Appendix:Geordie English
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This is an alphabetical appendix (a lexicon of sorts) of words used in the Geordie variation of Northumbrian English language.
Suffixes
[edit]A
[edit]- a
- aa
- aa warnd
- aa'd
- aabut
- aad
- aad fashint
- aad wife
- aaful
- aakwaad
- aal, aall
- aan
- abacka beyont
- ableeze
- adit
- ae
- afeard
- agyen
- ahad
- ahint
- aller
- amang
- amain
- argie
- arse
- assay
- atwix
- ax
- aye
- aye man - inter
- ayont
B
[edit]- baad
- baal, baall
- back end
- back-shift
- back-side
- backside
- bad
- badly liked
- badly off
- bad man's oatmeal
- bad weather geordy
- baff
- bagie
- bairn
- baist
- bait
- bait can
- bait poke
- bamp
- bamps
- bang
- bank
- banked up
- banksman
- banky
- bannock
- banty
- bap
- bargie
- bark
- barley
- barney
- barra
- barra boy
- barras
- barry
- bash
- bashin crop
- baste
- bat
- batter
- bay
- beak
- beck
- billy
- boiley
- bonnie
- bonny
- bowk
- broon
- Broon
- Broonale
- bubble
- burn
- burr
C
[edit]- cadge, cadges, cadgin, cadged
- canny
- charva
- charver
- charvette
- chor, chors, chorrin, chorred
- chuffed
- clacka
- clacka bags
- clart, clarts
- clem
- clip
- Codhead
- cush
- cushat
- cushdie
- cushdy
D
[edit]- daint
- dappa
- dee
- deek
- deeked
- deekied
- deekies
- deekin
- deeks
- deeky
- deekyin
- dickies
- divint
- doilem
- doilems
- dorty
- dottle
- dunch
- dunched
- dunches
- dunchin
F
[edit]- farm yakkor - noun
- fash - noun - verb
- fettle - noun - verb
- fishwife - noun
- forkytail - noun
G
[edit]H
[edit]- haad
- hacky
- hacky dorty
- hadaway
- heor
- hinny
- hintend
- hippins
- hjem
- hockle
- hoo
- hoo man
- Hoppins
- hor - pronoun
- hound
- howay
- hoy, hoys, hoyin, hoyed
- huckle, huckles
- hummin
- hyem
J
[edit]K
[edit]L
[edit]- lad - noun
- larn
- lass, lasses, lassie
- leathery jacket
- lenns
- liftin adj
- lonnen noun
- lop - noun
- lug - noun
M
[edit]- Mackem - noun
- Makem - noun
- marra - noun
- meth - noun
- monkey hanger noun
- muckle - adj
- mutha - noun
- myek - verb
N
[edit]O
[edit]P
[edit]R
[edit]- radge, radges
- radgepacket - noun
- radgie - noun
- radgie gadgie - noun
- ralphie - noun
- reek, reekin
S
[edit]- Sand Dancer - noun
- Sand-Dancer - noun
- Sandancer - noun
- Sandy - noun
- scran - noun
- scrawn
- shan
- shite, shites
- shy bairns get noot, shy bairns get nowt
- Smoggy, Smoggies
- sneck - noun
- spelk - noun
- spuggy - noun
- spuggies - noun
- stinka - noun
- stot - verb
- stots - verb form
- stottin - verb form
- stotted - verb form
- stottie - noun
- stottie cake - noun
- stotties - noun
- stotty - noun
- stotty cake - noun
T
[edit]- tab - noun
- tabs - noun
- tatties - noun
- tatty - noun
- telt
- toon - noun
- Toon - noun
- toucha - noun
- toucher - noun
- twoc
- tyek - verb
W
[edit]- we aye - inter
- we aye man - inter
- whisht - inter
- wi
- wife - noun
- wooley back - noun
- wor
- wor kid
- wor lass
- wye aye - inter
- wye aye man - inter
Y
[edit]References
[edit]Frank Graham, editor (1987), “GEORDIE ENGLISH”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN. Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4 Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]