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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.

"Them apples looks zo good. I me-ans to collar one,"

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.

"I can't quite come that (that is beyond me).

"Come! come!" is an expression often sharply used to hurry a child or an inferior.

At advent of.

"I shall hev a-lived under the Squire vorty year come Laaydy Daay."

"In churning butter is said to 'come.'

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.

"That ther wunt never come aff."

COMETHER.—Come hither.

"Comether 'oot," or "somether wut," is an expression used to horses. To put the "comether" on a person is to restrain him.

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.

"Our bwoys be a-comin' an now, an' mus' zoon go to schoold."

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.

"Out o' condition" indicates an unsatisfactory state.

CONTAAIN MEZELF.—To show no outward sign of my feelings.