Hadna

Had not; should not

Hommer End

Halmerend  (place name)

Han

Has, have

‘an

“ ‘an ony onyer ony onyer?” = have any of you got any? (tobacco)

‘anna

“  ‘anna ony onyer ony on ‘em onyer?”  =  haven’t any of you any of them on you?

Hang Joss

Feeling hungry at dinner-time, having previously eaten what you had brought with you.

Hard-faced

Impudent, brazen

Hatna,  ‘atna

Haven’t

Haven,  ‘aven

Has

Heerd

Heard

Her

Used as a nominative,  “her did it”,  “her indoors”

Hersel

Herself

Hersen

Herself

Hersn

Husband and children

Him

Used as a nominative,  “it was him as did it”

Hisn

Wife and children

His sel

Himself

His sen

Himself

Hokey-pokey

Cheap ice cream

Hold your noise

Stop shouting

Hutched

Hunched;  drawn together;  hunchback

Illen

Illings, innings, ealings, cover of a book (illuminated, illustrated)

Innards

A person’s inside

Inna

Isn’t

Ivvey

Ivy;   old English  ifig, a climber.

Jaggled

Jagged

Jaint

Squat down – as in “jaint th’ sel dine”  - sit on your haunches (collier)

Jammage Colliery, Talke

Place name

Jannock, Jonnock

Genuine; a Yorkshire call

Jed

Dead

Jetty

A chamber, toilet

Jerter or Gerter

A small egg;  a small ducker-stone for skimming over water or for throwing.

Jo

Not for jo’,  not for Jove himself

Jornal

A narrow passage; a chamber  (Jordan)

Jowl

Jow-mug;  a vessel made of red clay,  larger than a basin.

Jummer

A coal pit wagon

Just

“didn’t he just!”   he did, my word!

K-pan

A bread pan marked with a letter “K”

Kale or  Kail

Work done by the youngest apprentice;  sweeping the floor, lighting the fire  (Scotch or Gaelic – Kitchen)

Kaled or  Kailed

Franked;  late for work

Kedge

To purloin,  to cadge

Keggy,  Kaggy

Left-handed

Kench

To catch against anything;  “He kenched his finger”

Ketch

To catch

Ketched

Good ketched ‘un,  good appetite

Ki

A cow;  plural – Kies,  Kine.

Kitcrew

Kidsgrove (place name)

Kiggle

To wobble

Kissing bunch

Holly or mistletoe bunch at Christmas.

Kissing crust

The crust above the soft part of an “oven-bottom” loaf, or along one side of a “tin” loaf.  The part that hangs over the “tin”.

Knobstick

A man who “does” another out of his job

Knowst

Know,  as in “tha knowst”

Knockle down, no funking

A term used in the game of marbles

Labe

To stir up the mud

Lab and Kale or Kail

Sedulous labour,  to be busy gossiping

Lags

Last in a game

Lant

Urine

Lap

To wrap up

Lat

Slow;  lat work = work that takes a long time but shows little results.

Launcing

Staying out late with the boys.

Leather

To thrash with a strap.

Leos for Meddlers

The answer to inquisitives.

     Mr. Doran, of Hanley, says “Leos” means “lions,”
        “to the lions”  (martyrs)

     Mr. Astley, of Newcastle, adds,   “and crutches for lame ducks.”

Letherum’s dog

“as idle as Letherum’s dog.”
   Lelan’s dog, Mrs. Carlyle Letters II, 112.
   Ludlam’s dog,  Derbyshire.

Let on

To divulge

A lick and a promise

Temporary cleaning until the job can be done properly.

Ligger

Liar

Like to have done it

Very nearly did it  (likely)

Limb

One who is always tearing his or her clothes

Lobby, lobscouse

A stew

Lollicker

The tongue;  “put out your lollicker.”

Lolliking about

Idling about,  doing nothing

Lommock

A lump;  “lommocking feet,”  big feet

Lommer

To climb

Long of bread

A length;  half a round

Lossocking about

Lazing about doing nothing

Lousy as a Jay

Lug

When hair is knotty it lugs when combed (plugs)

Lungeous

Rough mannered