What's a slang word from your region that nowhere else uses? (the madder the better)

We also use drekkly (meaning mañana) but this is shared with the other lot who do the scones wrong.

Not sure if it counts in this context, but I think it’s the only place in the UK that adds syllable to a place name: Ex-ek-ed-er for Exeter which is used by the older generation; Younger ones shorten it to Exder

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GJThunderqunt@reddit

Backalong is used in Cornwall too.

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Agitated-Builder-582@reddit

I forgot:

Dinnum - didn’t he

Dinnums - didn’t they

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AdAsleep8158@reddit

Hass got en where thee cassent back en, hassent?

I hear “where’s it to?” In west Cornwall a lot.

I think “emmet”, literally an ant, almost always used for tourists is a very Cornish thing.

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No_Space_9324@reddit

Definitely west country, I had a friend from Bristol who used to say it.

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GreatChaosFudge@reddit

Yep, was about to say this is a very Bristol thing. I didn’t realise it encompassed the whole SW.

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2munkey2momo@reddit

Its in Somerset too, so perhaps more broadly westcountry but split along other lines?

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Maximum-Pen-8295@reddit

Geddon - Hello.

Wasson - What's going on? Are you ready?

Babber (baby)
Gramfy Croojer (woodlouse)
Dumpsy Dark (twilight)
Smeechy (smoke that stings the eyes)
Fustilug (a fat slob)

Not my regions, but I heard both these growing up:

It’s got cannae pick up - “it’s fast” (NE) Appens it is, appens it isn’t/appen so - “maybe” (Cumbria)

There's a little takeaway in Gloucester called Jens posh nosh. I've always wondered what made it posh as it's just a standard bacon sandwich kind of place.

Now I know.

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WordsMort47@reddit

That must be new(ish). Where is it?

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geejaytee@reddit

The writer Giles Coren got very pissy with a sub-editor for removing the word 'a' before 'nosh' in a piece he'd written. The sub-ed had not heard of 'a nosh' being that type of slang, but had heard 'nosh' being slang for food, so thought it was a typo, and removed the 'a'.

: an outer place or area

came from without

Of course, in some circumstances, without is more accurate as an opposite to within, but not always.

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MokausiLietuviu@reddit

that is outwith the scope of this document'- without does not work there.

I was sent a technical document in the past week with the sentence "The {item} is without the scope of this specification." Sure, it's not common, but it's certainly used, perhaps in technical circles.

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Dark-Empath-@reddit

So the item was missing the scope of its specification? Best get looking for it then.

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itismeeeeeeeee@reddit

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Winston_Carbuncle@reddit

Again, just because someone at the NHS or a technical author uses it like that it doesn't change the fact it's not correct.

Feel free to continue using it, makes no difference to me, but I assure you it's incorrect.

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iwantauniquename@reddit

I'm sorry but you are just wrong here

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MokausiLietuviu@reddit

it's incorrect. If it's incorrect, why is it listed in dictionaries?

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nomadic_weeb@reddit

In South Africa, we say "just now" to mean "sometime later", like "oh, I'll do that just now" to mean "yeah, I'll get to it at some point this week".

"Now now" means in the next 5 minutes, and "now" is sometime that day

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RedNightKnight@reddit

Had a foreign bf and remember being on the phone with him.

“Where are you?” “I’m going to the shops just now.” “Yes but where are you now, what are you doing?” “I’m walking just now” “Yes but… now?”

To him, “just now” meant at point prior to now.

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I learned this a couple of months ago and was a wee bit shocked that I use this in professional reports ALL THE TIME!

In London and increasingly all over the south a lot of people, particularly the yute, speak multicultural London English, which is heavily influenced by patois.

“Clart” means something very different down here and calling someone a “clart” is reasonably likely to start a fight.

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best-friends-arm@reddit

some places it's clat, as in ya clatty bastart. my mum was forever yelling at us for being clarted when we'd been out playing and come back in covered in mud and whatever else

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Joe_Kinincha@reddit

Aye, a ken.

Just saying, down here you need to know that it has very different connotations

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best-friends-arm@reddit

fair. don't want to end up having an unexpected squarey-go XD

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Joe_Kinincha@reddit

Nae bother

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AnotherFellowMan@reddit

Sneck

Bait

Yes! Though it was very much a term in County Durham back in the day!

a gansie is not just any sweater though...

its a traditional heavy fishermans jumper originating in the Channel Islands

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Former-Let-2855@reddit

we call jumpers gansies in Ireland

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Spottyjamie@reddit

West cumbria?

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frankensteinsmaster@reddit

ExtremeActuator@reddit

The first time you ask for that outside the north east is a memorable experience

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Alert_Elephant_7273@reddit

I remember going to London Zoo with my family when I was about 6 (so 1984ish) and asked for a 99 with Monkeys blood at the ice cream shop.

See, I know the word and understand the context, but I don't know the origin.

Would you care to explain to this ignorant English bastard?

Genuine question. =)

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K44no@reddit

It’s really just the word “ballbag”, said the way we would say it.

A decent number of Scottish people would call a ball a “baw”, so it follows that a “ballbag” becomes a “bawbag”. Weirdly, I would always call a ball a ball, but I would never call a ballbag a ballbag, only ever bawbag

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OldGodsAndNew@reddit

best-friends-arm@reddit

Former-Let-2855@reddit

is it genuine, or do you just want somebody to say ballbag to you on reddit! 😆

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itismeeeeeeeee@reddit

Genuine! Sometimes an insult, sometimes a term of endearment.

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Character_Sandwich95@reddit

Scotland.

I'm ayrshire and we all use that term.... Glasgow use it too. Pretty sure 95% of Scotland use it lol

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Andersonb04@reddit

Aye I’m fae Angus and we say bawbag

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PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit

There's even a brand of boxers called Bawbags.

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Novel-Structure-2359@reddit

Came here to say this. They say BAWBAGS on the waistband.

Oh yes.

Worky ticket - wind up merchant

Stottin - raging

Bucking - shagging

Wey - yes or can be used as a conversation filler like ‘erm’

Dinnar - don’t know

Bewer - attractive woman

Liverpool/wirral

Antwacky - old fashioned.

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Present-Shelter5805@reddit

I didn’t have a clue what a Scouse friend meant when he asked me to call him a jobe apparently it means taxi

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Theboyjones70@reddit

Jobe or Jobo.

I have not come across chunty or inabootcomer, That's a good one.

I think my favourite greeting is the one my office mate taught me which is a bit of an older one - "foos yer doos" (how's your pigeons?), to which I am told the appropriate response would be "Aye pickin" (they're pecking) and is just kinda "how are you" "I'm alright".

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herwiththepurplehair@reddit

Yes see also “fit like e day?”

“Aye aye chavvin’ awa’”

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bendybow@reddit

I bin up by 'ure - I've been around these parts

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jacko_97@reddit

I only realised that people outside of Suffolk don't say "on the drag" (meaning running late) when I moved to London. Got a lot of blank looks and people thinking I was high.

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Vast_Accountant_2807@reddit

“Giz a spoggy” - can I have some of your gum?

“D’ya wanna paggy?” Would you like a lift on my bike?

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Glad-Animator-1030@reddit

Hoolit means drunk in Fife

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mikey644@reddit

Shant for alcoholic drink. Can be used as noun or verb

Jeer

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fruitytetris@reddit

When I first started dating my Welsh now husband, it took me ages to get my head around this but I find myself saying it now 😂 I moved from Cheshire to South Wales and a couple of things that caught me out are:

Cowen = very Picking to rain = starting to rain, I say “it’s spitting” which is unheard of here Butty = friend, whereas I know it as a sandwich Tamping = angry, fuming Buzzing = dirty or gross, whereas I know it as being excited for something Chopsy/chopsing = argumentative, gobby

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docsav0103@reddit

Cowen as in cowing, like in an alternative for bloody? Or something else?

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fruitytetris@reddit

Possibly spelt cowin, I’ve only heard it spoken so I’m unsure of the spelling. It’s used to say “very” or “really”. Like “that’s cowin lush” means “that’s really nice”, or “it’s cowin freezing” means “it’s really cold”.

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docsav0103@reddit

Yeah, its the word cow replacing a swear word so instead of saying bloody, sodding or frigging lush you say cowing/cowin'.

Natural-Ad2673@reddit

In kilmarnok, chanking- very cold

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Ok-Woodpecker4059@reddit

Anyone else use ‘spice’ for sweets? My dad used it, as in, “d’ye wanna penny spice?” back when you could get a bag of 10 sweets for 10p

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Sheffield, Our Gurt is my wife and in parts of Lancashire she is known as Our Peg.

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LabConsistent1403@reddit

TV remote = diggerdogger (nice and fast, all one word, “diguhdoguh”)

Pass the diggerdogger

Bucks UK

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No-Garage-7424@reddit

When I was a kid in Middlesbrough we used to get a TAN on the back of a friends bike, (short for tandem, I think) , but as a teenager I moved across the river to Stockton and they used the word CROGGY. Your guess is as good as mine BC I still can't work it out.

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KibboKid@reddit

For a time I worked in Wigan, and on the first day at lunch-time i was asked if i wanted a "babas head n pee wet". Apparently this means a suet meat pudding ('babies head' for some reason) and mushy peas.

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tittysherman1309@reddit

Its pronounced more like 'babis yed' and 'pey wet'

We normally have it when we are clempt and in need of some jackbit. If the kids are moidering and skrikin, and tha's in need of summat moist, then a smack barm and a babis yed and pey wet is the best way to go.

Wigan has so many its hard to think of them all

Put wood inth ole - shut the door

Was thi born in a barn - stop leaving the door open

Aye, al si thi - goodbye

Toreet - hello

Artoreet - are you ok?

Ney then - hello, I haven't seen you for a while/come here, I have a bone to pick with you

As thi nowt moist - any sauce or gravy to go with my food?

I cornt speyk - amazed/shocked

Owd on a bit - hold up

Am goon wom - I'm going home

Maybe this isn’t hyper specific to Wigan but “bonny” meaning “a bit fat, but not in a bad way” took me aback, because in Scotland there’s zero implication someone’s stout when you say bonny, it just means pretty.

Yampy for thick
gambol for forward roll
gulley for a back alley between houses
piece, for a slice of bread and butter
tip-top, for a frozen ‘Mr Freeze’ style lolly

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Xiniov@reddit

I remember the day I found out no one else outside the area used gambol

Genuinely thought that was the worldwide accepted word for a forward-roll well into my twenties

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_cprizzle@reddit

Same.

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celem83@reddit

It's a word I recognise as English but not with this meaning.

I’ll add

saft for stupid

Donnies(fingers)

Bostin

Aooaww , not really sure how it's spelt but almost sound like oh her or oh queer.

Council pop

Suck, for sweets, either comes from Zucka which is German for sugar, or Suss which is German for sweet. Mostly because black Country is what's left of Olde English.

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Streamliner85@reddit

Cut for canal.

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RZer0@reddit

Wench, depending on the context either means woman or whore.

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Alt4Norm@reddit

Black Country Alphabet

Cowin' bostin'

It was used in a sketch on, IIRC, Not The Nine O'clock News in the early 1980s or so taking the piss out of Hovis adverts, and was widely disseminated at the time as ostensibly being Yorkshire. I was told that it should properly have been "twazzock", though.

Slightly on the huh/slant = when a shelf isn't level or a picture isn't straight

Boi/bah/bor/buh (depending on the part of Suffolk you're from) = used interchangeably with mate but is allegedly derived from 'neighbour'

Larn = teach

Hoijk = to shift a heavy object into place roughly because you're too tired and can't be arsed being precise with it.

Doofer dimple = a 'thingme' or any object you're looking for but can't remember the name of.

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idris_elbows@reddit

Daren't, clodhoppers, hoijk are used elsewhere too. Clodhoppers is such a satisfying word

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NiceDistance5212@reddit

I'm Suffolk, and my dad says "it snew" instead of it snowed, etc. And I heard "alroight buh?" about a hundred times a day walking round town or anywhere my dad would know other old Suffolk boys. We went to Ibiza when I was 13 (a million years ago now) and walked into an Irish bar only to sit down and hear "alroight buh" from the guy at the next table. He and my dad worked together at Haywards back in the day 😅

Couple more from my time in the wonderous town of Lowestoft.

Shew, past tense of show. He shew me his new car.

PassiveTheme@reddit

Yes, but is it possible that the origin of the word is from "cow(ti)p"??

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itismeeeeeeeee@reddit

A quick google suggests its origins lie in Norse. Interestingly, Scot's dialect is unlikely to derive from an English word.

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PassiveTheme@reddit

That's what Google AI says, but if you look any deeper, you'll find it likely entered Scots and English from French. Also, based on all the information that was available to the person that suggested "cowtip" as an origin, they had no reason to believe it was a Scots word. It was also odd for the original commenter to lead with cowping a cow, when there seem to be many more common uses of the word that wouldn't add that potential confusion to the discussion.

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But people come to Reddit to have a discussion. Shutting people down is not a discussion.

I did look it up myself, because I was interested. And I shared what I found in the thread to contribute to the discussion. I'm not asking you to spoon-feed people. I'm saying why even bother commenting if you're just gonna say "no" with no explanation?

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Thanks.

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I’m from the south of England but lived in Glasgow for uni. “Who’s first?” instead of “who’s next?”, “where d’you stay/ where d’you live” meaning “where d’you live/where are you from” and the all time classic lunch “juice and a piece” were all things it took me a minute to figure out

Love those beautiful Scotches

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jayphelps57@reddit

mawther Norfolk for very ordinary woman

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jayphelps57@reddit

Ooooh yer cow (old Leicester )

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Muggerlugs@reddit

“Sock on” = fast asleep

What an amazing little part of the world we love in. So much variety and uniqueness in our language. Truly makes you proud to be British.....

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alamcc@reddit

North east coast so opposite end of the country pretty much. So bizarre how similarities occur so far apart.

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Normal-Ear-5757@reddit

Gurt maccy!

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absolutecretin@reddit

In a minute now = imminently but not immediately

Pennypig = wood louse

Tidy darts = that’s really good

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cbrownmufc@reddit

I don’t know about region, but me and my nephew made up stubenouch. Basically, if you bang your toe so hard it’s really painful, the pain is a stubenouch.

Are you ok? Yeah, it’s just a stubenouch

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KonstantinKisinIsGay@reddit

Very, very local. Not county, but small town and surrounding villages - Abea.

ggenie20@reddit

Apparently Sussex is the only place that use slippery fish for punched pockets

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arse_butt@reddit

Kift.. I thought this word was used everywhere but turns out it is only a Pembrokeshire thing

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lilphoenixgirl95@reddit

Not sure if this is a localisation or not, but “spanner” for being idiotic or silly.

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Prize_Farm4951@reddit

Gary's - Tablets, but more specifically ecstasy.

Tut - that rhymes with “foot” - this was our version of “tat”.

Like you’d take a load of old “tut” down the dump.

Suffolk

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NiceDistance5212@reddit

Yes exactly. Or a load of old tut like you get from the arcade in Felixstowe. Or if someone's talking rubbish. What a load of old tut. Or squit.

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Cak556@reddit

Love it - such a versatile word. I use it all the time!

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RecentTwo544@reddit

Scouser - there's a few that unlike many in this thread don't have a direct standard English equivalent.

Nesh - someone who feels the cold more easily than most. In the UK I'm astounded this isn't a standard word. Worth noting to prevent arguments, I am told this is not just used in Liverpool.

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boredandolden@reddit

Came here to mention mafting, it's mafting. Mafted, I'm mafted.

And also Nithering/nithered.

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CalicoDesertOasis@reddit

I went to uni in Hull and then adopted mafting. I still use it now even though I've lived in London since then. :)

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PurpleMonkeyEdna@reddit

Used in West Yorkshire too. We also say "it's cracking flags" I did realise most of Yorkshire slang is just slang we nicked from other counties tho (sorry)

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Lympwing2@reddit

I've always liked "It's a bit george"

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echobelly1@reddit

Im not sure about other parts of Scotland but Gads is a common term in Ayrhire. Kinda similar to yuck.

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CptCave1@reddit

Glakit

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CompleteClock-@reddit

not exactly slang but in the town of keighley in west yorkshire, and not in any of the neighbouring towns (or anywhere else from what i can tell), they call a fish cake (potato & fish deep fried) at a chippie a “scone”. they also call scones scones, it’s all a bit confusing.

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MonkeyHamlet@reddit

If your hair is tangled, it’s cotty.

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chemical-mitch@reddit

Gadz - used when something’s gross. Kinda like “ew”

• Now in a minute

Meaning: I’ll do something soon but not immediately.

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deadlocked72@reddit

Radge, Edinburgh slang for an aggressive madman

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Ok-Committee9283@reddit

Morngy (morn-jee) = whingeing or sulking

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incognito-mode69420@reddit

Piece n ham

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iimMrBrightside@reddit

Arl arse.

A pair of Manc lads in my old work thought we were all saying "that's our lass" 😆

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Nuggety-Nipples@reddit

A “rampant wee pump” as a Scots description of a sexually active petite lady is top tier.

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elhazelenby@reddit

The main one from my birth region (Medway, Kent) is adults would say "here you are" but it sounds more like "ee ya" when giving something.

Since moving up north (Tees valley) my favourite is probably

Sensitive-Vast-4979@reddit

There's a few dying ones and some living ones but there's hadaway idk if its used in wearside or south

Braid meaning a broad sandy area , the modern usage of Braid is just broad but in my town we have , The Braid which is basically just a sandy ish field

Then theres ones more broad (as far as I know ) thatim unsure on the usage amount , like bait for food , Netty for toilet ( it was specifically for outhouse but now moved to slang for any toilet, stot for bounce, claggy for sticky.

Then the more broader more used ones like , bairn for child ,canny for nice, wor for our, hinny for a person basically meaning honey, gan for go , hyem/yem(pronunciation of the h depends on location) , divent for dont and howay for come on or hurry up or also celebrating saying get in .

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Casual-Run9371@reddit

"Boss" in Liverpool means good, decent, acceptable etc etc. I don't know of anywhere else that uses it like that.

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jenny_in_texas@reddit

I grew up in Texas and we used to say fixing to (fixin tuh, or even fiddinuh) when we were about to do something. I’m fixing to make a sandwich, etc.

Growing up it was completely normal.

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AnywhereHereMate@reddit

Quare. Apparently it's the last remaining word from a particular Hiberno-English dialect and is used throughout Ireland.

If its a really nice, sunny day, "It's a quare day". Had a nice evening meal? "I had a quare dinner".

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DeplorableOik@reddit

Close as in Muggy as in humid weather in Leeds

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SilverellaUK@reddit

Snap for packed lunch. Probably more industry specific rather than regional. Miners took their lunchtime work in "snap tin" - a 2 piece tin that had double sides to keep out vermin. It hung from their belt.

I haven't really heard anyone use these anywhere even though everyone used them in my school but ever since being an adult I've never heard any of them -

rank and minging, both meaning disgusting. Also 'phat' for cool, mint for nice/luxurious, fit for attractive/hot girl, skank/minger/munter = low class/unattractive/hideously ugly girl, peng was slightly used for like a year or 2 then quickly died out and I think it basically meant "awesome" or "hot girl", minge for vagina, pillock for dickhead, poof/poofter (rhymes with woof) for bitch ass pussy boy, jam doughnut = cunnilingus during menstruation, wank also meaning something really sucks like "argh that's wank"

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hi_im_nena@reddit

Idk if these are universal or not, someone let me know!

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lcdss2011@reddit

Tabhanging. It means eavesdropping.

(East Midlands)

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TwinProfanity@reddit

Using "Tans", "Canes" or "Smarts" -> to mean Hurts

I've heard Smarts elsewhere, but never Tans and Canes.

“Round the Wrekin” I was so confused when first visiting Shropshire and people would say "I told her the address, but she went all round the Wrekin to get there, taking the scenic route instead of the shortcut". Wondering what on earth ‘The Wrekin’ was. Even people living in neighbours Staffordshire don’t know or use the phase.

For those wondering, it means taking a long, roundabout, or circuitous route to a destination. It can also describe a rambling, indirect conversation. The phrase refers to walking or driving around The Wrekin, a prominent hill in Shropshire, which takes a long time.

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nhema94@reddit

Two different locations,

Plymouth - ‘Pipes’ Reading- ‘Minty’

What do they mean? Let me know 🧐

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Browbish@reddit

We (not me personally) say 'now then' as a greeting

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Specialist-Grape7605@reddit

Bishop Auckland in the North East, 2 come to mind I haven't heard elsewhere. 'Fond ' as in cheeky fond (on par with cheeky bugger) and 'kets ' meaning sweets.

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BamBamBella@reddit

Dimpsy

Chuggypeg

Daps

Jaspers

That's just south west in general

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I once replied "away up the road to get some messages" when an English friend when they asked what I was doing with the rest of my day.

Is Messages a strictly Dundonian thing or is it Scotland-wide?

Another thing Dundonian's get kicked for is calling roundabouts "Circles"... Without fail and without hesitation.

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Adventurous_Use8278@reddit

I moved to Portsmouth as a kid in the 80s and the common one was Dinlo - idiot. I

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jif_hall@reddit

Klempt for hungry

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PrinceFan72@reddit

My granddad was an old cockney but used to speak in backslang sometimes. I have never, and I suspect will never, found out what "wallow flyblow" means. He used to say it to my brother and I whenever he greeted us, with a big smile and a hug.

Not one of mine, but used in the town just up the road: (v) to do SFA. Stoaty (adj) Lazy

Mountaineering has some good ones - not geographical of course but things like:

Epic(n). It all went wrong, lucky to get out

Fester (v). Staying in all day doing nothing due to weather or being knackered. Also going around the shops and cafes instead of getting soaked and tired on the hill.

Hill - the thing you climb. Hill is used interchangeably with mountain in Scotland for everything under 8900m high.

Bombproof - your "bombproof" tent will get blown down and your "bomber" belay or runner will fail.

Choss, Chossy, Loose rock, natural habitat of Mick Fowler

Scarf (v). Cutting the cost of a trip by taking leftover food before the waiters clear the plates.

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Airurando-jin@reddit

Scundered - Embarressed

Banjaxed - broken, tired , screwed, beyond repair

Newcastle, spelk instead of splinter

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Lanthanidedeposit@reddit

Starved - cold to the point of hypothermic.

Random, as in radge, current US President, young cat etc. escaped and for a while was heard widely.

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Longjumping_Car3318@reddit

Gambol (forward role) Island (traffic roundabout)

Despite leaving the Black Country as a baby I've retained some of the local talk, thanks to my mother.

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Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit

Twitten for an alley in Sussex

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lorde_lorde_yayaya@reddit

We don't use it nowadays, but when I was a teenager we had 'pengers' for a while. I assume it was just an Essex thing?

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spikewilliams2@reddit

Gigs for glasses, poshing for breaking glass (an onomatopoeia). There are also many words that are not slang that are old Norse, lig, lie as in lie on the floor, laik to play.

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Tall-Paul-UK@reddit

We have many variations and amalgamations of general English, but some of my favourite alternative words for things includes-

nesh

a person that is unusually succeptible to the cold. usually directed at the prick in an office who's always freezing and makes everyone else miserable by the having the heating on all year round

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CleffaCult@reddit

I've learnt "dinlo" since moving to Portsmouth.

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kitty4196@reddit

And Squinny!

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kipperfish@reddit

I was looking for the Hampshire folks.

Cock (informal endearment, like dear/love) "Orright cock."

Lamp (hit) "I'm gonna lamp him."

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Rich6-0-6@reddit

Moving to Bristol was an education. "I got my hair off because some nause was doggin' me up."

I'm sorry?

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Neat_Impression2338@reddit

‘Gert’ from Bristol means something like ‘very’. Eg “Gert big stick” .

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Expensive_Wasabi8664@reddit

‘Papa’

Shoutouts to anyone in Hatfield!

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claretkoe@reddit

I was agate. Which means I was saying..go figure

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HoraceorDoris@reddit

Dinlo. It’s another way to call someone an idiot!

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LocaliserEstablished@reddit

The word "Twitten" is an old Sussex word to mean small narrow alley.

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MsDragonPogo@reddit

Mommar

Bobboes

Pikelets

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Youutternincompoop@reddit

Haha. Kids are so weird. Lying was "Chinny reckon" or "Jimmy Hill" here but I think those were pretty widespread.

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Rob_Haggis@reddit

Never heard the word “cruckled” outside of Rochdale, meaning to slip or trip while walking and roll your ankle.

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Existing-Extent-9894@reddit

I’ve not heard that before but it’s perfect.

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BadgerBadgerer@reddit

Bobbars! Means don't touch, usually when someone us sitting in your chair.

Nesh - Sensitive to the cold

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Known-Expression-342@reddit

Friend is known as a "Marra"

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No_Shallot_4836@reddit

Scunderred is a a great Belfast word. To mean acutely embarrassed as in I am scunderred for you. But can also mean very fed up with something as I'm scunderred with the bad weather.

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SoggyWotsits@reddit

Dreckly - at some point, not necessarily now. Stank - walk. Didikoy - those from the travelling community. Cakey - a bit soft in the head. Teddy - potato. Smeechy - smoky. Scat - to hit. Knockers - spirits that live down the mines. Dashed - thistle.

Lots of others like weem instead of we are, they’m instead of they are, where be to for where are you, wasson, geddon etc.

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fugelwoman@reddit

Tampin - means very angry

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No one has mentioned “gutties” yet. Used to mean trainers here in NI.

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flippydude@reddit

A sconch is someone yet to start puberty

A peckle is a physically weak person

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Ok_Net4562@reddit

Pretty sure no one else uses "sconna" other than the black country. Id go as far as saying its a walsall exclusive. Sconna was a heavily used insult in the late 90s-00s to people meaning you have not matured enough to even grow any pubes yet.

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elliejoness@reddit

Gurt - Somerset

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Strong_Coffee8417@reddit

"Yonend" - In Hull dialect means “the other end.”
It’s a directional phrase used to point to the far end of a street, room, field, or any space. eg ... where are the toilets in this place... right down "Yonend"

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Obvious-AI-Bot@reddit

Trabs = Trainers

Hilariously Googles AI gives this totally wrong origin

/" Originating from backslang, it is a shortened form of "trabainiees," derived from "trainees".

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countrycow2112@reddit

Clarry. To describe something as disgusting. Nottinghamshire.

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Nivekna@reddit

Puddock = Frog

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ReallySmallFeet@reddit

Godgies - tadpoles (that was Wexford, Ireland)

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shrewdlogarithm@reddit

WHAT!?

Barrie// Barry=Brilliant

“I went tae the party last night, it was Barry.”

Think it’s mainly an Edinburgh thing.

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Dazz316@reddit

Jobby, Poop.

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RecentTwo544@reddit

For a long time I thought a jobby meant a wank.

Fortunately in that time I never worked with a Scottish person who announced "I'm just off for a jobby".

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Dazz316@reddit

That must have been regularly hilarious.

Wouldn't go in the for 5, just had a massive jobby.

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