56 THE DIALECT OF ' O, my hart is rysand now in a glope ! * Onaghe, or Onaigh, vb, to gnaw. See Letter 0. Onaigh, also used as a substantive. At the open air concert in Greenhead Park, May 1874, the following conversation between two gentlemen of the band was overheard. After refreshment had been served, one said, * Hey, Jim, hast ta' getten thi chum full P ' ' Nay, lad, AuVe nobbut tauen away the gnaigh on it.' Onang, vh. to gnaw as a pain ; to half cry. ' This old tooith is gnangifC at it age&n.' A child who neither cries nor lets it alone, gnangs, Gnangnails, ab. corns. Onatter, vK to gnaw or nibble, as a mouse ; also to tease, worry, &c. Gob, sb. the mouth. * Shut thi gob* [A Celtic word, still preserved in Gaelic, meaning mouth, chiefly in a ludicrous sense; more properly used of a bird's beak. — ^W. W. S.] Gk>b, vb, to swallow hastily ; also to snatch at marbles : as when a boy has been looking on at a game, and offers to snatch one, he is said to be going to gob, Oobslotch, 8b, a term of reproach ; properly, one who dirties his mouth ; but according to some, one who eats ravenously. See Slotcher. The followmff elegant oration was delivered at Dewsbury Moor in 1856. The Heckmondwike omnibus is approaching, and a little child toddles out of a cottaee into the middle of the road. Its mother, armed with a fire-shovel, rushes forth, and standing on the edge of the causeway, flourishing her shovel, thus addresses her offspring : * Coom yaat o* t' rooad wi* thee, tha' gret gobdotch ! Doesn't ta' see cooach a cummin I Coom yaat o' V rooad wi' thee, or Au'll slawve tiii' yed wi' mi' shool.' Oodspenny, sb, earnest money; a penny given when a servant is hired. Ooing part (pronounced goin paatf or payt — see Letter B), a portion of a loom suspended just before where the piece is woven. It has boxes to hold the shuttles, and a ledge before the aleigh (which see) on which the shuttles run. The boxes may have more than one shuttle. Ooit (the pronunciation of the word gote), sb, a sluice or channel cut to carry water to a milL This word is always sounded and spelt goit ; but if properly gote, it would still be goit in the dialect. See Letter O. The channel which conveys the water from a mill is called the
- tail goit* In the answer to the Inquisition of the Manor of Almond-
bury in 1584, is the following passage : ' And they further say that - there was a way for the inhabitants of Huddersfield to the said Miln from one Miln called Shower Miln, along the west side of the broad water until anent the Tayle Qote end of the Queen's Majesty's said Miln anent the which said Tayle Gote they went over the broad water,' &c. — Hobkirk's Huddersfidd, p. 135.
