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?

@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.

See, in my part of the world that's a maiden. Didn't even know it wasn't the official name for it until I moved away to university!

In Ayrshire

Chankin' freezing cold
Een eyes
Fair founert really fed up (means wiped out/exhausted in other regions)

My mum, from Dublin, would call any over charming/ sleazy man 'a bit gamey ' never heard anyone else say it

From NW - I used to call knots in hair “tats” and it would be normal to say you had tatty hair.
Until I moved to midlands. Said it to one girl and she burst out laughing saying tats meant boobs to her.

I love all the Scottish sayings. Pishin doon is excellent!

"Grockle" is old Dorset dialect but much of the old county dialects of Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire and even parts of Hampshire share common roots. Traditionally it's a Dorset/Devon word but as its still common ly used today and county boundaries have changed over the last 200 years or so, it caught on.

"Beck" is another word for stream, so although it might be commonly used in one part of the country in particular, it's not unique to that area.

@MincemeatMaestro

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

Yes...i say cotters and am in the North East.

We would say knots in hair are tugs and lugs are your ears?! Glasgow.

How about "skookumchuck." A Chinook jargon term used where I live in the Pacific Northwest (BC). Chuck means water (as in Saltchuck for the sea) and skookum is strong, so skookumchuck means rapids or similar strong water currents.

I actually use the word skookum when referring to something solid and strong, even a person. I have also used saltchuck to refer to the Pacific Ocean.

Cheeselogs = woodlice.
Lugs = ears to me.
I also use mardy to mean grumpy so not sure if that's regional as I'm not near others who have said they use it.

I wonder if regional dialect is becoming less regional as people move around more/Internet etc etc.

I also just learned that "mucky muck" which is a term I have used for some overly important or high ranking person is from the Chinook slang also.

I had no idea this was a local phrase to the Pacific Northwest.

The old servant Joseph says "mithering" in Wuthering Heights.

I’ve heard people say ‘I nearly had a stroke’ to express shock, bit similar?

Where's that to?
Daps
Chuckypigs
Yertiz
Smoothe the cat/dog
Dreckly
Babber

A couple of NI ones:

Cowp - topple over
Footer - fidget
Dander - stroll
Gorb - greedy person
Wee skitter - badly behaved child

There are loads more, a lot of them Scottish words too.

North East
Clarts - mud
Ket - cheap sweets

West Yorks
tha's Suppin' barnt - your glass is empty, would you like another drink?
Nesh - someone who feels the cold
don't know if my examples are on this list but here's 60-odd more
the-yorkshireman.com/yorkshire-slang/

East Yorks
Dowly - not well
Mafted - uncomfortably hot
Trimmed - really pleased
Slape - icy
Now - a short form of greeting Usually said as Now followed by the person's name so 'Now, Brian' would mean 'Hello Brian, how are you?'

Nottinghamshire
Twitchell - narrow short-cut type footpath

Leics
Jitty - narrow short-cut type footpath
Mash - to brew as in mash (brew) a pot of tea

@Corrag, @SilverGlassHare

I'm from the NW originally and also know and use "ginnel".

Another phrase that I've heard used there but nowhere else is "giddy kipper" (to refer to a small over-excited child). Is that familiar to you?

"Its cracking the flags out there"

It's very hot...

Another of my mums sayings .. probably not that often in Lancashire lol... .. we didn't get that many heatwaves

"Can you give me a lift with this"

Just means Can you help me

It doesn't mean a lift in a car or picking something up

Next again day = the day after tomorrow

Falkirk- ish.

@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.

It's a maiden!

[quote MacavityTheDentistsCat]**@Corrag, @SilverGlassHare

I'm from the NW originally and also know and use "ginnel".

Another phrase that I've heard used there but nowhere else is "giddy kipper" (to refer to a small over-excited child). Is that familiar to you?[/quote]
I use giddy kipper! (Lancashire)

At work I speak to people all over the country and one man (maybe 30/40s) said "I live in London now and you sound just like home to me" 🥺🥺🥺
My accent is pretty mixed but when I'm angry it's pure Bolton

[quote MacavityTheDentistsCat]**@Corrag, @SilverGlassHare

I'm from the NW originally and also know and use "ginnel".

Another phrase that I've heard used there but nowhere else is "giddy kipper" (to refer to a small over-excited child). Is that familiar to you?[/quote]
I'm also originally from the NW. I'm familiar with ginnel and have often been known to refer to my children and the dog as 'giddy kippers'. I love that one.

Flummoxed and lozacked are two great words. Confused and lying around doing nothing.

Tilly Mint too. A term of endearment

A few more NI ones:

Quare - strange
Geg - funny, a funny person
Foundered - cold
Wee buns - easy
Boggin - dirty

South East Wales.

Moithering - bothering
Cobby - tangles in your hair
Gully - alleyway
Granny Grays - woodlice
Twti - to squat

@LyraVega

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!

Are you from the North West? I'm sure it's bugger lugs, not bug a lugs and it's referring to ears. My mum used bugger lugs all the time, not when brushing hair.