10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOBOWLER»
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The EDD records the name bobowler for a large fat moth, and assigns it to
Warwickshire, although it is common also in South Staffordshire. Although the
available evidence suggests that the word is very local in its extension, names
which ...
Lancashire Dialect Society, 1951
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The Black Country Dialect: A Modern Linguistic Analysis
The word "bobowler" (moth) is still known, as it used as a metaphor for a young
person who stops out late. Some agricultural words survive with a generally
critical sense, implying stupidity, dirtiness or other disparagements, and their
original ...
'As a bobowler. It's goodjob Iwenttofetch him. Mind you,he's been drunk ever
since he heard the result.' 'Would you likea drink? I'll getyou abottle of beer from
the kitchen ifyoulike.' He said hewould, so she fetched a bottle and glassand
poured ...
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Staffordshire dialect words: a historical survey
... 'to hurt; injure', from Old French blecier, blecher. ) Brown Edge empty talk. (ME
blather from Old Norse bladra 'nonsense') N Staffs bleb bletch bletch blether-
headed bloat bobbing bobowler bodge boff, boffle, 22 Staffordshire Dialect
Words.
... stubbies tubbiest bluebook blesboks bontebok bellboys lubberly bumblers
nobblers bobowler slobbers boerbuls wobblers lobbyers slobbery blowtube
burblers snobbery snubbers BBEORRXY BBCCILNO BBGGINRU BBGHILNO
BBGIIIHN ...
Justin Crozier, Cormac McKeown, 2006
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A glossary of Black Country words and phrases
Blowse, bloom, especially on fruit trees. Bobbydazzler, a smartly-dressed young
woman. Bobowler, a large moth. Body, a bodice. Boffle, to hinder. Boldrib, a joint
of pork. Bonk, a little hill. A common expression for approaching middle age is ...
Thomas Vincent Shaw, 1930
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The Book of the Black Country
Bobowler large moth. Boldrib joint of pork. Bost burst, past tense 'bosted'. Bostin
literal translation would give 'bursting' but the phrase actually means very good
indeed as in the remark "'Ers a bostin wench" or "We 'ad a bostin time." Likewise
...
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The Art of the Scythians: The Interpenetration of Cultures ...
This volume offers a detailed consideration of the style, technology, and iconographic implications of the art of the Scythians, organized by object typology and chronology, and considered against a broader historical, expressive, and ...
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
A guide to bourgeois bohemianism describes the social class' attitudes towards consumption, business, intellectualism, pleasure, spiritual life, and politics.
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Hellenism, Judaism, Christianity: Essays on Their Interaction
This is why the book has a fourfold division: (1) Hellenism and Judaism, (2) Judaism and Christianity, (3) Hellenism and Christianity, and (4) Hellenism-Judaism-Christianity.
Pieter Willem van der Horst, 1998
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Among those to have been added to the wordbank are bobowler, a Birmingham and Black Country term for a large moth, tittermatorter - or ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 11»
