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?

@Knittedfairies

My first teaching job was in a suburb of Nottingham. A child told me his 'tab' was bleeding and I expected the worst. Fortunately it was only his ear...

Yep. Tabhanging is a word I love, means earwigging or listening in on someone’s conversation.

@Notlostjustexploring

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html?smid=fb-share

This was a really good quiz that was surprisingly accurate.

I did that quiz when it was first published. It got me to within 10 miles of where I grew up, the same for my mum even though she moved away at 11.

Does anyone else call a forward roll a tossover?

Radge it's much more than being mardy, it's proper angry or mad.

I am from NI @Givemyheadpeaceffs (great name).

Wench! I use it regularly but people in the south seem to find it offensive.

@MrsMoastyToasty

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

Ah a fellow West Country person.

I’d like to add sconcing.
Used with gurt it means an animal or person who is solid. A prize bull could be described as a sconcing gurt bugger.

NE

Yonks = Ages/A long time (I haven't seen you for yonks)

Ket = Sweets

Molly = Unfashionable

Mafting = Hot/Sweating (Also see Clammy)

Marra - Friend

Git = Very (it was git big, git funny)

Gadgie = man

Hinny - female friend (see also - Pet)

Netty = Toilet

I live in the land of bread buns and bait boxes.

Donnies =hands
Suck =sweets
Chobble =eat eg sweets noisily
Riffy = dirty
Island = roundabout
Yampy = idiotic
(Black Country)

siling it down -rain
mardy
cob-bread roll
snap- lunch (miners)
Sutton gloves-
tab-ear
bit black over bils mothers- the sky over there has laots of dark clouds
all round the houses- going the long way round of doing something.
pop-fizzy drinks
croggy-ride on the back of a bike
cropper-fall off bike
jitty/twitchell, alley way
dessies-underwear
put wood int ole- shut the door (mid notts relatives)
sucker-icy pole/ice lolly
mithering-whining/bothering your mother.
snek- putting the door on the sneck means fixing it open with the little button on the inside of a yale lock
ayup mi duck/now then/yawright? hi
hang nail, that little bit of loose skin next to your nail that hurts like hell if caught on anything
flitting- moving without paying the rent (think I picked it up from a book so might not be local)
skiving-taking a day off school/being lazy and getting out of work.
bunking off, missing a day of school
bonce-head
top shops, the shops at the top of the road (Nottingham)
top shops (workshops at top of the house, w mids)
batch= bread roll w mids
waz- pee/piss
bob/plop = poo

old ones: shank's pony =walking

Squinny!
Din!
Yo' Alright?

Anyone from my neck of the woods?!

Valleys South Wales....
Potchin' is sleeping with someone else's husband/wife.
Potch is mashed carrot and swede for your Sunday dinner.
Bosh is the sink.
Cwtch is a cuddle or a coal cwtch.
Daps are trainers but the white or black school ones.
Mutching is missing school.
By here, by there is where something might be.
We'm (we are), you'm (you are), they'm (they are).
We have fundrals not a funeral.
We go shopping to Mataland.

'Grockles', 'going round the Wreckin', the 'outdoor', the 'paper shop'.

I’ve lived all over but one that really caught me out was coach meaning to stroke.
‘I was coaching the cat when she jumped off my lap’.

muggy=humid
yonks-a long time

@MrsMoastyToasty those are pumps you have pictured there!

I always used to say “let’s cut through the twitten” without realising it wasn’t universal until I got to uni and no one had the foggiest idea what I was talking about. It’s a narrow alley but apparently local only to Sussex.

Council pop- water
Donnies - hands
Kaylied- drunk
Mucker- mate
Babby- baby
Fittle- food
Yampy- bonkers
Piece- sandwich
Go play up your own end
Lamp someone
The cut- canal
Fizzog- face
Blarting- crying
Island- roundabout
Pikelet- crumpet
Mush- face

Batch - bread roll
Entry - Alleyway
Gambol - Forward Roll
Island - Roundabout
Outdoor - Shop that sells alcohol

Everyone in our extended family calls woodlice "cheesy bugs", we're west Surrey. I wouldn't call it regional difference but I did think it was a more widespread term than it appears to be!

My Parents say Our Wench as a term of endearment but it always makes me cringe . Bonce is your head. Piece is a sandwich. Council pop is tap water. Saying someone is caggy handed if they are being clumsy. Blarting is crying.

I love this post

Oh and bost for broken

@LesleyP0pple

That’s interesting. I read somewhere that years ago, people used to travel to work in the mines, so wondering if mining areas might share some words that the miners picked up from each other? Even though, those areas aren’t geographically close.

@Rebeccasmoonnecklace

My Parents say Our Wench as a term of endearment but it always makes me cringe . Bonce is your head. Piece is a sandwich. Council pop is tap water. Saying someone is caggy handed if they are being clumsy. Blarting is crying.

I love this post

I must confess that after I realised people didn't like being called wench outside the black country I started to use it me

@Lumisade

@darciesdreams

Well the North East and Cumbria are close. I’m from south cumbria, so my accent is more Lancashire. I think people from Carlisle sound like Geordies.

Pillock