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Black Country dialect

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Use the alphabet links below to have a look at a selection of words that typify the Black Country accent.

A - B

C- F

G - K

L- N

O - S

T - Y

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A - B

Black Country word

Meaning

听	听
A	听
Aer Kid	Friend, family member
Acummin	Coming
Ah bist	How are you?
'air	her
'airn	hers
Ay	Haven't, isn', aren't
Ar	Yes
All round the Wrekin	A tortuous route
Aloone	Alone
Any road up	Anyway
Alf baerked	Stupid
Apen	Apron
Appen	Happen
Argy-bargy	Fight
At wum	At home
Aer Bin Ya	Are you alright
Ah bay听听听听听听听听听听	(Ah bay gooin' = I am not going)
Ah bin听听听听听听听听听	(Ah bin gooin' = I am going)听
Ah cor听听听听听听听听听	I can't
Ark	Look or listen. Ark at 'im = Listen to him / Look at him
Auf	half
Ay Alf	Really is
Awlroight	Literally 'alright', used as a greeting instead of 'hello'
Ave we paces	To go and have our sandwiches
听	听
B	听
Babby	Baby
Back'ud	Backward
Back'ander	Slap with the back of the hand
Baggies	West Bromwich Albion
Bargie	Canal boatman
Barny	Disagreement
Baerk	Idiot
Barfe	Vomit
Bibble	Small stone, sized between a boulder and a pebble
Big'ead	Arrogant person
Bin as ow	Because
Blabberin'	Talking silly
Blathered	Drunk
Blart	Cry
Bloke	Man
Boff	Flatulence
Bobby dazzler	Pretty woman
Bonk	Hill
Bostin	Very good
Bost- up	Fight
Bay	Not
Bist Yow	Are You
Bladder	Balloon
Bloke	Man
Bosted	Broken
Bob-owler	Large thick bodied moth
Bonksiz	Banks's Brewery
Bost	Broken
Bell oil	effort ( 'as in ge it sum bell oil'
Buz	Bus
Braydley	Bradley (in Wolverhampton)
Battree听听听听听听听	Power source for a torch
Brummidge/Brumajum	Birmingham
Brummigum Ommer	A person with a Birmingham telephone number

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