Regional Words and their meaning

All these scottish ones make me feel homesick! ? (and unable to formulate a proper sentence...)

another one to add is "slitter" to be used in the context: My sister is a slitter. she slitters food all down her front when eating and should wear a bib at meal times.

one that confused me for a long time when i was wee was a Chitterin' Bite. i've no idea if this is just my gran's word or if it's a glaswegian thing, but she used to tell me to take a Chitterin Bite for when i was getting changed after going swimming. it turns out it was a sweet of any description to be held between the teeth to stop them from chattering from the cold.

also, face = pus or coupon

dole office = the buroo (i'm sure i read somewhere this originated from people saying Bureau as in Social Bureau where you get the dole from)

my sister uses "19canteen" or "!9oatcake" when meaning some year long ago. ie "gran is quite old, she was born in 19canteen" or "that was built in 19oatcake".

then there's Council Juice (water) and Council Telly (BBC1, BBC2, STV, Channel4 and 5) which came my flatmate from fife used a lot.

My mother used to call water "Corporation Pop".

I love looking at the the weird and wonderful words used in other parts of the country!

But in the sense of a live-in lover rather than a lodger. Now more of a joke but at one point would have been scandalous ?

Nik - if you want to pick up more Doric you need to get this book. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Yourself-Doric-Course-Beginners/dp/1898218145/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222244161&sr=8-2

Gah, this one drives me insane! ? I know someone who uses this all the time and I hhhhhhhhhhhate it! My mum picked it up for a while, too, but seems to have droped it now (praise be!)

And it's a muffin. Lancashire oven bottom muffin. ?

North East

Bait - lunch

Bairn - baby

There are loads more, but most of them are quite well known from Ant and Dec!

RedHead - I don't actually know where I have picked it up from though! I can't remember when I started saying it and nobody around me uses it, hence the mick take I endure. I have honestly tried to stop saying it - it sounds awful, it makes NO sense! I'm starting Agaits Anonymous!?

I remembered a few my Nan used to say when we were little, things like 'it's black over Bill's mother's' meant it was going to rain so we had to help get the washing in or 'you want to say you don't know' meant she thought you were wrong about something.

Another Black Country one I love is yam instead of you, as in 'where yam bin?' is where have you been? and weem instead of we have, weem bin doon are mam's (we have been to visit my mother) I only know one person who says bostin and it's normally in the sentence, "are, that's bostin ay it?' (yes that's very good isn't it?)

Same as Little Star we get, "where he be?" (where has he gone?)

Crib-packed lunch etc

Maid-girl

Dreckly-between now and never, if it's said by a tradesman your looking at nearer never?

Back home in my little part of rural Hampshire we called chewing gum 'spidge', the police were known as 'Gabbers' and riding on the back of someone's bike was a 'dubby'.

Here in NZ they have so many different words and phrases for things you'd think they were speaking a different language at times!

Whereabouts are you, titchbunny?

We have maid, pronounced 'mehd' (girl) and bey (boy) in Plymouth, but I know dreckly as a Cornish thing.

I'm a Southerner living in Newcastle and it took me a few months to get used to the dialect up here. I could barely understand one of my best friends when I first met her!

alleys are vennels, or snickets in the countryside

wife means any woman (eg the wife in the chipshop said...)

gan yam - going home

twisting - complaining/whingeing

tret instead of treated (my husband from Teeside says this too, as does his Mum who used to be an English teacher)

tab for cigarette (also in Teeside)

Cheese savoury - cheese and onion mixed with mayonnaise, sometimes with shredded cabbage too.

And of course, the ubiquitous stottie - a large flat bread bun with a particular texture, baked on the bottom of the oven. Mmmmmmmmm, cheese savory stottie....

My dad writes/speaks publicly in the Blackcountry Dialect and some of the words are fab - I can never understand what he says though when he is i'n character'. ?

Now I'm imagining your Dad as Prof Carl Chinn! ?

He rocks.

Mithered – as in I can’t be mithered (bothered) or I’m really mithered (busy) today

Oven bottom muffins – large bap like things much like a stottie only softer

I’ve heard a few weird ones in warrington where I work, the speed bank (cash machine) , snow paint (tippex) and pants instead of trousers

Carl is a brill bloke, he is good mates with dad and he has dad on his show sometimes to promote his work and CD's. He hosted our charity gig in june and was brill.

Or one of the blokes in the cottages at the Black Country Museum ? Took my nan there last summer and I thought she was speaking in a foreign language when she was chatting to one of them!

All of the Scottish words have made me homesick. I haven't heard some of them for years.

My PIL are coming to visit from Scotland today so I'm going to try and fit as many as I can into the conversation. I'm sure by the time I go to work tomorrow I can use some of these words to confuse the guys in the office ?

One of my favourite ones is glaikit - as in confused, dumb

That should be gan hyem (with a silent 'h'!)

I can't think of many more geordie-isms other than 'whisht' (pronounced like wished but with a t on the end) for 'be quiet', and 'charva' which has been in usage for many years before chav but means essentially the same thing

My family are all from the North East (Gateshead for mum, Seaham for Dad) so most of the dialect from up there is second nature to me. My husband looks at me like I'm speaking a foreign language sometimes, especially when we're with my family.

Lots have already been mentioned, like clarts, bait, stottie etc.

I also like 'claggy' for sticky, as in 'don't walk on the garden, the rain has made it a bit claggy'

'Hoik' or 'hoye' for throw

'Yark' for to pull

'Plodge' for to go for a paddle

My mum says 'tret' instead of treated too - that one does make me cringe a bit.

If it snows a lot my dad will always come in and say 'it's sna on sna out there' which apparently is a Wearside thing.

My mum tells me to "haud yer wheesht' when she wants me to be quiet, so it's a Scottish term too.

'Whisht' always reminds me of The Lambton Worm,http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/Chester-le-StreetandWashington.htm#THE%20LEGEND%20OF%20THE%20LAMBTON%20WORM, my favourite childhood story.

I used to love going there! One of the 'blokes' down the mine sounds just like my Dad's mate Sid.

My dad refers to his glasses as 'bins'

Not sure where it's from though as have never heard anyone round here call them bins other than him....

I have also heard glasses referred to as 'gecks' but again not sure where this is from.

I've just been reminded that my sister in law (Macclesfield) says chob for put, as in 'just chob it in there' and also that my Nan and her sister (Warrington) say bathers instead of swimming costume, we used to love our cousin's words when we were little and went on holiday together and could be forever found saying 'have you got your bathers on?' pretending it was 'our' word!

I'm from Brum and the lady who used to look after me after school used to say "cowin' ell" all the time. I went home and said it to mom and she gave me a clout round the ear. I was about 8 at the time ?

I'd forgotten that! It ranks alongside bostin' as one of the best words in the world. Cowin' brillyant. ?

I'm from Sunderland but haven't heard that one before. Maybe its a Seaham thing.

Just remembered another one Gadgy/Gadgie, meaning man, not sure of the spelling but would be used in the contet of 'look at that gadgy over there'. We also use dinnit (sunderland) and divint (newcastle) meaning don't and is one easy way of spotting the difference between the two. Oor lass is also another one that tends to be used round here.

They're called bathers in Victoria as well. I say bathers here and no one knows what I'm talking about. In other parts of the country they have different names such as swimmers, cossie, etc. Australia is such a big place that I'm surprised there's not more true dialect differences. There are lots of different words for things, but it's nowhere near as pronounced as Britain, which is such a small island.

I've recognised a lot of the Scottish words. Victoria has a lot of Scottish place names, so perhaps the words were introduced with the settlers who named the towns.

One of my favourite Australian word differences is that in QLD they call a school bag (which would have been a case in the old days) a port. I assume it comes from portmanteau. They say "hoorah" for goodbye as well.

And don't forget 'Haway/Away the lads' (depending on Tyne/Wear accent!) Oh ket was sweets, but not chocolate as I remember, and chewing gum 'chud/chut'. Knackered meaning exhausted is one I love (and love explaining - the word is just so sensible).

I don'tthink we have much else but, I think a non-native would notice lol! We also have major variation within a few miles which puzzles me! My OH grandma thought I was 'not from round here' when I met her, god only knows where tho, but shes a Geordie and I'm Mackem so maybe that explains it!

Half of those words I forgot as I just think of them as words everyone uses. ?

My friend from Hull was confused when she was asked if she had been 'tapped up' whilst on a night out in Sunderland. I had to explain to her that it meant being chatted up by the opposite sex.

Isn't that used everywhere?

My dad used to call a swimming costume a 'dookie'

And I call all women 'wifey', or 'lassie' depending on their age

ETA I lived in Newcastle for 4 years, and can no longer say the word can't, I automatically say 'cannat' (sp?)