Daddie's Barn

a reply when little children asked where they came from

Death of cold

"you'll catch your death of cold"

Dick's hatband

went round six times and then wouldn't tie;  endless talk

Died of a Tuesday

Dinger

"a regular dinger"  - naughty boy

Dingle-tail

squash

Dither

to shake,  to tremble,  

Divilin road

bad road

Dodging

edging to a garment

Dodging out

game of marbles

Dodles

day off,  "to have a day with Joe Dodles"

Doing of or on

"What are your doing of (on)?"  Something done wrong.

Dollop

a lot

Don't think

a negative conclusion

Doss

a cheap sleeping place.

Dost

do you,  dare you,  dost know?

Dotty

failing intellect,  dotage

Drowneded

drowned

Ducker

a flat pebble which skims up and down over the water like a duck.

Ducks and drakes

to make ducks and drakes,  to squander

Dumberdash

a crash

Dunna

doesn't,   also a command

Dyead

dead

Easin

eaves of a building

Eat a man off his horse and the saddle as well

very hungry

Eftest

nearest,  easiest

Eks

ask

Ess

ashes,  cinders

Ever a one

anyone

Eyes

my eyes are bigger than my belly,  putting too much on your plate

Fall

to drop

Fang

to seize

Fardle

to waste time

Farming

"what are you up to?",  "what are you fiddling at?"

Fassen

fasten, as in "fassen fossen fost"  = "fasten the first one first"

Fause

false,  from the French fausser,  to falsify

Fend

to cater for oneself, to look after oneself

Fiddle faddle

trifles, fiddling with a job instead of getting on with it.

Fine and wet!

Fine = very (lots) as in "very wet"; Fine and large = "very large"

Fisses

fists

Fitchet
Fitchety pie

made of bacon, apples and onions cut up.

Fitches

vetches - plant of the pea family used largely for fodder

Flit

to move to another house

Fluf in the ear

box on the ear,    to scuff around the ear

Flummoxed

bothered

Flusker

fluster

Fogger or fogs

first in game of marbles

Foot-ale

paid by an apprentice when he starts to work for the first time.

For

"what are you going for to do?" = "Why did you do it?";  
Tha hadna use for be like this.

Fost

first

Franked

late for work (buzzed, saunded - used in the Biddulph area)

Frousey

ill temper, crotchety

Freeze askers

very cold; if it freezes and asker or lizard (a reptile) it must be cold

Fridge

to fray, to rub, to irritate

Fried frogs

fried sliced potatoes

Friggling

what are you messing at?

Friggling job

troublesome little job

Frittened 

frightened

Frosses

frosts

Fuffle

spending too much time on a job

Fullock

All of a fullock, all of a rush

Funt

Past tense of find

Furk

Getting into holes and corners; inquisitive

Fusser

One who makes a lot of fuss

Fusser

Boy assistant to a Turner or Thrower (Potworks)

Gab

Plenty to say; to boast

Gainer

Handier

Gait

Set agait, make a start

Gallous

Roguish

Gansey

Woollen jersey (Guernsey?)

Garl

Secretion in the corner of the eye

Gaup

Mouthy talk

Gen

Given

Gerter or  Jerter

A small egg; a small ducker for skimming over water

Give over

Do stop

Glass-back

No backbone, might break if he worked.

Glassey

A marble made of glass for a game of marbles

Gnattered

Cross

Gob

mouth

Goaf

Area of a seam from which the coal or ironstone has been removed; or the waste from it.

Goff, goth

The sound caused by the settlement in the workings of a coal or ironstone mine.

Golly, gonny

By golly or gonny – expression for “by God”

Gone dead

Dead

Gone for good

Not to return

Got

Must – as in “you’ve got to do it”

Gotten

Got; acquired

Googogs, goosegog, grossets

Gooseberries

Gradeley

Greatly; good looking; good chap; tip top; first class

Grid

Grating covering the opening to a drain

Grood in

Grimed

Grun

Ground

Gum, by gum

See “by golly”