tolt

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1979
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/77758

tolt n TOLR. To entice or allure. TOLEBOY. A decoy. TOOK TO. ([i] See [i] Teake). TOOTY. To cry in a low, broken sound. TOP. To outdo, get over-" I'll top that." TORRIDIDDLE. Bewildered, almost mad. "You'll dreve me torrididdle." TOTHER. The other. TOUSE. A slight blow with the hand. "I jist gied en a touse in the head." TOUT (N.) Toot (S.W.) A word used mostly as the name of some hills. It meant to spy,look out,as it now means in tout- ing by touters for customers. The touts were, I suppose,spy- hills or outlook heights in troublesome times. In Dorset are several so-called touts, as Touthill, Shaftesbury; Nettlecombe Tout; a tout by Blackmore, two touts at East, in Portland and in Tyneham two more Tyneham Tout and Worbarrow Tout. TRANT meant at first a treading of the ground, or road : Tramp- ing. In old Friesic it was used for dancing. "Wolste en trantie mei uns ha'?" "Wilt (thou) a dance with us have?" TRANTER. A common carrier TRANTY. In dorset means to keep to the road as a common Jrei's contrib. to _tolt_ WK already heist pronn EDD For second edition, check Dorset place-name studies. WK file at _tolt_ for more background OCT. 3 1979 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used