Fae
Having Yorkshire roots, but having lived in bucks for years does throw up some odd words. For instance- nobody knows what I mean if I call them mardy (sulky, stamping feet)
Hilary Goodman x n/yorks
I'm nitherd[cold]
Used in Yorks/Lancs.
Will from Castlefield, High Wycombe
It might just be my sloppy diction, but I always get funny looks from people unfamiliar with the accent when I ask them to "pass us the sal'" when I'm at the dinner table.
Also with the advent of the 'Chav', whatever happened to the 'Kevs'?
Sian
Someone I know says 'ice-cold' to mean unfair - I think they're from London? So if they think something's unfair they say 'That's ice-cold, man...'
Tom Laurence , 4th Generation Lutonian.
Over the last two or three years i have been Colecting Luton and south Beds sayings and words.
Here's a few.
On use = A Dog on heat.
Quad = prison.
Durt = Soil.
Clodhoppers = Boots.
Old Boy = Son.
Old Man = Dad.
Ferrcal = To be messing about with somthing "What you ferrcaling at?"
Larrup = To itch/scratch.
Clack or clacker = Mouth.
Nippy/tatters/Brass monkey = Cold.
Bugs = Maggots (fishing term).
Betty Bingo = Fat woman.
Billy Bingo = Betty's husband usualy very skinny or very fat.
Nobby = Idiot.
Chelsping = Talking.
Jollop = Medicine.
Grobberlers = Hands.
Daft as lights / a brush = somthing silly.
Scruffy as arse ole's & as poor as Jobes cat = A dirty hard up family.
Possey = Jam.
Bung ole = Cheese.
Buppy = Bread.
4 Foot 6 brick 'n' a tatter = five foot.
Gout-ache = Belly ache.
Thick as two short planks = stupid.
Under croft = Garage.
Lav/Out back or Carsey = toilet.
Slash, piddle, Jimmy,Shake hands with the unemployed, Point percy at the porciline = Urinate.
Nipper, Young un = child.
Dump,Shite,Crap,Unload = To empty ones bowels.
Deaf as a post = Hard of hearing.
Dry as charrff = very dry.
Please Sirs = Gypsies.
Thats all for now see ya later Tom.
David Fulton
I live in rural central Bucks, not far from Aylesbury,(always have) and one word I hear and use occaisionally is "The Dimpsey" meaning evening twilight.
Jenny, Bucks born & bred
When suprised, described as 'Eyes sticking out like chapelhatpegs'
Being told as a child as my mother was chasing me round the table with some nasty medicine 'Sugar plums will never cure you!'
If something doesn't work 'It dont ackle'
Any man 'Matey' as in 'Matey over there'
Rose Lock
Reisty - Seems to be entirely local to Leighton Buzzard where I went to Upper School. It means disgusting with overtones of stinky. I also remember chocolate toothpaste, was that just Pinchmill?
Kevin from Ireland
chavablockerglory- I think this could refer to a "Chav" (See above). Replcing the word Knicker from Knickerbockerglory-The Ice Cream. The opperative word being knicker.(As in theif)
Ver
A B C D E F G, Jelly Beans Are Chasing Me.
Peter
I lived in Bedford on and off until 1952. I lesrned two languages.
Daily words...cock, watcher, docky mid morningsnack,Bedfordshire clanger and beesings
Ann
"twitchel" Nottinghamshire word referred to a narrow ally-way
sam
When I moved to Biggleswade in Bedfordshire it always surprised me how they called everyone and 'old boy' resulting in the sentence: 'see that young old boy over there?'
Sophie
In responce to the word chocolate toothpaste, I thought my boyfriend had gone mental when he served up this desert called chocolate toothpaste.It all makes sense now as he lives in bedford!!
Sue Brown
My Grandma always said that I was as "Black as Nooger's Knocker" meaning I was dirty. I found out later that this was a corruption of "Newgate's Knocker" meaning the London Prison. my Mum used to give me "pobbies" ( bread and milk) for breakfast and if she thought that my skirt was too short she said it was up over my "bahookey" (bottom) or right up under my "oaksters" (armpits). She was from Glasgow!
Liz Day
Bangjacksed, meaning really drunk
buppy
bread and butter
Andrew Leftwich
When referring to time ie. 10.25 or 10.35 I say Five & twenty to or five & twenty past, maybe not a dialect thing but I dont here anyone else in my circle of friends use it.
Laura Hailes
At the moment i am researching the change of the south beds accent throughout 3 generations of females in my family (this is for A level eng lang...im not just wierd!) i found that my mum and grandma (coming from barton nr luton) used to say okard - meaning annoying, or naughty etc(like awkward) this way of pronunciation is new to me! by the way, if anyone has any info on the south beds accent inc old dialect words please get in touch?
Fran
words people i know use often:-
CHAV: pikey common cheap dress sense big earings TN caps
GAY: annoying as in "your gay" or "thats gay"
RANDOM: thats really weird or something is out of the blue
MAHOOSIVE: funnier way of saying massive
shannen
the wurds i use that are slangish n odd , are , fasey - body , mush - mate , jays - own , jiggz - im alright lol wierd words
jacqui hayes
chocolate toothpaste is a bedford thing!
Louise Crawford
Not so much a word, but a dessert! We always had chocolate toothpaste for our afters in school dinners - but no one's ever heard of the stuff!
Susan Heaton Wright
I always used to refer to an off license as an 'outdoor'. I believe it is a Midland or at least a Birmingham Term
John Rogers
I picked up "raw-boned" used as a physical description of a man from my Dad. When I've used it in London at work nobody seems to know what I'm on about. (Buckinghamshire)
nicholas miniaci
It might not be from the UK, but north american rapping slang is most puzzling of all. I mean there's a slang-"proper"-english dictionary, it compares phat (pronounced fat), and sick all other words for cool, and what does cool mean anyhow? Guess I'm not fluent in freak-out!
Chav
A common person, a peasant, also known as a 'pikey'
Emily Cardew
At school in Hertfordshire we often used to talk about people being "on their Larry" meaning "on their own" or "a loaner" which seems to puzzle everyone outside the county.
Jean Gray
My grandmother, who lived all her life(from about 1888-1978) in NW London, often said "It's a load of my eye and Betty Martin", meaning it's nonsense. Where does this come from? I've never heard anyone outside the family use it so it may have been of her own invention.
Becca Polacka
I have a foreign sounding name, and one day a guy wanted to confirm if I was British or not (I am). "Where you from? English? Wot, Full English Breakfast?". He was from North Hertfordshire, I think.
emily bateman
buff (attractive)
jonathan gaskin.
a phrase which i have heard which i found incredibly peculiar is the term chavablockerglory. which according to the present ' youth of today' means ice cream. Me being from germany originally creates maiximum confusion when walking through my local town. another word which puzzles me is when i get called a nob by the rebels who hang outside of the supermarket. what are we going to walk around calling eachother door handles now?
