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BUFF, v. to embrace.
- 'Thaw knaws but last year
- man I did fear;
- I wor fit for booath cooartin and buffin.'
- Mather's Songs, 107.
BUFFALO, sb. the horn used for the sides of penknives or knives for the pocket.
- 'It is now nothing more than the horn of the ox, but the existence of this as a word in ordinary use seems to show that anciently the horn used was, or was supposed to be, the horn of a buffalo.'—Hunter's MS.
BUFFET, sb. a footstool.
- 'Little Miss Muffet
- Sat on a buffet,
- Eating her curds and whey;
- There came a little spider,
- And sat down beside her,
- And frightened Miss Muffet away.'
BUG, adj. pleased.
- 'He wur rare and bug' (he was very pleased).
BUGTH, sb. size.
- 'About the bugth o' my thomb.'
BULKE, a field in Ecclesfield.
- 'A close called the Bulke lying next Hunger hill.'—Harrison.
BULL-HEAD, sb. a tadpole.
BULL-HIDED. A man who cannot sweat is said to be bullhided.
BULLOCKING, boasting insolently.
- 'You've heard with what bullocking speeches
- I sold . . . my new breeches.'
- Mather's Songs, 80.
BULL-SPINK, sb. a bull-finch or chaffinch.
BULL-STAKE, sb. an open place near the market in Sheffield.
- Under the word 'bearward,' which I have not inserted, Hunter says, 'When bear-baiting was among the amusements of a low population, the person who kept the bear was known as the bearward. This gross amusement seems to have run out with the last century. Bull-baiting had disappeared from Hallamshire long before, but the memory of it is preserved in the name of an open place near the market, called the Bull-stake.'—Hunter's MS.
- 'The said croft called Skinner croft, alias Bulstake croft, lyeth next new lane west and Church lane north, and divers gardens east.'—Harrison. It contained 2 roods and 19½ perches.
BULLY, sb. a bullace.
