In artlepool we do not pronounce the letter h .
and sumtimes put an h. in front of werds like , [hoe-ver ear] etc.
a-can [i can]
a-berrer [l had better]
a - swear down me like. [l am telling the truth]
ackers [money]
acky [dirty]
adden- up [adding up]
afor-yer [l am before you]
ar-will [i will]
am-over-rear [i am over here] BACK TO HOMEPAGE
am - cowld [ I am cold]
av-gorrer-newun [ i have a new one]
am- goosed [i am tired out]
am-cummen-wiyyer [i am coming with you]
amma-goan-wiyyer [am I going with you]
arm-tyerd-r-yu [i am tired are you]
anyroads [anyhow]

anyways (anyhow)
ar-carner-kept-it [l cannot have kept it]

ar-reet [all right]
ar-fit [give me half]
ayyer- cumin- tu-rowwer- ouse [are you coming to our house]
ayyer-goan-out [are you going out]
ayyer-graftun [are you working]

ayyer-rin (are you in)
arl-gerrit-foyyer [l will get it for you]

arl-pay-forrit (i will pay for it)
arm-goan wiyyer [l am going with you]
appelun [go stealing apples]
av-ye! [have you]
ayyer-or-rite [are you o.k]

arl [i will]

al-nack-ye! (i'll hit you)

al-giyyer (i'll give you)
bar [ pound coin or note] one bar = 1 pound, 5 bar = 5 pounds etc.

bagz-i [l want first chance,] [it's mine]
berns [babies]
barmpot [silly person, mad]
beest [a good one]
benny [silly person]
bewer [female]
billy muskers [bobbies]
bint [female]
birrer [a bit of]
blag-d [spragged on] [or barred]
blagged [barred out] [stopped]
blert [tell tales] [or a good fart]
blurt [women]
bod [person]
bonny-lad [mate or friend, hello friend, [as , hello bonny lad]
braze'nt-fond [cheeky]
bullets or kets [sweets]
butterloggy [butterfly]
birrav-it [a bit of it ]
barmpot [crazy man]
blathered [drunk]
blaked [drunk]
blogged [choked up]
bonker [big ally, or marble]
booler [bike wheel and stick]
bopped [hit]
boes-an-arrers [bows and arrows]

borrer [lend off someone]
brar-mer [good one]
buckled [person with lots of money]
buzzen [feeling good]
cacky [awful,or not very nice]

cathy-smit (catholic kids)
carked it [died] [someone just died,has carked it]
clarty [very muddy, or difficult to do something]
clart-on [mess about] ,fooling around.
carzy [toilet]
canny-jagga-coal [large lorry load,or barrow load, of seacoal] BACK TO HOMEPAGE
chuddy [chewing gum]
chocker [full up,or cannot get anything else in]
chuft [very pleased]

clammy [sweaty]
clemmy [stone or brick]
clag-claggun-claggy [stick it together or sticky]
clammen [very hungry]
chawed [stolen] or [ pinched ]
chomper [chewy,pest]
canner [tin of beer]
chaw or chaws [pal ,mate, or they are a no good]
chod [piece of]
cowld [cold]
cowie [cash or money]
cowie on the [on the social or benefit]
chucky [bought on the never never], [or a money loan]
coal-line -[marker scratched the in sand, in front of seacoal patch being left by the tide][it gives you sole rights, to all seacoal left, in front of line towards the sea]many a battle fought over this line being moved further back or side by the oppo"s, {enemy}]
cossy [swimming costume]
cozzy [swimming costume]

cozz [because]
croaked it [died]
dead morky [ not very nice] [awful colour]
dearwannerbirrermechuddy [would you like a piece of my chewing gum]
der-brain [daft]

dern't (frightened to do it)
didd-a [did i]
dishclow't [ cloth for washing up]
divvy-lot [people ,not all there]
doan- clart on, [do not mess about]
doddle [ dog -poo]
dogger [small crab], or tab end,cigarette end]
doan-chew-us [do not mess me around]
didlum [money saving scheme]
duff [useless]
duffed [no good ]
deak [have a look]
ded-ringer [same as]
ded - gud [very nice]
doo-lally [ a bit simple]
dosh,-doe [money]
doyle [idiot]
duzzen -av-out [they do not have any money]
did-yer-meck-out [how did you do]
eek-it out [be sparing with something]
ear-av-a-lukker-thislot [come and have a look at these]
eggun [collecting birds eggs]
ellish [something very good]
erry-up- or-ow-e [hurry up]
enny-oww! [anyhow]
eye-yer [hello]
eyy-up [hello]

fettle [ fix]

forruz [for me]
feggy [first] fest [first]

fetched up [brought up]
fust [first]
fergerrer-bowt-it [forget about it]
fleg [spit]
flowery [your bed]
foy [smell or stink]

foyed ye! (led you on)
foyyer [for you]

frikened [frightened ]
full- ogg [all the way]
full- jagg [full load of something]
futter [football]

fommy [for me]
gadgy [man]
gadgy wummen [a women who looks like manley] BACK TO HOMEPAGE
gaggin [thirsty] [or hungry]
gerritfommy [get it for me]
gimpy [no good] kelp [money]
ganzy [sweater or top]
gallerwer [horse]
givorder [stop it]
givowwer [stop doing it]
gleg [have a look]

goosed (tired out)
gorrit [i've got it]
gerrit [i'll get it ]
gimpy [awful ,or no good]
gazunder [a bedpan that goes underneath the bed]
give-owwer,or order [stop doing it]
gal-o-wer [horse]
givorder or giv-owwer[stop, or do not do it]
gerroff [get off]
ger-rout [get out]
gor-out [got anything]
gob all [ gob sh - te]
gordy [very bright]
gerrus-a-narf [get me half a beer]
gerr-ova-rear-now [come over hear please]
gizz-ye -dog end [give me you ciggy end or nipper or tab end]
gizzit,ear ,etc .[give it to me]
gizzer, giz,etc .[give me]
gawkey [ugly]
giz-arf [give me half of it ]
giz-a tab, ,giz sum ,etc. [give me]
giyyer-a clout [give someone a clip accross the face]
gizza luk [can l have a look]
gizza- croggy [ride on a bike crossbar]

gizza-poggy (give me a lift up)
gowld [gold]
grift [do you understand]
gudden [good one]

gunner [going to]

hoke out yor lugs [clean out your ears]
impittent [cheeky]

izzy [is he]
i-ate-it [i do not like it]
i- avven gorrit [ l have not got it]
i-up [hello]

jagg [ as in jag of coal,or a full load on your lorry]
jammy's [glasses]
jip [pain]

kets [sweets]

kep [catch something]
kali [sherbert]
kalied [drunk]
kecks [undies or knickers]
kets [sweets]
kidder [ow are ye! kidder] ,[friend] or young child.
kite [fat or large stomach]
lucker [look]

lol-up (take your time)
loopy [round the bend, silly]
lops,loppy [you havelops , head lice], feeling itchy.
lergy [ill with something]
lag [wee- wee]
lacky band [elastic band]
laggy band [elastic band]
lendz-it [lend me it]
lerruz [let me]
loggy [butterfly, or butterloggy]
lowwer [money]
loww-ed right up [got lots of money]
lukker,the moy on im, or, er [her] ,[look at there face],BACK TO HOMEPAGE
meg [spit]
minty [smelly]

meggd (tricked you)

melled,mel (hammered,hammer)
ming-ing [smelly] or you do not like something.
mucker [mate or friend]
mush [face] ,or, now-then mush [ hello my pal]
maftin [very hot]
mafted [i am very hot and sweaty]
manky [bad or smelly]
me-belly"s-riften [my stomach is aching]
minjy-lot [mean people]
minjy [mean] tight with something,awfull colour
minging [smelly,] not very good] disgusting
mebeees [maybe]
meck [make]
melt [hide it away] [dozy melt, nutter,stupid]
mop-edd [moped]
muffed it [ made a mistake]
miffed [disappointed ] [not happy]
morgy [awfull]

moy [your face]
miffed [not very happy]
me-owse [my house]
merky [cloudy water etc]
mott [throw a-penny] , two meanings , I will only accept this one.
mortul [drunk]
musker or billy musker [police]
mully [smash up]

mull-ye! (hit you)
neb [nose]
nitherd [feeling very cold]

nitty- nora (nit nurse)
nop [no]

nor [no]
norrerlorrergud [not a lot of use]
nor-am-ardup [no i have no money]
norawoant[no l will not]
nor-i-av-nowt [no i have'nt any money]
nor-no-lowwer [no i have'nt any money]
nowt [nothing]

nothink [ nothing]
nipper [dog end, or tab end.ciggy end]
ock [borrowed or on the chucky, loaned]
ork [be sick]
orker [person who scrapes around for a living ]
offy [beer shop]
owld [old]
onyercore [save me your apple core]
oppo [enemy]
owt [any thing] spoken as in out
owwy-inwel [ come on in ] spoken as in cow
ow-ayyer like [how are you]
ow-ee [come on]
ow- e- well [come with me]
ow'z [how is] spoken as in cow
owwythen,[or like,] [or now,],[etc]come with me,
owwer lass [my wife]
owway [come with me] how can away, as spoken,mean come on [beats me]
ow-mu [how much]
oyyit-owt [throw it away] spoken as in toy
oyyed [thrown out]
oyyit-ear-now [throw it to me]

pagg-edd [worn out- no good]
pagger [give someone a battering]
pancrack [on the social security]
pap [not very nice]
pelt [throw something]
pezzle [pinch something] pezzled [something that is stolen] BACK TO HOMEPAGE
piller [pillow or cushion]
pitted [dirty as, filthy as]
pittle down [rain]
pee-anner [piano]
powch [eat a lot] [fat belly] as spoken in cow
pog-up [help lift someone up]

poggy (lift up)
poke [money]
propper [i have the real thing]
pug-ugly] [not very good looking]
puggled [confused]
pumps [sandshoes]
purrit-down ,or in, or away, or teer.[ put it down,]
r-dunno [l do not know]
rajjed [not a full shilling or daft]
radjy ,take a radgy [blow your top]
r-we-gunna-avver-blackun [are we going to the pub for beer straight from work]
rammy [no gud , mouldy etc] two meanings, I will only accept this one
rarf [idiot]
r-no [i know].
rully [cart for horse]
rolly [cart for horse]
ruff-as-gassowse-sinders [as rough as you can get]

shifted [moved]

sleg [drink] [as in gizz a sleg],[meaning a drink]

savvy [do you understand me]
scarp [scrap]
shafted [been robbed , been conned]
shut-yer-lugs [shut up will you]
seeyer-rafter [see you later]
shoze-it [show it to me]
shudda [should i]
shufty [let me see]
shut-arf ye mush [shut your mouth, be quiet]
shurrupwillyer [shut up will you]
skew-if [not straight]

skemmy [stone or brick]

skeg [to look]
skift off [sickened] or not happy with something.

sleg (drink)
smacker roony's [money]
snaggerun [turnip collecting]
spelk [splinter in your finger] or your bum, etc.
sporny [lucky]
shan [no good] a-feel shan me like[not very well]
stop-messun-wilyer [do not fool around with me]
spitun-pop [exactly the same as]
scran [food]
spondoolees [money]
sporny [very lucky]
snagger [turnip]
sho- us [show me]
summet [something]
skidaddle [get out of here]
sandys [sandshoes]
sannys [ sandshoes]
snork [your nose]
seggy [second place]
slavver [cheek, or, never shut up,slavver on]
skinum [rip-im off]

sup-up (drink up)
stop clacken yer chuddy [stop making noises while eating your chewing gum]BACK TO HOMEPAGE
selt [sold]

snoan [snowing]

tab end [ciggy but end]
thuv went [they have gone]spoken as in dove.
take-a-deek [have a look]
tan-tobies [rag and bone men or gipsies]
tay-tee [potatoe]
tar-ree-wagger [old rope that is soaked in creosote]
the -bizness [all you have] [l will sell everything]
the- bizness [the best]
thus nowt-a-marrer-wiyyer [nothing wrong with you]
tinner [a tin of something]
thingwee [you know who,or what]
thattle [that will ] spoken as in cattle.
thorrer [very precise]
totty [girls] [bit of stuff]
trots [the diarrea]
tungie [turnip]
tirrar [by- by]
timson [ speed, put car throttle to the floor] full throttle.
two-egger [birds nest with 2 eggs in]
toyl [hard work,or just work,]
totty [girls]
tu-morrer [tomorrow]
use't to vit [used to it]`
vers-yuz [play a game against you] or yuze.

wethit [worth it]
wan-oo[want to]
wanner [want to]
wer-ayyer [where are you]
wermee [wriggle about] will not sit still [fidgity]
wil-ye [will you]
weryer-werking-now [where do you work at the moment]
wee-arn-goan [we are not going]
wer-ayyer [where are you]
wern-enny [there was not anything there]
weryer-goan [where are you going]
well-eye[of course]
wers-me-yat-at [where is my hat]
wer-ather [where are they]
werks [where you work]

werk [do work]
werkun [working]
wilyer [will you]
werrit [ person who worrys]

winj [moan about something]

wesser worse than]

west [the worst thing]
wimmy [with me]
woller [barmy or rough person] or just a person
worrer gudden [what a good one]

washy-in (was she in)
wots-up-wiyyer [what is the matter with you]
wotsuplike [what is the matter]
wotsupwiyyer-like,.[what is a matter with you]
wotsamarrer -like, [or wiyyer,],[etc],[what is the matter]
wozzent in [they where not in] or wern't in [not in]
wudden [would not]

ye! [yes]
yeller [yellow]
yu-divvy-arnyer [you are daft ,or silly,arn't you]
yuk [hit someone]

yukky [ feeling awfull]
yukkun [ hurting] you are in pain
yur-roppo's [opposition]
yuze-lot [all of you]

Games of Yester-yer
Queeny,queeny,whos got the ball,{one person stands in front of others, facing away from them,and throws a ball back over there head,}someone catches the ball,and you turn round ,and try and guess who has the ball hidden behind there back.etc,. Delallo,1,2,3.
Allower , Kerby, Bins, Bows-an-arrers,
Itchy bay , Backdoors , Boagys, Block (hide and seek),( also called loggy)
What time is it mr wolf , Stick in the mud,
Tiggy, Boolers, Tin in the middle, Stilts [tin cans-string attached] BACK TO HOMEPAGE
Stage-coaches, Cowies-n-injee-uns, Weelbarrers , Leep frog,
Run be-ind sum-one with string or rope round there shoulders shouting gee-up,carnt think wot we called it? [cud it be oss-n-cart]

Mott

nicky nocky nine doors

boolers (old bike rim, and a stick to drive it along)

My Own Werds
Clork [gunge,grease,etc], Rarfy"s [large anything]
Konky-bob,[large nose] , D-bees [the best]
Ishmar [sharp pain] Gumshun [person with no teeth]
Snotter [home made boagy or go-cart], Skeemers [hand cloths for wiping]
Ning [good morning]
Follers [flowers]
Gadgy-wummen[ transvest,or man that looks like a femail] or woman that looks like very manley.
Sniveler [corner of eye look]
Messeryte [person who half does a repair, and cannot finish it]
Bodgeryte [person who finishes the job] after being messed up by a [ messerrite ]
Borreryte [person who never returns things],[and the longer they keep it,they think it actually belongs to them]
Doylite [a person who actualy calls you a doyl]
Nerf"d [pushed out of way]
Riggy -up [bodged up bike]
Paj [your dad] [or pops]
Puffer-reener[ gay man]or man who acts like a women
Saps [pies] Swede atch,[ turnip head] [person with no brains]
Larry adler [savoury slice] oblong ,shaped like a mouth organ
Riftowsers [puff pastries etc, that give you bad guts after you have eaten it] ,
Letty [a person who cheats in squash],
Vardy [can"t get something off your mind]
Zu-bone [skinny person]
Skip-ryters , [person who thinks they have sole the rights ,and they use there own autherisation to rummage in skips], [usually ded-bossy with it]
Ala-bal-a [soiled undies, panties, nappie"s],[ more than just skidders]
Simmeryte [person who"s strimming the grass],
Luksther [listen to me]

Old Sayings at St.Aidens School
Ow much oil, could johnny boyle boil, if Johnny boyle could boil oil.? BACK TO HOMEPAGE
Cushty bar-ree, cowee-,mush.[said when you met your pal]

What is Correct ?

Is the true saying ? armsful, or armfuls ? ,shovels full or shovel fulls ?
Same as buckets full.- some say bucket fulls

All these pages are only for a bit of fun { not to be too taken seriously}

Alf Sterling [art-le-pool]

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