I'm doing a Northern dictionary and I really need some decent input to get it off the ground. Can everyone suggest Northern words or phrases with their definitions for me? It will all become clear in the near future, all being well.

Things like rarf, gadgie, canny, etc. Thanks for your help!

Oh, and people who suggest ones that make the grade will be credited on the website they appear on (even if they're just your pseudonyms)


and could the mod make this sticky please?

You have to have doyle ,as in idiot, in there then

Or Marra (friend)

Someone has done something similar for Teesside words, but some of them are also in use in Hartlepool, Durham and beyond.

http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/teesspeak/index.phtml

Northern like anywhere north of the Trent?

This area:



Marra is noted - I already have doyle

Keep them coming!

Gerraway yer radgee!


(radgee meaning like charver, but a bit wilder)

Have you got any bairns?
Are yer soft as clarts? (mud)

netty

alley-o as in 'through the alley-o'

'ellish' meaning good as opposed to the rest of the world where 'hellish' means bad.

radged as in mad or a bit mental

without causing offence, mong

meff
nash
shan
:?

Mint or class as good

and Divvy

Croggy!!!!

Spondoolies = £'s!!!!

skitters = diahorrea
nash = go, as in 'I've got to nash, I've been doing skitters all morning and I need to fart again'

This is excellent - particularly croggy and meff, which made me howl with laughter

Keep them coming!!

thats a brahma of a post - it's buck eye. -- both meaning quality
- tiptop

tifano - for fucked if i know

mongs night out - for some young chaps on a bender

slash - piss

lag - piss

lag - last

feg - first

ebbs - as in ebbs on ya sweets

ding and dil - derisory terms

cuddywuffer -left footer/hander

Head the ball (a nutter)

Pezzled (a good hiding)

Puggled (confused)

Dut (wooly hat)

Feg...(as in 'im feg on you like')

Bimler (something very good)

Backy (back alley)

Gauge (pint of beer)

Bines (cigarettes)

Poke,Lower,Bar,Snotters (money)

Bewer (woman)

Bloody loving this!

More I ask you! All the good ones (i.e. pretty much all of them) have been included, but it needs to get bigger!

Hats off to "dut" and "bewer"

hoggy up -- as in lift up on to a wall

Musker - police

growler - pork pie

chew - to aggravate

workie-ticket - soemone who chews frequently

pagger - to beat up

blaked - very drunk

Snickit - covered "alley" between the front & back of 2 houses, popular in 1950's council estates

Bate - packed lunch

Spice - sweets

Snap- food

This is shaping up very nicely indeed!

Workie-ticket? More explanation if possible? :?

I'm sure we can get even more than this... anyone with experience of the dialects of the North-West, Northumberland or Cumbria? Cheers!

trolley or bogey.. box cart

cludgie is Northumbrian for bog or netty
bowler pronounced boo ler... bike wheel
as in get your boo ler out
clemmie ... brick

Kets (sweets)

Fleg,Gozz (to spit)

Grogged at me - Spat at me!!!!

Riggy-Up - A push bike made out of parts from different bikes!!!!

Sannies - Cheap sand shoes (Penny niggers)!!!!

Deelala - Game with 2 teams.One team runs off and the other team has to find and catch them.When a person is caught the catcher shouts....'Deelala 1,2,3'....and then is escorted to the 'Bay' and is guarded.
The other team members who have ran off then have to try and run to the bay without getting caught and get the caught team mate away by touching the bay and shouting....'Deelala All Away'!!!!
The game carries on until everyone is caught and then it is the turn of the other team to run off and it starts again with the 'Caught' team been the 'Chasers/Hunters'!!!!
It was a Sunday night game down Flamboro'!!!! :sweet:

In Stockton the game is known as something like....'Mackanackaalleyoh'!!!!

we called that game LEVO

remember nicky nocky nine doors run down he road knocking on every ninth door so all the road came out one after the other

chuddy - chewing gum

ere - here

lend us - give me

borry me - give me

hangallaws - someone that is so bad they would hang on the gallows "hang gallows"

scally - loveable rogue

like - stick this word before or after everything you say like

bairn - kid

chorber - chorber ding

itchy bay - hop scotch

leo - like tag

ganzie - jumper

black as a gas house cinder

hoy - throw

block - game with two teams and one base

kerby - ball game played with two or four people throwing the ball to the opposite curb and moving across a step each time its hit

I've heard a couple of explanations for this.

The first one is that in the days of deportation to Australia, if you committed a crime you would have a 'ticket' at the local magistrates/police. If you committed enough crimes your ticket would be full and off you went in the boat. So, if you were behaving in a criminal or antisocial way you were said to be 'working your ticket'.

The second one I read recently in a book called 'Medicine's Strangest Cases' by Michael O'Donnell, and in this case a 'ticket' was of a medical variety, and was 'worked' by men conscripted into the armed forces who wanted to be discharged on medical grounds. They would 'work their ticket' by inventing or mimicking medical conditions which would mean they were unfit for active service.

There is actually a real ale from somewhere in Northumbria I think, called 'Workie-Ticket'. There's also one called 'Radgie-Gadgie'.

'Bonk' as in 'have a bonk on'

mingy (mean)
article (as in 'yer daft article')
champion (as in 'how are you?')
mafted (too hot)

Wind your neck in = stop chewing (apparently 'chew' should really be spent 'tew' as it comes from Olde Englishe:

http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/teesspeak/page15.phtml

twerp (orrible little article)

minging as is horrible

Can't be arsed reading all of this, but has manky had a mention yet?

Rank as in manky

And claggy? As in the claggy mat club?

weltered - as in he weltered the ball.... :?
smart
agi-bo - when youre vindicated or laughing at someone
rammy - as in manky. that farts friggin rammy man!

Blammed (see weltered)

Full as a bed tick = I can't drink/eat any more

mortal - as in very drunk
blokey and wifey

swear down!

you's

DOYLE

118 entries so far!! This is getting extremely good.

As I say it's a Northern thing overall (see my map on the first page), so if anyone has any experience of, in particular, Manchester or Liverpool slang, I could do with some North-West stuff. It's predominantly Hartlepool, Cleveland, Teesside and Tyneside phrases that I've got!

Thanks for the help though - I'll soon up the link to the page once I get it 80% done. The Northern Dictionary's the main part of the campaign titled...





And you think I'm not serious

have we had PAGGERED as in he paggerd his opponent with a good shot

or im paggered knackered

Has 'chore' been said yet, as in pinch/steal something

Knocked = stolen, like knock off

Taxed = stolen, particularly when you've lent something which hasn't been returned

As for North West words, here are some I know:

Duff = spunk

Smurf = spunk

Stump = idiot

Mive = mate

Scousers say La for a mate/pal, like 'Now then la' - Hello there pal