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?

I also had to explain mardy to quite a few people at Uni - most Southerners has never heard the word.

Worky Ticket or working your ticket = a naughty child really trying your patience
To be given down the banks = to be told off
I cried down me leg = I was really upset
Ya tube! to a silly person

ahhhh, bobbo, I was very small when I last heard that. (Notts)

spadgers sparrows

I used furtling today.

Pingle: clearing in a wood. maybe very specific to one very small area of Notts.

When I moved up north from Birmingham I was talking about someone blarting (crying) and got a lot of bemused looks. I had no idea it wasn't a widely used word.

I love fuddle - as in a little buffet. Love a good work fuddle - when we all bring bits of food in for birthdays etc. Not sure if that’s regional or not?

Island for roundabout and mom

My dh comes from Yorkshire and calls a packed lunch "packing up'. He calls bread rolls 'bread cakes' and until I met him I did not know what a Snicket was. He calls twilight 'the gloaming'. It is funny, his family think I am posh.

I’ve come across these over the past few years, not sure where they originate:

Packing up = lunch box
Smooth = to stroke or pet an animals coat

Maiden - the metal thing that you dry your clothes on in the house. I honestly thought it was the proper name for item until I moved away from home and found that everybody else called it a clothes horse or an airer.
Also, lolly ice instead of ice lolly.

I didn't know what Mardy meant, we don't use it in central Scotland. We say gurny or fractious

The clicky is a train conductor, not found many people who say this outside Glasgow

@Krabapple I only learned the word fuddle when I moved to Yorkshire. Oh and all cakes (I.e. individual ones like cupcakes) seem to be called "buns" up here.

@Pickles89 funny you ask that I used “wisht” the other day! Meaning pale, knackered etc. I think English people could do with that word tbh.

Also a fan of “teasy” as in “you take him, he’s been teasy all morning.”

“Tuss” is one I miss using.

The one that really confuses people though is “where’s it to?”
Still say that one without thinking and it triggers a lot of confusing conversations.

A child in my first class I taught told me she was really ‘squit ’-then others said they were too. The word means ‘squashed me.

Shrammed, shramming - cold that gets in your bones, like, that wind is really shramming, I'm shrammed with cold.

Emmet is ant, which is presumably why they're tourists in Cornwall, but tourists here are grockles.

Girt for big.

Jasper for wasp.

I say sandshoes not daps. I would also say bairn, canny, spelk, hacky, clarty, bread bun.

I'm in the NE and there's a lot of crossover with Scotland. Except outwith, which is a great word, but all theirs. Autocorrect is hating this post!

Out and geet, in the context of something being geet big for example, as in very or great

Interesting about the mizzle thing. Both my parents and their wider families used it and it was also used by my peers (in East Cambridgeshire).
Random dialect pocket?!

I remember being asked what I was bringing to the fuddle on my first teacher training placement in nottingham and being very confused!

I also used to call no uniform days mufti days but that may have been because my primary school was attached to an RAF base!

Id never heard of fuddle until I started my last job.
The feast was the travelling fair.
My grandma always said entry for shared driveway.
Snicket is a ginnel or passageway.
Buns are fairy cakes.

We called woodlice monkey-peas when I was growing up.

I worked as a waitress when I was a teenager and remember someone asking for a cob and having no idea what they were on about. I thought they wanted a corn on the cob!

its a whirly gig! no a winter dyke!

A clothes horse is for indoors.

@ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun you must be from the same place as me!!!

Another one that is very common in East Anglia is ‘shew’ which is the past tense of show. ‘Do you remember how I shew you yesterday?’

I had a friend who had worked his way up to a be a regional manager in a company. He had to give a talk at a national conference and tested it out on me first. I had to tell him that he could say ‘if you think back to the data I shew you at the beginning...’.

I’ve lived all over the country and grew up in the south east but my best friends parents were Scots and DHs is midlands. Therefore I know a lot of the local words and use a mix of them.

I like hoy for throw as it’s very descriptive. I like bray for hitting for the same reason.

I was living on the south coast when I had to deal with a very drunk older Scottish guy who was trying to explain something to me. He kept saying ‘do ye ken, hen? Do ye ken?’ It was a good job I did because my friends didn’t have a clue!

@Slippersandgin

Chebs = breasts Larry = someone who is lonely / on their own Claggy = muddy

All 3 of those terms confused non locals in the last few weeks. (rural south west)

Chebs and Claggy are used in West Cumbria - always amazes me when the same "local words" crop up in counties at opposite ends of the county!!