Regional words

[Mk2Jo]

Pye Man replied to my other thread and got me thinking .... his mood for today is "kanny". Now, that has got to be a regional word and although I've heard it said before, I don't really know what it means other than it being Geordie (well, I think it is ).

 

So ..... what regional words do you have where you come from and what do they mean?

[Pye Man]

Indeed kanny is geordie, and when translated into English means good

 

Bairn=kid/child

Aye=Yes

Marra=Mate/Friend

 

There are more which I will eventually think of when I revert back to Geordie

[andrewg1323]

Theres loads here most of which i dont understand!

My mum occasionally comes out with stuff and i;m like what are you on about and she;s amazed i don;t know!

 

Theres a really stupid name for scabs wound here can never remember it!

[Stu_B]

Anyone Know what daps are? No one in my G/F's family ( in Kent )knew what it meant! Bit of a random word but I've heard it all my life (Somerset)!

[ZetecVan 2.0]

I know what baps are... they call them barm cakes over in Lancashire. Freaks.

[andrewg1323]

daps? err some form of stupid person?

[ZetecVan 2.0]

Indeed kanny is geordie, and when translated into English means good

 

Bairn=kid/child

Aye=Yes

Marra=Mate/Friend

 

There are more which I will eventually think of when I revert back to Geordie

 

Saw an episode of Alan Partridge last night when he's in the Linton Travel Tavern with Michael, the geordie hotel guy. He's blabbering on, and Partridge struggling to understand him says 'That was just noise'.

 

 

Classic.

[Stu_B]

daps, not baps! baps are cobs or breadrolls! Cobs got me for a while, everytime I went food shopping a northern housemate would ask me to get some cheesy cobs - the first time I got halfway there and thought 'what the hell's a cheesy cob!!?'!

[Slik 50]

I know what baps are... they call them barm cakes over in Lancashire. Freaks.

 

Thats because they are barm cakes mate, Baps are are boobies

[ZetecVan 2.0]

Are they trainers?

[Stu_B]

Yeah, like plimsols from when I was a kiddie in P.E!

[Slik 50]

I was lucky enough to know my great grandad quite well as I was growing up, He died about 5 years ago and managed to live untill he was 103. He was born and bread in Bolton and he was the only person I have ever know who still spoke in old Lancashire tounge. I found a poem on the internet that is writen in owd lancashire and just reminds me of him.

The peom is quite true, and the tounge is still partially spoken today.

Please just take a minute to try and read it adn try to understand what is read

 

 

In eawr teawn, we live on’t dole

 

We've spun aw't cotton, we’ve brunt awt coal.

 

We've getten etten up bi a bigger teawn-

 

If things get any wuss, they'll hafta close the beggar deawn.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we think it's nice

 

Livin in't People's Paradise

 

To live wheer wur born is what we like

 

But we're towd we’st aft get on eawr bike.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we think it's great

 

Kids sniff glue an’ stop eawt late;

 

Muggers deawn each. ginnel lurk,

 

But they ceawnt steyl eawr wages

 

Cos noan of us werk.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we’re very close

 

If one gets 'flu, we aw gerra dose.

 

Wi’ aw't kids names we are acquainted-

 

Cos they ‘ re sprayed aw oo’er’t waws an’ painted.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we aw gut Club

 

Them as dunt gut Club gut Pub.

 

Them as dunt gut Pub gut Bed-

 

But only them who’ve just geet wed.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, there’s nowt fer't do -

 

They’ve closed deawn’t flicks and bowing greens too;

 

There’s only Bingo but that’s reet dull.

 

Ah’d kill mesel but Cemetery’s full.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we spend aw day

 

Watchin’ telly and suppin’ tay;

 

Ah’d emigrate, but fer what it’s worth

 

EAWR TEAWN IS FINEST PLACE ON EARTH

[Burns]

it confused me when some yorkshireites (sp?) replace "until" with "while"

 

eg. Q. what shift are you on?

 

A. i'm on a 9 while 5

 

when one of my managers came out with it years ago that proper confused me

[4parajon]

I know what baps are... they call them barm cakes over in Lancashire. Freaks.

 

Oi Watch it

 

We use Baps as well as Barm cakes and Muffins......thats a great word Muffin

[Pye Man]

Indeed kanny is geordie, and when translated into English means good

 

Bairn=kid/child

Aye=Yes

Marra=Mate/Friend

 

There are more which I will eventually think of when I revert back to Geordie

 

Saw an episode of Alan Partridge last night when he's in the Linton Travel Tavern with Michael, the geordie hotel guy. He's blabbering on, and Partridge struggling to understand him says 'That was just noise'.

 

 

Classic.

 

 

Happens to me all the time no bugger south can understand me and I get wrong for talking like a robot so they can understand!!

[Pye Man]

I was lucky enough to know my great grandad quite well as I was growing up, He died about 5 years ago and managed to live untill he was 103. He was born and bread in Bolton and he was the only person I have ever know who still spoke in old Lancashire tounge. I found a poem on the internet that is writen in owd lancashire and just reminds me of him.

The peom is quite true, and the tounge is still partially spoken today.

Please just take a minute to try and read it adn try to understand what is read

 

 

In eawr teawn, we live on’t dole

 

We've spun aw't cotton, we’ve brunt awt coal.

 

We've getten etten up bi a bigger teawn-

 

If things get any wuss, they'll hafta close the beggar deawn.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we think it's nice

 

Livin in't People's Paradise

 

To live wheer wur born is what we like

 

But we're towd we’st aft get on eawr bike.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we think it's great

 

Kids sniff glue an’ stop eawt late;

 

Muggers deawn each. ginnel lurk,

 

But they ceawnt steyl eawr wages

 

Cos noan of us werk.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we’re very close

 

If one gets 'flu, we aw gerra dose.

 

Wi’ aw't kids names we are acquainted-

 

Cos they ‘ re sprayed aw oo’er’t waws an’ painted.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we aw gut Club

 

Them as dunt gut Club gut Pub.

 

Them as dunt gut Pub gut Bed-

 

But only them who’ve just geet wed.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, there’s nowt fer't do -

 

They’ve closed deawn’t flicks and bowing greens too;

 

There’s only Bingo but that’s reet dull.

 

Ah’d kill mesel but Cemetery’s full.

 

 

 

In eawr teawn, we spend aw day

 

Watchin’ telly and suppin’ tay;

 

Ah’d emigrate, but fer what it’s worth

 

EAWR TEAWN IS FINEST PLACE ON EARTH

 

Thats kanny cool that like! I can understand it pretty well

 

Here is a Geordie song that I used to love when I was working down in Brum (Funniest language ever: Toys am we = Toys r us ) I used to play it in the car on the way up.

 

I had to come to London

Cos I couldn't find a job

But I don't intend to stay long

If I make a few quick bob

 

It's cold up there in Summer

It's like sittin' inside a fridge

But I wish I was on the Quayside

Lookin' at the old Tyne Bridge

 

1st chorus:

I'm comin' home Newcastle

I might as well have been in jail

I'd waak the streets aal day aal neet

For a bottle of your own Brown Ale

 

I'm comin' home Newcastle

If you never win the Cup again

I'll brave the dark at St. James's Park

At the Gallowgate End in the rain

I'm coming home...

 

And I'm proud to be a Geordie

And to live in Geordie-land

Some people think we're bawdy

And we're hard to understand

 

And they say it's just self-pity

And we're not so very tough

Cos the people in the big fat City

Haven't had it half as rough

 

2nd chorus:

I'm coming home Newcastle

You can keep your London wine

I'd waak the streets aal day aal neet

For a bottle of the River Tyne

 

I'm coming home Newcastle

I wish I'd never been away

I'd kiss the ground for the welcome sound

Of me mother sayin' hinny howay

I'm coming home...

 

And I miss the old blind busker

Who stands at Fenwicks' door

He plays a mean accordion

You've all seen him there before

 

And I love the Geordie pop groups [heroes]

There's so many famous names

Like Lindisfarne and even [Gazza]

Brendan Foster and the Gateshead games

[john_3.0s]

well chav used to mean a kid or child to me rather than errrr well a chav

[Pye Man]

Yeah chava (Northern variation of chav) used to also mean mate up my way to

[Stu_B]

Yeah cock means mate around here!

'Whasson then cock?'

'Alright me old cock?'

[Noodles]

Bro got called a 'dink' the other day

[tazrocks88]

i can understand most accents because some of my family are Irish and aparantly speak fast i dont notice it lol and i can read the poem because im partially dyslexic there are up sides to it lol

 

these are aparantly all sussex sayings i use them all but didnt realise they are sussex sayings

 

Bacca: Tobacco

Black over old Will's Mothers: can see bad weather in the sky line! my family have always said this

Bodger: A careless worker

Dab Hand: Good at something

Downs: rolling grassland

Tenterhooks: Keeping you in suspense

Trug: wooden basket

Twitten: A path between buildings or a lane between hedges

[Smudger105e]

i can understand most accents because some of my family are Irish and aparantly speak fast i dont notice it lol and i can read the poem because im partially dyslexic there are up sides to it lol

 

these are aparantly all sussex sayings i use them all but didnt realise they are sussex sayings

 

Bacca: Tobacco

Black over old Will's Mothers: can see bad weather in the sky line! my family have always said this

Bodger: A careless worker

Dab Hand: Good at something

Downs: rolling grassland

Tenterhooks: Keeping you in suspense

Trug: wooden basket

Twitten: A path between buildings or a lane between hedges

 

I am a Sussex boy, and use all those words regularly, even though I now live in the Midlands! Here a twitten is known as a jitty or a twitchell.

 

Also round here a lunch break at work is called snap. I have heard 2 different explanations for it. One is that it is the noise the lunch boxes makes when opened/closed and the other is that when the drive belts in the factory broke, the staff took the opportunity to have their food. I prefer the second explanation

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

Saucepan Lid = Kid

Jam Jar = Car

Drum = House

Sky Rocket = Pocket

Pukka - Mustard - Champion - Safe = Good

Karsie (*sp) = Loo

Junkie = Drug User

Geezer = Person of male gender

China Plate - Fruit - Fruity - Son - Brethwin - Bruv - Blud = Mate or Friend

Treads = Footwear

Threads = Clothes

Cans = Headphones

Ghetto = Where I live

Shank = To Stab

Cap = Bullet

Blag = Robbery

Flex = Move / To Move

Link - Link Up = To meet up

Seen = I Understand

Blower = Phone

S.P = Story or Information

 

These are just a few words that I use / or words that are used from round my Crib... Star

[old skool freestyler]

is ROUND THE RECAN one my mum says it alot and she says is means the long way round

[mk2_escort_chick]

Bro got called a 'dink' the other day

a dinky! silly.

double income no kids yet