Bin fer a bevvy wi me marras the day. Reet gud craic it wes. The bar hadn't seen a clout for yonks. Nee bait, so I wes reet starvin cuda eaten a gowk in a fadge. A gadgy browt in some willicks tho. Mind we wes plodging in the cludgy cum out smelling reet foisty. wu had fower crackets and some get tried to hoist one. May be gannin on the lash agin the morn, ganna gi them a bell te axe whos garn.
stott = bounce stottie = only thing Greggs is good for not sure why the call bread a bouncie though? beck is actually Durham and Teeside more than Newcastle/Sunderland areas, or at least i had never heard of it before I moved to Teeside 10 years ago. Plodge hockling = spitting poond broon http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/insid...eStyle=main;pagerType=alternating&pagerData=1 thats a quiz on NE words i got 5 out of 10
7/10 for me. Apparently I must get down the pit more. a few more - grizzling - moaning, whingeing, usually a child teething. ploat - originally to pluck the feathers from a fowl but `arl ploat yer` ie I will administer a sound thrashing. gowk - apple core. narky - turnip. duzzy - dizzy. butterlowie - butterfly. a midden - a junk room but also applied to a unkempt scruff. totting - beachcombing (usually coal). cadge - scrounge. clammin - in need of. to gan leet - to go berserk. get yer wild up - lose your temper hower - a lady of negotiable virtue. I would attempt to recall some further examples but a cannit be boshed.
If it is beck as in a stream, it is something which was certainly part of my language growing up in Ryhope..
I was born and bread in Blyth and I dont think i had ever heard of it (been down here for 12 years and its all i ever use now). I did read somewhere though that it originated in teeside 100+ years ago and further north we said Burn but i cant ever remember using the term Burn for a stream either so maybe over the years Beck has moved North slowly and Burn has went back to Scotland. feck knows tbh. only thing i can rmember was there was a stream outside my house which we used to call the yellow babbie it was yellow but no idea how or why it got that name.
I was brought up near Teesside so I'm not up with all the Mackem phrases. One of my old mates was from Co. Durham and he used to say 'Let's Nash' which he said meant 'Let's go' or more accurately 'lets bugger off' - has anybody else heard nash before? my mate from Northumberland says that he has made the phrase up!
A dinna naw wat yer tarken aboot man!, fawer pints on a sarader neet yer naw. the mags would say a yer gannin ter wor match like bonny lad. And we used the word nash loads of times as kids. A jammed me anchors on boss (i applied the brakes my lord) but he clipped me arse end (but he colided with the back of my vehicle) and it was a right off marra ( and it was irreparably damaged, sir)
dollin off - truancy (not that I ever did of course). scoytin stones ower the watter. Splittin - telling tales
penker = marble koondy = storm drain claes = clothes Mast as in "i am just letting the tea mast" i still say this now. monged = pissed out your head A Dictionary of North East Dialect: Second Edition (just a preview but quite a big chunk showing) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bYUGzRha3A8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false there you go too many to list. pee yellow, i have no idea, think it was a local scare story that someone had drowned their babbie in it but ttytt it was 30+ years ago so no idea really.
Have you ever jarped Easter eggs of had a skelp round the lug. I'm off out now so I hope nobody dunches us when I'm driving.
