#brummie
85 words tagged “brummie”
The street. Literally the 'horse road' — the bit where the traffic goes.
To thrash, beat, or give someone a proper hiding.
A right miserable mush — a face dragging on the floor.
A daft sod. Black Country insult for a silly person.
The off-licence — where you nip out to grab a few cans.
To hit someone — usually one decisive clout.
Pork-offal meatballs in onion gravy — Black Country comfort food.
Food that's gone off — rancid, manky, in the bin.
The ash-hole — the pit under the grate where the coal ash falls.
Black Country word for sherbet powder.
A bank or hillside — a slope, usually a steep one.
A forward roll — Brummie kids don't do somersaults, they do gambols.
Starving, properly hungry.
Taunt aimed at a Birmingham City FC supporter.
Boiled sweets — the hard, suck-don't-chew kind.
Black Country greeting — 'how are you?'
A great thick doorstep sandwich.
Food, especially a packed lunch — old miners' word still going strong.
Up the canal — Brummie for a walk along the waterway.
Hands — as in "wash your donnies".
Your face — usually a miserable one.
Brummie term of affection for your sister — not what it sounds like down south.
A catapult — Y-stick and elastic, the proper old-school kind.
A jumper. Knitted, woolly, probably itchy.
To worry, fret or fuss — the Brummie pronunciation of 'worry'.
Brummie for mad, daft, a bit cracked.
Skiving school. Bunking off.
A roundabout — Brummies call traffic islands, well, islands.
Brummie goodbye — 'ta-ra a bit', see you soon.
Home. As in goin' wum after a long shift.
Brummie for hands, usually big rough ones.
Brummie / Black Country for head.
A dog — usually a scruffy mongrel.
Cheap frozen cordial lollies in a long plastic tube — peak Brummie corner-shop nostalgia.
To pester, bother or nag — Brummie/Black Country spelling of 'mither'.
In a strop — sulking, narked, mood right off.
A crusty bread roll — the Midlands name for what others call a bap or barm.
Birmingham's brutal hide-and-seek variant — find the safe zone before 'it' shouts your name.
Brummie 'love' or 'hun' — drops into any sentence like a verbal cuddle.
A broom — the proper twiggy old-school besom kind.
Rough in play — boisterous to the point of someone getting hurt.
Mild Black Country insult — an idiot.
Nicking apples (or any fruit) straight off someone else's tree.
Black Country for food, especially good food.
To cry, wail, or kick off in tears.
Pit-head winding gear — originally the horse-powered version.
A clumsy, lumbering person — all elbows and no grace.
Birmingham's old red-light district — behind the famous department store.
Standing about gassing won't pay the bills — let's crack on.
Condition, form, nick — usually paired with 'fine' or 'good'.
Thick-headed, stupid.
A harmonica. Black Country for mouth organ — literally 'mouth iron'.
Filthy. Properly grimy. Wants a hot bath and a scrub.
A simpleton, a fool.
Cotton wool — Birmingham's name for it, after the surgeon who invented the dressing.
To mutter, grumble or moan under your breath.
Brummie gold standard — means brilliant, excellent, top-tier.
A truancy officer — the bloke who hunts kids skiving off school.
Deep-fried pork rind — the Black Country pub snack.
A motor coach — the kind you book for a works outing or a day at the seaside.
An ear — pin yours back and listen.
A colliery spoil heap — the pit-waste mounds that scar the Black Country.
Mouth — usually told to shut.
Brummie smush of 'how are you?'
To have a full-blown tantrum.
To barge into a queue. The cardinal British sin.
A crumpet — what the West Midlands calls them.
A rubbish heap or dustbin — old Black Country word for the midden.
A massive moth — the kind that ruins a summer evening.
Your bits, bobs, knick-knacks and clutter — Black Country for 'stuff'.
Pork — specifically the cheek, often cured or pressed into brawn.
Your head — bang it and you'll know.
Frightened, scared.
A meadow. A grassy field for cows, kids or kicking a ball about.
To wander around with no real plan — usually round the shops.
Sweets. The Black Country word for confectionery.
Bonfire, in Brummie/Black Country mouths — especially the Guy Fawkes one.
A drain or sewer, Brummie style.
Crooked. Lopsided. Not hanging straight.
A mongrel dog. The scruffy mutt down the entry.
Mate or pal — or, depending on the sentence, someone's face.
That dry, hacking little cough that won't quit.
Silly, daft.
Left-handed (Brummie/Black Country).
Brummie nickname for someone from the Black Country.