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 [1] 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
[edit]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
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Questionable words (source 2)
[edit]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)
[edit]- 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"
Sources
[edit]1,2,3 seem fine to me whereas 4,5,6 are rather too historical to include all the words but I will include words that I feel to be in current usage or that are already in the article
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/3724110.stm
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/glossary.shtml
- http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/teesspeak/page4.phtml
- http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/
- http://www.yorkshire-dialect.org/dictionary.htm
- http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm