George Meriton, The Praise of Yorkshire Ale (1685)

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Date

1685

Author

George Meriton

Lexicon title

An Alphabetical Clavis, Unfolding the Meaning of all the York-shire Words made use of in the aforegoing Dialogue

Book title

The Praise of York-shire Ale Wherein is enumerated several Sorts of Drinks, with a Discription of the Humors of most sorts of Drunckards, To Which is added, a York-shire Dialogue, in its pure natural Dialect, as it is now commonly spoken in the North parts of York-shire, Being A Miscellanious Discourse or Hotch-potch of Several Country Affairs, begun by a Daughter and her Mother, and continued by the Father, Son, Uncle, Neece, and Land-Lord: after which follows a Scold between Nell and Bess, two Yorkshire women. Corrected and Amended, with large Additions in many places throughout the whole Book, by the Author, And after all, a Clavis explaining the meaning of all the York-shire words in the Dialogue

Publication place

York

Printer

J. White

Publisher

Francis Hilyard

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

Summary

A glossary to Yorkshire vocabulary in an accompanying poem.

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

79-113

Word-group

type: alphabetical
number: 21

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 506
sample: Sowle, is all kind of moyst or supping Victuals. (108)

Alston

IX.7-8

Wing

M1809

Other editions

1697: Wing M1810

Modern editions

A. C. Cawley, ed., Yorkshire Dialect Society Reprint II. 1959.

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