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?

@MincemeatMaestro

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

Cots. Your hair is cotty. North east.

Got a cob on - in a mood
Cob - bread roll
Crusty cob - crusty bread roll!

@StrawberryIceQueen

Next again day = the day after tomorrow

Falkirk- ish.

And 'the morns morn' for tomorrow morning.

Got it on him/her
E.g Hes got it on him.Someones pissed off/annoyed

@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?

Yes we said this. What region are you from?

If we were restless and wriggling about, my mum would say "Stop wraunging about!" That was Manchester.

@Pieceofpurplesky yes! I don't know anyone else who calls it a maiden. I've tried to train myself to call it an airer as my DH and everyone else down south where i live now stares at me in incomprehension when i use "maiden".

Oh I've just remembered 'roaring' and 'skriking' for crying.

Moangy for if you are well, being moangy, sort of that whyiny things kids do when they don't want to do something.

'Bethought misen', changin your mind, "I was going to do X then I bethought misen' I now live in the Midlands and have successfully introduced this word to two friends.

@Zonder I'm from Staffordshire but have never come across anyone else using or understanding the meaning of lugs in this way, even locally!

It's lovely to discover that so many other people on here use the word lug too!!

Originally from NI and love seeing and hearing the vernacular thanks to both PPs and Hastings from Line of Duty

Oxters - underarms
Scundered - embarrassed
Eejit - idiot, probably one of the best known NI words
I'm foundered - I'm cold
Baltic - cold (weather)
Here's me... - I said...
Courtin' (pronounced coortin) - snogging, bit old fashioned
Poke - Mr Whippy ice cream cone

I didn't float up the Lagan in a bubble, I still use the word "wee" a fair bit to mean "little", and I'm a bit homesick right naaai

[quote SilverGlassHare]@Pieceofpurplesky yes! I don't know anyone else who calls it a maiden. I've tried to train myself to call it an airer as my DH and everyone else down south where i live now stares at me in incomprehension when i use "maiden".[/quote]
Are you from the NW originally? It's always been a maiden for me. Had no idea it had another name until I met people who weren't NW born and bred!

Bishy barnaby - ladybird
On the huh - wonky, ie that pictures on the huh

Norfolk

@knackeredcat

Originally from NI and love seeing and hearing the vernacular thanks to both PPs and Hastings from Line of Duty

Oxters - underarms
Scundered - embarrassed
Eejit - idiot, probably one of the best known NI words
I'm foundered - I'm cold
Baltic - cold (weather)
Here's me... - I said...
Courtin' (pronounced coortin) - snogging, bit old fashioned
Poke - Mr Whippy ice cream cone

I didn't float up the Lagan in a bubble, I still use the word "wee" a fair bit to mean "little", and I'm a bit homesick right naaai

It's mad that all of these, bar scundered, are used in Scotland too. I wonder which direction the words flowed? Where did they originate? Fascinating.

Although its pokey hat here for an ice-cream cone. Very similar.

Somerset:
Daps …. plimsolls
Dumpsey dark …..twilight
Granfers………woodlice
Where’s that to? ….. what location?
Lil maid…….young girl
He……most items normally called ‘it’, as in ‘we’ll soon have he mended’

Sussex:
Twitten….alleyway between houses
Scran…..food
Bait……packed lunch or portable snack
Harry Nippers…….it’s very cold outside
Jethro…..coat
Cady…..hat
Swallocky……threatening grey sky just before a storm
Fain-ites…….said by kids with fingers crossed to be exempt during a game, such as tag or kiss-chase
Grockles…..tourists

@rc22

In Hull/East Yorkshire

Nithering - cold
Mafting - hot
Bain - child

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

Also we say tenfoot (alley way)

@knackeredcat
Also from NI.
Gutties for plimsolls
Heel of the bread for the crusts on the end. Don't know what else to call it.
To hoke out something -

@11inch, I still call the ends of bread the heels. Could really go for some Belfast Bap now!

It's great having a "wee duke" (sp?) back at this thread - I'm sounding like my long departed granny now and proud of it

It's mad that all of these, bar scundered, are used in Scotland too. I wonder which direction the words flowed? Where did they originate? Fascinating.

We don't use scundered in Scotland but do use scunnered which means sick of/had enough.

'Ate too many sweets and scunnered myself'

'I'm scunnered with the whole thing now' (talking about covid for instance)

Grew up in Hull -

Snicket - pathway between houses
Taffled - anything knotted up ie wool or your hair
Bags foggy - I want to go first
Bags seggy - I want to go second
Are you Larkin? - do you want to come out and play?

Not sure if they're all still in use (been gone over 20 years) but much used in my childhood!

@BobbieT1999

"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.

I use that word... I was born in London though

I say to my kids you look like grockles meaning your filthy or dirty clothes! I have no idea where I got that from

@knackeredcat we used to fight over who got the heel of the Veda

Must of had a NW relative somewhere along the lines as I know quite a few of those sayings!
But I think growing up in London you come across all sorts of different people from different places.

Our neighbours/ friends were mostly Irish, Jamaican or possibly Scottish northern borders so i guess I picked up a few sayings along the way.

But my dads side were from Dorset so the grockle thing must have come from him!

In Reading, wood lice are Cheese logs

But I think growing up in London you come across all sorts of different people from different places

My family are all Londoners who moved out to the countryside decade's ago, they're all well spoken yet have picked up a fair amount of colloquialisms from them that are utterly London in origin.