46 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. Qnat, ftnatty, v, to hide by stoop- ing down, as boys behind a hedge, or a hare when pursued. Queans, ftweaiu, scallops. '^ Peri- winkles." Bottrell. Qaeedy, adj. sharp; shrewd; cutting. Qnignogs, foolish notions or fancies. **Get out with your quignoga,*' * * You're full of quig- nogs" Qnilkin, a frog or a young toad. Wilky. Lostwithiel. J.W. "As cold as a quilkinj* Quillet, three-leaved grass, cloyer. Bottrell. Qnilter, v. to flutter. " I veeled sich a guUtering come over my heart." Quilting, a beating. " I'll give
- ee sich a quilting as you never
had in your life." Bab, decomposed granite used for mending roads. Babbin, a robin. F. C. More generally rudbriat; occasionally ruddock, Bace, a go-cart. Bace, 17. to place in a rot^. " Cups raced along a shelf." Badgell, an excavated tunnel. W. Briton, December 27th, 1877. Bafe, a tear or rent in a garment. Bafe, V. to rend or tear. Baff, Baffle-fldi, unsaleable flsh divided amongst the fishermen. Barnes. Looking like the rames of death : " said of a sickly per- son. M. A. 0. Barnes of a goose, the bony frame- work of a goose after most of the meat has oeen cut off. J. W. LostwithieL Bams-oat, a male cat. ^' Every thing is a he in Cornwall but a ram a-cat, and thaf s a she. " • * * As teasy as a rama-cat" Baznoaty J.W. Bandigal, a string of nonsense; rhodomontade. ** It's a regular randigal of lies.'* Bandiyoose, a noise; a bustle. "What's all the randivooaef — I can't hear myself speak." Banter-go-ronnd, an old-fashion- ed game of cards played in divi- sions, marked with chalk upon a bellows or tea-tray. Now at a table, and called Miss Joan. " Here's a card, as you may see 1 Here's another as ffood as he ! Here's tbe best of all the three ; And here's Miss Joan, come tickle me. Wee, wee.'* Bap and rind, pkr. got together by hook or crook. F. C. Bare, adj, early. " The broccolow (brocoh) are bra' and rare this year." "We go to bed pretty rare on Sundays." T. 0. Lelant. Bash, adj. crisp ; brittle. " This lettuce is very raah" "The wood is raah." Banning, Banni8li,ae(;. ravenous; voracious. "This is a rauning pollock, a whiting pollock is better." Baw cream, the cream that rises naturally to the top ; not scalded or clotted, Baw-ream, J. W. Baw milk, milk that lias not been scalded. Beam, v. to stretch. Don't ream it out of shape." Beamer, a milk-skimmer (pron. ramer). Bechat, Eichard. Beed, unbruised straw used for bedding horses. Been, prop, noun^ a steep hill-side, Beese, Beeze, grain is said to reeze when from ripeness it falls out of the ear.
