Dialect

Meaning

Cornish

Comment

Date

Taaking. Taak

Taking. Take

Taalk. Taalking

Talk. Talking

Tabm.

A piece of bread and butter

Tabs

Dried cowdung used as manure

Table-board

A table

Tache

Teach

Tack. Tackle

To harness

Tack

To slap or stroke with the open hand.. To bring to a standsill

Tacker

A child full of life and spirit

Tag

Tail end of a rump of beef

Tags

Narcissi

Tadly-oodly

Tipsey

Taer

A fuss. A row. Great excitement

Taering round

Making a fuss. Rushing around, sometimes not achieving anything.

Taffle

To entangle

Tag

Tail end of a rump of beef

Tail-corn

Small withered grain

Tailpipe

See Prall. Also to pin 'a tail' to a person's clothing (April Fool's Day custom)

Talch

Bran

Tale.Tall.

To count. A number (Tally)

Take

Worry.Fuss. 'A preety take'

Take (Taake) a noshun.

Get an idea

Takeling

Tackling

Taken on the ground hop

Taken by surprise. At a disadvantage

Taking. Taaking.

Commotion. Great excitement

Talfat. Tallack.

A garret. An open bedroom

'tall

At all

Tamlin

A miner's tool

Tamping

Materials used to compress explosives used in blasting rock, etc

Tamping-iron

An implement, stick etc. used for ramming the tamping into holes for blasting operations

Tan.Tangery

An unpleasant taste

Tanled

Obstucted. Entwined.

Tantarabobus

The devil

Tantrums

Anger. Rage. Ill-temper

Tap. Tapped

To sole a boot or shoe. The sole of a boot or shoe

Tarble

Midlin' fair. Moderate

Tarning

Agitating. Storming

Tarry

To struggle

Tarving

Struggling, making a commotion, fussing

Tatchy.

Teasy. Irritable

Tatties. Tetties. Tates

Potatoes

Tatie-rattle

A stew. Also called '20 minutes rattle

Taw

To pull. Taw. A large marble

Tay. Tay-treat

Tea Tea treat

Tay-dish

Tea cup (A dish 'o tay)

Team. Teem.

To dip up. To lade from one vessel to another

Tear. Tearing-on.

A rage. Fuss. Storm. In a great hurry

Teasy

Irritable

Behaviour

M.C.

1984

Teat.

A draught of wind

Teeled.

Buried in the grave

Teel. Teal. Tealing

To plant. Till. Sow

Teden-un

It is not. It's not so

Teen

To light

Teer.

To hurry. To 'teer away'

Tell.

Count

Tember

Timber

Temberen

Made of timber

Temberen Hill

A staircase. Going to bed 'up the temberen 'ill

Temper

Moisture in the soil

Tend. Tender

To attend. To wait on others. Waiter. 'To 'tend to the cattle'

Tended-ee

Attend to you

Tender

Applied to weather. Uncertain. 'The sky is looking tender' Unsettled

'tes

It is

Tescan

A small bundle of corn gathered by reapers

Tetty ground.

Potato patch

Tetty-rattle

Cornish stew

Tha.

The

Thatchin'-reed.

Wheat straw kept unbroken for thatching

Theese.

Belonging to you (Thee)

Then

Than

Thick. Thicy-three

That one. This (or that)

Thickerd.

Thick head. Fool

Thirl.

Lean. Hollow

The out of it

The end. Finish

Thoft. Thoff.

Thought

Thrashhel.

A flail. For theshing corn by hand

Three-leaf-grass

White clover

Thirtaway

Crossways

Thrott

Throat

Tother

The other

Theer

There

Thumbinds

Straw ropes used for binding sheaves of corn. So named for being twisted and first coiled around the thumb.wise monkeys................Hear all. See all and say Nout (Nothing)

Thunder and lighning

Bread and cream and treacle

Thunder-planet

A thunder sky

Thurl

Thin. Hollow. Lean

Thurt-eyed

Cross-eyed

Tickey-tickies

Fowl(s). Usually hens

Tidden

is not

Tidden

Tender. Sensitive. Painful

Tiddly-wink. Kiddle-wink.

A beer shop

Tiddy-oggie. Tiddley-oggie

Various uses. i.e. Potatoe pie. Pastry. Pies. ect

Tie

Bed

Tiff.Tiffing.

To drink from a bottle

Tiffed. Niffed.

Vexed. Sullen

Tiflings

Short ends of cotton. Very small ends left from sewing, etc

Tied.

A horse 'boggled' A load too heavy to pull

Tigga. Tegga.

To touch. Also a game

Tight. Tite

Drunk. Close. Mean (money wise)

Timbering hill

Staries. 'Going up the timbering 'ill. Going to bed

Timdoodle

A foolish person

Timerson.

Timorous

Ting

To tie. To hand on to

Tinged-up

Hung up. Tied up

Tinkler

Tinker

Tingler Dingler.

A bell

Tine

Tooth of an agricultural harrow

Tinners

Miners

Titivate

To put in order. To smarten up.

Tizzy

Bewildered (all of a tazzy)

Toad in the hole

A piece of fat meat baked with a crust round it

To and again

From time to time. Off and on

Tods and tabs

Clods of earth and grass

Tod

A wad. A snarl.

Toit. Toitish.

Off handed. Proud. Stiff

Tokened

Betrothed

Tom-holla

A rowdy person

Tom-toddy.

Tadpole

Tom-taylor

The 'Daddy-longlegs'

Tongue (Tongue-pie)

To scold. To abuse

Tongue-pad.

A chatterbox

Tooked

Taken. Betrothed

Tookened-patticks

Simpletons

Toonin'

Tunning, humming a tune

Toothpuller. Toothayler

A quack dentist

Top-dress. Top-dressing

To manure on the surface of the land

Tor.

Light turfy soil. 'Tor' in Celtic Cornish is 'promince'. The swell of a mountain

Totalish

Silly, Imbecile. Senile. Doting

Totle

Stupid. Silly person

Touble. Tubble.

A double-pickaxe

Touch-pipe. Titch-pipe

A short interval for a rest in the midst of work, and (usually) a smoke

Toucher.

A near hit or close miss

Tould

Told. Informed

Towan

A sandy hillock or dune

To-wance

At once. Immediately

Townplace.

Farmyard

Towse. Touse

Fuss. Uproar. 'Pop an' towse'

Towser. Towcer.

A coarse apron

M.C.

1984

Tow-rag

Dried cod fish

Tozing along.

Going along in a hurry

Traade. Trade

Anything but not much account (value)

Traain-oil

Train-oil pressed from pilchards

Traft.Thoh.Trog.Tray.Truck

A trough for washing fish, also referring to the backwash of waves on the seashore. There are several definitions of the words which appear to vary in different parts of the West-Country

Traison

Treason

Traapse.

To gad about

Turment.

Torment

Trakle. Trikle

Treacle

Trapse. Trapsing. Traispin'

To walk. Walking about. To trudge

Trvish

Wandering about. Gadding about

Treesing

Idling

Treag.Trig

Small shellfish such as limpeets, periwinkles,etc. 'Trig' in Cornish is 'Ebbing of the sea.' Also means to support, prop-up

Trewely.

Truly

Tribe.

Family

Tribute.Tributing

A mining term. Mining-law

Triddle.

A Treadle

Triddling.

Trifling. Talking nonsense

Trist

Trust

Troach. Troacher.

To hawke goods. A Hawker

Troach

To tread underfoot. To tample

Trodgers.

Trudgers or trodgers. Persons walking (Trudging)

Troll-foot. Trolling. Trowl.

A club-foot. A foot turned inwards. Turning over at the heel.

Trodder.

Child just learning to walk

Trouchurr

Man trading in rabbits and poulty from a pony trap

Trousies

Trousers

Troy-town

A scene of confusion. Disorder. A maze

Troy

A tray

Truck

Trash ('av no truck wiv'en) Have nothing to do with him/her

Truckle.

Trundle

Truff.

Trout

Trug.

To jog along

Trug.

A hard worker'A good trug'

Trumpery

Goods. Belongings. Rubbish

'Tenntion

Attention

Tub.

A species of Gurnard

Tubban

A cold of earth, turf etc. Hilly ground

Tucked

Shortening of new born babies long robes

Tucker

A lace frill or collar

Tucking

'An operation in seining by which the net is gradually drawn together

Tuck-net

The net used in tucking

Tulgy

Darkness, also a slovenly woman

Tulled

Paid toll

Tummals

A quantity. A good crop of corn, ‘good tummals’

Tunaggle

The fasterner of a gate

Tuntree.

The pole of an ox-cart

Tung-Tavas

A chatterer. Gossiper

Turmot. Turmut.

Turnip. Swedes

Turn

’To do a turn’ to walk ‘ Done to a turn’. Baked or cooked very satisfactory

Turn of water

To Fetch water from the well. The quantity carried on one journey

Turned Ugly. (Oogly)

Very cross. Loss of control. Temper

Turf.

A surface peat used for fuel

Tuster

An uncertain meaning

Tut

A foorstool. A hassock

Tut-work

Piece-work. (Mining term)

Turn

A spinning-wheel

Turvy

Ashes. Ashes of turves

Twadden

It was not

‘Twas a puzzle

It was perplexing

Twiggle. Twingle.

Wriggle. To squirm

Twick

A sharp pull or jerk. To snatch

Two-handed-fellow

A cllumsy worker (man)

Two skats behing.

Just like the drummer of ……..Band! (Attributed to several village bands)

Tye. Bed-tye.

A feather bed. ‘Ty in Celtic Cornish ‘To cover’ To roof. To thatch

Tyflins

Bits of thread ravelings