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Bitter weed - someone who never has a good word to say of anyone
He's an Appledore man by trade - can turn his hand to any job
Cawch - food which is unfamiliar or not good for you
Orts - left-overs, scraps
Not much dry'th up - air too damp to dry the washing
Sieving water - salmon fishing with net, or poaching
I haven't got a bit of stroil - no body strength
Dying from the middle both ways - stomach pains with diarrhoea and sickness
Comes in dark early mornings - dark Winter mornings
If I haven't got hake, I'll have herring - making do with what's available
Dap on - to hurry along
'Tis up and down the mast like Paddy's hurricane - wind blowing from all directions, and sails kept having to be reset
If Tidn't lilly white, t'is honey sweet - it's not clean after a wash, but smells better
Finish with the same - said when an argument has been lost
Wind bound, water bound and love bound - someone who is thoroughly unhappy
Up round, down round and back round - a reply to someone who wanted to know where you'd been, but you didn't want them to know
Yer's a night of weather this morning - a rough night lasting into the next day
I was evil - bad-tempered
Have the first and last of it - buy new
There's a song and dance her's kicking up - making a fus over nothing
Fine Winter this Summer - a cool, wet Summer
All to do with the same - often said when speaking of women's problems
You ornament! - a person whose only use is decorative
'Tis low water - no money
Blake off - faint
Akum for squakum - a misunderstanding
My head is bullbaiting - a thumping headache
Like giving an elephant a strawberry - a small portion of food given to someone with a large appetite
They came with their asses hanging out and went away with Pickfords - a person who became prosperous during thei stay in Appledore
Boy or a cheale? - boy or girl?
When Adam was an okum boy - a long, long time ago
All hot and hot, like the old man buried his wife - bread and cakes when first taken out of the oven
I've got stomach on the chest - said when someone doesn't want anyone else to know what's the matter with them
When I see'd he coming, I thought I knaw'd 'e, but when I 'eard 'e I knaw I knaw'd 'e - in other words, when you opened you mouth!!