The day of the Dialects

Scouser, Yorkshman, Geordie all own their accents with pride while here down south a local accent is worn almost as a badge of shame. Why?...you tell me.

A glance at the short list below gives a scrumberbumtious (I made that one up...) sample of the rich treasury of Dorset dialect that is slowly fading into obscurity. 

A-stogged- with feet stuck fast in clay

Ballywrag - scold.

Bandy - a long stick with a bent end to beat abroad cow-dung.

Blather - a bladder

Blind-buck o’ Davy- blindman’s buff.

Chanke - a wide chink.

Charm - a noise as of many voices.

Clum - to handle clumsily

Croop, Croopy-down - to bend down the body; to stoop very low

Dummet - dusk.

Dunch - dull of hearing, or mind.

Gnang - to mock one with jaw waggings, and noisy sounds.

Hidybuck - hide-and-seek

Jack-o’-lent - a man-like scarecrow.

Kapple cow - a cow with a white muzzle.

Libbets - loose-hanging rags.