#midlands
49 words tagged “midlands”
The street. Literally the 'horse road' — the bit where the traffic goes.
A daft sod. Black Country insult for a silly person.
Pork-offal meatballs in onion gravy — Black Country comfort food.
The ash-hole — the pit under the grate where the coal ash falls.
A bank or hillside — a slope, usually a steep one.
To talk loudly, chatter, or mouth off — Welsh and Midlands dialect.
A great thick doorstep sandwich.
Goodbye for now, see you later.
Food, especially a packed lunch — old miners' word still going strong.
A catapult — Y-stick and elastic, the proper old-school kind.
A jumper. Knitted, woolly, probably itchy.
Yes (Black Country/Brummie affirmative).
Skiving school. Bunking off.
A roundabout — Brummies call traffic islands, well, islands.
Home. As in goin' wum after a long shift.
Mother (Brummie spelling/pronunciation).
A girl or young woman (affectionate in the Midlands).
In a strop — sulking, narked, mood right off.
A crusty bread roll — the Midlands name for what others call a bap or barm.
A baby or small child.
Clear off; go away and bother someone else.
A broom — the proper twiggy old-school besom kind.
Rough in play — boisterous to the point of someone getting hurt.
Pit-head winding gear — originally the horse-powered version.
A clumsy, lumbering person — all elbows and no grace.
An off-licence (shop selling alcohol to take away).
A harmonica. Black Country for mouth organ — literally 'mouth iron'.
A clumsy, oafish person.
To move up or shuffle along to make room.
Cotton wool — Birmingham's name for it, after the surgeon who invented the dressing.
An outside toilet (privy).
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.
A colliery spoil heap — the pit-waste mounds that scar the Black Country.
A crumpet — what the West Midlands calls them.
A rubbish heap or dustbin — old Black Country word for the midden.
Your bits, bobs, knick-knacks and clutter — Black Country for 'stuff'.
To claim something first.
Pork — specifically the cheek, often cured or pressed into brawn.
Frightened, scared.