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?

@PepperMooMoo Yes, I'm from your neck of the woods! 👋🏻 When I moved away I was surprised to hear a colleague had named their dog Dinny. I couldn't work out why anyone would anyone call their dog a dinlo. I just assumed it was a word everyone knew but apparently not!

You'm from my neck of the woods MrsMoastyToasty. I always thought that having a go on the slider and smoothing the dog were proper terms until fairly recently!

Treat in the past tense. I thought this was normal.

For example They way she was treat (pronounced tret) was awful’

I would smooth the dog and say, 'Cheers Drive' to the bus driver.

If you ask me where something is, I'll tell you, 'It's over by there.'

If you ask me to do something, I'll say, 'I'll do it now in a minute.' Which means pretty soon, but not necessarily immediately.

Also love a good cwtch.

"Skit", meaning take the piss. West Lancashire. I said to a southern friend "stop skitting me" and he had no idea what I was talking about.

[quote PaulRobinsonsWoodenLeg]@PepperMooMoo Yes, I'm from your neck of the woods! 👋🏻 When I moved away I was surprised to hear a colleague had named their dog Dinny. I couldn't work out why anyone would anyone call their dog a dinlo. I just assumed it was a word everyone knew but apparently not! [/quote]
It's such a good word!!

@flamingolingo .... East Lancashire

That's interesting though!

To me, 'fuddle' is a mishmash of confused and muddled.. so we would say we were 'fuddled' or 'all of a fuddle'

Ah you can’t beat a good office fuddle - especially at Christmas.

How lovely to see all the Notts lot on this thread - Ey up ducks, y’all rart? Bit code today.

Stingers= nettles

Never thought of that as regional, just a bit more informal than nettles.

It could be there are lots of plant names I know which are local names. Furze for gorse is the only one I can think of.

To me, a maiden for laundry is the sort you pull up and down that is overhead. A frame on the ground is a clothes horse.

Scram = food
Island = roundabout
Mardy = grumpy and stroppy
Nesh = wimpy
Claggy = humid
Close = humid

One that threw me recently was on MN - a whole thread about 'what are you salty about'. I had no idea what being 'salty' was. I've never heard anyone say they were salty. I had to read the thread to find out what it was all about.

Our conveyancing solicitor thought the price of our house was a bit 'minty'. I've no idea where that comes from. We bought it for the location though.

I grew up in east Lancs and subsequently south Manchester. We say 'I saw my arse' as a colloquial expression to mean 'I got really cross about it.'

Soon after I started at university, I said something like '...and I saw my arse because she stole my Marmite' and my southern housemates all looked at me in horror, like I was some kind of bum-obsessed contortionist.

I would smooth the dog and say, 'Cheers Drive' to the bus driver.

The use of ‘Drive’ as they name for a bus or taxi driver is interesting.
I happened to be in Nottingham once with work and a load of us had to get a taxi. One guy said ‘so Drive, Forest or County?’ I’d never heard Drive used that way before.

For me scram is like a scratch you might do to someone.

Daps = "plimsols"

MIL (from south coast) says “somewhen” and “anywhen” which I had never heard before (I’m from the south east). She thought everyone said that so turns out it’s a regional thing. She also says “airer” for clothes horse.

Barleys - if you cross two of your fingers in tig so someone can’t catch you you’re on barleys
We said Fainees. Berkshire but a new town where a lot of people were originally from London.

@CaptainMyCaptain

Barleys - if you cross two of your fingers in tig so someone can’t catch you you’re on barleys We said Fainees. Berkshire but a new town where a lot of people were originally from London.

London, back in the fifties, it was Fainsies or Feinites if we were feeling posh.

Use Nesh a lot
and Tump ...

Midlands/south west

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

We used to say faynights when we did this at school in east London.

@CornedBeef451 Not quite, I'm from the big smoke to the East 😉

I'd forgotten about outdoor!

Wisht though - that's more being told to be quiet? As in "Wisht up" or "Will you wisht?" I assumed that was an Irish thing.

The one that confused my English DH: "where would they leave it?" When someone acts or looks very much like their parent or member of their family.

Cock as a term of affection, apparently this isn’t really a thing outside of the Black Country

Our word for being out of the game of ‘it’ was pax or paxy. (From the Latin I presume).

I only eve heard 'stingers' in the Midlands. Never heard it where we lived in Scotland, Hampshire or Norfolk.