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What other Derbyshire words and phrases can you think of?

bod: bird oss: horse Woyya born in barn?: said to someone who leaves the door open.
Anna

av i 'eck as! or av i eck as like ---- it wasnt me, i haven't done it!
Tamara

It's time to go home.
It's time fert goo wom.

Ah've bin livin in Scotland thase past thotty five year, but ere's sum wods frum wen ah wor a lad in Ilson (Ilkeston) shimmy - vest (French chemise?)
fizzog - face (French visage?)
chops - cheeks
tabs - ears
ow - she
battletwig - earwig
bobby dazzler - sight for sore eyes
coughdrop - cheekily humerous person, eg ow's a rate coughdrop
throbby - song thrush
collywobbles / collynobs - brussel sprouts
dolly tub - tub for washing clothes
poncher - perforated brass bowl on a broomstick, for agitating washing in a dolly tub
gollop - swallow hastily / greedily
chommax - grind with teeth, eg tuffies (sweets) should be gently sucked, not chommaxed and golloped
graunch - grind with back teeth, as a dog with a bone
bat - pieces of slate contaminating coal, which cause mild explosions in the fireplace.

Graham Bacon

Get yer skets on. means to hurry, get your "skates" on
Sarah

tem tea howt pour the tea out
vicki greenhill

Rorrin - crying
Terry Shaw

Ate every skerret - Ate every little bit.
Terry Shaw

Gi it some muck or nettles - get stuck in as in a tackle at football.
Terry Shaw

Daft bogger - silly devil Bogger is an old Norse term for "Will o the wisp", or Marsh Devil which is methane burning at the surface of a bog.
Terry Shaw

Cut - canal
Terry Shaw

Gobby - got a lot to say
Terry Shaw

Gerr ert! - I don't believe you
Terry Shaw

Donner be maudling Don't be so sentimental
Terry Shaw

Gi it some clog Hard kick a football
Terry Shaw

jennel - narrow passageway between houses, usually terraced houses.
Terry Shaw

gammy - injured. As in gammy leg or arm
Terry Shaw

got monk on - sulking
Terry Shaw

harping on - nagging
Terry Shaw

crozzled - bacon thats been over cooked and made brittle
Terry Shaw

way knowed yo were theer cos yo came wayer way wor We knew you were there because you came where we were .....my grandad used to say he heard a woman on a bus say this!
Jon Harvey

south derbyshire has its own grammar too. anner = am not canner = can not dunner = do not wunner = would/will not shunner = should not As in; " Ah anner gooin theer, ah canner mek it. We dunner goo that road and Ay wunner tek us. Ah'd do it me sen bur ah shunner."
steve. h

Diddycoy: Somebody who resembles a gypsie!
Kelly S

noone elsewhere says 'Mardy'
Maria Fowler and rachel jelley

Dannies or dan-dans meaning hands. Spice, meaning sweets. Bo-bow, meaning horse. Serry, As in "Ay-up serry" to some one you know well. Mucker, meaning mate or friend. Tutoos, meaning sweets but only used when talking to a small child. Sithee, meaning, Look here.
carol

all o'ver t shant-all over the place-everywhere
me

thronged as a fairy= right busy
ruth

I'm from Oakwood in Derby and I think I've heard about 8 of these phrases! I call idiots 'noggins', but that might just be me...
Sammy

Luggy - Tangled hair
Julie Shaw

mony (spiteful) tranklements (bits and pieces)
ray

Gansey - meaning fleece or jumper
James smith

"Bag On" To describe someone in a bad mood, as in "he's got a reet bag on!"
David Knight

"It's gerrin a bit black ower Bill's Motha's" means it's going to rain soon - as in "look over there, to Stratford (where william shakespeare (bill) was born and hence where his mother lives).
James Holland & Chad Potter

squark - scream like a baby, hence 'squark-box',slang for baby. oggin - sea suff (or sough) - drain to puther (out) - verb, intrans. meaning to flow forth like fast moving water of smoke jed - dead
Dudley Warrington

Dotty - dirty
C Walsh

Gi it sum ommer! - Make a jolly good effort
Andy

gi it a goo : have a try
dave

Mend the fire = put coal on the fire
Alan Spencer

I fair gostered meaning I had a good laugh
Anne

when somebody says the`re cold we call them `nesh`
Spike Smith

are ya arking = are you listning
Ash

Pit Bonk = colliery slag heap Gizzit 'ere = give it to me
Eric

Summat tait = something to eat
Eric

Think on - another way of saying Be said.
Robin King

Kape on corsey.(keep on the causeway). Said to someone who was leaving meaning stay where it's safe. Looso'er. Term used in the pit meaninng end of shift.
Don

Gert (Girlfriend)
Richard Leah

Wok=Work Corsie=Causeway Afe=Half
Brett Griffiths

oakey - ice cream
Rich

gerrout ut cart road,was used by older folks around Ilkeston when i was a kid in the 60's/70's, Cart off, meant clear off. A sparrow was also known as a 'Spuggie'. A starling was known as a 'Starnie'.
Ged Wilson (from Ilson)

chelping backchat
taghill

Wo anna enny on ye enny on ye? - What, haven't any of you got any about your person?
John Kearney

get me clobber on put some clothes on
trisha

Shintin. answer to the question is your mother at home?
Michael Savage (spain)

Pack up - lunch box
Karen Williams

I'm going to turn me bike around. I'm going to the toilet
Sean Herring

"shushow" meaning choose how or perhaps so as how. Used in such expressions as 'shushow you try.' I should point out that your collection is more typical of the south of the County. When I started school at the age of four I was astonished to find that my schoolmates spoke a language that was new to me. Ne then, surree, sithee, asa gor it withy, Chaucer would have been at home with them. I have never forgotten one mother saying to her offspring, "Ger it etten and giore slaverin."
Neville Sharpe

Tab 'anging: Listening into someone else's conversation
Pru Hughes

as thas gor owt moist? (have you got a drink)
Dirk Stafford

itl all come artt in wash me duck. things will be alright tomorrow love
k cooper

Geroff wi yer Get lost Hes a rate dipstick He is a right idiot Thas gotta big gob youth You talk too much
L.A.G.WORRALL

Keggy / ceggy - term used for a backie - someone sitting on the back of your bike
Sarah

Geeower - Please stop that
Mike Hudson

Gerron t' corsey - Please walk on the pavement.
Mike Hudson

Ah couldna spit sixpence - I'm rather thirsty.
Graham

Ah,ve seen more fat on a chip. - Used to describe a particularly thin person.
Graham

Wey bound fer t'goo! It is time for us to leave
Martyn

Fuddle: collection of food, like picnic? Chuffin': expression of exasperation - 'Chuffin 'ell!!!!'
Vickey

thas a layer (not speaking the truth)
barry

Fost = first Thod = third
alfie mountford

gisset ere
r bowler

'Hangin' tab on' - listening in to someone elses conversation.
Laura

Rate Rimmed - meaning really Tired
James Peck

Soz:meaning Sorry.
Rob

Spidge - chewing gum
Jay

goo an tap me watter Run my bath
John Coope

ba baas naughty- "dont touch that its ba baas" usually said to kids
m taylor

Ata reyt? Are you all right
Chris Marshall

Orate: Alright. A Greeting - How you doing? Also used to show concern - Are You Orate? Gonna: Going to. Are we gonna meet up today?
Thomas Monks

Mesen / yersen: Myself / yourself
Paul Stewart

Nesh: Can't tolerate the cold.
Summat: Something
Tret: Treated, as in "I tret mesen terrer new frock".
Chozzed up: Spoilt or ruined, as in "Yer've chozzed it up naah."
Tuffee: Any kind of sweet.
Howard Sprenger

Shideradtara meaning: she would have had to have.
Dave