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?

Ah did last instead of next... so am offering "cree" with apologies if has been said before.

Oh and bairns = children!

As in 'shy bairns get nee gravy' 😬

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Those that haven't heard mardy before, you must have heard the Arctic Monkeys song?

A friend lived in the USA for a while and one day she told her friend that her and her husband had a lie in on Saturday. Her friend was quite shocked, she said a 'lie in was slang for having sex!

My grandad (Lincolnshire) used slape for slippery. As in "it's slape out" on an icy day. Also ganzy, nunty etc as already mentioned by a pp. Another peculiarity was his pronunciation of ur/ir as in hurt or bird. It was like o, so he'd say 'ot or bod. The sound a as in for example late came out so that it sounded more like layat. Or maybe lairt. But definitely 2 syllables, it's not easy to describe to anyone unfamiliar with it. And shape yourself meant get your act together, sort things out. Said shayap yerself. Still miss grandad, his accent is dying out.

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Allegedly. You wouldn't know it though, it's the only time I've even been there!

Skeet- I'm from the Isle of Man and it can either mean gossip or a nosey person

Love this! My surname totally goes with mardy. And my log in at work is mardee. Love that word. And I really am Mardy so very appropriate 😂

I'd forgotten the look my husband gave me when I said I felt like piffy on a rock bun, meaning I was hanging around waiting for something.

Mardy, cotty, whirlygig

When my son was leaning back on his chairs back legs at the dinner table I told him to stop queedling- and got funny looks off my FIL (teesside) MIL (northern ireland) and DP (brought up in northern Ireland, been in UK since 20's) im only half an hour or so from teesside (North Yorkshire moors) and my mum who grew up here used that one a lot- I thought it was normal! Also, I get told off for calling the glove box a ducket. Think that was my dads word for it though (Nottingham)

Pickles89 - I've heard wisht used here in Cornwall.

I thought cabby was self explanatory, turns out it wasn't
A've it as in a've it over there and where to confuses people to.

Gert was a word I heard living down south that puzzled me. Nesh I had not heard until I worked with a Liverpool lass. One word that was used down south made people faint when I moved to Wales that was twat meaning idiot.

I never realised cob was a Nottingham word for bread roll, I thought everyone called them cobs until I went to Tenerife on holiday when I was 19 and asked for a cheese cob and they had no idea what I was asking for . I don’t live in Nottingham now but I didn’t even realise mardy was a regional word! I thought everyone knew what it meant. We would also say nesh for being cold, tabs for ears & snicket or jitty for an alleyway.

Got the knock- annoyed

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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.

east mids also includes Leicester and Derby!

No one gets the accent right, I'm from East Mids and most folk think we have Birmingham accents [horror]

It is a difficult one though, somewhere between south Yorks and the actual south, but with flattened vowels.

I love mardy and also all round the wreaking' which my welsh mum used to say when describing having to go the long way round to get somewhere. I think the Wreakin is in Shropshire?

Squoze instead of squeezed, for example, we all squoze in the small space. I didn't realise it wasn't a real word until someone laughed when I used it!

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Donnies =hands Suck =sweets Chobble =eat eg sweets noisily Riffy = dirty Island = roundabout Yampy = idiotic (Black Country)

i use a lot of these.. originally a brummy, now more over Wolves way, just slight differences on the meaning of riffy

'got the riff/riffy' someone thats itching.

furtle /furtling - rummaging through stuff.

passageway between houses is the 'entry'

pither/faff - messing around with something more than necessary. "stop pithering about and come here' 'quit faffing with that and let me do it'

ruckus - big noise/commotion.

oh, and the off license was always called the 'outdoor'

They used the phrase "shoogly peg" on The Today Programme this morning, a Scottish politician was remarking that Gavin Williamson's "coat was on a shoogly peg". I was then amazed to hear the report translate it, as I thought it was a universal phrase, forgetting that shoogly is a Scottish word. I've been caught out before with words like skelf and pinky because my English mother also used them, however she was brought up by A Scottish mother and her very old school scottish granny.

@KnittedFairies my grandma, who is as Notts as they come used to say 'Eee it makes ma tabs laugh' for everything sour/ spicy. She also said that anything disgusting or scary made her 'dither' not sure if that's Nottingham or just her

Scottish people often say amn't I when others would say aren't I, makes sense really as its short for am I not.

I knew island for roundabout was a Brummie thing, but Today I Learned not everyone knows what mardy means.

Lots mentioned already -mardy, cobs, lugs, nesh, black over Bill's mothers.

Also gip. Eg that was disgusting it made me gip (retch)

DH and I always argue about ice lollies. I say ice lollies and he says lolly ice.