| caad | adj | cold | OE: cald – cold | |
| caller | adj | fresh | | |
| cannel weeks | n | candle wicks. | | |
| canny | adj | good, kind, gentle | ME: cunnand – skilful, knowing | NED |
| chimley (chumla) | n | chimney | | |
| chollers | n | cheeks | AS: choel – flesh under the jaw, jowls | |
| clagg (clag) | vb | stick or to cling | OE: claeg –clay. Dan: kleag – viscous, glutinous | |
| clapt | vb | patted | | |
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| clarts | n, adj, vb | dirt, mud. Can also be used as an adjective (i.e. clarty) or as a verb (i.e. to clart around meaning to mess around) | | |
| cleed | vb | clothed | | |
| clivvor | adj | clever | | |
| clooty hat. | n | bonnet for field work. | ME: clut – a rag or a cloth. | |
| cob on | adj | angry | | |
| cockeyed | adj | squinting, crooked, set aslant, not level. | | |
| cod | | to practice deceit, to pretend. | | |
| corse | n, vb | curse | | |
| cowk cowp | vb | bodily roll forward; also to tip forward (e.g. to empty something) | Swe: guppa – to tip up | |
| cowp ye creels | vb | to do a somersault, to fall over | | |
| crack (craic) | n | chatter, banter. | AS: cracian | |
| cracket | n | stool | | |
| crooken | adj | crooked | | |
| crowdy | n | porridge | | |
| cruck | n | shepherd’s crook | | |
| cruck’d | adj | crooked | | |
| cuddy | n | donkey, stupid person. | OE: kuddle | |
| cundy | | street drain, drainage ditch | OF: conduit | NED/BG |
| cushat | n | wood pigeon, ring dove | AS: cusceate, chaste (in allusion to the bird’s fidelity to its partner) | |
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| dee | vb | do | phonetic | |
| deeter | vb,n | to wipe or make clean. Keel-deeter, someone who cleans a keel boat. | SX: dihtan | NCW/JTB |
| deeth | | death | | |
| deid | adj | dead | ON: doya | NED/BG |
| dishclout | n | dish cloth | | |
| divvent (divent, div’nt) | vb | don’t | | |
| doon, doun | | down | | |
| doot | vb | doubt | | |
| dorsn’t | vb | dares not | | |
| dottin’ aboot | vb | moving around | | |
| double-raa | n | pit cottages, literally a double row | | |
| dowly | vb | miserable | | |
| dowly kyevel | n | miserable lot (as in life’s lot.) | | |
| draas | vb | draws | | |
| Draakstone | pn | a place of geological interest near Harbottle, Northumberland | | |
| droon | vb | drown | | |
| duin | vb | done | | |
| dunsh | vb | to nudge or push | Teu: donsen | |
| durt (dort) | n | dirt | | |
Northumbrian Words 