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- Backalong - in former times
- Bal - mine (from Cornish language bal)
- Bal maiden - a woman working at a mine
- Bannel - a broom
- Bar - (a place-name element) top
- Bean - (a place-name element) little ("vean" when second element) (from Cornish language bian)
- Berrin - funeral (burying)
- Better fit/better way - it would be better if...
- Bladder - blister (part of mid Cornwall and north east Cornwall)
- Bleddy - local pronunciation of 'bloody' as an emphasising adjective (e.g. "dang the bleddy goat")
- Bobber lip - bruised and swollen lip
- Bos - (a place-name element) homestead (older form also: bod)
- Boughten - bought (i.e. food from a shop rather than home-made)
- Brae / brer - quite a lot
- Brea - (a place-name element) hill (pronounced "bray"; in Bray Down spelled thus) (from Cornish language bre)
- Bron - (a place-name element) hill (from Cornish language bronn)
- Browse - undergrowth
- Bucca - scarecrow
- Bulhorns - snails
- Bully - large pebble (from Cornish language bily)
- Burd - (second person singular) bud as in "buddy"
- Burrow - heap of (usually) mining related waste, but sometimes used simply to mean "pile"
- Buster - someone full of fun and mischief
- Buzza, Bussa - large salting pot or breadbin, also found in phrase "dafter than a buzza" very daft
- B'y - boy, (second person singular) like sir
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