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?

I always find these discussions fascinating. I grew up in Australia, but with an English mother some of the idioms I picked up weren't local. Albeit, some of that was more generational because there was such a high rate of immigration, I remember in a small class being the only one familiar with certain turns of phrase our teacher was using, but they all had professional parents originally from non-English speaking backgrounds now I think about it!

The fun bit was then the Australian idioms that I didn't realise were local until an American academic I worked with my first summer at uni commented. We had a lot of fun exploring language in that lab! To get within cooee of something (or not) was one I recall.

Oh yes, I meant to say, I'm not certain when I first came across "claggy" but picked that up with no difficulty. We grew up with Clag Paste as our standard school glue pots.

I always cringe at Pembrokeshire words that I grew up with. ‘Clen’ is my pet-hate - as in ‘I clen the kitchen (instead of ‘have cleaned’).
If someone is ‘kift’ they do things in an awkward way.

Lol at packed up. Being packed in was the absolute worst thing that could happen to you as a teenager

@Redcrayons yes I would say the girl who was most opposed to me saying "barm cake" also ate dry chips!! No gravy or even pies where she was from.

I didn't even tell her about pie barms. Wouldve blown her mind.

Where I come from:
Scundered
Boak
Slater
Hot press
Mizzle

Where I live now
Pack-up
Scran
Ginnel
And the popular mardy.
Oh , and related to mardy is radge.

Switchies
Feachy/feachs
Tattie holidays

I've heard 'mardy' quite a bit since I've been in the East Midlands. I knew it previously but only heard it occasionally.

@PaternosterLoft

Daps!

Although i use it to mean any soft, non-verbal shoe and DH uses it only for black school plimsolls.

I understand daps but aren't all shoes non-verbal?

@CherryValanc we go to the outdoor, far too frequently......

Snek as in look or stare: "what are you sneking at?"
I'm also from Lancashire and called it a clothes maiden. Genuinely didn't know there was any other word for it until I went to uni.

My husband's family are from Stokr and Scotland.
Sneeped and Crabbits.

Oh, yeah, we had gutties instead of daps.

I know fizzgog! My Nan used to use that one.
The only really local one (which is hugely outing, if you know you know)
Is living in a Banjo...

@DaughterX

Was just going to ask if anyone else uses the word 'sneaped.' Or 'lug' for a knot in hair?

Cheesybugs

I thought everyone knew what a cheesy bug was!

[quote PuppyMonkey]@EnglishGirlApproximately the only thing worse than having a mard on is having a cob on. [/quote]
@PuppyMonkey the only thing worse than having a cob on is 'having a right bag on'

Cob is a bread roll/bun
Claggy is sticky.

@DappledThings

According to an older friend of mine (not sure how old but she had children in the sixties) island was what roundabouts used to be called.

Still islands in the Midlands.

In Dundee they’re called “circles”. I’ve dundinisn parents who used that all the time. First time I head roundabout I thought there was a play park near by 😂😂

Skeet, meaning gossip or local news.

@mum2jakie

Was just going to ask if anyone else uses the word 'sneaped.' Or 'lug' for a knot in hair?

Where do you say lug for hair knot? I grew up calling them tugs or tuggy in south east Scotland.

I used to work in a cafe in Manchester and once had a customer ask for “bacon on a teacake” and was baffled when he received bacon on a toasted fruit teacake.. turns out he was from Yorkshire and meant a muffin/barm/bread roll/whatever everybody else calls it
Also @tinkywinkyshandbag my whole family call it a maiden and not one person at uni knew what I was talking about!

Here in Hull we say maftin' when we are hot and nithered if we are cold.

Another daps. Genuinely didn't realise it wasn't common use until I moved for uni.

Dockys (pack up lunch, so called because East Anglian workers had their pay docked if they stopped for lunch) and docky hut (where they went to eat their docky), a fen blow (a wind that picks up the fine peat soil and turns the air black) and a rummun ("that's a bit odd"). I haven't heard anyone call a ladybird beetle a bishy-barney-bee for years but my old granny used to call them that. if you're running late you're on the drag and they talk about "Will's mother" as in "it's looking stormy over Will's mother"