List of Cornish Dialect Words - G

G

  • Gad - a pick, especially a miner's
  • Gawky - stupid
  • Geeking - gaping
  • Gelly - (a place-name element) copse
  • Giss on! - don't talk rubbish!
  • Glance - bounce (describing a ball) (mid and east Cornwall)
  • Gook - bonnet
  • Gossan - decomposed rock
  • Grammersow - woodlouse
  • Granfer - grandfather
  • Greeb - (a place-name element) crest
  • Griglans - heather
  • Grushans, Groushans - dregs, especially in bottom of tea cup
  • Gurgoe - warren
  • Gwidgee-gwee - a blister, often caused by a misdirected hammer blow

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