| Word / term | Definition / explanation |
| a body | somebody |
| ally | marble |
| ally oukin, - ookin | truce word in children's games |
| aye | yes |
| baff | the alternate week/Saturday when the father didn't receive any pay |
| bairn | child |
| bays | children's game (hop-scotch?) |
| blazer | see "bleezer" |
| 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 |
| chasey | tig, a street chasing game |
| claggy | sticky |
| clamming | to be hungry |
| clart, clarts | dirt, mud, soft ground |
| clarty | dirty, muddy |
| clout | cloth, rag |
| coin | turn (a corner) |
| cree | hut, pigeon loft, hen-house |
| cushty | "cool", excellent, great |
| cushy | easy, easy going |
| daresn't | dare not |
| dabbers | children's game (probably hop-scotch) |
| diablo | children's game, involving three sticks, a string and a bobbin |
| div, divn't | do, don't |
| divvie | Co-op dividend account |
| dunch | bump into, crash into |
| dursn't | dare not |
| 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 |
| geet | intensifier: + adjective = "very"; + noun = "complete", "real", "utter" |
| girths | chirldren's game with hoop |
| goniel | fool |
| gully | kitchen knife, large knife |
| hacky | dirty |
| hadaway | go away, get away!, get lost, never! |
| happy baccy | cannabis |
| hidie | hide-and-seek |
| 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 |
| howk | dig; beat, thump |
| hoy | throw |
| humpity back pie | rabbit pie |
| ken | know |
| kep | to catch a ball |
| knocky nine door | children's game involving knocking on doors |
| 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 |
| masting | an infusion or brewing of tea |
| mell | hammer, large hammer |
| mense | honour, decency |
| moggies, moggers | marbles |
| 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" |
| nay | "no" modifying an adjective or noun |
| neb | to be nosey |
| nowt | nothing |
| ower | over; too (+ adjective) |
| owt | anything |
| palatic | (very) drunk |
| 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 |
