Add to ORKGlike"I had a like to be killed." Meaning: I had a narrow escape. I was almost killed or I almost died. Heard from aunt, Mrs. Jesse Brown, housewife, aged 50, of Salvage. Heard since 1945.DNE-citNot usedNot usedWithdrawnChecked by Jordyn Hughes on Thu 11 Jun 2015, stamped but not use
justIf you refer to someone having _just about died_, you were saying that that person has had a go...
fetch napparition or vision of a living person - a supposedly sure sign that the person is going t...
wonderful a, intensUsed in regard to sickness. Common.Used IUsed I1Not usedsome, cruel, wunnerfu
like....an' I fell in the _ in the channel what they went in an' I had like to be drownded. Some o'...
likeHad nearly. "I _had like to _ fall overboard."PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story July 1956Not usedN...
rough asaid when a person is "approaching death"said when a person is "approaching death"WK 63Used I...
fetch nIf I didn't meet you on the road last night, 'twas your fetch. 'the "double" of a livin...
likenearly did - He had a like to die - (was very ill)JH 4/74Not usedNot usedWithdrawnChecked by Jor...
frightish216. easily scared. example: "She's pretty frightish when it comes to strangers."easily s...
fearedScared or afraid. ("I'm feared").Scared or afraid.W.J. KIRWIN JAN 1972 JH JAN 1972DNE-citUs...
poor aPoor old grandfather would tell the girl or the _ whoever was cookin' "Get the kettle on,mai...
rough aIf a person was very sick he was pretty rough or rough.DNE-citUsed I and SupUsed I and Sup2...
like'I had a like to break it.' - almostDNE-cit JH JUN 1973 JH JUN 1973Not usedNot usedWithdrawnChe...
fetch nA fetch is something seen which resembles a human person. It may be seen at night or day us...
misery4. anguish: misery (misry) - pain. "I had the misery in me arm."See cite...
justIf you refer to someone having _just about died_, you were saying that that person has had a go...
fetch napparition or vision of a living person - a supposedly sure sign that the person is going t...
wonderful a, intensUsed in regard to sickness. Common.Used IUsed I1Not usedsome, cruel, wunnerfu
like....an' I fell in the _ in the channel what they went in an' I had like to be drownded. Some o'...
likeHad nearly. "I _had like to _ fall overboard."PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story July 1956Not usedN...
rough asaid when a person is "approaching death"said when a person is "approaching death"WK 63Used I...
fetch nIf I didn't meet you on the road last night, 'twas your fetch. 'the "double" of a livin...
likenearly did - He had a like to die - (was very ill)JH 4/74Not usedNot usedWithdrawnChecked by Jor...
frightish216. easily scared. example: "She's pretty frightish when it comes to strangers."easily s...
fearedScared or afraid. ("I'm feared").Scared or afraid.W.J. KIRWIN JAN 1972 JH JAN 1972DNE-citUs...
poor aPoor old grandfather would tell the girl or the _ whoever was cookin' "Get the kettle on,mai...
rough aIf a person was very sick he was pretty rough or rough.DNE-citUsed I and SupUsed I and Sup2...
like'I had a like to break it.' - almostDNE-cit JH JUN 1973 JH JUN 1973Not usedNot usedWithdrawnChe...
fetch nA fetch is something seen which resembles a human person. It may be seen at night or day us...
misery4. anguish: misery (misry) - pain. "I had the misery in me arm."See cite...
justIf you refer to someone having _just about died_, you were saying that that person has had a go...
fetch napparition or vision of a living person - a supposedly sure sign that the person is going t...
wonderful a, intensUsed in regard to sickness. Common.Used IUsed I1Not usedsome, cruel, wunnerfu