Are there any regional words which you use and didn’t realise that not everyone else does?

[FormerCarer]

Inspired by a conversation with friends from different areas who assumed that everyone used mardy and mithering. It’s making me question now which words I assume are universal and really aren’t.

Where I live now people look at me weirdly if i say ginnel. Mind you, when I moved there as a child, people there looked weird when I called pumps, daps. And where I am now they’re called plimsolls…

Not from the UK but a few from my birth place

-lapsy pas: a made up illness from something dirty
-haunted: lucky or fortunate
-lighting/walking: filthy
-allergic: a strong hatred of something/someone
-sliced pan: sliced bread
-gawk: feel sick or vomit

Cork?

Oh no. I know what kaylie was/is. If you dipped your finger into it, instead of the piece of liquorice, your finger went yellow and you could pretend you were a six-year-old smoker. I don't know how best to spell it!

Coursey/corsy/causeway/caus'y

Thanks. Of course I know it. It's the back concrete, the 'causeway' which is higher than the surrounding earth and keeps you out of the mud, which can sometimes become very squaddie - rhymes with caddy.

Right, mayet, I'm off to swill the corsy down and then I'll get dinner ready.

Kay-lie - yes, sherbetty stuff

Off licence = Beer off.

Crumpets = pikelets. Everywhere else pikelets are the flatter ones but we called all types pikelets. Never crumpets. Crumpets sounded like something from Enid Blyton.

Yes 😄

I remember deeply insulting my southern MIL by telling her (affectionately in my mind) not be be daft. Lesson learned 😆

NI
Bogeys are used more than Boogers. But also common is Snotters, pronounced Snodders. Pure minging

Also to court, pronounced Kurrt. To get off with, snog someone. "Did you court John at the union last night"?

Back in the day spide (male), milly (female) for chavs, not as common now.

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I agree, i sometimes use it on here just for a bit of devilment 😂

I use turnip for swede and turnip for turnip

I thought clothes horse is what everyone called them. We say sandshoes for pumps in my area. Breadcakes are bread rolls in other areas. My Mum always calls crumpets pikelets.

I moved to the West Country from Yorkshire 25 years ago

I love somewhen, so useful
Chucky pigs and daps I’d never heard before
also calling cuts and bruises “baddies”

Are there any regional words which you use and didn’t realise that not everyone else does?

I didn't realise until the first time I used a computer to do a grocery list, and it kept autocorrecting, that no one else eats chipples!

You are the first person outside of my family I've heard say "spelk"
I live in Cambridgeshire now, and if I use that word I get treated like some sort of weirdo. I'm just about 70, both my sons, 34 and 38 say it which causes much hilarity and piss-taking, especially as, for us, it's a perfectly normal word. I, my parents, all their siblings were born and brought up in Newcastle.
Spelk is a very old Northumbrian word, much better than splinter, and we should all use it.

These are all familiar to me.
Mine are "All the way round the Wrekin" for going out of your way and "Standing there like Sister Dora" for standing doing nothing.

Dreckly
Anson
Mizzle
Proper job
Wasson
Heller
Oggy
Giss on
Jumping

Plus many more!!

A couple of my favourites, learned from my DH (coastal E.Scotland), are
swithering = unable to make up your mind between this or that.
glaikit = foolish, thoughtless, dopey-looking.
dreich = miserable, grey weather, probably drizzling.
One used constantly in my Infants/Juniors' school playground (NW London) was
fainites = I'm not in play; neutral. And we'd cross our fingers.

To make ourselves completely clear, we'd say: "Fainites. Feet off the ground." whilst crossing fingers and jumping onto a bench or wall while lifting our feet off the ground.

My dad's Northumbrian and he says 'skelf' which is standard in Scotland too . Wonder if spelk is really very specific to somewhere?

I didn't realise skelf was regional for years !

How many crows can you pick from your nose? To the tune of country garden. I'd forgotten that one 🤣

Yep!

Numpty, Dinlow, Mush are local to Dorset and/ or are Romany words used here.
My Salford Grandad would say ‘Nark it’ I think that means get lost or hurry up??

Thought of another one - proper job, meaning that’s really good.

I completely agree with this! It's inexplicably unused outside of Scotland and it's such a great word

Just saw @Lordofmyflies post, all of those! Dreckly is a lovely one.