TLABD Dictionary

“couple or three” - it wasn’t two, but it also wasn’t much more than that.

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outdoor: an off-licence

go to the foot of our stairs: blimey, that’s surprising

island: a roundabout

‘Guin round the Wrekin’ - Going the long way around

Deaf - forget, abandon

i.e Shall we deaf it? = Let’s not bother with it.

bostin

Goo an play up yer own end.

Buzz = bus

Ar (Ah?) = yes

Tara a bit = goodbye

“It’s lookin’ a bit black over the back of Bill’s mother’s” - used by both parents, two Uncles - both sides (born Handsworth) from as early as I can remember.

Awroight? - ‘All right’?

My father (1927-96) used to say “Do that and I’ll chase you all the way round the Wrekin’

Owamya? = How you doin’?

all around the wrekin ‘ as in someone who takes too long to explain something ‘

eh’ar = here you are

‘can’t get me hat on’ - similar to ‘i’ll go to the foot of our stairs’ for something surprising

and how about ‘looking like nobody owns you’ when you are a bit scruffy?

As long as Livery street, (a long way)….. Horse road (Road)…. Babbies (Babies)…….Yerr (Year)…..Gooing (going).

How about Scraged your knee?? (scratched, grazed)

a Tot - an alcoholic drink/a pint

a Cob - a bread roll/bap - apparently unique to the West Midlands

Yampee - Crazy

Deaf it- Don’t bother

Mither - to fuss (not sure if this is just Brummie)

See you on the ice in the fish market.

A gambol. People outside of Birmingham don’t know wht a gambol is, if you don’t believe me just ask someone, a non-brummy.

Not ‘alf and Not s’bad (often just s’bad) are overused by Brummies.

Get out of town! Love that one.

To “munch” - as in “stop munching the dog/cat/ your brother/sister” etc

My mum always used to say this to us kids when she wanted us to stop teasing any of the above - I still love that word today!

And what about “grizzle” - i.e to cry

Just thought of another one - “piesal” (I think that’s roughly how you spell it) - my mother in law (Brummie through and through) uses the word a lot to describe someone who is mean or a bit tight with their money.

Nawse- as in someone who is nauseating and annoying (”You’re such a nawse”

Breeg- as above

Scrage- when you’re little and you fall off your bike and you put your hands out to stop yourself hitting your face, only to ’scrage’ the heel of your palms so much so they sting for about three days afterwards

Tip-top- basically a cheapo ice lolly that costs 5p, or, if you’re in a newsagents in Solihull, 10p

ar = yes (this is a favourite of mine)
the cut = the canal

Wunnarf an eyesore

Wasn’t too pretty on the eye

Ayup: Heads up, I’m about to say something you’ll be interested in

Bostin: Something that is really very good. Eg: Ayup she’s bostin

Blinkin eck. An expression of surprise. Eg Blinkin eck, that’s a bostin pint.

Bloomin aida. Another expression of shock or surprise.

Kin aida: Intense shock or surprise (when you are unsure whether to use the full obscenity or not).

Owzabout?: how about?, here is an alternative view?, why not?

I’ll ave arf: mines a half, thanks.

For the umpteenth time: I’ll tell you again.

Tun Dish: A funnel

Its lookin grim: The outlooks not good.

Aint. Havn’t, am not or isn’t. As in I aint (havn’t) got it, I aint (am not) going, It aint (isn’t)

‘I Aint avin it’….I simply don’t agree

Barkin mad: You/she/he do not conform to my way of thinking.

A Yam Yam: Someone who comes from the Black Country.

Gonna: Going to.

He’s a little bugger: The origins fortunately lost in time, now an endearing term for someone normally young who it mildly annoying.

He’s a bugger up the back: Same as a little bugger. Why anyone would say this is unclear. Used by my late Grandmother who possibly had some unfortunate experiences in life.

The mind boggles: A knowing bemusement. Likely response to someone saying…he’s a bugger up the back!

By gum. You don’t say?

Its rainin in. (Close the window), the rain is coming in.

ooo stop yer ‘aggin: meaning will you please stop moaning/complaining/etc..

“Will you stop chobbling your sweets?!!” - stop crunching the boiled sweet that is in your mouth!

Harley Barley ! a term used when one is coppin’ out in an argument/scrap.

“Steady past yer granny’s”

- something my nan used to say to her over-hasty/clumsy grandchildren to get them to calm down

“He’s a bugger for his [...]”

- (a) he’s extraordinarily keen on/partial to [...]

- (b) he insists on indulging in the annoying habit of [...]

“Pack it in!”

- Stop it!

YOU WHAT!! - were you talking to me? / what are you saying / shut your mouth or lets have it! The Brummie war cry. Usually aimed at anyone who might have said anything after a few drinks. Used by men and women!

”lets 0121”. - lets do one - lets go.

Fittle - food

By the cinema in Dudley is a restaurant by name of ‘Bostin Fittle’ - literally good food.

Isn’t the word ‘pikelet’ a west midlands only term? It’s the bun with the holes in that you toast and put butter on - my husband, a Londoner, calls it a muffin.

More lavatorial humour :-)
My father always prounces it “tor-lit”, but my mother (from Handsworth) refers to it as the “Lar-pom”, or just “out the back”, even though we now have a bathroom.

Like - said after nearly every word in a sentence - as in you know like, I went to the park like, and I had a run like, and then I went home like….

Basically - as in ‘basically I just went to the shop’ or ‘basically, that’s what happened’

are these brummie sayings, or from all over?

Bab - as in ‘how am ya bab’ - how are you love?

Pitherin’ - Faffing about, although faffing might be just as Brummie, taking a long time to achieve nothing in particular

Tara a bit, or run together as tararabit - see you later

What about ‘gully’ for a passageway between houses? No-one here in Oxfordshire has a clue what I’m talking about.

And round here they say pitchy-poll for gambol.

oh yes, we always used to nip up the gully (gulley?) to the shops.

My mom would always call sherbet ‘KAY-loy’.

http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/slang.htm

Loads of Brummie dialect on there -
:D

Tara-a-bit - definitely a favorite of my mums!
xx

Tuthbrush too!

Diooorrr (Dire). Used by almost every Villa and Blues fan calling a radio football phone-in.

Stick - against (as in “versus”) in kids’ games. “Us lot stick you lot, OK?”

Hate to quibble, but a lot of Pete Myring’s suggestions aren’t particularly Brummie:

Ayup: This is more Yorkshire/Lancashire

Bostin: Yes. Brummie and Black Country.

Blinkin eck. Generic nationwide/Northern , surely?

Kin aida: Yep, I like this one.

Owzabout?: Generic northern (think Jimmy Saville)

I’ll ave arf: Mmmm, yeah, suppose so.

For the umpteenth time: Is this just Brummie?

Tun Dish: Don’t know this one.

Its lookin grim: Generic.

Aint. Pretty much nationwide working-class, I’d have thought.

‘I Aint avin it’: Yeah, maybe.

Barkin mad: Generic.

A Yam Yam: Yep.

Gonna: Generic.

He’s a little bugger: Generic.

He’s a bugger up the back: Never heard this one.

The mind boggles: Definitley generic!

By gum. Lancashire, without a doubt.

Its rainin in. Yeah, I think so.

To”cut yer boot” - an expression that means to have trodden in some dog poo on the pavement. Used in my parents household in Brum when someone(usually one of us kids) came in reeeking of something unpleasant i.e. “Phew! Have you cut yer boot ?”

“Blown off”: suffered from a touch of flatulance.

Sorry about all the toilet references in this post!

“gansey” - jumper, sweater

DICTIONARY ADDITION
To ‘Crash’ a) transitive verb meaning to give or share, as in ‘Crash the rocks Nigel’ (give me a sweet Nigel)
b) to stay over, as in ‘Can i crash at your place tonight Nigel?’ (may I stay over at your house tonight Nigel)

I’m sure the second ‘crash’ is fairly universal english - but the first one possibly…

A few favourites from an adopted Midlander of 14 years’ standing…

Firk (verb, also Black Country): To scrabble around, looking for something

Kipper tie (noun): ‘Ot drink enjoyed with a poiklet

Mardy (adjective): Grumpy

‘Ow am ya? (interrogative): Are you well?

What it is, right, … (phrase): Compulsory beginning to an explanation of any length

Wumtay (company name from initials WMT): Company which runs buzzes

And for the record, someone suggested it was a unique usage, but they also use “cob” for “bread roll” in Leicester. For some reason, midway from Brum to Leicester (in Coventry and Warwickshire), it becomes a “batch”.

Bonce = Head

Blartin’ = Crying

Chompin’ = Noisy eating.

Babby. = Baby.

“Mardy” isn’t Brummie it’s Yorkshire as in “She’s a reet mardy bum” and is more complex behaviour that straightforward grumpyness. It’s unappeasable low level whining with mild emotional blackmail and general contraryness. Possible to ignore in small doses but builds to a critical mass of extreme irritation.

crash the rocks..

deffo….

deaf out (not to be confused with deffo)

bringing back great memories.

and i humbly suggest “up your end” - as in “where you live”

…and of course - “tarrah a bit” - see you later

Re Steve’s contribution:-

“What it is, right, … (phrase): Compulsory beginning to an explanation of any length”

The pronunciation should join the first three sounds thus:- “Worritiz, roight.

The phrase may be prefaced with ‘Only’:-

“Onlyworritiz, roight …”

Perfection loses the ‘l’ from ‘only’, thus:-

“Oneyworritz, roight ..”

R

“Got a bob on hisself/herself” - thinks he/she is better than other people, has got an overblown idea of their own importance

“yer daft apath!” - affectionate term of admonition to someone who has said or done something mildly silly

“Red ‘at, no drawers!” - colourful expression used by my mother to imply that a neighbour or acquaintance (usually female) had spent good money on maintaining an appearance of affluence, whilst (for example) secretly struggling to pay the gas bill. Similar to the expression, “All kippers and curtains!”

“loike, yu now” - “like, you know?” - additional unnecessary padding often used at the end of a sentence or brief story.

“any row-ed up” - “any road up” - often used at the mid-point of a long drawn out story to signify the return to the main point of the story after additional unrelated waffle.

He or she:- “Couldn’t stop a pig in an entry”.

To be said of someone, he or she, who has bow legs or is bandy legged.
R

“Isn’t the word ‘pikelet’ a west midlands only term? It’s the bun with the holes in that you toast and put butter on - my husband, a Londoner, calls it a muffin.”

Wonderful word. As a child in the south I toasted “crumpets” - they only changed to pikelets when I moved here.

How about:

“Sherrin” - shiny new first year pupil (yes I know, now year seven - ridiculous system). Certainly applied in my Birmingham school - may have been unique to that school though?

Also love Williams “crash the rocks..” - share the sweets.

“Bostin Steve Austin” - 1970’s extension of “Bostin” (means good, but with a possible extra edge of approval and a hint of excitement?)

‘Def it out’ = leave it out
‘Deft out’ = been left out
‘face like a bosted arse’ = butt ugly

Sherrin or sherring, meaning fresh herring was exclusively a KES thing I think.

Had completely forgotten ‘crash the rocks’ until just now.

Thought ‘Ow am ya?’ is more black country than brummie?
I use round the wrekin and no-one in south knows what I mean!
Kay-lie was my fave, my mom still uses that. Tip-top seems to be a brummie thing… no-one outside of brum know what that is either… or jublee!

And I mean jublee in the frozen ice pop sense of the word… not look at the pair of those…

have we had :

“Bost” - broken.

Love this but most of the contributions are certainly common in North Staffordshire. What is different is the unique Brummie accent, which some contributors have managed to represent so well, that even a native of the Potteries, with 40 years of living in Wales, Oxfordshire and Bolton, and no talent for mimicry, can make a passing stab at. Keep it up its bostin

A note on pronunciation, if I may.

The ‘o’ sound as in ‘boss’ and ‘mom’, both common in Brummie usage is a most beautiful sound.

It is formed with both the ‘o’ and the ‘a’ vowels, (as in bass and mam) blended together.

Speak ‘boss’ and ‘Bass’ making your vowel sounds very different. Feel how you form the two sounds with your lips and tongue, then make the vowell sound that is part way between the two positions
Good Luck
R

Bostin Crab and Bostin Aggro - other extensions of ‘bostin’ used to emphasise just how bostin something is

Kin ‘ell man - expression of surprise/dismay/disgust

You’ll ‘ave it dark - get a move on or it’ll be night before you’ve done what you need to do

Another extension for bostin:-

Bostin that ain’t it.

Pronounced:- “Bostin tharrayit!”
R

Where ya bin, Where have you been?

How bin yahh, How are you?

Were yow goowin, Where are you going?

Sweaty: Stress, Panic.
As in so and so had ‘a right sweaty’

What about “Basically” everyone in Brum says this - doh they?

Leggin it - Running very fast

What about “Rezza” as in the Edgbaston Reservoir

“Got one on her/him”:- For in a bad mood

“Back of Ted’s” :- For an unspecific place eg, ‘where does he live? ‘oh, over the back of teds’

“Cowin’” :- For a mild swear word similar to ‘flippin’….cowin’ hell

“er’s got a face as lung as Livery Street”….down in the dumps/Miseryguts.

“Its as black as yer hat an thats blue” - Its Obvious

“this aint gettin the baby a frock and pinney” - We are wasting time here

Where is this strange place “Brummie”? Does it appear on any maps or how does one know how to avoid it.
The vernacular sounds rather strange, but will definitely go there just before hell freezes over.

Here’s a list of slang that I have picked up from my family - who are from Dudley, West Brom and Birmingham - hope this helps! Katy. xxx

‘Barmy’ - said to someone who’s insane - ‘Yo’m barmy’ - same as ‘Yampy’

‘Bint’ - a thick young woman

‘Blartin’ - crying incessantly… e.g. ‘Pack in blartin’ - ’stop your crying now’

‘Cake-hole’ - slang word for mouth

‘Canting’ - slang for ‘talking’, verb: ‘cant’

‘Clarnet’ - a term used to call someone an idiot or fool (Tipton origins I think)

‘Fizzog’ - means ‘Face’ - so to tell someone to stop sulking - ‘Put yer fizzog straight’…

‘Yo gerron me wick’ - means ‘You get on my nerves’

Glarnies - another name for ‘Marlies’ - Marbles

A ‘Guzzunda’ - a bed pan

Kay-lied - slang meaning of ‘to get drunk’ - also you may hear ‘grollied’, ‘plastered’, ‘pasted’ etc… varies around the Midlands

‘Lard-’Ed’ - means ‘Lard Head’ - which means someone stupid… you also her ‘Tater-yed’ - ‘Potato head’

‘Miskin’ - A dustbin

‘Mooch/Moach’ - to have a look around - e.g. ‘A mooch/moach round the shops’

‘Oss Road’ - used by mainly older Black Country and Brummie folk - it means ‘thoroughfare’ or literally ‘The horse road’… if you’re telling someone to go down the road you may say ‘Goo down th’Oss Road’…

‘On hop ‘n’ a catch’ - means ‘now and again’ - e.g. I only see ‘im on hop ‘n’ a catch…

‘Palaver’ - slang for a disastrous situation or a drama…

‘Reesty’ - dirty/filthy from playing outside - e.g. Yar clothes am reesty and need a wash…

‘Tittybabby’ - Someone acting immaturely or someone who’s a coward…

A ‘Tussock’ - slang for a bad cough - e.g. ‘Yo gorra right Tussock on ya!’

A ‘Wammull’ - slang for animal - mainly a pet like a dog or a cat…

‘Wench’ - terms of endearment used by men towards younger women or their daughters

‘Cocker’ or ‘Chap’ or ‘Aer Kid’ - terms of endearment used by anyone towards younger males or their sons/younger brothers

‘Bab’ - Term of endearment used towards women of any age by men of any age

‘Mucker’ - Term of endearment used towards men of any age, like ‘mate’

‘Lerrus see the babby’s yed!’ - Translates as ‘Let us see the baby’s head’ - means to give somene a chance to do something when someone is impatient

‘Let the dog si the rabbit!’ - same as above

‘A Jubbly’ - A frozen carton drink used as an ice-lolly

‘Tip-tops’ - Frozen ice in a long packet of different colours and flavours

‘A Brummigam Sponner’ - The Black Country explanation of a hammer

‘I bay as green as I’m cabbage lookin” - Mean ‘I’m not as stupid as I look’

‘The Ackidock’ - slang for Aqueduct

‘Ackers’ - Money (’Ocker’ in Tipton)

‘Ar’l goo to Clent!/Ar’l goo to the foot of our stairs!’ - an exclamation of surprise, implying ‘No way! You’re joking! You’re kidding’

‘Bally’ - slang for stomach

‘I’ll gi yo such a cogwinder’ - what a parent says to their kids when being offered a clout round the ears… also used like the word ‘Pailin’ - ‘I’ll gi’ yo a pailin’…’

‘A right bell-oilin” - when someone give something a good seeing-to/thrashing… e.g. Yo gid that car a right bell-oilin day ya?’. Similar to ‘A gud Ommerin’

‘Bob ‘Owler’ - a large moth

‘Cack’ - slang used to profane ‘Rubbish’ (basically means excrement)

‘Caggy ‘Onded’ - Mean clumsy when working by hand, or used to relate to left-handedness

‘Chuffed’ - means over the moon, happy

‘Catlick’ - a quick wash

‘Shut your clack’ - said so many times by my Mum to me to tell me to shut up talking… or back-answering…

‘Coost thee?’ - means ‘Can you?’, the opposite being ‘Thee Coonst!’ - ‘You can’t!’

‘Yo’m a coddin’ ay ya?’ - mean ‘You’re joking!’

‘That sticks in mar craw’ - translates as ’sticks in my throat’, in the terms of cannot believe it in a negative situation

‘Dollop’ - a large portion of - e.g. A dollop o’ tater - a large portion of potatoes…

‘Donnies’ - slang for small hands… also known as ‘Maulers’

‘Fittle’ - Food/meal - e.g. Bostin Fittle - good food…

‘Fun’ - means ‘Found’ - e.g. ‘what yo’ fun’?’ (What you found?)

‘Gammy’ - ill or lame

‘Gawkin’ - slang verb: staring at someone nosily e.g. ‘What yo a gawkin’ at?’ However if you’re staring in amazement, mouth wide-open, then you’re ‘gawpin’…

‘Ya sounds like a gleed under a door’ - A ‘Gleed’ is the ember of a coal that used to whistle as it jumped off the fireplace and they used to shoot quite far, mostly under the door from the living room to the kitchen… if someone is singin badly, whining or moaning in a high-pitched voice then this is said…

‘Grorty Dick’ - A local delicacy (!) of Groat and Meat Stew… I don’t like it tho… same as Grey Peas and Bacon… smells like tripe (yuck)

‘Ivverin ‘n’ Ovverin’ - to hesitate or dilly-dally

‘Kefflin’ - someone who’s awkward, lumering in their walk…

‘A right lampin’ - to give someone a hard smack…

‘Mardy’ - someone who’s bad-tempered/moody… also ‘Got the Meegrums’ - bad tempered/grumpy - and ‘got a cobb on’ - got the sulks or a bad mood…

‘Monty’ - someone who’s on their high horse about soemthing…

‘A Sly Munch’ - used by grandparents who want to give little grandchildren a cuddle - e.g. ‘Come ‘ere an’ lerrus gi’ ya a sly munch’

‘Morkin’ - someone who looks miserable

‘Mytherin’ - someone who’s worried about something… e.g. ‘Quit yer mytherin!’. Same as to ‘Werrit’ - e.g. ‘Stop werritin’!’

‘Nerker’ - A mischevious little child… my little sister was a right nerker…

‘Noggin Yed’ - Someone who is thick or acts dum… a Noggin is a lump of bread or dough.

‘Ockerd’ - slang pronuncaition of Awkward

‘O’thatnin/O’thisnin’ - In that way/In this way… e.g. Do it o’thisnin - do it in this way…

‘Pitherin’ about’ - messing about, wasting time, pottering around aimlessly - my mother used to shout at me to ‘Pack in pitherin’ about an’ ger ready fer school’…

‘Hotpotch’ - means random - to do something randomly - ‘doin’ it hotpotch’

‘Rile’ - Kids who are hyper who are all over the place, play fightine etc. are classed as ‘Rile-arses’, but ‘Riling’ means fidgetting and not keeping still…

‘Rutting’ - see above

‘Shommockin’ - means ’shuffling along’

‘Slake’ - slang verb: to throw - e.g. ‘Do’ slake yer shoes in the cupbaord like that!’

‘Suck’ - sweets/candy - I used to be sent by my great-gran to the shop to get a ‘pound ‘a suck in perper bag’…

‘Swapson/Swapsom’ - slang for a large sized woman - e.g. ‘Er’s a bit swapsom’ (depends where you’re from how it’s pronounced). A larg sized man is a ‘Tunky’

Like a ‘Bibble in a Can’ - something jumping around in a confined space, like a restless child - a Bibble was like a spinning top and the can was the bucket… from late 1800s…

There’s also the ever present “aktcherlee”

Some absolute classics:

“S’MARRAH” - What is the matter?
“YA DAY DID YA” - you didn’t did you?
“BORRAH” - To borrow (something)
“LENZZ” - As in “LENZZ A FOIVAH” - Please lend me five pounds
“GIZZA GOO” - May I have a go?

“Your mom work’s at the bac’ a Rackhams” was used as an insult when we were kids in the 70’s
Not realising that it was mean’t to say she was a lady of the night.

No-one’s said Cracking! Bloody brilliant that is

Dancers is old brummie for stairs (from rhyming with dancing bears) believe it or not there was once a Birmingham/Warwickshire rhyming slang all of it’s own which grew up round the markets.

Care of the wonderfully Brummy Mr. Crowther…

This ay gettin’ the babi a new vest - This isn’t getting anything done (or words to that effect!)

Don’t forget that its a real brummy-ism to get your “lenzz’s” and your “borrah’s” a bit confused. As in “can yu borr-us a foivah?”……

“Mind out for the miskin” - watch out for the dustbin;

“Stay away from the suff” - Stay away from the drain;

“Ganzie” - Jumper

“Rocks” - sweets as in “crash the rocks”

“Morkin” - a no-gooder

Raz - Go Quick

Growler - Ladies privates (as in “Get ya Growler out!”).

“Oooh blimey ar.”
This is an incredibly rich,nuanced phrase which loosely means:
Thankyou for pointing out my error/omission.If you hadn’t drawn my attention to it,I would have been completely unaware of my mistake.
However,now that you have done so,I can put it right,and will do so!

Further to one of Katy Jay’s suggestions about the “Tunky” man, I am reminded about the following phrase which I still use occasionally, as in ..if I eat all those chips I’ll end up as:
“..fat as a Tunky pig” or as an alternative “..like the side of an ‘ouse”!

“ruckled” - does anyone else say this to describe a garment or bedsheet for example has got annoyingly scrunched up or out of place(can’t describe it exactly)?

Sick - Good,wicked,amazing - “Arrrr thats sick!”
Shafted - Bummed,sexually assaulted - “Yehh shutup man i’ll shaft ya”
Manz - Gangs,youths - “Im not goin ome that way, theres loads of manz”
Dippin - Going - “You dippin?” “Yehh in a bit”
Shank - Knife,or any sharp object - “Manz will shank ya”
Reppin - Representing, your area - “Im reppin b32″

Horse Pickle - Hospital

oooh and another:

“Face like a babby thrush” then pull a kind of downturned mouth face - seems to mean a very miserable person.

or “face like a strangled weasel” - ugly in a unique kind of way…

We called sparrows - Spug - Sparrow: Spuggies - Plural for more than one Sparrow: Mind how you go over the road - Moind ow yo go acrcorss the orse rode.

Working on piecework pay - Pudding Week - The pay you picked on the Friday you started your annual holiday.

‘rowad’ - as in up the ROAD
’skoowel’ - as in the kids are at SCHOOL

As big as Bocker - someone who is rotund ( my Mother used this one, and I assume that there was someone large called Bocker around the Dudley area)

Dinna - a mid- day meal

Tea - the evening meal

Lunch - what posh people have at dinna time

Supper - what posh people have just before bed

A piece - A slice of bread. Do you wanna piece with your dinna?

A piece in the dip - a slice of bread dipped in the hot fat remaining after bacon has been fried

Get up them dancers - It’s timeyou went to bed

Garding - the enclosed land at the back of the home

Vittals - food in general

Lav/lavvy - toilet

Peaky blinder - a cap worn by working men

Pumps - footwear to do sport in school known elsewhere as plimsolls

Duke / Duchess of Derritend - someone putting on unwarranted airs and graces - i.e. Who does she think she is, the Duchess of Derritend?

wik =week

sid = seen, (’ave yow sid ‘er)

I was once working in a pub in Stourbridge, WM, during a women’s darts match. One of the opposing team asked for cider and I asked whether she wanted draught cider as it was on special offer.

“Arse chaper, aye it?”

For a moment I thought she was referring to my overly tight trousers (or “kecks”, if you will). Then I realised that she was saying “Arr (yes). S’chaper (it is cheaper) aye it (is it not)?”

There’s also “ow’s ya bin our mucker?” = “How have you been my friend?”
“Fether” = “Father”
“Banes in a pon” = “Beans in a pan”

Oh - I forgot “Round the Wrekin” for taking a roundabout way to get to the point, eithe literally or metaphorically.

As in, “He went all round the Wrekin before plucking up the courage to ask her out to the pictures”

ham bag - hand bag

Also a saying my nan and aunt’s use to say “whats that got to do with the price of fish” - what has that got to do with anything we are talking about im not sure if this is just brummie or all over.
Alrite a bit - how are you

Can anyone tell me why the “pond” is called the pond as its the size of a lake its the one in Aston by the new football pitches on the lichfield road??

‘Have your arse in your hands’, meaning to be grumpy. As in, “Wossup with ‘er?” “Er’s got er arse in er ‘ands”.

Yow ay am ya? - You are not, are you?

Oi day, d’yow? - I didn’t, did you?

Garry Glitter - toilet; anus (General UK slang?)

donnies - hands (Black Country?)

garidge - petrol station

“She’s got a face like a trod-on chip!”
“She’s got a face like a smacked arse!”

Both expressions meaning “this person looks unhappy”.

“on me neck” means you were laughing uncontrollably at something. “I was really on me neck at what he said”. I’ve never heard anyone outside of Rubery say this, but we said it all the time when we were kids.