Tuesday 22 June 2010

Dictionary addenda

enteuthant (adj) annoying
(source: Jersey Weekly Post 23/9/1916)
from verb: enteuther - to dirty, to stain

s'prité (adj) intelligent, clever
(source: Jersey Weekly Post 23/9/1916)
variant of esprité

sus toutes les couôtuthes (adv) all over, thoroughly
(source: Jersey Weekly Post 16/9/1916)
from couôtuthes in the sense of the lines of direction of hairs on a cow

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