Letter T - Glossary of words in ‘The Northern Cottage and other poems’ by George Dugall
Author: George Dugall
Date: 1824
Source: ‘Glossary’ — an appendix with notes to The Northern Cottage and other poems; written partly in the Dialect of the North of Ireland by George Dugall (Londonderry: William McCorkell, 1824)
Comments: George Dugall (c.1790-1855) lived most of his life at Portlough near Newtowncunningham in Donegal. His book of poems The Northern Cottage and other poems; written partly in the Dialect of the North of Ireland (sixteen of which were written in what he describes sometimes as ‘braid Scotch’ and sometimes as the ‘dialect of the North of Ireland’), also contains an extensive and separately compiled ‘Glossary’ of Ulster-Scots words. George Dugall describes this Glossary as “a tolerably correct analogical specimen of the language … worthy of the unprejudiced and philanthropic eye of research, [hoping that] the acute and erudite philologer will not despise the simple data”. Indeed Dugall’s poems (see Ulster-Scots Poetry 1800-1899) were “cast”, he says, in the scene of “that part of the North of Ireland” where the dialect “bears a strong affinity to that of Scotland”. His poems are even richer in Ulster-Scots vocabulary than the Glossary indicates, and so citations from his poetry have also been excerpted for the Academy’s Historical Dictionary (see Dictionary).
Doc. ref. no.: USLS/TB/Hist/1800-1899/009-t
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Tackets, small nails
Tae, toe
Tak, take
Tap, top
Taul, told
Tauted or tautie, matted
Tawpie, a ninny
Tawtherie, rough
Teem, to empty
Teugh, tough
Thack, thatch
Thairms, guts
Theek, to thatch
Thegither, together
Thievless, drily, scornful
Thole, to endure pain
Thowe, a thaw, to thaw
Thrang, throng, busy
Thrapple, the windpipe
Thraw, to twist, to cross
Thrawn, twisted, cross
Threep, to argue against truth
Thresh, to thrash
Thrissle, thistle
Thro’ther, mixed together
Timmer, timber
Tinkler, a tinker
Tod, a fox
Toddle, to walk as a child
Tout, a short blast of a horn; to blow a horn
Toun, town, village, hamlet
Trickie, mischievous
Trig, neat
Trow, to believe
Tryste, to make an appointment
Tug, plough traces made of dried horsehide
Twa, two
Twa’rthree, two or three
Twin, to part
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