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a body |
somebody |
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ally |
marble |
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ally oukin, - ookin |
truce word in children's games |
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aye |
yes |
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baff |
the alternate week/Saturday when the
father didn't receive any pay |
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bairn |
child |
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bays |
children's game (hop-scotch?) |
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blazer |
see "bleezer" |
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bleezer |
metal sheet or hood put in front of
fire to direct the draught |
|
boody |
broken china or coloured glass used
by children as play things or toy money; china of any kind, e.g.
boody teapot, boody dish; a petty sum of money |
|
bray |
hit |
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chasey |
tig, a street chasing game |
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claggy |
sticky |
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clamming |
to be hungry |
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clart, clarts |
dirt, mud, soft ground |
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clarty |
dirty, muddy |
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clout |
cloth, rag |
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coin |
turn (a corner) |
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cree |
hut, pigeon loft, hen-house |
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cushty |
"cool", excellent, great |
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cushy |
easy, easy going |
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daresn't |
dare not |
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dabbers |
children's game (probably
hop-scotch) |
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diablo |
children's game, involving three
sticks, a string and a bobbin |
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div, divn't |
do, don't |
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divvie |
Co-op dividend account |
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dunch |
bump into, crash into |
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dursn't |
dare not |
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fettle |
how one feels (e.g. "fine fettle");
to fix or mend something, or get something done; to teach
someone a lesson, best someone |
|
frisk |
good fun, good laugh, excellent
experience |
|
gadgie |
man, bloke, old man |
|
gan |
go |
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geet |
intensifier: + adjective = "very"; +
noun = "complete", "real", "utter" |
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girths |
chirldren's game with hoop |
|
goniel |
fool |
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gully |
kitchen knife, large knife |
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hacky |
dirty |
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hadaway |
go away, get away!, get lost, never! |
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happy baccy |
cannabis |
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hidie |
hide-and-seek |
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hinny |
term of address for a girl or woman |
|
hitchie dabbers |
some kind of children's game |
|
hoppings |
name of an annual fair held on
Newcastle Town Moor for over 100 years |
|
howay |
discourse feature of encouragement
or exhortation |
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howk |
dig; beat, thump |
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hoy |
throw |
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humpity back pie |
rabbit pie |
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ken |
know |
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kep |
to catch a ball |
|
knocky nine door |
children's game involving knocking
on doors |
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knooled |
kept down, hen-pecked, e.g. a woman
or children can be knooled by a man |
|
liggies |
marbles |
|
lowe |
flame, light |
|
loup |
jump |
|
mackem |
person from Sunderland |
|
mam |
mother |
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masting |
an infusion or brewing of tea |
|
mell |
hammer, large hammer |
|
mense |
honour, decency |
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moggies, moggers |
marbles |
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mounty kitty |
multi-kitty |
|
muggies, muggers |
marbles |
|
multikitty |
street leap frog-game (all players
pile on top of two players backs who are leaning against a
wall); also "mounty-kitty" |
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nay |
"no" modifying an adjective or noun |
|
neb |
to be nosey |
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nowt |
nothing |
|
ower |
over; too (+ adjective) |
|
owt |
anything |
|
palatic |
(very) drunk |
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parky |
fussy, esp. about food; cold |
|
pease pudding |
local pea based dish |
|
pinny |
apron |
|
pitmatic |
dialect of pit villages |
|
pit yacker |
person from pit village, with
distinctive dialect |
|
plodge |
to walk through water or mud |
|
porkies |
lies |
|
relievo |
street chasing game with two teams
and bases |
|
scally |
mischievous person, inclined to
antisocial or illegal behaviour |
|
scoff |
to make fun of |
|
scran |
food |
|
scudding |
beating, thrashing |
|
shotty in goals |
street football game |
|
skeets |
boots, shoes |
|
skinchers, skinchies |
truce word called in children's
games, usually accompanied by crossing the fingers |
|
skit |
to mock, taunt |
|
skitty |
cheeky, taunting |
|
slavver |
good natured coversation, flattery,
patter |
|
sneck |
door latch |
|
spannies |
game where coins are tossed against
a wall |
|
spuggies |
marbles |
|
stot |
bounce (e.g. of a ball or of heavy
rain) |
|
stotty |
round flat bread roll |
|
tack |
cannabis |
|
take a lend |
to take advantage of someone, to
overstep the mark |
|
tally ho |
children's game |
|
targer |
someone with a lot of cheek and
nerve, who always gets away with things |
|
taws |
leather straps with thongs, used for
punishment |
|
taties |
potatoes |
|
tiggy |
tig, a street chasing game |
|
tiv |
to |
|
toodle |
walk casually, wander |
|
tootle |
wander casually |
|
tredgy |
children's game |
|
tuggy |
tig, a street chasing game |
|
tuggy on high |
variant of tuggy (q.v.) |
|
tuggy on low |
variant of tuggy (q.v.) |
|
varnigh |
very near |
|
wey |
emphatic word calling attention to
the following statement |
|
wey aye |
yes, of course |
|
wacky baccy |
cannabis |
|
whae |
who |
|
workie ticket |
cheeky person |
