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

Devonshire dumpling said:
Dimpsy is when the light is fading at Dusk, so if you were riding you would head for home as it was dimpsy! Still amazes me that people don't use that word everywhere, it's so normal here
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Never heard of it!

SbtS I live South and frequently use mardy most I know use it too.

Jojo, also in Hampshire and yes, was a common school word.

I can't think of any as are normal to me. I have a mix of Irish, Australian and Greek family who I pick words up off though and spent a fair amount of time up North. (Though the weirdest thing I recall up North wasn't a word but the fact I wasn't allowed a pint. I had to be served two half pints at a time, happened in several older pubs! :/ )

The funniest ones are in America. Never, ever ask to bum a fag off someone... especially when you have been stuck in an airport for a 24hr delayed flight and that person is a security guard :D Took several seconds looking like he was going to punch me before grinning, telling me that I was obviously English and giving me a 'smoke' :D
 
We use Ginnel in Cumbria. although the part where I'm from is rather chavvy and most people utter 'like' and 'init' all the time :rolleyes: :D

Mum is from Yorkshire and has been asking everyone round here if they knew what a Hummock was after telling me to stop at the hummock when driving the car and getting a totally blank look from me!
 
PandorasJar said:
Never heard of it!

SbtS I live South and frequently use mardy most I know use it too.
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It is used a bit now only I think because of movement of people around the country and seeing it on Forums / hearing on TV. I certainly never even heard of it until University days (early nineties) when I met 'Northerners' for the first time - strange bunch they were :D

Also heard the word 'palatic' apparently meaning very drunk from them - Mostly Middlesborough, Darlington, Stockton area. Never heard it since.
 
JoJo i had forgotten i even joey the word dinlo (idiot) definitely a Hampshire word and mush is very common there too. When i lived in Dorset holidaymakers were called grockles. If you had a cob on you were moody, don't fancy trying to carrying my cob around.
 
I like the word dimpsy and shall use it frequently, though my friends may be mardy and have a chin on about it!
(Chin on/chinny/chinning - to be upset usually with a jutting belligerent jaw)
Also loppy, meaning grubby or nastily dirty was a favourite of my Dad's who also called a cob a breadcake, not an equine cob that is, they were bobbo's! We too mash tea, have a lunch box full of snap and anyone who shivers is always nesh. I love regional words and dialects.:D
 
Bristol has some of the best words lol,
snow 'pitches' (settles) soon as it started snowing someone would ask , 'is it pitching?':D
If you fall over you might scrage something like your knee or hand scrage meaning graze.
at school we had dap bags to keep our pe kits in.
when you get off the bus you say 'cheers drive' to the driver:D
wasps are jaspers.
and if something is really nice it's 'gert lush':D
 
old drinking buddy of mine would slip into what we called 'proper devonish' when he was drunk, he was a real devonshire boy on of his mates talked 'devonish' all the time, could just about understand half of what he said!! strangely enough all made sense when you were drunk too:D;)
 
How about 'podging' the queue.

In the Midlands it means pushing in or queue jumping. My Aunt moved down to the Cotswolds and was in a shop when a woman looked at her funny because she thought she had pushed in front of her, she hadn't. She turned round and said,'Madam, I am not podging the queue!'

Blank looks and tumble weed time.

Also 'going round the Wrekin' to get somewhere, means going a roundabout way to get somewhere. The Wrekin is a weird round hill in Shropshire.
 
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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Aberdeenshire at a guess. I'm not glaikit (pronounced glay-kit = simple, vacant, a bit stupid) wifey (usually taken to mean fish wife) :D

Ah the Dulcet *coughs* tones of the accent....

we had a whole conversation today at lunch about bread rolls and what one calls them... Bread cakes or cobs from Hull, Bap or Stottie from Newcastle, or a Roll if you're posh or from York (which may be the same thing! ;))
 
We use "mardy" in Leicester and if you were mardy, I'd say "Oh, shut up, mardy-arse".

If I wanted you to move along so I can sit down, I'd ask you to "otch up".

I specially like the word "yawp", which can be someone shouting, or singing (we used to be regulars at a pub with a piano and we had a good old sing-song of a Saturday night. We called the pub The Yawpers Arms).

We used to have areas where you could rent a lock-up garage, which had a rough track leading to the garages. We called it a black pad.

I can spend ages brushing the cots out of Sham's tail. Sometimes I get fed up with it and yack the comb across the yard.

I love "compo" (mortar, cement etc), and "jippo" (gravy). My dad's from Melton Mowbray, and if his hands get sticky he'll say he's "all bartled up".

It drives my (Surrey-born) OH insane when I say that somebody looked at me gone out (like I was mad, a blank look etc).

I love this thread!
 
YorksG said:
Now that would cause confusion, 'cos another name for a crumpet is a Pikelet :D
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In the part of Cheshire where I grew up a crumpet was the thick one cooked in a metal ring and a pikelet was a thin one, a bit like a small thick-ish pancake. Both had holes in the top.

We also had proper oatcakes (soft, thin, about 8 inches across also with holes in the top.) not those foreign crisp biscuits you get in other parts of the country. Depending on where you lived they were often called Stafford***** oatcakes or Derbyshire oatakes. You don't seem to get them anywhere else in the country so these days I have to make my own.
 
diamonddogs said:
We use "mardy" in Leicester and if you were mardy, I'd say "Oh, shut up, mardy-arse".

If I wanted you to move along so I can sit down, I'd ask you to "otch up".

I specially like the word "yawp", which can be someone shouting, or singing (we used to be regulars at a pub with a piano and we had a good old sing-song of a Saturday night. We called the pub The Yawpers Arms).

We used to have areas where you could rent a lock-up garage, which had a rough track leading to the garages. We called it a black pad.

I can spend ages brushing the cots out of Sham's tail. Sometimes I get fed up with it and yack the comb across the yard.

I love "compo" (mortar, cement etc), and "jippo" (gravy). My dad's from Melton Mowbray, and if his hands get sticky he'll say he's "all bartled up".

It drives my (Surrey-born) OH insane when I say that somebody looked at me gone out (like I was mad, a blank look etc).

I love this thread!
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Now that's interesting. My father originated in Macclesfield and moved as a child to the Cheshire/Lancashire borders. He used "Jippo" and "gone out" as well but I can't remember them being in general use outside the family when I was young and lived there. Mind you, he may have picked these up when he was in the army during the war. I think "compo" is a general word for mortar, etc., not just regional but my Dad used to refer to a packed lunch as "compo" after the Army field rations.

My (south) Derbyshire mother used "Yawp" but not my northern Dad. My horse's tail gets "lugs" in it. And in the family we say " 'utch up " too or "Hutch up" if we're being posh.

Now, another "dialect" question for anyone interested. Do you "brew up" or "mash" when making the tea?
 
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"Come on... poo it. Tha'll have for t' poo harder than that. Has t' ne'er played 'tug o' waar be-foower?"

"Oh aye, he were a reet nowty sod, yon mon!"

"Tha' dunn't have look nowty. Oo's peed on thi chips?"

"Ah'm gooin' wom fer me jackbit. Ah've norretten nowt since this morning - ah'm ruddy clempt!"

"Didst' see that fillum last neet? Ah were frikkened t' dee-ath waatchin' it - ah thowt ah were gooin' for t' cack misen at one point!"

"Brew up luvv, ah've getten a RIGHT throat on me!"

I'm not quite of the generation to talk like this but these all make perfect sense to me, and I can converse with the older generation here quite fluently. Yet if I talk to friends my age who live 10 miles away, they start to look all confused and whisper "what's she saying?" and "I dunno, just smile and nod". It's fun sometimes, but I can't see why old people talk like this. It's easier to just speak english!

Can't understand the accent? There's an app for that:iWiganese
 
I have spent 50% of my life in the depths of Nottinghamshire and 50% in Essex so my language and accent is a bit odd!

I now live in Essex with my husband who was born and raised in East London. He is gradually (after 5 years) getting used to having his tea mashed, being nesh, eating sausage cobs as a bit of snap, being told to gerraht when I don't believe him, being told he is a mardy arse and being asked if he is reet. :)
 
ok to add to this, west country lass here, were hay are flaps and there are warbles (hornets)

thought a warble was a warble until now in the midlands and asked for help at the yard as a couple of warbles for going for the old pony and we should be able to get them between us, loads of blank looks!

and i use the phrase "on the side" which for some reason confuses people, i have no idea why just makes sense to me
 
Well it was guy dreich here the day - pony was fair scunnered when I got the tack oot - think she thought her lugs wid drapp aff in the cauld. Och says I, its only a wee smir, dinny be a big saftie!
Who wants to translate this for our southern friends? :D
 
Ellen Durow said:
Now that's interesting. My father originated in Macclesfield and moved as a child to the Cheshire/Lancashire borders. He used "Jippo" and "gone out" as well but I can't remember them being in general use outside the family when I was young and lived there. Mind you, he may have picked these up when he was in the army during the war. I think "compo" is a general word for mortar, etc., not just regional but my Dad used to refer to a packed lunch as "compo" after the Army field rations.

My (south) Derbyshire mother used "Yawp" but not my northern Dad. My horse's tail gets "lugs" in it. And in the family we say " 'utch up " too or "Hutch up" if we're being posh.

Now, another "dialect" question for anyone interested. Do you "brew up" or "mash" when making the tea?
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Ooooh yes we Yawp and get lugs in our hair here too!
 
LeneHorse said:
Well it was guy dreich here the day - pony was fair scunnered when I got the tack oot - think she thought her lugs wid drapp aff in the cauld. Och says I, its only a wee smir, dinny be a big saftie!
Who wants to translate this for our southern friends? :D
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It was quite dreary here today pony was very fed up when I got the tack out. Think she thought her ears would drop off in the cold Oh I say is only a bit (NOT SURE ABOUT SMIR) chilly do not be a big softie

Lugs have lots of meanings ears, tabs on boxes, handles on bowls, tangles in hair any others
Lincolnshire folk call ears tabs too.

A very descriptive lincolnshire saying "its fair black ower faythers tates the day"

As for tea I would make a brew but leave it to mash
 
I'm originally from South Yorkshire and I still get nesh (feel the cold). We got lugs (knots) in our hair and Dad took his snap (lunch) to work. When I got married I lived in Teesside. Lugs were cotters and snap was bait! Now I live in Ireland and everything here is a yoke, ie 'that horse is a big yoke' or 'I bet that car is a strong yoke'. My husband was once describing our dog to work colleagues who asked him, 'Is it cross?' to which he replied, 'yes collie cross german shepherd'. When they picked themselves up from the floor laughing they explained cross over here is a way of asking if a dog is vicious :D
 
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