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Sandbox for Yorkshire colloquialisms, others are welcome to edit / view / make suggestions. What I need more than anything is internet based sources, please don't add dialect words unless they are sourced as I am trying to create a proper referenced work rather than 'original research'.

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Words found in the Merriam-Webster [1] are disqualified as being dialect. The Merriam-Webster is the standard US English dictionary. I'd use the Oxford English for preference but they want money.

Words

From source 1 - South Yorkshire

ey oop = hello
fizog = face
gipping = vomiting
jiggered = exhausted
lughole = ear
manky = rough
our lass = wife

(A to M from source 2 - North Yorkshire)

allus - always
'appen - maybe, possibly e.g. "I'll 'appen that's it" for "that's possibly true"
aye - yes
backend - autumn
badly - not in a good state of health, i.e.'How's Martha?', 'She's badly.'
baggin - packed lunch
bagsey - childhood term, i.e. 'bagsey my turn!'
bairn - child bait/ bait box snack/ packed lunch
bazzerking - relaxing/ telling off (?)
beck - brook
beefin(g), blubberin(g) - crying
be reight - it'll be alright
black bright - very dirty
bonny - pretty
brant - steep e.g. "'tis a brant hill"
bray/braying - beating e.g. "you'll get a good braying" or "I'll bray you"
breadcake - bread roll or bap
butty - sandwich
cack-handed - left-handed, clumsy
chat - fir cone
chelpin - talking
childer - children
chip 'ole - fish and chip shop
chuddy - chewing gum
chuffed - pleased, excited
clarty - dirty, muddy, sticky
clemmy - stone (of a size you might throw)
clout - cloth
cludger - toilet (in Knaresborough)
coal 'ole, coyle oyle - coal cellar
croggy - riding on the cross-bar of a bicycle
daft as a brush - stupid
delve - dig
dowly - dull, gloomy, misty day
drinkings - mid-morning snack farm workers took to work
dursn't - daren't
eeh by gum - oh my God
faffing - messing about
fettle - to tidy/mend
flayed, flaysome - scared, scary
flitin' - moving house
flower - term of endearment
flummoxed - confused
friggin' - a curse
frozzed -referring to face or fingers being very cold
garth - yard
gill - stream
ginnell - alleyway
giz, gizza, gizzyer - give, give us, give your
goffs - smells horrible
goodies - sweets
goosegog - gooseberry
gripe - garden rake
in a bit - bye
jiggered - very tired
khali - sherbert
kegs - trousers
lake, laikin(g), larking - play (i.e. "Is your Lesley coming out to lake?"), playing
lass - girl/young woman/wife
leg throw
v. (to have a) lem on - to be angry, moody (like having a 'monk on')
lowence - snack whilst working, especially for farmers
lug, lug'ole - ear
maffin' - hot and clammy weather
(I'm) mafted - (I'm) hot
mardy - moody, sulky, stroppy
middin' - muck heap
middlin(g) - ok, average
mithered, mitherin(g) - irritated with something, as in "stop mitherin' me" is "stop bothering/irritating me".
v. (to have a) monk on - to be grumpy, to have a sulky face
missen - myself e.g. "I'll do it missen"
narky - moody, sulky, stroppy, (mardy)
n'arn - now then
neb - nose
nesh - cold. Often exclaimation that an individual is 'soft' for feeling the cold or term of mild abuse e.g. "nesh southerners!"
nithered - very cold
nowt/ nout - nothing
now then - hello
oh aye?! - oh really?!
'ow do - how are you, hello
owt - anything
paggered - knackered e.g. "I'm completely paggered" or "I've just paggered my dad's car"
playin(g) pop - to tell of/ get angry with
plother - mud
pot washin' - washing up
put wood in'th oyle - shut the door
radged - angry
reet - right

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Questionable words (source 2)

I have my doubts whether these are dialect words and not Standard English / UK slang

best y' do - see that you do
bog - toilet
bonce - head
chippy - fish and chip shop
chuckin(g) your guts up - being sick
fair t' middlin - fair, in the middle
flippin 'eck (flipping heck) - exclamation of shock and surprise
gander - look at
gi' over - give over, stop it
gormless* - stupid
manky not nice, unpleasant
ratty - grumpy/gross

Others

berg - mountain (is this used outside placenames?)
carr - marsh (ditto)
dale - valley
fell - moor
foss/ force - waterfall

Words removed from list (source 2)

bad 'un - no good
bap - bread bun (Standard English not dialect)
black as't face o' spades - very dirty (Standard English not dialect)
bracken - ferns (found in M-W dictionary)
coit/cooat coat (Standard English with slightly different pronunciation)
clout - a slap (Standard English not dialect)
down't (road) - down the (road) (Standard English with slightly different pronunciation)
'ead - head
famished - hungry, starving
fast - stuck
flaggin(g) - tired, worn out
fowl - bird
gaffer - the boss
gear - items, things
good 'un - good one
guff - fart
gunna, gonna - going to
hell fire! - goodness me!
in't - in the
jammy - very lucky
kiddin(g) - telling a fib, joking
lavvy - toilet
mester - mister
minging - horrible, unpleasant
not back'ard at comin' for'ard - (not backward at coming forward) pushy person
nouse - sense
pack it in - stop it
parkin - ginger cake made with oats
pikelet - crumpet
pop - fizzy drink
pudgy - fat or chubby person
(it) reeks - (it) smells horrible
Rum'n - cheeky/bit of a character e.g. "He's a rum'n"

Sources

1,2,3 seem fine to me whereas 4,5,6 are rather too historical to include all the words but I will include words that I feel to be in current usage or that are already in the article