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.

Pan loafy - to act as if you are posh

Donnies for hands

I've read it somewhere, but can't remember where it comes from?

No, but my BIL refers to sweets as “tuffees”. Any sweets, not just toffees.

Have committed son of not reading thread but

Thaveless.

S/He was Standing there thaveless with both his arms the same length.

We use that too - the rude thing is because the saying comes from horses going to the knackers yard

*sin

Sweets am ‘suck’ where arm from.

”Sorry I’m a bit late. I bumped into the person from Porlock.”

Some people understand what I mean, others wonder WTF I’m on about.

Black Country?

Daps =plimsolls
Slider= slide
Me babber= my baby
Stingers= nettle
pitches= settle (as in snow)
Shrammed= cold
Gurt=great
Mint=good, brilliant
Cheers Drive= a thank you to bus drivers
Scrage=graze (injuries)

All Bristolian words

Daft apeth, barn pot, mither, mardy, ginnel, barm cake, etc. - all completely alien terms to most southerners unless they happen to be regular watchers of Coronation Street! 😂

Flash back to my Grandad

All the time. According to my friends it's because I make words up, I swear they're genuine then I google to prove it and can find no trace.

Gambol for somersault! Hadn't heard it before I moved to midlands from south.

Lambs gambol, children somersault!

My dad used to say Gamp! And I haven’t heard it for so long. he was from Lancashire

Hoss is used in Essex to mean go fast, as in “ he hossed it down the road”

DH uses "nesh" as an insult, as in, "you softy southerner".

Most of the key Birmingham ones have been mentioned already, but I don’t think anyone has said “gambol” yet? Which is a forward roll/ rolypoly. I honestly thought that was the proper recognised term until I was about 28!

Goo an fetch ya some suck from over the paper shop.

@GrasssInPocket and others, surely It's not 'daft apeth' but 'daft ha'porth' as in half penny's worth??

Ah snap! @SpinForTheWin 😆

Cornwall:

Yamming
Teasy
Squalling

Oh and dreckly obviously!

Ridiculously obstreperous? Or even obstreperously ridiculous? 😂

I once used the phrase “he’s in and out like a dog at a fair” and nobody had a clue what I was on about!

I remember being confused about going for messages in Scotland. Also a piece of cheese is not a piece of cheese, it’s a cheese sandwich.
in Liverpool when someone said something was “on top” I thought it meant something really good but it means the complete opposite!
I love all these dialect idiosyncrasies.