Lesser known northern phrases/words

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More [x] than Soft Mick
Laughing tin hats
Sat here like Piffy on a Rock

There must be more - go!

Would be interesting to know which part of the North the sayings and phrases come from. I'm originally North Yorkshire/ Teesside and I've never heard of any of your examples.

I know the first and third.

It's parky out

Cruckle

Put th' wood i'th hole. Close the door
Nobbut a cockstride away. Very close by. See the poem of the same.
Atta reet? Ays tha fettlin? Are you ok, how you feeling?

Think you prolly want to be buying a book about lanky sayings OP.

Put wood in th'ole!

Clarty

Just hav a scorrock. Just have a little piece of something

Clarty?

Stop mithering!

Cruckle?

Can we have the translations please lol?

Don't be so maudlin

OP I thought Piffy sat on a rock bun!?

I came here to say 'waiting around like piffy on a stick'. I'm from West Yorkshire and had never heard this phrase until a few years ago, from a family member whose own family was from Cheshire way back when. Apparently it was a music hall catchphrase. No real idea but it makes us laugh.

Maungy
Antwacky

I actually thought of one earlier today-

you make a good door but yer a rubbish window

it means get out the way

Not feeling right cracky
Neither nowt nor summat
You’re nesh
… I have about a million more!

I use Sat like piffy on a rock bun when ever I can !

I called someone a barm pot , they thought it was a really offensive saying and went mad 🤪

Chortle

When one of your ankles collapses or kind of falls to the side and causes you to fall or nearly fall over.

Sat here like cheese at fourpence
Stop chorving
You're moidering now

It's mafting!

‘Sat there like piffy ’ was one of my nana’s favourites, I miss her!

Being called Tilly Floss by my nan and mum

Don’t know if these are lesser known or not but -
kecks - trousers
jiggered - tired
What you havin? Owt or nowt?
You make a better door than a window
having a cob on - being in a mood

Oh also having lugs in your hair, I really thought that was just the standard word and was so surprised when my not northern housemates had no idea what I was talking about back in university days. They also found ‘round of bread’ instead of slice funny too.

I'm fur clempt
hark at bloody Lady Jane there

Stop scrykin