#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.

Heard.

'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.

Cannot.

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.