local sayings/different lingo

[daubers]

every county in england/wales/ireland/scotland all have a saying that means somthing like in the midlands the word brew means cup of tea,and so on. so what sayins do you have in your county's lingo and what does it mean.

doen drekly on,(i will do the job when i am ready and not before)

teasy as an adder,( the person in mind is'nt very happy)

theres two lets here your's

[Aidan]

Round here :

An oinseach ( pronounced " oon-shock" ) is a stupid woman.
Raimeis ( raw-maish ) is rubbish, as in what people talk.
Quare can mean strange, or very as in "Quare good".
A quarehawk is a funny or strange person.
Ye / youse/ yez are all 2nd person plural, as in " are both of ye going to the pub ?"
and finally;
I'd ate a nun's ar5e through the bars of a convent gate is an expression of hunger.

Is doen drekly on in Cornish, daubers ?

[daubers]

tis dammie right me ansome(yes you are quite right)the other thing with us cornish(apart from the spelling)is we don't pronounce our h's like (he)would be e over there or ave e seen me pastie.

another one our sayings is black as a pit, means very dark

[Aidan]

While we don't do th's ( thirty-three becomes tirtytree and we take a "bat" when we're sweaty or tired ),
and we drink tay and mate is what we like to ate.

Languages, dialects,etc. were my only strong point in school.

[Polly1970]

Having recently met some friends from afar they laugh at some sayings like "slow up" when they drive too fast, "over yonder" over there, "Yon end" other end lol

[childofthe80's]

eh...something that annoys me where I live...People say "have a good one" when they are parting ways. It just gets annoying after hearing it 10 times a day. I don't use it at all.

[scotia]

Ppl in scotland cal glaswegians 'weedgies' and glaswegians call every1 else in scotland chookters.

Celtic fans are refered to as tims / fenians
Rangers fans are refered to as huns / d.o.b.'s / ork's

Other words often used are:
bam - idiot
boggin - dirty/disgusting
hoose - house
jakey - vagrant/alcoholic
tonic - buckfast wine
brief - car
wean - child
tap dancer - top floor as in a block of flats
ya dancer - nice 1
whit - what
aye - yes
close - front entrance to a tenemant
tenemant - 3 storey block of flats
midgey - comunal rubish bin for a tenemant
midgey raker - a person who goes through rubbish bins

err....al think of more

[Aidan]

Here's what people from various parts of Ireland are called :

Dublin - Dubs or Jackeens
Cork - Langers
Waterford - Blaa's
Kilkenny - Cats
Offaly - Biffos
Wexford - Yellowbellies
Tipperary - Stonethrowers.

[scotia]

here are a few more glesga (glasgow) sayings

rerr terr - good time
torn faced - miserable looking
glaikit - stupid

[koukou]

My husband is from Essex (poor bloke) and when we got married came to live in Derbyshire with me. 4 years later I am still translating for him. Some examples include:

cob - bread roll
snap - food/sandwiches
snap tin - sandwich box
ginnel/ jitty - path
mash tea - brew tea
mend the fire - put coal on the fire (took some explaining that the fire wasn't actually broken)
firk - scratch hard
council pop - water
kali - sherbert
nesh - feels the cold
spice - sweets

Around here people from Sheffield/Yorkshire are called dee da's and they call Derbyshire people right right's.

[Baz]

here are a couple of sayings from the 80's ...

the girls used to disappear for a PW - private word, or you might have a PJ - private joke.

Some crude saying would be ...

Close to cloth = need the loo badly!
Turtle eating lettuce/ turtle head poking out = if I don't reach a loo soon it's not going to be good.

[Fifi62]

Another couple of Scottish words:

cludgie - toilet
stookie- plaster cast
peely-wally - pale faced
oxters- armpits

[Aidan]

And one from here : a "Shellikipookie" is a snail.

[gturner200561]

Here one from Wigan - A babys yead. Which is a meat pudding (soft on top)

[Aidan]

Red lead = luncheon sausage that you get sliced like salami, nice in a sandwich.
Red lead = ale.