Regional words and Phrases

[helen(ugg)]

cornwall is full of wordly madness..

my fave is "wheres it to?"
meaning where is it...i really had no idea what they were talking about at all.

 

[shazza]

LOL, theres a ginnell near my grans, its a narrow walkway

In brum, they are apparently named entries

Re: What is a "ginnel"?

lol in Liverpool we call em "jiggers"....hence the saying if a person has bow legs..."couldnt stop a pig in a jigger!"

 

[shazza]

oh and for plastic bag, elastic bands its PLAGGY bag, and LAGGY bands, not PLACCY bag and LACCY bands

ahem! i think ull find its "plazzy bag" and "lazzy band" lol

 

[shazza]

Round my way if you let someone ride on the back of your bike it was a 'Croggy' but i think any further south they call them 'backies'..just not the same...was also abreviated to 'crog'. Ed

thats "a seater" in liverpool

 

[black ed]

a bit of slang from stoke

Afe Crine Half Crown (Pre-decimal coin)
Back Road Toilet
Bay Chum Spiders Beecham's Powders
Bill Joe Nice Build your own house
Bow Ball
Chaise 'n' Pittles Cheese and pickles
Fow staith False Teeth
Goose low Go slow
Grain Green
Grey nice Greenhouse
Kine Slice Council house (housing rented from the local government)
Males Meals
Now tell sin Nothing else in
Rind abite Roundabout
Waite White
Woke Walk
Woss Worse

 

[pauly p]

Barm cakes

What's a Barm? Its not a fucking cake!

 

[shazza]

Barm cakes

What's a Barm? Its not a fucking cake!

lol barm cake is right round ere lol

 

[T.C]

lol barm cake is right round ere lol

Shaz when I saw you'd bumped this thread I expected it to be to add the phrase 'scrunchie'

 

[shazza]

Shaz when I saw you'd bumped this thread I expected it to be to add the phrase 'scrunchie'

teece lolol

 

[nowthen]

railings - teeth

bugle - nose

lugs - ears

hands - mitts

dig in the grave - shave

potless / peppered - no money

brewstered - loads of money

turtles head/ touchin cloth - need a crap

sharpish / rapid - quickly

a nause - someone bein a pain in the arse.

gringo - not english

tappin - out all night with hardly any dough

 

[Ace02]

LOL, theres a ginnell near my grans, its a narrow walkway

In brum, they are apparently named entries

Re: What is a "ginnel"?

Nah in Brum they're gullies/ a gully