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Topic : "I'm right bellused" |
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| Peter |
Posted on behalf of Michael Emmett Hello, My mother was born in Brunthwaite in 1915 but has lived in Lancaster or Morecambe since 1949, a treacherous thing to do! She was telling me recently that she remembered walking home from Silsden when she was quite young when she passed an old lady who also lived in Brunthwaite. It was a hot day day and the old lady said to her "I'm right bellused", meaning exhausted. I have looked up this word in several dictionaries of Yorkshire dialect but can't find it. Perhaps it was a word peculiar to Silsden and its immediate surrounds or one she made up. Have you come across the expression ? Incidentally I was born in Silsden in 1944 at number 2 Crag View. I remember distinctly the playing fields and the fields across to my uncle's farm at Drabble House. I attended for a short time a nursery which I think was quite near the old school. We left Silsden in 1949 for Lancaster but I have lived in Northumberland since 1964. I have recently discovered that some of my ancestors on my mother's side worked in the North East coalfields. Michael Emmett |
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| wildlifeman |
The word "bellussed" is included in one of the poems here:- freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/goodies_other_stories.html Given its context it may have its origins in the word bellows, not much information available on the web but I hope this helps. |
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