Seen any Quists or Yekkels recently?

If I told you I would fettle your yatt, glat your hedge, rise your termits and ted your conty tumps would you know whether to be pleased or alarmed? These are all Herefordshire dialect words as told to the village history project in 1966. Are any of them still in use? Do you know other dialect words peculiar to this county? Here’s a selection of dialect words and their definitions:

• Bytack – Small holding included in the boundary of another farm

• Fizzles – Thistles

• Rise meaning to get or harvest as in “rise potatoes”

• Glat – a hole; to glat - to fill a hole in a hedge

• Cruddled – curdled

• Flummery – oatmeal boiled down to a porridge-like substance

• Plock – small field  or paddock

• Quist – Wood pigeon

• Pitch – Steep stretch of road

• Piece – field

• Skith – Thin covering of snow

• Soud – Light shower

• Spottle – to  splash

• Ted – to scatter

• Threshal – Flail

• Wainhouse – Cart Shed

• Tump – a hillock or mound

• Conty tump – Mole hill

• Termit – turnip

• Urchin – Hedgehog

• Whithy – willow

• Stean – Stone vessel

• Yatt – Gate

• Orl – Alder tree

• Colert – Owl

• Lessow – Pasture

• Lease – to glean

• Fitchuck – Polecat

• Fetttle – to repair

• Clemmed – Hungry

• Cleck – a gossip

• Bolting – A bundle of straw

• Boont – to butt or bunt

• Thrape – to thrash

• Bank piece – A steep field

• Yekkel – Woodpecker

• Snappers – Stitchwort

• White faces – Hereford Cattle