Mumpsimus

Does anyone use the word hangry?

It's used to describe people who get irritable when they're hungry.

Mumpsimus could be applicable to several Tory bigwigs.

Allira

Does anyone use the word hangry?

It's used to describe people who get irritable when they're hungry.

Yes... a great word!

Disconbobulated! Which I often am

My grandaughter used to sing
Gilly gilly salt and pepper,
Cats a noodle
Broken by the sea 🤣🤣
So that's what we all sing now.😀

Grannybags

I recently discovered Librocubicularist - a person who reads in bed

That’s me!

Love this one, definitely one to remember.

I like the word kerfuffle.

When my now 18year old granddaughter used to stay over when we washed her very curly hair I always said it was such a kerfuffle and she giggles about it to this day.

I love the words/saying “Tickety boo”
When asked if I’m ok I always say “ Yes thank you, everything is tickety boo”.
I think I heard Danny Kaye say it a few times in one of his films. I don’t remember which one.
Such a fun saying 😀

I think on the huh is east Anglian
I learned copacetic.from Canadian so yes birth American, and rather like the word.
Mumpsimus is from an apocryphal story told by Erasmus about an old priest whose prayer book had a misspelling, it should have been sumpsimus, but he said that he wasn't going to swap his old mumpsimus for the new sumpsimus
There is also a word sumpsimus which seems to have been also coined by Erasmus to mean the opposite, I found this definition
"adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus) 2. a person who is obstinate or zealous about such strict correctness (opposed to mumpsimus)"
I'm sure that we all know someone who is a sumpsimus!

May a pedant with a classical education point out that the plural of mumpsimus ought to be mumpsimi?

Like cactus - cacti.

‘On the huh’ is Suffolk/ Norfolk oodles another is mawther for a woman

Some fabulous words on here but I’ve never heard of ‘huh’ for something not straight BlueBelle, we would say skew whiff, which I’ve found it’s from handloom weavers, typically in Northern England, to describe fabric which was out of alignment, from skew + Weft.
Words are so interesting!

NonGrannyMoll

I rather like "copacetic" (hard first & last c, short vowels and hissing middle c) meaning good, fine, splendid.
"Hi, how are you?"
"Oh, everything is copacetic."
I think it may have originated in America but have never found out exactly how.

And I assumed that you must be referring to a vinegary policeman!( acetic acid)

I like the word malarkey for nonsense. It describes endless things very neatly.

Eg. Secret Santa malarkey. Brexit malarkey. First day of the sales malarkey.

DollyD

Some fabulous words on here but I’ve never heard of ‘huh’ for something not straight BlueBelle, we would say skew whiff, which I’ve found it’s from handloom weavers, typically in Northern England, to describe fabric which was out of alignment, from skew + Weft.
Words are so interesting!

Well, I never knew that!

I grew up in Suffolk but don't know the word "huh".

I have just finished listening to the whole series of the podcast "Something rhymes with Purple" which in every episode introduces three words which are unusual, remarkable and/or worthy of revival, similar to the ones lovingly remembered in this thread.

Unfortunately it finished while I was still catching up. I so much wanted to write to them and make some points but I thought I should hear them out first. It is still online, of course, so if you would like some gentle listening, it is well worth downloading.

My dad always referred to an umbrella as a gamp.

I like the word 'sittooterie' as well as what it means - a nice verandah or place to sit outside and enjoy the fresh air.

bobbydog24

My dad always referred to an umbrella as a gamp.

Oh! So did my Mum 😀

One of my DB used to say Tararabit (tarah-a-bit) which means cheerio, adieu, see you later or similar

Allira is that a Black Country saying? I worked in Walsall for a while and a colleague also said it.

2 words I still like are discombobulated and rambunctious...🤣

nightowl

Allira is that a Black Country saying? I worked in Walsall for a while and a colleague also said it.

I don't know if it's Black Country but probably a Midlands saying.

I think one of my uncles used to say it and my brother probably picked it up from him.

Oh, it says it's a Birmingham saying (or Brummiejum!) so possibly Wolverhampton too. (Wulvramtun).

Ooh I remember Dad using phisog for face.
There are a few words I suspect to be pure Bristolian which seem to be less used nowadays but were in common use when I was a nipper:
Puddies = hands
Wiggies = ears
Daps = black school plimsolls (and we had a dap bag to keep them in)
Pitch = snow settling.

Oaksters - admpits. Boak - sick.. Bahookie - bum. Gutties - plimsoles. Plooks - spots.