words you never hear outside your town/city

[Glitter]

Boom, as in wow, thats great..

[Brody]

CAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKE sed like that not as in just cake but CAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Swastika]

probs parmo or doyle like some other boro residents said! =D

[clarissa !!]

choong/chung.

[Ed.]

London:

mong
rinsed
owned
boyd
chav
cuz
homie
boyage
mandems

etc loads more

[Mr.Sam]

'ark
gert

London:

mong
rinsed
owned
boyd
chav
cuz
homie
boyage
mandems

etc loads more

heard the bold ones

[DiscoPat]

crums lol

[scubadiva]

London:

mong
rinsed
owned
boyd
chav
cuz
homie
boyage
mandems

etc loads more

Said loads in Essex

[Ed.]

lol its funny how loads of ppl in UK have diff words

[Jamie!]

All spoken fairly regulalary up here..

General words

• ah I
• areet alright (can be used as a greeting and return, and as per the normal use)
• ars I am
• aye yes
• eh (generally used at the end of sentences to indicate that the phrase is a question. It can be inserted simply by habit and then has no particular meaning. The use of "eh" is more often linked to Carlisle than the Cumbrian dialect as a whole)
• like (generally used as an intensifier midway through or at the end of sentences)
• me my
• nah no
• owie, howie come on
• thew you
• us me
• wherst where is the
• wi, wid with
• yous you all, plural of you

Adjectives

• aald old
• bad sore, painful
• badly ill, unwell (a bad 'ed is a headache)
• barie good or nice
• cack bad, horrible or awful
• clarty muddy or messy
• gammerstang awkward person
• kaylied intoxicated
• la'al small
• ladgefull embarrassing
• radge, radgy mad
• reet right
• slape slippery or smooth as in slape back colly, a border colly with short wirey hair
• wam warm

Adverbs

• gey very
• kysty squeamish or fussy
• owwer over ("ars garn owwer yonder fer a kip" - I'm going over there for a sleep)
• vanya almost, nearly. vanear is a coastal variant

Nouns

• biddies fleas/old people
• britches trousers
• crack news/gossip; can also mean a conversation in the context of "having a crack with" someone
• dookers swimming trunks's
• jackal wild dog
• keks, kegs underpants or trousers
• knock-e-i-do a game played where the aim is to knock on someone's door then retreat without being caught
• lug ear
• nowt nothing
• owt anything
• scran food
• scrow a mess
• twining whinging or complaining

Verbs

• bray beat (as in beat up someone)
• chess chase
• clarten messing about
• deek look
• gander look
• gar go
• garn going
• jarn doing
• laik play
• loan borrow ("can ah loan 2 quid off yer?")
• lowp jump
• mek make
• scower look at
• skit make fun of
• **** hit someone ("I twatted him in the face"), a woman's genitalia most likely from 'thwaite' meaning 'fertile valley,' also an insult.
• wuk work

People

• buwer unattractive girl
• gadge person (usually a stranger, or someone whose name is not known)
• lad young man
• lass young woman
• marra friend, companion, mate (mainly used in West Cumbria) mining slang
• offcomer a non-native in Cumbria
• potter gypsy
• yakker a farmer

Places, landscapes, buildings etc

• beck stream
• crag stone or rock or cliff
• fell a large hill or small mountain
• ginnel a narrow passage, a back alley
• hingins, hangins hinges
• jam eater, a person originating from Workington or Whitehaven, and common insult to rival towns Workington and Whitehaven; jams like strawberry and raspberry being the one of the few things that coal dust isn't as noticeable in.
• lonnin a lane
• sneck door latch
• tarn small lake
• yam home
• yat gate

Farming Terms

• boos a division in a shuppon
• bowins ragwort
• coo cow
• cop the bank of earth on which a hedge grows
• cuddy horse
• dyke a hedge, often on an earth-and-stone wall > dyking means to build a dyke
• fodder gang passage for feeding cattle (usually in a shuppon)
• gimmer female which has not had a lamb
• hogg yearling sheep
• hoss horse
• liggin' kessin when an animal is lying on its back and can't get up
• mowdy mole
• mowdiing catching moles
• shuppon/shippon a cow shed originally used for milking
• stoop a gate post
• syke a gutter or ditch between a cop and the road for drainage
• tup a ram sheep
• yowe ewe sheep (rhymes with cow)

The Weather

• glisky when the sky is really bright so you can't see properly
• mizzlin misty drizzly rain
• syling pouring rain

Phrases

• ars garn yam I'm going home
• fine fettal Good health
• garn yam Going home
• gee over (Get over) I don't believe you- said in disbelief
• it'll be reet It will be alright
• oust fettal How are you
• werst thew of te where are you going