cyfoethawg

Updated: May 18, 2025

Having frequently heard him call old women his aunts, I said, "Every poor old woman in the neighbourhood seems to be your aunt." "This is no poor old woman," said he, "she is cyfoethawg iawn, and only last week she sent me and my family a pound of bacon, which would have cost me sixpence-halfpenny, and about a month ago a measure of wheat."

George Henry Borrow - Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery