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! 😆

They mean pretty much the opposite!

Things that probably sound odd to people not from my neck of the woods —

‘You look massive in that dress!’ (This is a compliment.)
You’re a gom /gowl mog.’ (Not a compliment.)
’Be wide of that skobe.’
’We’re haunted with the weather!’ (No ghosts involved)
’Yer man got a bazzer and he’s pure septic since.’ (No injury involved.)
‘I asked that lasher out but he gave me a 50.’ (Does not mean a nice windfall.)
’They’re doing a strong line.’ ( not cocaine)
’He’s the bulb off his da.’
’He’s fierce quiet.’
’That place was jointed.’ (No drugs involved.)
’Ring in and tell them you’ve the lopsy-pa.’
‘Sketch!’ ( unrelated to art)
‘That baby is fierce crabbit-looking.’
‘The teacher gave out to us for skitting.’
’Give us a sconce at that.’
’Did you flah the guzz-eyed fella?’
’That sandwich is pure mank!’
‘Give me a crosser, my bike is banjaxed.’

Earlie wigs/ woodlouse
how be you little maid ?
stop keep mithering /grizzlin ( to kids)
blowing the gale - windy
‘shes’ a cold one today
I don’t like the look of he (meaning an inanimate object like a jacket ) or in place of ‘him’
could ride bare ass to London on that ( blunt knife)
Christ alive/ Christ on a bike
absolutely ridic-luss
she’s no better than she should be (derogatory- female known to have more than one boyfriend)
‘Bright beauty’ derogatory- attractive unmarried female
Crikey Moses!

so many more….

West Country - specifically working class Chippenham /Castle Combe

The back end of 2 o'clock is about 2.15

Surely 2.45? 😂 Like 'back end of the week'

@Koolandthegang how did I forget Christ Alive! Or 'man alive!'

My grandad, from Manchester, referred to everything as 'the doings' and we just had to know what he meant. Remote control, 'pass me the doings'. Spectacles, 'where's me doings?'.

Wee dicht - a wipe of a face with a cloth
Goonie - dressing gown
Two of my granny's terms, Aberdeenshire

A goonie is a nightgown not a dressing gown.

Shoogle (like give it a wee shoogle, mix it up) and shoogly
Peelly wally (or is this used across the UK?)

Goonie was dressing gown in our house

Twitten for alley.

That takes me straight back home to my grandad he still says it when he rings

Get a shock when you answer the phone and get "ALREET COCKER" bellowed at you!

It really makes me smile!

@NameChangedToDisguiseEmbarrassment my granny also used to invoke Piffy for gormless moments! Thank you for that Proustian rush 😊

Ooh, and forgot 'a (reet) bobby dazzler. How could I!

Yep, my grandad said doings for everything as well. He was from Leigh.

Cheeselog for a Woodlouse always makes me smile, especially said with a Reading twang 😀, Guildford calls them Cheeseybobs.

My mother had weird (to me) ways of telling the time.

She’d say “five and twenty to six” for 17:35. Her mother would say “cor past” and “cor to”, which was understandable.

Anyone else come across the “five and twenty to six” method?

They were Glos/Dorset upbringing.

I love 'bonny' for pretty/beautiful.
'Napper' for head. Watch ya Napper pet.
'Fettle' as in 'I'll Fettle ya'
'Hacky' as in ' the bairn's hacky black'
Worky ticket (pain in the arse)
Radge or radgie. An aggressive person. 'He's in a proper radge'.
Mortal = drunk. 'Eeeee I was mortal'.

My Mum was also a lover of the Piffy phrase. When I said it to DH he looked at me as if I were mad. Also same context, “Don’t stand there like Phil Garlic.”

Wallies for gherkins.

Pissed as a pudding (as in the sense of very drunk).

My great gran used to say “Golly Moses!” when she was surprised.

Also “Have you got a loch in the kop?” (Hole in the head.)

Buggerluggs 😁 I know its not PC but I love it! Also cracking t'flags/cowder than a witches tit

@Mynaddmawr we have a pointy hill locally which is known as the Witch’s Tit.

I say piffy a lot

Also off for a mooch around the shops
My colleague was when I was "a mooch! Like a wander!"

My accent also means I say haff past instead of half past

Goonie is definitely a dressing gown. I moved to Ayrshire as a child and for the first few months didn’t know what the heck anyone was on about! It was literally like a different language.
I’ve moved away so don’t know if people still say it but ‘Neck!’ for slagging someone who’s done something embarrassing. I think it was short for a red neck.
We used to say ‘Widda’ all the time which was short for Would I nothing..as in no chance. Never heard that again.

Nottingham 😁