Regional words that you thought everyone used.

[WhatsGoodForTheGoose]

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?

@Jennygentle

I love ‘all around the Wrekin’!

My nonagenarian dad says ‘flit’ as in ‘they did a flit’ (left without paying).

I’m from east Anglia and we call drizzle ‘mizzle’.

Getting snoop dog vibes. Drizzle my mizzle

@Thighdentitycrisis

Can someone explain the difference between a cob on and a mard on?

To me a cob on is just being grumpy and sensitive whereas a mard on is being grumpy and sensitive but also very vocal about it.

"He's as mardy as his arse"

Alleyway/snicket/ginnel is a tenfoot

Crogga is when someone gives you a lift on their bike

Also - goppin' means disgusting

@Jennygentle

I love ‘all around the Wrekin’!

My nonagenarian dad says ‘flit’ as in ‘they did a flit’ (left without paying).

I’m from east Anglia and we call drizzle ‘mizzle’.

@Jennygentle I'm in East Anglia and have never heard of "mizzle" despite living here for 40 years. Google reckons it's Cornish in origin. Maybe it's not all of East Anglia.

I didn’t realise nesh wasn’t used everywhere and I thought islands for roundabouts was universal too! Who knew.

An alleyway here is a shut and your mate is your monner

Here a mard arse is someone who is moaning about something or being soft.

Having a cob on means you’re ill tempered/sulky because something/someone has annoyed you.

@bettsbattenburg
Youm a yam yam like me ay yer?

Not regional related but was shocked ‘fortnight’ doesn’t feature in American language, they don’t know it means two weeks

Mine are probably embarrassing, I'm from essex and to be fair since TOWIE most are known now.
Innit - isn't it

And then
Is it - in response to anything you can't believe.
I never ever thought about why we say 'Is it' until I went to university up north and when I said it the other students looked at me funny and a few asked, is it what?!

I distinctly remember returning back to lesser and then into another qualification in London and feeling reassured that is it could safely be used without any misunderstanding

Back to Essex not lesser *

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

I think every Scot knows what it means but we don't all use it. It's a word that really stands out to me in public if someone says it because Glaswegians don't use it.

I work with people from all over the country who were completely baffled when I used the term ‘she saw her arse’ meaning she got angry. Guess it’s a Cumbria thing.

Having the munk on (sulking)

Oh yes, we used to go to the beer-off when I was little - not for booze, but for pop.

Bobbo was a horse.

Tuffeh - was sweets.

The East Midlands (Nottingham) dialect sadly underrated I think - and no actor on earth can do the accent apart from Vicky McClure and Su Pollard.

@Lajestic are you from Yorkshire too?

@pinkflipflop85

So did I, thought cheesybugs was their real name.
didnt hear them called woodlouse until I was in my twenties.

There are so many great words here. I'll have to save many of them and try to work them into conversation.

I’m from London and my family have always called a dressing gown a house coat.

Mind you, they also say “they’re like shit to a blanket” when someone is clingy 🤣🤣🤣

@Jennygentle

I love ‘all around the Wrekin’!

My nonagenarian dad says ‘flit’ as in ‘they did a flit’ (left without paying).

I’m from east Anglia and we call drizzle ‘mizzle’.

Surely mizzle and drizzle are different? Where I grew up mizzle was misty drizzle. Like when it's raining and the haar is in.

Blart crying
Gaffer teacher
Mithering Bothering someone
Mardy Grumpy

@ParadiseLaundry

I'm from the north east and had a boyfriend from the south who thought it was hilarious when I said 'got wrong' as in 'I thought I was going to get wrong off my boss for being late' I'm curious to know how many, if any other regions use this.

Also 'hoy' which means throw. But can also be used as such:

'It's hoyying it down' - 'it's raining really heavily'
'I'm going out on the hoy tonight!' - 'I'm going out to get drunk tonight!'

Love that one

I'm a Southerner with a husband from NE where we now live and I was for years confused by "got wrong"

"You'll get wrong for that"

Never used to understand

@RHRA You from Hartlepool?

My Glaswegian MIL when I first met her asked me if ‘I wanted a piece’. ‘A piece of what?’ I said (Relationship went downhill from there).

I don't think anyone has mentioned 'yosk' yet, as in 'he was yoskin' all night' i.e. coughing.

They've got their arse in their hands means someone is in a mood where I'm from My Mom says "Like a fart in a colander" for something that is no use. I never realised how strange we must sound!