Page:The ancient language, and the dialect of Cornwall.djvu/342

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

322 Mabyers. Chicken, young fowls. Celtic Cornish mab Si son, yer, hens. Mock lead. Blende or black-jack. Sulphuret of Zinc. Fryce. Mole, The fish, rock goby. Gobius niger, C. Molly- caudle. A sAe-man who fidgets, and interferes with what is "women's work." Nater. Provincial, and Celtic Cornish for, nature. '^ Erbyn nater gans un cry^ Against nature with a cry. Near the day. Miner's term for, near the surface. Penny-liggy. Hard up for cash. Pilly ground. A fishing term for alternate stretches of sand, and rocks covered with sea-weed, under water. (Looe.) w.t.a.p. In Celtic Cornish jpil means a hillock, as if to say, a hillocky bottom. Poop, or Poopy. To go to stool. (Said by children.) Quick sticks. ^' He made quick sticks of it," i.e., He soon did it, or soon settled the business in hand. Rampant spar lode. A quartz lode. Pryce. Rowler. A ruler, a governor. It is a Celtic Cornish word. Rusk or Risk. The rind or bark. It is rise in Celtic Cornish. Rux. Grains of gold were so called by tinners. Pryce, See HoppS-