Yorkshire - Learn the language

To my blog readers :-

One day you may meet a Yorkshireman (hopfully me) and there are a few things you need to learn about the white rose language.
1. A Tyke (Yorkshireman) is always blunt and will say what he thinks don't be offended.
2. A Tyke is Friendly to strangers.
3. A Tyke is stubborn.
4. You don't have to tell a tyke Yorkshire is a nice place he already knows that.
5. Don't tell a Tyke you like or are from Lancashire.
6. Don't wear a red rose.
7.Remember to tell him you love white roses.
8. You need to learn the laguage so I have included some usefull words and sayings with their English definitions read on :-

Yorkshire term - Definition

allus - always
'appen - maybe, possibly e.g. "I'll 'appen that's it" for "that's possibly true"
aye - yes
bad 'un - no good
badly - not in a good state of health, i.e.'How's Martha?', 'She's badly.'
bagsey - childhood term, i.e. 'bagsey my turn!'
bairn - child
bait/ bait box - snack/ packed lunch
bap - bread bun
beck - brook
beefin(g), blubberin(g) - crying
be reight - it'll be alright
best y' do - see that you do
black bright, black as't face o' spades - very dirty
bog - toilet/restroom
bonce - head
bonny - pretty
bray/braying - beating e.g. "you'll get a good braying" or "I'll bray you"
breadcake - bread roll or bap
butty - sandwich
cack-handed - left-handed, clumsy
chelpin' - talking
chippy, chip 'ole - fish and chip shop
chuckin(g) your guts up - being sick
chuddy - chewing gum
chuffed - pleased, excited
clarty - dirty, muddy, sticky
clout - cloth or slap
coal 'ole, coyle oyle - coal cellar
coit - coat
croggy - riding on the cross-bar of a bicycle
daft as a brush - stupid
delve - dig
down't (road) - down the (road)
'ead - head
eeh by gum - oh my God
faffing - messing about
famished - hungry, starving
fast - stuck
fettle - to tidy/mend
flaggin(g) - tired, worn out
flippin 'eck - (flipping heck) exclamation of shock and surprise
flitin' - moving house
flower - term of endearment
flummoxed - confused
fowl - bird
gaffer - the boss
gander - look at
gear - items, things
ginnell - alleyway
gi' over - give over, stop it
giz, gizza, gizzyer - give, give us, give your
goffs - smells horrible
goodies - sweets
good 'un - good one
goosegog - gooseberry
gormless - stupid
gunna, gonna - going to
hell fire! - goodness me!
in a bit - bye
in't - in the
jammy - very lucky
jiggered - very tired
kegs - trousers/underwear
kiddin(g) - telling a fib, joking
lake, laikin(g), larking - play (i.e. "Is your Lesley coming out to lake?"), playing
lass - girl/young woman/wife
lavvy - toilet/restroom
leg - throw
lug, lug'ole - ear
maffin' - hot and clammy weather
(I'm) mafted - (I'm) hot
manky - not nice, unpleasant
mardy - moody, sulky, stroppy
minging - horrible, unpleasant
mithered, mitherin(g) - irritated with something, as in "stop mitherin' me" is "stop bothering/irritating me".
v. (to have a) monk on - to be grumpy, to have a sulky face
missen - My self e.g. "I'll do it missen"
narky - moody, sulky, stroppy, (mardy)
n'ar - now
neb - nose
nithered - very cold
not back'ard at comin' for'ard - (not backward at coming forward) pushy person
nouse - sense
nowt/ nout - nothing
now then - hello
oh aye?! - oh really?!
'ow do - how are you, hello
owt - anything
pack it in - stop it
paggered - knackered e.g. "I'm completely paggered" or "I've just paggered my dad's car"
playin(g) pop - to tell of/ get angry with
pop - fizzy drink
pudgy - fat or chubby person
put wood in'th oyle - shut the door
radged - Angry
ratty - grumpy/gross
(it) reeks - (it) smells horrible
reet - right
Rum'n - Cheeky/bit of a character e.g. "He's a rum'n"
sarnies - sandwiches
scran - food
seethee - do you see? (often used at the end of a sentence)
sh' in't in - she isn't in
siling down - raining heavily
sithee - goodbye (see thee)
(have a) skeg - (have a) look
snap - food
snicket - small alleyway or footpath
spanish - licqourice - apparently because Spanish monks bought a licquorice tree to Rievaulx Abbey
spelk, spell - splinter
spice - sweets
sprog - child
spuggy - sparrow
starved/starves - really cold (not 'hungry' as you might expect) or makes cold eg: "Milk starves my tea"
summat - something
sup - drink
ta - thanks
tarra - bye
tek - take
thee, tha - you
thissen - yourself
Tyke - Yorkshire person
un - one
vexed - angry
waint - won't
watter - water
while - until e.g. "I'm working while seven"
wick - alive or lively
yonder - over there


Yorkshire phrase - Definition

'appy as a pig in muck - very happy, content with oneself
arse over tit - head over tail
couldn't organise a p*** up in a brewery - badly organised, can't do anything right
look frinint ye - look in front of you (i.e. when walking)
more brass na brains - more money than sense
near as makes n'matter - close enough
neither use nor ornament - expression of disapproval; useless
not enough room to swing a cat - very small room, cramped
a Scarborough Warning - bad behaviour that will result in a punishment, i.e. "You better watch it, you're on a Scarborough warning young lady".
s*** with sugar on - over-elaborate, posh food
that ladgin buewer chored me pack up - that unattractive girl I don't like very much has stolen my packed lunch
that's a threp in't steans - that's a blow/ kick in the... (shins?)
well, I'll go to't foot of't stairs/ I'll go to our house - expression of amazement
were ya born in a barn? - you've left the door open: close it!
where's it at? - where is it?