The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel

Author:John Lewis-Stempel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Transworld
Published: 2018-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

BIRDS and ANIMALS

Billy-ploughboy – pied wagtail

Blue Isaac – dunnock

Bottle tit – long-tailed tit

Brock – badger

Bud-bird – bullfinch

Can-bottle/cannon-bottle – long-tailed tit (also for a skylark)

Chooky pig – woodlouse

Clover snapper – rabbit

Crane – heron

Devil’s screecher – swift

Dishwasher – pied wagtail

Felt – fieldfare

Hickol – green woodpecker

Hoop – bullfinch

Kitty – whitethroat

Lady cow – ladybird

Maggoty pie – magpie

Mavis – song thrush

Mumruffin – long-tailed tit (also bottle tit)

Nettle creeper – lesser whitethroat

Pie-finch – chaffinch

Quist/queest – wood pigeon

Rail – moorhen

Richard – pheasant

Spadger – house sparrow

Stare – starling

Storm cock – mistle thrush (also thrustle)

Toby – fox

Writing lark – yellowhammer

Yaffil – green woodpecker

ARBOREAL

Apple-headed – of a tree where the branches are growing low

Arl, orl, orle – alder

Asp – aspen

Baby’s bottle – wild arum

Bannut – walnut

Beechen – made of beech

Browse – hedge trimmings

Cag – stump of a branch

Chat – dead stick

Cobnut – hazelnut

Cockshutt – glade where woodcock were netted

Coppy – coppice

Daddock – dead wood

Devil’s snuffball – puffball

Ellern, ellan – elderberry

Ellern blos – elderberry blossom

Ellum – elm

Elves’ mittens – foxgloves

Fearn, vearn – bracken

Goslings – pussy willow

Mad Meg – bryony

Mauple – maple

Maybush – hawthorn

Oblionker tree – horse chestnut

Pank – knock down, especially apples

Pimrosen – primrose

Rundel – pollarded tree

Yimp – small twig

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