[Closed] Favourite dialect / slang / local words and phrases

TJ?

Aye, Ah ken his faither.

PP - we are all jock Tamsons bairns

“Dreich”

Carol Kirkwood uses that regularly on BBC weather

Living in Devon, "dreckly" is a common one short for 'it will be done directly' meaning it will be done soon or 'I'll be there dreckly' meaning I'm on my way.

Cleaning my spd boots with a pressure washer while still wearing them I was told I'd get 'wet vit' meaning wet feet!

One of my favs is "Bawheid", preferably prefixed with "****in"

Should be past tense 'I kent his faither', emphasising the foolish inexperience of the person being insulted.

I've never understood how a cheeselog is a woodlouse in Reading.

I'm led to believe Dreckly is similar to Mexican Mañana or Arabic Bukra.

I like (and use) ... braw, drookit, wheesht. Also bonny.

Chap at work uses "cahoochy" to refer to stuff with a gummy or marshmallow consistency - I'd never heard it before.

Cwtch= a hug.
Twp= a bit stupid.
Igam ogam= zig zag.

Unfortunately, despite being told otherwise bubble wrap in welsh is not papur popiau, but lapio swigod. Similarly, a microwave (oven) is not a popty ping, it's a (popty) microdon.

Of the scottishisms, I quite like skoosh

nithered & mafted are about my favourite words from where I grew up

... apart from croggy, which is the correct term for giving another individual a lift on one's bicycle. Get yer "backy" right up ya !

oh, and nesh

Mard.
Ming.
Mither.

Coypsing - To stay at home with one's girlfriend rather than go out on the beer with the lads.

Caffled - To lose one's courage, get cold feet, bottle it.

Scone - What most in the North would know as a fishcake from the chippy.

The only Welsh I remember from my Dad was ach-y-fi (yuck) and mochyn (pig). Don’t know if I’ve remembered them cos he used them around (or about) me as a kid! Been using them with my kids- for ages my daughter wouldn’t accept pig is the correct name for the animal!

Nesh - 'unusually susceptible to cold weather'

Wheesht (possibly the most useful word in the world to parents of mithering kids)
Mard
Mither
Slutch (reminded of this one by Cougar)
Are some of my favourites.

Unfortunately, despite being told otherwise bubble wrap in welsh is not papur popiau, but lapio swigod. Similarly, a microwave (oven) is not a popty ping, it’s a (popty) microdon.

Brilliant 😃

Bawbag
Dreich

Appen as in fancy a beer Appen I do. Lancs dialect

Fettle as in to fix

Thrutch as in to thrutch a great turd out

Watrch as in headwartch is a headache and bellywatrch upset stomach

Crimp a length again turding

Scrawped scrapped

Well I'll go the foot of our stairs...

Ben the hoose

Oh, barry.

I haven't heard anyone use that term for decades.

nfortunately, despite being told otherwise bubble wrap in welsh is not papur popiau, but lapio swigod. Similarly, a microwave (oven) is not a popty ping, it’s a (popty) microdon.

You'll be telling me next that Pysgod Wibli Wobli doesn't mean jellyfish

There's a Scots language show on iPlayer on BBC Scotland, well worth a watch, Rebel tongue, really enjoyed it.

Watching it I could relate to getting scalded at school for speaking in the Ayrshire vernacular, seems ridiculous now.

Anyway, ones I use regularly without thinking

Kelpit - covered in mud, specifically a child!

Foonart - cold to the bone

Ersit - Arsey

Mockit - muddy

Wonnert - wandered, ie someone who's 'no the ful shillin'

Guffies - English folk

Skunt. Possibly North Worcestershire.

Lopsided, skewiff, misaligned.

As in: "You've put that shelf up on the skunt".

How about this beauty?

"Greenfield ne'er bred a jebber".

'Ow bist gettin won, surry?

"gana gam yem"

I was taught this as part of my introduction to teaching in the North East. It means can i go home.

The icing on the cake was telling this to a Danish national. His reaction was amazing "why do they ask in Danish"

Simples. It's a viking remnant.

Oh, barry.

I haven’t heard anyone use that term for decades.

still common usage round here

"I'm stood 'ere like piffy on a rock bun"

Thats a good one IHN

Baffies for slippers

can we please have translations?

Appen I do. Lancs dialect

Conversely, no such dangerous positivity and commitment on the better side of the Pennines, where 'appen can signal all purpose non-committal as in "you down pub later?" "'appen." Means, yeah, happen I will be, or happen I won't. Handy.

Gutees was a word used for gym shoes when I was at Primary School. Comes from Gutta Percha, the type of rubber used for the soles

As kids we'd be told: "Go and side up that scrow in your room before tea" (scrow rhymes with cow), i.e. go and tidy up the mess in your room before tea. I've heard "side up" or "side away" elsewhere but never heard "scrow" anywhere else.

This is from the correct, west, side of the pennines.

Again, from the correct side of the Pennines:

Shape - roughly, to organise oneself.
'Shape yerself'.
Or my old mums favourite, 'Our Peter, y'shape like me arse' (Son, you are a useless ****wit). She used that one quite a lot. 😃

Katy Cornered - skew whiff.

Clart - mud.

Fly cuppy, or just fly.... As in come away Ben the hoose and get yer fly.
Redd up - let's get this mess redd up..

Can't understand a good portion of my older family when they get into full-tilt. It’s a particularly staccato and hushed-whispered Southern Black Country dire-lickt!

‘Gooin owt the wikken’ amya?’
‘Ahr, eye-amm-ahr. Am yow?‘
‘Ahr, probley, ahr.’
‘(silence, except for sound of sister singing upstairs)
(Laughing) ‘Thet yower Janet?’
‘Ahr tiz, ahr’
‘Oo’ser think er iz?...Byonsaay?’
‘Kinell ahr, dow tho, y’oll mek us loff, an ‘er ‘ates me loffin, ‘er gets a right bag on’
‘I ay surproized, er sounds loike a god glaed stuck under a god dower!’

transl:

‘Going out at the weekend, are you?’
‘Yes, I am. Yes. Are you?‘
‘Yes, probably, yes.’
‘(silence, except for sound of sister singing upstairs)
(Laughing) ‘Is that your Janet?’
‘Yes, it is’
‘Who does she think she is? Beyoncé?
‘****ing hell yes! Don’t tho, you’ll make me laugh, and she hates me laughing, she gets a right bag on’
‘I’m not surprised, she sounds like a god (curse) gleed* stuck under a god (curse) door!’

*small piece of coal (when stuck underneath a door it can squeal across floor-tiles)

When one is participating in accurate precision work and an object may need to be moved a bawhair, translated just a tiny bit or a smidge

Jobbie. I find it intrinsically funny, but I know people who won't hear it as they deem it too offensive! Bawbags...

Fannybaws - an ineffective individual.

It'll be reet

Yon yow's liggin kessin!

It’s a viking remnant

A lot of that in Cumbrian. Nana used to moan about t'mowdywaffs ont' lawn. Moldywarp old English, Muldvarp Danish. Also used to tell us to gi'owwer laikin (stop messing about) - leik (hence English verb to lark?) in Nyorsk.

Gutees was a word used for gym shoes when I was at Primary School

We always called them daps

Ansome

Well, arl gu t’Anne!

My Gran used to say this as a mild exclamation of surprise. The nearest translation I could fathom was ‘Well, I’ll go to Anne!’.

Victorian/Edwardian or earlier as it faded out with my parent’s generation but my Great Gran used it a lot.

And then the other soid o’the cut (Wordsley, ayet) if yow wuz a bit saft loike, yerd gerrem sayin:

‘Yam yampy ay yer!?’

Gutties reminds me of what we called our gym shoes, sannies.. Now there’s a story in there about a well kent weegie stw writer...