Tag

#speech

21 words tagged “speech”

dicky bird
noun

Rhyming slang for word; 'not a dicky bird' = not a word.

#cockney#london#british#rhyming
gonnae no dae that
phrase

Please don't do that — a firm/comic request to stop

#scottish#irish#speech#request
rabbit and pork
verb

Talk — 'rabbit on'.

#cockney#london#british#speech
chopse
verb

To talk loudly, chatter, or mouth off — Welsh and Midlands dialect.

#welsh#midlands#dialect#speech
blether
verb

To chatter or gossip at length; also long-winded talk

#scottish#irish#speech#chat
patter
noun

Banter, chat or a way with words

#scottish#irish#speech#humour
natter
verb

To chat idly or gossip.

#british#regional#speech#verb
clishmaclaver
noun

Idle gossip or foolish chatter

#scottish#irish#speech#gossip
take the mickey
verb

To mock or tease; 'take the mick'.

#cockney#london#british#rhyming
chelp
verb

To talk back cheekily.

#british#regional#speech#verb
speir
verb

To ask, enquire or question

#scottish#irish#speech#enquiry
Govoreet
verb

Nadsat for to speak or talk, from the Russian 'govorit'.

#nadsat#clockwork-orange#fictional#literary
look you
phrase

Welsh-English tag phrase — 'look here', 'see' — pinned to the end of a sentence.

#welsh#wales#phrase#speech
rabbit
verb

To talk / chatter (from 'rabbit and pork').

#cockney#london#british#speech
haver
verb

To talk nonsense or babble foolishly

#scottish#irish#speech#nonsense
Cut Whids
phrase

To speak or talk in the cant — and to 'cut bene whids' was to speak fair and friendly.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british
wheesht
interjection

Be quiet; hush — as in 'haud yer wheesht'

#scottish#irish#speech#command
och
interjection

An exclamation of surprise, resignation or emphasis

#scottish#irish#exclamation#speech
dickie bird
noun

Word — 'not a dickie bird'.

#cockney#london#british#speech
tha knows
phrase

'You know' — a conversational tag.

#british#regional#speech#phrase
claik
noun

Gossip. Idle blether.

#scottish#scots#gossip#speech