Funny Yorkshire Map Phrases
Ahm jiggered, you gerram for me - I’m exhausted, you get them for me
Ah dropt me truntlements - I dropped the odds and ends (I was carrying)
Ah ernly asked for a kerka-kerla - I only asked for a popular brand of cola
Ah’l fettle that up for yuz - I’ll get that ready/make that up for you
Ah gorda new merbile fern - I have a new mobile phone
Ah rived me kegs - I tore my underpants
Allus mitherin ‘bout summut - Always moaning about something
By gum ee’s jammy - Crickey, he’s is (often) lucky
Canna borra it - Can I borrow it
Chompin’ ont chips - Enthusiastically eating chips
Chuffin’ hell luv that’s reet tasty - Good grief my darling, that is delicious
Cum ‘ere ya cheeky little tyke - Come here you naughty little boy
Do summut that good at - Do something you are good at. Yorkshire career advice.
Don’t do owt for nowt - Don’t do something of value for no reward/Don't work for nothing
Ee were goin’ like billio - He was travelling very quickly
Eh Nimrod, tha’s ma beer yers suppin - Hey you fool, you are drinking beer from my glass
Eh oop, how do? - Hello, how’s it going?
Fair t’middlin - I am doing ok?
Flipping ‘eck stop faffin - Good grief, stop dawdling/messing about
Flippin’ Nora - Literally ‘flaming horror’ a local version of ‘bloody hell’ - an exclamation of surprise or dismay
Galivantin oop Greek Street - Partying in Leeds city centre
Garden gnerms - Garden gnomes
Gerr away - Get away, an exclamation of disbelief
Gint Scarbro warning - give a Scarborough warning, in other words no meaningful warning at all
Gissa croggy - Give me a lift on the back of your bicycle
Givover - Give over. An exclamation of disbelief
He’s well covered - He is well-built/has put on weight
It cost narn narnty narn - It cost £9.99
It did dint it - It did didn’t it, said as an affirmation.
It near as makes no matter - It makes very little difference
It’s nobbutfly, weren’t sting yer - It’s only a fly, it won’t sting you
Let dog see rabbit - Remove an impediment in the way of doing a job: get out of the way (from greyhound racing)
Les ava ganda - Let me have a look
Like phummock peeping owt ivy bush - Untidy hair, like a creature covered in ivy
Marching on together - Leeds United supporters song
Me butty’s squashed ont rerd yonder - My sandwich is squashed on a road some distance away
Me face is frozzed - My face is very cold/freezing
Me mam’s gonna kill us - My mum will be very angry with us
Nor, gaffer’s int’ bog - No, the boss has gone to the toilet
Owt berra than nowt - Something is better than nothing
Parmo ’n’ stottie - Parmo, a breaded cutlet of chicken or pork with béchamel and cheese invented in Middlesborough and stottie cake - a type of bread popular in north east England
Round ‘ere we hev a way o’ settlin things - Around here we have our own way of resolving disputes
She’s gorra rite monk on - She’s is in a very bad mood
Shurrup orral bray yer - Be quiet or I’ll beat you, a threat
Sitha bother but canna cadge a fiver - Sorry to bother you but can I borrow £5
Snur flakes ont windus - Snow flakes on windows
Stop nebbin in ma drawers - Stop looking in my drawers: mind your own business
Tha daft bat - That foolish woman
There’s nowt so queer as folk - There is nothing as strange as other people
Think on, yer cack-handed wazzock - Reconsider, you inept fool
Urm ’n’ away - Home and Away
Wang it ‘ere lad - Hurry along and pass/throw me that item young man
Worrawally - What a foolish person
Wot’s tha laffin at - What are you laughing at