John Collier, A View of the Lancashire Dialect (1746)

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Date
1746
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
A Glossary Of Lancashire Words and Phrases: Containing, about 900 Words more than were in any former Impressions; in which, many of the useless Corruptions are omitted ...
Book title
A View Of The Lancashire Dialect; By Way Of Dialogue, Between Tummus o'Williams, o'f Margit o'Roafs, an Mearey o'Dicks, o'Tummy o'Peggy's. Containing The Adventures & Misfortunes Of A Lancashire Clown.
Publication place
London
Printer
Printed for, and Sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country
Transcription source
Eighteenth Century Collections (British Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
dialects (in English)
Summary
2614 lexemes, identified from the OED and John H. Nodal and George Milner's A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect (Manchester, 1875).
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
48
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 25
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 1655
sample: Arse-word, backward, very unwilling.
Alston
IX.11
STC
ESTC T092789
Other editions
1748? (Alston IX.12)
1750? (Alston IX.13)