ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 13 Blind hnminabee, the name of a boys* game. When a strange boy, supposed not to know the trick, comes to a school, one perhaps says,
- Let's play at Hind hummabee : who'll be kins P ' The sbranger,
thinking it a good part, possibly yolunteers, and if not he is persiu^ed to be km^. Be has to sit and shut his eyes, whilst the bees go * to fetch the noney.' The boys fill their moutlis with water, and approach him humming, and conclude the game by discharging the water over the unfortunate monarch. Thus he may be said to commence his rain, Bloach, a blab, or tale-bearer. Skinner says hloach is a tumour. Blob, or Blub, a bubble, or bulb. A butter-hlob is a buttercup. And Halliwell says unUer-blobB are water-lilies. Also the marsh marigold. Blocker, an axe, or chopper. Blonk, or Blnnk, to put on a sour, distressed, or sulky faca Blonky, or Blnnky, adv. corresponding to the word above. Blooaneed (spelling uncertain), a word used in the following way :
- It must be blooaneed, or they would not turn out on such a mght as
this.' A man who made Jenny broiched, when he came for his money used to say, 'It's nowther for want nor for scant, but fair daan blooaneed,^ He meant ' he were bun to come.' Blotch, a blot Blotch-paper, blotting-paper. Blue nns, i. e, blue ones ; the delirium tremens. Blnff, or Blnft, to blindfold. Blnftert, not the blinders for horses, which are usually called mobs, but more properly what is |)laced oyer a horse's eyes to prevent him from straymg when turned into a field. Blnrry, sK an error; a blunder ; a breakdown. Blnrry, vb. to commit a blunder, &c. Bob, a nosegay of flowers ; also a chignon. The bush carried by wassailers at Christmas is called ' the wassail 5o6.' ^ Bodle, or Bandle, half a farthing. ' He pays a penny bodle for his land,' t. 0. one penny and a half-farthing per yard. Halliwell says it is worth one-third of a half^nny. He spells it bodk, as it is here S renounced ; but according to the custom of this part, that would be lie pronunciation of baudUy or baufdle, as au is usually sounded o. Bogged, the dried moisture of the nostrils. Boggard, a ghost. When a horse takes fright he is said to ' tak' th* boggard.* Boggard night (pronounced neet), St. Mark's Eve. It used to be said that at any time after 8 p.m. there was always something ghostly to be
