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?

@Howshouldibehave

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!

That's the response I get when I say it. Except I don't say it anymore because it's clearly misleading

@MrsW150917

I was thinking of 'saft' when I saw this thread - used this once in Birmingham and they hadn't heard it before .

Lozzaking - lie on the sofa/chair
Flummoxed - confused
Fizzog - face

She followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding

@UnalliterativeGeorge
Suffolk? DH is Suffolk born and bred.

He comes out with sloitly on the huh (wonky), on the drag (running late), big swidge (puddle), in for a bit of parny (in for a bit of rain), alright buh.

When I was a teen in Herts we used to call the young lads playing loud music driving round town Barry Boys. DH assures me the Suffolk version is Gary Boys. We've agreed to disagree, but clearly I am right

A rid up, a mess
Siping, soaking wet
Awa an bile yer heid, Get real
Skelp roon the lug, a smack round the ear
Muckit a dirt, filthy
Get Yokit, get working
Excuse the spellings.

@Gilead @UnalliterativeGeorge

I was just coming on to say on the huh! Until I went to uni and flummoxed my housemates I thought that was the Queens English

Bishy barnabee is another.

Tehmina23
well he got the rhyme wrong
Its Devon Born, Devon bred, strong in the arm, thick in the head.
It must be true as I (Dorset born) had never heard it until DH (Devon born) said it once.
I often get strange looks for "got me head in me hands to play with" , which my Yorkshire mother used when she had been told she was wrong. I thinks its more puzzling to others as there is a Yorkshire twang to it as well, which is not my normal.

Probably Glaswegian:
Boaby: a penis
Did ye, aye: I don't believe you
Dug: a dog
Joaby/Jobbie: a shit(e)
Numpty: a nobody, an unimportant person
Oxters: armpits
Stooshie: a big (usually unecessary from the speaker's perspective) fuss

Dubby
Skates
Din

"Don't skit me" for "don't take the piss" always confuses non-Scousers.

@78percentLindt

Tehmina23 well he got the rhyme wrong Its Devon Born, Devon bred, strong in the arm, thick in the head. It must be true as I (Dorset born) had never heard it until DH (Devon born) said it once. I often get strange looks for "got me head in me hands to play with" , which my Yorkshire mother used when she had been told she was wrong. I thinks its more puzzling to others as there is a Yorkshire twang to it as well, which is not my normal.

You're both wrong. It's Berkshire Born etc etc. My Grandad always used to say it.

Lots of phrases people are claiming are regional we say here (Berkshire) as well as wherever people are claiming they are from. So they can't be regional!

Can someone clarify what the "got a fag on" means. Is it "grumpy"/"got a cob on" which is what I would assume. Or something to do with smoking?

@EssexLioness

I’m from Yorkshire too and heard always got a fag on. Ones I’ve used that I’ve had to explain since coming to Essex are: Mardy (meaning grumpy/ moody) and t’other yonder (over there)

I'm from Essex and know both of these

@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'm from the South and it was used a lot when I was younger.

Along with 'Red hat no drawers'.

@NuclearDH

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

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

Ginnel. But it’s a tea cake.

A tea cake is something with currents/raisins in it which you toast! 😁

Not within a very specific radius of maybe 10 miles it isn’t.

@NuclearDH

A tea cake is something with currents/raisins in it which you toast! 😁

Nope a tea cake is made by Tunnocks

Moved to West Cumbria around 15 years ago. Really struggled to understand why the sandwich shop lady offered to make my coronation chicken sandwich with a current filled bread roll. It transpires that bread rolls are called teacakes here.

Also
Stop twining = stop whining.
Howdoo = how are you
La'al = small

I have a pronunciation one:

Grew up in Doncaster, and scone is pronounced “scoan”, with a long “o”. My mum speaks quite broad, so her pronunciation is closer to “scorn”. “Scon” to rhyme with “gone” is what own people say.

Moved to London, and “scon” is what normal people say, and “scoan” is what the Queen says.

Though as DH points out, she’s not saying it with a yorkshire accent.

And it’s bread cake.

@WelcomeMarch I'm with you on teacake and ginnel

@NuclearDH if it's got currants in it's a currant teacake

Bait - Lunch
Coos - Cows
Marra - Friend
Laal - Little / small
Cumbria

Yoke-thing
Press-cupboard
Hot press -airing cupboard
Maggoty - dirty
Codology/Balderdash -talking rubbish
Banjaxed -broken

Some of my favourites from where I grew up:
On the huh - not level/crooked
Coach the dog/cat - stroke or pet the dog/cat
Putting on your parts - having a tantrum

I’ve never felt more southern than I do reading this thread. I’ve no idea about most of it. I moved from Kent to Somerset and was baffled by the question “where’s that to?” And the adding of “to” to every sentence then in Devon my husband’s colleague called me “my lover” which is just friendly there but in Kent I’d protest I’ve never had sex with the person saying it!