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A–Z of Lancashire Words, Sayings and Slang

1. A-be, bi thersell (alone)
2. Abeawt (about)
3. Aboon (above)
4. Ackersprit (potato)
5. Actilly (actually)
6. Addle (earn, get)
7. Addled (drunk)
8. Afoor (before)
9. Afterings (last of cow’s milk)
10. Aftite (as soon)
11. Agate (I was saying — Norma Hart, Rochdale)
12. Agate (working, on the way)
13. Ageen, agen (again)
14. Aggy (nickname for Adlington, Lancashire by some of the local people)
15. Agog (set on, begun)
16. Ah’ll see thee (goodbye — Geoff Partington)
17. Aighs (axe)
18. Aiker (newt)
19. Ailt (ailed)
20. Allus, ollez (always)
21. Alooan (alone)
22. Amno (am not)
23. An, an’ (and, if)
24. An’ all (too, as well — Jim McDonald)
25. Ancliffe (ankle)
26. Anent (opposite)
27. Ankitcher (handkerchief— via John Sharples, who said his grandmother, Margaret Sharples from Preston, said this)
28. Ansert (answered)
29. Apeth (halfpenny, dimwit)
30. Appen (perhaps; appen he will and appen he won’t)
31. Appern (brat, apron)
32. Appo (apple)
33. Ar (are)
34. Are you fast? (Are you stuck? (on something such as a crossword))
35. Areawnd (around)
36. Areawt (outside)
37. Ark (chest)
38. Arnt (errand)
39. Arr (mark, scar)
40. Arren (arrant, downright)
41. Arsewood (backward, unwilling)
42. Arsey-versey (head over heels)
43. Arta, arto (are you?, art thou?)
44. Arter (are ya? — John Sharples)
45. Asheit (likely, probable)
46. Ashler (large free stone)
47. Astid, ostid (instead)
48. At t’far end (at the end of one’s tether; derived from reaching the far end of the warp when weaving cloth, when the loom has stopped from beaming up)
49. Ate (eat)
50. At’ll (that will)
51. At’s (that is)
52. At’t (at it)
53. Aw, ah (I)
54. Awf (elf)
55. Awkert (awkward, untoward, comical)
56. Aw’ll, ah’ll (I will)
57. Awlung (because, all owing to)
58. Aw’m, ah’m (I am)
59. Awmeety (almighty)
60. Aw’r (I was)
61. Aw’s, aw’st, ah’st (I shall)
62. Awse, oss (attempt, offer)
63. Awter (alter)
64. Awtered (altered)
65. Awvish (queer, comical)
66. Ax, axe, axen (ask)
67. Axes, spers (asks, enquires)
68. Axins (askings, banns)
69. Axs, Ash (ask; the old form seen in the King James Bible, still heard all over — Jim McDonald)
70. Axt (asked)
71. Aye (yes, sure, certainly)
72. Ayther, oather (either)
73. Babby-wark (child’s play)
74. Bacco, baccy (tobacco)
75. Backurt (backward)
76. Bad (difficult)
77. Badger’s shop (grocer’s shop)
78. Baggin’ (afternoon meal, tea, food)
79. Baggin’-time (mealtime)
80. Bakestone (bake-stone)
81. Balderdash (rubbish, hodgepodge)
82. Ball (bole/trunk of a tree)
83. Ballocks (testicles)
84. Bally (belly)
85. Bally-warche (stomach)
86. Ban (cursing)
87. Bang (beat up, lick)
88. Banjo butty (egg and bacon butty or barm cake; the egg yolk drips down your tie, so you hold it out at arm’s length and brush the yolk off it, as if you are playing a banjo)
89. Bankreawt (bankrupt)
90. Bant (string)
91. Bap (round piece of bread shaped like a bun)
92. Bargin (bargain)
93. Barkit (dirty hair)
94. Barley (claim)
95. Barm (yeast for making bread — Geoff Partington, who said his grandad, ‘Barm Joe’, sold yeast from a handcart in Hindley and Westhoughton)
96. Barm-bo (dumpling)
97. Barm cake (round piece of bread)
98. Barmskin (leather apron)
99. Barmy (silly)
100. Bass up (turn out your wages)
101. Bassinet (bed for a baby that looks like a basket)
102. Bastert (bastard)
103. Bastertly-gullion (bastard’s bastard)
104. Bat (hit, rate, speed)
105. Bate (fine, reduced wages)
106. Battril (laundry staff)
107. Baun, beawn, bown (bound for, going to)
108. Bawk (deceive, timber)
109. Bawks discourages (hayloft)
110. Beast, beeost (beast)
111. Beasting (beating)
112. Beawls (bowls)
113. Beawlt’nt (bowled)
114. Beawn to (bound to, going to)
115. Beck, bruck (brook)
116. Beck’n (summon using fingers)
117. Becose, ‘cos (because)
118. Beeart (beard)
119. Been, don (nimble, clever)
120. Beeofs (cows)
121. Beet-need (help on occasions)
122. Begant (began to)
123. Begum, bigum (by gum)
124. Behint (behind)
125. Beholden (obliged to, under obligation)
126. Beigh (buy)
127. Beleeft (believed)
128. Beleemy (believe me)
129. Belie (make me a of)
130. Belive (bye and bye)
131. Bell’n, bellin’ (making a noise)
132. Bellart (bull’s or bear’s ward, world)
133. Bell-heawr (mealtime)
134. Bells (bellows)
135. Beloike (be like)
136. Beltin’ (very good)
137. Bench (seat)
138. Ber (force)
139. Berm (yeast)
140. Be said (be told)
141. Beshite (dirty)
142. Beshote (dirtied)
143. Beyler (boiler)
144. Beylin’ (boiling)
145. Bezzle (waste)
146. Bi, be (by)
147. Bib (breast-cloth)
148. Biddin’ (invitation to wedding or funeral)
149. Bin (been)
150. Birl, burl (pour out)
151. Bith (by the)
152. Bi theersel (by themselves)
153. Bi th’mass (by the mass)
154. Bitin’-on (snack)
155. Bitter-bump (bittern)
156. Blacks (blackens name, slags off)
157. Blain (small boil)
158. Bleb (blister or blob of something, bubble — Jim McDonald)
159. Bleffin (block, wedge)
     Bleffin-head (blockhead)
160. Blendit (mixed)
161. Blinker (blind in one eye)
162. Bloint, blynt (blind)
163. Bloke (fellow)
164. Bloomin’ (blooming, as in ‘it’s like bloomin’ Blackpool illuminations in ‘ere’)
165. Blur (blot)
166. Bo, bod, boh (but)
167. Boadle (half a farthing)
168. Bob (hit)
169. Bobbins (rubbish)
170. Bode (abided, foretold)
171. Boggart (ghost — Margaret)
172. Boggle (be afraid)
173. Boke (point the finger at)
174. Bonk (bank, mound)
175. Bonkers (crazy — Jim McDonald)
176. Booan (bone)
177. Booart (board)
178. Booat (boat)
179. Booath (both)
180. Boose (cow’s stall)
181. Boose, booze, bouse (alcoholic drink)
182. Bowd (bold)
183. Bowt (bolt, bought)
184. Bowt, baht, beawt (without)
185. Bowton (Bolton)
186. Brass (coins, money)
187. Brassick (broke)
188. Brast, barst, brasted (burst)
189. Brasted (broke — Jim McDonald)
190. Brat (mischievous child, apron)
191. Brawsen (gorged, overfull with food)
192. Brazant (brazen, impudent)
193. Breet (bright)
194. Breyd-fleck (rail for drying bread)
195. Brew (cup of tea)
196. Brew (hill — John Thorpe)
197. Brid (bird, child)
198. Brig, brigg (bridge)
199. Broo (brow, hilly rise)
200. Brooak (financially broke)
201. Browt (brought)
202. Brun (burn)
203. Brunt (burnt, this one goes way back and is more like brown, which it is related to — Jim McDonald)
204. Bumbaylis (bailiffs)
205. Bun (bound)
206. Bun up (bound up)
207. Burkit, bautert (burgled)
208. Burmyed (silly person)
209. Burr left (turn left)
210. Burr reet (turn right)
211. Buss (kiss)
212. Butty (bread and butter, intimate pal)
213. Buzz (bus, tale)
214. By thee eck (wow, that’s amazing — Deb Freeman)
215. Carr (high hill)
216. Cartimandua (Queen of the Brigantes, possibly Britain’s first queen around 60 AD)
217. Ceawnt ’em (count them)
218. Chap (man)
219. Cheers big ears (thank you)
220. Childer (children — John Sharples, who said his grandmother, Margaret Sharples from Preston, said this)
221. Chippy tea (Friday evening meal tradition)
222. Chuck (term of affection when talking to someone – RPH nurse RPH)
223. Chucks (plural of Chuck – RPH parent)
224. Chuffed (proud)
225. Chur (chair)
226. Clarty (sticky — Jim McDonald)
227. Clemmed (hungry — John Thorpe)
228. Clench yer flotch (clean your face)
229. Clooas (clothes)
230. Clod hoppers (shoes)
231. Clog it (run away fast)
232. Cloggy bogies (snow caught between heel and sole of a shoe)
233. Clomp (stamp)
234. Clompin’ about lark a fury elephant (stomping about heavy-footed — Jim McDonald)
235. Cloth arms (someone who doesn’t reach out to help with a job; an extension of cloth ears according to the contributor)
236. Cloth ears (someone who doesn’t hear or doesn’t listen, from the cotton mills)
237. Coal, lump of (common present in a child’s Christmas stocking)
238. Cob (throw)
239. Codger (fellow)
240. Cotch (catch — Jim McDonald)
241. Cowd (cold)
242. Cower thee down whilst I pouse thee (sit down while I cut your hair — John Thorpe)
243. Crammed (upset)
244. Creating (going on with yourself, being a bit of a theatrical drama queen)
245. Crowboggart (scarecrow)
246. Crukel (going over sideways on your ankle — a Rochdale word)
247. Cwop (Co-op, local shop as immortalised in this poem by Frank Speak)
248. Daft (stupid)
249. Daft as a brush (funny or silly in a sweet way)
250. Deeuth (death)
251. Demic (person who can’t function properly — Ann Ward, whose grandparents from Patricroft, Eccles used to say this)
252. Dickies meda (big trouble)
253. Dig-dag (naughty child or pet, as in ‘Oh you little dig-dag, stop misbehaving!’ — David Greaves. He says his mother, Ella Greaves nee Wolfenden, and his aunt, Audrey Smith, who was actually her cousin, used to say this term when he grew up in Accrington. They were originally from Oswaldtwistle, so it might just be a Gobbiner term.)
254. Dinner (12 p.m.; see tea time)
255. Do you want owt or nowt? (Would you like something or nothing?)
256. Dobbers (lumps or marbles — Jim McDonald)
257. Doesto (do you)
258. Ducky (game of some sorts?)
259. Dun yew a thickun (messed things up in your life)
260. Duster (do ya — John Sharples)
261. Ecky thump (humorous expression of pleasure or surprise, supposedly part of the dialect)
262. Ee am jiggered (worn out, tired; see jiggered — Alice’s gran)
263. Ee culdn’t ‘it a barn door wi’ya shotgun (someone not very accurate or perceptive)
264. Ee culdn’t ‘it his own arse with a banjo (someone not very accurate or perceptive)
265. Ee, tha shap like thee bin suppin cowd tea (you look like you don’t seem to be enjoying your work — Millard, who used to work in Hawthorn Mill in Oldham)
266. Ee wur three sheets tut wind (he was rather drunk)
267. Ee’s a bit be-ind the door that one (he’s a bit of a numpty)
268. Eggshell blonde (bald man — Tony Reid)
269. Eggy butty (soft, wimpish — M. D. Smith)
270. Ester (have ya? John Sharples)
271. Eyup cocker (hello)
272. Fancy pants (putting on airs and graces; see la-di-da)
273. Fathered (resembled, pronounced with a short a, as in ‘math’ — Andy Speak)
274. Feight (fight — Jim McDonald)
275. Feorin’ (frightening things, supernatural beings)
276. Flannel ginnel (awning outside a hotel)
277. Flittin’ (moving house)
278. Floozy (loose woman; see frizzen)
279. Flushing bog (posh person’s toilet)
280. Fod (forehead)
281. Fotch (fetch — Jim McDonald)
282. Fow (awful — Gill Hargraves)
283. Fratching (fighting, squabbling, often by children)
284. Frettin’ (worrying)
285. Frickened (frightened)
286. Frickened ‘deeuth (frightened to death — Jim McDonald)
287. Frizzen (jumped-up floozy — Jim P. Hewitt, whose mum would say ‘M— was a jumped-up floozy’)
288. Fury (fairy)
289. Galluses (braces to hold up your trousers, possibly a Scottish word but in widespread use in Lancashire in the 1950s)
290. Gawmless (stupid — Jim McDonald)
291. Geet (got)
292. Get little pully on (get going)
293. Get weaving (get going)
294. Getting on me wick (getting on my nerves)
295. Giddy kipper (someone who is rather over-excited)
296. Ginnel (narrow alleyway, tunnel or alley between two houses)
297. Ginny Green Teeth (Ginny Green Teeth is an old nursery bogey. She used to hang around the edge of ponds and drag unsuspecting children into the reeds and drown them. During the Industrial Revolution, when people moved to the towns to work at the mills, she was used by mothers to keep their daughters and sons away from mirrors, for vanity reasons I suppose — a contributor born in Ashton-under-Lyne)
298. Gobbiner (local nickname for a native or resident of Oswaldtwistle (often shortened to ‘Ossy’), a town in Lancashire, particularly those born ‘above the lamp’; a reference to the area north of a historic lamp post outside the public library on Union Road)
299. Good egg (good human; see rotten egg)
300. Goosey (huge wave of emotion, as in ‘it sends me goosey’)
301. Gradely (great)
302. Gradely (proper — Keith Sutton)
303. Grand (great)
304. Gud (good)
305. Happen (to come about; also see ‘appen)
306. He’s tighter than a bullfighter’s pants (someone mean with money — M. D. Smith)
307. Hond (hand)
308. Hoo (she, pronounced like ‘boo’; alternative to ‘she’ as a third-person singular pronoun in Lancashire and Cumbria. ‘Hoo’s a reet grand lass.’ In common use in Accrington and Rossendale Valley in the 1960s and 1970s by my dad and gents of his generation — David Greaves)
309. Howd (hold)
310. Hurr (hair)
311. If yer Bob, dunt gi er Bob, that Bob that yer Bob owes er Bob, er Bob is bount gi yer Bob, a Bob on the nose (tongue-twister — John Thorpe)
312. I’ll go the foot of our stairs (I’m astounded!)
313. In comes I, Old Tosspot (entrance line of the character Tosspot in a Pace Egg Play
314. It would that it were (if only this were true)
315. It’ll be reet (everything is going to be okay)
316. It’s like Blackpool illuminations here (it’s very bright, or there’s lots of traffic — Ann Smith)
317. Jiggered (worn out, tired but not sleepy tired, as in ‘e am jiggered’ —Alice’s gran from Salford)
318. Jip (pain, as in ‘giving me jip’ — Jim McDonald)
319. Keaw Yed City (Hindley and Westhoughton)
320. Kecked o’er (fallen over — Lorcan Moriarty)
321. Keks (trousers; see long keks)
322. Kist (chest)
323. Klempt (starving, as said in Wigan — Andy Speak)
324. La-di-da (used if someone puts on airs and graces, see fancy pants)
325. Lad (boy)
326. Laikin’ (playing — are you coming to laik at football?)
327. Lanky (awkwardly tall)
328. Lanky (Lancashire dialect)
329. Lark (like)
330. Lass (girl)
331. Leathered (drunk)
332. Leathered (smacked or beaten, from the leather belt)
333. Leyholes (meddlers)
334. Long keks (long trousers; see keks)
335. Lumber (trouble)
336. Lunch (doesn’t exist)
337. Lowance (allowance, harvest)
338. Loysin’ (losing)
339. Luck’o (look you)
340. Lung (long)
341. Lung’st (longest)
342. Luv (love – watch to Sir Ian McKellen saying why he choose the word luv) 📹
343. Luvver (chimbley chimney)
344. Maiden (clothes horse, drying rack)
345. Mardy (moody)
346. Me, mi (my)
347. Mek us a brew (Would you mind making me a cup of tea, please?)
348. Mickey Drippin’ (pet name that Ann Ward was called by her great gran, Mary Jane Edwards of Patricroft, Eccles)
349. Mind tha ther riggot i street (Watch out for the water running down the gutter in the street)
350. Minding (looking after)
351. Mither (moan)
352. Moor (more)
353. Moor (open uncultivated land)
354. Moor grime (fine rain)
355. Motion (bowel movement)
356. Mythering (someone repeatedly asking you to do something you don’t want to do)
357. Nae (no)
358. Nae tha munnah goo theer (no, don’t go there)
359. Nebbut (nearly or almost — John Thorpe)
360. Neet (night — Jim McDonald)
361. Neighburr (anyone in a five-mile radius)
362. Nesh (cold)
363. Nice one (thanks)
364. Noice (thank you)
365. Nought (nothing; see nowt)
366. Nowt (nothing; see nought)
367. Numpty (stupid, thick)
368. Orkard (awkward — Jim McDonald)
369. Orp (hope, the thing that beats in thy heart)
370. Over were (the land between Knott End-on-Sea and the River Wyre — ARB)
371. Ow do (hello)
372. Ow much? (How much?)
373. Owd (old; see bowd, cowd, howd, showder, towd — Jim McDonald)
374. Pace eggs (tradition of painting hard-boiled eggs and rolling them down a local hill)
375. Panned out (tired)
376. Peighs above sticks (peas above sticks, too big for your boots — Jim P. Hewitt)
377. Pillock (an idiot)
378. Poo (pull — Jim McDonald)
379. Posser (laundry tub agitator)
380. Pot towel (towel used in the kitchen — John Thorpe)
381. Pots fer rags (seriously daft — John Thorpe)
382. Pow slap (after a haircut)
383. Power smack (clip to your head after a haircut)
384. Prop (support for clothes line)
385. Proper (right and good; see gradely)
386. Pummers (big — Jim McDonald)
387. Punse (kick — John Thorpe)
388. Put clog down (drive faster — Pamela Earlam)
389. Put wood inth’ole (shut the door)
390. Put ya face straight or it’ll stick that way (usually said to a child who has been skrickin’ or shirkin‘)
391. Queer (odd, strange, comical)
392. Raunging (play fighting — Ann Smith)
393. Reet (right)
394. Reet gud (right good — Deb Freeman)
395. Rotten egg (bad human; see good egg)
396. Scrunts (underpants — Jack Alexander. Watch him explain how to use Scrunts in a sentence) 📹
397. See what they’re giving (see what the shops are selling — Lorraine)
398. Shanks’s pony (travel somewhere on foot, as opposed to the bus, for example)
399. Shap is moving (you move like you’re drinking cold tea)
400. Shape this’sen (hurry up, get ready)
401. Sharpie (hard human, someone all about the money)
402. Shep (starling)
403. Shirkin’ (crying)
404. Showder (shoulder)
405. Side thable (clear the table)
406. Side up (tidy up)
407. Sken (look, squint)
408. Skenning (looking at — John Thorpe)
409. Skew (school — John Thorpe)
410. Skew wiff (not quite straight)
411. Skrickin’ (crying)
412. Skrike (cry)
413. Skriker (person who screams. A shrieker, or yeller. Rooted in British dialect for making a sharp, harsh cry – see also Carol Churchill’s play The Skriker)
414. Slash (pee)
415. Slop stone (where you wash your pots — John Thorpe)
416. Slutch (mud — Jim McDonald)
417. Soss it out (work it out)
418. Soz (I’m sorry)
419. Sponny un (good one — Deb Freeman)
420. Sneck (gate latch)
421. Snicket (narrow alleyway)
422. Standing there like cheese at fourpence (anyone know what this means?)
423. Stink a mons heith (It smells as high as a man, it stinks rotten — Deb Freeman)
424. Squabbling (children fighting)
425. Suited (pleased – he was suited you remembered his birthday)
426. Sun’s cracking the flags (it’s sunny out)
427. Sup (drink)
428. Supper (8 p.m.; see dinner and tea time)
429. Swime (climb; verb used with prepositions over/up/down/through — John Kay, who picked it up from both granddads when he was growing up in Heywood and still uses it, as in ‘burglars frequently swimed up drainpipes’ and ‘we swimed up trees and over back yard walls’)
430. Swirling (sweating — Ann Speak)
431. Ta (thanks)
432. Ta ra! (Lancashire way of saying goodbye)
433. Takes one to know one (every judgement you make is a judgement on yourself)
434. Tea time (6 p.m.; see dinner)
435. Teacake (teacake)
436. Tellint tale (I was saying — Norma Hart, Rochdale)
437. Tha corn reed (I can’t read — M. D. Smith)
438. Thas mixed me a bottle (you have created a problem for me — Deb Freeman)
439. The dog is hossing (the dog is mythering for its food)
440. Thee (you; see thi)
441. Thesole (fireplace)
442. Thez nor hast? (you haven’t, have you?)
443. They don’t take you on (not being friendly, which is a serious crime in the north of England)
444. Thi (your; see thee)
445. Thowt (thought)
446. Tilly Flop (pet name for a girl)
447. Titivate (tidy or smarten)
448. Tosspot (character in a Pace Egg Play, often a fool or a drunkard)
449. Tother (the other)
450. Towd (told)
451. Tret (treat — Nurse Gemma; and thank you for helping my daughter)
452. Trouble at mill (something had gone wrong)
453. Tubs ull come (things will get sorted, it will come to pass, said by miners underground — Deb Freeman)
454. Un (one)
455. Up hills and down dales (an exciting journey)
456. Us’n (we are, from 1950s Bolton, ‘us’n going to th’pub’)
457. War (worse)
458. Wark (work)
459. Wartch (work, verb)
460. Wartcht (ached)
461. Warty (everyday, workaday)
462. Warty-clooas (workday clothes)
463. Wary (weary)
464. Waurld (world)
465. Waut (overturn)
466. Wawk’n (walk)
467. Wawt (overturn)
468. Wauted (upset the cart)
469. Wauter (stagger)
470. Wor (worse)
471. Worch (work)
472. Worched (ached)
473. Wortch (work)
474. Woss (worse)
475. Wost (worse)
476. Wust (worse – Nikki Wordsmith)
477. Wassail (good health, wellbeing)
478. Watter (water — Andy Speak)
479. Waz (wee, as in ‘going for a waz’)
480. Wazzock (donkey’s foreskin, an idiot; see pillock)
481. Weer at gooin? (where are you going?)
482. Weers tha bin? (where have you been?)
483. Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs (amazing)
484. Were reet down in coal hole where muck slats ont windas / we’ve used all the coal up and were down to t’cinders / when there yon bon bailiff comes he’ll never findus / coz were reet down in coal hole where muck slats on windas (poem — Ann Smith; see her Instagram video for pronunciation)
485. When I were young, and in mi prime, I cud ate a buttercake eni time, now I’m gettin old and grey, it vernee taks me ayf a day (rhyme lamenting the ageing process — John Thorpe)
486. Where were we Walter, when the Westinghouse whistle went? We were where we were weren’t we Walter? (tongue-twister — John Thorpe)
487. Whips and tops (game with one top called a window breaker — John Thorpe)
488. Who’da thowt it? (the name of a few local pubs around the country — John Thorpe)
489. Wi (with)
490. Wick (fast moving, infested with insects)
491. Wick (nerves, as in ‘getting on my wick’)
492. Wilter (will ya?)
493. Woatin o’er (resting after a big meal)
494. Wovven up (woven up, finished what you are doing)
495. Yed (head)
496. Yed wartch or an ‘ed wartch (headache, as in ‘a’ve geet un ‘ed wartch’ — Jim McDonald)
497. Yeet! (an enthusiastic shout when throwing something, probably not originally from Lancashire but it goes so well with reet!)
498. Yer (you are)
499. Yer not as green as yer cabbage looking (smarter than you look — Ann Smith)
500. Yer wornt feel th’ benefit when yer owt in theckold (Why are you wearing a coat inside?)
501. Yonder (over there, far away — Andy Speak)
502. Yonks (ages)
503. You’re like ‘orse muck, always in th’road (Mum used to always say this to me; to be fair, she was right)
504. Yuv got olla legs (you have a very good appetite)

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