A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026CANT [kant] (3) sb. A push, or throw. 'I gave him a cant, jus' for a bit of fun, and fancy he jus was spiteful, and called me over, he did.' 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026STARE TAKE YOU, interj. phr. An imprecation in Kent, from Anglo-Saxon steorfa (a plague). 'What a starf be ye got at now?' is also another use of the same word. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026PARGE [paa•j] vb. To put on an ordinary coat of mortar next to brick-work and tiling. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026SPROG [sprog] sb. A forked sprig of a tree.—Sittingbourne. 100
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026DOGS' DAISY, sb. The May weed, Anthemis cotula; so called, ''Cause it blows in the dog-days, ma'am.' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026SEA-WAUR [see-waur] sb. The wrack, ore or sea weed used largely in the Island of Thanet and elsewhere, for making maxhills. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026SNIRKING [snurk•in] sb. Anything withered. 'As dry as a snirking.' 001
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026WHIFFLE [wif•l], WIFFLE, vb. To come in gusts; to blow hither and thither; to turn and curl about. ''Tis de wind whiffles it all o' one side.' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026STUB [stub] (1) sb. The stump of a tree or plant. 'Ye'll find a pretty many stubs about when ye gets into de wood. Ye must look where ye be goin'.' 100
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026HARDHEWER [haa•dheur] sb. A stonemason. The word occurs in the articles for building Wye Bridge, 1637. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026LADY-LORDS [lai•di-lordz] sb. pl. Lords and ladies; the name given by children to the wild arum. Arum maculatum. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026GO-TO [goa too] vb. To set. 'The sun goes to!' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026GRANDLY [grand•li] adv. Greatly: as, 'I want it grandly.' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026KING JOHN'S MEN, one of. A term applied to a short man. 'He's one of King John's men, six score to the hundred.' Six score, 120, was the old hundred, or long-hundred. 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026YELLOW-BOTTLE [yel•oa-bot•l] sb. The corn marigold. Chrysanthemum segetum. 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026NEWLAND [neu•lund] sb. Land newly broke up or ploughed. 120
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026SHEPPEY [shep•i], sheep-island, sb. The inhabitants of the isle … call themselves 'sons of Sheppey' and speak of crossing the Swale … as 'going into England;' whilst those who live in the marshes call the higher parts of Sheppey, the Island 0123
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026FAVOUR [fai•vur] vb. To resemble; have a likeness to another person. 'You favour your father,' i.e., you have a strong likeness to your father. (See also Bly.) 'Joseph was a goodly person and 'well-favoured.'—Genesis xxxix. 6. 021
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026BROWSELLS [brou•zlz] sb. pl. The remains of the fleed of a pig, after the lard has been extracted by boiling. 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026VAMPISHNESS, sb. Frowardness; perverseness. 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026FORE-LAY [foa•r-lai] vb. To way-lay. 'I slipped across the field and fore-laid him.' 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026WALLER'D [wol•urd] sb. The wind. 'De Folkston gals looked houghed black, Old waller'd roar'd about.' —Dick and Sal, st. 23. 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026MISTUS [mis'tus] sb. Mistress; the title of a married woman. 'My mistus and me's done very well and comfortable together for 'bove fifty year; not but what we've had a misword otherwhile' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026REASTY [ree•sti] adj. Rusty; rancid; rank. (See Rasty.) 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026WHEAT-KIN [wit-kin] sb. A supper for the servants and work-folks, when the wheat is all cut; the feast at the end of hop-picking is called a hop-kin. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026RITS [rits] sb. pl. The ears of oats are so called, and if there is a good crop, and the ears are full and large, they are said to be well ritted. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026CUMBERSOME [kumb•ursum] adj. Awkward; inconvenient. 'I reckon you'll find that gurt coat mighty cumbersome.' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026GRINSTONE [grin•stun] sb. A grindstone. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026SHAGGED [shag•id] adj. Fatigued; fagged; tired out. 'An' I was deadly shagged.'—Dick and Sal, st. 48. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026AMPERY [amp•uri] adj. Weak; unhealthy; beginning to decay, especially applied to cheese. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026BAT [bat] sb. The long handle of a scythe. A large rough kind of rubber used for sharpening scythes. The stick used for keeping the traces of a plough-horse asunder is called 'a spread bat.' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026MOSES [moa•ziz] sb. A young frog.—East Kent. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026STAND [stand] vb. To stop; to be hindered. 'We don't stand for weather.' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026SHROCKLED [shrokl•d], SHOCKLED [shokl•d] pp. Shrunk; shrivelled; wrinkled; puckered up; withered. 'A face like a shrockled apple.' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026DAWTHER-[dau•dhur], or DODDER-[dod•ur] GRASS (2) sb. A long shaking grass, elsewhere called Quaker, or quaking, grass. Briza media. 011
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026IN 'OPES [in•oaps] phr. For in hopes. It is very singular how common this phrase is, and how very rarely East Kent people will say I hope; it is almost always, 'I'm in 'opes.' 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026TIDE [teid] sb. The tithe. This is a remarkable instance of the way in which th is converted into d in Kent, as wid for with, &c. 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026DWARFS-MONEY, sb. Ancient coins. So called in some places on the coast. 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026SNIRKING [snurk•in] sb. Anything withered. 'As dry as a snirking.' 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026HOBBLE [hob•l] sb. An entanglement; difficulty; puzzle; scrape. 'I'm in a reg'lar hobble.' 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026LONGTAILS [long-tailz] sb. pl. An old nickname for the natives of Kent. 011
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026STRIP-SHIRT [strip-shur't] adv. In shirt sleeves. A man is said to be working strip-shirt when he has his coat and waistcoat off. 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026MATCH-RUNNING, MATCH-A-RUNNING, sb. A game peculiar to Kent, and somewhat resembling prisoner's base. (See also Stroke-bias.) 010
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026QUARRELS, sb. pl. Quarries, or panes of glass. 'Item for newe leadinge of the wyndow and for quarreles put in in Tomlyn's hale [hall] wyndowe, beinge 20 foote of glasse and 28 panes … vij s viij d.' —Sandwich Book of Orphans. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026TINE [tein] (2) vb. To shut; to fence. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026GAU [gau], GEU [geu], or GOO [goo], interj. An exclamation, in constant use, expressive of doubt; surprise; astonishment. 000
A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026BOSTAL [bost•ul] sb. The same as Borstal. 000