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?

@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 called them 'lugs' too! Im not sure if it's regional as I never heard anyone else say it

I said at work "standing there like piffy on a rock bun" and my boss was
Me "MOVE!"

People from Romsey say they'll do something "somewhen" - which I figure is similar to "d'rectly" in Cornwall or Mañana in Spanish.

Tip tops
Gamboling
Round the wrekin

Birmingham sayings

Goo Ummm
Go home in Suffolk

@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.

I'm West Mids, knots in your hair are def lugs. What else would you call them?

Grockle - tourists to the new forest (Hampshire). Not sure if it's used elsewhere!

@kazzikaz

Grockle - tourists to the new forest (Hampshire). Not sure if it's used elsewhere!

Used in Devon, didn’t know it was used elsewhere

Gooin wum - going home in Black Country
Moidering - bothering in north wales
Jamped - past tense of jump, north wales
Picking to rain - south west wales

@Justgamboling

Tip tops Gamboling Round the wrekin

Birmingham sayings

Black Country too, although they teach forward rolls at Gymnastics 🙄

Afower- before
Barly- truce
Bay- not (as in.. I bay a brummie!)
Barmpot- nice idiot
Barmy & saft- silly
Blart- cry
Blether yed- a fool
Bobhowler - large moth
Bonk- small hill
On the box - off sick
Canting- gossiping
Clack- uvula
Codge- bad job
Cost?- can you?
Fittle- food
Gamgee- cotton wool
Gammy- lame
Oss Road- street
Kay-li- sweets (sherbet)
Kaylied- drunk
Mush- acquaintance
Nairun- none
Odge up- move up
Podge- pushing in a queue
Riffy- dirty
Scrag- fight
Scrobble- knotted material
Snap- lunch
Suck- sweets
Tay- it isn't
Tranklements- bits and bobs
Tunky- fat
Wag mon- truant officer
Wench- girl (my favourite to use in some areas)
Wommuck- eat fast
Wum- home
Yampy- hopeless

All black country. There's loads more but I'm bored of typing.

I'm West Mids, knots in your hair are def lugs. What else would you call them?

Here they're called tugs. Though sometimes I call them knots.

[quote SleepingStandingUp]@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.

I'm West Mids, knots in your hair are def lugs. What else would you call them?[/quote]
I'm in the West Midlands and lugs are your ears to me. Lug holes are your ear holes 🤣

Or tangles. Usually tugs though.

Donnies for hands forgotten that one, my grandma used it

Nesh - you feel the cold really bad
Think it's a North of England thing?

Cheeselogs are woodlice in Reading.

In Hull/East Yorkshire

Nithering - cold
Mafting - hot
Bain - child

Knots in hair are sometimes called lugs in this area too.

@HoldingTheDoor

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.

Because in the summer you’d lay them over the dykes outside to dry.

Just to confuse you more, they’re also called clothes maidens.

@MajorCarolDanvers
In NE Scotland a teuchter is a country bumpkin (as opposed to a toonser).

@HunterHearstHelmsley
Gamgee is more than cotton wool too - it’s a big pad of cotton wool sandwiched between gauze.

'Get wrong'
'In a right fettle'

North East England

Also in Kent, an ant is a pismire and your dinner is scran.

A lot of the old Kent dialect words are disappearing, along with the rural Kent accent.

Hair knots are lugs in South Yorkshire too. I do use morngy, mardy, mither and nesh a lot. Ginnel is definitely used here and we say spell for a splinter.
Neeps are turnips but only heard older folk say it. And spuggies are sparrows.
Lug-oles are ears and dannies are hands.

I'm sure there's plenty more odd ones I use that I've forgotten. My DP is from Lancashire and sometimes looks at me like I'm speaking a foreign language.

I didn't realise mither / mithering was a regional word until about a year ago! I thought everyone used it (mithering as in bothering)

Also the clothes horse someone posted above is called a maiden round here

And yep lugs for knots in your hair was used in my family - or more affectionately it was "right bug-a-lugs come over here" before getting our hair brushed!

@Corrag

Ginnel = alleyway, NW England.

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

I live in NW Market town now and they say ‘the pads’ for ginnel or alleyway..... I grew up in North Yorkshire and we always said snicket

Another one for ‘spelk’, family is from the North East but I’ve never lived there. Used it all my life, my partner is the only one who flagged it as a random word when I was late 20s