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?

@ginty. Yes to all of those!! So many particular to Scotland. Some of my favourites are:
Shoogly. His jaikets oan a shoogly peg!
Peely wally
Bahookie
Gonny no dae that!
Am are!
Bochle.

@Wakeupin2022

I'm not Scottish but I love the insult "sleekit bitch". Not very feminist I realise!

It may even have been used a few times the other night- fairly or unfairly

Sleekit bas’tad’ has been used a few times today too...

All fur coat and no knickers is a common one where I live and one of my favourites.
I’ve lived in various places.
Comfort day, east coast Yorks for day tripper because they come for the day
Clarty muddy
Sieves = reeds in grass
Keep your sneck out = nose
messages = shopping
It’s Baltic in here = freezing
shoogly= wobbly poorly made

@Hairyfairy01, my parents were from Anglesey and both said to stop moidering them. It sort of meant stop bothering, annoying them, stop talking rubbish. Does that sound about right. Nobody in Bristol, where they’d moved to, had a clue what I was on about!

In Bristol, gurt lush, cheers drive, alright my luvver, where’s ee to?

PMSL at fanny pack = tampons

Maybe somebody Scottish can confirm this, but I’ve been told that there is a massive difference between “not awfully well” (bit out of sorts) and “awfully not well” (dying, call 999). Colleague discovered this when he took up a junior doctor post in Dundee, and wondered why the ward nurses kept fast-bleeping him to tell him Mrs Smith was a bit under the weather.

@Wakeupin2022

I remember having a bit of a disagreement on here and they.saod some cheeky comment about my head.

I told the to 'away bile their head' and it got reported and deleted ha ha. In fairness MNHQ did actually reinstated it when I had a moan.

Back of (hour)
Away fir the messages
Pictures (cinema)
Stookie (plaster cast)
Skooshy cream
What's up with yer coupin
Hogmanay
Bells (related to Hogmanay)
Bottle of ginger
Can of juice
Diluting juice

The list is never ending......

Wait, diluting juice? I was so sure that was universal.

I’ll offer up the following:

Foos yer doos / fit like (how are you)
Gies a bosie (give us a cuddle)
Plootery (muddy - as in a muddy field)
Fly cup and a funcy piece (cup of tea and a nice biscuit)
Puddock (frog)

JuniLoolaPalooza

That would have been 'me ansum' rather than my handsome (but, yes, same difference)

DF calls everyone 'my boots' (my beauty) regardless of male or female.

How about 'geddon, she'm bleddy maze'd inna?!'

Learnt diluting juice on here - it's squash.

I’ve only heard diluting juice on MN. It’s squash isn’t it? Very far from juice, which to be is actual juice from fruit, like fresh or long life orange juice.

I know ‘on the huh’ bet you’ve driv rown the city too, just so you could shew it to summan!

queen doric?

How do you say the Wally in peely Wally? Is it Warlee or Wally (like where’s Wally which I’d pronounce Wolly!)?!

Having a lozzack. So little used I don't even know how to spell it. I think just a Potteries/Stokey phrase? My Nana always used to say she was Ockared in stead of awkward too.

I’ve only heard diluting juice on MN. It’s squash isn’t it? Very far from juice, which to be is actual juice from fruit, like fresh or long life orange juice.

Not in Scotland. Juice can any drink. So can of Coca Cola is can of juice.

@Howshouldibehave

How do you say the Wally in peely Wally? Is it Warlee or Wally (like where’s Wally which I’d pronounce Wolly!)?!

No as it sounds so if you were to say pal. You say a same way.

@Changechangychange Yep, if you're "awfy no well" you're basically at death's door!

Some of my favourites from my mum (South Yorkshire):

Oh you mucky pup/you little muck-tub! (“You dirty child”, said affectionately to a toddler you’ve just discovered happily smearing themselves with pasta sauce, or come in from playing out covered head to toe in mud)

Now sithee here = look/listen to this (can be shortened to “sithee”)

Never cast a clout till May’s out = you need to wear a vest until at least end of May.

Snicket/bread cake/snap all already been covered.

I’m Welsh. I often hear ‘how come?’ as a way of asking ‘why?’

Husband is from South London. Sometimes when he's yakking with his friends or dad I don't understand a word.

Coming from Northants: "Clodhoppers" which are very heavy shoes "jollop" for medicine or ointment "backus" which was the rear of the house (come backus, front door's stuck), and cacked or cack-handed (which is usually offensive cos it means left handed).

@WellTidy

I’m Welsh. I often hear ‘how come?’ as a way of asking ‘why?’

That’s commonplace here in the south east as well.

Yorkshire here
"Put wood int oyle" - shut the door
"Skiving" - playing truant
Caggy - riding on the back of someone's bike
Spice - sweets

@Changechangychange Yes of course I know what blowing someone off here means now!

'Minty' being used to describe somebody who needs to bathe more often.

Has anybody else heard of this? I think it might be slang from my street when I was little, but I'm not sure if it's broader than that.

Nesh for feeling cold easily.

Flirt to describe what you do when you flick something off the end of a ruler (or similar), 'flirting bits of rolled up paper around'

@Wakeupin2022

queen doric?

@Wakeupin2022 that’s the one!

Flirt to describe what you do when you flick something off the end of a ruler (or similar), 'flirting bits of rolled up paper around'

That definitely wasn’t the sort of flirting we did when we were at school!