A Blegburn Dickshonary is a work containing words that would have been in common use in Blackburn, Lancashire, England and other nearby towns in the late 1800s.

It is delivered with tongue firmly in cheek by the author “Tum-O’-Dick-O’-Bobs”,  pen-name of Joseph Baron, born 1859 and died 1924.

Between A Blegburn Dickshonary and A Lankisher Dickshonary the work appeared in at least six different editions.

The material in these pages is taken from the revised version (likely the second edition) dated 1891.

To the best of our knowledge  copyright has expired and this material is now in the public domain.

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