Weird Slang Terms...

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In Liverpool we are kings of the slang word (e.g, Bizzie - Policeman) and shortening words (e.g, Hossy - Hospital). I find it interesting just how much slang terms are used in everyday language, so much so that new words get added to the dictionary every year.

However, as sure as Bizzie is strange to a southerner, they're are others that baffle me. What weird slang terms have you come across and what do they mean?


I nearly slapped my mate, when he asked for 'Monkey's Blood' on his 99er Ice Cream, which is what they call strawberry sauce in the North-East
 

I got called a "wettie" by my posh ex-bird once, I think it means a worrier or something.

A girl I knew from Nottingham said she calls a barmcake a "batch"...sick bitch.
 
I reckon I actually only understand about 43.2942904802348% of all the content on this entire site.

The rest is another language completely.
 
Geez i could give you loads here Cena lad, the navy has a whole other language! a few of my favourites................... train smash - full english all jumbled up...... port and starboard scran spanners - knife and fork.......... some of the ones that have gone mainstream, 'posh' port out starboard home........ freeze the brass balls of a monkey - the 'monkey' was the stack of cannon balls next to the gun and when it got cold the metal would contract and the stack would fall. loads more
 
dockyard pizza - sick, and of course babys heads - scotch pie. Jock can give you loads more i'm sure.
 

Try living in the bleedin' West Country:


  • "Acker" (North Somerset) — friend
  • "Allernbatch" (Devon) — old sore
  • "Anywhen" — At any time
  • "Babbie" (North Somerset) — baby
  • "Batch" (North Somerset) — hill - used in place names, e.g. the Vern Batch
  • "Beast" (North Somerset) — animal, particularly cattle
  • "Benny" (Bristol) — to lose your temper (from a character in Crossroads)
  • "Bide" (North Somerset) — stay, e.g. "Let un bide!" = let him be!
  • "Blad" (Bristol) — idiot
  • "Blether" (Dorset) — bleat (also used in Lowland Scots)
  • "Bulling" (North Somerset) — mounting (cows mounting each other when ready for mating)
  • "Chamming" (North Somerset) — chewing, chomping
  • "Chuggy peg" (North Somerset) — antirrhinum, snapdragon
  • "Chump" (North Somerset) — log (for the fire)
  • "Chuting" (North Somerset) — (pronounced "shooting") guttering
  • "Comical" (North Somerset) — peculiar, e.g. "'e was proper comical"
  • "Coupie" (North Somerset) — crouch, as in the phrase "coupie down"
  • "Crowst" (Cornwall) — a picnic lunch, crib
  • "Cuss" (North Somerset) — swear
  • "Cuzzel" (Cornwall) — soft
  • "Daddy granfer" (North Somerset) — woodlouse
  • "Dap" (Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire) — a plimsoll shoe, also (North Somerset) to bounce, as of a skittle ball, adjective "dappy"
  • "Doattie" (Devon) — nod off
  • "Doughboy" (North Somerset) — dumpling
  • "Dreckly" — Directly, often used to mean "I'll do it soon" for example "I'll do it dreckly"
  • "Emmet" (Cornwall and North Somerset) — tourist or visitor (derogatory)
  • "Et" (North Somerset) — that, e.g. "Giss et peak" (Give me that pitchfork)
  • "Gert" (North Somerset) — large or very (large). Probable variation of "Great", as in "You gert fool".
  • "Gleanie" (North Somerset) — guinea fowl
  • "Gockey" (Cornwall) — idiot
  • "Grampie" (North Somerset) — grandfather
  • "Grockle" (Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire) — tourist or visitor (derogatory)
  • "Ground (plural grounds)" (North Somerset) — field, e.g. "'E bought five grounds off Joe Smith"
  • "Haling" (North Somerset) — coughing
  • "Hilts and gilts" (North Somerset) — female and male piglets, respectively.
  • "Hinkypunk" — Will o' the wisp
  • "Huppenstop" (North Somerset) — raised stone platform where milk churns are left for collection - no longer used but many still exist outside farms.
  • "In pig" (North Somerset) — (of a pig) pregnant
  • "Janner" (Devon, esp. Plymouth) — a term with various meanings, normally associated with Devon, and so called Chav culture. (In Wiltshire, a similar word ' jidder ' has similar meaning - possible relation to 'gypsy').
  • * "Jasper" - a North Devon word for wasp.
  • * "Keendle teening" (Cornwall) — candle lighting
  • * "Kimberlin" (Portland) — someone from Weymouth
  • * "Love", "My Love", "Luvver" — terms of endearment. Even used by heterosexual men to one another.
  • * "Maggoty" (Dorset) — fanciful
  • * "Mang" (Devon) — to mix
  • * "Mow" (North Somerset) — (hay) rick
  • * "Ooh Arr" (Devon) — multiple meanings, including "Oh Yes". Popularised by the Wurzels, this phrase has become stereotypical, and is used often to mock speakers of West Country dialects.
  • "Paunch or punch" (North Somerset) — gut (vb.)
  • "Peak" (North Somerset) — pitchfork
  • "Pick" (North Somerset) — pluck (a bird for the table)
  • "Piggy widden" (Cornwall) — phrase used to calm babies
  • "Pitch" (North Somerset) — to settle, e.g. snow
  • "Plimmed, -ing up" (North Somerset) — swollen, swelling
  • "Poached, -ing up" (North Somerset but also recently heard on The Archers) — cutting up, of a field, as in "the grounds poaching up ,we'll have to bring the cattle indoors for the winter".
  • "Pummy" (Dorset) — Apple pumace from the cider-wring (either from "pumace" or French "pomme" meaning apple)
  • "Rainin' pourin'" (North Somerset) — raining very hard - said as if one word ("It's rainin-pourin")
  • "Scag" (North Somerset) — to tear or catch (“I've scagged my jeans on some barbed wire.â€)
  • "Scrage" — a scratch or scrape usually on a limb BBC Voices Project
  • "Slit pigs" (North Somerset) — male piglets that have been castrated
  • "Snags" (Dorset) — sloes, word is used in other English dialects to refer to thorns.
  • "Somewhen" (Isle of Wight, Wiltshire) — At some time (still very commonly used)
  • "Stick" (North Somerset) — firewood ("We need more stick" - not sticks)
  • "Thic" (North Somerset) — that - said knowingly, i.e. to be make dialect deliberately stronger. E.g. "Get in thic bed!"
  • "Up country" (North Somerset) — geographically beyond Somerset ("'E lives up country somewhere")
  • "Wazzock" (Wiltshire) — idiot
  • "Zat" (Devon) — soft
 

loved some of the navy ones when we deployed on Ocean.

Put some wind behind the slide - Please pass me the butter
Hoist the firey trident - Can I have a light for my cigarette please?
 
Wind up the sea dust - pass the salt, splash target zero - too close together in the urinal, Chicken chernobyl - hot curry, double duff - going back for second pudding.
 

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