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A word once an hour. From A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County of Kent, by WD Parish, 1888. Created by @grouchomerckx.bsky.social. Built with bluebotsdonequick.com

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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
CANT [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.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
STARE 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.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
PARGE [paa•j] vb. To put on an ordinary coat of mortar next to brick-work and tiling.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
SPROG [sprog] sb. A forked sprig of a tree.—Sittingbourne.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
DOGS' DAISY, sb. The May weed, Anthemis cotula; so called, ''Cause it blows in the dog-days, ma'am.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
SEA-WAUR [see-waur] sb. The wrack, ore or sea weed used largely in the Island of Thanet and elsewhere, for making maxhills.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
FILL [fil] sb. A field.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
SNIRKING [snurk•in] sb. Anything withered. 'As dry as a snirking.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
WHIFFLE [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.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
STUB [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'.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
HARDHEWER [haa•dheur] sb. A stonemason. The word occurs in the articles for building Wye Bridge, 1637.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
LADY-LORDS [lai•di-lordz] sb. pl. Lords and ladies; the name given by children to the wild arum. Arum maculatum.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
BOAR-CAT [boa•rkat] sb. A Tom-cat.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
GO-TO [goa too] vb. To set. 'The sun goes to!'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
GRANDLY [grand•li] adv. Greatly: as, 'I want it grandly.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
KING 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.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
YELLOW-BOTTLE [yel•oa-bot•l] sb. The corn marigold. Chrysanthemum segetum.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
NEWLAND [neu•lund] sb. Land newly broke up or ploughed.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
SHEPPEY [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
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
FAVOUR [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.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
BROWSELLS [brou•zlz] sb. pl. The remains of the fleed of a pig, after the lard has been extracted by boiling.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
VAMPISHNESS, sb. Frowardness; perverseness.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
FORE-LAY [foa•r-lai] vb. To way-lay. 'I slipped across the field and fore-laid him.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
WALLER'D [wol•urd] sb. The wind. 'De Folkston gals looked houghed black, Old waller'd roar'd about.' —Dick and Sal, st. 23.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
MISTUS [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'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
REASTY [ree•sti] adj. Rusty; rancid; rank. (See Rasty.)
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
WHEAT-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.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
REVE [reev] sb. A bailiff.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
RITS [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.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
CUMBERSOME [kumb•ursum] adj. Awkward; inconvenient. 'I reckon you'll find that gurt coat mighty cumbersome.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
GRINSTONE [grin•stun] sb. A grindstone.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
SHAGGED [shag•id] adj. Fatigued; fagged; tired out. 'An' I was deadly shagged.'—Dick and Sal, st. 48.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
AMPERY [amp•uri] adj. Weak; unhealthy; beginning to decay, especially applied to cheese.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
BAT [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.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
MOSES [moa•ziz] sb. A young frog.—East Kent.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
STAND [stand] vb. To stop; to be hindered. 'We don't stand for weather.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
SHROCKLED [shrokl•d], SHOCKLED [shokl•d] pp. Shrunk; shrivelled; wrinkled; puckered up; withered. 'A face like a shrockled apple.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
DAWTHER-[dau•dhur], or DODDER-[dod•ur] GRASS (2) sb. A long shaking grass, elsewhere called Quaker, or quaking, grass. Briza media.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
IN '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.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
TIDE [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.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
DWARFS-MONEY, sb. Ancient coins. So called in some places on the coast.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
SNIRKING [snurk•in] sb. Anything withered. 'As dry as a snirking.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
HOBBLE [hob•l] sb. An entanglement; difficulty; puzzle; scrape. 'I'm in a reg'lar hobble.'
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
LONGTAILS [long-tailz] sb. pl. An old nickname for the natives of Kent.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026
STRIP-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.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026
MATCH-RUNNING, MATCH-A-RUNNING, sb. A game peculiar to Kent, and somewhat resembling prisoner's base. (See also Stroke-bias.)
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026
QUARRELS, 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.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026
TINE [tein] (2) vb. To shut; to fence.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026
GAU [gau], GEU [geu], or GOO [goo], interj. An exclamation, in constant use, expressive of doubt; surprise; astonishment.
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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026
BOSTAL [bost•ul] sb. The same as Borstal.
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