Regional Words and their meaning

I've got tons and like you some I didnt even realise were scottish words until i said them in english company.

Some of my faves are skelf (splinter), blether (talks a lot), numpty (but i think this has been adopted elsewhere), coorie (sort of snuggle), keek (peek round a corner).

I love dialect but hate slang.

The island one I've definitely noticed more since moving to Worcester. All my friends use it and it confuses me.

Never heard of the dual track or outside though.

Apparently "mardy" is one we use in grimsby alot it means moody/ in a mood.

one i heard was chuddy....for chewing gum.

we use "our kid" for brother too

Chuggy in my area.

I've never heard of outdoor in that context. Interesting!

One that often crops up in these types of conversations that I've always thought was just a normal word is croggy, i.e. giving someone a lift on the seat of your bike while you pedal standing up.

thats a pag or paggy in our area.

I didn't realise "island" was regional, I always say that instead of "roundabout".

Where I am we say cob (breadroll), pea mix (chips with mushy peas on top-horrid), people are called mi'duck, mardy, chewing gum was chungy.

Chuddy, mardy and blether are all in common usage around the country I think.

I'm from the midlands and would understand someone using island for roundabout but I've never heard of an off-licence being called an outdoor.

'ay up (hello, but can also mean "oooh,guess what?"). Mi sen (myself-hate this one too).

Wafty. Meaning to be a bit mad. I'm told it's a Kent-ism.

I'd have known what you meant by island, even though I wouldn't have said it myself, but outdoor would have foxed me completely.

I'm Scottish and went to a Scottish uni - we used to find it quite funny when English students confused take away and carry out. ?

A take away is food (fish and chips, Chinese, Indian, pizza etc) and a carry out is booze (for historical reasons, going back to when you bought booze in pubs to take back home).

Oh and you'd ask for a fish supper if you wanted fish and chips. ?

Nope, I've heard of mardy and know what it means but mainly through the Arctic Monkeys Mardy Bum lol!

I've heard swansea people using the word Chud and chuddy but I don't think it means chewing gum, will have to ask Cariad.

Only heard of Mardy (wales)

I would probably have figured out island but never outdoor.

I discovered recently that Americans don't know the word bollocks which surprised me as I've been here for almost 4 years!

My Yorkshire friends seem to be very specific in describing types of bread roll having loads of words I'd never heard of and people in the North west area can argue for hours overwhat you call a mixture of corned beef and mash along with what exactly goes into said dish.

Scrike (Not even sure how you spell it) is often used instead of crying in my home town.

I love dialect too and could listen to a friend's girlfriend from the Black Country, talk for hours. I once asked her when the BBQ was going to start at a house party and she replied, 'it's on already, cor ya kiff it?' which meant, 'can't you smell it?' I love this kind of thing.

Am surprised no one's heard of outdoor though, even the locals! My Grandad used to take me to the outdoor when I was little to choose a bag of penny sweets or a bar of chocolate, while he got some stout for him and babycham for my Nan.

Another one is bab, used instead of love or darling, as in, are you alright bab?

Here in Dundee they call roundabouts circles. Mind you there's loads of Dundonian words that leave me clueless, and even just up the road in Arbroath there's a whole other set of weird words. Just a few include:

baffies (slippers)

chubby (umbrella)

the brew (dole or dole office)

fleg - a fright

flit - move house

Take away and carry out with the meanings Zebra gave are both well known throughought the north of England.

I'm from Aberdeen and I'd use baffies, flit and the brew.

Lobster - how far north are you thinking for take away/carry out? My friend was from York and could never get it straight in her mind ?

These threads always make me homesick.

My favourite Glasgow/ayrshire words

greeting - crying as in "the wean's greeting again"

wean pronounced "wayne" - child/baby (my favourite shop title ever "Weans' World" on Glasgow high street which sells cheap children's clothes)

doot (doubt) meaning "I think" - ie Ah doot oor jim's gauna be late again

a poke - a bag

messages = the shopping

I'd totally forgotten keek = peek and skelf = splinter

A funny one is "outwith" which I never realised was regional until coming to England. as in "outwith office hours" = "outside office hours"

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I only know this from The Broons. I have used flit though as in moonlight flit. Thats another I wouldnt have thought as particularly scottish.

I'd use these too - nothing like confusing English friends by saying yer awa' fer yer grannie's messages ?

Oh and a fine piece - something tasty to eat with your flycup. I think that must be a Scottish thing too.

It's a backy in Glasgow

A piece n jam = jam sandwich

having the dry boak = when you're vomiting so much you're just gagging

chib - knife, also verb "to stab"

scud = naked "in the scud" (where one might be showing yer bahookie)

I got MrRache last month with the phrase "hoachin' wi' polis" - he looked at me as though I was speaking Swahili.

We have jitties here - narrow passageways or paths between buildings. I think they're snickets or maybe even alleys elsewhere.

I grew up nearly in Worcestershire and roundabouts were certainly islands, but I've never heard outdoors before - it was the offy where I was growing up!

You have actually got me giggling now.

However chib is any dangerous weapon to me. Used to be a ginger bottle more often than not.

So there's another one: ginger - fizzy pop

Birling - turning really fast

fair - really ie that windmill is fair birling round.

I know it as a backy, too (I'm in Lancashire.)

Here, a brew is either a hot drink or a steep hill depending on context ("make us a brew" or "up the brew.") Chewing gum was always chuddy when I was younger.

Mithering (or my-thering) I think might be quite localised- it means to bother someone. Skriking is used for crying here, too. Mardy and blether are words I have heard before and I knew the difference between a take-away and a carry-out despite only having been to Scotland (Angus) once, many moons ago! ?

Mint Spies, jitties are twitchells here.

I've heard of mardy but only because Mr G is from the Midlands. We have words like douit (small stream) and boodiax (cr ap/sh it).

As a midlander, 'island' was always used for roundabout. It became rather confusing when I moved to Portsmouth, for when I gave people directions, they thought it meant the actual lisland (as in Portsea Island which Portsmouth sits on ?

I remember some great ones from when I was a kid, but I don't know if they are still in circulation. I'm very old, you see. I'm thinking of 'giving me the alleys' as in 'giving me a hard time', and referring to money as 'dess' as in 'give me 10 dess'. (I imagine it comes from 'decimal'.)

? I know all these although I wouldn't really use chib.

I love hoachin' and birling.

My mother's family are quite tcheuchy and a lot of them speak broad Doric - on H's first visit he got taken for a ride in my cousin's brand new tractor. Twenty minutes running commentary and all he understood was "air con" and "CD player". ?

H's family in Hull had never heard "cracking the flags" for really sunny - we're in West Yorkshire.

Laking - playing out as in "are ya laking?"