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GLOSSARY.
A, indef. art. used instead of an before a vowel, as 'a egg,' 'a apple.'
- 'If she be a idle ill-temper'd gossip.'—Bywater, 134.
A or EH, pron. what; used in asking questions. Pronouced like the a in May.
- 'Where have you been to?' 'Eh?'
A, adj. one.
- 'They're just about a size.'
ABBUT, conj. but, yes but, aye but, eh but.
- 'Abbut o'm not goin' to work for nowt.'
ABIDE, v. to endure.
- 'I can't abide him.'
ABOON, prep. above.
- The word occurs in a Hallamshire couplet, in which the heads of a family generally held in respect in Sheffield (the Bridges) in the early part of the last century are thus characterised:
- 'Gentleman Thomas t'foot aboon t'cross,
- Prodigal Robin and slovenly Joss.'
- Hunter's MS.
ACK, v. to attend, to notice, to listen.
- 'Ack thee, Tom, what's that?'
- Apparently a variant of hark.
ACRE HILL
- 'A piece of arable lying upon acre hill.'—Harrison.
- Harrison mentions a field called 'the Acre,' containing one acre and sixteen perches, in Ecclesfield.
ADAMFIELD, near Horsley gate, Dronfield. O.M.
- Possibly called after a person. Adam occurs amongst the names in the Liber Vita, p. 2.
ADDERFIELD, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.
- B.
