{"id":13790,"date":"2017-03-30T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=13790"},"modified":"2017-03-30T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:03:20","slug":"rollipokes-ronners-and-roudges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=13790","title":{"rendered":"Rollipokes, ronners and roudges"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I offered you a rollipoke<\/strong>, would you have any idea what it was or what to do with it?<\/p>\n

This is a word I came across while looking for something else in the Dictionary of The Scots Language \/ Dictionar o the Scots Leid<\/a> today. It is defined as, “A sacking of loosely woven hemp in which cheese was wrapped before being buried to ripen.”<\/p>\n

Rollipoke<\/strong> comes from roll \/ row<\/strong>, one of the meanings of which is ‘to wrap up, around, in’; and poke<\/strong> is a variant of pock<\/strong><\/a> (a simple type of bag or pouch, a small sack or sack-like receptacle). <\/p>\n

Ronner<\/strong> and roudge<\/strong> are other words for the rollipoke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In East Anglian varieties of English, a rollipoke<\/strong> is “hempen cloth of very coarse texture. Perhaps so named, because only fit to be used as bags or wrappers for rolls or bales of finer goods.” [from The Vocbulary of East-Anglia Etc. Volume 2<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n

Some examples of use of poke \/ pock<\/strong> (also written powk, poak, etc):<\/p>\n

– An ill-bred loon or twa crackit a paper pyoke at the verra time he was speakin’.<\/p>\n

– Every young sheeld hed his muckle pokky o’ sweeties, ‘at he haandit aboot in nev-fues.<\/p>\n

– He wambles like a poke o’ bran.<\/p>\n

Glossary<\/strong>
\n– loon = a rogue, rascal, scoundrel, a worthless person
\n– sheeld (a variant of chield) = child
\n– muckle = large, big
\n– nev-fues = ?
\n– to wamble = to stagger, totter, wobble<\/p>\n

Pock can also mean:<\/p>\n

– the bag used by a beggar for collecting meal or the like given in charity, a beggar’s scrip or wallet.<\/p>\n

– a sack or bag holding a certain quantity of wool, a measure of wool<\/p>\n

– A net in the form of a bag or pouch used for catching salmon, a purse-net; a bag-shaped net for catching small coal-fish<\/p>\n

Related words include:<\/p>\n

– butter-poki<\/strong> = a small thin bag through which the water is strained from freshly-churned butter<\/p>\n

– pock-end<\/strong> = the bottom or corner of a bag or receptacle, esp. one used to hold money.<\/p>\n

– pock-pud(ding)<\/strong> = (1) a dumpling or steamed pudding cooked in a bag of muslin or similar thin material; (2) a jocular or pejorative nickname for an Englishman from the supposed fondness of the English for steamed puddings, with an additional implication of omnivorousness and stolidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I offered you a rollipoke, would you have any idea what it was or what to do with it? This is a word I came across while looking for something else in the Dictionary of The Scots Language \/ Dictionar o the Scots Leid today. It is defined as, “A sacking of loosely woven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}