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 do remember though when I first moved to Manchester and I tried to buy a sandwich in a local sandwich shop. The size options were barm, Vienna or oven bottom. I didn’t have a clue what any of that was.

Having a nebby means having a nosey.

When I moved to Lancashire (from not far away) I was confused by ‘a-gate’ which means said. “He were a-gate ...”

Claggy for us is when something is sticky and sticks to the roof of your mouth like peanut butter.

@ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun we use all those! Are you from the Black Country?

@NatashaAlianovaRomanova I havent read the whole thread, but thank you for this! I'm from Australia and have always called woodlouse slaters. No one has ever known what I am on about and I thought our family must have made up a weird thing.

Not daps - they are of course pumps.

I grew up hearing my mother and grandmother telling me my hands were as cold as puddocks... It's apparently Scots dialect for toads

When I was at primary school in the early 50s, we used to sing a hymn which included the words

‘Here a little child I stand,
Heaving up my either hand,
Cold as Paddocks though they be,
Yet I lift them up to thee.’

I thought the word was Padlocks which are usually cold, being metal, but it seemed a random item to include in the hymn. Toads not much of an improvement.

(Anyone else remember singing this?)

Ginnel

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

Same here (except ours was wooden).

The packed lunch my DF took to work every day was his 'snap'. The local baker sold barm-cakes. And still does.

I grew up in the North-West. Although oddly enough we always used the word 'mizzle' for that sort of fine, drifting, almost imperceptible rain, so it's not just a Cambridgeshire thing, evidently.

@BlackeyedSusan & sounds like your local to me!

Also shall we have a 'fuddle' at work snap time?

I'll have some tuffies too please.

I'm from London , thought mardy was fairly universal. My grandad came from The Mardy in Abergavenny so probably a word that stuck when I heard it

Those black shoes you wear for PE are sand shoes here.

I seem to remember that the name daps is a acronym for something like Dunlop Athletic Plimsolls.

Stingers= nettles
Babber= baby
Snow is pitching= snow is settling on the ground.
Drive= driver (usually of public transport. It's almost the law in Bristol to say "Cheers Drive!" when you get off a bus).

*We use the word Fizzog for face at home... eg. wash your fizzog, you’ve got food on your fizzog.

I’ve never heard anyone else say it, I even googled it one day as I suspected my dad had made it up, turns out it’s a real word! We are from near Stoke on Trent.*

Dickens used the word, spelled 'physog'

www.definition-of.com/physog

@porcelinaofthevastoceanss

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

You'd think the word would have spread more widely after The Arctic Monkey's Nah then Mardy Bum. The crowd all seemed to know the words when they were at Glastonbury.

D.H. Lawrence also used 'mardy' but I'd never heard it used in conversation until I moved to the NE Midlands.

Jandals

@Skyr2

I love this thread, so many great regional differences in language.

Guess where I was from originally.

I went for a walk in the dene and plodged in the burn. Then I got hacky when I sat on my honkers and knew I’d get wrong when I got home.
I had to brush the tats out my hair as it was blowing a gale !

You could very well be from or near the village I grew up in in Northumberland!

@FlamingoAndJohn

I’ve lived all over but one that really caught me out was coach meaning to stroke. ‘I was coaching the cat when she jumped off my lap’.

Would that be like the Welsh 'cwtch'?

Someone way back said Shimmy for vest. I think that derives from Chemise.

I'm very interested in where the dialect words originate from although some are impossible to tell.

@CaptainMyCaptain we say fizzog too. Bet we are from the same place.

@CountFosco

Scullery - kitchen

Scullery is standard English but outmoded, traditionally the scullery was where you washed the dishes. But every stately home in England still has a scullery.

Also in old terraced houses (that haven't been knocked through) what is now usually used as the kitchen would have been the scullery. The kitchen was what is used now as the dining room or back room. My grandmother had her house like this and the original deeds of my previous house showed a tiny scullery which was extended in the 60s to make the kitchen.

[quote Dreamcatcher34]@CaptainMyCaptain we say fizzog too. Bet we are from the same place.[/quote]
I'm from all over the place but I don't use fizzog myself.

[quote YorkshirePud1]@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. [/quote]
That confused me when I moved North. Planning an end of term party at school, I said something about getting some cakes and people looked confused then said 'Oh, you mean buns'. Buns/ cakes whatever!

Those black shoes you wear for PE are sand shoes here.
Plimsolls in london

Grid - is a drain on the street, honestly didn’t know that wasn’t it’s actual name

Barleys - if you cross two of your fingers in tig so someone can’t catch you you’re on barleys

Seater - if you’re carrying some on on the back of your bike