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Arcane Dialectal Lexemes and Regional Vernaculars
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Old English dialect term for oats or fodder grain
- 2. Mad or eccentric; originally yeast foam in dialectal English
- 4. Southwestern English dialect: a clumsy or awkward person
- 5. Dialectal term for a comb-maker or one who dresses wool
- 8. Nautical dialect meaning quickly or nimbly; ready for action
- 10. Irish dialect for a lake or sea inlet
- 12. Scottish dialect for the armpit
- 13. Old Scottish dialect for the ends of threads left on a loom
- 15. Northern English dialect: the act of spinning flax or wool
Down
- 3. An archaic dialect word referring to a small cannon or gun
- 6. Fine mist or drizzle, from northern English dialect
- 7. Dialectal coin of low value, lesser-known British slang currency
- 9. Dialectal term for a small pike fish, also used figuratively
- 11. An old dialect word for ditch or trench
- 14. Dialect verb meaning to scrunch or compress tightly
- 16. South Asian dialectal term for market or store
- 17. Scottish dialect verb meaning to force or press
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