Words specifically used in one area of the country

[defy-one]

Innit = isn't it (west london)

 

[tigger]

Boking - it's a Stoke word for when something is irritatingly catching your attention out of the corner of your eye! More words for snow than Eskimos these Stokeys!

 

[gbb]

Again, another one from our younger days in Notts...frit. 'I frit him to death' if you gave someone a fright .
Maybe more widespread, never heard it since.

 

[doctornige]

Teuchters for country folk in Aberdeenshire.

 

[doctornige]

Nesh and mardy...we moved from Nottingham years ago, nesh particually i've never heard anywhere else, i'd forgotten we all used to say it years back. Mardy is more widespread i suspect.
Don't know how it's spelt, but we used to greet each other as 'serry'...as in 'now then serry'...another regular one in Notts.

Nesh is used in the Manchester area too, along with mardy.

 

[doctornige]

Boking - it's a Stoke word for when something is irritatingly catching your attention out of the corner of your eye! More words for snow than Eskimos these Stokeys!

The same word is used in Scotland for a thing that makes you want to be sick.

 

[vernon]

The same word is used in Scotland for a thing that makes you want to be sick.

Not quite. It's bawk.

 

[Andy_R]

"hinny"

 

[snorri]

Not quite. It's bawk.

I thought it was 'boak' or 'boke' actually, it's a word seldom written

 

[MossCommuter]

Mither - that's one I don't hear elsewhere.

Barm, nesh, mard or mardy (both mean "moody" to me), bobbins, duck and cock I am all familiar with*

Favourites that I never hear outside the locality are "flit" to mean "move" (as in home) and "thrutch" to mean fidget or wrestle or raum (which is another one).

*shut it

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I thought it was 'boak' or 'boke' actually, it's a word seldom written

As in (I hear often) "it gives me the boke" ... you know what I mean, Jimmy?

 

[ColinJ]

"barm cakes" (soft round bread rolls which meat/chips can be placed to make a "butty" or "chip barm") seems to be very specific to parts of Manchester & Bolton. I've heard them called "tea cakes" elsewhere.

Others?

A particular type of large barm was referred to as an 'oven bottom' in Burnley.

They seem to use 'tea cakes' in Hebden Bridge.

In Coventry, we used to call them 'batches'. I asked for a 'chip batch' when I first moved here and the chip shop owner looked at me as though I was from another planet!

In Yorkshire, 'while' means 'until'. A bit confusing if a driving instructor from elsewhere is teaching someone from Yorkshire to drive - "Wait while the lights are on red, then go"!

'Offcumden' is a great local word used to describe people like me who moved here from elsewhere. Apparently, if your family haven't lived here for about 100 years, then you are not considered a proper local! (These days, about 75% of the people who live here fall into that category!)

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Mither - that's one I don't hear elsewhere.

Barm, nesh, mard or mardy (both mean "moody" to me), bobbins, duck and cock I am all familiar with*

Favourites that I never hear outside the locality are "flit" to mean "move" (as in home) and "thrutch" to mean fidget or wrestle or raum (which is another one).

*shut it

They say "flit" for moving home here too.

 

[coffeejo]

"thrutch" to mean fidget

Well, yes, I suppose you would fidget if you had thrutch.

 

[snorri]

Favourites that I never hear outside the locality are "flit" to mean "move" (as in home)

Now that is interesting, it is in common usage throughout Scotland.
I have always felt the need to translate for everyone south of the border.