User:GordyB/Sandbox

Sandbox for Yorkshire colloquialisms, others are welcome to edit / view / make suggestions. What I need more than anything is internet based sources, please don't add dialect words unless they are sourced as I am trying to create a proper referenced work rather than 'original research'.

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Words found in the Merriam-Webster are disqualified as being dialect. The Merriam-Webster is the standard US English dictionary. I'd use the Oxford English for preference but they want money.

Words
From source 1 - South Yorkshire


 * ey oop = hello
 * fizog = face
 * gipping = vomiting
 * jiggered = exhausted
 * lughole = ear
 * manky = rough
 * our lass = wife

(A to M from source 2 - North Yorkshire)


 * allus - always
 * 'appen - maybe, possibly e.g. "I'll 'appen that's it" for "that's possibly true"
 * aye - yes
 * backend - autumn
 * badly - not in a good state of health, i.e.'How's Martha?', 'She's badly.'
 * baggin - packed lunch
 * bagsey - childhood term, i.e. 'bagsey my turn!'
 * bairn - child bait/ bait box snack/ packed lunch
 * bazzerking - relaxing/ telling off (?)
 * beck - brook
 * beefin(g), blubberin(g) - crying
 * be reight - it'll be alright
 * black bright - very dirty
 * bonny - pretty
 * brant - steep e.g. "'tis a brant hill"
 * bray/braying - beating e.g. "you'll get a good braying" or "I'll bray you"
 * breadcake - bread roll or bap
 * butty - sandwich
 * cack-handed - left-handed, clumsy
 * chat - fir cone
 * chelpin - talking
 * childer - children
 * chip 'ole - fish and chip shop
 * chuddy - chewing gum
 * chuffed - pleased, excited
 * clarty - dirty, muddy, sticky
 * clemmy - stone (of a size you might throw)
 * clout - cloth
 * cludger - toilet (in Knaresborough)
 * coal 'ole, coyle oyle - coal cellar
 * croggy - riding on the cross-bar of a bicycle
 * daft as a brush - stupid
 * delve - dig
 * dowly - dull, gloomy, misty day
 * drinkings - mid-morning snack farm workers took to work
 * dursn't - daren't
 * eeh by gum - oh my God
 * faffing - messing about
 * fettle - to tidy/mend
 * flayed, flaysome - scared, scary
 * flitin'  - moving house
 * flower - term of endearment
 * flummoxed - confused
 * friggin' - a curse
 * frozzed  -referring to face or fingers being very cold
 * garth - yard
 * gill - stream
 * ginnell - alleyway
 * giz, gizza, gizzyer - give, give us, give your
 * goffs - smells horrible
 * goodies - sweets
 * goosegog - gooseberry
 * gripe - garden rake
 * in a bit - bye
 * jiggered - very tired
 * khali - sherbert
 * kegs - trousers
 * lake, laikin(g), larking - play (i.e. "Is your Lesley coming out to lake?"), playing
 * lass - girl/young woman/wife
 * leg throw
 * v. (to have a) lem on - to be angry, moody (like having a 'monk on')
 * lowence - snack whilst working, especially for farmers
 * lug, lug'ole - ear
 * maffin' - hot and clammy weather
 * (I'm) mafted - (I'm) hot
 * mardy - moody, sulky, stroppy
 * middin' - muck heap
 * middlin(g) - ok, average
 * mithered, mitherin(g) - irritated with something, as in "stop mitherin' me" is "stop bothering/irritating me".
 * v. (to have a) monk on - to be grumpy, to have a sulky face
 * missen - myself e.g. "I'll do it missen"
 * narky - moody, sulky, stroppy, (mardy)
 * n'arn - now then
 * neb - nose
 * nesh - cold. Often exclaimation that an individual is 'soft' for feeling the cold or term of mild abuse e.g. "nesh southerners!"
 * nithered - very cold
 * nowt/ nout - nothing
 * now then - hello
 * oh aye?! - oh really?!
 * 'ow do - how are you, hello
 * owt - anything
 * paggered - knackered e.g. "I'm completely paggered" or "I've just paggered my dad's car"
 * playin(g) pop - to tell of/ get angry with
 * plother - mud
 * pot washin' - washing up
 * put wood in'th oyle - shut the door
 * radged - angry
 * reet - right



Questionable words (source 2)
I have my doubts whether these are dialect words and not Standard English / UK slang


 * best y' do - see that you do
 * bog - toilet
 * bonce - head
 * chippy - fish and chip shop
 * chuckin(g) your guts up - being sick
 * fair t' middlin - fair, in the middle
 * flippin 'eck (flipping heck) - exclamation of shock and surprise
 * gander - look at
 * gi' over - give over, stop it
 * gormless* - stupid
 * manky not nice, unpleasant
 * ratty - grumpy/gross

Others
 * berg - mountain (is this used outside placenames?)
 * carr - marsh (ditto)
 * dale - valley
 * fell - moor
 * foss/ force - waterfall

Words removed from list (source 2)

 * bad 'un - no good
 * bap - bread bun (Standard English not dialect)
 * black as't face o' spades - very dirty (Standard English not dialect)
 * bracken - ferns (found in M-W dictionary)
 * coit/cooat coat (Standard English with slightly different pronunciation)
 * clout - a slap (Standard English not dialect)
 * down't (road) - down the (road) (Standard English with slightly different pronunciation)
 * 'ead - head
 * famished - hungry, starving
 * fast - stuck
 * flaggin(g) - tired, worn out
 * fowl  - bird
 * gaffer - the boss
 * gear - items, things
 * good 'un - good one
 * guff - fart
 * gunna, gonna - going to
 * hell fire! - goodness me!
 * in't - in the
 * jammy - very lucky
 * kiddin(g) - telling a fib, joking
 * lavvy - toilet
 * mester - mister
 * minging - horrible, unpleasant
 * not back'ard at comin' for'ard - (not backward at coming forward) pushy person
 * nouse - sense
 * pack it in - stop it
 * parkin - ginger cake made with oats
 * pikelet - crumpet
 * pop - fizzy drink
 * pudgy - fat or chubby person
 * (it) reeks - (it) smells horrible
 * Rum'n - cheeky/bit of a character e.g. "He's a rum'n"