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.

Round the wrekin
Island instead of roundabout
Tip tops for ice pop and jublee for the triangle ice pops
Outdoor for off licence (as they used to be a little shop next to the pub)
Loads more that I cant think of which have baffled non local friends or colleagues.
I'm surprised mither has come up a lot, I say it and I hear lots of other people too

@NippyWoowoo I think @ThanksAntsThants phrases are Black Country

You mean you have 'lugs'in your hair?! Thats what we say!

Anyone who has ever learned German will see the logic of this!

I don't know what that means 🙈

Black Country is an area of West Midlands - north / west of Birmingham

I think it for its name from the heavy industry there (once upon a time).

I was really surprised that both a Brummie and a Lancastrian had no clue what I was on about when I said it was mufti at DS’ school recently.

I remember being really taken aback in a previous workplace about 25 years ago when some colleagues complained about that term saying it was racist. Apparently it’s a colonial word.

In Northern Ireland ' walking around in sock soles' means without shoes but just socks. Moved to South of England and discovered this was not generally known. In Devon they said, ' stocking feet'.

Glaikit learnt from bf's Scottish grandmother

Not sure if this has come up yet but geg, as in stop geggjng in

Am I the only Portsmithian here to represent dinlo, div and squinny? I was convinced there'd be some Pompey lingo knocking around on here 😅
I've lived in Wales for the past 10 years, no one has a clue what I mean when I say any of those terms. Equally the first time one of my welsh friends said "I'll do it now in a minute" I had to ask them to repeat themselves and then ask which they meant- now, or in a minute? I love the welshisms mind.

Lugs - as in knots in your hair - I’ve never actually heard anyone outside my family use that, but Google assures me it’s a thing.

I thought everyone had a oma for ages until someone asked me what I meant

Oma= grandma
Baine = baby (I'm spelling that wrong but I'm tired)
Sugar = shit
Dodo = dummy
Fiddle sticks = for fuck sake

Some of my parents’ and grandparents’ Devon slang:

Gurt pudden - daft person
Toad - naughty child
Little maid - young girl
I’ll be there dreckly - I’ll come over once I’ve finished what I’m doing
Woollodge - dollop e.g. of ketchup
Joanies - trinkets/knick-knacks
Pixielated - bewitched by the pixies/ gone mad. When I was very young, my grandma told me of a woman she knew who went for a walk in the woods and got pixielated. I don’t really understand what she meant.

Skelf…splinter
oxter…armpit
jamp…jumped
slater…woodlouse?
the side…kitchen counter

@Thursa I use all of those except for kitchen worktop I'd say bunker

Asking for monkeys blood at the ice cream van...went to Wales and honestly when I asked for it, I thought the lady was trying to find somewhere to run...she took a step back looked both ways with sheer panic on her face....I sheepishly just said, oh its OK strawberry sauce will do 😳

Brummie by any chance ?

I use all of those expressions.
You must be a Brummie

Half clammed
Like a shit off a shovel
Round the Wrekin
Black over Bill's mother's
Manky
Broch (badger)
Twmp (hill)
Tafarn (pub)

Clodhoppers - large ugly shoes or boots
Monging out - being lazy
Dreaming of thee - being lazy
Pram pusher - young single mum

I’m a lecturer and sometimes get an international student who is really keen to learn local words. I recently taught a lovely Italian girl who was just delighted any time she got something new. From memory the following really tickled her:

Bosie - cuddle
Fine piece - a cake/bun/biscuit, usually had with your “fly cup” outside of a meal
Haar - a sea fog
Mithering - agitating, as in the cat constantly mithering for her dinner from 4pm
Scunnered - completely fed up
Proper bobbins - absolute rubbish, the actual pits

Oma is Dutch for grandma

I was going to put this too, we had dap bags at school 😊