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?

Oh and umming and arring for hesitating

I was just coming back to say "foundered" to mean frozen with the cold, but the NI PPs have beaten me to it.

Another one my Mum used was "pewly" - it means sickly-looking. Usually to refer to children, either one that is currently sick, or one that looks pale and scrawny and unhealthy all the time.

@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 use that in Derbyshire

If it was really hot :"I'm sweating cobs!"

Dorset -
grockle - tourist
coombe- valley (cf Welsh cwm)
jasper- wasp
emmet - ant
emmet butt - ant Hill
girt - big
shrammed, shramming - shrivelling cold, as in, "I'm shrammed" or, "it's a scrambling wind out there."

I also remember workers on the farm gendering "it" things, "we'll dig 'er up" (talking about a broken water pipe,) "Henry's sorting he out."

I know 'mardy' from Lincolnshire.
I learned 'ginnel' and 'beck'in Leeds and a Norfolk woman taught me 'loke', which I think means a little lane, or something like a ginnel.
My Lancashire friend taught me 'spitting feathers', meaning thirsty.
A woman from Cambs called the sandwich that you take to work, (i.e. your piece or your snap), your docky.
I haven't read the whole thread but I love these dialect words and wish them to survive and be used.
Well, that's quite a stitherum from me so I'll stop. Well, not quite a stitherum, because I suppose it made sense and wasn't too long.

....and I knew two Scottish girls who used to do the messages - errands, shopping.

In my family, if you did something clumsily, (aka in an uneppen way), you might be told that you were like 'a pig handlin' plum pudding'. Please someone, tell me that you know that one.

Notts/derbys

Ay up is hello
Tabs are ears
Snap/pack up is packed lunch
Twitchell is alley between houses

This quiz from 2019 is fun and in my case very accurate.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

I'd love to do that quiz but it's behind a paywall.

[quote mum2jakie]@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!![/quote]
I'm in staffs, Birmingham originally, and I was brought up with lugs meaning knots in hair too!

I say Mom too (midlands) but can't usually find cards with this on unfortunately.

My DH encourages my DD to use Mum tho 😁

"Spreeved" is a little used word of west country origin. It refers to damp skin that gets red or sore, eg "dry yourself properly or you'll get spreeved".

Slutchy - muddy
Lancs

I'll get this off to a straight edge - get everything sorted. a mill term

Notty

In shetland we call the body aches after exercise 'spaegie'

Nowty. Meaning grumpy

“Shock” definitely means a stroke in Dundee, OP.
When I was a medical student, back in the 1970s, my tutorial group had to take a clinical history from an elderly Dundonian.
We were all English, so when he told us that he had “taken a shock”, we all assumed he’d been electrocuted!
There followed a confused discussion, with him getting more and more irate and puzzled as to why we kept asking him about electric cables, burns, and irregular heartbeat!

I can remember my grandparents (NE Scotland) speaking about somebody having had a shock when they meant a stroke too.

We always spoke about going the messages, for shopping.

Any form of cold meat was referred to as beef.

All fizzy drinks were called lemonade - orange lemonade, green lemonade, white lemonade etc

We never used the word lived, always stayed.

Not sure if these are regional or more widespread slang words but we use fizzog for face and chops for mouth.

Makes me laugh now because my oldest son refused to try lamb chops for years. Turns out he thought they were made from a sheep's mouth! LOL!

Anyone mentioned Cruckle ? … means to twist over on your ankle .

@Babdoc

[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]
Precisely this. I live just outside of Wolverhampton and even in school, it's Mom. Mom on mother's day cards, Mom on the notice boards for family stuff. Its just Mom. Not an affectation. Not an Americanism. Just the woman who gave birth to me