Glossary of Yorkshire dialect words

Abaht - about
An’ all - as well
Beck - a stream
Brass - money
Cowd - cold
Dahn - down
Dock - to cut
Drahn - drown
Donned up - to dress up
E’e - eye
Fahl - foul
Fratchin - quarrelling
Ginnel - passage way between a row of houses
Goan - gone
Guttle - eat
Hawf a craan - half a crown
Hen hoil - chicken coupe
Leet - light
Lewkin fahl - looking foul
Lig dahn - lay down
Pinny - apron
Scrat -to scratch
Seak - Greasy sludge from woollen mills
Sheep hoil - a banked stretch of water for washing sheep
Skint - out of money
Sley - tool used to force the weft into place when weaving
Starns - backsides
Three strings - 30 feet length, 1 string = 10 feet