courtin'-cheer

Updated: May 10, 2025

'Naa, Merry, continued he, seating himself in the rocking-chair, or 'courtin'-cheer, as he called it, and drawing his blushing, yielding wife gently on his knee, 'naa, Merry, whod is it? 'Cornd ta guess? asked she, hiding her face on his shoulder. 'Nowe, lass; aw've tried th' hens and mi mother, and aw'm wrang i' both, an' aw never knew aught bother thee but t' one or t' other on 'em.

Marshall Mather - Lancashire Idylls (1898)