Tina- Soton
I always say things like dum dum and dum ass oh! and ya big boob. i think there good. is this a page which ur meant 2 rite things like this on? :S
Maya, California USA (hoping to relocate)
I use the word "thingy" for everything.. doesnt matter what it is.. its a thingy!
When I am really angry but can say what I want.. i will just say " shut the front door" for example.. Boyfriend tells me he's not going to be home for dinner... I am angry but I cant yell... I shout "shut the front door" and he normally gets the idea.. Sometimes it just makes ppl crack up laughing.. but well it works!!!
Irene Poole
Lancashire saying up the brew meaning up the hill
Lesley, Southampton
I'm a born and bred Sotonian. My Mum and Dad and their families would use the words 'feeling lear' when feeling sick with hunger.
Dad would also say'I or s/he became aereated when someone was really annoyed and was a bit vocal with it.
A lot of Sotonians also say 'somewhen' when they mean 'sometime' it really confuses outsiders.
Laura- soton
These seem to be family words - Mungs-I'm hungry.
Agranoyed - agravated and annoyed.
YAZ/Chicago
Originally from Southampton.
We used doobrywotsit for something we could not remember the name of eg. pass the doobrywotsit please. Also ifits for food, if it's in the cupboard,freezer,fridge we can have it.
Val Woodward, Sholing, Southampton
A friend used to say he had been my-ssuld.. he meant mislead.. it was the way he read the word!
Alice, Hampshire
In answer to the question - whats for dinner the reply would often be 'iffits' as in if its in the fridge we can have it
Pat : ex-West Midlands
Someone who is self-satisfied or over-confident has "a bob on 'um" or "summat about 'um". A bad tempered person is "mardy" . My daughter and her schoolfriends called their underwear "grits"
Val, orig from Eastleigh, now Fareham
Never heard the term "nithered" before and I spent the first 25 years of my life there! Me mum calls all spiders Fred. If someone's annoyed they've got a cob on. Stealing apples is scrumping. My piano teacher used to call me fanackapan usually after we'd spent too long talking. Someone who talks too much is a chatterbox, the telly is the gogglebox and the remote control is the oggleswopper.
Ben, Bournemouth, Dorset
I call a washing machine a washer for some reason, don't know where i picked it up from though! I always refer to holiday makers as "grockles" as well.
Rob England Totton
I was brought up in Warwickshire, & a phrase that we always used to mean that someone wasn't getting to the point straight away was " going all around (or round) the wrekin".
A couple of phrases that my Wife uses who is from Edinburgh is:
"going through the room" to mean to travel from one room to another.
The other one is:
"speak to you later"
A phrase that her Mother, younger Sister & she uses when they say goodbye on the telephone!
Robert, Southampton
My dad calls eggs "cackleberries" too. My mum calls plimsolls "daps" - she comes from gloucestershire and the only other person I've heard use it came from Wiltshire, so it must be an expression from that part of the world. We use "sprog" for baby/child. My elder sister was often referred to as "sprog" - in fact she still is, although she is over 40
A.Munkee - Wool
My family are from Thailand and my Father used to call me xing pi che, which is translated to babboon boy.
Ex-So't'on Resident
What is your problem you sad people. Don't you realise that in these "pet" words and expressions your whole family history can be traced. Those who refer to bairns instaed of babies probably have connections to the North east where it is a common expression. Many of the examples quoted are derived from Hindu and other Indian dialects indicating that someone from your ancestry probably served with the Army in India. Ditto those words with clearly Arabic roots will indicate a Near East connection (possibly Egypt or Palestine and so it goes on. You have nothing original here just another indication of how our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and beyond influence us still. Wise up and get yourselves a life that doesn't involve laughing at your ancestors who, in many cases, sacrificed much so that you could be here.
Richard, Poole
When ever I did anything silly, my Dad used to call me a Nubbin Strain.
bill from tonbridge
where i work , if you are a bit cheaky or taking the mick,you are calles a sawny whore. and everyone was known as a chav long before its present day meaning.
Wayne, Portsmouth
My mum used to call us a squinny, if we cried or moaned about something !! If we asked what was for dinner we got the answer of Chairs and Pump 'andles !
Penny, Hants
Nipply, meaning cold, for obvious reasons
Ree Eastbourne
Lollygagging was staring, nardy was ordinary or boring, Chizzing meant throw and cop this meant hold onto this. Bundling was a lighthearted scrap between friends. Fizzlick was lemonade powder in a paper bag that made your tongue yellow.
Marie Eastbourne
Nobody round here seems to know what a whippersnapper or rapscallion is - both are words for scallywags. They don't know that dollies are clothespegs or mewling means crying. Only some of the older people recognise scrumping for apple stealing.
I grew up in south Hampshire near lymington and went to school in Dorset. My dad called a vase a Vays.
albert stubbington
when i was a lad my mother used to say side table lad , meaning clear the table
Lee, Poole
My mum used to call my trouser 'scuzzgromits'.
Sarah, Southampton
My family always say 'Tup' to mean 'Turn it (the volume) up' - it's a contraction of the phrase, and being quicker to say meant we didn't miss anything of the TV show!
Claire, Southampton
My in-laws are all born and bred in Dorset and they call tourists "Grockles",
cheese is "Bungey" and eyes are "yocks". When they are all in the room together talking, I really have to concentrate to understand what they are saying!
Ray, I.O.W.
I Believe Caterpillers are called "Mallyshags"on the Isle of Wight
Pat, Southampton
As children, if we wanted to express sympathy to someone for not getting or doing something we would say 'hard chedder'.
Rod/Southampton
"Allakeffick"
I've been aware of this word for long while (I don't know how to spell it either!.
I have been told by an ex-serviceman that it's Arabic, and literally means "don't care either way".
My mother and father, both Sotonians always used "shrammed" for cold."Sherricking" for a good telling off and "ferking around" when you were looking for something in the kitchen drawer for instance.
Michael, Southampton
My in-laws say "gunties" for underpants.
Donna from Hants
My friends and I say "cop the needle" meaning get irritated or angry.
We say "stop pulling my hair or I'll seriously cop the needle!"
You can shorten it to just "cop".
"Don't cop on me just because I'm first!"
James, Southampton
I use the term 'NME READER', for someone who isnt a real music fan!
Ann from Eastleigh
When you are cold through to your bones - we say we are nithered
Joy, Southampton
Our family uses the word allakeefick (no idea how its spelt)
when we are asked to make a decision and we don't really mind one way or the other. So if someone asks "would you like tea or coffee" we may just say "I'm allakeefick" I've never found anyone outside of the family who has heard of it before.
Helen/isle of wight
Just been talking to Cornish mother- in -law and she reminded me of something I've only heard in Cornwall, she said that she "must go and PICK IN the washing"!
hampshire
My mum and nan used to say someone was puggled if they'd done something silly. They also called a chickens giblets its chidlings.
Gemma from Waterlooville
My word for 'thingy' is 'doodah' - normally people know what I'm trying to say but sometimes it leaves them baffled! I also say 'wee' when I'm surprised/shocked about something which others find amusing. My family uses it but that's it.
Kay, Hampshire
In my house all spiders are called "Sidney" and when I'm away in countries which have them, all geckos are called "Garry".
helen, Isle of Wight
'nipper' meaning youngster.
'Nammet' meaning elevenses or refreshment time. I lived 30 years in Cornwall where the morning break is 'Crib' (Oxford reference dic. says it's an Aus/NZ word meaning a light meal; worth a look in the dic. for the other meanings though which all could fit in their way!) and the mid afternoon break is 'crowse' (the 'ow' as in 'bow-wow' not sure if I've got the spelling right.
Back to the island, I've always used 'Dank' to describe a dark and damp day. I'm island bord and bred, my fathers family many generations but my mother born in Yorkshire and her mother and grand and g-grand parents on both sides all from Donegal!
Ed, Southampton
My Nan used to call me a rapscallion if I had been naughty or a flibbertigibbet if I had been stupid.
This is quite strange as flibbertigibbet means hazel coloured gallows pole... I dread to think what rapscallion really means!
Lisa Dorset
My familly have always used the words Smichy (the smell it the kitchen if you burnt something)my partner who is from Portsmouth chuckles everytime we use it as he had never heard of it before.
James, Winchester
My wife, if she wants a small amount of something, will ask for a 'wee tad'
Mary, Hampshire
Not quite raining? I'd say it is mizzly. Unknown in the South - except to my friends :)) I originate from Brum.
Marion Wimborne
My grandfather called the caterpillers on his cabbages 'palmers'. Until I was twelve I didn't know that bumble bees were called anything other than dumbledors. If you were cold you were 'shrammed' and you didn't walk down the road, you 'traipsed'. Pronouns were interchangeable, as in ''er's late' or 'doan ee look at I like that.' Little girls were 'maids':
'Where'm you traipsin' off to, my maid?'
June,Southampton
My Mum says something is 'not to dusty' meaning its OK, also 'stop all that kerfuffle'or 'what is all that kerfuffle about' meaning nonsense or sillyness. My Gran used to say you were a 'Lardy head' if you done something silly or made a mistake. She would also say you were'doolally',if you did something stupid or a bit mad.
Nigel, Wimborne
jollers is a word for sweets and still used amongst my contemporaries from school back in 1950s.
'I low' pronounced as word 'cow' means I reckon...as in 'I low twill rain fore noon'.
Derek Bascombe, Dorchester, Dorset
My grandad was a true son of Dorset, an agricultural worker all his life. He used many words which sounded strange to me, but the expression I recall best is:" I got a pain in me woozen!" I always thought that he meant he had bellyache because the statement was usually accompanied by a loud belch or worse! Needless to say my Gran would always tell him off in no uncertain terms.
I see from the Dorsetshire.com website that the word Wizzen refers to the windpipe and I was wondering if anyone can tell me if Grandad's Woozen was actually his Wizzen or is there another word to add to the list of dialect words.
Ann Chichester
My Dorset Grandmother referred to a funnel as a tunneger
Brian, Hampshire
My parents always said "it's utchy" meaning "cold". They came from Sussex (early 20th century)
dorset
my mother and her sister use taffety meaning fussy or finnicky about food especially
Andy , wimborne
eggs were often called cackleberries by my mother
Susanne Marshall from Emsworth who moved from the
My family use the word bairns for babies and young children and the word hinny for a term of endearment rather like some people say hen or duck or love.
Becks
The whirlies. Dizziness induced by too many drinks, usually alcoholic!! ;-)
Anne-Marie, Gosport
My friend and I say we're feeling "Mimpy" if we're feeling a bit down. I have no idea where we got it from but it seems to sum up the mood nicely.
Shaz, Southampton
'foisty' meaning damp clothes
Tina, Southampton
My sister says "habidasherie johnson" shen she can't think of a word - like "pass me the habidasherie Johnson please"
Tom, hants
My Dad always says that the weather is Winty if its a bit windy and a bit wintery.
Wendy, Brighton
Me and my boyfriend call clothes pegs "squeezers" for some unknown reason!
