Expressions from your part of the world

Yes Fanny it is another language in the Black Country. My DGM lived there.

When we visited the Black Country Museum a few years back I was so emotional as it took me back to my childhood hearing the locals talk. The humour is just brilliant. I’m welling up now. I was lucky to have a happy childhood and I want to time travel and experience it again.

I absolutely adore the BCLM
I could happily live there ?

The BCLM is just up the road from us. We like to see the whole site evolving as time goes by. Fascinating place. I remember several of the buildings in the original places round here. It is now joined by the Canal and River Trust hub.

Kent, (can't)
Shent (shan't)
Enna gunna (I'm not going to)

Mad as a cut snake
Running around like a blue arsed fly
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock
Charge like a wounded bull
Bogan
Wannabe
Cute little possum
Yucky
See ya wouldn’t wanna beya
Bushie
Townee
Collins street farmers
Toorak tractors etc

FannyCornforth

Lucca what does clarty mean?

Dirty muddy gooey sticky !

Thank you Lucca
That is currently the perfect adjective for my cat

Clarty can also mean 'in the worst possible taste' as in - she looks really clarty with all that make up, peroxide hair and chandelier earrings.

In Liverpool when it’s hot they’re ‘sweating cobs’.
When they’re in a bad mood they’ve ‘got a cob on’.
When hungry they’ll buy a cob at the bakery and eat it with butter.
No rhyme nor reason but amusing anyway.

Jitty or Jit - alleyway

Mad as a box of frogs

Me duck

Batch - a bread roll

From various parts of the Midlands

Down here : My lovely

Crusty rolls here in Brum are crusty cobs.
We've been into our local Black Country town this morning. I was in a clothes shop and a woman was buying little girls clothes
She said to her friend 'Er's gonna look noice in them ay ah?' Which means 'She's going to look nice in those isn't she?'

He's got monk on - meaning he's not talking to anyone

Where’s it to?
Devon

Look over yere
Tidy!
That's disgusting, thad is
Alright? How's it going butt?
I'm not bein' funny, right, but
Fancy a cwtch?

Backalong

Glaikit (not too bright)
Bisum (naughty girl)
Sleekit (devious)
clipe (someone who reports you)
chum (as in come with me to the shops)

these are all from Edinburgh

Glaikit, bisum, sleekit and clipe are also heard in Glasgow, but I don't remember chum in that sense.

Some others I still use are messages meaning shopping, bihookie (derriere), oxsters (armpit) and wee nyaff (eg Gove).

scunnered is a good way to describe the way I feel about quite a lot of things these days.

I was born in Brum although I’ve lived in London, Scotland and am now in the NE.

I still talk about my donnies
I still say Te-ra each/ ower bab
I often mention the “Back-a Rackhams” and people having “a face as long as Livery Street”.

Ive added a fair few Scottish words to my vocabulary too and my Geordie is coming along nicely.

My elderly aunt in Yorkshire always tells me her husband is "proper maungy" ie a misery guts

I’m from Derbyshire originally but had never heard the term kecks muse till I met my DH who is scouse born and bred. Now my Yorkshire born dgs uses it!
Calling people duck or duckie as a ten of endearment. Not sure if it’s just East Midlands or west also?
Regarding clarty we used to use the term claggy which has the same meaning. I used it to describe some chocolate truffles DH had no idea what it meant. My DIL who is also from East Midlands (different part to me) knew though.

A few from South Yorkshire

Mashin’ (brewing tea)
Mardy bum! A miserable person
Ta ra (goodbye)
Tha’ meks a better door than a winder (you are blocking my line of sight).
Ey up! (Hello)
Spice (sweets/confectionery)
Jennel (an alleyway)
nesh. (Feeling the cold easily)
Nitherin’ (very cold!)
Luv (a term applied to all and sundry including strangers, in the course of general conversation)
T’ full dressin’ (the full range of additions to a hot roast pork sandwich!).

MrsWoo I think Beryl Reid coined the phrase ‘Tara each’ on her radio programme where I think she played the part of Monica.

I remember Rackhams well. They used to have models who walked around the restaurant.

I know Livery Street but can’t quite remember where it was. I worked in Ludgate Hill just by the derelict canals which are now filled with restaurants etc

mrswoo We still use the Livery Street expression and the Back-a-Rackhams was for naughty ladies (allegedly). Rackhams is still 'posh'.