Old Sheffield dialect

[sedith 19]

My mother use to call tough meat ...'toff'

I've heard this term recently from someone ... anyone else know of this?

[Guest busdriver1]

Loppy as in Dirty - Common in the North East.

Poss Stick - A Laundry impliment. - Common in the North East.

Clarty- Sticky / Dirty - Common in the North East.

The Stores - Co-op - Common in the North East.

ganzy - Pullover - Common in the North East.

Yonks - long time - Common in the North East.

Edited March 20, 2016 by busdriver1

[Jim Hardie 517]

My mother use to call tough meat ...'toff'

I've heard this term recently from someone ... anyone else know of this?

 

Yes. My mum too.

[kidley 48]

coy-ill in sheffield commonly called coal els where

[mossdog 10]

My mother use to call tough meat ...'toff'

I've heard this term recently from someone ... anyone else know of this?

My grandfather used that expression for tough meat!.......don't think it fits into the Sheffield Dee- dah vocabulary though like most mentioned

[Cazzerb65 10]

There is a book called Sheffieldish. Not sure if you can still get it new though. It's so good. They must have a copy in a library somewhere.

[TORONTONY 10]

There is a book called Sheffieldish. Not sure if you can still get it new though. It's so good. They must have a copy in a library somewhere.

 

There's a copy on Amazon for a grand. It is not easy to come by

[Plain Talker 11]

Isn't Barnsley the laik district?

 

Aye, 'tis. Thar't reight.

Sum as laiks mundies, sum laiks tuesdies sum even laiks wensdies!

[mikep57 10]

when i was down south i called someone a mardy arse and they went "what"? mardy being miserable

 

is nesh known to southerners?..thats what i meant

aunty x

 

As well as mardy arse there was "lardy arse" to someone putting on weight

[TORONTONY 10]

As well as mardy arse there was "lardy arse" to someone putting on weight

 

Someone on here uses mardybum as a username lol

[Guest busdriver1]

As well as mardy arse there was "lardy arse" to someone putting on weight

 

That one is also UK wide.

[lazarus 68]

Heres one for all you real Sheffielders.

 

Can you think of any words used in dialect that may not be easily understood elsewhere?

 

I'll set the ball rolling.

 

crozzled - well done, as in I like my bacon crozzled.

 

brussen - full up, as in That meal ant arf left me brussen

 

throng - busy, as in thronger than Throps wife

 

Any more for any more?

Crozzled comes from the old bits of Furnace Crozzle that can still be seen topping old stone walls, some can be seen on the wall near the railway bridge on Charlotte Road.