North/Midlands vs South slang/words..

Boromedic

Deadman said:

Mafted. Yeah I'll second that.

I'll also add some North East jargon:

Rarf

Doyle

Kets

Kecks

Hacky

Radged

Sprag

Gadgie

Where you from @Deadman ?? Some proper Boro slang there!! Love the term Doyle it's just the best way of putting across that you're being a bit of a cnut! 

This video cracks me up everytime, proper Boro!!

mudslide73

boogieman said:

EricTheWeary said:

west said:

Book of Ayli .. black country version of a mans search of tipton for original recipe for faggots ....

My mother has the old testament in black country somewhere although I'd probably recommend tales of a black country nurse. Long time since I looked at either though. 

My missus is black country on her dad’s side. She comes out with some unintelligible (to me) stuff every now and then. Her favourite is “ooh it looks dark over Wilf’s Mothers” when there’s a storm coming. 

A lot of folks say "Bill's Mothers". Some people think it refers to Mary Arden's house. Very confusing for me as a youngster as my dad's best mate is called Bill

boogieman

mudslide73 said:

boogieman said:

EricTheWeary said:

west said:

Book of Ayli .. black country version of a mans search of tipton for original recipe for faggots ....

My mother has the old testament in black country somewhere although I'd probably recommend tales of a black country nurse. Long time since I looked at either though. 

My missus is black country on her dad’s side. She comes out with some unintelligible (to me) stuff every now and then. Her favourite is “ooh it looks dark over Wilf’s Mothers” when there’s a storm coming. 

A lot of folks say "Bill's Mothers". Some people think it refers to Mary Arden's house. Very confusing for me as a youngster as my dad's best mate is called Bill

I’ve heard that some people say “Will’s Mother’s” too, supppsedly it refers to Will Shakespeare, so the Mary Arden connection would make sense. My wife has no idea who Wilf is though. 

rlw

Legionreturns said:

I was very confused when I moved up north and a street on an incline stopped being a hill and became a bank. The alleyway / footpath running between the houses suddenly became a ginnel 

Or a snicket ......

Flink_Poyd

Laggy bands for elastic

Okie for ice cream "fancy an Okie?"

Plaggy for plastic "got any Plaggy bags?"

Snap for lunch/food "I'm ready for some snap"

Lugs/lugholes for ears "look at the size of his lugholes "

Lamp/lamped for punch/hit "so I fucking lamped him one"

Frit  for frightened "that frit me to death"

All Leicestershire slang

EricTheWeary

boogieman said:

mudslide73 said:

boogieman said:

EricTheWeary said:

west said:

Book of Ayli .. black country version of a mans search of tipton for original recipe for faggots ....

My mother has the old testament in black country somewhere although I'd probably recommend tales of a black country nurse. Long time since I looked at either though. 

My missus is black country on her dad’s side. She comes out with some unintelligible (to me) stuff every now and then. Her favourite is “ooh it looks dark over Wilf’s Mothers” when there’s a storm coming. 

A lot of folks say "Bill's Mothers". Some people think it refers to Mary Arden's house. Very confusing for me as a youngster as my dad's best mate is called Bill

I’ve heard that some people say “Will’s Mother’s” too, supppsedly it refers to Will Shakespeare, so the Mary Arden connection would make sense. My wife has no idea who Wilf is though. 



I've always known 'round the Wrekin' as a black country saying ( unfamiliar to Brummies even) which is odd as the Wrekin is a big hill in Shropshire. I don’t know if the present Mrs Boogie knows that one. 

By black country standards my accent is very mild ( my parents were from Tipton but mostly lost their accents as they lived in Cumbria as a young married couple so it wasn't reinforced at home) but now I work in Worcester apparently it’s full on Aynuck and Ayli. 

Budgie

rlw said:

Legionreturns said:

I was very confused when I moved up north and a street on an incline stopped being a hill and became a bank. The alleyway / footpath running between the houses suddenly became a ginnel 

Or a snicket ......

Nah, it’s called a jitty.

Jimbro66

Surprisingly no examples from the south yet. I lived in south London through my teens and twenties but most the slang we used I’ve since forgotten. Some of it was single words derived from rhyming slang, like

Whistle - a suit
Barnett - hair or hairstyle
Syrup - a wig
Dicky (dirt) - shirt

Other slang was

fizhog - face “she’s got a goppin fizhog”
lugholes - ears
snout - a cigarette “Gissa snout”
geezer - a man
tart - girlfriend
strides - trousers
flicks - cinema

More might come back to me. Maybe other Londoners here can add some more. No point in asking south London youngsters, they all now speak Jamaican patois innit.

scrumhalf

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Nope. teletext subtitles don't work here.

vale

Jimbro66 said:

Other slang was

fizhog - face “she’s got a goppin fizhog”

that's a shortened form of physiognomy. i first heard that in a Fall song i think, or read it on one of their early 1980s 'scribble & polaroid' album covers.

Mark E Smith is the poet laureate of parochial northern slang. i think you can still say 'is' if the work lives on.

vale

i used to get called spacker because i was on crutches for most of my late teens.

Bellycaster

Yer Fatha is yer Brutha
Yer Sister is yer Mutha
They all Shag one another
The Dingle Famileeeeee


Duh Duh Duh Duh............................Click Click!

jonnyburgo

Barmcake

scriking

bobbins

scran

KKJale

A few from the West Country...

gurt lush
babber
keener
wazzock
gimpsy
daps
grockles
dreckly

WezV

Flink_Poyd said:

Laggy bands for elastic

Okie for ice cream "fancy an Okie?"

Plaggy for plastic "got any Plaggy bags?"

Snap for lunch/food "I'm ready for some snap"

Lugs/lugholes for ears "look at the size of his lugholes "

Lamp/lamped for punch/hit "so I fucking lamped him one"

Frit  for frightened "that frit me to death"

All Leicestershire slang

All except okie have made it over to Burton.


Nesh - for someone who is always cold

Flink_Poyd

WezV said:

Flink_Poyd said:

Laggy bands for elastic

Okie for ice cream "fancy an Okie?"

Plaggy for plastic "got any Plaggy bags?"

Snap for lunch/food "I'm ready for some snap"

Lugs/lugholes for ears "look at the size of his lugholes "

Lamp/lamped for punch/hit "so I fucking lamped him one"

Frit  for frightened "that frit me to death"

All Leicestershire slang

All except okie have made it over to Burton.


Nesh - for someone who is always cold

My mum's a fountain for local slang, she usually feels a bit nesh unless the sun's out

EricTheWeary

Flink_Poyd said:

WezV said:

Flink_Poyd said:

Laggy bands for elastic

Okie for ice cream "fancy an Okie?"

Plaggy for plastic "got any Plaggy bags?"

Snap for lunch/food "I'm ready for some snap"

Lugs/lugholes for ears "look at the size of his lugholes "

Lamp/lamped for punch/hit "so I fucking lamped him one"

Frit  for frightened "that frit me to death"

All Leicestershire slang

All except okie have made it over to Burton.


Nesh - for someone who is always cold

My mum's a fountain for local slang, she usually feels a bit nesh unless the sun's out

We had nesh and I still use it but I think we actually took the word from relatives who had moved to Derbyshire ( creating maybe with my cousin Adam whilst visiting my grandmother); feeling cold or just slightly under the weather. 

Jimbro66

KKJale said:

A few from the West Country...

gurt lush
babber
keener
wazzock
gimpsy
daps
grockles
dreckly

Dreckly was a word heard all the time during the ten+ years I lived in Cornwall. "I'll do it dreckly" meant some time in the future or perhaps not at all. Often the latter

Deadman

@Boromedic I'm from Darlo. Wife hails from Acklam.

I won't ask where you're from 

Travisthedog

The reason there aren't many from the south is that we speak correctly down here and the queens English needs no adjustment 

barm cake? No it's a bread roll, it's bread and it rolls

you northerners are so funny.



( by northerner I mean anyon who lives north of Salisbury)