Bladder – blister (part of mid Cornwall and north east Cornwall).Bits – spinach-beet, green beet-leaves, Chard (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language betys, meaning 'edible plants of the genus Beta').Biskan – a finger-stall (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language byskon, meaning 'thimble', or 'finger sheath').Big-pattern – a show-off, 'big-pattern he is'.Better fit/better way – it would be better if.Belving – load roaring/bellowing especially by a cow (similar to Bolving of stags on Exmoor).denotes habit or custom – 'she belong to go shopping Fridays' live or work – 'where do 'ee belong to' 2. Bannal – the broom plant (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language banal, short for banadhel, meaning 'broom').Bamfoozle – deceive, confuse, especially by trickery.Ball – a pest, used figuratively (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language ball meaning 'a pest', or 'the plague').Bal maiden – a woman working at a mine, at smashing ore &c.Bal – a mine (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language, related to palas, meaning 'to dig').Backsyfore – the wrong side first (also found in Devon).Further, possibly a conflation of any (or all) of the previous, and 'ess', which may represent a dialectal form of 'yes'.īal maidens at work, showing traditional dress Alternatively, a modification of 'aye' based on 'yes'. Perhaps from Old Norse ei ('forever') + Old English sī(e) ('may it be'), like 'yes' (which is from Middle English yes, yis, which is from Old English ġēse, ġīse, ġȳse, *ġīese, equivalent to ġēa + sī ). Ayes (pronounced, 'ace') – yes (see also: 'Ess', below).Aye? – I beg your pardon? Yes? What was that?.

Arish mow – a stack of sheaves (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language arys).Arish (also written arrish, ersh, aish, airish, errish, hayrish and herrish) - arable field (from Middle English *ersch, from Old English ersc, perhaps influenced by Cornish language arys).

Areah, Arear, Aree faa - an exclamation of surprise (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language revedh, meaning 'strange', 'astounding', or 'a wonder').

Anvon - a hard stone on which large stones are broken (mining term, from Cornish language anwen, meaning 'anvil')).

Ansome - lovely (from 'handsome') Me ansome ('my handsome') (familiar way to address a man).

Anker - a small barrel (mining term, ultimately from Medieval Latin anceria perhaps influenced by Cornish language keryn, meaning 'open barrel' or 'tub'.

Ancient - to describe someone who is a real character, 'he's an ancient man'.

Allycumpooster - all right ( Camborne, in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language oll yn kompoester, meaning 'all in order').

All-overish – slightly out of sorts, nervous.

Ake – a groove made on the stone of a killick ( Mousehole, in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language ak, meaning 'a slit', or 'a cleft').

Agone – ago as in 'a week agone' (mid and east Cornwall).Agerever – pollack ( Marazion, in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language hager euver, meaning 'ugly useless').Ager – ugly ( Zennor, in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language hager).Table of contents:Ī B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Many Cornish dialect words have their origins in the Cornish language and others belong to the West Saxon group of dialects which includes West Country English: consequently words listed may not be exclusive to Cornwall. This is a select list of Cornish dialect words in English-while some of these terms are obsolete others remain in use. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( May 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this article if you can. applying standardised spellings to dialect words is ill advised generally they are better spelled more or less as they are pronounced. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.

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