The phrase "dialect word" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a word that is specific to a particular dialect or regional variation of a language.
Example: "The term 'y'all' is a dialect word commonly used in the Southern United States."
Alternatives: "regional term" or "local expression".
That lug probably brought by the Vikings is the northern and eastern dialect word for ear.
We use the word "jeans" because it's the pluralised, anglicised version of the dialect word for Genoa: Zena.
Like Margaret Thatcher with her famous use of the dialect word "frit", Cameron likes to do the common man bit.
Our standard Monday night meal was called meneste, from the southern dialect word menesta, which means vegetables boiled for soup.
On the table in front of him at his Soho office, his coffee mug bears the legend "Crabbit": a Scottish dialect word meaning "ill-tempered, grumpy, curt, disagreeable".
The hang (a Berne dialect word for hand) was invented in Switzerland in 2000 by PanArt - Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer, master metallurgists and acousticians.
Mono (North Fork dialect) words, phrases, texts.
There are many Yorkshire dialect words for fools and scoundrels, bizzumhead, dunderknowle, hauvey-gauvey, ragabash and fustilugs among them.
The Scots dialect words somehow give Kidnapped an inexhaustible fire and brio, but its inner mood is sombre.
__________ By 2066, all dialect words and regional pronunciations will be no more – consumed, according to a report, by a tsunami of Americanisms and machine speak.
The dialect words, too, are stunningly rich and evocative: "pooties" (snail shells), "crizzle" (to freeze), "cowslaps" (cowslips), "whirl puffs" (a sudden gust of wind driving the dust into an eddy).
