Unusual Regional Words?

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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?

Mizzle - to disappear / abscond, also misty drizzly weather.

The phrase "Be careful you don't get smitten", said to any young woman holding someone else's baby, the 'smitten' meaning to get pregnant.

@doodar I'm South York's and recognise all of those.

My Dad used to say "put wood in in't hole" to mean shut the door.

I've also heard "spell" to mean splinter.

A pot is a plaster cast as in "they put a pot on his leg"

A skerrik means a little bit of something like a scrape of butter or a tiny bit of cake.

"Sithee" is a greeting that could be hello or goodbye. I think it comes from "I see thee"

I know an alleyway as a snicket but my MIL from Lancashire calls it a ginnel.

Yes bread cake for a bread roll, although I think technically it's a soft flattish roll not a hard crusty one.

Living down south all of these expressions have led to confusion over the years!

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Laughing at some of these words/phrases never heard "over the water", many a bit close to the bone and coarse

Blocked - drunk
Aye, yer ma - I don't quite believe you
Are you gettin'? - Are you being served?
Dose - same as eejit
Gravy ring - ring doughnut sprinkled with sugar, nicer than it sounds!
Happy days! - that's good
Beezer - as above
Culchie - someone not from a city, often a shorthand for those from more rural towns who move to Belfast to study at QUB
Sweltering - how you feel in hot weather
Slabberin' - either actual salivating or talking nonsense
That's wick - that's not very good
Yer head's cut - that's not sensible
Took a reddener - felt embarrassed

Regional words are often weird but always wonderful - I love seeing and hearing all the others!

Gipping for heaving/vomiting.

@knackeredcat I had forgotten some of those. 'Ya wee slabber' was pretty popular when I was growing up. Many years ago, DP's much younger brother used 'he was slabberin' at me' as his only defence for throwing an orange at his mate and smashing a school window. And it was weird how we all thought 'seems fair enough'🤣🤣

I still say 'that's wick' or 'that's a bit wick' all the time though!

I haven't rtft so when I do I might already have the answer but I'll ask anyway: does anyone here mash the tea in a teapot? Do you drink it when it's mashed?

Mazey(lancs) when you're not quite with it, that feeling like you're thinking through a fog

A bread roll/cob is known as a batch round my way

Barmcakes here in north-West!

@tatyr

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

That's Wenglish for 'dipynn o bwl'

Dipyn o bwl.

Couple from Oxfordshire:

Gollop - to eat your food very quickly
Okkard - for awkward
Weary - for wary

We have 'rats tails' for tangled hair but not sure if this is just my family or has wider use.

A lot of the dialect words are disappearing along with the Oxfordshire burr.

@ofwarren

Warrington in the North West

to take shanks' pony - to walk

corporation pop - water

to be in fine fettle - to be well/healthy

'ow's thee diddlin'? - how are you?

to tan someone's hide - to smack someone (a child) on the bottom

to be like the side of the house - to be very fat

As happy as Larry - very happy, content

As happy as pigs in shit - very happy and pleased with oneself

As snug as a bug in a rug - comfortable

Id berrer make tracks - Get going/move on.

Will ee eck as like: He wont.

Any road: Anyway

Neither use nor ornament: Can be said of a thing or a person!(If youre in a bad mood)

To have eyes bigger thyan yer belly: Wanting more food than you eat,or feeling sick after eating too much.

Ger up them dancers: Go to bed.

Give over: Stop

Yer not made eh glass: move away from the TV

There an' back see 'ow far it is: This was said when you didnt want the other person to know where you were going.

Three sheets t' wind: Being drunk

Ummin an arrin: Being indecisive

Mard arse - Cry Baby

Gorra bone in me leg - said in response to someone asking what's the matter

Alright cocka? - are you OK friend?

Backsies - the alley behind houses

Seater - riding on the back of your mates bike

Crommy- riding on the crossbar of your mates bike

You look well - you look a state

Ewt - anything (I've not eaten ewt today)

Newt- nothing (I've newt left in the fridge)

Up the dancers/wooden ill- go to bed

Butty- sandwich

Wagging it - not going to school

Feeling mothetten - tired, especially when looking after kids

I think a lot of these may be just old fashioned phrases rather than regional as I know at least half of them (West Midlands)

My daughter just used this one and I had forgotten what a great Scots word it is.
"bumfle"
Meaning a wrinkle or fold ... but I think there's a visceral element to it of slight irritation/annoyance🤣

Yes @Puffalicious we say 'mom' rather than 'mum', 'mam' or 'ma' in the West Midlands and as far as I'm aware always have done! At least the two generations above me have used it and I'm in my 50s!

“Chored” - stolen

“Cheesy bug” - woodlouse

Both of these I didn’t realise were regional words until I used them where I live now and was greeted with completely blank looks.

From Blackburn originally and you'd say "she were agate" rather than she was saying /talking about. Also for cold we'd say its cewd, can't even think how to explain how you'd pronounce it if you didn't know!

[quote tinkywinkyshandbag]@doodar I'm South York's and recognise all of those.

My Dad used to say "put wood in in't hole" to mean shut the door.

I've also heard "spell" to mean splinter.

A pot is a plaster cast as in "they put a pot on his leg"

A skerrik means a little bit of something like a scrape of butter or a tiny bit of cake.

"Sithee" is a greeting that could be hello or goodbye. I think it comes from "I see thee"

I know an alleyway as a snicket but my MIL from Lancashire calls it a ginnel.

Yes bread cake for a bread roll, although I think technically it's a soft flattish roll not a hard crusty one.

Living down south all of these expressions have led to confusion over the years! [/quote]
I recognise all of these, I was working in Lancashire and asked a colleague to "put wood in in't hole", but she was Scottish and had not heard it before.

She still didn't understand after the explanations.

Door open, "hole in the wall"
Door closed, "closing the hole"

Put the wood in t' hole... what did she struggle to understand exactly?!

@WalkersAreNotTheOnlyCrisps

Gipping for heaving/vomiting.

One of my kids spent months in hospital in Leeds due to a medical condition that couldn't be treated elsewhere. One of the nurses asked me "did he gip?" I had absolutely no idea what she meant till she explained

I was asked once of my Goretex boots 'Do they tun in?' Repeated several times to my mystification. They meant 'turn in' which means let in water. Yorkshire Dales.

Is the word 'cewd' above pronounced like 'cowed'? For 'cold'.

In Cumbria, twining is complaining or moaning, such a great word. I just knew what it meant the first time I heard it.

@RaraRachael

I can remember my grandparents (NE Scotland) speaking about somebody having had a shock when they meant a stroke too.

We always spoke about going the messages, for shopping.

Any form of cold meat was referred to as beef.

All fizzy drinks were called lemonade - orange lemonade, green lemonade, white lemonade etc

We never used the word lived, always stayed.

coombe- valley (cf Welsh cwm)

Pronounced differently - the w in Cwm is short but it is a oo sound.like the oo in cook or book

The Welsh use the word for message to mean groceries

Tha's mek a better door than a winder (window) (move, you're blocking my view of the TV)

Yon mon's got a glass back (he's a lazy get)

Barm cake/flourcake (bread roll)

Powfagged (tired)

Fissog (face)

Shaping wooden (making a hash of something)

We'd say lugs as knots in hair/your hair is luggy but we'd also say ears were lugholes.

Gobbin (idiot)

NW

Is that pronounced with a G or J sound?
My dad used to say he had a "jippy tummy" if he had stomach ache or D&V.

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