puzzles
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Each month ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD, former researcher from ‘QI’ and author of The Meaning of Tingo, poses a vocabulary quiz from our local Wiltshire dialect. CAN YOU GUESS THE CORRECT DEFINITION? 1. NIBS a) small worthless apples remaining on the tree after the crop has been gathered in b) the cheeks c) the handles of a scythe
2. BRIZE
3. ANNEAL
4. SLADE a) a spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock b) a ridge in ploughland c) verbally to belittle someone
BINGO LINGO There’s one sociable game often favoured by the older woman, which comes with its own inimitable rhyming language. Here’s a selection: 1… buttered scone 6… Tom Mix (more modern:
choppin’ sticks or chopsticks) 7… Gawd’s in ‘eaven 12… monkey’s cousin (from rhyming slang for dozen) 21… age o’ mi ol’ dutch (since all ladies like to be thought younger) 22… two ducks (from the shape of the figures) 23… a duck and a flea (from the shape of the figures) 50… half-way house (1940s) (since there are 100 numbers available to the caller) 76… was she worf it? (from 7/6d., the old price of a marriage licence) 77… two little crutches (from the shape of the figures) 88… two fat ladies (from the shape of the figures)
ANSWERS 1C, 2B, 3B, 4B
a) a stupid person, a fool b) to press heavily on or against, to crush down c) to burn the down off a bird after plucking its feathers
a) in the opposite direction, the wrong way b) a thoroughly heated oven c) a spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
Peter Wilkinson
M.Inst.Ch.P
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