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 dont think everyone uses them but in Liverpool we have our own dialogue:

Alarse - shady/unfair
Jarg - fake
Webs - trainers
Trabs - as above
Lid - Lad
Scran - food
Rotten/Blizted - very drunk
Kecks - trousers
Wool - anyone more than 6 miles outside of the city centre

Loads more I could think of.

My husband has lots of words I have to query. He explained a Wally was not a silly person but a gherkin. You have a wally on top of your bubble on Boxing Day. This being Camberwell, South London.

Also, sausage, hump, kecks, marvin, Manor, shank, brass, cowson and ponce.

@TazMac. I say scran for food and lugs/ lughole for ears/ear hole and I’m in the south west

Gurt = great/big
Scrumps= the crispy bits from the fryer at the chip shop.
Lush= lovely
Scrage= graze
Slider= slide

Almost @darciesdreams bit further south, but now I'm a southerner I'd be classed as a Geordie down here

@bloodywhitecat

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"

Im originally from the East Midlands, moved away as a teenager. My grandparents used to say "Its looks black over Bill's mother" meaning the weather is bad in the distance.

I love the word mardy. Havent heard anyone say it for years, I might introduce it to the south of England.

Can someone explain the difference between a cob on and a mard on?

Mortal- drunk
Tabs - cigarettes

From yorkshire though live over the pennines now.
Mardy = wet, whimpy as in mardarse
Glegs = glasses
Kecks = trousers
Mum used to call me a daft appeth, not sure of the meaning.

Mil says clap the dog. It means stroke the dog. I was very, very confused when she first got her dog and asked if I wanted a clap. She's from Dumfries and Galloway, in Scotland.

Radge - crazy
Lifting - disgusting

@VirginiaWolverine

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.

Are you from NI?

There's also "scunnered" which is different to "scundered". Being "foundered" means cold as does "starving".

NI has loads of regional dialects and words

''cotty'' for tangled hair

Cwtch!

North West- lugs for hair knots
Mither
Ginnel

Anyone else heard of a person “hossing it” meaning going very fast ?

Spelk. My husband thought I had made it up, I thought everyone said it and splinter was just a word for posh folks!

@CheesecakeAddict

A ginnel is the path between two houses. I didn't realise it had any other name till I went to uni.

No, that's a snicket.

Born and bred in Newcastle but been gone 40 years. However I still use these words (as do my very southern children)
Tats - hair knots
Clarts - mud
Do a flit - leave without paying
Canny- lovely
Dead Canny - very lovely
Netty- toilet
Twisty - whinging baby/child
Island - roundabout

Lots of 'sweethearts'
Pet
Little cabbage
Flower
Hinny

And many more!

I was very confused at university when a new flatmate asked me to pass her the 'Button'. She was looking at like I was really stupid... Realised she meant the Remote Control finally.

My MIL told me she has bought DDs some colour crayons. That's colouring pencils where I'm from. She's Yorkshire, I'm from London.

Claggy

I grew up hearing my mother and grandmother telling me my hands were as cold as puddocks... It's apparently Scots dialect for toads, which confuses people no end coming from me who's never lived north of the Watford Gap!

@Katharinablum

From yorkshire though live over the pennines now. Mardy = wet, whimpy as in mardarse Glegs = glasses Kecks = trousers Mum used to call me a daft appeth, not sure of the meaning.

That's a daft ha'porth, short for half penny worth

Rop ache - low down stomach pain
Tab ache - ear ache
Rammel - rubbish (nana used to say get that rammel offen thi face - take that makeup off)
Oil - a place to put stuff in: coil oil (place for coal, chip oil (fish and chip shop), cubby oil (cupboard under the stairs)
Coit - coat (get thi coit on)
Snicket - alley way
Bap - bread roll (this word makes me retch)
Scuffler - large bread roll (I thought scuffler meant pigs feet?)
Limming - crawling with lice
Spanish - liquorice
Roaring - crying
Shimmy - vest

Dreich is a grey, miserable damp day in Scotland