Non-natives - North East slang that means something different where you are

[Vinny the Mackem]

Marra pronunciation would rhyme with Mo Farah’s surname. I can record any sounds you’d like to hear.

Sir Mo Ferde?

 

[Dagzd1973]

it gives an American twist to the term "smoking a fag"

 

[Deleted member 14766]

People are inventing words

recon

 

[Pseudonym Number 1]

Does anyone still sit on a cracket? Or was that just something my Grandparents made up?

Probably seb by now but it's a 3 legged stool.

 

[EchoMan]

Since Norse was Germanic in origin it's probably got the same root?

Thall be nee mare Jorman norses after Brexit mind.

 

[pillars of hercules]

Thall be nee mare Jorman norses after Brexit mind.

Might be nee mare norses at all if they keep making cuts .

 

[Charmless Man]

I'd agree with all of this, twat can mean one of three things depending on the context.

Tabs and ket are ones I never understood when I was at uni in the N.E. What's the etymology for those two?

That might be one we did take from the Scandinavians. It’s very similar to the Old Norse for ‘Rubbish’, that said, it’s a bit of a bridge to cross as we didn’t really get sugary sweets in abundance until the Victorian era. There must have been a common North Eastern usage in a different context until then.

People are inventing words to take the piss marra, chebs is a running joke I recon so don't take the bait mate.

It’s not. I’ve heard it used in both contexts in real life and I don’t even know what’s correct any more.

 

[BiffaBeercan]

My dad rip asked a bloke where he could pick up some fags while in Florida . Got a dodgy look

Imagine the looks I got when I asked where the nearest fag MACHINE was in San Francisco

 

[OohBaldyBally]

Probably seb by now but it's a 3 legged stool.

Three legged?

My nana’s cracket had four like.

She kept it in the scullery

 

[DisillusionedOldGit]

Down here in very south west Co. Durham the word "gay" is used to mean "very", as in "It was gay busy in Middleton club last neet".

 

[pillars of hercules]

Imagine the looks I got when I asked where the nearest fag MACHINE was in San Francisco

I was walking about the Pier there with a handkerchief sticking out of my back pocket which I found out later was some kind of 'sign' .

 

[tiptoad]

Tabs and ket are ones I never understood when I was at uni in the N.E. What's the etymology for those two?

'Tabs' comes from a brand of cigarettes that were popular in the North East in the early twentieth century called Ogdens Tabs:

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[mackembulldog]

After playing football in London on a muddy pitch a few years ago I said it had been great diving around in the clarts.
A Jamaican lad in the team was totally shocked and offended
(I found out later, when he explained, rightly so)

ras clart
Sometrhiong badboy Jamaican gangster smackheads say before getting into some ultra-violencwe involving faecolators

ras clart

An insulting west Indian term... not to be confused with bumbleclart

 

[Redandwhitedust]

I always understood the word Canny to be a local word meaning pleasant or ok when referring to a person,
as in Canny Lad.

However I get the impression that in recent decades it’s been picked up in other areas of the U.K. and given an entirely different meaning as in clever, smart or worldly wise.

Comments ?

My grandad and his mates (from near Bishop Auckland) only ever seemed to use 'canny' to mean 'good' but not in the sense of 'pleasant or ok'

More like


'Its a canny walk home' or 'there was a canny few in the pub last night'

 

[MickeyV]

My Dad would call all sweets 'bullets'. Maybe as in 'Black Bullets' the spherical boiled sweets that came in a white tin! 'Gizza bullet young'un.'

 

[Snugster]

Down here in very south west Co. Durham the word "gay" is used to mean "very", as in "It was gay busy in Middleton club last neet".

"Gey" means very in Scotland

 

[DisillusionedOldGit]

"Gey" means very in Scotland

Actually where I live was in Scotland until the mid 16th century .

 

[lenshack]

Probably seb by now but it's a 3 legged stool.

Not.
Either four legs or two very broad ones with a big slab of wood at each end.

Three legged stools are usually milking stools, very stoutly made with a hole in the middle for carrying them from one stall to another.
Used them myself back in the day, maybe worth a bit now if we’d hung on to them.

 

[Pseudonym Number 1]

Not.
Either four legs or two very broad ones with a big slab of wood at each end.

Three legged stools are usually milking stools, very stoutly made with a hole in the middle for carrying them from one stall to another.
Used them myself back in the day, maybe worth a bit now if we’d hung on to them.

Cracket definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

 

[Deleted member 37458]

Youve made this up

When has anyone from Sunderland pronounced table as chebble?

Me, and i am sure a lot of the older posters have heard or used it