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?

ineedsun South Yorks

Brew-small stream Bolton/Chorley

dc2(15) is still called bugs as they were a right little buggerlugs when they were little

shanks pony confused people where I live now

It's shanks pony for you= you're walking

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

@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?

lugs 👍🏻 Nw eng. also lug’oles (ears)

Ofwarren-from NW meself and recognise a lot of those, totally bemuse some people where I live now when I come out wi'them

@ofwarren

Those brought back memories. I could hear then all in my mum or dad's voices then. 🥰

Water was also pronounced "wather"
The tip was known as the Dano

Loving this thread as its brought back lots of good memories. All my family were from Bolton and Radcliffe but have sadly died now and I moved away 30 years ago when I was 20.

I've no idea if this is regional but my dp is English, I'm welsh, I mentioned the other day that pubs serve curry half and half (rice and chips) and he had no idea what I meant! is that just a welsh thing?!

ofwarren

^^

I'm from East Lancashire and all those ring a bell! Up them dancers

@FrecklesMalone

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).

I have heard this on various environmental protest sites/ new traveller sites, up and down the UK. I wonder if it originated as a regional term and morphed into argot?

Other words from them include:
gack = unhealthy/rubbish food
bimble = to wander about aimlessly, travel about.

My mam, from N Yorkshire, used "starving" to mean very cold. I's aboot starved to dee'ath (I'm very cold). Also:
Weak & wambly = shakey
Mafted = too hot
Now tha's shaping = you're getting the hang of it
Frame the'sen = pull yourself together, get on with it
Stenkt = closed or finished (eg a shop or market)

Both my parents were born in London, my DF in the east end.

Bum - Aris
Hair - Barnet
Butchers - look
Loaf - brain (as in use your loaf)
Porky - porky pie, to lie

All very much still in use within the family but all now living in Hampshire not London!

@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 too, West Yorkshire.

I've moved around a lot so a sandwich can be a butty, a roll, a piece or a batch.

My mam, from N Yorkshire, used "starving" to mean very cold. I's aboot starved to dee'ath (I'm very cold).

I've heard that in Lancashire (very old person) but it also appears in Shakespeare so your Mam is in good company.

@ofwarren
I'm nodding to most of those. When I lived in Oxford I once said to one of the doctors to, "Give over mythering me" someone translated for me.

Uch up - make room

Shift thisen - move out of the way

Ginnel - small ally or path between buildings

Go lake on' fast lane o' M1 - go play on the fast lane of the M1 motorway

Is 'e poorly or playing - is he really ill or just taking a day off work

I'm not to a penny - if you are paying someone back and they are a bit short of cash, you don't need to be paid the fill amount

Na' but just- you barely managed to do something

Wait while I... - I'm just going to do this then I'll be with you

Corporation pop, also known as duck wine - tap water

I'm in the midlands and I use lugs to mean knots in hair. Also your hair is "luggy".

Along with mither, I didn't actually realise these weren't used everywhere! Nesh too

Clodhoppers for chunky or big shoes/boots (Northamptonshire)

My husband is cockney and there are so many words (no he doesn't use rhyming slang) but I think (h)arris for your rear end and poxy to say something is bad or distasteful are my two favourites.

Bosie/bozie for a cuddle - NE Scotland
Fits a dee wi yi? - what’s wrong
Foos it gan- how’s you
Furraboots - where?
Trackled - tired
Chavvin- to keep going
Hurlie - ride (often in a wheelchair at work)
Ony eese - any use (struggles with that last week when someone phoned and says
Quine - girl
Loon - boy
Wifie/manny - woman/man (usually prefixed by al’ )
Bidie in - unmarried live in partner but that might be outdated now, my gran’s on a 40 year grudge because the butcher accused her of this in 1979 …

Butterie/buttery is the other one nobody seems to know down the road for some reason as they don’t really get eaten much outside of NE I think … which is a shame as they’re bloody wonderful things .

Teuchter aye puts me in mind of Cabrach radio aka radio teuchter … for anyone not native to Aberdeenshire it’s a very good introduction to our lingo 😁

Taters (pronounced ta'ers) to say it's very cold outside.

Batch = bread roll as in a 'bacon batch'

@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?

Lugs to me are ears - I grew up in Yorkshire.

@mjf981 to me lug 'oles are ears and lugs are nots in hair.

And giving someone a love - give them a hug, normally used about or to children, "Give granny a love"

Nurse to mean sit a child on your knee, I met a Canadian lady who married a Lancastrian and was put out the first time she was asked if she wanted to 'nurse the baby'.

Oh and the words for sweets

Spice, spegs, sweets, lollies, toffee.

When we first moved to Lancashire, my dad tried to but some toffee in a sweet shop, in East Lance a 'toffee' is any kind of sweet so my dad's, "Can I have a quarter of toffee" was met with "Yes, what do you want"

He soon learned to point at the toffee.

Speaking of toffee, who knows what 'Bonfire toffee' and 'Parkin' are?

And how many people call golden syrup 'treacle' and know where 'treacle miners' are from.

I know about Parkin, Bonfire toffee and also black peas. Lugs are also knots in hair, a clothes dryer is a maiden.

Squinny - upset over something (but nothing very serious)
Copped - in a strop

@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?

Yep my mum said the same!