ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 37 meant something by no means disagreeable, would not have been conyerted into Portland Street, which, though perhaps a word more pleasing to the ear, has the disadvantage of meaning Uttle or nothing as connected with the street called by uiat name. Din, common for ' noise.' ' Hod thi' din ' is * hold your nois. / or ' be quiet.' See Willie and May Margaret, Tor. 13 : ' For my mither she is faat asleep, And I maun mak* nae din.^ Din^ in, to stir in, as of barm into liquor ;' or generally to impress a thmg on any one. Dither, to thrill, shake, or shiver : as when one has become well chilled with cold in the open air, he will go into the house dithering. Dizzle, i. e, drizzle (as rain). Note the elision of the r. See Letter R. Do, sb. a merry-making or festivity, &c. A successful meeting or feast would be called * a good do.* Dob, a pony. Dock, or Docken, a common plant, the Eumex vulgaris. Doff, vb, to do off, or put off. Very common. Doffed (pronounced dofiUl or dofi), stripped or unclothed. 'The lads ran across the field doff'd,* i. e. naked. Dognanper, Dognopor, or Dogknoper, a name given to a beadle or inferior sexton ; in some parts called a dograpper. This name is also given to a short staff with a thong, used for self-defence. Dogioap, black bituminous shale of the coal-measures. It may be found in dike bottoms, and looks like a kind of blue slate. Boys have sometimes used it for slate-pendL Dogstalk, Dogstandard, or DogBtanders, the plant ragwort, Senecio Jacohoia, Doidy. See Doy. DoUom'd, soiled. DollnmB, a slattern. Dolly. See Peggy. Dolly, a term of contempt for a woman. ' He's got a maungy dotty for a wife,' •'. e, one of little value, either for use or ornament Don, i. 6. do on ; to put on. ' He doim'd him ' = ' he dressed him- self.' It is peculiar to the dialect frequently to omit the word * self ' in such sentences as the above ; thus, * Au 11 waish me ' means ' 111 wash myself.' This word, or rather the past tense of it, in its pro« gressive form, occurs in Bohin Hoody Fytte viii. ver. 4 :
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