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ADDLE, v. to earn.
- 'An old man, summoned for depositing parts of putrid fish on a vacant piece of land, said he removed the fish for a dealer, and he thought he was "addling a bob"'—Sheffield Petty Sessions, 1877. L.
ADLAND, sb. a headland in a ploughed field.
AFEARD, adj. afraid.
- 'Although this word is not yet obsolete, the form now more frequently heard is afreead (sometimes shortened to freead), which appears to be not so much a corruption of afraid as a cross between the two different words.' L.
AFORE, prep. and adv. before.
AFTER-CLAP, sb. an unexpected stroke.
- 'Something ensuing on an action when it was thought that the deed itself and all its consequents were over; generally used of that which is primitive.' —Hunter's MS.
AGATE, adv. a-doing.
- To get agate is to get to work: 'The washing is agate;' 'The brewing is agate;' 'He is always agate o' teasing me.'
AGATEARDS, adv. on the way with.
- Hunter describes 'going agatewards' as 'the last office of hospitality, and necessary in many cases both for guidance and protection when the high-way lay at some distance from a friendly grange in an uninhabited and almost trackless country amidst woods and over morasses.'
AGDEN, in Bradfield.
- 'A sheep pasture, called Agden, containing 346 acres.' —Harrison.
- Aykeden in 10 Edward III. Eastwood's Ecclesfield, p. 65. The meaning is Oak Valley. Stunted oaks are numerous about Agden.
AGEAN [ageean] or AGEN, prep. against, by the side of, in an opposite direction to.
- 'There is a peculiar provincial application of this preposition which I am not aware that any writer has noticed. It is used in the sense of close to, by the side of. If a blundering cricketer were to ask "Weer's t' bole?" the answer might be " Woy, clooas agen thi foot, mun."' L.
AGEE [ajee], adv. ajar, like a door. Hunter's MS.
AGGERHEADS, sb. pl. loggerheads.
- 'He's an aggerheaded fellow' means he is a dull, stupid fellow.
AGIST [ajeist], v. to take cattle in to pasture for hire. See JISTE.
AHR [ar] pron. our.
AHRS [ars], pron. mine.
- 'Tha should see ahrs' means you should see my husband.
- 'Ahrs is gone to t' ale-us.'
- I cannot ascertain that the husband speaks of his wife in the same way.
