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.

The word mizzle (meaning rain) appears in The Grand Sophy. I think that’s the only time I’ve ever read or heard it.

My friend from Stoke says mizzle for a misty / light rain

Well baps are really barmcakes, and anyone who says different is a barmpot.

Mizzle is perfect - stealing it. Tar!

"Led" ie lying down
Scrage is what you do to your knee when you fall over.
"She gave it me" being grammatically acceptable

And one which seems to have applied only to 80s babies on one side of my home town "facity" = bitchy/unpleasant.

The word lush is underused in london where I moved and I am on a mission to rectify!

Were you also offered a fly cuppie wi yer funcy or fine piece 😁

I also love outwith, its so useful.

Also stooshie. And blether. Skitey pavements too.

Ken and fit like. Love a bit of the Doric!

Shoogle as in give a little shake

That caused great confusion to my colleagues when I moved from Scotland to England.
Now back in west Scotland and I still refer to being ill as poorly which gets me strange looks up here!

I went to uni in my home county (Lancs) and a lot of people there were from, well, let's just say posher counties than mine. I got treated like I kept coal in the bath for using local slang and speaking with a local accent. 😒

DH and I go up to Edinburgh every year for the Fringe. I love that there's a pub there called the Shoogly Peg. 😄

Plodge= paddle
Satched= soaked to skin with water
Spelk= splinter
Femmer= badly made/easily broken
Croggy= a lift on the back of a bike
Hellish= really good i.e her hair is "git hellish like"
Beck= small stream
Hoy= throw
Gowk = apple core
Sackless= gormless
Stott= hit hard with an object. Teacher stotted the blackboard rubber against me lug". Also describes heavy rain "Bliddy stottin' it down out there"

A northern favourite… Clarty

Mooch about the shops - window shopping
cob - bread roll
clothes horse - only in the last couple of weeks did my kids point out that no one else calls it this
on the huh - angled. Mostly used for parking or picture hanging
nesh. Feels the cold
a bit parky - it’s bloody freezing
mardy - whinging

”did you get wrong off your mam?” - did you get in trouble with mum
”she’s been skiving again” - she had a day off work/school
haver/havering - liar/lying
bairn - child
chavvie - also small child
nat - no
aye - yes
geein - giving
tea - the meal at 5pm
cup of charr - cup of tea
fish supper - fish & chips
”am” gets used for “I” as in “am going to the football”
garn - going - above should really say “am garn to the football”

Aye..I forgot that one. Duel meaning though...Muddy and also overly ornate and embellished.
Also forgot Pittle to mean urinate but also describes heavy rain "Eeeeh, its pittlin' down out there"
Also Hacky = dirty

It really is, you won’t hear it anywhere else!

We'd get wrong off our mam or she'd play war with us. Or worse she would bray us.

We wouldn't skive off school but 'Play the nick'

Spelk - splinter
Pollis - police
Canny - rather/ quite
Dead - very
Clarts/ Clarty - mud/ muddy

@gatekeeperyou must be from near me ! Never heard femmer or gowk though.

Tenfoot - the alleyway between the backs of terraced houses. Twagging it - playing truant from school. Crogger - a ride on the back of someone's bike. Sharkey - a large and disgusting bogey (aren't kids great!) Slape - slippery esp icy conditions. Also, jaspers were fleas when I was a kid, I understand most places use it for wasps if anything?

You will hear it more from the older ones. The ' bairns' don't tend to use it which is a bit sad

We used to call them "kecks" !

Ten-foot = Alleyway
Bizzies = Police
Sarnies = Sandwiches
G'wed = Please carry on.
Scally = undesirable person

I regularly use ‘mardy’ to refer to someone whinging, ‘cob’ for a bread roll, and ‘jitty’ for an alleyway - often to the confusion of people around me haha

Baps are bread buns or teacakes, some say they're barmcakes because they're barmey !

My dad used “mithering”, “mashing” and mardy - are you from the East Midlands?

Skelf for a splinter was one I didn't realise until leaving Scotland.

Jag for injection and sneb for the thing on a door. Also havering which The Proclaimers like to do.

My spellchecker rejected all of these!