Geordie Slang
Geordie slang decoded — canny, howay, hadaway and North East patter with real meanings and origins. Properly sourced.
67 words
Hurts. As in 'ow, that knacks'.
Geordie for filthy, muddy, mucked-up.
Geordie and Scottish for cigarettes — plural by default.
Geordie for my younger sibling or close mate.
Sticky, gluey, tacky to the touch.
To nick something — Geordie for steal.
Geordie intensifier — very, really, dead.
A person from Sunderland — and the rival tribe to the Geordies.
Emphatic yes. The Geordie 'of course, mate'.
Geordie shorthand for Jarrow, the Tyneside town famous for the 1936 march.
Geordie for throw or chuck.
Something outrageously unfair. A piss-take.
Absolutely paralytic. Geordie for blackout drunk.
Geordie for sticky muck — or the act of sticking.
Halfpennyworth — used for a daft or worthless person.
An angry, aggro person — or the rage itself.
To burp, belch, or heave.
Prison and working-class British slang for a cigarette.
Someone from South Shields, on the south bank of the Tyne mouth.
Geordie for mud — the proper claggy stuff.
Geordie for take it easy, go carefully.
Geordie for properly — a flat-out intensifier meaning very, totally, dead.
Skipping school. Bunking off.
Geordie for my girlfriend or wife.
Geordie for get away — disbelief or dismissal.
A proper idiot — Geordie for someone acting daft.
Geordie for a boiled sweet — confectionery, not ammunition.
Tomorrow.
Geordie 'honey' — a term of endearment.
Geordie for starving — properly hungry, not just peckish.
A fool — or, originally, a cuckoo.
Darlington — the County Durham town, shortened the way locals actually say it.
Geordie for the toilet — originally the outdoor one.
Treated. As in 'she tret me like dirt'.
Geordie for filthy, manky, properly dirty.
Mature content — open to view.
Geordie for mate, friend, pal.
Geordie for mate or young lad.
Geordie for look, glance, have a gander.
The collective name for Newcastle United's famously rabid fanbase.