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

[The Snockerty Friddle]

two very broad ones with a big slab of wood at each end.

That's the one. Little hole in the top for picking it up with.
You sat on that or on 'the form.'

 

[Deleted member 37458]

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.

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Or meaning someone being careful. Canny with their money. Gan canny with the petrol.

 

[lenshack]

Cracket definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

Woolshed 1: Northumberland traditions: Making a Geordie cracket (stool)

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[Deleted member 37458]

Chucky in Sunderland means a cock, so a chucky duffer here would mean something totally different all together

Whats a chucky hen.

 

[Redandwhitedust]

Or meaning someone being careful. Canny with their money. Gan canny with the petrol.

Maybe not careful, but "good". As I said in a previous post, my grandad in Bishop used Canny to mean "good", usually to do with an amount of something rather than an emotion.

"That's a canny walk" it's a good/long walk
"There's a canny few in the club" there's a good few/A lot of people in the club.

Don't remember him ever using canny to mean a positive. I don't think he ever described a good cricketer As a "canny cricketer" or that he ever said it was a "canny day out with a canny bunch of lads"

 

[lenshack]

Or meaning someone being careful. Canny with their money. Gan canny with the petrol.

Correct, gan canny along this road fatha, it’s full of potholes.
Canny good is often used locally these days as well.

Much different to the Southern meaning, clever or crafty.

 

[Deleted member 37458]

Maybe not careful, but "good". As I said in a previous post, my grandad in Bishop used Canny to mean "good", usually to do with an amount of something rather than an emotion.

"That's a canny walk" it's a good/long walk
"There's a canny few in the club" there's a good few/A lot of people in the club.

Don't remember him ever using canny to mean a positive. I don't think he ever described a good cricketer As a "canny cricketer" or that he ever said it was a "canny day out with a canny bunch of lads"

Gan canny with what you say, gan canny how much you use, gan canny when you go out tonight, gan canny who you pick on, all mean be careful where I was brought up in Sunderland.

 

[lenshack]

Maybe not careful, but "good". As I said in a previous post, my grandad in Bishop used Canny to mean "good", usually to do with an amount of something rather than an emotion.

"That's a canny walk" it's a good/long walk
"There's a canny few in the club" there's a good few/A lot of people in the club.

Don't remember him ever using canny to mean a positive. I don't think he ever described a good cricketer As a "canny cricketer" or that he ever said it was a "canny day out with a canny bunch of lads"

Surely referring to someone as a Canny Lad as commonly used in the N.E. is a positive remark.

 

[KarenDent]

Nah, it’s bommy.

Sure is

 

[Junior Birdman]

He would have hated 2 of the regulars at the pub I worked in when I was at uni. “2 pints of Stella, you big girly poof” was how they ordered their pints.

I think they moved to Craiglang and started drinking in The Clansman.

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[Rusty]

Woolshed 1: Northumberland traditions: Making a Geordie cracket (stool)

There you go.

Scroll down for How to mak a cracket.

That’s what I’d call a cracket like.

 

[AndrewP]

Youve made this up

When has anyone from Sunderland pronounced table as chebble?

I think it's pitmatic. Chabble for table. That's what my grandad always said anyway.