Words "inherited" from your Mum and Dad or

[TVC]

From Mrs VCs family comes "noggie end" meaning the crusty end of a baguette or similar.

 

[brokenbetty]

My sis used to love tomato juice , which she called "marto goose". My mum once absent-mindedly asked a barman for a marto goose - he thought it was a new cocktail

 

[wafflycat]

Translations please Waffly ....... I just love all this stuff and its reassuring to know you're all a bit looney too ....

forkytail = earwig
netty = toilet
blacklock = cockroach
proggiemat (or proggy mat) = a kind of handmade carpet/rug made of fabric pieces cut and put on to a backing. There's also a hooky mat. Proggy or hooky refers to the technique used to make the mat. http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2008/04/07/wansbeck_matters_feature.shtml
Cowp yor creel = fall over, say head over heels.
Bad wi' the bile = general stomach upset. Often occurs after a night on the tiles..

 

[Campfire]

My mum says things like 'myther', 'wide-boy', 'all that messing around' meaning if you have to send anything back. She also 'tuts' I don't know where that habit originated! I try very hard NOT to use any of these expressions. She also says 'semi-skilled milk' (for a joke) and 'Ibrufin' out of inability to remember name. Someone she worked with used to say 'interpretator' not knowing real word and mum and I ALWAYS say it now. One of my old bosses used to go down to 'Londinium' regularly & so I sometimes say that.

Mr Campfire has nicknames for everything, like 'Joke on Trent' etc!

My son used to say 'hopcopcar' instead of heliocopeter (sorry helicopter) and 'lellow' for yellow.

 

[Browser]

'Femmer' - a Geordie word meaning 'of questionable quality', picked up from my dad who, being Peterborian, himself picked it up when living/working on Tyneside.
'Haway' - Geordie again, used in conjunction with 'then' to mean 'come on then'.
'Nurk' - not sure of origins.
'Stiffen the crows' - an imprecation uttered by my father on more than one occasion.

 

[brokenbetty]

"You make a better door than a window" - my dad's phrase if someone was blocking his view of the tv

 

[graham56]

The missus gives me grief for using, ahint, ayont ,whe ist & whe wast. In her words "you sound just like your dad."

 

[bonk man]

er wrobble is a word I thought was a normal word until recently. Not in the dictionary and appears to be a Worcester ism.. means to screw up or crumple vigorously , paper etc...

 

[colly]

I Knew someone who always said 'secartry' rather than secretary and 'pacific' rather than specific.

My mrs has about 40 ways of saying Ibuprofen. None of them correct.

Ouch !..................and she has a tendency to slp me round the head.