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NanKate Fri 25-Jun-21 08:23:01

I originate from the Midlands but now live ‘down sarf’.

What words remind you of your roots.

Mardy
Buz ?
Bostin
Tara a bit
Fizzy pop
Babby

Over to you.

welbeck Wed 30-Jun-21 23:21:59

not local to me, only heard in adulthood, but i find it rather charming, if now a somewhat contrived expression of surprise:
well i'll go to the foot of my stairs.

nadateturbe Wed 30-Jun-21 21:18:13

NI possibly just Belfast

"Your head's a marley"
Your bums's a plum (yes,really!))

Both mean....You are not talking sense.

Kate1949 Wed 30-Jun-21 10:53:36

Also here in Birmingham
Mardy (miserable)
Blartin (crying)
We have a canal at the back of our house. A workman came here once and, noticing the canal, said 'That's a bostin bit of cut'.

DanniRae Wed 30-Jun-21 10:16:49

I am a londoner too but have no idea what cherry 'ogs means? confused

narrowboatnan Wed 30-Jun-21 09:19:28

My DH is a Londoner so we've had ankle biters and cherry 'ogs. I thought he was making it up until his parents and friends used the same expressions

Jaxie Tue 29-Jun-21 19:55:46

Hutch up (in Lancashire means move along) say you were sitting on a bench and someone else wanted to sit down.

hollysteers Mon 28-Jun-21 22:31:42

“I’m made up” i.e. delighted.
(Liverpool)

Millieangel Mon 28-Jun-21 21:21:39

Stoke-on-Trent
'Duck'

Craftycat Mon 28-Jun-21 12:46:19

I wish we had some!
I live in Surrey & we are all very boring here- I can't think of a single local expression. I love local accents. My Granny was a Scot & she had some lovely sayings. Unfortunately my Mum did not use them & they got forgotten. All I remember is ' Dina fash yerself- which I think meant don't worry.

LadyJus Mon 28-Jun-21 09:05:11

Croggie.

If you go to any child in my old village and say "gissa croggie" they will all know what to do and how to react.

I was amazed to find out that the word croggie is also recognised in Leicester, 100 miles away!

Its you, sitting on the crossbar of their bike!

Sloegin Mon 28-Jun-21 08:11:44

I'm from Fermanagh, N.ireland, as far west as you can get in the UK. We have so many unique to the county expressions- cutty- young girl, cub- young boy, houl yer whisht - keep quiet, throughother- untidy, sheugh- ditch and many,many more. I lived in N.Devon for years and had to learn a whole new language there!

Yammy Sun 27-Jun-21 22:37:27

Just remembered making people howl when I asked if I should knock the light out instead of a switch.We still say it.

jeanio Sun 27-Jun-21 21:34:57

All fur coat and no knickers, meaning someone who pretends to be something they are not, posh, is a saying I remember from my childhood. I live and grew up in Wirral.

Gwenisgreat1 Sun 27-Jun-21 21:06:26

A Doofa, something the will Doofa this and Doofa that!
I believe from Scotland

olliebeak Sun 27-Jun-21 20:34:24

I grew up in the 1950's in St.Helens (Lancashire at that time - now Merseyside since 1974, when it became 'scouse-ified' to some extent).

Some that I remember from my childhood
'owt' - anything
'nowt' - nothing
'nowty' - naughty
'split' - chips and peas in paper OR on a tray
'babby's yed' - a steamed meat pudding served with chips from a chippy
'babby' - baby
'pie-eater' - somebody from Wigan (our bitter Rugby Rivals)
'yicker' - somebody from Haydock - a part of St.Helens
'entry' - known as a 'ginnel' in other places
'pop' - any carbonated drink
'toffees' - any sweets
't'other' - meaning 'the other one'
'mithering' - pestering
'skrieking' - wailing/crying - especially a child!
'slutch' - mud
'moggie' - mouse even though it's a CAT everywhere else!
'playing wag' - truanting from school
'our Maud' - wife/girlfriend
'cocker' - mate/pal/friend
'bung off' - game of Hide & Seek

vampirequeen Sun 27-Jun-21 20:08:04

Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire
Tenfoot (a gap between the backways of houses that is wide enough for a bin lorry i.e. ten feet wide).
Bairn - child
plain cake - bread cake
larkin out - playing outside
boodling - travelling at a steady rate in a car
tansad - baby buggy
Meet you at the blue box - very local phrase for known meeting point in the bus station but still used after the blue box was repainted bright yellow
til - until

West Riding of Yorkshire
caling - to visit someone
teacake - bread cake (no currants)
currant teacake - normal teacake
go down snicket - gap between two houses big enough for a car
between the midins - where the snicket was...between the outside toilets
put wood in't 'ole - close the door
scraps with chips - bits of batter that break off and cook with battered fish and chips

NfkDumpling Sun 27-Jun-21 19:03:44

Cushies - sweets
Dwile - floor cloth
Duzzy - as in 'duzzy fewl' - silly idiot
Guzzunder - the potty under the bed
Wick - as in 'she dorn't arf git on my wick'
Loke - track
Pollywiggle - tadpole.
Shiver - very small splinter in your finger.

varian Sun 27-Jun-21 18:45:20

Oh dear I've just got a wee skelf in my toe.

Callistemon Sun 27-Jun-21 17:07:22

^Proper job
D'rectly (sometime in the future)
'ansome
all Devon^
All those Legs55
And

Wur be to me 'andsome?
Janner
I'll be doin' tha' in a minute (meaning some time in the next week)
Fairy buns
'Er lives over yonder

Yammy Sun 27-Jun-21 16:50:20

marra a person usually male
assa marra a person from Whitehaven Cumbria
kite like a pussened pup, a stomach like a poisoned puppy
gaan yam , going home

OOw do , how are you doing or hello
yan and fower, one and four
mud and fad grandparents
dickie or singlet, a vest
Clarty lonning, a muddy lane
doft and dont, undress and dress
jam eaters,miners from a certain part of Cumbria the pits were too hot for meat sandwiches.
ower yon beck, over that stream.
looksta that, look at that.
Once in a shop with a friend from my part we were in East Yorks and asked if we were Scandinavian the woman had not understood us at all

Blodwen1910 Sun 27-Jun-21 16:37:57

Witzend. Re. Mithered. Welsh word “mwydro” for dithering.

Legs55 Sun 27-Jun-21 15:36:24

I'm originally from Yorkshire now living in Devon. Many dialect words are the same Throughout England but there are others definitely regional.

I call everyone Luv, West Country it's "my lovely" "my lover" "buddy" mainly for men'

Proper job
D'rectly (sometime in the future)
'ansome
all Devon

Yorkshire
Ginnel - alley
Bahn yam - going home
Got a keyk on it - leaning
all fur coat & no knickers

Loads more, many my Grandad used & my parents.

Cabbie21 Sun 27-Jun-21 15:31:12

I spent many years in Yorkshire ( though I am not a Yorkshire lass) and this thread has brought back fond memories of several people I used to know, and the expressions they used.

Valels Sun 27-Jun-21 15:24:04

From the north east
Clarty
Bairn
Kets
Lonnen
Ha'way
Gi'z a gleg

I could think of more but my spell check doesn't like any of them and is being a real pain!

hollysteers Sun 27-Jun-21 15:11:25

Woollyback, someone born outside Liverpool.