#welsh

Good morning.

Welsh and West Country word for plimsolls or trainers.

Cheers — literally 'good health.'

A tiny, cute thing, usually a small child.

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

Old-fashioned or dowdy.

A placeholder word for something whose name you forget.

North Wales for grandmother.

A large or heavyset person or thing.

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

Really great; excellent.

North Wales for grandfather.

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

A drawn-out 'goodbye'.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

A filler opener before explaining something.

South Wales for absolutely furious.

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Goodbye, see you — informal British sign-off, especially Welsh and Northwest English.

Heard.

A sergeant — Welsh loanword used in English military and historical writing.

A preface warning that a blunt opinion is coming.

The cupboard under the stairs.

'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.

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

An idiot or fool.

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

A person from North Wales.

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