Have you ever used a word or phrase that you thought everyone knew but they didn't?

[CaramelJones]

Prompted by a discussion with a friend. When we first met she kept saying mardy and I had no idea what she meant.

Has anyone experienced similar with a regional word or a term that only your family use? It's making me wonder which regional words I might be using without thinking of it.

I had a boyfriend once who used to talk about ‘freshly squozen orange juice’. He didn’t believe me when I said it wasn’t a real word.

My dad says banjaxed, and I've started saying now too.

It's an excellent word.

Lush means lovely . Doing a cobble means working in the side . Dimlow means idiot

Buggled as in my hair is buggled (knotted)

And the expression to "fish something out"

Not everyone realises what you mean

I see you! Me too

I use mither a lot. My husband is a terrible mitherer, and I often pick him up on it.

I use "round the Wrekin" occasionally and usually have to explain myself.

Happens all the time in our house. I’ve been with DH over 10 years, and he’s still baffled occasionally,

This year I’ve confused him with ‘cockled over’ and ‘taffled up’.

Mufti is an army term for plain clothes.

callycode for piggyback

Oh.. what I grew up calling plimsolls are sometimes known as sand shoes. And yes to ‘cheese piece’.
On the subject of ‘squoze’ my dc sometimes used ‘jamp’ and ‘brang’, but I’m not sure those are regional?

I always thought nesh meant coward, pratt, idiot?

'Duppy'
Means to insult someone in Yorkshire

inasmuch. All my colleagues insisted there was no such word and I meant in as much, but I definitely didn't.

My mum would use the word "bray" to describe a hill.

'Fiddling while Rome burns'. Young lass at work was mystified.

Soundo

My DH from the midlands accused me of having made up the word! In his defence, a Google said it is London slang

Ha, I do originate from the same area, so must be a regional thing!

@Queenelsarules omg this reminds me of the cringiest moment when my dad met my boyfriend (a southerner) and did the 'dad's speech to daughter's first boyfriend' which ended with "or else I'll bray yer!"...

Hull dads have no chill 😂

I came here to say this. I said it to my boss who is Irish, and he said he'd never heard the word before in his life. I wonder if it's regional? I'm from Manchester.

I tried to convince the person that questioned my usage it was a real word, but had to eat my words after a quick google, I was most surprised!

@MrsRinaDecker jamp is a Fife word used instead of jumped we use it all the time & most people here don't even know it's not a real word!

Brang/brung here is used in place of brought so you'd ask "who brang/brung the washing in?"

I was going to post cheeselog as well - I never actually knew the proper name until about 5 years ago.

@ThanksAntsThants are you from the Caribbean 😂

I use mither, also from Manchester area.

I once mystified some friends by commenting that it was "blowing a hooligan" outside. Turns out it's a SW/seafaring (we were a naval family) version of the Scottish "blowing a hooley".