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wack    -    chance, luck "Aw reet; if yo wunna be howpen, yo                  mun tak yur wack" 

wacker   -   a shiver, to shiver

waft   -   rapid movement, energy 

waken   -    awake 

wakes   -     the annual festival of a village or parish, usually                      held on or about the feast day of the saint to                          whom the church is dedicated 

wakesin'    -     a present brought home from the wakes

wallet    -    a workman's bag, slung over his shoulder with                       his lunch and tools in it 

wallock     -     to roll in one's walk "Wallockin' abowt like a                          barrow trindle" 

wammocky    -     weak and feeble

wanga   -    to totter, walk feebly and unsteadily

waps, wapper    -    a wasp (waps is an Anglo-Saxon word)

warch    -     an ache, pain- tooth-warch, wattle-warch 

warcher     -     a contemptuous term for a small insignificant                        person 

warm up to     -    to warm to, to agree with, to be                                              enthusiastic about

warmship    -    warmth 

wastrel    -    (1) a wasted person (2) a scoundrel 

wattle   -    the ear 

wattle/raddle & dab    -   wattle and daub

way!     -       whoa! Used to slow and stop a horse 

weather    -    said of hay, when it is exposed to fog and rain 

weebly    -      weakly, ailing 

a week an' a piece     -   a week and a few days

weeny     -     tiny

wee-waw    -    ill-balanced, tottering (usually used to                                    describe an uneven load) 

weinder    -    a huge portion of food 

weindins    -    the branches which are interwoven with the                           stakes used to shore up the bank of a stream.                         The whole operation of shoring up a bank is                             called staking.

weindy   -    a mad hare-brained person 

weisen    -    (1)to ponder, meditate (2)to teach, enlighten 

weisel, wurzel   -     a potato-stalk 

welly    -     expletive adverb used for emphasis, meaning                         well-nigh or nearly.

welt    -    the ribbing at the top of a sock 

werrit    -    worry, anxiety 

wetcha   -   to wet one's feet 

whabble / whabbock   -    puddle

wheelbarrow-farmer    -    a cottage farmer, holding a few                                              acres of land, and using a                                                        wheelbarrow instead of a horse and                                        cart

wheite-wood    -    under-wood in a forest "Th' wood-reenger's                             bin here, cuttin' the wheite-wood" 

which   -      used in exclamation to mean what "Which a big                      lie!" 

whiffle   -     (1)to veer, shift - said of the wind changing                              direction (2)to stir, whan lightly blown upon by                        the wind

whigs   -    roots or other obstructions choking up a drain 

whimmy   -     whimsical 

whinston, toadstone, ragstone   -   a coarse-grained stone

whippersnapper   -   a hobbledehoy, an insult 

whipstraw   -   a young and inexperienced person. A term of                         contempt. 

whirlers    -   clogs 

whirligog, whirligig   -     (1)that which whirls or turns (2)a                                              turnstile

whisket/whiskettle/wisket   -    a basket, whiskettle being a                                                   basketful

whiskin/whowhiskin   -    a black pot, or shallow brown                                                 drinking bowl (like a wassel cup                                             used at midwinter)

whot   -     hot 

wib-wob    -   shaking

wicket    -    a garden gate 

wick-wood hedge    -    a quick-set hedge 

wid    -    a word used to call the ducks (from the                                   welsh hwyaid) Widdy is a child's word for a duck 

wiff-waff   -     foolery

wig    -    a small oblong bun, with sugar and caraway seeds                 in it (From an Anglo Saxon word meaning wedge) 

wimberry    -    bilberry

wimwam   -   (1)a whim (2)"A wimwam to weind the sun up"                        is often used as an evasive answer to                                    questions such as "What have you got there?"                        or "What are you talking about?"

windering    -    diminishing, dwindling

wind-eye, wind-hole    -     the holes under the eaves of a                                                 small crofting house which let                                                 smoke out of the house, before                                               chimneys were in common use.                                               This later became the word                                                     window 

windle-stree   -     a long dry blade of grass in a field

window-rags   -    scraps, bits 

wink-a-peep   -    the pimpernel flower 

winna   -   (1)whinny, neigh (2)to laugh low or sniggle at                           something 

witch-mon   -   a wizard, wise-man

with-aw    -    for all that, although 

wither    -   to mutter (witter) 

wizzen-faced    -    with withered or pinched features 

wom it   -   to go home

womly   -    homely "Wom's womly" = "There's no place like                     home" 

wooden   -     stupid, thick headed 

wooden hills   -     stairs 

woolpacks  -      heavy white clouds, supposed to portend                                rain

wop    -     a heavy fall 

wopple   -   to topple over 

word-of-a-sort   -    a warning, admonition 

woshicky    -   wobbly in consistency, spongy (like a                                      jelly)

wosser an' wosser   -     worse and worse still 

wranglesome   -    quarrelsome 

wriggle-me-wry      -    crooked, awry "Yo'n put th' claith upon                                    th' table aw wriggle-me-wry" 

wrostlin'   -    lusty and strong

wychen, wickey, wicken   -   mountain ash, supposed to                                                protect against witches and sorcery

wyzels   -     the stalks of potatoes