| Guide to pronounication and usage:
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| Hull | English | Additional Comments |
| A penny all off | A short back and sides | Term mainly used in cutting and styling hair. |
| Amgunna | I am going to | |
| Arfa Larga | Half a glass of beer or lager | |
| Arm/Arv | I'm/I've | Usage: Arv been brokken into = My house has been burgled. Armalite = 'My trousers are on fire'. Armalite can also mean: a type of rifle. |
| Avin | Having | |
| Ay path of each | Fish and chips for half pence | |
| Ayer | Have you | Usage: Ayer gorra bruvva? = Have you got a male sibling? |
| Bags foggy | I would like to go first | |
| Bains | Children | Usage: Bains out larkin' = The children are playing outside. |
| Balling | Crying | Usage: Stop balling yered off! = Stop crying! |
| Bikkies | Biscuits | |
| Bluddy targers! | Hull City have lost again! | |
| Bool | To run with a booler | Booler = rim from bike wheel or car tyre. Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Bray | Hit or beat (agressive gesture) | Usage: I'll bray yer eddin' = I'm going to inflict pain on you. |
| Brek | Break | |
| Booling | the act of pushing a wheeled object, e.g a pram or a bike | Acknowledgement: Allan. |
| Bruvva | Brother | |
| Bullyvard | Boulevard | An old sports stadium, once home to Hull FC and Hull City. |
| Burla | Bowl of | |
| Burn | Bone | Usage: Burn idol = Extreme laziness. |
| Canaborryit? | Can I borrow it? | |
| Chowatmi | Shout at me | Usage: Mimmams gunner chowatmi = I shall be in severe trouble with my mother. |
| Clairs | Clothes | |
| Curl | Call | |
| Curled | Cold | |
| Curlslur | Coleslaw or sliced cabbage | |
| Dinntit? | Did it not? | |
| Dernt nerr | I do not know | |
| Diddy farndowt? | Did he find anything? | |
| E | He | |
| Ed | Head | Usage: Doin' me eddin = Making me confused. |
| Ellur | Hello | |
| Erm | Home | |
| Erk | Oak wood | |
| Err nerr | Oh no. | Meaning: An expression of dismay. |
| Farvs | Five pence or pounds | Usage: It dunt tek farvs = This vending machine will not take 5p coins. |
| Fern | Phone | Usage and meaning: Fern curls = Telecommunications. |
| Fiyer injin | Fire engine | |
| Flag edge | Pavement kerb | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Foggy | First | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Gassunder | Chamberpot | |
| Gerreer | Come here or come over | Usage: Oi! Gerreer! = Come this way. |
| Gerremin | Get them in | Usage: Gerremin = Get the drinks in. |
| Gerroff | Leave me alone | |
| Giz/gizza | Give me | Usage: Gizza pennith 'gammy fruit = Could I please have some of those bruised apricots. |
| Goangerided | Invitation to play a game of Hide and Seek | |
| Goin' on rerd | Going shopping | |
| Gorra | Got a | |
| Gorrit for nowt | I did not pay anything | |
| Gunna | Going to | |
| It's marnanall | I am claiming joint-ownership | |
| I aren't | I am not | |
| Jerkin | Joking | Usage: Yer jerkin' = I don't believe you. |
| Kaylie | Sherbert | |
| Kirk-a-curler | Fizzy cola | Soft drink |
| Larkin | Hanging or playing out | |
| Lerds 'n lerds | Plenty | Same as: Givin' it lerds. |
| Lickle | Little | Usage: Me lickle perny = A toy horse |
| Lug 'ole | Ear | Usage: I'll clip yer lug 'ole = Do be quiet. |
| Mafted/mafting | Hot | Usage: I'm mafted = I'm rather hot. It's mafting = It's rather hot. |
| Mimmam | My mother | Usage: Mama mia = I'm here Mother. Yer mammal ner = Your Mother will have the information. |
| Mernin' | moaning or complaining | Usage: Yer for-ever mernin' = You do complain a lot . |
| Merce curd | Morce code | |
| Myrrh-bile | Mobile phone | |
| Meolidiz | My holidays | |
| Narn | Nine | Usage: Ar gorrit for narn narty narn = It cost me nearly ten pounds. Me owsiz on fiyer darl narn narn narn = My house is ablaze. Please alert the emergency services. |
| Ner | No | |
| Nerth Pearl | North Pole | |
| Nowt | Nothing | |
| Nowtinnit | Empty | |
| Ows | House | |
| Park | Pork | Acknowledgement: Barry Oakley. |
| Parls | Haemorrhoids | |
| Follers on | A game of marbles played along the gutter | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Parnta marld | A glass of dark beer | |
| Pearl Tax | The Community Charge | |
| Pearls | People from Poland | |
| Perch | Poach | Usage: Perch deg = poached egg. |
| Plern block in tenfoot | Playing 'Goangerided' in an alleyway | |
| Perm | Poem | |
| Perp | Head of the Catholic Church | |
| Radiur Umbersard | Radio Humberside | |
| Rail | Real | |
| Rerd | Road | Usage: Goin' on rerd = Going shopping. |
| Rerm | Rome | The capital city of Italy. |
| Rurin' | Crying | Usage: She's rurin' ered off = She is very upset. |
| Seggy | Second | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Serp | Soap | |
| Shurrup | Shut up | See also: Shut yer cake 'ole = Be quiet. |
| Siling down | Raining | |
| Sir | So | |
| Skeg | To look | Acknowledgement: Chris Ward. |
| Slur | Slow | |
| Smerl | Small | |
| Smurkin' | Smoking | |
| Sner Berl | An egg-based liquer from Holland | |
| Snerr | Snow | Usage: There's nur snur on the rurd = The road is clear of snow. |
| Spanish | Liquorice | |
| Spurts | Sports | |
| Summatup? | Is there something troubling you? | |
| Surfer | Sofa | |
| Tansad | Folding pushchair | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Tarrar | Goodbye | |
| Tek | Take | |
| Terld-a-merl | I informed everyone | |
| Tenfoot | Alleyway | |
| Ull | Hull | |
| Winder brekker | Type of spinning top used in whip and top game. | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Worrawolly | Foolish person | |
| Yer | You | |
| Yerolidiz | Your holidays | |
| Yiss | Yes | |
| Yon end | The shops at the Ellerburn/Greenwood Avenue junction. | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Yon side | Over there | |
| Frame yerself | Organise yourself/co-operate | See also: Shape yerself will yeh! = organise yourself/co-operate. Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Shape yerself will yeh! | Organise yourself/co-operate | See also: Frame yerself = organise yourself/co-operate. Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Dowly | Dreary, damp weather | Usage: It's a dowly day. Acknowledgement: Christine Wylie. |
| Taffled | Tangled (hair or wool) | Acknowledgement: Christine Wylie. |
| Lugs | Knotted hair | Acknowledgement: Christine Wylie. |
| On road | Main road | Acknowledgement: Allan. |
| Up street | The end of street which is near to the main road | Acknowledgement: Allan. |
| Down street | The end of street which is away from the main road | Acknowledgement: Allan. |
| Nesh | Cold | Usage: Eee it's right nesh out = It's cold outside. Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Nithered | Cold | Usage: Let's see fire I'm nithered! = Put the heating on I'm freezing! Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| It's like watching treacle on Park St. Bridge | Slow | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Crogga/croggy | A crossbar of a bicycle | Usage: Giz a crogga = Can you give me a lift on your bicycle? Acknowledgement: Beryl Sayers. |
| Nunty | Not in fashion | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Sackless | 1) Slow to learn or understand. 2) Foolish person. | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Arwarhs | Uneducated and ignorant people | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Neb/nebby | Nose/nosy | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Bont | Burned | Acknowledgement: Lee Holderness. |
| Nerz kern | Pointed end of a rocket | Acknowledgement: John Lewis. |
| Arse in yer Kirk? | Would you like ice in your Coca-Cola? | Acknowledgement: John Lewis. |
| On the derl | Unemployed | Acknowledgement: John Lewis. |
| Fizog | Face | Acknowledgement: Mike Vine from Toronto, Canada. |
| Scragging | Semi-playful fighting\wrestling | Acknowledgement: Mike Vine from Toronto, Canada. |
| Reckon up | To add up numbers in a list | Acknowledgement: Robert Kemp. |
| Twag | To play truant from school | Acknowledgement: Robert Kemp. |
| Boob | Baby | Usage: Dohnt rurr yer big boob = Don't cry you big baby. Acknowledgement: Robert Kemp. |
| Kecks | Trousers | Acknowledgement: Robert Kemp. |
| Feet as big as Hunmanby Gap | Big feet | Acknowledgement: Robert Kemp. |
| Laid out like a shilling dinner | Sprawling (e.g. On sofa) | Acknowledgement: Robert Kemp. |
| I'll snickersneeze you | I'll get you back [playful term] | Acknowledgement: Robert Kemp. |
| Yope | To shout/sing raucously | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
| Yer cart educate pork! | There's little chance of him/her understanding much | Acknowledgement: Ken Starkey. |
