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cabbage   -   (1) to pilfer, commit petty thefts (2) to copy

cabbage-yed    -    blockhead 

cacko   -    to cackle, gossiping talk

cag-mag   -    (1) carrion (2) any kind of disgusting refuse 

caky   -    a simpleton

*cam   -    to use pert language "Dunna cam to mey" means                     don't answer me back. 

camperlash   -     abusive language "come, none o'thy                                        camperlash" 

canister   -     a slang word for the head 

cankered   -    ill-tempered

*cant    -    to gossip, tell-tales 

cantle   -   a canful 

cap    -    (1) to crown, put the finishing touch to(2) to be                       beyond one's comprehension (3) to astonish (4) to                    form a scum when boiling (liquid)

cappil   -    a patch on the toe of a boot or clog

carant   -   a portion or share 

carpet, carpetting   -    to scold, a scolding 

cazzardly   -    unsettled (of the weather) 

cazletty  -   dodgy, of questionable nature

caukum/cankum   -    prank, a foolish joke

cetchin   -   showery, uncertain (of the weather) 

chamber   -    a sleeping apartment on the ground-floor 

chance-child/chilt    -    child born out of wedlock

chap    -    used to mean sweetheart "Polly's gotten a chap"

chats   -    (1) short sticks used for firewood (2) undersized                      potatoes 

chatter    -     to rattle against one another 

chatterbasket    -     chatterbox

chavins    -      chaff, bits of broken straw

chawly-chowly   -    a hand to hand scuffle 

cheeny   -    a large marble (Dobber: Lancs, Kosher: London,                      Bolly: E Yorks) 

chick-chock, chock, chocky   -    roughness, inequality in a                            road "There's some desperate bad chocky                              roads off for the hill" 

chimbley   -   chimney

chin-cough   -    whooping cough 

chommer    -   to chew 

chops    -     mouth 

chowp    -     to prattle or chatter

chuck!   -      a word used to call the chickens 

chump    -     (1) a log of wood (2) rascal (3)slang like bloke (4)                          head "he's off 'is chump

cibble-cabble    -     altercation, argue, argument 

cim-cam   -    as above

clabe    -     plaster or daub with (clad) 

clack     -    to snap the fingers, to crack a whip 

clag   -    to clog, to form into a stiff or hard mass 

claggy   -     sticky

clait   -   (1)to strike, give a smart blow (clout) (2)a small                       piece of cloth (from Anglo Saxon - clut) 

clap-hatch   -     a garden-gate hung so that it will close                                    or clap to by itself 

clapper    -     (1)a wooden rattle used to frighten away birds                        (2) the tongue

clap-tongue    -   a gossip, tale-teller, chatterbox 

clem   -     to deprive of food, to starve 

clem-guts    -     a person who is stingy with food 

clench-hooks    -     claws, talons

clink, clinker    -    a smart blow, generally on the head 

clip   -     (1)the whole quantity of wool obtained from a flock                  of sheep in a single shearing (2) embrace (from                        A.Saxon clyppan) 

clock / one o'clock   -     dandelion seed head 

clod    -   to pelt with clods. A schoolboys' rhyme goes,                       "Cloddin dee todee, Puddin' dee tomorrow" (dee=day)

clonter    -   to make a clatter, esp. by walking with heavy                         boots or clogs 

clowisite  -    a blockhead, simpleton 

clump     -    a special way of setting potatoes which came                        about as a result of the potato disease. A couple                    of potatoes are laid together and soil thrown over                    them. When they begin to sprout, the branches                        are separated in various directions, and more                          soil is thrown on the top. The pile of soil is                            called a clump.This way of growing them was                        supposed to protect the potatoes from the wet.

cob    -    (1) a small clump (2) a small loaf 

cobblety-cuts, cobnuts   -    the game of chestnuts or                                                  conkers, often started with saying                                          "cobblety-cuts, put dain yur nuts" 

cobnobble    -   to chastise, correct someone

cockstride   -   the length of a cock's stride "the days are                              getting a cockstride longer" 

cockt   -   indignant 

cocky-keeko    -      "cock-a-doodle-doo" 

cod    -     to humbug or impose upon, n. an imposition

codgel   -    to economise, cut back "I welly have to codgel                       and mend to keep the childern's clooas upo' their                   backs" 

collogle   -    to coax, induce, persuade 

collywest   -    just the opposite, the wrong way - "Is this the                       way to the Wilderness?" "Oh no! You're going                         collywest, you rap-a-tag!"

collywobbles   -    comic term for illness of any kind 

coneygree   -    rabbit warren

conny   -   neat, dapper, attractive (comely)like "canny" NE 

cotter   -    a blow, to strike - "He was cottered on the head                      by a falling branch"

cracky   -     simple (daft) 

cramble   -    hobble

crasher     -      slang for a lie 

craze    -    to ply with incessant questions or requests 

creakin'/ creechy    -    ill, out of sorts 

creave   -     to pilfer and conceal stealthily

crimble   -   (1) when a cheese crumbles (2) to hunch oneself                      up (3) to avoid certain places, pick one's way                          about 

crink/ crit    -    an undergrown apple 

crisp    -    to begin to freeze

crodle    -   a large marble made of stone

crom-full    -    crammed full (sometimes rom-jom-crom-full!) 

croodle     -     to crouch down or nestle up to 

crop-wood     -    the outside branches cropped from a felled                            tree 

crossil    -    ashes, cinders - "burnt to a crossil"

crow-foot   -    a buttercup 

crow-road, "by the crow-road"   -     as the crow flies. The                                                        shortest distance between                                                        two points. 

cruddle    -    curdle

crumble   -    a crumb 

crumpsy   -    cross, grumpy 

cuckoo-spit    -    the frothy matter which appears on the                                   leaves and stems of plants in early summer 

cuckoo-wuts   -      oats sown after the cuckoo has come

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