Adidas forgot to start : Jarg footwear with 2 stripes. Adidas forgot to stop : Jarg footwear with 4 or more stripes. Aigy : Aigburth, pronounced 'eggy'. South end. Anfield : Holy ground. Also district of the city. North end. 'ang on a mo' : 1.The last Scouse red indian. 2.please wait a momment. Arl arse : Cruel. ar 'ey : Oh no! 'ad off : Someone elses poor fortune. Auld baig : Old woman. pron; Owld baig. 'ave off : A spot of improvised good fortune. Az if : I don't belive that. B Beaut : An idiot. Better beaut : An extreme idiot. Bevvy : Beer. Bevied up : Drunk. Bifter : A cigarette or joint. Bizzies, 'de : The Police. Blag : Lie. Blaggin' me 'ead : Lying to me. Blert : A lightweight. Usually from down south. Blind scouse : Vegetarian version of the scouse national dish. Blueshite 'de : Refering to Everton FC (aka the north Wales national team) and its followers. Bombed out church, de' : St. Lukes. Boss : Very good. Brook, 'de : Tuebrook district. North end. Bubbles, 'de : Row of bus stops in the city centre. Butty : Sandwich. C Clobber : Clothes. Cocky, de' : Night watchman. Come 'ead : Lets go. Lets do it. Crocky : Croxteth district. North end. D Dat London : Englands capital city. de' : The. Deffo : Definately. Divvy : A stupid person. Down South : Where all the ****s live. eg dat London. Do one : Go away. Drunken Scum : Legendary Liverpool improv. punk band featuring Fast n skinny, Scouse as ye like, Tits O'D. and Ezzy (r.i.p.). E Echo, 'de : Liverpools evening newspaper that is written and staffed by wools. Everton FC : The city's most famous amateur footy team. Woodison. F Fabs, de' : The Beatles. Fat Wap : An overweight person. G Gary Ablett's : Ecstacy tablets. Named after the current LFC reserve team coach and former LFC player. Gansey: Jumper Geggin' in : To join in on something when you aren't invited. Gerry an' his ferry : Gerry Marsden. 1960's merseybeat. Giz : Give. Gob: Mouth Goz: Spit H I Is right : I agree. Good idea. Well said. Is wrong : An argumentative response to is right. J Jam butty : Police car. Jarg : counterfit, fake, poor quality. Jerk in bed: Birkenhead; a town on the wrong side of the River Mersey. Jigger : 1. A girocheque. 2. A back alleyway. Job : Undefinable in Scouse. Joeys : Tea leaves floating in yer cup of tea. K Kecks: Trousers Kidder : See la'. King Kenny, de' : Kenny Dalglish. Liverpool FC's greatest ever player. Knock off : Stolen goods. Knowsley : Officially not Scouseland. Kopite : Traditional working class LFC fan. Now just as likey to be awool or a Norwegian, alas. L Lane, 'de : Lark Lane, Liverpools boho area. South end. La' : Lad. Lid : See la'. Lob skause : See scouse. M Made up : Very happy about something. Manc : A lowly cotton mill worker. Meff : A smelly, badly dressed person. Momo Sissoko : Cocaine. More Dough Than Eavis : See Scouse As Ye Like. Mud Man : A person from the Garston district of the city. South ender. N N' dat : Something else. Nasty, de' : Heroin. North End, de' : North end of the city eg. Noggsy, Crocky, de' Brook, Walton. Noggsy : Norris Green district of the city. North end. No need : An exclamation of disaproval.
O On one : To act in a reckless manner. On top te **** : A bad situation. On you : Staking a claim for next go on a spliff. Orange Birds : see Scouse As Ye Like. Ozzy, de' : Hospital. P Paddy's Wigwam : The Catholic Cathedral. Parlie : Upper Parliament St. South end. Scene of 1980's rioting. Plazee Scouser : A wool who adopts a Scouse accent and mannerisms in attempt to appear cool. Posh twat : Someone from certain areas of the south end or from down south. Probe : Legendary Liverpool record label and record store. Professional Scouser : eg. Jimmy Tarbuck, Cilla Black, Stan Boardman. Q R Rocket, de' : Beginning and end of the M62 motorway. royal'ozzy, de' : The Royal Hospital. S Sack it la' : Stop that. Don't do it. Sayers pastie : Scousers lunch. Scally : Architypal Liverpool youth. Scouseaccino : A frothy, creamy drink much loved by poshsouthern females. Scouse : A stew originating from Scandanavian sailors. Scouse As Ye Like : Jimmy Tarbuck style professional scouser cabaret act. Scouser : One of the chosen few. Scousers dozen : 15 of anything. Scran: Food Scran van: Butty wagon Scratch : Signing on the dole. Sittin' tree, de' : Famous tree in Sevvy Park. Sevvy Park : Sefton Park in the South End. Shanks : The legendary Bill Shankly. Shrek : Wayne Rooney 'once a blue always a manc'. Ultimate traitor and Granny ****er. Skaegol : Heroin addict. Slapperazi : A contingent of orange women, see Scouse as ye like,who hang around famous men in the hope of getting a shag. Slotted a boss hatrick : Scored 3 goals. Soft Lad : Friendly name for a fool. Sou-ey : Southport, an affluent and small former resort town north of the city. Famous for being robbed blind during English Bank Holidays. South End, de' : South end of the city eg. Aigy, Speke, Garston seeMud Man, Allerton. Southport back in Lancashire : A movement set up by poshwools in Sou-ey who believe that they are too good to be classed as living in the same county as Liverpool. Although many are happy to work there. Sozz : Sorry. Speke : Airport now re-branded as John Lennon International. Also district. South end. Swan, de' : Old Swan district. North end. Swerve on it : Not bother with it. T Ta' : Thank you. Tellin' ye' : Emphasising agreement. Texan : A beaut with a high opinion of him/herself. Tocky : Toxteth district of the city. South end. Trabs : Sports shoes. U Utty : Utting Avenue, north end. V W Wabs : Ganja. Whopper : An idiot. Woodison Park : Home of Everton FC. See Blueshite. Woolyback / Wool : A person who lives in Page Moss, Runcorn, Wirral, Wigan, Warrington, Southport etc. X Y Ye ma : Your mother. Ye wha? : Pardon. Yez/Youz : You (plural). You'll never walk alone : LFC anthem. Show tune popularised byGerry and his ferry. Z Z Cars, theme from : Former TV cop show theme the blueshite run out to at Woodison
aah-eh or arr ay Its not fair! A cuppa tea an' a long sit-down It is cold outside ackers cash ace well done Antwaccky, dead antwacky Dead Old; Ancient Any Road Anyways, whatever allus always Arl arse mean person. Maybe 'tight arse' might be more descriptive. Arse Bandit, Shirt lifter, queer as a nine bob note Homosexual axe ask, as in Don't axe me? avin a barney having an arguement Ay ay I Say! Ay La! I say, young man 'avin' a bevvy Having a drink of beer arrers, chuckin arrers darts, playing darts Allee 'o Tick, Tag, played in the alleys 'arf chocker Half an house brick as opposed to a complete one. Ar kid My brother 'ave yer tapped? Has the young lady agreed to your advances? 'arf a bar 2 shillings and sixpence, a half crown. About 12 1/2p nowadays arf a sheet 10 shillings am carryin' or brewsted I am affluent at present am on me arse 'ere skint, poor Ar moggy Our cat arse bandit homosexual bail out leave, exit a place bags, bags of loads, lots backie, crogger passenger ride on bicycle barney arguement bayo swimming baths bender prolonged drinking session, now quite common amongst teenagers *binging* biddies or nits head lice Binbagged Thrown out by your bird/feller bells nautical. See you at 7 bells (Oclock) blitzed, chemicked, kaelied very drunk bevvied drunk, bevvy - drink. bezzie best, as in bezzie mate - bezzies - best clothes Binbagged Thrown out by your bird/feller Boogaroff No, please depart buttons Marble substitutes Blammo or Blabbo Negro Basil belly Fat man Bar, nicker 1 pound note Blocker Bowler Hat brassik skint -borassic lint - skint Buttie Sandwich, slice of bread and butter biddy rake special comb for removing hair lice - nits - biddies bifta ***, ciggie, smoke bint, berd girl bootle buck hard faced lady Bummin' Begging bent could be as in a homosexual or stolen property or disreputable (as in not straight) carry on like that and yewl be chewin a brick If you persist in this you will have your face in a wall Chuck Bread, food. Also to throw eg: chuck uz de ball la? Cum 'ed den Well, come on then? chuffed, dead chuffed happy, very happy casey full sized proper footy ball crozzy riding on the crossbars (bike) Cold enuff fer two purra bootlaces The weather is very cold Corpy The corporation (pre council days!). Council Pop Water Chip Buttie Chips between two slices of bread Chippy The Fish & Chip Shop Chuckun, chuckuz Throwing, throw me chocker, chocka can also mean full eg: me bags chocker; me 'eads chocker crack on recognise someone crack from irish craic; good time creased knackered, tired, worn out Cogger, left footer Catholic College pudden Person who passed the 11+ and went to grammar/college school. creased doubled up, its funny, as in creased up. Crimbo Christmas Crosscut Chinese woman cozzie swimming suit Corksucker An American Cud wind de liver clock Tall person Cost millyins Expensive Cow-juice Milk Corned Dog Corned Beef Conny-onny Condensed Milk damage cost, price dale they will darryl that will Dis pura kecks is too tight These trousers are tight dead very eg: dead good, 'dead' meaning a certainty deese are me bezzies These are my best clothes dats ace that is really superb Darrafact Is that so? defo, for defo certain, certainly, definitely diesel do these will be fine, thank you or these will have to do divvy, dozey stupid diesel fitter dees will fit dis, dees will fit dat dunno a blind werd 'e sez? I do not understand him do one run away, or tell someone to run away Do ya wanna wake up wid a crowd around yer? Fairly obvious. I will knock you out and leave you with a crowd gathering wondering what's the matter! Do ya like de food in de hozzie? Same as above but ending up in hospital. dockers butty sandwich on really thick slices of bread dolled up, done up overdressed doddle easy Don't talk wet! Don't talk so stupidly dimps Recently discarded cigarette butts still with a few "drags" left in them Dale, as in dale do They will, They will do De clock The face De moey, de gob, cakehole The mouth Dee ooter, snotter The nose Down de jigger Into this alley or along this alley dollypegs The legs der t'ingy any object whatsoever without a name coming to mind De mickeys are lettin' on de roof Pigeons are alighting on the roof De shawlies wuz janglin' Irish ladies were gossiping Der muckman, de binnie Refuse collector De rentfella Rent Collector De clubman Insurance collector, or other collector De ragman The old clothes man de tallyman Hire purchase collector De tatter Rag collector De milkfella Milk Man De lecky man The electric meter reader Dem They, those de bizzies, scuffers Police - I think Bizzie comes from a "busy body" De firebobby or Ikky the firebobby A Fireman Diddyman Small person De unkill My uncle De ant My Aunt De jigger rabbit Stray cat De pool The City of Liverpool De one eyed city Birkenhead De Anfield bone Orchard Anfield Cemetery De grotter Santa's grotto - in dept stores De cazzy Cast Iron Shore, Dingle De bayoes Public Baths De Mersey Funnel or Paddy's Wigwam Catholic Cathedral De Lanny The Landing Stage, Pier Head De Onion Patch Anfield Football Ground De black ouse Royal Liver Buildings (no longer black but restored) De whatsit The - forgotten the name it it, the thingy? Desert wellies Sandals De entrance fee, de latchlifter price of a half pint Dem's Martin 'enries Cheap clothes Dollar Five shillings, five bob duff defective, broke. Up the duff pregnant 'edcase complete idiot, loony, mad Ee wont crack on He is ignoring us Ee yockered on me He spat at me Ee wuz gawpin' wid eyes like 'atpegs He looked surprised Ee's a gud skin An agreeable fellow Ee's a mush A stranger Ee lewks like de 'unchback of Knotty Ash Of a rather grotesque appearance Ere, tatty 'ead! or 'Ay, Judy! I say, young woman Eh! Dis is blind Scouse! There's no meat in my stew Ere's yer 'at, wur's de 'urry? Its been nice but I have to go now 'e orta he really should .... er bristlers her bosom Eye Wipe! You have been proved to be incorrect! (Had your eye wiped because you were upset to be found out to be wrong). Eyes like pee-oles in de snow Small deep set eyes Farder bunloaf Catholic priest ***ger out fielder at cricket Franny Francis Fades Damaged, therefore cheap, apples Finnyaddy Finnan Haddock Flies symmetry (sounds like) cemetery in reality! Eccles Cake or Chorley Cake, unsure of which. Fluky, a fluke Lucky, a bit of luck, jammy fruit homosexual frisby or lezzie lesbian flim £5 note boff to fart gaffer the boss, foreman gaff house, home gander have a look, as in 'ave a gander, will ya?' gear marvellous, good, smashing ghostin' Going with a workman to work, watching him and doing nothing Gissome Please serve us with.. Gizalite Could you oblige me with a match please? gob mouth, or to mouth as in gob off gob iron harmonica Go 'ed den Well, go on then? Give uz some or Gizza lorra or gizzum Give me, a large portion please, or give to me now Gizza dirty big plate ov A VERY large portion please Gear or dat wuz de gear (followed by belch) Thanks, I enjoyed that Gear, de gear Excellent, suitable, satisfactory Got no bayden cozzie I have no swim suit Give yer chin a rest Be silent Gorran 'ead as big as Birken'ed Rather self assured, ego Gorra mouf like a parish oven Rather talkative gammy 'anded, cack 'anded Left handed gob mouth, to spit gozzie, gozzie eyed squinty eyes Giz a sub? Can you lend me an advance, some money? goosegog gooseberry graft work grass inform, informer, to "shop" someone, snitch grotty squalid, horrible, eg: dead grotty. Feeling grotty, feeling sick, Grotty = Grotesque got de coppers Got money Hey! Yu wid de 'ead! Waiter! Icky the fire bobby Possibly answer to who were you with last night, reply icky - mind your own business. I also have a vague memory of someone being called Icky, the bare bum fire bobby??? I wanna I want to iddle do it will do I'le mug yer My treat! Its crackin' de flags The weather is hot (flags = flagstones) I wanna new wicker wacker I require a new suit, my man I wanna I require 'im derisively - My husband Its fer me fellas carryin out It is for my husbands packed lunch jazzy smart Joe Gerk's or the big 'ouse Walton Prison jacks 'n ollies Five Stones (game) Jam butty Jam Sandwich jammy lucky, see fluky jarg fake designer clothes jerry chamber pot jigger back alley, entry. Could be formed from African word 'jig jig' meaning sexual activity. I have also heard of shady dealings as in 'jiggery pokery' jigger rabbit Alley cat Jud George judy girl Joey Threepenny piece kaylied drunk Kewins wid a pin Small shellfish Kirkby Kiss Head butting an opponent in the face. Kop off where I lived it meant get off with a girl Kelly's Barn St George's Hall lamp, lamp ya strike one, I will hit you Lal Harry La young man (see also email at base of page) - quite possibly from the Malay 'lah' meaning please or a polite inflection on a command. Or indeed the Chinese La lanny Princes Landing Stage, Pier Head Last Rubbish, as in "That's Last!" lavvy, lav toilet lecky electric Leg it! Lets escape, ******* is coming, run! Less bunk into de pictures Lets go into the film without paying lemme let me? Permit Me lugole The ear Lissen to 'is rantin He is knocking loudly Livin' over de brush Living in sin Luggy person with only one ear Loop de loop Soup lorra large amount loosie single cigarette Lolly Ice Frozen Fruit (or flavoured) juice on a stick made up pleased mate seems to have replaced wack, wacker Make yer name Walker, Wack Please go away marmalise beat up Muck in - yer at yer grannies Bon Appetit! Me Ma'll deck ya (If you persist in this) my mother will hit you mingy mean, stingy mitts The hands
Mery's stepdashin' Mary is scrubbing the steps Me Nin, me gran, me nan My grandmother Me owl gerl, me mam My mother Me judy, me tart My lady friend, wife me fella My boy friend, husband me gerls ole fella My father in law Me dar, de ole man My father Meladdo An unnamed, but known, person Naish Ignatius nicker £1 note nits, biddies lice nitty nora School nurse (searching for head lice = nits) Nitty Nora the biddy explorer Not wert a lite Valueless nouse intelligence Nearly in me burr webs My shoes are worn out Nudger Baguette nutt'n nothing oavy overtime Oldies or Twerlies Old People ollies marbles og, meg A half penny (pre decimal coinage) ocker Shilling ozzy hospital purra flukes 'ead onum he hit me hard pickun an kewins The contents of a finger up the nose then withdrawn! Purra zip on it Please be silent Proddy Dog Protestant Professer Messer didactic person Pea Wack Pea Soup rennie rent collector Roadey or Rhodey Bacon Streaky Bacon or back bacon - with rind ropey dodgy quality, dead ropey (decidedly odd or dodgy), also feeling ropey, sick, not right. saggin' skewl playing truant satdee, sundee when people who work, don't; weekend Sarneys Sandwiches Sarann Sarah Ann Sarawak Farewell, sir - (tara wack) sanny sanitary inspector scally loveable rogue, or simply a rogue, also scallywag screw burgle as in "screw" an 'ouse scone 'ead unknown origin, term of greeting as in 'Ay up Scone Head!' scoff, scram food segs, lazzie an' ups Marble variations shirtlifter homosexual schtum! Keep Quiet! short-arse small slummie small change Sterry Sterilized Milk Scoop Pint, usually of beer. From when beer was "scooped" out of barrels. Scouse Pot-au-feu l'hiver poule Snot rag (or more politely gartons - snot rag backwards) hankerchief sock robber person from a less than nice area Shut yer gob an' ger on with yer knitting you're talking like an old woman, please be quiet. Scaldy swimming hole, part of canal warm with industrial effluent Skippin' leckies Illicit riding on trams Slummy loose change So watch it kiddo, cus you couldn't punch you way out of a wet echo. You are simply not up to it, so be careful. sparrer legs thin legs Splosh Money She (or he) giv 'im de rounds They had an altercation (as in boxing!) Smoked Irishman or smoked Paddy Coloured person Standing round like one of Lewis' In relation to the assistants, at Lewis' Dept store, standin' around. Steerie plank of wood with wheels attached. Straight Up! Honest Sub A loan sussed found out sussies a rare sight now - suspenders!! Ta, Wack Thanks, I am most grateful tatty head! you! Mostly to a lady tear arse uncontrollable, tear arsing through the street! T'sarrahwell Farewell Ta mate, do the same when I'm carryin I will return the favour when I have money tanner-megger small football, tennis ball like! thisavvay, disavvy This afternoon termorrer, t'sermorrer Tomorrow tizzie, gerrin' in a tizzie over excited, getting in a tizzie Treesa Theresa todd alone, as in on me todd togger footy, football, soccer took spoken for, as in she's took (taken) two meg One penny Tiddler silver threepenny piece Two bob 24 pence, two shillings, florin. Equivalent today of 10p Topshiner Top Hat Togo Sugar Tramstopper Large slice of bread Toxteth Briefcase Portable Stereo or Ghetto Blaster Ullo dur! Greetings! Pleased to make your aquaintance Uz I, me Yer, Yiz You, Yours Wack* (see emails below) Sir, male. It comes from the gaelic mhac ( pronounced wack) which means 'son of'. warryl what will Wayo! Just a minute! Wudden mind Yes Please warra yer like? Get away, I am surprised! webs The feet Wellie To hit someone, give him a wellie! Wellie, welligogs (kids) Rubber footwear of the boot variety Wensdee Middle of the Week Worrel? What will? We wuz playun' We were playing wet nelly weakling wid de corky playing with a real cricket ball we 'ad a do lassnight We had a party last night woollyback not a scouser. Also means someone from the countryside, rural environment, eg: sheep! When Donnelly docked or when Dick docked A long time ago; Donnelly referring to Irish immigration. Another hypothesis is that this is referring to the ship on the vane on top of St Nicks - eg: it docked there ages ago. The Donnelly was lost in the Bay. we wuz chuckin' alley-apples throwing stones wingy person with one arm Wanna gansey fer me lad I want a jersey for my boy Whur wuz yer when I 'ad de coppers? You have missed a drink Whur de play tick wid 'atchets Dingle Whur bugs wear clogs Bootle Wunce in evry Prestin guild Very infrequently Yis Yes Yockered Spat out something a bit green! To spit Y'know like meaningless interjection Yer wha? Do I hear you correctly? Yer wanna You ought to Yerl get no bevvy 'ere Not a licensed premises Yistiddy Yesterday Yer gorra cob on ? You are in a bad mood yew an ooze ahmy Threat received and reply is you and whose army - meaning it will take more than you mate. not specifically scouse but well used. Yews You (plural) Yer a derty stopout You're rather nocturnal in nature Your very ickey You are rather dandified Yer doin' me 'ead in You are making me extremely annoyed right now Yer gorrup like a pox doctors clerk Your very overdressed, dressed like you are loaded (with money) My list is better than yours #originalscouse
Not exactly phrases from modern Liverpool these eh: 'arf a bar 2 shillings and sixpence, a half crown. About 12 1/2p nowadays Blocker Bowler Hat Nearly in me burr webs My shoes are worn out I wanna new wicker wacker I require a new suit, my man Mery's stepdashin' Mary is scrubbing the steps when Dick docked - A long time ago
I have to point this one out from my list RHC: Woolyback / Wool : A person who lives in Page Moss, Runcorn, Wirral, Wigan, Warrington, Southport etc.
on yer bill - on your own bins - glasses [specs not drinking] bills - boxies divvy - idiot in bulk - laughed hard
