CODGER.—A testy old man: an old man having queer habits.
COKERS.—Stranger labourers going about on piece-work.
COLLAR.—To make a petty theft.
COLLARED-ZOUSE.—Brawn is always so called.
COLLOP.—A rather thick slice of meat.
COLLUTS.—Young cabbages.
COMBE.—A hollow in the Downs.
COME.—To achieve.
At advent of.
COME BACK.—These words are imagined in the note of the Guinea Fowl or Gallini, and children worry these fowl to get them to repeat this just as they also run after Cock Turkeys calling, "What d'ye hang yer vather wi'," to get the reply "Holter, holter, holter."
COME AFF.—To happen.
COMETHER.—Come hither.
COME O' THAT.—To get the better of something not desirable. If a young girl carries herself awkwardly, it is said that she will "come o' that" as she grows older.
COMIN'-AN.—Growing, improving, ripening, coming to perfection.
COMIN' ROUND.—Getting into good temper again after anger; recovering from illness; won over to one's way of thinking.
CONDITION.—This word is used to describe degree of fertility in land; fatness in cattle; capacity to do work in horses.
CONTAAIN MEZELF.—To show no outward sign of my feelings.