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Esoteric Echoes of Bygone Dialects
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  • 1. A pipe for smoking, once common in Northern dialects
  • 2. Old name for the song thrush, used in pastoral dialects
  • 4. Twilight-like or dim light, archaic dialect word for dusky
  • 5. To occupy oneself in a trifling way, dialect term for dawdle
  • 6. Toil arduously, an archaic labor verb from Old English
  • 8. Life or vital force, from obsolete Greek-influenced medical dialect
  • 11. To argue stubbornly over trifles, a dialectic brawl term
  • 15. A small cut or nick, once common in Northern England dialects
  • 17. To gloss over with subtle equivocation; an obsolete rhetorical term
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  • 3. Stuffy, close air; archaic meteorological descriptor
  • 7. A slangy, archaic word for the rear, with jocular overtone
  • 9. A small stream or winding channel, archaic regional nature term
  • 10. A large splinter or chip, obsolete carpenter's jargon
  • 12. A practical joke or a jest, from medieval card games
  • 13. To sprawl or spread carelessly, an obsolete Northern English verb
  • 14. A small brook or rivulet, dialectal term often found in poetry
  • 16. To squash or crush, a vanished colloquialism from Northern England
  • 18. Called or named, an antiquated past participle from Middle English
  • 19. Dry hollow stalk of a plant, especially hemlock; obsolete botanical term
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