Expressions from your part of the world

Baffies - my friend knits these!
She made me a pair.

Orlin’s uncle called me tatty ‘ead Hollysteers My Dad called Orlin sconehead. More Liverpool slang eh gearl

Haha LauraNorder, funny how these sound like insults but are terms of endearments.
My favourite is soft lad?

My granddad used ‘nobbut’ instead of ‘only’. He’d say, he’s ‘nobbut’ a lad, when we complained about our brother.
Mum said it was his Yorkshire childhood.

Suppa cloas - it is located in a tenement building

Far will a’ stert quine? A did ma lernin’ at the university in Aiberdein. Fit aboot yersel missus?

The North East

Starvin' - feeling cold as well as hungry
Hacky- dirty, in need of a wash
How way- come here or unbelievable
Haddaway- go away as well as unbelievable
Snadgies- turnips
Cuddy- a donkey
Cracket- a small stool or chair
Taties-potatoes
Gully-bread knife
Coin-to turn a corner, eg I was coining the corner
Bullets-sweets
Do the messages-do the shopping
Take bad-become ill.
To take bad with the bairn means going into labour
Hefty- Large in build, eg a hefty lad.

Sorry, that was a message for Alegri on the previous page ?

Corryanna

Far will a’ stert quine? A did ma lernin’ at the university in Aiberdein. Fit aboot yersel missus?

Bloo mogganer. Been awa' a lang time noo, though. Ower lang.

From Salford and still use mard for someone who is a bit soft and weak. I married someone from south Cheshire /Staffs border ( hardly a great distance) who talked about snappin (packed lunch) and lossicking (lazing around). He also introduced me to oatcakes which are delish.

Mollygo

My granddad used ‘nobbut’ instead of ‘only’. He’d say, he’s ‘nobbut’ a lad, when we complained about our brother.
Mum said it was his Yorkshire childhood.

Nobbut just.

Also skriking for crying.
Mithering for getting worked up about something or irritating someone.
Guess you can tell the kind of child I was!

I used to mither my mother sometimes!

On an urgent note (in hospital at death’s door)

I was called Tatty'ead, and Mum used to say 'you daft 'aperth'. I was born in Liverpool!

Always called plimsolls Daps in Somerset.
Also "dumpsy" for that time of day when it's starting to get dark.
Grockles or Emmets for the tourists that pour into the area during summer.

Don't mention 'daps'

Is 'nobbut' an abbreviation of 'nowt but'?
As in 'nothing but a lad'?

My Mum used mardy for sulky and you daft aperth. MrJ uses take out for the off licence, press for airing cupboard, he’s from NI.
‘Wuss’ used here in the south for someone a bit soft or ‘you big girls blouse’. General greeting is ‘right’.

"I bought it into cwop" = "I bought it in co-op" - Devon

These two sisters pop up on local news sites from time to time. If you want to hear the Devon dialect, look no further!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwHFazeeTvA&ab_channel=varminteruk

My Mum used mardy for sulky and you daft aperth.

I used to hear 'daft aperth' a lot when I was younger. Aperth = ha'penny (halfpenny) worth

Haven’t noticed any around here (SW London) but a GM from the midlands used to say ‘mithered’ for distractedly worrying or wittering about something.

Interestingly I’ve just found it in my big fat Oxford dictionary, where it says, ‘Make a fuss, moan..’. which is not the precise meaning I associate with it.

It says ‘late 17thC, of unknown origin’ though there’s something with a similar meaning in Welsh. Can any Welsh-speaking GNers elucidate? It’s ‘moedrodd’, to worry, bother, which sounds rather more like my GM’s usage.

AFAIK she had no Welsh parents or GPs, so maybe it’s a relic from long-ago times when Celtic languages were still spoken in the area.

I was born and brought up in north Kent and South London. I have never called it Sarf. The word is SOUTH. There is no A R or F in it.

Whereby?
Where to?
Alright my luvver
Lush
Where's it to?
Daps

Apologies Theo for my use of Sarf.

Tea - evening meal at about 6.00pm

Slightly off piste. A neighbour and her son popped in to see my mother, who had a great sense of humour. The son had clearly had an accident as he had a scab on his nose. My mother said to the neighbour ‘What happened to your Alec?’ The reply was ‘He fell on his cream crackers’. After they left we burst into hysterical laughter. We never found out if it was a euphemism or he actually had a packet of Crawfords biscuits in his hand. ??