10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLAYSOME»
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1
The Map of the Known World
Flaysome clapped her hands. 'Good, and will you be taking supper at the
common table or in your chamber?' 'Our chamber please,' said Elowen abruptly.
She had no desire to eat amongst strangers. 'Very well, that will cost you a crown
extra.
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
(a) a fright; (b) an apparition, ghost, hobgobhn, a terrifying object; (5) Flaying-
boggle (or FIeeing-boggle), sb. a kite havin a lighted lantern at the tail ; (6)
Flaysome, adj. (a) fea ul, terrif ing, frightful ; also used advb.; (b) frightened, terri
ed ; (72 ...
FLAYSOME, like to frighten, awesome. " The plantin's that dark it's real fliysome."
" What a leuk ye he', aa felt fiaysome at ye." FLEAK, a long, thin piece of timber or
a lath. The use of fleaks appears in the weiring of rivers. Flakes also were laths ...
4
By Moor and Fell: Landscape and Lang-settle Lore from West ...
Th' tenor bell broke its stays ; t' ropes went louping like wild things all across t'
belfry, first rapping t' floor, then knocking agen t' ceiling beams ; t' bells war
ringing all together, an' making a flaysome din." "A flaysome din!" puts in Echo,
with a ...
Halliwell Sutcliffe,
1899
5
English Dialect Society Publications
Thou 1 75' looks as if thou were beawn to fire a gun. Thou's no 'casion to be flay: .
” Old Cronin, c. iii., p. 33. PLAY-CROW (N. Lanc.), sb. a scarecrow, a ridiculous
object. Pronounced: Flay-craa. FLAYSOME, } adj, fearful. FLEYSOME, Waucn.
English Dialect Society,
1875
6
Lakeland words: a collection of dialect words and phrases as ...
FLAYSOME— Hideous, pitiful. What's ta makken that flay- some din for ? She
liuks flaysome. FLEEMS— Fleems an' t' bleedin' stick. T' nag doctor 'll show ye
what these is. FLEP — Bottom lip. He hings a flep like an auld meear i' barley
seed ...
7
A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect
33. FLAY-CROW (N. Lane), sb. a scarecrow, a ridiculous object. Pronounced :
Flay-craa. FLAYSOME, 1 .. , , , , fleysome! I «*• fearful Waugh. "What, th' boggart?"
"Ay; an' th' warst boggart l875- there is upo' this country-side for flaysome deed, ...
John Howard Nodal, George Milner,
1875
8
A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative ...
Flaysome, adj. Inspiring fear or apprehension ; qualified to frighten or terrify. ' " A
varry flaysome thing ;" terrifying to look at.' Wb. Gl. Flecked, adj. Pied, spotted,
streaked. O. N.flecka, to spot or stain, fleckr, a spot, fleckottr, spotted, pied ; Germ.
John Christopher Atkinson,
1868
9
A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in ...
To Flay, to scare away. Flay-boggle, or Flatr-cruke, a scarecrow for the corn fields
; a stick set up with an old coat and a hat upon it, to frighten away birds. An oddly
dressed person. Flaysome, fearful. "A varry flaysome thing," terrifying to look at.
Francis Kildale Robinson,
1855
10
A Supplementary English Glossary
Flaysome, frightful ; terrifying : a North country word. Shoo'l not oppen't an ye mak
yer flaysome dins till neeght. — Miss E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights, ch. ii. Fleak, a
hurdle. Cf. Fleyke ; and see Peacock's Manley and Corringham Glossary ...
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,
1881