#dialect
78 words tagged “dialect”
Dundonian word for a drain or drain cover.
Hurts. As in 'ow, that knacks'.
Dundonian word for a roundabout.
'She' — historic Lancashire pronoun.
A playground slide.
Dundee nickname for the Evening Telegraph newspaper.
A newt — old dialect word still alive in Wales.
A forward roll — Brummie kids don't do somersaults, they do gambols.
To talk loudly, chatter, or mouth off — Welsh and Midlands dialect.
Starving, properly hungry.
Pain, hassle, grief — usually from a body part or a person.
Geordie for sticky muck — or the act of sticking.
Mid-South euphemism for 'I swear' — mild, churchy, grandma-approved.
Black Country greeting — 'how are you?'
'Partner' — friendly NOLA address for an unfamiliar man.
Any soft drink in NOLA — temperature doesn't matter.
Goodbye, see you — informal British sign-off, especially Welsh and Northwest English.
'Hark at you' — Welsh sarcasm for someone getting above their station.
Filthy. Absolutely clarted in muck.
A quick splash — face and hands, job done.
Welsh universal tag question stuck on the end of any statement.
Memphis pronunciation of pork and beans.
Homemade frozen Kool-Aid in a Dixie cup — NOLA summer staple.
To worry, fret or fuss — the Brummie pronunciation of 'worry'.
Brummie for mad, daft, a bit cracked.
Southern American English for 'about to' — on the verge of doing something.
Doric word for a boy or young man.
Brummie goodbye — 'ta-ra a bit', see you soon.
Geordie for properly — a flat-out intensifier meaning very, totally, dead.
Brummie for hands, usually big rough ones.
Brummie / Black Country for head.
Make-up. Slap. War paint before a night out.
A pool at the foot of a waterfall — sometimes the falls themselves.
Variant Yat spelling of 'oysters' — same word as ersters.
To boil — Yat pronunciation, as in crawfish berl.
'Right' — also an intensifier meaning 'very'.
A merry-go-round, specifically the antique one in City Park.
NOLA way of saying 'at my house,' calqued from French.
New Orleans-ese for 'at' or 'to' a place, usually someone's house.
Doric word for a girl or young woman.
Dundonian for the hallway or lobby of a house.
A dragonfly — said to hunt mosquitoes.
Geordie for starving — properly hungry, not just peckish.
Mild Black Country insult — an idiot.
The communal stairwell or entry of a Scottish tenement.
Black Country for food, especially good food.
Memphis / Mid-South pronunciation of Coca-Cola — and a generic word for any soda.
Darling — the universal NOLA term of address, used on anybody.
The whole bundle of New Orleans pronunciations and grammar — 'where y'at?'
Thick-headed, stupid.
The car inspection sticker — what every other state just calls an inspection sticker.
The thick New Orleans accent — and the people who carry it.
Treated. As in 'she tret me like dirt'.
Dundonian pronunciation of 'pie' — usually a Scotch pie.
A fright; to startle someone.
A simpleton, a fool.
Brummie gold standard — means brilliant, excellent, top-tier.
Right here — Welsh English's way of pointing without lifting a finger.
Brummie smush of 'how are you?'
Anything — northern shorthand you'll hear from Newcastle to Yorkshire.
Sausage — Yat pronunciation, roughly SAH-sage.
Tobacco — the rollie kind, not the shop-bought twenty.
To squat, crouch or hunker down — Welsh and West Country dialect.
Yat pronunciation of 'oil' — cooking oil, motor oil, any oil.
Nearly. Almost. Not quite there yet.
Frightened, scared.
Geordie for 'to go' — the verb you'll hear stitched into half of Newcastle.
Emphatic New Orleans agreement — the canonical Yat affirmation.
Geordie (and wider Scots) for house.
Told. Past tense, Geordie/Scots style.
Sugar — endearment from older NOLA women, pronounced SHOOG.
To stop in and visit somewhere, not just walk past it.
To scrounge, beg, or blag — usually for tabs, lifts or a pint.
Silly, daft.
Geordie for maybe, perhaps.
Left-handed (Brummie/Black Country).
Dundonian for brilliant, top-notch, the business.
Oysters, in the thick Yat accent of working-class New Orleans.