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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

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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)

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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)

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  • 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

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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

  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/3724110.stm
  2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/glossary.shtml
  3. http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/teesspeak/page4.phtml
  4. http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/
  5. http://www.yorkshire-dialect.org/dictionary.htm
  6. http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm