Monday, June 28, 2010

The Word-Hoard: Browden

browden: "To be browden on a thing, to be fond of a thing" (Walter Skeat's Alphabetical Clavis of the Yorkshire Dialect, 1896); "To be intent upon. To pamper. Banffshire." (Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905)

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