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oak atchern    -    an acorn 

oak-baw      -    oak-ball, an oak apple 

oander    -     the afternoon "Come i'th' oander if yo conna get                     afore"

oanders     -    the afternoon meal, often taken out to the                               labourers in the fields at harvest time 

*oather    -     either 

oddlin'    -      an odd or eccentric person 

oddment    -    an odd article, a collection of non-descript                             articles

"Odd Rabit it!" "Odd rot it!" "Odd scosh ye"     -      expletive -                                                                               oh bother!

odds     -    (1) a difference "Hoo'll find the odds when hoo                        goes awee throm wom" (2) the exact opposite 

odd-strucken    -     eccentric 

o'er-anenst    -    preposition meaning opposite "I sit just-a-                              meet o'er anenst him, an' I could hear every                            word as he said"

o'erface  -      to be too much for "My work o'er faces miy" 

o'erget, o'ergo    -     (1) to get in front of (2) to surpass (3) to                                  escape from 

o'erketch    -       to overtake 

o'ermade   -      hay which has dried out too much in the field                         before being carried in is said to be                                         o'ermade

o'er-run    -      (1) to outrun (2) to get away from, escape from 

o'erseen   -      blinded, deluded, mistaken "Hoo was very                              much o'erseen in 'im, 'an anybody else could                          see he was noo good from the fost" 

o'erstop    -     to stay too long 

o'er-topteels    -     head over heels

o'erweest     -      to plunge anything into water, so that it is                              completely covered "Tatoes an' peas                                      should be well o'erweest i'waiter afore                                    they'n be done reight" 

*off   -      regretful, sorry "Missus'll be off when hoo hears" 

offmagandy    -      the very best and choices of delicacies

                             (creme de la creme) 

Old Hob   -      a horse's head covered in a sheet to frighten                           people.

onelin'     -     an only child 

one o'clock    -      the downy head of a dandelion 

*only    -       adjective very "The only best" 

oon    -      an oven

oon-arse    -     the convex exterior of a brick oven generally                          covered with plaster and mortar 

oon-peel     -      oven pole, a pole with a flat piece of wood at                          the end of it, for putting loaves, pies etc. into                          a brick oven, or taking them out again. 

oon-pikel   -     a pikel or fork with a long handle and a long                            iron neck above the prongs, which is used to                          supply a brick-oven with fuel.

oozy    -     soft and spongy; said of cheese, marshy land 

open ait     -      to bawl out, cry aloud 

ormy-gormy    -      a simpleton 

orris     -      the angle at which a furrow is made. When a                          furrow is made too flat, it is said "there's noo                          orris on it"

orts      -      leftovers "Ah'm nur gooin' eat yur orts" 

out-rider     -    a commercial traveller 

overind   -       a loaf is said to be overind if it has so arisen in                       the oven that there is a hollow space between                       the top crust or rind and the crumb of the loaf. 

overwelt     -      a rigweltered sheep - a sheep with no lanolin                          to keep it waterproof, which has become                                heavy and fallen.

*owd      -      old 

owdmon     -     to age, to get older (literally old man) 

owler    -      the alder tree (Anglo Saxon word is alr) 

owleryedded   -    foolish, hollow-headed