Following on from the what do you call a slice of hay thread

I am remembering all these, I will have a wonderful time throwing them into conversations. :D

Nobody has a clue what I am talking about half the time anyway, someone even had to look up 'strop' as in 'in a strop' the other day! :)
 
A ginnell round these parts is a jitty mi'duck :p we have pikelets and feel nesh here too though.

But round here a cob isn't something you ride it is something you put bacon in and eat!
 
cptrayes said:
Are you nesh when it's dimpsy? And if so do you go and mash some tea? I found a whole new language when I moved north!
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We always mashed tea when I was growing up and if you stuck your head out the back door and shouted tea's mashed everyone would come running. I live in the south east now - they have no idea what I'm on about! But what do you say? "Tea's ready" means a meal is ready to be eaten, not just a cup of tea! But then that's dinner down here.
 
Nah Nesh means that you feel the cold, possibly more than normal, so it could mean wimpy about coldness but not generally wimpy.
 
DollyDolls said:
Very Devon word...bit like "where's that to?"
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not heard of dimpsy but putting 'to' on the end is proper west country:D but 'where's that to' is posh west country lol, 'wersit to?' is more how we say it.
My favourite wiltshire/hampshire oddities are 'anywhen'; and 'somewhen' (anytime, sometime):)
And if you're proper west country you have to use 'init' a lot , my sister still used that even after living in Newark for 15 years
 
I've lived in the north & south the words that has made me stand there thinking umm, & that is???....
islands - round about.
Bap - sandwich.
Dap's - gmy shoes.
 
I'm just a confused southerner with one northern parent so I get the barm cakes and the daps. Didn't know ginnell until I moved to Nottingham for 5 years.
Use a wad of hay, it gets pikers outside, and hay gets fowsty. People get called mush, petal or duck :D
 
Kat said:
A ginnell round these parts is a jitty mi'duck :p we have pikelets and feel nesh here too though.

But round here a cob isn't something you ride it is something you put bacon in and eat!
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Same in Leicester but here around Nuneaton and Coventry you have your bacon in a batch (though I've heard them called batches in Earl Shilton and Hinckley, roughly between Leicester and Coventry). Though when I lived in Surrey for a while I learned to call everything a roll, even though I knew they're the long ones that you have hot dogs in.

I've always called them pikelets too, but actually a pikelet is a different animal entirely to a crumpet.

We used to give each other croggies too, where elsewhere in the country it was a ride on the crossbar (of a bike). In the (East) Midlands we use laggy bands for plaiting and plaggy bags to bring home your shopping.
 
We have croggys in crewe, cheshire. We also have bletch which is the black stuff that comes off your chain on a bike, "oh youve got bletch on your trousers"
If we were naughty as kids we were always called "nowts"
and if you got a potato fritter from the chp shop we always called them smacks..... turns out it can be quite dangerous when asking for a smack in a chip shop who have never heard of it!!!!


I love all these sayings from around our little island!!!!
:)
 
My favourite word is cwtch, it descibes its meaning beautifully. I also use oer when speaking english which is cold in welsh just because it sounds cold, if you know what I mean. My sister insists I speak 'wenglish'.
 
a friend once told her instructor that her horse was 'yampy'
instructor was not a local and looked at her like she was mad
which is exactly what yampy means in the black country :D
 
quaenies (pronounced kwynies) = girls
loonies= boys
plain bread = batch bread
Pan bread =normal conventional loaf
Baffies=slippers
fish supper= fish and chips
cuddies= horses
dipsey= silly
daft= mad or simple
Any guesses where I come from
 
Ireland? I've lived in London all my life and have never heard any of these! I wonder if we say anything in particular, any ideas?
 
windand rain said:
quaenies (pronounced kwynies) = girls
loonies= boys
plain bread = batch bread
Pan bread =normal conventional loaf
Baffies=slippers
fish supper= fish and chips
cuddies= horses
dipsey= silly
daft= mad or simple
Any guesses where I come from
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That's easy. N E Scotland. But I can't be more specific. Banffshire it'd be quoins, loons, baps, ....
 
Anyone used 'dinlo'(Hampshire)? Back when i was little in the Midlands, pikelets were the round spongey toasted items dripping in butter; crumpets were more like Scotch pancakes. And we havent even got into the whole swede/ turnip scenario!!!
 
Dry Rot said:
That's easy. N E Scotland. But I can't be more specific. Banffshire it'd be quoins, loons, baps, ....
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Morayshire so almost right
went to school in Elgin
The put ie on everything just about even names best mate was Keith know always as Keithie. Lived in a hoosie
 
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I love the words 'mithering' and 'mardy' not used down South :)

I can't think of any local words for this neck of the woods possibly because I don't think they are unusual.
 
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