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?

Lugholes = Ears

@mum2jakie

Was just going to ask if anyone else uses the word 'sneaped.' Or 'lug' for a knot in hair?

We use the word 'tat' for a knot in the hair.

Isn't regional dialect wonderful? It's so fascinating!

[quote Blackcountryexile]@HunterHearstHelmsley
I'm sure you grew up or live close to me. Thank you for reminding of some of these words .[/quote]
Judging by your username, yes! I tone my accent and local words down a lot when I'm working but this is opening my eyes. Words I thought were universal seemingly aren't!

@MrDarcysMa unfortunately not but love the song!

In certain parts of South Yorkshire Braying is fighting.

"They are braying!"

"I'll bray him!"

Tazmac still plenty of Pillocks on the roads

@TazMac We certainly do share some similarities!

From the midlands: used island and gambol plus fizziog (short for physiognomy). Also out door, pumps, barley and there's I only realise when nobody understands me!

Before uni I assumed that everyone used the word nesh. Is there an alternative word to describe someone that always feels cold?

@mum2jakie ‘tat’ round here is used to refer to junk/rubbish - e.g I’ve just bought a load of cheap tat
And ‘tatty’ is old/worn - as in “this cardigans a bit tatty now”

@MrsMoastyToasty

These are called daps where I live (south west England. DH calls them gutties (central Scotland).

Picture doesn't attach to quotes, but they've always been sandshoes here. When very young (70s), they were taken to school in a sandshoe bag; a very basic, drawstring-top fabric bag. I don't know if this was just very local though?

Gigs are glasses 👓

Whirly gig
Fish supper
Squint
Flit
Outwith (it's dead posh, was horrified the English didn't know what it meant)

Does anywhere else call a small, steep-sided wooded area with a burn in the bottom a dene, or is that just NE too?

I only came across that when I came to the NE of England.

@MsAwesomeDragon

Mil says clap the dog. It means stroke the dog. I was very, very confused when she first got her dog and asked if I wanted a clap. She's from Dumfries and Galloway, in Scotland.

Same here in Northumberland! Usually said by older people now, though.

What do you call the little path between properties from one road to another
A gant. A bread roll is a huffer (although that is a particular type of long roll with seeds on it) and the end of bread is a nubbin. “On the huh” would mean “it’s a bit wonky” - “that picture’s hanging a bit on the huh”.

I have just Googled gant and realised it is only my town which calls them that!

I had a border Scottish grandparent many of these are familiar. I am sad that Cornish has died out as a language.

@HunterHearstHelmsley
When I went away to university I had some very confused looks when I used words I thought everybody understood!
The very idea that we might be Brummies!

@StandardLampSki I've moved to a different part of Yorkshire. I mostly only go to Sheffield for the ice hockey.

Sam up - clean up
Cop for that - hold onto that [object]
Ginnel - narrow alley
Brass - money
Lugs - ears
Graip - fork for mucking out a stable, when I said it to a farmer in Lincolnshire he had no idea what I was talking about
Mistal - a cow shed

Haver - talk rubbish
Radge - crazy
Pockle - steal
Juice - coke, Fanta etc
Piece - packed lunch
Bunker - kitchen worktop
Vennel - lane between houses
Cludgie - toilet
Stair - tenement building

I’ve tried to think of ones nobody has already mentioned.

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

People where we live use " A ken" or just "ken" for "I know". I thought this was a whole of Scotland thing until I got to about 18.

Isn't it? I only experienced confusion about ken when I moved to England.

Black Country. Ar bay a Brummie!

Birmingham isn't the Black Country though

Poke (of chips or sweeties). The English only know about a pig in a poke and they pronounce it wrong.

Oh, and Jason Byrne was on Live at the Apollo last night. He said his special eye was “cock eye” only in Scotland. I never knew nobody else said that.... we always say cock eye the noo!