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Z
23-02-2014, 04:54 PM
What kind of local slang is spoken in your area that other people wouldn't know?

I'm from Aberdeen, people speak Doric up here and in the surrounding area...

aye = yes
aye aye = hello
I da ken = I don't know
far = where; far ye gaan = where are you going
fan = when; fan ye aff = when are you going
fa = who; fa's at = who's that
fit = what; fit like = how are you
foo = how; foo's yer doos = how are you (literally means how are your doves.. LOL)
fit wye = why; fit wye's at noo? = why's that now?
loon = boy/son
quine = girl/daughter
toonser = someone who lives in town
teuchter = someone who lives in the countryside
crabbit = bad tempered
clype = someone who tells on someone else/to tell tales
grippy = miserly
swick = a cheat, to cheat
sook = suck up
bosie = hug
bonny = beautiful, good looking
fine = good, tasty
rare = great
scunnered = fed up
greetin = crying
wheesht = quiet; hud yer wheesht! = be quiet!
gype = idiot
glaikit = senseless, stupid
bide = stay, live; far div ye bide (or) far d'ye bide? = where do you stay/live?
bowfin = disgusting
foosty = something's gone off
dreich = dull and rainy; it's affa dreich iday = it's very dull and rainy today
skelp = smack, slap; at loon's got a puss like a skelpt airse = that boy's got a face like a smacked arse
oxters = armpits; mind an shave yer oxters = remember to shave your armpits
peelie-wally = off colour and ill looking
dirl = spin, to spin; he dirled her aboot idunce floor = he spun her about the dance floor

etc etc...

InOne
23-02-2014, 05:04 PM
When I talk normally my vocab is full of dunt, shunt, wunt, owt, nowt, somat etc. Which I think only people from the north sort of say

King Gizzard
23-02-2014, 05:05 PM
Swear that said slag...

and I never really hang around with people who have local accents/use local slang so I have absolutely no idea, you have your die hard local people around here and then you have the sort of neutral people who have have neutral accents

Brother Leon
23-02-2014, 05:12 PM
Fam - Used as an alternative to "bro"
Cuz - ^
Par - Insult. "He's parring me"
Spice - Beautiful woman
Bait Ting - A woman that has been around and is know to many men.
Bare - Alot
Bennin' up - Laughing alot
Gassin' - Someone chatting **** is "gassing". Not to be confused with "Getting gassed" which means getting Hype basically.
Treck - Used to mean "cbf". "Come shopping with me". "Nope. That's a treck"

Off the top of my head. The dictionary of London/Young Leon :laugh:

Swag was originally another word for sh*t

T*
23-02-2014, 05:18 PM
Fit-
Something is good/alluring/handsome/beautiful
"Oh that girl is fit as"
"This cake is fit"

Saph
23-02-2014, 05:23 PM
quiche

Josy
23-02-2014, 05:38 PM
We talk basically the same way as what Zee's posted in the OP apart from a couple


Some more

Brae (Bray) - Hill
Sleekit - Sly
Ken - Know (Dae ye ken? = Do you know?)
Roon - Round
Och - Oh/Never mind
Shoogly - Wobbly
Messages - Shopping
Cannae - Can't
Aye - Yes
Naw - No
Isnae - Isn't
Yi/ye/yae - You
Burn - Small river
Jaiket - Jacket
Boggin - Disgusting/Dirty
Clatty - Disgusting/Dirty
Mockit - Disgusting/Dirty
Hoachin - Disgusting/Dirty
Manky - Disgusting/Dirty
Glaikit - Stupid/Idiotic
Blootered - Drunk
Steemin - Drunk
Wee - Small
Coo - Cow
Dug - Dog
Crabbit - Grumpy
Dour - Crabbit/Grumpy
Drooth - Thirsty
Eejit - Idiot

Cant be bothered listing any more actually theres too much

Z
23-02-2014, 06:46 PM
Clart is another favourite of mine "she's clarted in make up"

Ammi
23-02-2014, 06:53 PM
..I don't really know any Suffolk slang words as such because I'm not from here but they do have an expression that a few people say, which is 'on the huh' which I think means lopsided or something and people with Suffolk accents tent to always pronounce 'u' as 'oooo' so humour is said as hoomer etc...it's more the way the words are pronounced ...I'm going to the shop/I'm going to the sharp....

Benjamin
24-02-2014, 12:10 AM
Bristolian

Gert=Huge
Babbers=Friend
Cocker=Friend/mate
Luvver=Friend
Ark at ee=listen to him
Daps=plimsolls/shoes
Bist=you-'where is bist going'='where are you going'
Brizzle = Bristol
gurt= big
mint in it! = it's good
Benny = lose your temper
Dinnum = didn't they
Doggen Up = look at threateningly
Fotawl = Photo
Jeerme - You hear me
Lackey Band = elastic band

Firewire
24-02-2014, 12:41 AM
Bowfin/manky/maukit/beast - disgusting
wae - with
mwi (mad wae it) - drunk
rocket as in "you're a pure rocket'" - freak, i guess
gash - vagina
geein me the boak - making me gag
bunnet - hat or a car bonnet
chuggy - chewing gum
clegg - horsefly
coup/cowp - mess/dirty (someone's house may be a cowp)
dunderheid - idiot
faimly - family
ferm(er) - farm(er)
greet - cry
hauf - half (it's haulf ten)
hoor - *****
maist - most
oakster - armpit
peely-wally - pale
piece - sandwich
rammy - noisy fight
sair - sore
staun - stand
stoater - attractive woman
thegither - together
they - those
wain - child
hen/doll - term of endearment (normally said by a woman) "you alright, hen?" "aye, doll"
wheesht - be quiet
am ur - i am
aye am ur - yes i am
awwfy - awfully "it's awffy cold outside"
burd - girlfriend
bevvy - drink (alcohol)
bolt - go away
dancing - old term for clubbing
dobber - dickhead
an empty - when someone has an empty house as their parents are away
feart - scared
hackit - ugly
getting your hole - having or have had sex
brutal - when something is annoying
minted - rich
numpty - nice term of saying idiot, e.g. used towards young children if they've fallen
minger - disgusting person
pished - drunk
roaster - someone who is a mess, embarrassing
skud - naked
tube - idiot
wallaper - dickhead
winch - kiss with tongues
swatch - look