Whilst not usually a participant in this meme I do like to see what my words my fellow bloggers who do participate (Yvonne @ Fiction Books and Suko's Notebook included) have come up with and having seen this article in Saturday's Guardian's Review supplement I simply had to share these words that though listed in the newspaper article are not included on the website.- aftermath: the first growth of grass in a field after it has been cut (English, Regional)
- coire: high, scooped hollow on a mountainside, usually cliff-girt (Gaelic)
- didder: on a patch of bog or marsh; to quiver as a walker approaches it (East Anglia)
- eawl-leet: dusk, lit. 'owl light' (Lancashire)
- fizmer: the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland)
- grimlins: the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney)
- gruffy ground: the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset)
- grumma: a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland)
- hob-gob: a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk)
- muxy: of land; miry, muddy (Exmoor)
- outshifts: the fringes and boundaries of a town (Camebridgeshire)
- roarie-bummlers: fast moving storm clouds (Scots)
- snow-bones: ling thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire)
- turn-whol: a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria)
- zwer: the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
WWW: Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Kathy over at ‘BermudaOnion’s Weblog’.
10 comments:
Well you certainly got me with these. I think every single one is new to me!
I had heard snow-bones because my sister-in-law's mam is a Yorkshire woman but the rest were also new to me.
Those are some interesting words and definitions!
This is quite a collection of unfamiliar-to-me, alphabetized nature words! Your WWW post is as wonderful as the words. Tracy, thank you for the mention. :)
Hi Tracy,
Thanks for the tag, I haven't smiled so much for ages, as just about all of these words were new to me.
Just to prove that we Zummerset folk (only by emigration, as I am a Wiltshire Moonraker by birth and hubbie a Hampshire Hog)have a language all our own, here are a couple more for your list...
DIMPSEY - “That murky half-light which comes at the end of the day”
GROCKLE - “A holidaymaker or someone from out of town”
It was great to see you joining WWW. I don't seem to come across too many new words these days, which is a real shame, as I love posting to this meme. I'll have to see what I can do!!
Thanks for sharing :)
Yvonne
I love learning about all of these. Great post!
'Snow bones' sounds so quietly beautiful. Haven't heard of any ot these. Good to learn more.
Reminds me of Douglas Adams " The Meaning of Liff" Lovely.
I love unusual words and this is a neat bunch of them.
I am going to try to use "hob-gob" in a real sentence today :)
What fun! I haven't heard of most of these, so nice to add to my vocab
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