n
(UK, Australia, derogatory, slang) A tattoo on a person's lower back, especially one with a horizontally spreading design.
adv
Alternative form of arseling [(UK dialectal, especially Scotland, East Anglia) Backwards.]
n
(Australia, UK, rhyming slang) A cook, especially a cook working in the Australian outback or in military service.
n
(historical) A medical practitioner of medieval Europe, generally charged with looking after soldiers during or after a battle.
n
Alternative form of boose (animal's stall) [(dialect) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).]
n
(Scotland) A drone-beetle.
n
(UK dialectal) A swelling from a blow; a bump.
n
The hypothetical donkey, in context of certainly dying of hunger or thirst by being unable to choose between the two equidistant options.
n
Alternative form of caoutchouc [latex; natural rubber]
n
Alternative form of clubster (“stoat”) [(dialect, Northern England, East Anglia) Synonym of stoat]
n
Alternative form of cockfighting [A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.]
n
(Scotland, archaic) lumpfish
n
(obsolete, uncountable, games) A game played with sheep bones instead of dice.
n
(slang, obsolete) A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.
n
A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
n
One who engages in a cockfight.
n
(Scotland, law, obsolete) A two-year-old heifer.
n
(obsolete) A swelling in the genitals of horses.
n
(mining) A chock: a wedge or brake used to stop a machine or car.
n
(chiefly US) A fictional pastime wherein a person sneaks up on a sleeping cow and pushes it over.
n
Alternative form of cowlick [An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.]
n
Alternative form of cowpat. [A dropping of cow dung.]
n
(UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
n
(UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
adj
(Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Of a horse, broken down, not useful as a work horse due to illness or infirmity.
v
Synonym of pigroot (“horse activity”)
n
(also in plural form) A device for cutting the horns off an animal's head.
n
A wooden stool, supposedly shaped rather like a donkey, once used by artists
n
(Britain, idiomatic) A long time, years and years.
n
A livestock animal that has collapsed.
adj
(archaic) Of cattle: having abnormally large hindquarters.
n
Alternative spelling of ekker [(UK, school slang) Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.]
n
The horse disease glanders, especially its cutaneous form.
n
(chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.
n
(rare, archaic, poetic) Peace; security.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete, Moray Firth) A pike.
n
(Scotland) A fish, the garvie or sprat.
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) An iron crow or lever.
n
(UK, dialect) The pike or luce.
n
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A small staff or goad.
adj
(Britain, dialectal, agriculture, veterinary medicine) Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly.
n
(figuratively) That which goads or incites; a stimulus.
n
Alternative form of gong farmer [(obsolete) One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.]
n
A cow or sheep etc. that has lost all of its teeth.
n
(Scotland, obsolete) The heart, liver and lungs of an animal.
n
(Scotland, dated) A sand eel.
n
Alternative form of judcock (“jacksnipe”) [The jacksnipe.]
n
Alternative spelling of cankle [(slang, derogatory) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation.]
v
(Northern England, dialect) Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A sparrowhawk or kestrel.
n
(archaic, Scotland) A cod, especially a small one.
n
One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
n
The area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption or other purposes are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue.
n
Alternative spelling of knuckerhole [In English folklore, a hole in the ground said to be the home of a knucker, a dragon-like creature.]
n
Such a bone once used in knucklebones and other children's games of chance.
n
(slang) An excessively large motor vehicle.
n
(biblical, euphemistic) The pubic region.
n
(dated, derogatory, slang) A Roman Catholic.
n
Alternative form of malanders [A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the foreleg of a horse or similar animal.]
n
Alternative form of malanders [A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the foreleg of a horse or similar animal.]
n
(colloquial) Someone from Wiltshire.
n
(Scotland) Alternative form of moudiewart [(Scotland) A mole (burrowing rodent).]
n
(Scotland) A mole (the animal).
n
(chiefly Scotland, US) A moustache.
n
(Scotland) The stomach of a fish, used as food.
n
Alternative spelling of nabby [(Scotland) A skiff used for fishing.]
n
(Scotland and Northern England) An ox.
n
An animal's paw with a soft pad.
adj
Alternative form of pell-mell [Hasty and uncontrolled.]
n
(Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A porpoise.
n
(card games, slang, obsolete) The ace of diamonds.
n
(UK, dialect, Black Country, Birmingham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire) Any crumpet, regardless of thickness
n
(UK, dialect, archaic) A toadstool or mushroom.
n
(UK, slang) The Reliant Robin, a three-wheeled fibreglass car.
adj
(not comparable, Australia, of a young animal) Fed by hand.
n
(obsolete) A young rabbit, or its skin.
n
(informal, derogatory) A very lean person or animal, especially a lean horse.
n
A toy for dogs, resembling intertwined strands of rope.
n
(Britain) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
n
(slang) The female pubic hair.
n
(zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
n
(obsolete) A snare for catching birds.
n
(Australia, colloquial) A swagman.
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A castrated farm animal.
v
(UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.
n
(obsolete) The festivity of Shrovetide.
n
(Scotland) A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.
n
(UK, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
n
(UK, dialect) A small eel.
n
(obsolete or Scotland) A snipe.
n
A castrated man or animal.
n
(now rare) Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
n
Obsolete form of spayard. [(obsolete) The hart in its third year; a young deer]
n
(UK, Ireland, obsolete) An animal slaughtered not long before it would have died from disease or accident.
n
(hunting, obsolete) Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.
n
(Britain, Scotland, dialectal, dated) A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.
n
(rare) Alternative form of suckauhock [(rare) Dark-coloured shell-money, used by Native Americans.]
n
Alternative form of sweeny [An atrophy of the muscles, especially of the shoulder, in horses.]
n
(Northern Scotland) a young kittiwake.
n
(obsolete, place names) A goat.
v
(transitive) To mark with tiver, as sheep.
n
(chiefly Scotland) A fox in general.
n
(obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
n
Alternative form of whall [A light colour of the iris in horses; the state of being walleyed.]
n
Alternative spelling of winkle-picker [(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten.]
n
(UK, chiefly Scotland) A small cast iron ball.
n
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) udder
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