Regional sayings that throw others

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I'm West Midlands born and bred. A few phrases or words I say to people outside of my area are met with considerable confusion. I was talking to someone about someone else who smokes a lot and said 'yes he's always got a fag on' and was asked what the hell I was on about
Any regional sayings that others would be baffled by?

I use messages as in shopping/post office/library so more than just nipping to market. Dh looks at his phone every time 🤦🏻‍♀️

@DrSeuss

My Southern in laws were totally bamboozled by me telling them that a neighbouring area was "very fur coat, no knickers" which to us up in the North East means a lot of show of wealth but not actual money. They thought it meant a red light district!

I was born down south and we used that expression! Also "All mouth and no trousers" meaning you big yourself up to be better/claim to have more.

Stop dawdling meaning stop naffing about meaning stop being a bellend

We used to say "stop Fannying around" when I was a young 'un!
We also used to use "Twat" to mean "slap": so "Mummmmm (sisters name) just twatted me 'round the head!". Where I live now, a twat is a rather vulgar term for a vagina and not a word to use in polite company or to your mother!

Black Country here. There's loads of things that people have never heard of, and look at you very strangely

Yampy: when someone is acting daft

Going round the Wrekin: when you tell a long winded story before getting to the point (the Wrekin is a massive hill)

Cack handed: left handed or clumsy

Fizzog: your face

Cock a deaf 'un: when someone's ignoring you on purpose

Put the wood in the hole: shut the door

Riffy: really dirty

And everyone calls everyone else Bab!

A batch 😂

" She was A'gate"
When talking about what someone said...
Skanky-For horrible
Cob on-Mad

@HunterHearstHelmsley

My favourite is "wench". I work away often and love the reaction (mainly down south) when I say "alright me wench?"

It has very different connotations elsewhere.

@HunterHearstHelmsley

I know the Black Country wench,but where you say this has different connotations elsewhere , what do you mean ?

@charliebear78

" She was A'gate" When talking about what someone said... Skanky-For horrible Cob on-Mad

East Lancs?

I were a'gate she were skrieking her head off and her dads a proper ten Bob millionaire.

I’m from the north west and we’d always say ‘it’s cracking the flags out there’ when it was sunny and hot.
I said it once to my other half after I’d moved to the south west and he had no idea what I was on about.

Walking out into muggy weather and declaring "it's close today"

@WeatherwaxLives

I'm from Cornwall and I've no idea what any of you are on about! except fur coat and no knickers - but DGM was from Durham!

I give you dreckly, which is probably a well known one. Radger - which is very local, probably people from 20 miles away wouldn't know that one.
Pard
Stank (it's nothing to do with a smell)
Abroad

One that completely threw me when I went to Scotland, which I don't think people even realise isn't universal, was 'just now'

Down here, if something is 'just now' it's already happened - I was asked if I wanted my food 'just now' in a restaurant, I was completely stumped, I though they were asking if I'd already had it and wanted to pay! That was a confusing conversation...

I'm English and had the same confusion over the Scottish use of 'stay'. I understand 'staying' somewhere to be temporary, staying in a hotel, staying with a friend etc. I was perplexed when asked if I 'stayed' in my home town. 'No, I live there,' I replied ... that was, of course, what my Scottish colleague meant.

'Get wrong' is commonly heard in Norfolk too.

Where I live we use 'Mevver' to insult people.

@StepOutOfLine where I’m from Jenny is nosey, for example “I’m going for a nebby” means “I’m going for a nosey”.

My ex was from the NE and used to talk about “getting wronged” and I sometimes find myself saying it!!

@shinynewapple21 it's akin to whore apparently

@charliebear78 - oh my goodness, that “she was a’gate” thing used to do confuse me when I moved near to a Northern mill town!

As well as the great bread roll/cob/bun debate I give you.....

The great jitty/ginnel/alley/snicket debate! 😁

Taps aff weather. It means it's warm outside. Warm being 15 degrees in Scotland

I think I probably say loads of these phrases in real life. It's a good job I don't often venture outside my region so I think people know what I'm on about.

Got a monk on
It'll be reet
9 while 5
He dunt know what ees on abart
Go t foot of are stairs
Put wood in t oil

Squinny / squinbag = someone who keeps whinny /moaning.

I grew up with this being said all the time especially at school and was shocked to discover a few years ago that anyone not from my local area doesn't seem to know what it means.

Sneeped - upset
Fizzog - face
Mizzog - miserable

I chapped the door and clapped the dog.

A bread roll is a bap! A colleague called it a 'batch'. I found it irrationally irritating.

Wench is definitely not something you'd call someone around here if you wanted to keep all your teeth...

Id forgotten the Scottish 'stay' - I'd only ever heard that on here. Also 'outwith'.

@Boobahs

Black Country here. There's loads of things that people have never heard of, and look at you very strangely

Yampy: when someone is acting daft

Going round the Wrekin: when you tell a long winded story before getting to the point (the Wrekin is a massive hill)

Cack handed: left handed or clumsy

Fizzog: your face

Cock a deaf 'un: when someone's ignoring you on purpose

Put the wood in the hole: shut the door

Riffy: really dirty

And everyone calls everyone else Bab!

I'm from Dudley and I worked in Telford few years back. Running late one day due to diversions when I got to work I mentioned that the diversions were ridiculous "took me all round the bloody Wrekin to get here" 😂 I had confused-look reactions.... I never realised Wrekin was a place not far from Telford but of course in complete opposite direction as if I'd have come from Dudley haha!

One from a post a few weeks back...
Gorgeous sallow skin - meaning a glorious healthy golden colour in NI, not so much anywhere else

What's the craic? - what's the news
Aye yer ma - basically disagreeing or not believing with someones point of view but in a jokey way

Bap