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! 😆

Yes they are. The Scots version is 'hen'..

'Daddocky' or 'jommetry' for something wonky or hanging on by a thread...

'Chuckypig' for woodlouse

'Mumruffin' - Long Tailed Tit

'Chimmuck' - chimney

'Shepster' - starling

'Mouldywarp' - mole

'Hotchi' or 'Urchin' - hedgehog

"I'd as lief be' - I'd rather be"

Gloucestershire

@OldFred Derby I think but to decide I need to know what you call a footpath between two houses?

Banned?! What are there enforcers and reports to monitor language and word usage?

I like the 'Away and boil yer heid' for annoying people!

crabbit

As someone from Devon I never thought "my lover" was odd until I moved away and got called duck or petal - that was weird 😀. Little girls in Devon are referred to as "maid" or very occasionally "maiden". Here's a Devon word for you - overbrewed tea is "samsoyed" (pronounced zamzoyed because s tends to sound like z in Devonshire).
Later, moving to Dorset, my male friends called each other "mush" rather than "mate". I don't know if that is widespread?

I am off for a jobby

I live in Scotland and I love being called hen.

I also love shoogly peg - when someone’s hat is on a shoogly peg, it means they are in a precarious or uncertain situation.

Where to even start - I am Scottish

Top of the list is our use of the word "outwith" which is just completely superior in precision to outside of, or outside

Yer bums oot the windae - you are talking rubbish
Awa an bile yer heid - go away
Haud yer wheest - be quiet
Yer coats oan a shooglie peg - you position is precarious
Your looking awfie peely wally - you don't look well
blowin a hoolie - its very windy

bahookie - bum
jobby - poo
Boggin or mingin - disgusting
coorie - cuddle
winchin - snogging
bidie-in - living with a partner to whom you are not married
glaikit - stupid, foolish
oxter - armpit
jag - jab
skelf - splinter
piece - sandwich
sleekit - sly or cunning

@MinervaMcGonagallsCat dinnae fash yerself wi a tha bumpf! 😆

@OldFred did you meet your friends at the left hand lion? 😂

I love nesh and twoccer (car thief) (and used to mean pinched/stolen when we were teenagers as in “Miss! Sammo’s just twocced me pencil!”

My Grandma who lived all her life in Birmingham called hands puddies. It is a Black Country word. I use it with my dc.

Like a PP, I never realised that outdoor for off-licence was regional either.

I love the Yorkshire term for an alley way - snicket.

we don’t use the term down south and I love it so we’ve adopted it as a family

Still does get said quite regularly.

Wow, that's one I've not heard for years. Puddies is definitely more Black Country. In Birmingham, we used to call them Donnies. But they're kind of interchangeable.

I'm sure it does I was just saying that those people at my work who said it have left and no one I know says it much anymore

You'll have to change your workplace then

Hinny
Scran
Barm cake
Pet

Hodmedods and dodmans

I'm from Scotland but live in the NE now and love this phrase so much. Much better than 'I want doesn't get'.

"Wally" to mean a gherkin. London.

@OldFred Not'num of course

I first heard "mardy" growing up in Lincolnshire which isn't that far away.

I love mardy! (Grew up Manchester and North Yorks)

"On the huh" Not straight..
"On the drag" Running late.
"Buh" Friend.
East Anglia..

The messages - errands
Boss - excellent
Sound - good, to be trusted
Blotto - blind drunk
I will yeah - I absolutely won't
He'd put a fork in the sugar bowl - he's a tight fisted get
Get - thoroughly unpleasant person
Banjaxed - broken beyond repair