alright my ansum" – How are you, my friend?
  • "Alright my luvver" - How are you, my friend?
  • "Anywhen" – At any time
  • "Apurt" - sullen, silent, sulking

 

 
  • "Benny" – to lose your temper

  • "Blad" – idiot

  • "Blid" - blood

  • "Buckle" - struggle

  • "Bulhaggle" - scarecrow

  • "Chuggy pig" – woodlouse

  • "Chump" – log (for the fire)

  • "Churn" - a bad woman

  • "Comical" – peculiar

  • "Coupie" – crouch

  • "Crewnting" - complaining

  • "Cruel" - very

  • "Crowst" – a picnic lunch

  • "Daddy granfer" – woodlouse

  • "Daps"— sports shoes (plimsoles or trainers)

  • "Dimpsy" – describing the state of twilight

  • "Dinder" - thunder

  • "Doughboy" – dumpling

  • "Dreckley" – soon

  • "Elsh" - new

  • "Eute" - pour out

  • "Fitty" - clever

  • "fump" - essence of

  • "Grockle" – tourist or visitor

  • "Guddle" - to drink greedily

  • "Gurt" - big or great

  • "Haling" – coughing

  • "(h)ark at 'e"- "listen to him"

  • "Hilts and gilts" – female and male piglets

  • "Huppenstop" – raised stone platform

  • "Jasper" - another word for wasp.

  • "Ling" — to throw

  • "Mang" – to mix

  • "Old butt" - friend

  • "Ooh Arr" – Oh Yes

  • "Ort/Ought Nort/Nought"  – Something / Nothing

  • "Plimmed, -ing up" – swollen, swelling

  • "Proper job" - Something done well

  • "Scag" – to tear or catch

  • "Slit pigs" – male piglets that have been castrated

  • "Smooth" – to stroke (e.g. cat or dog)

  • "Somewhen" – At some time

  • "Thic" – that

  • "Where's it to?" – Where is it?