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 wasn't born in Britain, but when I moved here, these terms baffled/surprised me. I don't know which region they all come from though:

Poorly- I assumed meant someone in poverty
The word ASK being pronounced like AKS
Tea- I knew this as a a cup of tea and cake/biscuits, not the evening meal which I call dinner
Willy- I'd always referred to the anatomical name for the male appendage
Wally- cockney for a gherkin

@Aurorie11

Donnies for hands forgotten that one, my grandma used it

Oh yes, I occasionally tell DS to give me his donnie. I don't have a particularly strong black country accent, I say don't not day and aren't going no aye gooin but I do like kaylie for sherbert, gamboles, donnies and lugs

I was going to say cheeselogs but @LagganBubble beat me to it

@PragmaticWench

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

I hear that as 'a couple or three'. It's used a lot here (same general area).

Also a drift meaning a narrow lane or track.

Also old boys saying 'Average' when you ask them how they are. It means everything from 'feeling my age' to 'at death's door'.

@Giggorata

My mum was from Strood and called chickens Coopies 😂
As did may aunties and uncles, I call them that too sometimes

@Corrag

Ginnel = alleyway, NW England.

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

Further south (West Mids) it's "Couldn't stop a pig in an entry"

@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?

Have never heard that and gave ounces in Glasgow for decades. There are lots of odd expressions but that's not a familiar one.

@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?

We said that too. Midands

@HunterHearstHelmsley

Mithering- pestering Donnies- hands

Both Black Country.

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

Yes - bost - broken Bostin - great, brilliant

The corsey = the pavement or footpath in my particular area of West Yorkshire.

If a bitch/female dog is breaking down she is in heat and bleeding.

Towing, e.g. "Will you give up (gi' o'er) towing your mam!" = stressing out or hassling.

Knots in the hair are cotters. Pretty sure that's from the NE where my DM's family hail from.

My favourite is the Devonshire word dimpsey.
"I'll shut the curtains now that it's getting dimpsey (dark/twilight)."

And mine!

@HunterHearstHelmsley

Mithering- pestering Donnies- hands

Both Black Country.

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

Stop mithering me - stop bothering me

I'm all mithered now - I'm confused (would I'm bothered work here?)

My mom and gran used both these phrases

cut = canal
west mids

I grew up in London/Dubai/South Yorks/Bristol and late teens Norfolk.
Which means I recognise many of those words but don't necessarily know which region they originate.

Valleys South East Wales...
To potch (they're potchin') to be unfaithful.
Potch- mashed swede and carrots
Bosch- a sink.
To cwtch- cuddle
A cwtch- coal hole.
You'm- you are
We'm- we are
Mitch- missing school.

Don't be a squinny or squin (someone who whinges)
Dinlo (idiot)

I just searched this online Scottish dictionary, and it does say that a shock means a stroke.
dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/shock

Sounds though that it is an uncommon word to use.

Nesh. As in ‘tha’s nesh’. I’m from Yorkshire and it means ‘you feel the cold / bit of a wimp.

Most people I say it too don’t know what I mean where I live now.

These are all Donegal/Northern Ireland:
Thran - means stubborn/contrary
Aul doll - mother (old doll)
Aul fla - father (old fella)
Howl on - wait a minute (hold on)
Poundies - mashed potatoes
Beetle - this is what my grandmother called a potato masher - duke the beetles were lumps that had been missed by the masher!
Bout ye - how are you
Scunnered - drunk
Scundered - embarrassed

Mucktag - as both the mess of matted fur on a dog's behind and a term of endearment NW

One that I have only come across in Oxford is "lunched it" or "lunched out" to mean couldn't be arsed to do it (usually because you were too stoned).

@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

A teuchter is someone from the islands/ west coast rather than the highlands. I’d say it describes Hebridean culture far more than highland culture. And yes, there is a difference!