Words specifically used in one area of the country

[Silver Fox]

Slops = police. Apparently to a scouser, slop is police backwards. (don't ask me!!)

Not heard that one before, Bizzies is a more common phrase.

Back jigger - alleyway running to the rear of back to back houses.

 

[vernon]

For a good read on regional variations in childrens folklore and language try

Peter and Iona Opie's 'Lore and Language of Schoolchildren'.

It's fascinating and will unearth buried memories of some of the strange sayings and rituals that died with childhood.

 

[PK99]

Siling it down = heavy rain (as it is doing here right now!)

Not wishing to hijack this thread (I think it's a very good one.) I think it's a northern thing that our mealtimes are:
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper (usually a pre bedtime drink and snack.

I think down south it's usually;
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

What's all that about?

http://www.history-magazine.com/dinner2.html

 

[JohnC60]

A favourite here in Cornwall is "dreckly".
dreckly is similar to mañana (spanish) but not so urgent. "I'll get it done dreckly" (I'll do it when I'm ready)

 

[Twilkes]

On the radio last week Ken dot Bruce spoke to Susan Boyle and asked her about here life before her fame -
"I used to get up late and go and get my messages" was her reply.
Not heard that for 30 years (Scottish Girlfriend way back). Messages being shopping (from your Message Line= Shopping list)

Scotland might be cheating, with Scots being a recognised dialect and everything, but:

Puggy = fruit machine
Hingmee = thingummy = anything you can't remember the word for [took me weeks to work this out when I first moved here]
Shoogle = move/shake [e.g. we'll all shoogle up one space/just give it a shoogle]
Outwith = outside of [e.g. he was the fastest rider outwith the paid professionals]
Stramash = disturbance, noisy racket

Some of these probably aren't even Scots though.

 

[PaulB]

One expression used around here that makes me HATE the person saying it, is, 'agert'. It's used in the phrase 'anawer agert' and I shudder when I hear it, and it is heard a lot.

What does it mean? 'And so I said...' or maybe, 'and my demeanour to that particular bon mot was...' It's lazy, idle, said for emphasis and sums up the generally shocking low standard of education for some in this particular corner of Lancashire.

A further 'Lancastrianism' that convinces bystanders the speaker could not possibly have English as a first language tend to come in mountain settings. On encountering a cheery 'Nice day' from a walker heading in the opposite direction whilst attempting a Bob Graham Round, a well-known runner tends to return the phrase, 'Aye, it's grandasawt, intit?'

 

[Saluki]

On the radio last week Ken dot Bruce spoke to Susan Boyle and asked her about here life before her fame -

Totally off topic but we call him Ken dot Bruce, here too

 

[Mike Warren]

There's a beer in the North East called Radgie Gadgie - loosely translated as angry old man.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radgie_gadgie

 

[mcshroom]

**Cough**. DEE and DAR!

There, where and were are all said different. Why generations of school children in Sheffield spelt where and were the 'wrong' way round.

Only for Deedahs, not for us lot that spoke proper in Rotherham

 

[PaulB]

Being a travelling sort of person, my ear for accent or dialect tends to be good and I can pick up on what's being said anywhere...except Aberdeenshire! Doric is so strange, I'm sure I'd understand more in the most nationalist bars of Llanberis than in pubs in the outer areas of Aberdeenshire. The first time I heard it I assumed it was Gaelic but certain words are said in (very heavily accented) English to dispel that theory. It makes no sense at all to an English speaker and even a Scottish colleague I was once with was as mystified as me as to what was being said.

Anyone know any Doric words or phrases?

 

[bobg]

oo ay laa ( phonetically) mystified me for ages when I moved here. It's a common used greeting ie
"hello lad..."
What's ee like ... isn't he daft/clever/stupid etc
Getting off at Edge Hill, ( the railway station just before Lime Street in Liverpool ) = coitus interruptus. I 've heard it elsewhere using different railway stations just before major city ones
Someone mentioned "dreckly", I was brought up in east London and my grandad used to say it, I believe it's a corruption of "directly ie soon

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

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

Mither is one I have often heard in Shropshire, along with Nesh (to mean feeling the cold excessively).

Brivvet is one that I haven't heard anywhere else. It's usually used to refer to someone who is poking their nose into things they shouldn't be.

 

[longers]

Anyone know any Doric words or phrases?

Fit like?

Quine was on the door to the ladies in some pubs, I think loon was on the gents doors but am not sure?

 

[bobg]

Mither is one I have often heard in Shropshire, along with Nesh (to mean feeling the cold excessively).

Brivvet is one that I haven't heard anywhere else. It's usually used to refer to someone who is poking their nose into things they shouldn't be.

It's nebby in Notts I recall

 

[threebikesmcginty]

On the other hand, here's one I hear everywhere I go - fark off you twat!