Regional words, terms and phrases.

Two Tone

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Mixed Farmer
A few from Suffolk:
On th’ Huh
Loike a dawg pis’n in the snow
Lood of ole squit!

A few weeds:
Twitch/Spear grass
Scratch (which is Goose grass in the Cotswolds)
Parcal

How to drive a car:
Twist the rigger-mettanno and Huff it inta loife,
Ram her in the fust tooth,
Let orf the Garra-tiller
And channy orf down th’ rood!

And moind yew dornt be git a phoota taike’n fu speed’n!
 
How is the passage in front of the cows, in an old fashioned cow-shed, or cowuss, known? I was brought up to call it a fotheram or fodderam, but when I moved to Staffordshire, it was known as a bing?
The divisions between the cows, we knew as bosgins or boskins , and the cow's chains were attached to a bootstake.
 
I recognised all the terms you’ve used, but then I too grew up in Herefordshire. Another one of my favourites from there is Tump, meaning a small hill. This includes mole tumps.
Radnor here and.mostly the same. Don't know how to spell it but a mole is an "unt" or "oont". Anything doing well is " fat as an unt" and molehills are untumps. Any ewe lamb is a theave until the new year when it's a hog and by autumn it's a yearling. A pikel is always called a pikel and not a bloody pitchfork and don't let anybody tell you any other🤬
 

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
Well, gimmer is Norse ~

And theave is ... well ~
I know you know but for others not from Demshur.......
Yaw (ewe) so Yaw lamb / Yaw hog ( notice Guth still uses it occasionally)

Vorrid (sing.) means headland ie. 'ploughing out the vorrid's ( headlands )'

'he vall d on hes way to Exter' means ' (posh voice:sneaky: ) 'He Fell, on his way, to Exeter' :oops:

'ood' pronounced ooood :) means 'wood'..generally the plural and piles of / lengths rather than a logs.
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
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N.Lincs
Docky = lunch / mid morning break,
That's a "half yoking" up this way,
11,30 too ,was that some thing to do with resting hosses
Or lowance Lowance time , Allowed time for bait
‘Tis called crib in this part of Cornwall.
either snap time or nose bag

As far as I see it, a lot of these terms come from the times when we worked with 'osses. Round here a yockin' was the length of time (shift, if you like) that a pair of 'osses worked. They were changed half way through the morning, this was a good time for the men to have their bait. Big farms in Lincolnshire had outlying buildings where the second yockin' of 'osses waited (to save having to walk back to the main yard for them). The first yockin' went in and were fed in a crib.
On smaller farms, with no outlying buildings the 'osses had their bait from a nosebag.
It's all interconnected.
 

Sharpy

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Livestock Farmer
How is the passage in front of the cows, in an old fashioned cow-shed, or cowuss, known? I was brought up to call it a fotheram or fodderam, but when I moved to Staffordshire, it was known as a bing?
The divisions between the cows, we knew as bosgins or boskins , and the cow's chains were attached to a bootstake.
Up here its only some of the modern byres have this passage, I have only seen one. The divisions are biss stones, the cows lie in the bisses, usually in pairs, unless it was a single biss, the chains are biss chains, and they slide up and down the traveller. The dung lands in the grip, a graip is a dung fork, a quey is a heifer, a Jeanie Wilox is a freemartin, endings are headlands, points are the short works into a corner, a shuch (like loch) is a ditch or a steep sided cutting, a gab (double or single) is a tongue as you would find on a drawbar.
 

Estate fencing.

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Livestock Farmer
Troff or trow (spelt phonetically to avoid confusion) I’m a troff (trough) man. Some people would throw manger into the mix but to me a manger is different to a troff.
When I was at collage we went to a bag cattle farm in Herefordshire, he keep saying that they were trowing the cattle outside, I had no idea what he was on about.
 

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