List of 137 dialect words occurring in the Shakespeare canon (not including "bad Quartos", apocrypha, etc.)
Each word is followed by its equivalent in Standard English and a code indicating part of its field of application according to Joseph Wright: The English Dialect Dictionary (Oxford 1898-). The following code words are used: War, Chs, Lan, Yks, NGB, for Warwickshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Northern part of Great Britain, respectively. (Most words denoted as NGB have been found only in the north, while most of the other words occur also in various counties not heeded in this list. Very widely used words are not included, even if entered by Wright.)
Note that in some cases it is not the word as such but the spelling (pronunciation) or the meaning of the word that assigns it to a certain dialect.
A-height 'up to the height' Yks
Anatomy 'thin person' War Chs Yks
A-roint (-rynt) 'be gone!' Chs Lan Yks
Arrant 'errand' Chs
Babe 'rag doll' Lan
Ballow 'cudgel' NGB
Ban 'curse' Lan Yks
Ballet 'ballad, song' War Chs Lan Yks
Batlet 'club (for washing)' War Yks
Beseems 'becomes (to a person)' Lan Yks
Betake 'to prepare' Lan
Betide 'to happen' Chs
Blab 'to gosip' War Chs Lan
Blench 'to glance, to shy at' War Chs
Blood-bolter'd 'matted with blood' War Chs
Blowze 'wench' War Chs Yks
Bonnet 'porch' Yks
Bots 'maggots' War Chs Lan
Brabble 'quarrel' Lan Yks
Brach 'dog' NGB
Brat 'rag' Chs Lan Yks
Broil 'to heat up' Yks
Byr-lady 'by God' Chs Lan Yks
Byr-lakin 'by God' Chs Lan Yks
Callet (-at, -ot) 'woman of bad character' Lan Yks
Carp 'to mock' Lan
Caterwaul 'to cry as a cat' Lan Yks
Chaps 'cracks' War Chs Yks
Chapman 'merchant' Lan Yks
Child 'girl' Lan
Chine 'spine' Yks
Chop 'to thrust (with sudden force)' War Lan Yks
Clean kam 'quite wrong' Chs Lan
Clip 'to call (by the name of)' Yks
Clout 'piece of cloth, rag' Yks
Cogging 'cheating' Chs
Coistrel 'knave' Yks
Crack-hemp 'gallows-bird' NGB
Crowner 'coroner' Chs Lan Yks
Dally 'to loiter' Chs Lan Yks
Dank 'damp' Lan
Darkling 'in the dark' Yks
Dild 'stupefied' Yks (doiled)
Dint 'blow' Yks
Dispurse (-perse) 'to pay' NGB (disporse)
Drab 'small debt' Chs Yks
Durt(y) 'dirt(y)' NGB
Egal(ly) 'equal(ly)' NGB
Eller-gun 'popgun' Chs (elder-gun)
Eysel 'vinegar (made of crab)' Lan
Fadge 'to fit' Lan Yks
Fardel 'bundle' War NGB
Feck 'strength' Yks
Fell 'cruel' Yks NGB
Fettle 'to make ready' War Chs Lan Yks
Fleer 'sneer' War Lan
Foison 'harvest' Yks NGB
Fumble 'to wrap up clumsily' Lan
Fust 'to grow mouldy' Lan
Geck 'fool' Yks
Giglet (-lot) 'girl' Lan Yks
Gleek 'to scoff' Yks
Gripe 'griffin' Lan Yks
Grissled 'grizzled' Chs
Grop'd 'grasped' Lan Yks
Gust 'taste' NGB
Haviour 'behaviour' Chs Yks
Heave 'to throw' Lan Yks
Hoise 'to lift' Lan Yks
Honey-stalks 'clover' War
Husht! 'hush!, be silent!' Chs Lan Yks
Inch-meal, by 'little by little' War Chs
Inkle '(kind of)tape' War Chs Lan Yks
It 'its' Chs Lan Yks
Keel 'to cool' Lan Yks
Ken 'to know, to recognize' Lan Yks
Lass 'sweethart' Chs Lan Yks
Latch 'to lay hold of' Lan Yks NGB
Leer '(amorous) glance, glimpse' Yks
Let 'to obstruct' War Chs Yks
Lozell 'rascal' Chs Lan Yks
Lush 'juicy, fresh' NGB
Makeless 'mateless' NGB
Malkin 'female servant' War Chs Lan
Malt-worm 'tippler of ale' Yks
Margent 'edge, brink' Yks
Mated 'confused' NGB
Mawkin 'slattern' War Chs Lan
Mickle 'great' War Chs Lan Yks
Misconster 'to misinterpret' Lan
Mych (mich) 'to pilfer, to cheat' Lan Yks
Mobled 'pelted with stones' Lan Yks
Mope 'to go about aimlessly' Lan Yks
Naught, a piece of 'worthless' Yks
Neive 'fist, open hand' Lan Yks
Nook-shotten 'crooked' Chs
Nuncle 'uncle' Chs Lan Yks
Orts 'scraps (of food)' Chs
Owe 'to own' Yks NGB
Pash 'to strike' War Chs Lan Yks
Pash 'head' Chs Lan Yks
Pick-thank 'flatterer' War NGB
Point-device 'precise' Yks
Poother 'disturbance' Lan Yks
Potch 'to thrust at, to throw' Yks
Proper 'nice, handsom' Yks NGB
Pudder 'squabble' Chs Lan
Puke 'to vomit' War Chs Lan
Quat 'pimple' War
Rack 'to drive (as a cloud)' Yks
Raddock 'robin' War Yks
Rase 'race = root of ginger' War Chs
Rue 'to pity' Chs Lan Yks
Ruffle 'to stir up' Yks
Sallet 'lettuce' Yks
Scab! 'dirty fellow!' Yks
Scan 'to interpret' Yks
Ship 'sheep' Yks
Slobbery 'foul, sticky' Yks
Squiny 'squint-eyed' War Yks
Sith 'since then' Lan Yks
Stithy 'anvil' Lan Yks
Swart 'dark' Lan Yks
Tar(re) 'to provoke' Chs Yks
Tarry 'to lodge, to stay until' Lan Yks
Tawny 'tanned' NGB
Thisn(e)'this way' War Chs Lan
Tib 'female (cat)' (used as girl's name) Yks
Toss-pot 'heavy drinker' Lan Yks
Trull 'lewd woman' Chs Lan Yks
Urchin 'hedgehog' War
Vails 'perquisites' NGB
Wanion, with a 'with a vengeance' NGB
Weed 'garment' Lan Yks
Welkin 'the sky' Lan
Whit 'jot, scrap' Lan
Yare 'ready' Yks