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.

OMG yes! Cheeselogs! Is this just a Berkshire thing?

Leeds-
clobber = clothes
Gloyt or div = idiot (great words)
gip = retching
this one’s hard to write-mindsha = mind you, my grandma says this a lot, meaning, “on the other hand” I think
“Got’t face on” = sulking
Giz = give, as in “giz an hand with this”

theres so many but I’ve genuinely forgot how I speak 🤣

Going round the wreakin
its black over bill’s mothers

We used squint as in eyes, and the insult would be calling someone boss-eyed, which wasn't very nice.

Google tells me that the term boss-eyed comes from 19th-century British slang, combining the word "eyed" with an older dialect meaning of "boss," which meant to bungle, miss, or make a mistake (as in missing a shot at a target).

Easily identifiable geordie over here!

Bairn (Child)

Flackered (woken, fussing)

The bairn never flackered when I hoovered the house.

Bullets (sweets)

Dancers (stairs)

”Hadaway up the dancers and I’ll buy you some bullets the morn”

Canny (nice)

Cowked (rolled an ankle)

Brassic (cold)

Smashed (skint, without funds)

Laced (beaten in a fight)

The bogey/booger chat has reminded me that we used to say crow when I was a child. "He's got a crow up his nose."

I'm a committed lolly ice user though.

An alleyway between houses was an entry.

Oh we used to say crows for bogeys too!

It's still ice lolly though 😉

A Jasper is a wasp.

Daps and sponge bag. DH who grew up on the other side of country had not heard of either.

Newcastle - most of mine already covered but we did seem to have a lot of ways to say drunk 😂

Blootered
Mortal
Mashed

I'll probably remember loads more tonight!

Getting off at Billy Mill - coming too soon (named after the last roundabout on the coast road before the coast)

DH (Essex) says the phrase "six and two threes" is specific to the North East and everyone elsewhere says "six of one and half a dozen of the other" but I'm not sure about that.

When I was little DSis and me were always "the bairns" but I heard "bairns" as "bens". For years I thought Benelyn was called that because you give it to bairns when they are ill. 😂

“You dogging I up?” Said by extremely scary rough girls before they beat you up.

That's just reminded me of lamping, which is night hunting with dogs for rabbits and hares, etc. It isn't nice, but my DB does it. My sister got a bit mixed up and told people he goes dogging (he doesn't do that!)

I too didn’t realise clothes horse and tea mashing weren’t universal terms.
Lots of familiar words here but I haven’t seen coursey for pavement mentioned or keeping conk for keeping a lookout (eg for the teacher coming)

Yes, I believe so - particularly Reading area,
Apparently there are loads of differnt regional names for woodlice.

Clothes horse isn’t a general thing?

I never knew that !

you need to hear Bostin in a Dudley accent

cob on is also black country but I think there's a chunk of overlap with up north words, except where bread is concerned. then they're all barmy

lamping when I was younger was being beaten up.
I give you a right lamping if you don't stop!

I've found another Bristolian word. "Scutler", which means prostitute.

I was an actual grown up with a small child when I learnt the rest of you don't call them gambols. my mate confused her Devonshire husband and then retold it to the rest of us to our utter confusion. black country not Birmingham tho

baps are only baps of they're soft, otherwise they're cobs. teacakes better have raisins in and be toasted.

my relative moved from the black country to Yorkshire and works in a bakery. they had to give them a sheet with picture and words on so they could learn what stuff was called 🤣

went to uni up north so learnt to adapt to barm cakes and bin lids

Oh gi'or! We'll bi fahnt aht!

Its 'cots' where I'm from

These are my three as well! Are you from the East Mids?

Twitchel came straight to my mind as well!
Also, from the same area, cob to mean a bread roll. My DSis went to uni in North Wales and asked for a cob in a local bakery, and the assistant was perplexed, thinking she was talking about a horse for some reason

all of these. Also me duck as a term of endearment.

Cob on - in a mood
daps - trainers
lush - lovely
hanging - hangover
parky - cold
pickled/steaming/bolloxed - drunk
scran - food
piggywig - woodlouse
tamping - angry
poorly - not well
skiving - off school/work
clobber - hit round the head/ear
sweet - great/excellent
telling porkies - lying
fit - easy on the eye
tanking/lashing down - heavy rain
mooch - look round a shop etc
blabber mouth - gossip
numpty/eejit - idiot

I am sure there’s more 🤪 South West

I grew up in Belfast. Mitching meant bunking off from school and gutties meant gym plimsoll ( I think from gutta percha, the material from which they were originally made