Unusual Regional Words?

[AllThePogs]

A friend just told me that people in Glasgow say they have had a shock when they mean they had a stroke. I had never heard this before.
Are there any unusual regional words you know?

I’ve never heard that- is she sure?

I'm from Glasgow. I've never heard anyone say that.

Her and her family live in Glasgow and were born there. Is it an old person's word maybe?

I've never heard that either granted I'm just outside Glasgow but a lot of our dialect is the same.

Nope never heard it either

Saying I've having a dinner for anything that is a meal with gravy

Gang yem (Going home) - North East

Gar'n On (Going home) - Dorset

Think I can remember my grandma using that expression (Aberdeen)

Her and her family live in Glasgow and were born there. Is it an old person's word maybe?

I used to work with elderly people. I've still never heard anyone say that. I wonder if it was a family term rather than a regional one. I've seen people mention on MN that their family called objects a certain name and only realised when they used it with a friend, that no one else called it that.

In West Yorkshire, a bad-tempered or irritable person will often be described as a 'maungy '. Noun of your choice .

A friend from Ayrshire called this, what I'd call a clothes horse, or airer or dryer, a WinterDyke. She couldn't believe that I'd never heard the term, winterdyke before.

Morn Iron. Some years ago my mum asked my now dh who's English, if he took a piece to his work. He was agog but she only meant a sandwich.

My Mum always called knots in my hair 'lugs' - don't know if this was a regional word or something strange that my mum said?

OP, I've heard "bit of a pull" used similarly in Wales

Chickens in Kent are often “coopies”

@WildRosie do you use mardy too? S yorks

Badly for feeling ill.Im badly today not coming in to work

[quote MintyGreenDream]@WildRosie do you use mardy too? S yorks[/quote]
I've been known to use the expression 'mardy-arsed' but not very often. I've heard others say mardy, though.

@mum2jakie

My Mum always called knots in my hair 'lugs' - don't know if this was a regional word or something strange that my mum said?

From the Midlands? My dm used to say that too.

Couple-of-three meaning 'a few' in North Essex/South Suffolk.

Stop your skriking (Stop your crying)

Don't mither me (Stop bothering me)

North West Lancashire (Bolton/Bury)

Lots of Scottish ones, let me see if I can think of some entertaining examples:

Baffies - slippers
Oxsters - armpits

I love mithering. I learnt it from a colleague.

Ginnel = alleyway, NW England.

Common use..."he wouldn't stop a pig in a ginnel" to describe a bow-legged person.

@mum2jakie

My Mum always called knots in my hair 'lugs' - don't know if this was a regional word or something strange that my mum said?

My mum and gran used to say this - are you from the north west?