davieG Posted 6 July 2010 Posted 6 July 2010 Send your 'Lestah' dictionary contributions to [email protected] A Ay up me duck - Good day madam/sir B Black over Bill's mother - It is about to rain Bob'ole - Den or hiding place C Charlie's dead - Your underskirt is showing beneath your dress Chin on - Being grumpy e.g. 'He's gorra chin on' Chip ole - Chip shop Cob - Bread roll Cob on - Being upset or grumpy e.g. 'He's gorra cob on' Coddie - Foreman Coggie - Swimming costume Cotty - Tangled hair Crash the ash - Give me a cigarette Croaker - Doctor Croggy - A ride hitched on a bicycle The cut - Canal D Dazzers - Swimming costume Dobber - Condom Duck's necks - A bottle of fizzy drink F Five and twenty to/past - Twenty-five to/past the hour Frit - Scared e.g. 'Oohya beggar, you frit me t'death' G Gaff - Home Gawping - Staring Ger off on it! - Are you serious? Ger out o' me road - Allow me to pass Ger out on it - Don't exaggerate Gis - Give/gave e.g. 'Gis us a bit' - Can I have some of that? Gen - 'I gen it ya' - I gave it to you Gis a gleg - Give me a look at it Gorra bag on - In a mood Guzgogs - Goosebetties H Hark at it! - Listen to it! J Jitty - Alleyway Jollop - Medicine K Karzi - Toilet L Laggy bands - Elastic bands Laropped - drunk Lugholes - Ears M Mardy - Grumpy or moody Mashin - Making the tea Makit go bakkuds - Put it in reverse Mam - Mother Me sen - Myself Mither - To bother e.g. 'Stop mithering me' N Nesh - Cold Nowt - Nothing O Oakey - An ice-cream Oat - Anything Offy - Off-license Old cock - Friend On ya tod - Alone Ooyah beggar - Goodness me P Pack it in - Stop it Puggin' - Picking your nose e.g. 'Pack puggin'!' Padge-owl - A woman out alone at night Parky - Cold e.g. 'It's a bit parky' Plaggy bags - Plastic bags R The rally - The railway line Reccy - Playing fields or park Reckon - Think e.g. 'That's what I reckon' Rocks - Sweets e.g. 'Av ya gorrany rocks?' S Sen - Self Skank - To leave someone, or to be a person who has left someone T Throw a wobbler - Have a tantrum W Wob o'er - Tumble over
Webbo Posted 6 July 2010 Posted 6 July 2010 I thought Gaff and Khazi were more cockney and Parky is northern surely?
Alexikokopops Posted 6 July 2010 Posted 6 July 2010 I thought Gaff and Khazi were more cockney and Parky is northern surely? Having never lived in Leicestershire, I'm pretty sure at least half of them aren't Leicester specific.
Guest Bilo Posted 6 July 2010 Posted 6 July 2010 Cob - Also verb meaning "to throw". Don't forget 'got a cob on', meaning to be mardy.
poopbutt Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 Don't forget 'got a cob on', meaning to be mardy. they didn't Cob on - Being upset or grumpy e.g. 'He's gorra cob on'
ozleicester Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 Awesome works folks.... Im working on memorising this list
Bellend Sebastian Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 We had some builders round once and I was left in charge of making tea for them and when asked if I was 'mashing' I didn't have a clue what they were on about. I insist on people speaking nothing but the Queen's English in my company
AoWW Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 Cob - Also verb meaning "to throw". I've also come across 'wang' as the verb 'to throw', eg wang it over here. I'm sure I picked it up while I was living in Leicester.
davieG Posted 7 July 2010 Author Posted 7 July 2010 Welly - as in give it some welly when throwing or having to put some physical effort into something.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 When I was a small lad, although Televisions were extremely rare , they were known as Tavs. This was in the days of the horse and cart. Yes, really true. I lived in Banks Road, Aylestone., Leicester. Most things around 1954 were brought to your door by this method. Coal, Green Groceries, Meat, Milk, and Ginger beer., apart from the obvious Rag and Bone man. Mind you, papers, bread, post, and ice cream were delivered by the most modern methods. The bicycle. No Not the bloody Penny Farthing you cheeky sods! Milk was known as the Good Stuff. Meat, Gee Gee., because horse meat was common-- Strong, bitter and very unpleasant. The people who delivered goods by bike were known as Spokes. The list goes on. t.
Webbo Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 I always mash tea, also the Leicester word for throwing is to 'yack'.
Teece Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 I've seen this before and it makes me chuckle I'm always getting told by non-Leicester mates that some phrases I use are ridiculous, especially since I moved away i'm fighting a losing battle haha The main ones I get ripped for are : Cob (The cob/bap/barm/batch war has been raging for years and will probably never end...) Cotty Hair Saying Okey for ice cream/ the okey bloke for the ice cream man (although some Leics peeps don't seem to know this either) Jitty croggy also we allegedly lazily chop the end of words off such as Monday (MONDEH, TOOOSDEH) , but when we say "Like" we drag it out in a long drone - "liiiiike" and apparently we say things like Tuesday/Tuna/Tune wrong - we say it like Toooseday/Tooona/tooon instead of the "ch" sound . Pff! and its been said that in the Katy Perry song that is in the charts "She says that like you!" , refering to the bit where she sings "Daisy Dukes" (or should that be Daisy DOOOK ) . So I get told I say it like an American, which is rich coming from the northerners who call trousers 'pants' Living up North now I can't get my head round them saying someone is Mard / a Mardarse, it should be MARDY/MARDYARSE and yes, have mentioned the mashing tea one before, as they always say 'Brew' Obviously I/we are right and they are wrong
Fosse Boy Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 also we allegedly lazily chop the end of words off such as Monday (MONDEH, TOOOSDEH) , but when we say "Like" we drag it out in a long drone - "liiiiike" and apparently we say things like Tuesday/Tuna/Tune wrong - we say it like Toooseday/Tooona/tooon instead of the "ch" sound . Pff! and its been said that in the Katy Perry song that is in the charts "She says that like you!" , refering to the bit where she sings "Daisy Dukes" (or should that be Daisy DOOOK ) . So I get told I say it like an American, which is rich coming from the northerners who call trousers 'pants' As the holder of a recently awarded BA in English Language I can tell you that far from being "lazy", pronouncing Monday as "Mondeh" etc. is merely a case of you not diphthongising that particular vowel as happens in southern dialects. Also, saying "dook" instead of "duke" is a phenomenon known as yod dropping, and is widely regarded in the linguistic community as an East Anglian language feature (go to Norwich, honestly everyone does it all the time) which spread west over time. You won't find it any further west than Leicestershire though. See kids, with that kind of pointless knowledge you too can be the proud recipient of an, er, 2.2 in a poncy Arts degree like me.
Phube Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 They forgot: Lot'reh - Lottery Twenneh - Twenty Nip-um-frit - I gome home for it I ain't gorrowt - I don't have anything Shear-fah - What's she here for
stez Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 ay up me duck, is always followed by 'ow-eh-yoh' by me anyway, and i'm from leicester, so that counts.
AoWW Posted 7 July 2010 Posted 7 July 2010 D'ya wa come? - Do you want to come. Well i say it anyway Careful, you don't want to come across as too romantic.
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