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! 😆

If someone has bandy legs:

'He couldn't stop a pig in a ginnell'

Path at the side of your house is an entry

Yes we called it that.

'You've got a bob on yourself' - usually said to someone overly confident or arrogant. Although most likely to be said about someone in their absence. 'She's got a bob on herself, that one..'

Did they look at you gone out?

I used that phrase in my first week at university, and all my new friends looked at me - well, gone out!

(edit - this was supposed to be quoting someone who kept calling people duck)

I was far too old when I realised that this is actually ha'p'orth

@merryhouse
My dad used to call me a daft 'apeth -
I thought it was a baby ape. It's been very recently (like within the last 10 years) that it clicked what 'apeth actually meant.

Love mithered, mardy, and then lots of Scouse stuff - I moved here from down south many many years ago and my kids have them all. And then we have lots of Belfast from my mum and dad that I’ve tried to pass on to my lot - you’re worse than half a man short, your room’s a midden, a quare few (don’t know how to spell that 😂)