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

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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.

Are you from Ayrshire? A friend from Ayrshire puzzled Glaswegian me by talking about buying a new winterdyke.

I'm from the Midlands/Black Country.
Never heard of Hacky.
But yes Bostin is good but Bost means broken.
I thought only posh people said/wrote Mum. Didn't realise Mom is regional.

Tamping - very angry
Bomping - very ugly
Cowing -very (as in Cowing lush)
We also use daps for trainers
we also cwpu down
Ych a fi - yuck

Lots more, just can’t think of any.
South Wales

Boak. To be sick.
Poke. An ice cream cone.
Scundered. Mortified/ embarrassed.

All realised upon moving to England.

Oh my word, some blasts from the past for me here!

Snicket: like ‘ginnel’ above - a small pathway usually between houses/garages etc. MIL is from Leeds and uses ginnel, but I grew up only a few miles away using snicket.

Black bright: I had forgotten about this until recently! So dirty it is bright/stands out, from coal mining, I think. I can hear my Granma’s voice saying “eee, it’s black bright”.

Maungy - whiny/annoying/upset, as in ‘stop looking so maungy’ (frequently said to me as a child).

Heavens to Murgatroyd: expression of surprise.

Pot (cast) for setting broken bones - was ripped to shreds at uni when I mentioned I’d had ‘a pot on my arm’.

Pop (fizzy drink) - more widespread but one of my posh uni friends claimed she’d never heard it before and I was shooketh.

I’m originally from London, but am now safely in the north, thank goodness. I use ‘mither’ an awful lot, and my London friends and family now realise I’ve turned Manc.

Skelf - splinter
Outwith - outside / beyond
Jag - vaccination
Supper - what you get from the chippy
Carry out - alcohol that you take to a party
Juice - all non alcohol beverages eg squash

There are loads of other Scottish words I use daily but these are the ones that puzzle my English colleagues the most.

Are you a fellow Rochdalian? I never knew ‘cruckled’ was not the term used everywhere for this- so much better / more concise than ‘going over on your ankle’.

My mum is, yes! That must be a really local thing then. I think her sisters are the only other people I know who use that word.

I dry clothes inside on a clothes horse (W Yorkshire)
My favourite regionalism is from the North East: twisting / be twisty - being bad tempered / complaining and generally being mardy. First time I heard it was a mum describing her 6 year old daughter 'twisting' because she wasn't getting her own way, it just seemed to sum up the daughter's behaviour / body language perfectly.

Nope. It’s ‘cruckled’ and it’s an old Rochdale dialect word.

Since moving out of Lincs, never hear "mardy" any more. (Moody/sulking)

Spell = splinter.

Colleague who'd moved from the south thought we were having her on when using that word. She thought we were trying to make her look foolish by teaching her nonsense words that she'd then go and use elsewhere.

With reference to mither, I think it was Mark Radcliffe who used to refer to e-mithers which I thought was fabulously appropriate.

Part of my vocab, I didn't even realise they were Pompey until I started working in Birmingham and told someone not to be a din.

Dimpsey and daps.

Gymmies - plimsolls or trainers
gypit - stupid

Aberdeen/ shire . But we use jab rather than jag for vaccinations and Reporting Scotland drive me nuts with their weenie-centric slang 😂

Grew up on the Somerset/Devon border. School PE shoes are daps. Dimpsey is when it's getting dark but not actually dark. Rimy is cold and damp weather. Jaspers are wasps. Grockles are tourists. Using 'to' unnecessarily in questions like "where's that to?".

The one that confused me enormously moving to Bristol was 'smoothing' a cat instead of stroking it.

Skit- make fun of
Boss- great. As in - how was the show? ‘It was BOSS!!’

Having originally never heard the word used in that context, I’ll now say, and write:

• Haar (sea fog)
• outwith (bit like a except, but better)
• can of juice (can of fizzy, soft drink)
• wee (small)

Mardy got made mainstream by the arctic monkeys.

Not regional but I grew up abroad and call dried snot boogers, but with a short "oo" like book. Dh says it's an American word but I say it with the queen's accent (now king's?) So it's all wrong. Now my kids say it too. Dh can't pronounce booger with his northern accent, it sounds like bugger.

What do you call a booger?? Dh says it's a bogey but I've never heard that in everyday conversation

I'm from Liverpool but me mum is from Dublin and me dad from Yorkshire so I use a lot of words and phrases from these places too which just confuses most folk 😆

I've lived in the sunny south, although I grew up elsewhere and I've heard and read struth (sometimes spelled strewth), a contraction of God's truth, for years.

I grew up in Leeds and ginnel was standard but my friend from Hull talked about the Tenfoot. No idea what she meant at first,but it was a logical description of width. There's a road in Hull called the Fortyfoot (or there was).

All the others I recognise. I have to stop myself saying pot for plaster cast as it causes funny looks sometimes but,yes,to black bright,one of my mum's favourite sayings. My Midlands DC had to grow up bilingual!

Somewhen.
It makes total sense to me! 😁🫣