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?

@FatBottomedGurl my mum thinks the back of 11 is anytime between 11:01 & 11:59... she drives me up the wall

We also use how instead of why here in Fife.

One of my favourite saying is "I've had it up to high dough with you" said while waving a hand about 3 inches above your head to mean you're annoying me.

One we use but doesn't seem to travel even to other parts of Fife is dingy (pronounced the same a rubber dinghy) to mean ignore - as in "I text Jean to ask if she was coming to the pub but she dingyed me"

Guddling

Outwith (such a glorious word).

I also told a colleague recently to "take an early bath" meaning she could go home early as there was nothing else for her to do and she had to get another colleague to translate.

Didn't realise this was contentious at all until I walked in on the confab about what I could possibly have meant.

Diddies - breasts
Piece - sandwich
Piece box - sandwich box
Poke - ice cream in a cone
Boggin - dirty
Buck eejit - idiot
Dead on- a good person

@PolaDeVeboise I'm also from Lanarkshire but have never heard winter dyke! Also moved to London several years ago and was similarly accused of making up "outwith" 😂

@Notlostjustexploring as a Scot working for a PR company in London, I will NEVER forget being the only person in my office SOBBING with laughter when we received an email from a travel company asking us to promote the rise of the "jobbymoon" - I actually had to take myself out of the room to try and regain some composure!

@opinionatedfreak

I also told a colleague recently to "take an early bath" meaning she could go home early as there was nothing else for her to do and she had to get another colleague to translate.

Didn't realise this was contentious at all until I walked in on the confab about what I could possibly have meant.

I think 'early bath' refers to a footballer being sent off and taking no more part in the game - having an early bath and going home.

scarby9 my great aunt (from Yorkshire) used to say wessel cups. She had a beautifully decorated Christmas tree.
I love the word morngy. As in stop being so morngy. (Miserable, sulking)

Ive just been listening to a programme about Chaucer and it mentioned him using the word "nesh" to mean soft so that's obviously a middle English word that's hung around.
Made me want to read Chaucer and look for more, didn't do him at school as I'm in Scotland and we do Scottish poets like Burns instead (another source of interesting old words).

I think 'I've had it up to high dough' is actually 'up to high doh' as in singing a scale Sound of Music style; doh, ray, me, fah, so, la, tee, doh.

Sorry, I know that sounds patronising, but I thought it was interesting because I had heard that saying all my life and when the penny dropped and I realised where it came from it suddenly made perfect sense. I think it's a great saying and it's interesting to know where these phrases originated from.

Rhyne (pronounced Reen) - stream in Somerset. Daps - or pumps - or plimsolls. I moved a lot in my childhood and had to get used to different words VERY quickly - my parents then had to try to decipher what I was talking about. The trials of being a military child...

I agree re 'high doh'. It actually makes sense.

High dough could also be about bread dough rising.

@MrDarcysMa

Out of fettle- feeling unwell/ not right

We'd say someone was in a 'bad fettle' if they were grumpy or annoyed.

Alternatively, they might be in 'fine fettle'!

@CaptainMyCaptain, we said fizzog for face. Grew up in NE Wales.
One of the towns in NE Wales has connections with the potteries - mining and clay industries being the draw.

I think someone mentioned 'maungy' upthread. I'm fairly sure that's the right spelling for what is largely West Yorkshire dialect for miserable, grumpy, cuntish etc.

Are the police referred to as the 'bizzies' in anywhere but Merseyside ?

vangoghing I’m not Scottish, and I am sitting on the bus giggling at “Jobbymoon”.

What the fuck were they thinking?

My dad uses fizzog for face. I always thought it was a corruption of visage so I’m quite pleased to hear that Dickens had a hand in it.

I thought everyone called holidaymakers grockles. That caused a few confused faces, until someone from Cornwall realised and said “oh, you mean emmets”

I'd never heard of grockles till I met my southern STBEX.

A scrage as in you fell and scraged your knee.

Mafted- hot
Larking- playing
Packing up or packers- packed lunch
Chips and scraps- chips with nice fried bits of batter that come off the fish
Pattie and chips- chips with a seasoned potato cake
Tig- kids game where you catch people to make them 'it'
Croggy- when you get a ride on the cross bar of a bike or on the saddle while they stand up peddle
Snicket or back way- alley at the back of the house
Bray for fight or hit "I'll bray yer 'ead in"
Bonnie - cute, a bonnie baby
Brew- cup of tea

DH says
Snapping for packed lunch
Chips and bits instead of scraps (they're rubbish scraps too!)
Tick not tig
Seaty not croggy
Ginnel not snicket
Bonnie means plump
Paned is a cup of tea

He also says,
Mithered
Pop for squash
Scouse for stew
Round of bread is a slice of bread
A roast is a dinner
Butty jam is a jam sandwich