Misunderstood Regional Sayings (totally stolen idea from another thread!)

[strawberrisc]

When we moved from the North of England to London my partner had this conversation with a colleague:

Partner: “The cleaner proper saw her arse last night”
Baffled Collegue: “You saw the cleaner’s arse?”
Partner: “No! She seen her arse”
Baffled Colleague: “She was looking at her arse?”

This went on for some time!

When I started my new job they all laughed when I announced “the butty woman’s here” in my flat, Northern accent.

Bit of old Yorkshire my Dad used to say to me as teenager. "As T'a bahn dahn tahn toneet". To which I replied "If tha'll let me"

the latch on the front door, as in, put the door on the Snicket (leave it unlocked).

Ah, that's a 'sneck' round here.

I haven't heard anyone say fire bobbies for decades 😂

We used to have an olly on the back of a mates bike

Had anyone else ever heard 'toodle-ooh' for 'bye'?

My grandmother used to say it. (Cornwall originally).

Yep i had to ask for chips , pea wet and scraps once when i did a chippy run for some ex collegies.

I remember grandmother also said "Be-ee" as in be- ee cold? Meaning are you cold?

Er bist cold - he is cold

Bidin & botherin' - messing about / wasting time

MissClim I'm from Sheffield and in the SW of the city it's gennel with a soft g, in the NE they tend to say ginnel with a hard g.

My dad used to say stop Footer Maulin as in stop messing around hes. Irish i dont know if this is term or just something he got off his mum

Dermymc a gambole is a forward roll!

Funny how regional sayings vary, even in small areas. Eg - DH calls a bread roll a batch, I say cob and we grew up 20 miles away from each other. We're both trying to get the DC to use our word. We live in a cob area, so I feel cob is the way to go, but batch seems to be winning!

Never heard of seeing your arse before, but I used to have a neighbour who often complained that her grumpy husband had his arse out. I think they're divorced now.
You're all wrong about the plimsolls. They're called sandshoes.

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I know this is foreign rather than regional but I thought it was hilarious.
DH is Northern Irish and they use ‘bold’ to mean naughty. I remember being confused when SIL was telling me that her DS was being really bold and thinking ‘what’s wrong with being bold?’.
I’m Welsh and in Wales ‘tidy’ means something similar to ‘respectable’ eg ‘DS’s new girlfriend is tidy’.

DH also uses ‘footering’ for faffing about.

@strawberrisc scallop is a fried potato disc thing from the chippy. Food of the gods.

I’m going to throw in “round the Wrekin” which I didn’t know was a Midlands thing. Also “island” instead of roundabout. Tried to give a friend from Peterborough directions once and he had no idea what I was on about 😂 I’m from just south of Birmingham, with grandparents from the Black Country.

Wow hairyhands I didn't know that. We were near Hillsborough.

AnythingButMagnolia broad Bristolians would say 'ow bist', meaning 'how are you?'

One of my favourites is 'Oooo 'ark a eeee' meaning 'Hark at him/listen to him' .

I see scrike has been mentioned; how about ‘yosk’ to mean a cough?

Ark at ee, listen to him showing off.

She's got a right shilling on herself.

My Mum says "He left me sitting there like Piffy on a rock bun." Also "sitting there like Phil Garlic."

Toodle oo or Toodle pip in the South East.

My family always say "Be lucky" instead of "goodbye."

Something that confused me (for a short while) when I lived in Huddersfield was the use of "while" to mean "until"....as in "I'll be here while two o'clock"

Has anyone fallen over and got a bad scrawp?

Roundabouts were always islands in my world!

And sandshoes! They weren't the same as black school plimsolls, sandshoes were the brightly coloured exotic canvas shoes bought annually before the summer holidays! Happy days!

DH is from Cheshire and used to refer to things as "Antwacky". Totally baffled and thought he was referring to a place.

Apparently it means old fashioned.

Ta ra or Ta ta for good buy and ta for thanks

A graze on your knee etc is a scraidge in Bristol.