ot..northern words or phrases

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Rambo 2021
Jan 25, 2011
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Old fashioned words and phrases, or even slang words from the NE..

Must be many,

Hinny...i believe means woman?
Bairn...child
Fower...four

let's have some more, thanks.
 
HOTREDHEADMACKEM - apparently it's a little known word from a now extinct dialect meaning soft as ****e.
 
Living in the deep dark South as I do , some words I use in the pub raise eyebrows.

First time I used ''canny'' nobody had a clue what I meant.

Clarts , cree and pease pudding has them running for the dictionaries as well.

But my favourite was a fellow N/Easterner calling a horse a ''Gallower'' (sp) that really stumped them.
I think it's to do with pit ponies being from Galloway , unless somebody knaes better.
 
Bit dated now (like me!) but.....galluses (braces) gansy (jumper) giving rise to the classic phrase "divvent wear yer galluses ower yer gansy!!