Part 6

*=Fang=. To strangle; to bind a wounded limb so tightly as to stop the flow of blood (A.B.H.Wr.).

=Fantag=, =Fanteague=, &c. (1) _n._ Fluster, fuss. ~Fantaig~ (S.).--N. & S.W. (2) Vagaries or larks, as 'Now, none o' your fantaigs here!' At Clyffe Pypard, N.W., 'a regular fantaig' would be a flighty flirting lad or girl, a 'wondermenting or gammotty sort of a chap.'--N. & S.W.

*=Fardingale=. A quarter of an acre (H.Wr. _Lansd. MS._). The old form is _Farding-deal_ (Wr.). Compare _Thurindale_, &c.--Obsolete.

'1620. Itm, to the same Thomas & Nicholas Lea for theire helpe to laye the Acres into ffarendells.'--_Records of Chippenham_, p. 202.

'1649. Twoe ffarthendels of grasse.'--_Ibid._ p. 217.

=Farewell Summer=. The Michaelmas Daisy.--N. & S.W.

=Fashion=. The farcey, a disease in horses (A.H.Wr.). Fr. _farcin_.--N.W.

'An old Wiltshire farmer, when his grand-daughters appeared before him with any new piece of finery, would ask what it all meant. The girls would reply, "_fashion_, gran'váther!" when the old man would rejoin, "Ha! many a good horse has died o' th' fashion!"'--_Akerman._

=Favour=. To resemble in features, &c. 'He doesn't favour you, Sir.... He is his mother's own boy.'--N. & S.W.

=Featish=. Fair, tolerable (A.B.). Used of health, crops, &c. 'How be 'e ?' 'Featish, thank 'e.'--'There's a featish crop o' grass yander!' (A.). M.E. _fetis_ (in Chaucer), O.F. fetis, _faitis_.--N.W.

'The worthy farmer proceeded to ask how the children got on at the Sunday-school. "Oh, featish, zur ... Sally, yander ... her's gettin' on oonderful."'--_Wilts Tales_, pp. 139-140.

'"How's your voice?" "Aw, featish [fairish]. I zucked a thrush's egg to clear un."'--_Greene Ferns Farm_, ch. i.

'"Ees, this be featish tackle," meaning the liquor was good.'--_Ibid._ ch. vii.

'A' be a featish-looking girl, you.'--_Ibid._ ch. i.

*=Fern Buttercup=. _Potentilla Anserina_, L., Silverweed.--S.W. (Zeals.)

=Fess=. (1) Of animals: bad-tempered, fierce. A cat with its back up looks 'ter'ble fess.'--N. & S.W. (2) Cocky, impudent, confident. Also used in Hants.--S.W., occasionally. (3) Proud, stuck-up (S.).--S.W.

=Fet=. See ~Preterites~.

=Fevertory=. _Fumaria_, Fumitory, from which a cosmetic for removing freckles used to be distilled.--S.W.

'If you wish to be pure and holy, Wash your face with fevertory.'--_Local Rhyme._

=Few=. 'A goodish few,' or 'a main few,' a considerable quantity or number.--N. & S.W.

'I ferrets a goodish few rabbits on bright nights in winter.'--_Amateur Poacher_, ch. vii.

=Fiddle-strings=. The ribs of the Plantain leaf, when pulled out. See ~Cat-gut~.--N.W.

*=Field=. The space, or bay, between beam and beam in a barn, as 'a barn of four fields.' (D.).

=Figged= (_two syll._), =Figgedy=, =Figgetty=, =Figgy=. (1) Made with a few 'figs,' or raisins, as 'viggy pudden.' Figged Pudding, Plum pudding (_Monthly Mag._, 1814). Figgetty Pooden (S.).--N. & S.W. (2) ~Figged.~ Spotted all over, as a pudding is with plums.--S.W. A true-born Moon-raker, describing his first night in 'Lunnon,' where he made the acquaintance of numerous members of the 'Norfolk-Howard' family (_Cimex lectularius_), spoke of his face as being 'vigged aal auver wi' spots an' bumps afore marning.'

=Fighting-cocks=. _Plantago media_, L., and other Plantains. Children 'fight' them, head against head.--N.W.

=Filtry=. Rubbish. 'Ther's a lot o' filtry about this house.'--N.W.

=Fine=. Of potatoes, very small.--N.W.

=Fingers-and-Thumbs=. Blossoms of _Ulex Europaeus_, L., Common Furze (S.).--S.W.

*=Fire-deal=. A good deal (H.Wr.).

=Fire-new=, =Vire-new=. Quite new (A.)--N.W.

=Firk=. (1) To worry mentally, to be anxious; as 'Don't firk so,' or 'Don't firk yourself.' A cat does not _firk_ a mouse when 'playing' with it, but the mouse _firks_ grievously.--N.W. (Marlborough). (2) To be officiously busy or inquisitive, as 'I can't abear that there chap a-comin' firkin' about here.' A policeman getting up a case _firks about_ the place, ferreting out all the evidence he can.--N.W.

*=Fitten=. A pretence (A.B.).--Obsolete. Compare:

'He doth feed you with fittons, figments, and leasings.'--_Cynthia's Revels._

=Fitty=. In good health. 'How be 'ee?' 'Ter'ble fitty.'--N.W.

*=Flabber-gaster=. _n._ Idle talk (S.).--S.W.

=Flag=. The blade of wheat.--N.W.

'The wheat was then showing a beautiful flag.... The flag is the long narrow green leaf of the wheat.'--_Great Estate_, ch. i. p. 8.

=Flake=. _n._ (1) A frame, barred with ash or willow spars, somewhat resembling a light gate, used as a hurdle where extra strength is needed (_Bevis_, ch. xii; _Wild Life_, ch. iv). 'Flake' hurdles are used to divide a field, or for cattle, the ordinary sheep hurdles being too weak for the purpose.--N.W. (2) _v._ To make 'flakes.'--N.W.

=Flamtag=. A slatternly woman.--N.W. (Huish, &c.)

=Flare=. (1) The flick, or internal fat of a pig, before it is melted down to make lard.--N. & S.W. (2) The caul, or thin skin of the intestines of animals, used for covering 'bake-faggots,' &c.--N. & S.W.

=Fleck=. See ~Flick~.

=Flews=. A sluice is occasionally so called. See ~Flowse~.--S.W.

=Flewy=. Of a horse, troubled with looseness. 'He's what we calls a flewy 'oss, can't kip nothing in 'im.' Cf. North of Eng. _Flewish_, morally or physically weak. In Hants a horse of weakly constitution is said to be _flue_ or _fluey_ (Cope).--N.W.

=Flick=, =Fleck=. (1) _n._ The internal fat of a pig (A.B.C.S.).--N. & S.W. *(2) _v._ To flare (S.).--S.W.

=Flig-me-jig=. A girl of doubtful character. 'Her's a reg'lar flig-me-jig.'--N.W.

=Flirk=. To flip anything about (H.Wr.), as a duster in flicking a speck of dust off a table (_Village Miners_). Flirt is the S. Wilts form of the word.--N.W.

*=Flitch=. (1) Pert, lively, officious (A.B.H.Wr.).

'Right flygge and mery.' _Paston Letters_, iv. 412.

*(2) To be _flick_ or _flitch_ with any one, to be familiar or intimate (C.).--N.W., obsolete.

=Flitmouse=. The bat. A shortened form of _Flittermouse_.--N.W. (Marlborough.)

=Flitters=. Pieces. A cup falls, and is broken 'aal to vlitters.'--N.W.

*=Floating= or =Flowing meadow=. A meadow laid up in ridges with water-carriages on each ridge and drains between (D.). A lowland meadow watered from a river, as opposed to Catch-meadow (_Annals of Agric._). ~Floted meadowes~ (Aubrey's _Nat. Hist. Wilts_, p. 51, ed. Brit.).

=Flod=. See ~Preterites~.

=Flop-a-dock=. _Digitalis purpurea_, L., Foxglove.--S.W. (Hants bord.)

=Floppetty=. _adj._ Of a woman, untidy, slatternly in dress or person. ~Flopperty~ (S.).--S.W.

=Flowing Meadows=. See ~Floating Meadows~.

=Flowse=. (1) _v. act._ You 'flowse,' or splash, the water over you in a bath.--N. & S.W. (2) _v. neut._ Water is said to be 'flowsing down' when rushing very strongly through a mill hatch. A horse likes to 'flowse about' in a pond.--S.W. (3) _n._ The rush of water through a hatch.--S.W. (4) _n._ Occasionally also applied to the narrow walled channel between the hatch gate and the pool below.--S.W.

=Flucksey=. _adj._ 'A flucksey old hen,' i.e. a hen who makes a great fuss over her chickens.--S.W. (Bishopstrow, &c.) Cope's _Hants Glossary_ has:--'_Flucks_, to peck in anger like a hen.'

=Flump=. 'To come down flump, like a twoad from roost,' to fall heavily (A.B.S.); also used alone as a verb, as 'Her vlumped down in thic chair.'--N. & S.W.

=Flunk=. A spark of fire; probably a form of ~Blink~, q.v. ~Vlonker~ (S.).--S.W.

=Flush=. *(1) _n._ Of grass, a strong and abundant growth (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. xii). (2) _adj._ Of grass, &c., luxuriant.--N.W. (3) _adj._ Of young birds, fledged (A.B.).--N. & S.W.

=Flustrated=. (1) Taken aback, flustered.--N.W.

'A didn't zay anything ... but a looked a leetle flustrated like.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 119.

(2) Tipsy.--N.W.

=Fluttery=. Of weather, catchy, uncertain, showery. ''T ull be a main fluttery hay-making to-year, I warnd.'--N.W. (Huish.)

*=Fodder=. A labourer 'fodders' his boots--stuffs soft hay into them to fill up, when they are too large for him (_Village Miners_).

*=Fodge= (rarely =Fadge=). In packing fleeces of wool, when the quantity is too small to make up a full 'bag' of 240 lbs., the ends of the bag are gathered together as required, and the sides skewered over them, thus forming the small package known as a 'fodge.'--N.W.

=Fog=. _v._ To give fodder to cattle. Cf. Welsh _ffwg_, dry grass.--N. & S.W.

'_Fogging_, the giving of fodder ... from a Middle English root ... is common in Mid-Wilts.'--_Leisure Hour_, Aug. 1893.

=Fog off=. To damp off, as cuttings often do in a greenhouse.--N.W. (Marlborough.)

=Fogger=. A man who attends to the cows and takes them their fodder morning and evening (_My Old Village_, &c.). A groom or man-servant (H.Wr.), the duties of groom and fogger being usually discharged by the same man on farms about Marlborough.--N. & S.W.

*=Foldsail=, =Fossel=. A fold-shore (D.). See ~Sails~.--N.W.

'A fold stake, locally called a "fossle."'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ xxi. 132.

'The "fossels" means the _fold-shores_, or the _stakes_ to which the hurdles are shored up, and fastened with a loose twig wreath at the top.'--_Ibid._ xvii. 304.

=Fold-shore=. A stake pitched to support a hurdle (D.H.).--S.W.

=Follow or Follow on=. To continue.--N.W.

'If you do want a good crop, you must _follow on_ a hoeing o' the ground; but you can't do no hoeing so long as it do _follow_ raining.'--_Wilts Arch. Mag._ vol. xxii. p. 111.

=Folly=. A circular plantation of trees on a hill, as 'Harnham Folly,' or 'The Long Folly' on Compton Down. This seems quite distinct from its more general use as applied to a tower or other building which is too pretentious or costly for its builder's position and means.--N. & S.W.

'"Every hill seems to have a Folly," she said, looking round. "I mean a clump of trees on the top."'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. vi.

*=Foot-cock=. The small cock into which hay is first put (D.).

=Footy=. Paltry (A.B.), as a present not so large as was expected (_Village Miners_).--N.W.

=For=. Often affixed to the verbs _say_ and _think_. ''Tean't the same as you said for'; 'I bean't as old as you thinks for.'--N.W.

=Fore-eyed=. Fore-seeing, apt to look far ahead (S.).--S.W.

=Fore-spur=. A fore-leg of pork (S.).--S.W.

=Forefeed=, =Vorfeed=. To turn cattle out in spring into a pasture which is afterwards to be laid up for hay.--N.W.

=Foreright=, =Vorright=. (1) _adj._ Headstrong, self-willed. 'He's that vorright there's no telling he anything.'--N. & S.W. (2) _adj._ Blunt, rude, candid.--N.W. (Malmesbury.) (3) Just opposite. 'The geat's vorright thuck shard.'--N.W.

*=Forel=. The actual cover of a book, not the material in which it is bound. This is the usual term in Som. Old Fr. _fourrel_, a sheath, case.--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Fork=. The apparatus used by thatchers for carrying the elms up to the roof.--N.W.

=Forester=. (1) A New Forest horse-fly.--S.W. (2) Any very tall thistle growing among underwood.--N.W. (Marlborough.)

*=Fossel=. See ~Foldsail~.

=Fot=. See ~Preterites~.

=Frame= A skeleton. 'Her's nothing in the world but a frame.'--N.W.

*=Frea=, =Fry=. To make a brushwood drain (D.).

=Freglam=. Odds and ends of cold vegetables, fried up with a little bacon to give a relish. Compare Lanc. _Braughwham_, cheese, eggs, clap-bread, and butter, all boiled together.--N.W., obsolete.

*=French Grass=. _Onobrychis sativa_, L., Sainfoin.--N.W. (Enford.)

=Fresh liquor=. Unsalted hog's-fat (A).--N.W.

=Frickle=, =Friggle=. (1) To potter about at little jobs, such as an old man can do. 'I bain't up to a day's work now; I can't do nothing but frickle about in my garne.'--N. & S.W. (2) To fidget, to worry about a thing.--N.W.

'He freggled [fidgetted] hisself auver thuck paason as come a bit ago.'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. vii.

=Frickling=, =Friggling=. _adj._ Tiresome, involving much minute attention or labour. Used of fiddling little jobs.--N.W.

=Friggle=. _n._ A worrying little piece of work. 'I be so caddled wi' aal these yer friggles, I caan't hardly vind time vor a bit o' vittles.' See ~Frickle~.--N.W. (Huish.)

=Frith=. (1) _n._ 'Quick,' or young whitethorn for planting hedges.--N.W. *(2) _n._ Thorns or brush underwood (D).--N.W.

'1605. Itm to James Smalwood for an Acre & halfe of hedginge frith out of Heywood.... Item for felling the same frith.'--_Records of Chippenham_, p. 194.

(3) _v._ To make a brushwood drain, as opposed to ~Grip~, q.v. (D).

=Froar=. Frozen (A.B.S.); generally ~Vroar~ or ~Vrŏr~ in N. Wilts, but the usual form at Wroughton, N.W., is ~Froren~. A.S. _gefroren_.--N. & S.W.

=Frog-dubbing=. Boys throw a frog into a shallow pool, and then 'dub' or pelt it, as it tries to escape. See ~Dub~.--S.W.

=Froom=. See ~Frum~.

=Frout=. Of animals: to take fright. 'My horse frouted and run away.'--S.W.

=Frouten=, =Froughten=. To frighten (S.).--N. & S.W.

'Lor, Miss, how you did froughten I!'--_Greene Ferne Farm_, ch. vii.

=Frow=. See ~Brow~.

=Frum=, =Froom=. Of vegetables, grass, &c.: fresh and juicy (A.B.); strong-growing or rank. A.S. _from_, vigorous, strong.--N.W.

*=Fry=. (1) _n._ A brushwood drain (H.Wr.). See ~Frith~ (3).--N.W. (2) _v._ To make a brushwood drain (D.). Also ~Frea~ and ~Frith~ (D.).--N.W.

'1790. For 234 Lugg Hollow frying in Englands 2.18.6.'--_Records of Chippenham_, p. 248.

=Fullmare=. _n._ In my childhood I remember being told more than once by servants at Morden, near Swindon, N.W., that a colt which was playing about in a field near was 'a fullmare.' Could this possibly have been a survival of the old word '_Folymare_, a young foal,' which is given by Halliwell and Wright as occurring in a fifteenth-century MS. at Jesus College, Oxford? I have never heard the word elsewhere.--_G. E. D._

=Fur=. _n._ The calcareous sediment in a kettle, &c.--N. & S.W.

=Furlong= (pronounced ~Vurlin~). The strip of newly-ploughed land lying between two main furrows.--N.W. (Lockeridge.)

=Fur up=. Water-pipes, kettles, &c., when coated inside with 'rock,' or the calcareous sediment of hard water, are said to 'fur up,' or to be 'furred up.'--N. & S.W.

*=Furze-hawker=. _Saxicola oenanthe_, the Wheatear.--N.W.

*=Furze Robin=. _Saxicola rubicola_, the Stonechat (_Birds of Wilts_, p. 150).--N.W. (Sutton Benger.)

=Fuzz-ball=. _Lycoperdon Bovista_, L., Puffball.--N. & S.W.

=Gaa-oot!= See ~Horses~ (A.).

=Gaam=. (1) _v._ To smear or bedaub with anything sticky. ~Gaamze~ (_Village Miners_). (2) _n._ A sticky mass of anything. See ~Gam~.--N. & S.W. Many years ago, at a Yeomanry ball in a certain town in N. Wilts, the Mayor, who had done his duty manfully up to then, stopped short in the middle of a dance, and mopping his face vigorously, gasped out to his astonished partner, a lady of high position, 'Well, I don't know how _you_ be, Marm, but _I_ be ael of a gaam o' zweat!'--N.W.

=Gaamy=, =Gammy=. Daubed with grease, &c., sticky. In Hal. and Wr. '~Gaam~, _adj._ sticky, clammy,' is apparently an error, _gaamy_ being probably intended.--N.W.

=Gaapsey=. _n._ A sight to be stared at. See ~Gapps~.--N.W.

=Gaapus=. _n._ A fool, a stupid fellow. 'What be at, ye girt gaapus!'--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Gabborn=. Of rooms or houses, comfortless, bare (B.C.). ~Gabbern~ (A.H.) and ~Gabern~ (_Great Estate_, ch. iv. p. 78). This term always denotes largeness without convenience or comfort (_Cunnington MS._).--N.W. ~Gabberny~ on Berks bord.

*=Gage-ring=. An engagement ring (_Great Estate_, ch. x).--N.W.

=Galley-bagger=. A scarecrow (S.).--S.W.

=Galley-crow=. A scarecrow (A.H.Wr.).--N. & S.W.

'"Maester," said the child, "wull 'e let m' chainge hats wi' thuck galley-crow yander?" ... pointing to a scarecrow at the other end of the garden.'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 103.

=Gallivant=. To be gadding about on a spree with a companion of the opposite sex (S.): to run after the girls, or 'chaps,' as the case may be.--N. & S.W.

=Gallow=. See ~Gally~.

=Gallows= (pronounced _Gallus_). *(1) A pair of braces. (2) Exceedingly. Used with any adjective; as 'Gallus dear,' very expensive (_Great Estate_, ch. iv. p. 75).--N. & S.W.

'A gallus bad wench her be!'--_Dark_, ch. xviii.

*(3) 'He's a gallus chap,' i.e. plucky.

=Gallows-gate=. A light gate, consisting only of a hinged style, top-rail, and one strut.--N.W.

=Gallus=. See ~Gallows~.--N.W.

=Gally=, =Gallow=. To frighten or terrify. ~Gallow~ (B.H., _Lansd. MS._), ~Gally~ (A.B.S.), Pret. _gallered_, astonished, frightened (A.B.C.S.) 'He gallered I amwost into vits.' Still in use about Marlborough and in S.W. From M.E. _galwen_; A.S. _agælwan_, to stupefy.--N. & S.W.

'The wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark.'--_Lear_, iii. 2.

The word is still commonly used in the whale-fishery:--

'Young bulls ... are ... easily "gallied," that is, frightened.'--MARRYAT, _Poor Jack_, ch. vi.

=Gam=. A sticky mass, as 'all in a gam.' See ~Gaam~ (2).--N. & S.W. In S. Wilts the _a_ in this word and its derivatives is usually short, while in N. Wilts it is broad in sound.

=Gambrel=. The piece of wood or iron used by butchers for extending or hanging a carcase (A.). ~Gamel~ (S.).--N. & S.W.

=Gamel=. See ~Gambrel~.

=Gammer=. A woodlouse.--S.W.

=Gammet=, =Gamut=. (1) _n._ Fun, frolicsome tricks. 'You be vull o' gamuts.'--N.W. (2) _v._ To frolic, to play the fool. See ~Gammock~ and ~Gannick~. 'Thee bist allus a gammetting.'--N.W. (3) _v._ To play off practical jokes; to take in any one.--N.W.

=Gammock=. _v._ To lark about, to play the fool, to frolic. See ~Gannick~ and ~Gammet~.--N.W. (Marlborough.)

=Gammotty=, =Gammutty=. (1) _adj._ Frolicsome, larky. See ~Gammet~.--N.W. (2) _adj._ Of cheese, ill-flavoured. See ~Cammocky~.--N.W.

=Gammy=. (1) Sticky. See ~Gaamy~.--S.W. (2) Lame, crippled, having a 'game leg.'--N. & S.W.

=Gamut=. See ~Gammet~.

=Gander-flanking, To go=. To go off larking or 'wondermenting.' Perhaps a corruption of _gallivanting_.--S.W. (Upton Scudamore.)

=Gandigoslings=. _Orchis mascula_, L., Early Purple Orchis. Compare _Gandergosses_ in _Gerarde_ (_Appendix_), and _Candle-gostes_ in _Folk-Etymology_. Also see ~Dandy-goslings~, ~Dandy-goshen~, ~Goosey-ganders~, ~Goslings~, ~Grampha-Griddle-Goosey-Gander~, and ~Granfer-goslings~.--N.W.

=Gannick=. To lark about, to play the fool. See ~Gammock~.--S.W. (Warminster, &c.)

=Gapps=, =Gaapsey=. To gape or stare at anything. 'Thee'st allus a gaapsin' about.'--N.W.

=Garley-gut=. A gluttonous person. Perhaps connected with _gorle_, to devour eagerly (see Halliwell).

'"Let's go to bed," says Heavy-Head, "Let's bide a bit," says Sloth, "Put on the pot," says Garley-gut, "We'll sup afore we g'auf" [go off].'--_Nursery Rhyme._

=Gashly=. See ~Ghastly~.

=Gate=. _n._ Excitement, 'taking.' 'Her wur in a vine gate wi't.'--N.W.

=Gatfer=. See ~Gotfer~.

=Gauge-brick=. A brick which shows by its change of colour when the oven is hot enough for baking. Cf. ~Warning-stone~.--N.W.

'She knew when the oven was hot enough by the gauge-brick: this particular brick as the heat increased became spotted with white, and when it had turned quite white the oven was ready.'--_Great Estate_, ch. viii. p. 152.

=Gawl-cup=. See ~Gold-cup~.

=Gawney=. A simpleton (A.H.S.Wr.).--N. & S.W.

'Leave m' 'lone y' great gawney!'--_Wilts Tales_, p. 83.

=Gay=. Of wheat, rank in the blade (D.).--N.W.

=Gee=, =Jee=. To agree, to work well together (A.B.).--N.W.

=Genow=. See ~Go-now~.

*=Gentlemen's-and-ladies'-fingers=. _Arum maculatum_, L., Cuckoo-pint. Cf. ~Lady's-Finger~ (2).--S.W. (Farley.)

=Ghastly= (pronounced Gashly). This word is used in many ways, as 'Thick hedge wur gashly high, but it be ter'ble improved now.'--N.W. (Huish.) At Etchilhampton, N.W., a 'gashly ditch' is one that is cut too wide.--N. & S.W.

=Gibbles=. Onions grown from bulbs. Cf. ~Chipples~ and ~Cribbles~.--N. & S.W.

=Gicksey=. See ~Kecks~.

=Giggley=. See ~Goggley~.

=Gigletting=. _adj._ Fond of rough romping; wanton. Used only of females. 'Dwoan't ha' no truck wi' thuck there giglettin' wench o' his'n.'--N.W. (Malmesbury.)

=Gilcup=. Buttercups in general; occasionally restricted to _R. Ficaria_. Cf. ~Gold-cup~.--S.W.

*=Gill=. A low four-wheeled timber-carriage (_Cycl. of Agric._).

*=Gilty-cup=. _Caltha palustris_, L., Marsh Marigold.--S.W. (Zeals.)

=Gin-and-Water Market=. See quotation.

'Some towns have only what is called a "gin-and-water" market: that is, the "deal" is begun and concluded from small samples carried in the pocket and examined at an inn over a glass of spirits and water.'--_The Toilers of the Field_, p. 28.

=Gipsy=. Carnation grass, _Carex panicea_, L., because it turns so brown.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Gipsy-rose=. _Scabiosa atropurpurea_, L., the Garden Scabious.--N.W.

=Girls=. The short-pistilled or 'thrum-eyed' blossoms of the Primrose, _Primula vulgaris_, L. See ~Boys~.--N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)

=Gix=, =Gicksey=, &c. See ~Kecks~.

=Glory-hole=. A place for rubbish or odds and ends, as a housemaid's cupboard, or a lumber room.--N.W.

'This has nothing to do with Lat. _gloria_, but is connected with M.E. _glorien_, to befoul (_Prompt. Parv._). Compare Prov. Eng. _glorry_, greasy, fat. Thus _glory-hole_=a dirty, untidy nook. See _Folk-Etymology_, p. 145.'--SMYTHE-PALMER.

*=Glox=. This is given by most authorities as a noun, and defined as 'the sound of liquids when shaken in a barrel' (A.B.H.Wr.); but it is really a verb, and refers to the motion and peculiar gurgling of liquids against the side of a barrel or vessel that is not quite full (C.). In Hants _gloxing_ is the noise made by falling, gurgling water (Cope). Cf. ~Lottle~.--N.W., obsolete.

'Fill the Barrel full, John, or else it will glox in Carriage.'--_Cunnington MS._

=Glutch=. To swallow (A.B.C.S.). According to _Cunnington MS_, the use of _glutch_ implies that there is some difficulty in swallowing, while _quilt_ is to swallow naturally.--N. & S.W.

=Glutcher=. The throat (S.). See ~Glutch~.--N. & S.W.

*=Gnaa-post=. A simpleton (S.).--S.W.

=Gnaing=. To mock, to insult (S.). Also used in West of England and Sussex.--S.W.

=Goat-weed=. _Polygonum Convolvulus_, L., Black Bindweed.--N.W.

*=Gob=. (1) _n._ Much chatter (S.).--S.W. (2) _v._ To talk.--S.W.

*=Goche=. A pitcher (H.Wr.). Perhaps a mistake, as Morton (_Cycl. of Agric._) gives _gotch_ under Norfolk.

=Gog=, =Goggmire=. A swamp or quagmire. Cf. ~Quavin-gog~. 'I be all in a goggmire,' in a regular fix or dilemma.--N.W.

'In Minty Common ... is a boggie place, called the _Gogges_.... _Footnote_. Perhaps a corruption of _quag_, itself a corruption of _quake_. "I be all in a goggmire" is a North Wilts phrase for being in what appears an inextricable difficulty.'--JACKSON'S _Aubrey_, p. 271.

=Goggle=. (1) _n._ A snail-shell. Cf. E. _cockle_ (Skeat).--N.W.

'=Guggles=, the empty shells of snails--not the large brown kind, but those of various colours.'--MISS E. BOYER-BROWN.

(2) _v._ 'To go goggling,' to collect snail-shells (_Springtide_, p. 89).--N.W. (3) _v._ To shake or tremble, as a table with one leg shorter than the others. 'I do trembly an' goggly ael day.'--N. & S.W. (4) _n._ 'All of a goggle,' shaking all over, especially from physical weakness. 'How are you to-day, Sally?' 'Lor', Zur! I be aal of a goggle.' 'What on earth do you mean?' 'Why, I be zo ter'ble giggly, I can't scarce kip my lags nohow.'--S.W. (Steeple Ashton.)

=Goggles=. A disease in sheep (_Agric. of Wilts_, ch. xiv).--N.W. (Castle Eaton.)

=Goggly=. Unsteady, shaky. Sometimes ~Giggly~ is used, as in example given under ~Goggle~.--N. & S.W.

=Goggmire=. See ~Gog~.

=Gold=. Nodules of iron pyrites in chalk.--N.W. Heard once or twice, near Clyffe Pypard, years ago.--G. E. D.