How many colloquialisms are out there??? (thought about this from a thread going on now)
Mine is Dyke.
Dyke around here is a ditch, In Scotland it is a small wall, or on a very hilarious evening someone we were staying with and talking about the exact same thing said that she always thought a Dyke was her (A lesbian)
So that 3 things a Dyke could be,
So what others do you know???
Lea :) :)

When you are building an internal wall in Yorkshire, the small horizontal bits of timber that fit between the uprights are called 'Noggins'
A Noggin in Scotland is a drink 'tot of whisky' the bits of wall timber are called Dwangs instead !
I have also heard Noggin refer to head or brain as in 'use your noggin'

A 'carry out'.  To me, being a Southerner, this would be a takeaway. In Scotland it refers to buying drink!

> In Scotland it is a small wall, or on a very hilarious evening someone we were staying with and talking about the exact same thing said that she always thought a Dyke was her (A lesbian)

I went to southern India some years ago, and was talking to some friends when I got back, about how I went to the beach every morning for breakfast in the little cafe and a swim, walking through the fields along the paddy dykes..... which gave one friend a fit of the giggles as she is an Irish lesbian!

My partner is a Scot and knows nogging as the bit of wood between rafters like me. So thats a new one on us :) :) :) So another one that is probably regional, or old age (he grew up up there and lived in Elgin for about 13 years)
And yes, 'use your noggin' I remeber from old age :) :) :)
We are both in our 30's!!!!
Lea :) :)

How strange because I'm not that far away (near Turriff)
Wiki says a dwang is another word for noggin in Scotland and New Zealand but isn't more specific than that

Moving from Sweden to marry a Londoner, then 13 years later getting together with a Yorkshireman -it's no WONDER I never understand what anyone says!!!

And there was a children's TV programmme called Noggin The Nog :-)

Down here people say they are going to have a brew when making tea.

Being born oop north, I was used to my grandad saying he was going to mash tea.

What term is used in other parts of the country?

and when you've mashed your tea you have to leave it to steep a bit :)

He also used to say gi o'er whittling.  Down here whittling is to do with wood. 

Grandad meant stop mithering.  (Which is probably another one of the northern expressions!)

> Moving from Sweden to marry a Londoner, then 13 years later getting together with a Yorkshireman -it's no WONDER I never understand what anyone says!!!

All you need now is to move to the West Country, then you'll have the complete set - and be confused.com for life... :)

I've been in exile in NE Scotland for 18 years now and there are times when I really miss Yorkshire. I asked a local farmer for a piece of bale band and he had no idea what I meant :( It's binder twine up here lol

> I really miss Yorkshire

My mother still tells folk that I'm a "yorkshire lass" and I moved down here decades ago!

What do you refer to your bread as? I live in Yorkshire and we have tea cakes (without currants) and currant teacakes with! Simple. Oh no! My partner who lives six miles away insists a teacake has currants in it. Its a breadcake without.

He was horrified when he went into our local chippy and saw they were selling fish in teacakes!

Mithering... as in 'stop mithering and get on with it'... (pronounced my-thering)

Another Yorkshire lass here :)

scramptions they are the bits of batter that fall off the fish when it is being cooked in the chippy so used to alway ask for chips with scramptions on the top please,also drop the sneck on the way out, means drop the latch on the door ,

>scramptions

They are Scraps here!!! (lincolnshire)
Lea :) :)

Called scraps in Yorkshire too :)

Used to always tickle my Londoner husband that I could go into a fish and chip shop in Yorkshire and ask for one of each, and they would know what I meant...
Husband darling, daaarn Saaaarth, there is far too much choice.  In Yorkshire there IS only one type of fish that is worth battering - haddock :) 

I stew my tea in the pot!!

Up here in NE Scotland you don't ask for fish & chips, you ask for a fish supper. You cannot get scraps (also heard them called fish bits) they couldn't understand what I was asking for lol
Plain tea cakes are softies or rolls
Chocolate biscuits in paper (penguins etc) are fancy pieces - I thought they were a man's bit on the side lol

Any of you Scots know about McGillvray's (sp?) ??? When we were small children, if we weren't eating nicely at the table, my Dad would say that we were eating 'as tho' we were at McGillvray's' (I think it was a transport cafe in Scotland somewhere) :) :)

Lovely topic Lea! :)  When I was a child, if my mother was referring to a messy house, she used to say "It's like Paddy's market there!"  :)

I was taken to Paddy's market as a child and remember thinking it was like a scene from a documentary about victorian deprivation.:-(

Whilst in Glasgow recently visiting my family, my nephew came in with a big bag of 'Glesga Dummies'.....sausage rolls :-)...cracked me up!

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So, it is a real place then? :)  :)

Oh yes and a very sad sight  http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3090

   ....both back when I was a kid.... but worse now with addicts selling all 'their' possesions for cash.

Well..............You 'live and learn' don't you?  :)

My mum used to refer to your house being so busy it was like 'Paddy's Market' lol

Your Mum has been to my house?  :)

when i first moved here(only 12 miles away!)Raining was"siling"it down,an entry was a"gennal",you were cold when"starved"not hungry,dark clouds meant it was"black over Bills mothers".Hungry people could"eat a scabby horse",meat paste was"potted dog"Its"bateing"when rain looks like stopping.A pavement is a "corsy"(causeway,i presume!)
My dad always referred to your face as a "physog"!
But years ago,i once read a "peoples friend"magazine,and they were running what they called a"love darg"-people were knitting things for charity,i think.Its bothered me for years-ive never heard the word before or since-what is a "darg"?

I don't know where you moved to CP but a lot of those are very familiar from my W Yorks upbringing. Siling it down, it was also coming down like stair rods when it was really heavy and it bated as it slowed down. Ginnels were common. We were hungry enough to eat a scabby horse, or potted dog :) Corsy is familiar and so is physog.
But I've never come across Black over Bill's mother or darg :(

A chap with a large belly was referred to as having a 'corporation' and huge men were the size of Bradford George (Whoever he might have been lol)

yes colliepam a fizog = face.
Love" black over bills mother" and who was Bills mother or Bill for that matter

My mum always talks of a dagwood sandwich no idea who or what dagwood was. Something about something you got but with something not so good

>My dad always referred to your face as a "physog"!

Fizzog for face is an old one; it comes from a mispronunciation of the French 'visage' meaning face. It possibly dates from WW1.

"My mum used to refer to your house being so busy it was like 'Paddy's Market' lol !"

Sorry that is what happens when I was thinking about how my mum says it, about my house obviously lol.

Wouldnt be quite so bad but Ive not been on the 'Christmas Spirit' lol

> My mum always talks of a dagwood sandwich

We used to make them :) It's lots of layers of different meats/cheeses etc - enormous :)

Aw.......I thought that I might have known your Mum then Alfishmalfie!!......got quite excited!!  :)  :)  :)

> familiar from my W Yorks upbringing. Siling it down, it was also coming down like stair rods when it was really heavy

:-)  :-)  I am getting the same  reminiscences from S Yorks!   :-)

Haven't heard siling down for yonks!

When my room was untidy my mum would say it was" like anakers midden " who or what anaker was I have no idea.

In scotland, shopping is messages
Heavy rain is " cowpin it doon "
There's also the east west divide, no self respecting Edinburgh chippy would be without brown sauce, but I've been told that in Glasgow they don't have it.....weirdo's lol, also in Edinburgh you would say Mince and Tatties, and " ye'll have had yer tea ?" to a tea time visitor, Glasgow has Tatties and mince, and they would ask " have ye had yer tea ?".

Excellent jeangenie I love an explanation !

Jeangenie, I think it's more likely to come from "physiognomy" which was a craze at that time (believing you could read character through facial/skull measurements)

...after the Chic Young cartoon strip character Dagwood Bumstead, who was always eating these monster sandwiches.

Am I showing my age now?

The expressions - Tom Tit on a round of beef" - meaning something looks ridiculous due to the size difference and "Like a pimple on a sparrow's kneecap" - meaning something is really tiny - are two I remember from childhood.

Woodlice - called monkey peas where I come from or known as pea bugs in the other half of the county.

I knew an elderly lady who used to use the phrase "Up and down like a wh****s drawers" for those times when one has to keep getting up and down to answer the phone/doorbell etc :-O  - she was a very religious lady and very proper and when I once asked her what it meant she thought it was "horses drawers" as this would have been a ridiculous statement and she thought that the saying meant something was ridiculous. We didn't tell her that she had got hold of the wrong end of the stick :-)

> Like a pimple on a sparrow's kneecap

Sounds a bit like a saying from my childhood 'the muscles on hs brawny arms stood out like sparrow's kneecaps' :) :)

One of my husband's favourites is 'up at the crack of sparrow's fart' (ie very early) - typical man's saying :) :)

And one of my late MIL's - 'I'll go to the foot of my stairs' - meaning I'm surprised :)

Daisy your husband must come from similar places to mine yes up at the crack of sparrows etc !
We always had a pimple on a pumpkin but I like the horses drawers instead of the other one

I understood it came from the word physiognomy,meaning face,or countenence! not arguing,though,not sure!

sorry jay 15,didnt see your post!

Not quite the same, but it confused me a LOT when I first came to the UK, and it still confuses my mum 100 %. If somebody here says the time is half five, they mean half past five i.e. 5.30. If you say half five in Sweden, you mean halfway to the full hour, i.e. 4.30.

I always thought 'Black over Bills Mothers' was a Brummie thing - heard that a lot when I was younger!

> If somebody here says the time is half five, they mean half past five i.e. 5.30. If you say half five in Sweden, you mean halfway to the full hour, i.e. 4.30.

Yes in Polish you say half 'to the hour' not past.

My late m-i-l bless her was always getting words wrong or coming out with odd sayings. One day she said she was off "for a lick and a promise" I almost fell off the sofa, she then went off to the bathroom and rinsed her hands and face, her lick and promise was a quick wash!