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! 😆

Welsh numbers and dates and time can include things like this.

Chwarter wedi saith (quarter after 7)

Un ar ddeg ar hugain = 31, literally one on ten on twenty.

I'm guessing you're from Stoke?

Oh, didn't see the answer

Nottingham!

I'm Welsh and I love the word "cwtch" 😊

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!

Scunnered - fed up
Breenge - to go about something in a careless way. Rush in.
Skelf- splinter
Guddle- splash hands about in water
Fankle - tangle
Dook - dunk
Peely wally - pale
And of course wheesht which you should all now be familiar with.

Alright me ducks! 😉
Yes, I'm originally from the land of pork pies and red leicester cheese.

There's so many words and phrases I've learnt from you all.
Love Piffy and did not know that "having a mooch" is regional. I say that too.
Goonie for a dressing gown is also new to me, I've heard it called a housecoat in Scotland.
Oh to the poster who asked, the bot between two houses I call an alley.
And I met up with friends by the clock tower 😂

He's a queer smart gadgie

Bab as a term of endearment
Wench for a female person
Cob for a bread roll and being in a bad mood
Yampy and saft
Donnies- Hands
The cut - Canal

I rarely used to use them but got pissed off at accent mockery when I moved into a national role at work and discovered a lot of women do not like being called wench.

I also love that bostin' is great, bost/bosted is broken and boster is a good egg.

Daft apeth

Liverpool! I used to live there and enjoyed all the phrases, still use a lot of them down south to confuse people. To add to your list, I remember-

There's nothing worse - said for a lot of things which are definately not the worst thing.

I don't know where to put me face.

Gegging in / ya big geg.

If its looking stormy outside I like to alternate between my dad's 'It's as black as your hat' (London) and 'like t'fire back' (Sheffield).

Also my granddad's 'I'll go to the foot of our stair' when surprised. (Yorkshire?)

"I'll go to the foot of our stairs" is a West Midlands saying, originally 😊 It's from a short story written in the 1930s. I think it became more well known because of people like George Formby so tends to be considered to be more Northern.

Has anyone heard of the expression
"You wouldn't put a milk bottle out in that" when the weather is particularly horrible - cold, windy and rainy?

Other midlands ones
"Snap" lunch or food
Between houses is a jitty

When I was working on the M1 widening I had to track down a dictionary of colloquial mining words to make sense of some of the ex-miners on the construction gangs. I love that our language is so rich.

@NotMeNoNo I can remember working in a midlands hospital with nurses who brought their "snap" for lunch.

Mither is the one for me. I started working in London and was asked what it meant because all he ever got from me was ‘sorry to mither you but..'

Yes, Wiltshire grandmother 😊

Love this thread! I’d have guessed Lincolnshire as I grew up with all of these too! But you’re not too far away.

Adding “rum lad” and “pack up” (didn’t know this was local until I went to uni and everyone else said packed lunch).

Queenie as a form of endearment by older people, you don't hear it so much now
Divvy for idiot
Barm for baps or bread roll

Scrow/Scrowy - a mess/messy
Cotters - knots in hair
Puddings - testicles
Gwan yam - going home

Cob is also Scouse for someone in a mood as in 'he's got a right cob on'

Yow Yam Yam?

As a child in London adults used to say "wotcha cock" as greeting. Or "alright cock".

Cornwall - me ansome, reet luvver? Do it dreckley, where's it too?

Devon - gert lush

Black Country too