#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.