cauf

It wor varry dark, soa he just stept back an waited for him comin ', an as sooin as his heead popt past th' corner, he gave him what he called a cauf-knock an sent him sprawlin 'his whoal length ith middle oth rooad.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

"'Tak' awa 'the kickshaws,' Fletcher, 'and bring us the cauf.'"

The Invader A Novel

And thin thoo'll see, or I'm a cauf, I'll mak 'em ring choch bell,

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

"Shoo's for sale," he cried, "same as if shoo were a cauf; and shoo goes to t 'highest bidder."

More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

We have the song of the peasant girl impatiently awaiting the country fair at which she is to shine in all the glory of "new cauf leather shoon" and white stockings, or declaring her intention of escaping from a mother who "scaulds and flytes" by marrying the sweetheart who comes courting her on "Setterday neets."

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

But the corn maun be threshed first and the cauf (chaff) cleaned aff.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

At ony rate it gave him noa troble to drive it, for it seemed to know ivvery step o 'th' rooad, an 'it seem'd a deeal moor like th' cauf takkin Dawdles nor him takkin th 'cauf.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

He'd hardly getten th 'words aght ov his maath when, as they wor passin some pighoils' at stood o 'th' roadside, th 'cauf made a dash at th' door o 'one' at wor nobbut just heigh enuff for it get in at, brast it oppen, gooin in an 'strippin off Dawdles, left him sittin i' th 'middle o' th 'rooad, wonderin who'd hit him wi a looad o' bricks.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

"Well, aw dooant know; but aw did once know a chap 'at wor a reglar cauf heead, an' he hardly iver ait owt but veal, an 'tha knows th' bass singer at awr church gets bacon to ommost ivery meal, an 'he grunts as ill as a pig, bi'th' heart does he; -- an ', awm sure, my childer's ears luk'd longer to me this mornin', or else aw thowt soa!"

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

'Well, that's all reight, tak thi cauf an' be off hooam.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877