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?

@Corrag @DartmoorChef I’m familiar with these too! Lancashire background.

'Mithering' is also common in West Yorkshire. It could well be a north country expression generally. I use it to describe maungy babies and infants making unwelcome noise in public places, who should be in bed! Similarly, 'nithering' is a polite way of saying it's way too cold for comfort.

Jitty - alley between buildings.
Mackle up - home-made repair.
Both Northamptonshire

I love the word mardy.

When I first said it to DH he thought I was making it up

It took me years of living in Oxfordshire to realise “spelk” was a Geordie dialect word (for splinter).

Other Geordie words I can never find a good alternative for: oxters, besoms, clarts

Lonning - countryside track/lane
Beck - stream
Blackites - blackberries

Cumbria

@Magnited

Gang yem (Going home) - North East

Gar'n On (Going home) - Dorset

Gan hame - NE Scotland

Soda/Soft drinks like Cola, Irn Bru and Fanta are called ginger here in Glasgow.

Great words

Skelf- splinter
Chute - slide
Ginger - any kind of fizzy juice
Juice - any kind of juice
Neeps - turnip
Teuchter - someone from up north (that means the Highlands not everything above the Watford Gap)
Jag - Jab / vaccination
Jobby - shite
Big Jessie - effeminate, weak man
Messages - shopping
Piece - sandwich
Eejit - idiot
Outwith - beyond / outside
Jings - an expression of surprise
Stooshie - a communication, rumpus
Stramash - uproar
Dreich - damp weather
Press - cupboard
Hummin - smelly (bad)
Keep the heid - stay calm
Park yer erse - sit down
Cheers - your welcome, or hello or goodbye or your good health or cheers

The letter J is pronounced Jye

Great phrases

Dinna fash - don't worry
Gie it laldy - do something with vigorous passion
Taps Aff - the sun has come out, men should remove their tops and sunbathe
Bile yer heid - boil your head - don't be ridiculous/absurd
Totie wee bit - very small
Yer bum's oot the windae - you are talking rubbish
Haud yer wheest - be quiet
Gie's Peace - please be quiet
Gie's A Piece - can I had a sandwich
Wee or Big Man - any male
Absolutely drookit - extremely wet
Pishin doon - raining heavily

Oh and our sausages are square

@Corrag

Ginnel = alleyway, NW England.

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

I thought this was a Yorkshire thing? DH says it, along with loads of other odd things

Also Cumbrian,

Shillies which is gravel
Clarty which is sticky like a child might have clarty hands

Glasgow born and bred and never heard this in my life.

Too many to mention from here, but most are actually Scots language not just a dialect of English.

Oxter/ stank/ smirry/harr/ messages/lum etc all classic Scots.

@mum2jakie yes heard lugs in the Midlands

Mithering- pestering
Donnies- hands

Both Black Country.

I'm always baffled by bost and bosting having two totally different distinct meanings!

@MajorCarolDanvers

Great words

Skelf- splinter
Chute - slide
Ginger - any kind of fizzy juice
Juice - any kind of juice
Neeps - turnip
Teuchter - someone from up north (that means the Highlands not everything above the Watford Gap)
Jag - Jab / vaccination
Jobby - shite
Big Jessie - effeminate, weak man
Messages - shopping
Piece - sandwich
Eejit - idiot
Outwith - beyond / outside
Jings - an expression of surprise
Stooshie - a communication, rumpus
Stramash - uproar
Dreich - damp weather
Press - cupboard
Hummin - smelly (bad)
Keep the heid - stay calm
Park yer erse - sit down
Cheers - your welcome, or hello or goodbye or your good health or cheers

The letter J is pronounced Jye

Great phrases

Dinna fash - don't worry
Gie it laldy - do something with vigorous passion
Taps Aff - the sun has come out, men should remove their tops and sunbathe
Bile yer heid - boil your head - don't be ridiculous/absurd
Totie wee bit - very small
Yer bum's oot the windae - you are talking rubbish
Haud yer wheest - be quiet
Gie's Peace - please be quiet
Gie's A Piece - can I had a sandwich
Wee or Big Man - any male
Absolutely drookit - extremely wet
Pishin doon - raining heavily

Oh and our sausages are square

Fabulous list.

Don't forget- you want a dooin?

@MajorCarolDanvers

Piece and big Jessie are west Midlands words too.

mardy
gennel
nesh
snap (packed lunch)
bread cake {bread roll]
bad wi nerves {depression}

Lugs=knots in hair was a common Brummie term

Mither- my Mom always said it and I do too

@SilverGlassHare I hope these Lancashire words endure but I wouldn't be surprised if they fade away at some point.

Another favourite of mine is sken eyed (cross eyed). Memorably used in The Bradshaws of Barnoldswick..."don't play split the kipper wi' sken eyed Michael"

@Doodar

mardy gennel nesh snap (packed lunch) bread cake {bread roll] bad wi nerves {depression}

West Yorkshire?

Bishy Barneybee is Norfolk for ladybird!

'On the huh'- something is askew or wonky.

Cruckle, for when you go over on your ankle.

Cuffy
Mardy
Mithering

Skew whiff - Suffolk for wonky.

Great list @MajorCarolDanvers! Most in use in extremely NE England too.