To ask if you know what gutties are?

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In mid Scotland, they're the local word for plimsoles or basic trainers. Everyone at school had gutties for PE.

What are your strange local words others haven't heard of or need explaining?

My husbands family call a polo shirt a casual

ha ha ha my other half also calls shoes “Shin”. I’d never heard that before either 😂

Rubbers for me growing up in East Edinburgh. Plimsolls for my English mother and daps for my English husband. I think gutties originally was short for gutta-percha. I love the simalarities and differences across the country. Skelf for a splinter here and Tarzan for a rope swing. Backie for a lift on a bike and collie Buckie for a piggy back. Vennel or close for narrow passage way between buildings, sister in law from east midlands calls that a jitty (though I'm not sure how it's spelt).

Yes, they are known as daps in S Wales.

I grew up in Dorset where they were called plimsolls.

Regional word that my son used when we lived in Wales:"mitching" for what I called skiving or bunking off school.

Skipping school is “dogging it” here

obviously not to be confused with dogging.

It was always plimsolls for us, and reading with intrigue

My family are from the NW and always use the word ‘pluck’ for a catch on your clothes ie where you accidentally pull out a loop of thread with something sharp. Now live in the NE where it seems to be known as a ‘click’, had a few blank looks the first time I mentioned at work I’d plucked the sleeve of my jumper.
Agree ‘sand shoes’ is the local word for plimsolls - growing up they were always ‘pumps’ for me (which has a completely different meaning here) and sand shoes, as a PP had mentioned, were the canvas t-strap shoes we had in the summer (seemed to be known as Doodles when my DDs were small, whether they were real Clark’s ones or another brand).

Yes, another word for trainers. Grew up in NI. My DH from the south (of Ireland) had never heard of it.
I remember looking up the origin of the word and it’s something to do with an old word for rubber. I think it was originally used to refer to what I now call plimsolls.

My DH calls a cupboard a “press”which I find funny despite calling the cupboard with the boiler the “hot press” when I was young.

Never occurred to me to question its name or at least the “press” part of it.

A ride on the back of someone’s push bike was a saddler when I was growing up

plimsolls (because of plimsoll line on ships apparently)

I was in Yorkshire recently and someone directed me “up that nip” while pointing to a grassy lane - did I get that right?

My Nana said "press" for cupboard and said "Put it beb" which I think derived from But&Ben (2 rooms) so Ben was next door .

Pumps

bread roll = bap

cattle = beast

Put it beb aargh Ben

I’m in Manchester and we’d say ‘waggin’ it’.

Beast means paedophile here.

West Yorkshire
Tea cake - bap roll

Midlands
Mardy - Grumpy

Sure there are others.

Croggy here as well
Also a twitchell which is a cut through, alley way, I think called a jitty in places as well.

NI

poke = ice cream in a cone

piece = sandwich

Away ben (through) the lobbie (hall) and pit the big light oan.

The real question should be what does everyone call a bread roll??

A relative of mine calls them tea cakes.. to me a tea cake is a roll with fruit in it?!

I’m pretty certain I know where you are from (roughly) 😂

Ice lolly = sucker
alleyway = twitchell
horse = bobbo
sweet = tuffy, pronounced tuffeh
ears = tabs
bread roll = cob
naughty person = bogger

Nottingham

Spoggy means chewing/bubble gum where I come from, never heard it anywhere else.

A breadcake!

We're Edinburgh and have heard them called gatties too

A barm