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welshnut en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English walsh-note, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “Welsh-nut”), equivalent to Welsh + nut.

Meanings

1. (UK, West-Country, dated, dialectal, qualifier:Dorset; Somerset; Dorset; Somerset) A walnut (nut or tree).
   • […] Our tongues do run, O, / Enough to stun, O, / Your head wi' glee by the welshnut tree. 1879, William Barnes, “The Welshnut Tree”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 85:
   • A wife, a whelp and a Welshnut tree / The more you beat 'em, the better they be. 1912, Country Life, volume 31, page 313:

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