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OK....Itchy mentioned "slats"....that's a term I've never heard before....I have no idea what it means...but I was trying to think of other words that aren't well known, are local slang, or have just fallen out of use....

It's not a guessing game or nowt........first one I came up with was "spelk"....which in Tyneside, is a splinter of wood....used idly, it's also slang for a wee bairn.

Anyone have any others???

Cut - black country saying for a canal

I've only heard the term "slats" in the RAF. Slats are an aerodynamic edge on the leading edge of an aircraft wing. Usually going hand in hand with flaps on the trailing edge, so you have flaps and slats.

If you don't have any flaps in your pants, you must have slats.

A kick in the slats.


(I don't know if that's the correct explanation, it's just what I figured as I've only heard it used in the world of aviation!)




Up until I met the missus I always assumed that a Pug was a breed of dog. Apparently it's West Midlandish for sulking.

I've not heard pug before. Cob is the term I know for sulking.

"What's wrong with him?"
"He's got a cob on"

I've heard that. Maybe it's just a family saying.

I used the term bog roll the other day.
The missus and the kids wet themselves laughing, appropriately!

'Glebe'....now that one you have to guess.

"Marra"= mate.
"Ganning" = going......I'll never forget a beautiful sign as you descended down the road into Finchale Abbey that warned you to "GAN SLOW"!!

Language is fascinating , the great bread roll debate continues across various parts of the web it seems indefinitely , I like how it can be used to change peoples thinking , I can't really see many people giving money to save swamps and jungles , call them wetlands and rainforests and you've got Sting doing benefit concerts ....

Go on???

There was a cool program on the Documentary Channel about a year ago which was about the language particular to the Appalachian region, and how both the unique words and accent is fading with each generation due to a larger exposure to the world. Some words I've heard throughout my life are:
Untelling = there's no telling
Sigoggling = crooked (like a road or a fence)
Poke = a small bag, for groceries or such
I'm sure to think of some more later.

"The nibs" or better known as kids in old brummy speak

One of my favourites is - round the Wrekin = going the long way round


Bread rolls are clearly cobs.

It's only a cob if it's crusty.

I also miss the Gnu , I don't know when it happened exactly but sometime between my childhood and now they evolved into wildebeest.
and a Bun has currants in it not burgers
not to be confused with The currant bun - which has tits in it

Kwacky wrote:It's only a cob if it's crusty.

You leave your baps out of this!

I've come across the word "Poke" used for a small sack or bag - it's where the saying "a pig in a poke" comes from, ie buying a pig unseen and it turns out to be the runt of the litter and worthless.

A crusty bread roll is just that, a crusty roll, a bap is a soft flattish roll (also a barm or a tea cake), but not to be confused with the larger huffer), whereas a cob is small crusty round loaf that is just wider than it is high.

A word peculiar to my part of the world is "twittun", a legal public short cut between houses or buildings only passable on foot, another one I've never come across is "mawtha" which my Nan used to describe one or two of our local girls devoid of morals back when I was a teenager.

My favourite piece of bread... the knobby. That and 'get ye bait box' - yelled at me from mam as I pegged it down the road to school...

Breakfast... followed by dinner... followed by tea/supper. (just think... why else are they called 'dinner ladies')

being "mardy" or mardy arsed - in a bad mood .
what about the stottie and the batch ?

Stottie I know as being a very good loaf of bread??

I've always been amused how people from a single country aren't able to understand others from a different area due to a change in dialect.

I totally understand the concept now, I didn't understand half of this thread

I just finished Guy Martins autobiography and had to google a number of words from that too!

And maybe it is a aviation thing Itchy, cause I knew exactly what you were on about.