"real" Geordie Slang

[chrissa1]

WORD ENGLISH GEORDIE
MEANING MEANING
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Ale Beer Everyone
Berg Floating Ice Toilet
Berk Fool Reading Matter
Birth Being Born The Two Of Us
Born Given Life Catch Fire
Blurb Advertising Contraceptive
Braid Woven Hair Used For Toast
Clerk Office Worker Instrument of Time
Crayon Drawing Stick Large Lifting Device
Crèche Nursery Car Accident
Deed Legal Document Deceased
Fern Plant Telephone
Fuel Petrol Idiot
Girlie Feminine Keeper In Football
Herb Plant Top Of The Cooker
Hornier Sexier Groin Strain
Hurt Injure High Temperature
Kerb Edge of Path Boy Scout
Jerk Sharp Pull Numerous Tale
Ketch Yacht Capture in Hands
Laird Scottish Noble Boy
Nerd In-Cool Person Show Agreement

[chrissa1]

That should have come out in columns. Dash It.

[Jackdaw33]

That is not Geordie, that is Northumbrian, and there is a world of difference.

[chrissa1]

Ashington, actually.

[Jackdaw33]

Ashington is Northumberland, not Geordie. Woman goes into a hairdresser's in Ashington and asks, "Can I have a perm?"

"Of course, pet; I wandered lonely as a cloud..."

[Old_Geezer]

I don't have the accent to get very many of those :-(

[Misky]

Definitely Northumberland, but still very true!

[Mosaic]

Worked with a lady who for a while I thought was called Jersey....
Josie.

[TWR]

Why I man

[chrissa1]

I was basically, following on from the previous thread in P & S. I was born and live in Northumberland, about 15 miles from Ashington.

My thread was to give people a little "chuckle."