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BAD, adj. and adv. Sc. Irel. Nhb. Cum. Wm. Yks.
Lan. Chs. Stf. Lin. Rut. Lei. War. Wor. Shr. Hrf. Glo.
Oxf. Brks. Som. Dev. [bad, bæd.]
1. adj. Profligate, tyrannical, and cruel in conduct.
w.Som.1 Ee·z u bae·ud luy u-baewt fuul·ur, ee doa·n aa·rlee kaar
uur au·m noa·urt [he is a profligate, drunken fellow, he scarcely
carries her (his wife) home anything ─ i.e. of his wages]. A shocking
bad fellow would mean always a drunken profligate.
2. (a) Ill, sick, in pain.
Slg. How are you? ─ Very bad (G.W.). Edb. Ye're looking gey
bad [very ill] (J.W.M.). N.I.1 He has been bad this month and
more. Ant. A wus very bad, Ballymena Obs. (1892) Nhb. He
lucks, poor body, verra bad, Wilson Pitman's Pay (1826) 15;
Cumfort us wiv apples, for aw's bad o' luve, Robson Sng. Sol.
(1860) ii. 5; Nhb.1 Cum., Wm. (M.P.) n.Yks. Mah teeas is seea
bad, Tweddell Clevel. Rhymes (1875) 68; n.Yks.1 She's desput
bad in her booels an' sair follered on wiv a lax. ne.Yks.1
w.Yks. I [he] wə ðat bad wol fouk þout i wə bān tə dī (J.W.).
ne.Lan.1 Chs.1 Awfu' bad wi' roomatics. Stf.2 Tell 'er yer mother's
very bad. n.Lin.1 He's tekken bad wi' th' ohd complaaint,
an' I doän't think he'll get oher it this time. sw.Lin.1 Bad of
a fever. War.1 War.2 s.Wor. Porson Quaint Wds. (1875) 20. Shr.1
Mother's bad, er canna spar me to goo to school. Hrf. He was
bad, Ellis Pronunc. (1889) V. 74. Glo. Ei bee uncom·on baad
(E.D.); Er's very bad to-day; very bad 'er be, Buckman
Darke's Sojourn (1890) 121. Brks.1 A was bad vor a year or moor
avoor a died. w.Som.1 I bin that bad, I 'ant a·sard [earned] zixpence,
is dree weeks. Dev. When I were bad... and forced to
lie abed, O'Neill Idylls (1892) 87.
Hence Badness, sickness, illness, disease.
s.Chs.1 There's a jell [deal] o' badn'ss i' th' country. Stf.2 It's
bin desprit fər badnəs dhis īər. Dev. The ded body's han didden
kure the harm, vur herth the same badness now, Giles in n.Dev.
Jrn. (Sept. 17, 1885) 6, col. 5.
(b) Phr. (1) bad-a-bed, so ill as to be obliged to remain
in bed; (2) bad in oneself, ill generally, but without any
particular local ailment; (3) bad way (in a), dangerously
ill; (4) bad yellow, the plague.
(1) Oxf.1 MS. add. w.Som.1 Plaise mum, father's bad-abed, and
mother zen me up vor t'ax o' ee, vor to be so kind's to gee un a
drap o' spurit. nw.Dev.1 (2) Oxf.1 Whur be in pain? ─ Noo'er,
I be bad in myself, MS. add. (3) w.Som.1 I be ter'ble afeard her's
in a bad way [that she will die]. (4) Bwk. The pestilence sometimes
called ‘the bad yellow,’ Henderson Pop. Rhymes (1856) 131.
3. Sorrowful.
s.Chs. Only used with v. ‘to be.’ To be bad about a thing
(T.D.); s.Chs.1 They'm bad abowt this Liberal mon bein chuckt
aït. Stf.2 Mrs. Jackson's fēlin very bad abait ŭr sŭn as is gon jed.
Hence Bad-hearted, melancholy, miserable, downhearted.
n.Lin.1
4. Difficult, hard.
Cum. That's bad to beat (M.P.); Cum.1 Bad to bide. Wm.
Whenivver Tomson set hissel i' that way, he war bad ta shift, Jack
Robison Aald Taales (1882) 3. n.Yks.1 ne.Yks.1 Bad to do, bad to
find, are universal. e.Yks.1 Bad-tĭ-beeat. w.Yks. ‘Coal is bad ta
git’ when the roof is dangerous. A cheat, sharper, or bad-tempered
man is ‘bad ta dew wi',’ Lucas Stud. Nidderdale (c. 1882).
n.Lin.1 Haxey field's bad to beät fer grawin taaties an' wheät year
efter year. sw.Lin.1 He's bad to light of. Lei.1 ‘A's a bad un
to beat,’ common eulogy of a horse, dog, prize-fighter, game-cock,
&c. War.2 War.3 Hrt. He's a bad one to part [close-fisted] (G.H.G.).
Colloq. Faith! you were bad to follow, Smart Rathkelly (1888)
I. v.
5. In arrears, behindhand.
Lei.1 His illness threw us bad with the clothing club. Rut.1
She got a quarter bad in her rent. War.2 War.3
6. In compar. and superl., badder, baddest, worse,
worst.
Cum.1 Many a badder thing med happen. It's t'baddest thing
'at could hev happen't. w.Yks. Jim's a bad lad, but Tom's badder,
an' Walk's t'baddest i' t'lot, Leeds Merc. Suppl. (July 11, 1891);
w.Yks.1 n.Lin.1 I've knawn badder things then this happen to a
man, a vast sight. It was the baddest year we iver hed fer wild
ducks. Lei.1 Oi nivver knood a badder man nur what that man
weer. War.2 War.3
7. adv. Very much.
s.Oxf. Now, las' week there was a job doin' up at the squire's,
an' I wanted to go bad, Rosemary Chilterns (1895) 92.
8. Phr. (1) Bad luck top end, defective in mental powers;
(2) bad-off, in poverty; (3) bad off for, poorly furnished
with; (4) bad place, a child's name for hell; (5) bad to do,
in poor circumstances; (6) bad to like, of unpromising
appearance; (7) bad way (in a), ruined; (8) bad-weather
Geordy, the cockle-seller whose trade is most flourishing
at the stormiest season of the year; (9) not half bad, not
so bad, very good.
(1) Chs.1 Thah's getten bad luck top end, thah cumberlin; Chs.2
(2) s.Stf. Them as used to ha' plenty o' money bin bad enough off
now, Pinnock Blk. Cy. Ann. (1895) Oxf.1 I.W.2 They be
miserable bad off. w.Som.1 Poo·ur dhing, uurz u-laf· tuur·ubl
bae·ud oaf luyk [poor thing, she is left very badly off]. (3) Dor.
He's bad off vor apples to-year, Barnes Gl. (1863) (4) N.I.1, e.Yks.1
w.Som.1 Neef yùe bae·un u gèo·d maa·yd-n zai yur praa·yurz-n
keep yur chuurch, yùe ul gèo tu dhu bae·ud plae·us [if you are
not a good girl, and say your prayers and keep your church, you
will go to the bad place]. (5) War. (J.R.W.) Hrf.1 Bad to do in
the world. (6) n.Yks.2 e.Yks. There's a pluke cummin upov his
aym, at's bad ti like, Nicholson Flk-Sp. (1889) 92. (7) w.Som.1
Neef ee· doan au·ltur úz an, ee ul zèon bee een u bae·ud wai [if
he does not change his course he will soon go to the bad altogether].
(8) Nhb. The sailor, when he hears the cry of ‘cockles
alive,’ concludes that a storm is at hand, and breathes a prayer,
backwards, for the soul of ‘Bad-weather Geordy,’ Oliver Rambles
(1835) 207; Nhb.1 (9) War.2 This pie's not half bad, or ‘not so
bad.’
[2. Bad, sick; as, he is very bad a-bed, Bailey (1755);
To be very bad [sick], vehementer laborare, pessime se habere,
Coles (1679). 6. But as it is, it may be better, and were
it badder, it is not the worst, Lyly Euphues (1579) (Nares);
They demen gladly to the badder ende, Chaucer C.T. T.
F. 224.]

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BAD, sb.1 Glo. Wil. [bæd.] The pericarp or green
outer husk of a walnut, used sometimes also of filberts
and other nuts.
Glo. (H.T.E.); At Staunton, near Red Marley, bad is also used
for the husks of filberts and other nuts (H.S.H.); Glo.1 Bad or
bod. n.Wil. (G.E.D.)

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BAD, sb.2 Sh.I. Any article of clothing.
Sh.I. (K.I.) Sh.&Ork.1

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BAD, sb.3 Obsol. Yks. Lan. Chs.
1. A small knot of wood, or short, thick stick (sometimes
sharpened at the ends like a ‘tip-cat,’ q.v.), used in playing
the game of bad. See below.
Hence (1) Badding, vbl. sb. playing at hockey with
sticks and a wooden ball or piece of wood called a kiffey;
Bad-stick, sb.alsocalled Bat-stick, (2) a long tapering
stick with a pummel-head, used to drive the ‘gell’ or
‘knur’ in the game of ‘knur-and-spell’; (3) the game now
known as ‘shinty’ or ‘knur-and-spell’ (q.v.).
(1) Chs.1 Chs.3 (2) w.Yks. (S.K.C.); (J.T.); Seldom heard except
among farmers or old men, Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Dec. 27, 1890).
(3) Lan. Obsol. The name is known to elderly people round
Wigan, though boys now call the game ‘shinty’ (S.W.).
2. A rude kind of cricket, in which usually the bat is
replaced by a ‘besom-stale’ and the ball by a piece of
stick or ‘bad.’
w.Yks. The ‘bad’ was thrown with a whirling motion to the boy
with the ‘steyl,’ who struck the ‘bad’ and then ran to the goalstone,
which counted one, and back again, if there was time, which
counted two. The ‘bad ‘was thrown in to either the stone at
which the player stood to strike, or the goal-stone, and if it struck
either stone before the player touched it with the hedge-stake,
he was out (M.F.). w.Yks.3 Lakin' at bad means playing at bat,
a rude kind of cricket, with a bat and ball, and wall toppings for
wickets. There was no lakin' at bad sixty years ago; they call
it ‘cricket’ naa. Lan. Playing at t'bad, Harland & Wilkinson
Leg. (1873) 150; (J.L.)
3. A game, prob. the same as trippet or tip-cat, q.v.
Yks. To play at bad wth a badstick, to play at cat or trippet wth
a catstick or trippet stick (K.).
Hence Bad-lump, sb.
Lan. A bad-lump is a flat piece of wood fixed to a hazel rod to
strike the bad with after it is flirted up from the edge of a stone by
a gentle tap, the game being who can send the bad to the greatest
distance (J.L.).

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BAD, v. Obsol. Nhp. Glo. Wil. Also written bod
Nhp.2 Glo.1 [bæd.] To remove the outer green husk
from walnuts.
Nhp.2 Glo. Cum and bad the bannets, Grose (1790) Declaring
that he might go and ‘bad the bannuts’ somewhere else, Household
Wds. (1885) 141; Glo.1 Glo.2 Wil. Gave me a basketful of green walnuts,
and then asked for them back ‘to bad em’ (G.E.D.); Wil.1

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BAD, sb.1 and v. Som. (W.F.R.)

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BAD, adj. Sc. Irel. Lakel. Lan. I.Ma. Chs. Lin. Cor.
1. In comb. (1) Bad-bobbin, an ill-wound bobbin of yarn;
fig. a disreputable character; (2) Bad-bred, of animals: badly
bred; (3) Bad cess, bad luck, used as a mild oath or expletive;
(4) Bad disorder, a venereal ailment; (5) Bad-fashioned, stormy;
(6) Bad fortune, an unmarried woman's pregnancy; (7)
Bad -hearted, downhearted; (8) Bad luck, see (6); (9) Bad man's oatmeal,
the seeds of the cow-parsley, Anthriscus sylvestris;
(10) Bad place, a child's name for hell; (11) Bad scran, see (3);
(12) Bad shoot, weaving term: a bad weft; (13) Bad word,
personal abuse.
(1) s.Lan.1 (2) s.Chs.1 (3) I.Ma. ‘Bad’ cess! You're thinkin
a dale of yourself,’ she says, Brown Witch (1889) 49. (4) Wm.
(B.K.) (5) Cor. I judged bad-fashioned weather was cornin' too,
Phillpotts Prophets (1897) 273. (6) Wm. (B.K.) (7) n.Yks.
(I.W.) (8) Wm. (B.K.) (9) Ant. (W.H.P.) (10) Sc. (A.W.)
Per. Deil's Bairn, yer grannie's in the bad place noo, MacGregor
Souter's Lamp (1903) 86. (11) I.Ma. I know them, bad scran to
the lek, says I, Brown Witch (1889) 115. (12) s.Lan.1 (13)
Lakel.2
2. Phr. (1) bad i' bed, so ill as to be obliged to remain in
bed; (2) bad in oneself, ill generally, but without any particular
local ailment; (3) to be in bad bread, to be in a
state of difficulty, danger, poverty, &c.; (4) to be in bad
bread with one, to be in a state of hostility with one.
(1) n.Yks. (I.W.), Lin. (J.T.F.) (2) n.Yks. (I.W.) (3) Sh.I.
When several years had elapsed... the Moads found themselves
in ‘bad bread,’ Sh. News (Feb. 5, 1898). Cai.1 (4) Cai.1

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BAD, see Bawd, sb.2, Bid, v.

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