#wales

Welsh and West Country word for plimsolls or trainers.

Cheers — literally 'good health.'

Welsh for a coastal salt marsh — the flat wet land where sea meets field.

North Wales for grandmother.

The Welsh-speaking establishment elite — Wales's own snob class.

North Wales for grandfather.

Welsh-English for last orders — closing time at the pub.

Welsh-English for the fly on a pair of trousers.

South Wales (and West Country) way of asking 'where are you?'

A lad from the South Wales Valleys — Rhondda, Merthyr, Cynon, the lot.

To skip school — Welsh-English for bunking off.

A newt — old dialect word still alive in Wales.

In a sulk — Welsh-English for the bottom-lip-out treatment.

Pain, hassle, grief — usually from a body part or a person.

South Wales for absolutely furious.

'Hark at you' — Welsh sarcasm for someone getting above their station.

A quick splash — face and hands, job done.

Welsh universal tag question stuck on the end of any statement.

A scratch or graze on the skin — usually from a cat, a bramble, or a scrap.

Half chips, half rice — the Welsh takeaway carb stack.

Welsh 'alright?' — the all-purpose greeting and check-in.

Welsh-English for 'over there' — pointing-word with extra welly.

Arguing or backchatting loudly — running your mouth, Welsh style.

Welsh sympathy phrase — 'poor thing', said with real warmth.

Welsh mining wagon that ferried colliers in and out of the pit.

Welsh for wonderful, marvellous, brilliant — the North's preferred word over 'lush'.

Welsh for an Englishman — literally 'Saxon'.

Welsh diminutive — 'little', tacked on as a term of endearment.

A causeway or paved track — Welsh for the kind of road Romans built.

A frozen sugary ice-pop in a long plastic tube.

Wrecked the morning after — hungover and looking it.

The Eisteddfod's top prize for a bardic poem in strict cynghanedd metre.

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

Fair play — to be fair, credit where it's due.

To shake or wobble — Welsh-English verb lifted straight from Welsh siglo.

Mother — the Welsh-English standard.

Well done, very good — Welsh school-report classic.

South Wales address for any bus or taxi driver — 'Cheers, drive!'

A lift on the back of someone's bike.

Welsh oxymoron meaning 'soon-ish' — could be five minutes, could be an hour.