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 mardy, first heard it listening to the arctic monkeys and it has become part of my lexicon now, eg, I can't be fucked with Jane today she's a right mardy bum

Backalong - meaning something that happened a while ago, eg I used to go to that pub backalong, or I worked there backalong.

Him and her being e and er, as in 'er done summat there' or 'where's e to?'

Devon/Somerset region. Gorgeous!

I love ‘how’s your belly for spots?’

Ey up cock - pure Lancashire

Mithering

Mard

Jump up kitchen door and a bitt off latch

Up them dancers

Hang fire

Hold your horses

Trouble at mill

Oh some more

Face like a bag of spanners

Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp

He's built like a brick shithouse

I'm gonna guess OP is from Sheffield.

Here's some from where I live now:
Blert = daft person
Minty = dirty
Lid = young man
Meff = a badly dressed or scruffy person
Wool = someone from outside the city
Dart = when you leave work early
Scran = food
Bevvy = alcoholic beverage
Jarg = fake
Boss = good

My grandma (Lancashire) used to tell us off for ‘standing there like Piffy’ if we were being gormless and idle.

Sometimes we got the full ‘Don’t just stand there like Piffy on a rock bun’

Utterly random and JOYOUS.

I still walk round the cat with ‘out the way, Piffy’ and have been known to Piffy at DH too.

'Me Duck'...💙 reminds me of my Grandad!

"Me babber" = my baby, as a term of endearment.
"A scrage " = a graze.
Snow "pitches " = snow settles.
"Daps" = plimsolls. You can also dap to (nip to) a place.
"Slider" = a playground slide.

All Bristolian words. There's a book called "Krek waiter speak Bristle" which has loads more phrases.

Snails? West Country - Devon/Somerset? Lovely words!

Spelk- splinter in finger
Howay /Haway (just different spellings of same word) - different meanings depending on pronunciation.
“Howay / Haway man!” As in “get a move on!”
“Ha- way man!” meaning “I don’t believe a word you’re saying.”
Also “Haddaway!” as in “get lost” or
Haddaway as Oz would add, “Haddaway and shite!” meaning “Sir, I really do not believe you!”

Scouse phrases? Don't think OP is as far north as Sheffield, duck is more east Midlands and rolls are teacakes not cobs.

Moved from London to the North East, heard my neighbour talking about doing her husbands bait. I thought he was going fishing, apparently it was his packed lunch. I eventually got used the differences and then moved back to London, I miss the Geordies.

A path between two houses? Has to be a jitty

They mean different things though.

I live in Devon although I’m not from here, the phrases I’ve noticed are

‘backalong’ - in the past. ‘Oh that was backalong’

’where’s that to’ - where is it.

‘they give it for rain’ - about the weather forecast. I’m sure I’ve not heard this phrasing before!

tooth is pronounced with a shorter oo sound - more like tough.

a woodlouse is a chiggy pig.

can anyone translate this for me - a neighbour of my in laws, living in Scotland but originally from Yorkshire, said he would collect something ‘at the back end of 2 o clock’. Does that mean nearly 3?

Ginnel.

And nowt. I very much enjoy occasionally dropping words like that and t'other into emails to my colleagues - they're in California but from many different countries originally. As one of the few English people in the team I like using a very mild peppering of such words and a few idioms, never so many as to be remotely incomprehensible of course.

Before retirement I used to visit Ireland a lot and loved their pub talk.

Guy meets guy at the bar. “Ah, it’s yourself Michael!”

Michael would reply: “Oh yes.”

I found the pub evenings very pleasant with easy going people like that. I miss it so much…

Irish phrases are great, eejit is much better than idiot for eg.

Some from all over, reflecting both my parents' moves and mine (not even sure exactly where they all find their rest!)

Canny - cleverly/ shrewdly quick on the uptake
I'm fair jiggered - Scots - worn out
Ginnel (very like a snicket, and yet small differences!) - Yorkshire (mill-based places)
Doylum (probably 35-40 yrs out of date) - silly sausage
Mack'em - apologies if this is way ruder than I think it is - not nice thing to say about Sunderland citizen
Cut-n'-shut - first time I heard it was Essex, re. a car illicitly made from 2 halves of other wrecked cars.

I know, they are almost opposites. But having grown up with a mother who always stopped enthusiasm with 'I want doesn't get' (such a mean phrase) it was lovely to come across the much more positive 'shy bairns get nowt'.

Yes, you guessed correctly.

More Bristol
Woodlice are grandfathers (in Hartcliffe anyway) or grampy groovers
Ark at she - listen to her
Bless 'er- this woman is a dick
More Somerset but I've always loved the use of she/ he for inanimate objects 'don't like the look of she' for a toaster etc
Ideal- idea
Asdawls- Asda
Me mucker- friend
T'other one - the other one
NFH- normal for Hartcliffe

We read Cider With Rosie at school and the teacher did a whole exercise on what we thought 'mither' meant. None of my southern classmates had a clue. My northern brain was thinking, do they not have mothers?

"Don't think OP is as far north as Sheffield, duck is more east Midlands and rolls are teacakes not cobs."

@RedHelenB you are a very good detective!
@floridaidea got it right on pg.1!

Sorry not read everything but loving these (and learning so much!) , am heading out for clubs.
Will catch up later.