Regional words that you thought everyone used.

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A friend mentioned her winterdyke to me recently and was amazed that I had no idea what it was. It seems that it's what I'd call a clothes horse or airer. I'm from Glasgow and she's from Ayrshire. She said that she thought everyone called it that.

Are there any words that you use and assumed that everyone knew but it turns out that they don't?

Moved around quite a bit when I was a child but the one word I remember being confused that it caused confusion was when I referred to a stream as a beck. That was in the West Mids and I'd picked it up in Cumbria and thought it was universal.

On the flip side on my first day of school in Cumbria, aged 8 and having just arrived from Kent we were doing words that mean raining. Someone said spitting and the teacher declared that I wouldn't know that one as it was a Northern word. I politely disagreed and said it was used plenty in the South.

Ask someone in Nottingham for a sucker and you’ll probably be quite surprised at what they give you.

I know what a sucker is I couldn't believe it when I made holiday friends as a child and people didn't know what mardy meant!

Gambol for a forward role.
Island instead of roundabout.
"All round the Wrekin" for going the long way round.

I thought everyone used the word "mardy" until I went to uni, used it and then had to try and explain what it meant.

I also thought everyone knew what a dumble is, but they don't apparently (it's a steep sided stream in a wooded valley).

What does mardy mean?

Is a sucker a lollipop?

Mardy = grumpy or grouchy.
As in "now then, mardy bum."

fellrunner85

Thank you.

Lunched out, or lunch it. As in I was meant to go to work but got really mashed and lunched it.

I like mardy. I also like when people have gorra right mard on.

Nesh. Am from NE Wales and went to NW Wales for a day trip last week. I said to a cafe owner we were nesh and she didn't know what it meant.

Mardy is my all time favourite word if my adopted town. Though close runner up is Mithering. " Stop mithering me kids"

A sucker is an ice lolly here. Mardy is grumpy and sulky. Not just grumpy or sulky its definitely a combination of both to be proper mardy.
Does everyone use nesh?

Nope don't know nesh

Now I need to know what nesh means.

‘All around the Wrekin’!!!
Yes definitely- can’t imagine why when I moved to Wales people looked like I’d gone off .
And islands.

Yeah mard arse isn’t a common one outside of here

EnglishGirlApproximately Thank you for the explanation.

puppymonkey I've got a mard on right now as people are annoying me while I'm watching kids cricket and I arrived in a mood anyway

Got a cob on anyone?

Yes I know nesh. Also an alleyway is a snicket, and a bread roll is a bread cake. My MIL says maiden instead of clothes horse, she's from Lancashire.

You're nesh if you feel the cold even though its not really cold.

How about peelywally and dreich? My Mum used these terms and now I do although I'm not Scottish.

We've in Ayrshire and have all my life but my mum and dad were brought up in Glasgow, so I was brought up calling it a clothes horse. I was so confused the first time I heard someone call it a winter dyke!

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