As my granny used to say.....

What I find weird is how things travel, I used to live in Ayrshire, and found it really funny when an old neighbour referred to a clothes horse as a winterdyke. My mum had never heard it called that before and we thought it was just an Ayrshire thing. Afew years ago we visited friends in Berwick upon Tweed, and they called it a winterdyke too.

One or two of the folk in my work have heard of it, others who were born and brought up in the same area haven't.

ask these lunatics what they refer to it as. then shoot them.

Joyce uses "press" in a portrait of the artist when he's describing the cupboard the holy wine is kept in.

And she called the dining room the 'middle kitchen'.

Obv don't shoot'em in the head cause there's nothing vital there.

Expressions have been as rare as teeth in a chicken here.

that's awesome!

"Cooch"????

My step-dad always says 'it takes a man not a shirt button' whenever anyone mock-threatens him.

Sorry i just realised i didnt phrase this very well . Shes a british granny and instead of saying twenty five past five, would say five and twenty past five

I say jiffy

Touche.

it will very much affect a headline in next week's her4ld magazine.

Ni99er, p@ki, etc etc... Not that I actually use them myself, obviously, but I suspect eyebrows would be raised if I did...

Here's another: es't = 'That is'. ie. es't proper reet, lad = 'That is very good, young man'.

cob on = a sulky manner

"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse between two bread vans."

...although, most of them are just "standard" Irish/Lancashire turns of phrase that sound CRAZY and out of place in Minnesota.

My mom's golf group was called the Sclaffers.

had no idea it was an actual word that other people used!

Yes, it's used a lot in golf!

Along with skite.

I sclaffed my shot and it skited off a tree

and skliff

I sclaffed my shot and it skited off a tree so I skliffed off to find the ball

I think that just means a segment of an orange where I'm from.

I use sclaff. I have not heard skite or skliff. But I have used skiff - to very barely hit something. Usually in Subbuteo or pool. "That's two shots." "Naw, I skiffed it."

Oh yeah, skiff is another one. Surprised you haven't heard skite, it's quite a common one.

Michael Rosen’s Twitter feed has an absolute treasure trove of these that he either retweeted right before going into hospital or someone in his family RTed for him

i.e.

"I'm standing 'ere like cheese at fourpence......."

— David Setchell (@DGSetchell) March 27, 2020

Puggled = exhausted, spent, on your last legs.

"Huv seen the state o' yon Boris Johnson? Looks puggled tae me".

Switch = to beat (eggs) or mix.

"Gie's that egg and ah'll switch it up in a cup fer ye."

Clap = to pat affectionately, caressingly, approvingly.

"Ye can gie the dug a clap, he'll no' bite ye."

these are so great.

Tea jenny = A person who drinks a lot of tea; a tea addict; someone fussy about tea. noun.

Stave = 3. To sprain, bruise or contuse a joint of the body.

"Whit's wi' th' bandage?"
"Oh this? A' staved ma' thumb last night".

Pronouncing "lunatic" to rhyme with "pneumatic".

My Gran (Paisley born) had a brilliant reserve of bastardized French terms, I really wish I had written them all down before she passed, I only remember the more obvious ones - Stank, Ashet, Jigot.

I think my fave saying of her's was 'What's fur ye, will no go by ye'

Now you're talking my language... literally.

I don't know if this is a Paisley/Renfrew thing or not, but I also liked her punctuation of 'says I' (start) and 'ah sais' (end) in a sentence.

With the added potential confusion of 'aye' and "I', I remember her saying to me once 'says I, aye, ah sais'

What are "stank, ashet, jigot"?
(sounds like a law firm...)

Overshoes meaning boots

Stank as in very smelly in the past tense?

Ashet is a cooking dish, and specifically one you make/buy a steak pie in and is from assiette.

Jigot is spelled gigot, like the French, because it's a centre cut lamb leg chop.

Stank is a drain, but I think it's also used to describe stagnant water.

That's me learnt.

Ta (as my granny used to say...)

XP or Telt :)

oh yeah as in “that’s that doon the stank”

Stank is a drain, from Old French, estanc for a pond or lake

Ashet, I know from ashet pie, is a large dish, from the French for plate, assiette.

Gigot (not Jigot) is a leg of mutton or lamb, taken directly from the French

To this day, I call those Vicks inhaler sticks "mentholatum," as that is how my grandfather (1917-1993) always referred to them.

Beelin' = angry, furious

"Ah'm beelin' Scotland were in Pot 2 in the Euro draw and still ended up gettin' the same sides they aye get".

Aye = always
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Fuck it, it's refusing to work.

'Aye...funny man, d'y think his heid zips up the back...?' (told to a young me, in reference to my Grandad)

“if it’s me on bongos and Mark E Smith, then it’s The Fall”

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My old nan was from Wakefield. She'd mostly lost her accent by the end of her life but never sounded so Yorkshire as when she used her catchphrase: 's/he's short of nowt he's got'.

my grandma was kind of a self hating cockney who took elocution lessons and alcohol would change her accent and manner entirely (in a good and fun way most of the time)

keeker = black eye

Which, of course, is derived from one of my favourite Scots words.

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I bet ye were up tae high doh!

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Couthy continuity announcer on Channel 4 has just used this phrase.

fellas I’ve had a good run but I think I’ve finally had the radish

I heard a Northern Irishman use 'up tae high do' a few years ago, interesting that it had legs, and I always wondered if it was related to 'do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do'