Teach me....

'Rud' meaning road

As in 'Down the Rud'

Stupid suffolk accent, im pleased to say i do NOT speak like this....

We in the north east used the word Charver long, long before the word Chav became popular.

Getting wrong - is to be told off

DC - Daft c*nt - again, long before it became popular

Aye-urrrr (Hello).

Madferrit (Enjoying an activity very much).

Boy's are better but they are Yorkshire so will know most of those (corsey edge/spice/sen/etc).

Courtesy of my yorkshire H- 'Giore weit' Give over, please stop

My mum's (now ex) boyfriend once told me, with regards to my son, that he was going to "learn 'im 'owfer toke rate" - teach him how to speak properly. Potteries dialect...

"Dunna werrit" - don't worry

There's a cartoon in the local paper written in Potteries dialect. I can't translate some of them!

I don't think there is any where I'm from!

Thanks to the northerner in me I use "awayyy" alot, it means come on/hurry up. Another I use alot is "eeeeeeeeeeee" meaning really?!

I love this OB, a lad I work with is from the Black Country and he showed me this, if you say the words with a Black Country accent you can almost hear what they are supposed to be!

My word is 'Gary' or 'Tracey' which is what we used to call chavs when I was at school, no idea how it started

These too.

Squinny! Best word ever. To squin is to moan about something, whilst if you are describing someone as squinny/squinnying they are being a stroppy pants.

Grots = sweets where I am from. I can normally think of loads but now I am being asked my brain has gone blank!

Top scran = good food

Arrrr aye mate, yer kickin' off? = excuse me sir, would you like to step outside for fisticuffs?

Hoke

"have a good hoke in the drawer" means a good rummage/scrat, it's from Northern Ireland, my hubby taught me it.

We live in Bristol and a popular saying is "Alrite me babber" which translated means " how are you old chap?" ?

and Gurt which is 'very much so"!! Gert Lush & Gurt big one are the popular sayings!

In Yorkshire, "to babber" means "to poo".

So, "Ha! Look at him, he's babbed himsen".

Ned: Yer budgie's deed!

translation: your trousers are too short for you.

*makes mental note to refrain from saying this next time im visiting family* !!!

just remembered another Bristolian one "Hark at ee" which basiclly is "ooh get you or listen to yourself"!!

We actually did a translation thing for all my family for our wedding - I think my favourite (that I now say) is 'yer mam 'ul chow at ya' - Your mother will tell you off.

When I first moved up here I got a job in a chippy and had to have one of the menu products explained to me! My H proudly tells me that you can only get a patty between 'Ull and Brid (and believe me he looks no matter where we are)!

For those of you who aren't 'in the know' about East Yorkshire delicaces, its mash potato and sage mixed together battered and deep fried. If you ever get the chance you have to have a patty butty which is obviously a deep fried mash potato sandwich!

A few norn Irish ones for you Going for a dander = going for a stroll. Banjaxed = broken. Poke = an icecream cone. Culchie= someone who lives in the country, or a small village. Eg, they're a right Culchie. My stomach thinks my throats been cut = I'm really hungry. Dead-on = used to describe someone as being alright/decent. Bake = face/mouth eg shut your bake. Thick as two short planks = stupid. Norn Irish people will often finish their sentences with an unnecessary little confirmation statement such as, "his brothers dead-on, so he is", or I'm leaving in 5minutes, so I am" or she'll be home in 10mins so she will.

I thought everyone said 'squinny'?! Another Portsmouth fave 'dinlo'

I like the word dobber, it can mean a few things ie idiot, w***er, tw*t, that kinda thing!

you could just ask me?

Sharons/Shazzas for girls and Trevors/Trevs for boys, collectively charvers

Batch - roll, cob etc (that's my Coventarian)

Nesh - cold (that's my Yorkshire)

Got the face on - in a mood/Mardy etc

Just a few for you.

Gambole = Brummy for a forward roll

More from the North East:

Canny - nice, good

Nay botha - no problem

Stotty - a large flat bread bun

We laugh about this at work, as we're in Derby, but book appointments for surveyors in Bristol, so sometimes neither of us can tell what the other is talking about!

Two that stand out:

"Sam's got a mard on" = "Sam is being rather grumpy"

"Could well eat a chip cob" = "I would like a chip sandwich"

Oh, and here in Suffolk they say:

"I'm on the drag"

and they mean they are running late

Don't really have any dialect words as such, but I've grown up with a lot of Yiddish.

I'll give you 'meshughenah' which is a crazy person or idiot. My brother got called this a lot as a child. And now in fact.

Grimsby has a few I think.

"clats" - a collective terms for sweets, crisps and other junk eaten between meals. My mum would say "dont you dare fill up on clats, Im cooking your tea"

"Baggy" - or "bagwash" - laundrette

"Paggy" or "pag" - ride pillion on a cycle

"Spoggy" - chewing gum

"twagging" - playing truant

"fill in" - to beat someone up, ie "I'll fill you in"

I used to out with some one from the notts area (i'm scottish~) and the words that made me laugh were

Bap - I say roll

Pop - I say juice (some scottish may say ginger)

Mardi(sp) i say crabbit.

When my OH first met my dads side of the family who live in a different region but only about 30 miles up the road from us he thot they spoke a diff language when they said certain words such as

Press - Cupboard

Spikket(sp) - Tap

Ginger - Juice (pop to English folk)

This one is similar to the whole bread rolld/bun/bap/breadcake thing.

To me, pop is fizzy stuff like coke

Juice is fresh stuff, like tropicana

Squash is diluted stuff.

My fella thinks juice is diulted stuff, and diluted stuff is called cordial.

My friend calls any drink pop, which just confuses me!

"Mardy" is great Nottingham one. When I was a kid being called a "mardy-baby" was the worst insult ever! I ask my H if he is "having a mard" if he's a bit sulky.

Also love "clarty" describing the texture of particularly sticky mud. Or cake that sticks to your teeth!

Some excellent words here ladies. I shall attempt to incorportae in my everyday language. Thank you!