Mardarse
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Oh we never got munk where I was (Ashton), or maybe it’s down to timing. Always like finding proper old school Wiganers who still talk like miners (klempt for hungry etc)
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Getting ‘rigged’ up, ‘riggy’ or ‘in a rig’.
Sometimes I’ll call my darling partner ‘Jamie Mardy’ when she’s in a bad mood.
Weirdly enough it doesn’t seem to make her mood improve
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@moousee have you seen your arse at all recently?
Surrey - angry.
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Such a complex dialect
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This is also Birmingham. I still use this a lot, tbh. Sometimes about me.
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The absolute best.
“Stop having a farking squinny, you dinlo”
What I’m taking from this is a lot of places use have a cob on for being angry, but none of them would agree on what a cob is if you’re talking about a bread product.
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*Butty
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Quite like that being irked is part of DiS’s own dialect
And an inevitable rite of passage
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Both my mate from Leigh and my grandad from Horwich used to use ‘ave fot’ and ‘si thee’ a lot
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I try not to use it, dont wanna sound like pompy scum
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Barmy.
(Also, Chip Butty is something you eat. Chip Cob was the stuntman on The Fast Show.)
looking at a list of pompey slang - there’s some here that I didn’t realize were unique to portsmouth/thought everyone said. let’s have some polls:
Chuffed: (proud)
- only in portsmouth
- everywhere
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Divvy: (stupid/crazy)
- only in portsmouth
- everywhere
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Gavvers: (police)
- only in portsmouth
- everywhere
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Getting lairy: (to get angry)
- only in portsmouth
- everywhere
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Well mangy: (something is dirty or unkept)
- only in portsmouth
- everywhere
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Mushty: (mate, another person)
- only in portsmouth
- everywhere
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Well 'ard: (he’s well hard/a tough guy)
- only in portsmouth
- everywhere
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Typical pompy thinking they invented everything.
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Used to hear ‘eggy’ quite a bit growing up in Oxford
I also remember ‘have a sken’ for ‘have a look’ and ‘keks’ for trousers (still use this tbf)
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