#north-east
55 words tagged “north-east”
Hurts. As in 'ow, that knacks'.
Geordie for filthy, muddy, mucked-up.
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.
Emphatic yes. The Geordie 'of course, mate'.
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.
Geordie for mud — the proper claggy stuff.
Geordie for take it easy, go carefully.
Skipping school. Bunking off.
Geordie for my girlfriend or wife.
A foul-mouthed, uncouth so-and-so.
Geordie for get away — disbelief or dismissal.
A proper idiot — Geordie for someone acting daft.
Tomorrow.
Geordie 'honey' — a term of endearment.
A fool — or, originally, a cuckoo.
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.
Doric for a weasel — or a sleekit wee person.
Geordie for mate, friend, pal.
Geordie for mate or young lad.
Geordie for look, glance, have a gander.
Absolutely steaming drunk.
Geordie for excellent, brilliant, top-tier.
The boss. The gaffer. Whoever's in charge.
A sparrow — and by extension any tiny scrap of a thing.
Geordie for shut your mouth.
A door latch — and the verb for lifting it.
A rag, dishcloth, or clout round the ear.
Today.
Nosey — sticking your beak where it doesn't belong.
Anything — northern shorthand you'll hear from Newcastle to Yorkshire.
Tobacco — the rollie kind, not the shop-bought twenty.
Geordie for someone deliberately winding people up.
Geordie for 'to go' — the verb you'll hear stitched into half of Newcastle.
Geordie rallying cry of support, especially for Newcastle United.
Geordie (and wider Scots) for house.
Geordie ancestor of 'chav' — a rough, swaggering youth.
Hard work. Proper sleeves-up effort.
Told. Past tense, Geordie/Scots style.
Fingerless mittens, Doric-style.
Geordie for home.
A splinter — the tiny wood sliver in your finger.
A stone — specifically one you can chuck.
Geordie for maybe, perhaps.