A Kentish Word-bot

COST [koast] sb. A fore-quarter of lamb; 'a rib.'

IKEY [ei•ki] adj. Proud.

HAND-HOLD, sb. A holding for the hands.
''Tis a plaguey queer job to climb up there, there an't no hand-hold'

CLAPPERS [klap•urz] sb. pl. Planks laid on supports for foot passengers to walk on when the roads are flooded.

LIEF-COUP [leef-koop] sb. An auction of household goods.

BALD-PATES [bau•ld-pai•ts] sb. pl. Roman coins of the lesser and larger silver were so called in Thanet, by the country people, in Lewis's time.

PUT-UPON [put•-upon•] vb. To worry and bother a person by giving him an unfair amount of work, or exacting from him time, strength, or money, for matters which are not properly within his province.

KEEKLEGS [kee•klegz] sb. An orchis. Orchis mascula. (See Kites legs.)

COLD [koald] sb. In phrase, 'Out of cold.'
Water is said to be out of cold when it has just got the chill off.

DEAL [dee•l] (2) sb. The nipple of a sow, bitch, fox or rat.

SCOTCHEN, sb. A badge; shortened from escutcheon.
'For ij dosen skotchens of lede for the poore people of the citie [of Canterbury], that they myght be knowen from other straunge beggars.'
—Historical MSS. Commission, 1550.

KINTLE [kint•l] sb. A small piece; a little corner. So Bargrave MS. Diary, 1645.—'Cutt owt a kintle.' (See also Cantle.)

KEYS [keez] sb. pl. Sycamore-seeds.
'The sycamore is a quick-growing tree, but troublesome near a house, because the keys do get into the gutters so, and in between the stones in the stable-yard.'

JUSTLY [just•li] adv. Exactly; precisely; for certain.
'I cannot justly say,' i.e., I cannot say for certain.

SPLUT [splut] vb. Past of split.
'It was splut when I seed it.'

JUSTLY [just•li] adv. Exactly; precisely; for certain.
'I cannot justly say,' i.e., I cannot say for certain.

NATURE [nai•chur] sb. Way; manner. 'In this nature,' in this way.

RUNNET [run•it], RENNET, sb. The herb Gabium verum, yellow bed-straw.

MUSHEROON [mush•iroon] sb. A mushroom. French, moucheron.

CUMBERSOME [kumb•ursum] adj. Awkward; inconvenient.
'I reckon you'll find that gurt coat mighty cumbersome.'

BOFFLE (2) sb. A confusion; a blunder; a thing managed in a confused, blundering way.
'If you both run the saäme side, ye be saäfe to have a boffle.'—Cricket Instruction.

TUG [tug] sb. The body of a wagon, without the hutch; a carriage for conveying timber, bobbins, &c. (See Bobbin-tug.)

HEG, sb. A hag; a witch; a fairy.
'Old coins found in Kent were called hegs pence by the country people.'

GREEN-BAG, sb. The bag in which the hops are brought from the garden to the oast. (See also Poke.)

WIBBER [wib•ur] (2) vb. To use a wibber. 'I wibber'd out a wibberfull.'

SHOT-NET [shot-net] sb. A mackerel net.

SLICK [slik] adj. Slippery.

PUDDING-PIE, sb. A flat tart made like a cheese-cake, with a raised crust to hold a small quantity of custard, with currants lightly sprinkled on the surface … usually eaten at Easter but a Kent boy will eat them whenever he can get them.

ASHEN-KEYS [ash•nkee•z] sb. pl. The clustering seeds of the ash-tree; so called, from their resemblance to a bunch of keys.

HANDFUL, sb. An anxiety; to have a handful is to have as much as a person can do and bear.
'Mrs. S. says she has a sad handful with her mother.'