Really cross

[Hingeandbracket]

Is this a regional expression?

I keep seeing it on here and I always imagine it being said in a Southern English accent.

It sounds like a refugee from a 1950s Ealing Comedy.

We say it in Australia. I thought it was a widely used term.

I'm in Northern Ireland and we would say it quite a bit in the area I'm from.

I'm from Yorkshire and would say "really cross."

I do hear it as an old fashioned or very posh word (like ‘horrid’)

Oh lord I also use “horrid” and “ghastly”

Not Scottish (although often wish I was).

I am in the English East Mids - never heard of Crosspatch either.

This is interesting.

PPs "ever so" reminds me of when I was looking for a B&B I'd booked, but just couldn't find. I phoned and said where I was, to get "Oh, you're ever so close". I thought (but didn't say) that's ever so helpful, but where the fuck are you? I was really cross.

My 3 year old says it a lot 😂

It's said a lot in our house we're in Durham in the NE

is it the word cross you find odd or coupling it with really?
The word cross.
I do hear it as an old fashioned or very posh word (like ‘horrid’), or trying to not say ‘pissed off’. Can’t imagine saying it at work in a grown up environment.
^this is very much my view of it - but I accept I am weird.

Guilty ! I'm from the South East and say it.

I also say annoyed, pissed off , fucked off and furious.

Sometimes I'm contented though

This explains it all .

Sounds entirely normal to me! (South East).

Hingeandbracket I’m also in the East Mids and use it all the time. I have moved around a lot though so maybe picked it up on my travels!

Until I was an adult and was meeting people from different backgrounds and places, I thought it only existed in the works of Enid Blyton. See also 'horrid', and people called Julian.

I hate it. Really cross! Daft saying really.

I only think of it as a vair posh thing if the person says that they are 'terribly cross' or 'awfully cross'

Always thought being cross was halfway between being annoyed and being furious.

Eh?

I'm from the East Mids. It's a totally normal thing to say! Weird.

I've always associated it with the English

Said by the type who refer to things as horrid or to people as poorly.

All words that to me are a bit 1950s Enid Blyton

Not wrong, just not words I've heard used in my part of the UK

I’m in Yorkshire and say it. It covers a lot of situations. With my DGC if they’re doing something they know they shouldn’t be doing it changes to im going to get really cross in a minute and if that’s not an idle threat I don’t know what is.

Yep, entirely normal expression with no connotations whatsoever.

All I can picture is a petulant child with arms folded shouting I'm cross. When adults say it I can't take them seriously.

Im definitely not posh or even close btw.

I've only heard it occasionally (Scotland) and would usually say 'annoyed'. Never 'ever so' anything!

We certainly use 'crosspatch' in my family though.

I imagine people who say cross also say horrid and poorly.

Isn't 'cross' a word that most people use?

I am Northern - but I thought most people used it.
Especially when they are cross.