Regional words and phrases you love

[OldFred]

A few from my childhood are mardy (petulant, grumpy) and cob (for a bread roll) and everyone calling you "me duck" - guess where I'm from! 😆

I love “on the huh” in Norfolk and Suffolk to mean something isn’t level or straight.

'get'-Liverpudlian for idiot.
'Mortal' -drunk Geordie
Also gattered but
Absolute New favourite is the Jamaican slang word 'bomboclat'

@OldFred
Leicestershire

Mitherer - a petulant complainer.

@OldFred notts or maybe Derbys

Yep that was my childhood too! I grew up in Stafford. I remember when I moved to the South West for a new job and I was calling people "duck" and they just stared at me like I was mad 😂

'ey up cock'

I started new place of work years ago and people said that quite often. I didn't know what they were on about at first 😂

Sadly those people must have all left. I don't hear it anymore!

@MissyB1 - I used to live in Bristol and some of the older locals would say 'my lover' - their equivalent of 'duck' or 'hen'. I was startled at first...

Banned 😂😂

I quite like them actually (not so much Hun)

Derbyshire like me?!
My mum used to call me a Dollshead when I was being silly...never heard anyone else use it but I love it.
I also like 'flower' or 'flowerpot' as a term of endearment for a man.

@OldFred Derby??

Oh yes I've heard that a lot! And I had never heard the word "lush" until I lived in the south West either.

Leicestershire?

Rop ache - my grandma used to say. Which was pain in lower abdomen.

She also pronounced the word 'burned' as 'bont', 'bird' as 'bod', 'horse' as 'hoss', etc.

Ah, I like pet. Those are all said with affection.

You and me both.

Never once said "mardy" or "nesh", but say "ay up" all the time

"Shy bairns get nowt" North East

“D’ye think I button up at the back?” is one of my favourite Glaswegian ones.

Same as Devon, took my breath away at first too 🤣

You can't live too far from me! Definitely nottinghamshire or derby?

Clarting about = Messing around

Yampy = Mental

Blarting = Crying

Outdoor = Off licence

<Loads more>

I had no idea any of these were regional, working-class Birmingham phrases until I moved to university.

Cwtch - Welsh for hug/cuddle, used in west Gloucestershire as well