#Cornish spider-crab names baa't-stailer ba-wiggle bait stealer cannykeeper corwich crabalorgin creagle gaberick gabrick gaverick gavrygen gezza-crab gramfer jinkin grezza-crab griggle grill keywaigle keywiggle potherick pothrick quiddle quiggle samson george skerry spider tragezawt wiggle #langsky

baa't-stailer = bait stealer #Cornish #langsky #Kernewek

ba-wiggle This seems to be wiggle with a prefix that may be #Cornish: bagh, a crook or hook #Welsh: bach, #Breton: bac'h or Welsh: baw dirt, filth. #langsky #Kernewek #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg

cannykeeper Possibly #Kernewek: canker hyr-y-baw "long-clawed crab". #Cornish #langsky

crabalorgin (unknown) gaberick, gabrick, gaverick #Cornish: gevryk "little goat", diminutive of gavar ("goat"). gavrygen This may be a double diminutive of #Cornish gavar ("goat"). #langsky #Kernewek

gezza-crab, grezza-crab May be a corruption of tragezawt gramfer jinkin The name of a well-known local character, a boat-owner Granfer Jenking. #Cornish #langsky #Kernewek

griggle, grill, creagle The spider-crab Maia squinado. Lhuyd gives 'grill' as #Cornish for a crab, possibly meaning the spider-crab only, which is clearly from #Latin: gryllus, "a cricket", #French: grillon, #Spanish grillo, #Breton grilh-vor, "sea-cricket", a sea-crayfish. #langsky #Kernewek

The form "griggle" may be influenced by English dialect "grig" a cricket or grasshopper and is probably the base on which have been formed variants: ba-wiggle, keywaigle, keywiggle, quiggle, quiddle and wiggle. #Cornish #Kernewek #langsky

piliack In general dialect "a poor wretch" #Cornish: pylyak, one bare, stripped, from pylya to strip, #Welsh pilio, #Breton pelia. #Kernewek #langsky

potherick, pothrick #Cornish: podrek - a corrupt thing or person, from poder rotten #Welsh pwdr. samson george Probably a local character now forgotten. #langsky #Cymraeg #Kernewek

skerry Possibly short for either of the two words "skerrymudge", a toy of grotesquly human shape with movable limbs or "skerry-werry" a light, active person. spider English, self-evident. #langsky #Cornish