Colloquial local expressions.

[Profpointy]

I think Mardy is fairly universal, not just West Yorkshire. I've certainly heard it here in South Wales, and my family have always used it, and expected it to be understood anywhere (though my parents were from Lancashire, which isn't all that far from West Yorks).

It is pretty much northern, albeit has spread.

 

[Profpointy]

If you come across a weird scotch term, it will be one of 3 things (you can usually tell from context):
- a drunk person,."
- something nice to eat, or
- the English.

For a long time I'd not realised "numpty" was originally a Scottish term.

I do like their term "gobshyte" which is both self explanatory and rather evocative of a certain type of person

And the more genteel term "outwith" which has no fully satisfactory English-English equivalanet. A Scottish neighbour used it in a technical report and his boss when proof-reading complained "That's not a word. It's two words joined together used wrongly". Needless to say, thereafter he would contrive to use "outwith" in his documents wherever the context legitimately allowed it

 

[Slick]

For a long time I'd not realised "numpty" was originally a Scottish term.

I do like their term "gobshyte" which is both self explanatory and rather evocative of a certain type of person

And the more genteel term "outwith" which has no fully satisfactor English-English equivalanet. A Scottish neighbour used it in a technical report and his boss when proof-reading complained "That's not a word. It's two words joined together used wrongly". Needless to say, thereafter he would contrive to use "outwith" in his documents wherever the context legitimately allowed it

I might need to post this in the Admit your ignorance thread, but I never knew Outwith was a Scottish thing.

 

[matticus]

I might need to post this in the Admit your ignorance thread, but I never knew Outwith was a Scottish thing.

Same!

 

[Alex321]

I might need to post this in the Admit your ignorance thread, but I never knew Outwith was a Scottish thing.

Neither did I. I had thought it was a US "business speak" import.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Blethered; I’ve not heard it anywhere else but around the Wakefield area

Generally applies to someone who had got mud/dirt on clothes/face

 

[Proto]

In Brum an off-licence is the ‘outdoor’.

”I’m going to the outdoor to get some pop”

And if you took a torturous route to get there, you might say, “took us ages, we went all round the Wrekin.”

 

[alicat]

Brussen (West Yorkshire) showing off, can also be used for (slightly) aggressive/in your face

Never heard that and I grew up in Leeds. Perhaps it's more local to where you are.

 

[Chris S]

Blethered; I’ve not heard it anywhere else but around the Wakefield area

Generally applies to someone who had got mud/dirt on clothes/face

In Northern Ireland a blether is somebody who talks rubbish.
The Icelandic for journalist is 'bladamadur', which is pronounced 'blether mouther'.
https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=is&text=journalist&op=translate
Presumably it's of Viking origin.

 

[Hover Fly]

I'm gay* brossen, I'm away yam, over brant road.
*Spelling dubious, one of those words you never seen written down in this context.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

He's got "monk on", meaning he's sulking. One of my dad's expressions so from the NE, he was a Geordie.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

He's got "monk on", meaning he's sulking. One of my dad's expressions so from the NE, he was a Geordie.

We have that around here, pronounced as in ‘Monkey’

 

[captain nemo1701]

'Cheers drive' is peculiar to Bristol, oft used thanking your driver. And now we have.....

I've often thought the opening line of Aha's 007 Living Daylights theme was written by a Bristolian:

'Hey drive...where we going?'

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

’Chunter’

Generally to talk incessantly

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Clout

This has 2 meanings
1. To hit someone, you ‘clout’ them
2. Around Barnsley, it’s a scarf (‘muffler’ in some areas)