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 thought that "to ratch", rummage for something, was standard English. As "I'm just going to ratch through the drawer to look for my keys."

"Shan" for unfair is another.

"Crack" for just general news or gossip. I know it's Irish originally but where I'm from everyone uses it.

Other words I like, "deeks" for have a look, "beck" for stream, "lonnin" for track, "gan" for go and of course "marra" for friend.

I tease my BF from saying “all around the reakin” (sp?) but we’re from the same place . I just say round the houses.

I didn’t realise the word snib was weird for the bit you move in a door bolt. Also use gambol for forward rolls.

My uni friends looked all confused when I 'over laid' they were like 'are you a chicken?'

I also use 'face on' which is similar to Mardy. 'What you got face on for?'

Chuffed - for excited/happy
Mither, e.g “stop mithering me/can’t be mithered” - for bothered
Got monk on - same as got a cob on

I'd never heard 'out on the lash' until I moved to Yorkshire, but that might just be because I hardly ever go out on the lash.

I came on to say 'daps' but they've already been covered.

I thought a 'tea cake' was a chocolate and marshmallow thing until I moved north and, similar to PP, saw it as an option for a bacon butty. I ordered a bacon and egg teacake once and it was as big as a dinner plate - took me almost an hour to eat!

I call it a snib, too, but I'm from nowhere near you.

Bait - packed lunch
Tatty - knotted hair
Hinny - pet name for a lady
Clarty - to get muddy

We have loads and loads in Northumberland. I love it

Also, not me but somebody I know calls the end crust pieces of a loaf of bread “the knocker”, I’d never heard of this before but is apparently what it’s known as where she comes from

Gads. I was surprised when people from Glasgow didn't know what this meant. And ken. Can you guess where I'm from OP?

The word 'cock' as a term of endearment! Imagine my husbands surprise when my grandad, when talking about my 3 year old nephew' said 'eee he's a cock isn't he'.

Clarty = muddy
DD says scran to mean scrounge

I give you grockle and janner (be a good janner and look out for nana!)

Wood Louse - Chucky Pig
Barm- Muffin

Has cotters been mentioned yet? For tangles in your hair. Along with Ginnel (alley). Cumbria.

I didn’t realise beck was Cumbrian, I still use it. I’m in Yorkshire now.

'get' as a noun, meaning idiot /prat.

Wait, island isn't universal for roundabout?
Blimey, wonder how many people I've confused in the 25 years since leaving the Midlands!

Yes to lugs in hair too.

@Ginfordinner

Scran would be food in Cumbria.

@FoldenHoard

Lugs are ears in Cumbria.

Clarty in Cumbria too.

There seem to be similarities across the North. Maybe that’s why my Yorkshire friends can understand my Cumbrian but I might get a few funny looks in Kent .

Definitely 'outwith' , spellcheck really doesn't like that one. Scots professionals use it in reports all the time.
'sauce' on chips - not ketchup but proper chippy sauce!
I was at a science thing before lockdown and some biologists were trying to gather different regional terms for wee cowrie shells - DH is from the highlands and they would call the groaty buckies- anyone else?

I had a few when I moved down south from Glasgow area.

A piece,, as in "a piece in bacon"
Shoogle
Schoosy cream
A whirlie, to hang clothes on outside.

All of these things have been met with serious blank faces in the past.

Worst one. Dogging, as "dogging school, or dogging it". Simply meant bunking off school. Doesn't mean quite the same think down here.

Actually, a contender for the worst one. Jobbie. I know that as a juvenile word for poo, shouted across a playground or by drunk people "yah jobbie!!" Unfortunately quite a few senior people in my work use it as a word for "small task". I have to stifle a snigger every time...

I thought everyone knew what yampy meant! My dad used to say it all the time!

I learned yampy in the 90s when I worked in the Black Country. Love it and still use it.

And yes, I've had my literacy questioned after using the word outwith. I feel vindicated!!

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

Formal. Non-formal was what I meant, honest.