The following table is based on the glossary from Wessex Dialect by Norman Rogers (Moonraker Press, 1979), reproduced with the kind permission of the author’s estate.
| -wrack | suffix | -vraksen |
| 30¼ square yards | n | Lug |
| 5½ yards | n | Lug |
| Active (of children) | adj | Shuttle |
| Adze | n | Tomahawk, Tommy Hacker |
| Afraid | adj | Afear'd, Avear'd |
| Ajar | adj | A-Sam, Ashard |
| Alleyway | n | Drang, Drong, Drung |
| Ant | n | Emmet |
| Antirrhinum, Wild | n | Dogsmouth |
| Any time | adv | Anywhen |
| Apple, small | n | Griggle |
| Apron, coarse | n | Touser |
| Argue | v | Arg |
| Aspen | n | Aps |
| Awkward | adj | Bungersome, Clumbersome, Comical |
| Bailiff | n | Hind |
| Barber | n | Scallywap |
| Basket | n | Maund |
| Bat (mammal) | n | Airy Mouse, Bitbt, Flitmouse, Flittermouse, Rear-Mouse |
| Bear | v | Abear |
| Bedroom | n | Chamber |
| Beetle | n | Blackbob |
| Before | prep/adv | Afore |
| Begin | v | Gin |
| Begin to freeze (of water) | v | Catch |
| Belch | v | Barge, Belk, Boke, Glutch |
| Bellow | v | Bellock |
| Bellow (of cattle) | v | Belve, Blare |
| Beside | prep | Anunt |
| Bewilder | v | Dodder, Dudder |
| Bindweed | n | Bedbind, Gravelwind, Groundlily, Reed-Bind, Willowind, Withywind |
| Blacken | v | Blatch |
| Blister | n | Amper. Bladder |
| Blue-Veined (of cheese) | adj | Blue-Vinnied |
| Bobbin | n | Quill |
| Boggy | adj | Stuggy |
| Boil | n | Amper, Aps, Pinswell |
| Bottle taken into fields by workers | n | Costeril, Plough Bottle |
| Bounce (ball) | v | Dap |
| Bow (of legs) | v | Sproddle |
| Bow-Legged | adj | Scrow-Legged |
| Brand New | adj | Flam New, Flame New |
| Brand sheep | v | Dap |
| Brazen | adj | Vorus-Norus |
| Brick put in oven to show by change of colour when food is ready | n | Gauge Brick |
| Brittle | adj | Brickle, Brickly, Bruckle, Bruckly |
| Bundle | n | Faggot |
| Bundle of thatching straw | n | Elm |
| Burn Turf | v | Burny Bake, Burny Beat, Denshire, Devonshire |
| Butt (of animall) | v | Bunt |
| Butt (of cattle) | v | Horch, Hunch, Pelch |
| Carcase of chicken | n | Frame |
| Cartshed | n | Linhay |
| Chaff | n | Cavings |
| Chapped | adj | Hazzled, Sprayed |
| Chatter of birds | n | Charm, Cherm |
| Chew | v | Cham, Munge |
| Chicken | n | Coupy |
| Chilblain | n | Childag, Springdag |
| Chilly | adj | Parky |
| Chimney | n | Tun |
| Chink | n | Scoth |
| Chitterling | n | Knotling |
| Christmas Eve | n | Ashen Faggot Night |
| Chunk | n | Snowell |
| Churchyard | n | Litton |
| Churchyard Gate | n | Lych Gate |
| Churchyard Path | n | Lich-Path |
| Clappers (for bird scaring) | n | Clackers |
| Clothes basket | n | Flask |
| Clothes post | n | Linepost |
| Club-Footed | adj | Pumple-Footed |
| Clumsy | adj | Blunderstone, Clumble Fisted, Scrammish, Scrammy |
| Clumsy person | n | Gawk |
| Cold | adj | Froared, Shrimpy, Shuddered |
| Complain | v | Quirk |
| Congeal | v | Catch |
| Corn measure | n | Strickle, Stritch |
| Couch Grass | n | Stroil |
| Cough | v | Bussock, Hackle, Hask |
| Cow | n | Dummock, Hummock |
| Cow, child's word for | n | Ahmoo |
| Cowman | n | Fogger |
| Cowpat | n | Cow Clat, Turdstool |
| Cowshed | n | Boosing, Pine, Shippon, Skillin, Skilling |
| Cowslip | n | Cowflop, Cowslop, Tisty-Tosty |
| Cramped | adj | Dunched |
| Creak | v | Scroop |
| Cream | n | Ream |
| Creep | v | Scrobble |
| Crouch | v | Coupy, Croupy, Croupy Down |
| Crumb | n | Pith |
| Crunch | v | Scrump |
| Crush | v | Squat |
| Dandelion | n | Pissabed, Shitabed |
| Dandruff | n | Scurf |
| Dawdle | v | Sloom |
| Deaf | adj | Dunch, Dunny |
| Delirium Tremens | n | Delirious Tremor, Niddy-Noddy |
| Dent | v | Squat |
| Dibber | n | Pogger |
| Disorder | n | Hallege |
| Donkey | n | Mokus, Nessock, Nirrup |
| Door Jamb | n | Durn |
| Drain | n | Sink |
| Drain in water-meadow | n | Drawn |
| Drain under road | n | Drock |
| Drink avidly | v | Goggle, Golk, Guddle, Guggle |
| Droppings | n | Truckles |
| Drought | n | Dryth |
| Drunk | adj | Zozzled |
| Drunk tank | n | Blindhouse |
| Duck (children's word) | n | Dilly |
| Dung fork | n | Evil |
| Ear | n | Bus, Wicker |
| Early morning snack | n | Dewbit |
| Earthenware (1) | n | Cloam |
| Earthenware (2) | adj | Cloamen |
| Earthworm | n | Eass, Iss |
| Eat greedily | n | Flabber |
| Eaves | n | Oaves |
| Egg | n | Coupy-Egg |
| Embankment, railway | n | Batter |
| Empty | v | Empt |
| Entice | v | Toll |
| Ewe lamb | n | Chilver |
| Ewe under two years old | n | Chilver Hog |
| Exhausted | adj | Bellowed Out, Daggled, Lagged Out, Spun Out, Spunned Out |
| Extinguish | v | Dout |
| Farmyard | n | Barken |
| Farrow | v | Var |
| Fastening | n | Steart |
| Fatigue | n | Beatness |
| Feeble-minded | adj | A Button Short |
| Feed animals | v | Sar |
| Fester | v | Fewster |
| Fidget | v | Fuddeck |
| Fire, indoor | n | Bonny |
| Firewood | n | Bavins, Puffs |
| Flagged (of floor) | adj | Clausen |
| Flail | n | Threshels |
| Flick | v | Fitch (2) |
| Flop down (eg into chair) | v | Flump |
| Flower | n | Tutty |
| Flowers, pressed | n | Peepshow |
| Fluster | n | Fantaig, Puzzivant |
| Food | n | Bait, Tackle, Tommy |
| Fool | n | Gapesnatch |
| Foolish | adj | Chuckle-Headed |
| Footbridge | n | Clam, Clammer |
| Forage | v | Mouch |
| Forget | v | Disremember |
| Freckles | n | Brands, Murfles, Speckles, Summerface, Summerfolds, Summermoulds |
| Friends (as a form of address) | int | Soce |
| Frighten | v | Galler, Gallow, Gally |
| Frozen | adj | Scrammed, Shrammed, Srammed, Starved |
| Frumenty | n | Furmity |
| Funnel | n | Tundish, Tunigar, Tunnel |
| Furrow | n | Veer |
| Gaiters | n | Bams, Stogs |
| Gap (in hedge) | n | Shard |
| Gathering on smock | n | Snail Creeper |
| Gemini, by | int | Jimminy |
| Germander Speedwell | n | Bird's Eye |
| Getting drunk | v | Empting Cloam |
| Girl | n | Child,Maid, Maiden, Wench |
| Glean | v | Lease |
| Go | v | Dap |
| Goose-Grass | n | Clide, Clites, Clivers, Cly, Hairif, Sticky Buttons, Sweethearts |
| Gossip (1) | v | Chackle |
| Gossip (2) | n | Chatter Mag, Magger |
| Grandfather | n | Gramfer |
| Grandmother | n | Grammer |
| Grow abundantly | v | Diggle |
| Guttering | n | Shoot |
| Guzzle | v | Slobber |
| Hack | v | Agg |
| Hair | n | Mazzard |
| Hand | n | Pake |
| Hand (children's word) | n | Pud, Puddy |
| Hand brace | n | Wimble |
| Handbarrow | n | Pair of Trucks |
| Handle | n | Stale |
| Hangnail | n | Backfriend, Liversick, Nailspring, Ravel-Back |
| Hat | n | Cady |
| Haw | n | Aglon, Eggle, Egglet, Eglon, Gipsy Nut, Hag, Hagag, Hawberry, Mayberry, Pigberry, Pighale, Pigshell |
| Hay, line of | n | Hatch |
| Hayloft | n | Tallet |
| Hayrick | n | Cratch |
| Haystack | n | Pook |
| Hazel | n | Halse |
| Hazel wand used to keep hedge in place | n | Edder, Ether |
| Head over Heels | adj | Pitchpoll |
| Healthy | adj | Bobbish, Brave, Gay, Knicky |
| Hiccups | n | Yewcums |
| Hill | n | Bache |
| Hill, steep | n | Pitch |
| Hillock | n | Knap |
| Hoarse | adj | Hoozled, Oozed |
| Hock of pork | n | Forespur, Vorspur |
| Honestly | adv/int | Jonnick |
| Hook | v | Huck, Uck |
| Horse, restless | n | Jibber |
| House-dweller | n | Housewallah |
| Hungry | adj | Lear, Leary, Thirdle, Thirl |
| Hunk | n | Hunch |
| Hurdle | n | Flake |
| Hurry | v | Scrabble, Shackle |
| Hurtle | v | Purdle, Scauter |
| Icicle | n | Clinker, Clinkerbell, Cocklebell, Conkerbell, Dagger, Daggler, Daglet, Icecandle, Icedaggle, Icelet, Icybell |
| Idiot | n | Uckle |
| Idle | v | Lop, Lollup |
| Idleness, personification of | n | Lawrence |
| Image (as in "the spitting image of") | n | Daps |
| Impertinent | adj | Peart |
| Irrigation channel in water-meadow | n | Carriage |
| Jiminy! | int | Gemini |
| Judgement Day | n | Latterlammas |
| Kidney fat of pig | n | Flare, Flay, Flead |
| Knee straps | n | Strads |
| Knock-Kneed | adj | Napkneed |
| Laburnum | n | Golden Chain |
| Ladybird | n | Colly Cow, Lady Cow |
| Lane | n | Trullen |
| Lavatory | n | Duddekin, Dunnekin, Dunnick, Dyke |
| Left-Handed | adj | Back-, Cam-, Click-, Clicky-, Coocky-, Cunny-, Gammy-, Marlborough-, Scoochy-, Scram-, Scrammy-, Skiffle-, Skiffy-, Skivvy-, Squiffy-, Squippy-, Squiver-, Squivver-, Watty-Handed |
| Line of hay waiting to be pooked | n | Roller, Wake, Wallow, Wally |
| Lively (of child) | adj | Lissom |
| Loads | n | Diggles |
| Log | n | Chump, Plock |
| London Pride (flower) | n | Hen and Chicken |
| Look | v | Looksee |
| Lop-sided | adj | All-a-Hoh |
| Lover, male | n | Fancy Man |
| Lukewarm | adj | Lew-Warm |
| Lunch | n | Nammet, Nunch |
| Mad | adj | Mazed |
| Mallet | n | Beetle |
| Mannerism | n | Gait |
| Mantlepiece | n | Clavel, Clavy |
| Marble, alabaster | n | Alley |
| Marble, clay | n | Clay |
| Marble, stone | n | Stoner |
| Mark out furrows with plough | v | Veer Out |
| Matted | adj | Clit |
| Mend fishing nets | v | Bait, Beet |
| Merry-Go-Round | n | Willigog |
| Migraine | n | Megrims |
| Miller | n | Millard |
| Mind | int | Min |
| Miser | n | Skinger |
| Mixed up | adj | Allemang |
| Mole (animal) | n | Want |
| Mould | n | Vinny |
| Mouldy | adj | Fenny |
| Mousetrap | n | Mousesnap |
| Muckspread | v | Spurdle, Spurl |
| Mud, wet | n | Slub |
| Muddy | v | Smaam, Smarm |
| Near | prep | Handy |
| Nearly | adv | Anewst |
| Neck | n | Niddixk |
| Needle | n | Neald |
| Neigh | v | Bray, Wicker, Winker |
| Nettle | n | Ettle |
| Newt | n | Evet |
| Nor yet | n | Nit |
| Oak-Apple | n | Shitsack |
| Oak-Apple Day | n | Shitsack Day |
| Offal | n | Hange, Henge |
| Opposite | prep | Anunt, Overright |
| Paddock | n | Butt, Parrock, Piddle, Plat, Splat |
| Palm (of hand) | n | Pane |
| Pansy, Wild | n | Love an' Idols, Love-A-Lido, Loving Idols, Nuffin-Idols |
| Pantry | n | Panterny |
| Paralytic | adj | Lattyprack |
| Pardon? | int | Nan? |
| Parsnip | n | Pasmet |
| Passageway | n | Opeway |
| Pierce | v | Pog |
| Pig fat | n | Fleck, Flick |
| Pig fat used for wrapping faggots | n | Apron, Caul Fat, Flare, Flay, Flead |
| Pigeon-Toed | adj | Hen-Toed, Pin-Toed |
| Pigsty | n | Lewze |
| Pimply | adj | Ampery |
| Pitchfork | n | Prong |
| Plain | n | Plat |
| Pliable | adj | Weathe |
| Plimsolls | n | Daps |
| Plough, Wooden | n | Sole, Sull, Sully |
| Polecat | n | Fitch, Fitchew, Fitchy |
| Pork from mature pig | n | Pigmeat |
| Pork loin | n | Griskin |
| Potato | n | Rambler |
| Potato shoot | n | Chimp |
| Pour (of chimney smoke) | v | Tundle |
| Prattle | v | Mag |
| Press | v | Brize |
| Procrastinating | adj | Latterlamsical |
| Prop up | v | Trig |
| Protecting crops from birds | v | Bird Keeping, Bird Starving |
| Puddle | n | Gullet |
| Pump | n | Plump |
| Quarrel | v | Caddle |
| Quarry | n/v | Quar |
| Quiver | v | Biver, Whiver |
| Raisin | n | Fig |
| Ramble (of climbing plant) | v | Rangle |
| Rancid (of bacon) | adj | Rafty, Rasty, Rusty, Rutchy |
| Red dye | n | Erding, Reddle |
| Redleg | n | Arse Smart, Yes Smart |
| Remember | v | Mind |
| Replenish fire | v | Bait, Beet |
| Retch | v | Boke, Keck, Urge |
| Rick | n | Mow |
| Rickyard | n | Mowyard |
| Roll | v | Truckle |
| Romani | n | Deddickie |
| Root (of pig) | v | Howk |
| Rotten | adj | Daddocky, Purred, Purreyed |
| Rotten (of eggs) | adj | Settly, Setty |
| Rough | adj | Rowey |
| Rough Music | n | Hooset |
| Runt | n | Cady, Dack, Dallpig, Darling, Darrel, Dilling, Dorrel, Joey, Nestle-Bird, Nestle-Drash, Nestle-Drish, Nestle-Drudge, Nestle-Tripe, Nurk, Nuzzle-Bird, Nuzzle-Drash, Nuzzle-Drish, Nuzzle-Drudge, Nuzzle-Tripe, Squeaker |
| Saddle girth | n | Guss |
| Salting Trough | n | Zilt |
| Sandman (in nursery tales) | n | Dustman |
| Sandy-Coloured | adj | Badger-Pied |
| Scarecrow | n | Bucca, Dudman, Hodmadod, Mammet, Mawkin |
| Scold | v | Becall, Bullyrag, Yop |
| Scour cloth | v | Bray |
| Scrap of meat left over when fat has been rendered | n | Grave |
| Scrump | v | Shriggle |
| Selvedge of woven cloth | n | List |
| Settle (of snow) | v | Pitch |
| Shaft (of cart) | n | Dill, Filler, Limber, Sharp, Thill |
| Shaft Horse | n | Diller, Filler, Thiller |
| Shelf | n | Tack |
| Shower (of rain) | n | Scat, Scud |
| Shrew | n | Harvest Row, Screwel, Shear-Crop, Sherry, Shro-Crotch |
| Sickle | n | Reap-Hook, Shekel |
| Sickly | adj | White-Livered |
| Side (of wagon) | n | Dripple, Thripple |
| Sieve | n/v | Rudder |
| Silly | adj | Avelin, Cavvy |
| Sink, kitchen | n | Trough |
| Sit | v | Couch |
| Skeleton | n | Frame, Rames |
| Skirt | n | Tail |
| Slattern | n | Slammock |
| Slouch | v | Louch |
| Small object | n | Firk, Grig |
| Smoke | n | Smeech |
| Smooth | adj | Shuant, Suant |
| Snack | n | Crib, Crust |
| Snake's Head Fritillary | n | Oaksey Lily |
| Soaking Wet | adj | Sobbing Wet |
| Sometime | adv | Somewhen |
| Soot | n | Blatch, Smeech |
| Sooty | adj | Blatch |
| Sore | adj | Teart |
| Sow, young | n | Hilt |
| Spar of hurdle, upright | n | Sail |
| Spark | n | Blanker |
| Spring onion | n | Gibble |
| Squat | v | Quat |
| Squint | v | Squinny |
| Squirrel | n | Scug, Scuggy, Sqwug |
| St Vitus Dance | n | St Fifer's Dance, St Viper's Dance |
| Stake of hurdle | n | Vossel |
| Stay | v | Bide |
| Steep | adj | Cleeve |
| Stickleback | n | Bannis, Bannistickle |
| Sticky | adj | Cabby, Clabby, Cleaty, Gammy |
| Stomach (of calf) | n | Poke, Trin |
| Stook | v | Goat, Hile, Stick, Stitch, Stock |
| Straps to keep bottoms of trousers from trailing in mud | n | London Yorks, Yorks |
| Strut | v | Vamp |
| Stubble | n | Arrish |
| Stubble field | n | Errish |
| Stumble | v | Clumper |
| Stupid | adj | Dumbel, Dummel, Puggled |
| Stye | n | Quailaway, Wisk, Wist |
| Swallow | v | Glutch, Quilt |
| Swampy | adj | Squishy |
| Sweat | v | Heave |
| Sweet | n | Cally |
| Sweet (children's word) | n | Poppy |
| Sweets | n | Jumblies |
| Swell | v | Plim |
| Swingle-trees of plough | n | Whippence |
| Tadpole | n | Catpole, Pohead, Tomtoddy |
| Take offence | v | Miff |
| Tangled | adj | Clatted, Clatty. Clitty, Harled, Taffled, Tazzled |
| Taste | n | Smatch |
| Tea leaves, used | n | Greets, Grounds, Grouts, Gruts |
| Tear | v | Break, Rant, Scag |
| Tease | v | Betwit, Twit |
| Teasel, worn | n | Went |
| Test for weight | v | Heft, Teft |
| Thatching Spar | n | Spick |
| Three playing cards of same value | n | Prail |
| Threepenny bit | n | Joey |
| Threshing floor | n | Midstay, Midstead |
| Throat | n | Quilter |
| Throw | v | Dub |
| Throw stick | v | Squail |
| Throwing stick | n | Squailer |
| Thrush (disease) | n | Whitemouth |
| Tine of pitchfork | n | Grain |
| Tree stump | n | Moot, More, Stowell |
| Trembling | v | Nother |
| Tuft of grass | n | Mop |
| Tumour | n | Amper (1) |
| Turnip | n | Turmet |
| Twilight | n | Dimmet, Dimpsey |
| Uncertain (of weather) | adj | Caddlesome, Caddling, Catchy |
| Unpunctual | adj | Latterlamsical |
| Unwell | adj | Cliney, Rough, Wallish, Wallowish |
| Up Jenkins | n | Tippet |
| Urine | n | Fleet, Seg, Sig |
| Valley | n | Bache, Bottom |
| Vegetable matter found in wool | n | Spile |
| Very | adv | Main |
| Wagon, front of | n | Hound |
| Wallflower | n | Bleeding Heart |
| Walnut | n | Bannut |
| Warm | adj | Lew |
| Warmth | n | Lewth |
| Warp (weaving) | n | Chain |
| Warren, rabbit | n | Conigre |
| Wasp | n | Apple Bee, Apple Drane, Apple Drone |
| Water Meadow | n | Floating Meadow, Ham |
| Water-Pepper | n | Arse Smart, Yes Smart |
| Weasel | n | Fairy |
| Weave hedge | v | Splash |
| Weft | n | Abb, Shoot |
| Wet (of weather) | adj | Lipping |
| Wet-footed | adj | Watchet, Wetchet |
| Wheelbarrow | n | Pot, Putt |
| Wheeze | v | Oozle, Tizzick |
| Whinny | v | Nutter |
| Whitlow | n | Nimpingang |
| Whittle | v | Shirp, Squittle |
| Whoa | int | Wey |
| Whore's brood (insult) | n | Husbird, Whizbird |
| Willow | n | Withy |
| Windy | adj | Blusterous |
| Winnow | v | Wim |
| Wire separating warp threads in loom | n | Heddle |
| Within reach | adv | Handpat |
| Wood, rotten | n | Daddock |
| Woodlouse | n | Baker, Crooger, Gladdigoaster, Gramfer |
| Workmate | n | Butty |
| World | n | Wordle |
| Wreathe | v | Vreathe |
| Wren | n | Cutty |
| Yeast | n | Barm |
| Yellow Toadflax | n | Dogsmouth |
| Yes | adv | Aye |
| You know? | int | Astore |