Citations:awf

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English citations of awf

fool, simpleton, oaf; see the EDD's entry
  • 1750, John Collier (Tim Bobbin?), Eawther an His Buk, quoted in 1875, John Howard Nodal, A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, volume 14, page 18:
    What an awf wur I to pretend rime weh yo.
  • 1860, J. P. K. Shuttleworth, Scarsdale: Or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border, page 163:
    Gin you, cankard awf (ill-natured lout), Silas mays a gawby (fool) o' Robin, he'll loase t' likeliest wench i' th' forest , an'
elf
  • 1865, Monthly Packet, page 473:
    the first fact that craves our attention is that the Alfar, (Elves, Awfs,) and Dvergar, (Dwarfs,) stand in contrast with each other
  • 1875, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 489:
    the 'awfs' or elves, whose flint arrow-heads (awf-shot), shot in malice at cattle or human beings, are found everywhere in the houes and on the moors;
  • 1891, The Edinburgh Review, volume 174, page 343:
    The affected animal is either touched with an 'awf shot,' or made to drink water in which one has been dipped.
  • 1914, Elizabeth Mary Wright, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, page 256:
    The thunder-bolts, and awf-shots, which we have already noticed among charms against human ills, were also used for the cure of disordered cattle. If an animal died of distemper, a portion of its flesh cut out and hung in the