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?

Mizzog - miserable person. Not sure where its from but my family have always used it.

Scrage - as in a cut, you've scraged your knee, from my Dad who's a Brummie.

@liveforsummer

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)

Oh aye, I know all about scunnered. I've got Covid for the 2nd time and I'm bloody scunnered! I'm also beelin.

I’m from Nottingham and we definitely had lugs in our hair.

An alleyway is a twitchell.
An ice lolly is a sucker.
A sweet is a tuffy.
A horse is a bobbo.
A man is a mester.
A little bugger is a little bogger.

I've thought of another for Warrington.
If someone had a really short hair cut into a skin head we would say they had been "bald scrawped"
"Have you seen Daves hair? Looks like ees bin bald scrawped".

Midlands
Mum used to call hair knots Pugs, not Tugs as other posters have said, and Hands were Dannies, not Donnies.
Round the Wrekin means going all about the houses, from the Wrekin hill in Shropshire.
Dad was Welsh, so we used Ych-a-fi for dirty, Sospan not saucepan, Nain/Taid for grandparents.

My dad is from Wigan and he used to say he was clempt when he was hungry and he called those steak and kidney puddings you get in the chip shop "babbies yed".
My St Helens relatives call chips and mushy peas from the chip shop a "split".

Mom!
So many poems in here think it's an Americanism. It's not.

@SleepingStandingUp

Mom! So many poems in here think it's an Americanism. It's not.

Please explain because it drives me mad the amount of posters who are starting to use it. Mam/ mammy I hear all over Scotland/ Ireland/ N England but mom is only used by people I know who are American or Canadian. It's used increasingly on SM as if it's some banner of modernism.

@ofwarren

My dad is from Wigan and he used to say he was clempt when he was hungry and he called those steak and kidney puddings you get in the chip shop "babbies yed". My St Helens relatives call chips and mushy peas from the chip shop a "split".

With chips, scraps and pea wet

@Puffalicious I think the West Midlands has always used Mom. My fiends in Wolverhampton and their parents/grandparents certainly all do. Doubt their 85 year old nannas have been heavily influenced by Americanisms

Polis = Glaswegian for police

[quote liveforsummer]@Puffalicious I think the West Midlands has always used Mom. My fiends in Wolverhampton and their parents/grandparents certainly all do. Doubt their 85 year old nannas have been heavily influenced by Americanisms [/quote]
Yep... its always been mom in the West Mids. I actually write mum but say mom. Mum sounds odd to my ears. It's crazy that people say it's an Amercianism. It's probably been used here longer than in America.

Maybe all Americans are Brummies 🤔

Yes 🤣 pea wet always makes me laugh

Also a pasty in a barm - with brown sauce and butter. Yum!
I have one when I go back home to Bolton as they don't look at me like a weirdo when I ask for one

My colleague is Scottish and sometimes my boss asks her if he can use google translate we say she sells loads because customers just say yes to her

@Namechangeforthis88

I love mithering. I learnt it from a colleague.

My dad was from the Bolton area (Leigh) and used to say mither. I occasionally say it too. I'd never heard shriking though. And I didn't know ginnel was a north-western thing, I thought that was more national. In York they call them snickleways.

In Devon people used to say mitch off school (for skive). I've not heard that anywhere else.

@Ajl46

Polis = Glaswegian for police

I know that one from Taggart :)

Excuse me @knackeredcat it’s down the Bann in a bubble.

😜

Is fart in a colander regional? My dad uses that a lot!

Mitch off in Northern Ireland too @JuergenSchwarzwald

@SimpleHoardOfTruth

Lonning - countryside track/lane Beck - stream Blackites - blackberries

Cumbria

I heard the expression beck on a recent programme called Villages by the Sea. It covered, among others:

Thorpeness in Suffolk (which has a mere and I thought mere was a Cumbrian expression for lake)

and Staithes in North Yorkshire - which has a beck. So it must be a north country expression.

I thought skew wiff was a national expression too. Same with hummin(g) for smelly

Maiden for a clothes horse

@Ovenaffray

Mitch off in Northern Ireland too *@JuergenSchwarzwald*

interesting - when I went to university in Cardiff nobody knew what I was on about!

I don't remember having any northern Irish student friends until later in my student career and perhaps by then we'd stopped talking about school :)

Mitching was used for skiving off primary school in South Wales too.
In secondary school it was called bunking.

Maiden here too! -never knew til recently it had another name
Love this! We use knackered (exhausted) mithering (pestering) skriking (screeching kids) and a bunch of others. Also people round here use cock / pet affectionately (you alright, cock? ) NW)