Regional Words and their meaning

I've always used flit as in midnight flit, and my nan always went 'a message' when she was shopping. I love the word clarts which means muddy up here as in 'You're full of clarts'. I think a lot of it is pronunciation up here (Sunderland) rather than words, I always wondered how the Wee Chief pub got it's name, but it was the Wheatsheaf really..... Apparently 'tab' is pretty unique, we use it for cigarette, but when my bro ried to 'loan a tab' at a festival, they thought he was asking for drugs... he he

My favourite Scottish word is midden = mess as in "my flat is a midden"

Also guddle, not sure a direct translation but I would say "stop guddling in there" so I suppose stop making a mess with what you're doing (not sure I've explained this one well)

A midden is a rubbish pile (often used more to mean one found in excavations of the archeolgical kind) so not really just scottish

I'm a midlander and have never heard of an offie being called an Outdoor!

I use Jitty too for alleyway/passageways and my friends who aren't from my town get confused.

Ooh I was just thinking that these words were familiar then read that you are in Sunderland, same place as me. Some others to add are

Bait = packed lunch

Spelk = splinter

Monkeys blood = strawberry syrup that goes on ice cream

Some people call trousers Pants but I try to avoid that one as I think its a relatively new thing round these parts and I think it sounds daft.

Giving someone a lift on your handle bars while you're on the seat is dinking where I come from. Is it the same here?

I hadn't heard outdoor used for off license, but Mr L had. An off license is a bottle shop or bottleo for short where I'm from.

Zeb,

The only time I've heard of carry out used other than for alcohol is for a packed lunch. I've never heard it used to replace take out or take out used for alcohol.

I'm from Lancashire although I know a lot of Yorkshire people who use it the same way. To my Liverpudlian parents, carry out is specificaly anything bought in a pub but to be taken home.

I love using these word esp to annoy my OH as he is awfy posh fae Embra!!! Others include

press - cupboard

ben - next door - as in ben the hoose - in the other room

cundie - drain

wallies - false teeth

pend - alleyway

Something that I meant to add was that when I lived in Hull it took me ages to figure out that a back lane was called a Ten foot.

Mr G and I met in Ayrshire (though we're both from dahn sarf) and w sometimes use 'weans' and 'greeting'. I also use the Belfast/NI phrase 'beak' (or possibly bake, for face), as in 'Look at the bake on your man' (I use 'your man' a lot too). I can put on a creditable Ayrshire accent (good enough to fool a group of local kids anyway!) and Belfast too, as my family are Northern Irish, so those phrases are said in the appropriate accent.

I don;t use any Norfolkisms (yet) but my friend refers to something being 'on the huh' (wonky or squint). And just for your delectation, here's Little Miss Muffet in broad Norfolk:

Little owd gal Muffet
Sat roight down on an owd tuffet
Eatin' har cards an' whey,
When there come a master grut owd spoider
And sat roight down aside o'har
And wholly scart the li'l ol' mawther away.

The cupboard you put your sheets and towels in is a linen press.

Bostin' is of course a big one in the Black Country.

There are lots of little things in the Black Country dialect that it took me a while to understand, but it's more to do with the ordering of words and using the wrong pronouns/prepositions, etc., am instead of is, for example.

A snicket is an alleyway here.

I'm a West Yorkshire girl (Huddersfield) and we said lekking rather than laking.

The outdoor would have totally got me stumped if someone had said that to me!

I have the breacake/teacake/barm/roll/babp/cob discussion frequently. I live in Manchester so have to say barmcake if I want some in a shop or ask for a chip barm (chip butty is what I would say at home!).

A good word that has lots of regional variations is the name given to a small path between some houses. Round my way it was a snicket or ginnel, others have called it a jinnel or pass-through.

I love all the differences, its fantastic!

I'm a lowland Scot and I still get mixed up with the Aberdonian words...

Softies = Roll

Roll = A buttery/rowie

chipper = Chippy

There are more but I can't think of any at the moment...

Mr L says it's a gully here.

My ex-boyfriend's family used to call the off-licence the 'outdoor' (Swansea). I have lived in Swansea for 15 years and never heard anyone say chud or chuddy!

Lots of lovely Welsh words like cwtch (cuddle, also a small place) and.. erm... mind's gone blank!

I'm originally from the Midlands and have grown up with being mardy/having a cob on. One I used to love but my husband thinks is crackers was "pop shop" (beer garden)

My nana used to call me and my brother "mi duck" for affection or "ruchion-billy" if you were being a pest.

Hi - just moved to Aberdeen so learning loads of new words:

Loon (boy); Quine (girl) (Sp??); "Fit like" - how are you?; "Chavvin awa" - I'm fine; "Far ye bide?" - where do you live? "Bidey in" - I think this means a person who lives with you? Not too sure lol

I used to live in Fife - some words from Fife include "Neeburgh" or "Neebs" - friend; "braw" - good; Bathies; goonie (dressing gown);

Not sure where I picked this up from as I live in Lancashire and nobody else I know says it but I do tend to use "agait" in conversation meaning "said" or telling someone about a conversation. As in "She's agait 'You don't talk sense' so I'm agait 'Yes I do!'".

I get the mick taken regularly as I say it without thinking about how daft it sounds. I am also a sufferer of the t-cake/barm/cob/butty discussion. ?

I use all the scottish ones, i now live in england and i have to say the one that confuses most people is messages!

This is a fab website if you really want a laugh http://www.glesga.ndo.co.uk/ click on glesga glossary

A bidey in is someone you live with, but you're not married to. I love the work 'bunker', which is your worksurface, in your kitchen. It's a scottish east coast word - I was the only west coast child that used it, used to get funny looks at school.

I like the word Dundonians have for having a broad accent - 'oarie' which really means no one outside of Dundee can understand you. Also 'pus' for your face (As in, I'm going to bang you on the pus) is a great word.

I just read the hallow'een thread and thought of another scottish one - guisin'.

it really annoys me that it get called trick or treating now. it saddens me too that perfectly lovely scottish words are dying out.

the game's a bogey!

you mean "furry boots" rather than "far ye bide" ?

J

"Bosie" - have heard that, the wifey I work with is sooooo broad lol We got totally confused one day when she asked if i wanted a "softie" fae the shop, I said "no, but a roll would be nice" and she returns with this thing that is definatly not a roll. Turns out my idea of a roll is a softie - her idea of a roll was a buttery? Then you add more butter to the buttery!!!!!! lol

And, everything is Aberdeen is "fine" which means "good, really good". For example, ohhhh that cake was fine! or "Ooooooooh a wee nicht oot wld be fine like"

I didn't realise so much of what I say is specific to the Midlands! I know bostin' is Black Country (one of my fave words), but i didn't realise no-one understood island! I know the off-licence as the outdoor, but I tend to call it the offy. AFAIK the term of affection 'bab' is short or 'babby' (baby).

I'm originally from near Brum, but my Mum's from near Glasgow so I'm well acquainted with messages, ginger, piece, press, fish supper, carry out, and being called 'hen'.

But I now live in Plymouth, so I've had to get used to some oddities down here too. Adding 's' to the end of most nouns/places is common (Asda is Asders), bus and taxi drivers are cheerily called 'drives' (people call out 'cheers drives!' as they get off/out), and you get asked things like 'where's he to?' meaning 'where is he?'

Could you all stop the talk of butteries, please? Ask me what I miss most about my four years in Aberdeen and it would definitely be the rowies. ?

Growing up in the South of England with Scottish parents, I'd get a few blank stares at school when I'd come out with what I thought were common words and phrases. Someone asked what the weather was like outside and I said it was 'smirring' (so much nicer than 'spitting') and the other that springs to mind is describing something old-fashioned (usually clothing) as 'a bit Auntie Beeny'. ?

We also have "snap" in Derbyshire which is a packed dinner. I also use mardy and cob. We also used to use Corsie which meant pavement.

I'm in Merseyside

We use

Scrike (again not sure of spelling) for crying

Takey is a lift on the back of a bike

Mardy

SIL is from Cumbria and if a child is moaning they say "stop twining"

Outdoor is used but only by proper scousers ? also take away and carry out are used

Chewy is chewy

A friend from Newcastle used to say "ket" I think it means sweets, crisps etc

Messages is shopping, paying bills, posting letters

I always thought mither/mithering were real words until very recently!


This all reminds me of Pans and her ginnel!

My favourite word is 'antwacky' meaning old fashioned. 'I'm not wearing that, it's antwacky' I think it tends to be a NW England phrase.

I'm originally from Manchester (lived in Salford for 8 years) but now live on Merseyside and some of the ones we use/used are:

Outdoor - off licence - that was a Salford one

Backy - ride on the back of a bike

Mither - "what's your mither" - what's up with you?

Scrike - thats more of a scouse thing

Scran - food, although MrD insists on saying scram for some reason?

Barm - roll/flat cake/muffin or whatever people call them - thats always been a huge debate ?

Numpty - I'd never heard of in Manchester but here in St Helens its a much used word, meaning plonker/prat

Chip Split - also one I'd never heard of before I moved here but its used a lot by locals meaning half chips, half peas I think

Trousers are always called pants and always have been, much to the amusement of some of my non-local friends who seem to think I wander round in my knickers.

Duds - undies of any description

Can't think of any more at the mo, but I love these threads.

I'm from the Black Country and we weren't allowed to use any 'slang' words at home ?. However, when visiting family in Tipton and Dudley I soon picked it up (much to my mom's horror) so the only few I can think of are:

Suck - sweets

Bostin' - Good/lovely

Bonk - bank (ie Quarry Bank the place is pronounced Quarry Bonk. No idea why)

But like Ladelly said you've then got the pronunciation/positioning of words that takes some getting used to: Cor - can't, Ay - am not, Doe - don't. I was most confused once when visiting my auntie when she asked "am yow cootin?" hadn't got a clue what she asked and couldn't even hazard a guess. Eventually it was broken down for me and she had asked "Are you courting?"

What do you mean? They are real words. ?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mither

I think of both the worrying/bothering and mother meaning.