Coventry slang/dialect (9 Viewers)

[skybluetony176]

I asked if they had a cheese and onion bap once in a sandwich shop in Derby and going by the look on the woman’s face I think she thought I’d accused her of having a smelly fanny.

 

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[skybluetony176]

faggot chips and peas = one all in

All of a sudden I’m regretting my decision to turn vegetarian.

 

[lifeskyblue]

I always remember 'It's time for bathtime with uncle!'

Is that a Coventry thing, or more nationwide?

Don’t think that’s a Coventry thing.
More like an Otis family get-together.

As for an entry....when I lived in Lancaster back in late 70s no one understood ‘entry’ but used term ‘ginnel’ or ‘jitty’ instead.

My mum and gran also used term ‘over Bill’s house’ if there was a chance of rain but not raining yet. Eg I might say it’s not raining yet but they would respond ‘but it’s raining over Bills house’. Don’t know if that just cov or elsewhere.


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[skyblueinBaku]

Don’t think that’s a Coventry thing.
More like an Otis family get-together.

As for an entry....when I lived in Lancaster back in late 70s no one understood ‘entry’ but used term ‘ginnel’ or ‘jitty’ instead.

My mum and gran also used term ‘over Bill’s house’ if there was a chance of rain but not raining yet. Eg I might say it’s not raining yet but they would respond ‘but it’s raining over Bills house’. Don’t know if that just cov or elsewhere.


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We used to say "It's black over Bill's mother's". I think that was because Bill (Shakespear) was from Stratford which is South West of Coventry, the direction from which the prevailing wind came, bringing rain.

 

[Gazolba]

The last time I was in Coventry, I noticed all the 'entries' I used to use had been gated and padlocked. A security thing I suppose.

 

[Gazolba]

I knew a girl once who was from Nuneaton so I don't know if this is just a Nuneaton thing but instead of pronouncing 'buses', she would say 'buzzes'.
I'm not sure if the 'z' was only used in the plural or the singular as well.
Does anyone know if this is a Nuneaton only thing?

 

[vow]

The last time I was in Coventry, I noticed all the 'entries' I used to use had been gated and padlocked. A security thing I suppose.

Indeed, our entry is gated (both ends) too, very happy with it's detterent of chavs hanging around and would be burglars.

 

[vow]

I knew a girl once who was from Nuneaton so I don't know if this is just a Nuneaton thing but instead of pronouncing 'buses', she would say 'buzzes'.
I'm not sure if the 'z' was only used in the plural or the singular as well.
Does anyone know if this is a Nuneaton only thing?

Plus Bedworth, sorry...I mean Beduth.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Plus Bedworth, sorry...I mean Beduth.

And Brizzle!

 

[Otis]

I asked if they had a cheese and onion bap once in a sandwich shop in Derby and going by the look on the woman’s face I think she thought I’d accused her of having a smelly fanny.

I think you'll find that in Derby, 'bap' means vagina.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

Only kids in Coventry do Gamboles too. Nowhere else in Britain knows them as Gamboles.
We still go ‘down town’ now and again. I eat scallop batches and it does get black over bills mothers sometimes.

 

[Sick Boy]

A lot of that stuff was used in Southam too when I grew up in the 70s. I don't think it is particularly a Coventry thing.

Same in Rugby in 90s

 

[Nick]

I knew a girl once who was from Nuneaton so I don't know if this is just a Nuneaton thing but instead of pronouncing 'buses', she would say 'buzzes'.
I'm not sure if the 'z' was only used in the plural or the singular as well.
Does anyone know if this is a Nuneaton only thing?

Did she wear white socks?

Nuneaton is proper "bab" country.

 

[Nick]

Wasn't Spuggy the lad off Geordie Racer? Whenever I mention that nobody has a clue what I'm on about.

I just googled, Geordie Racer was real.

 

[skybluetony176]

I think you'll find that in Derby, 'bap' means vagina.

You could be right. In rugby it’s a bread roll though.

 

[vow]

Wasn't Spuggy the lad off Geordie Racer? Whenever I mention that nobody has a clue what I'm on about.

I just googled, Geordie Racer was real.

Nah, bullshit, m8.
She was in Byker Grove, ginger sort.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

All this talk of chip shops, can you still get scratchings?

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

All this talk of chip shops, can you still get scratchings?

Yep Binley mega we’re giving them away brfore

 

[Malaka]

Blahtin

 

[Malaka]

Ba-bee

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

I Had a starter at a restaurant a while back with was bloody lovely scollop fried egg topped with black pudding

 

[CovInEssex]

I always remember 'It's time for bathtime with uncle!'

Is that a Coventry thing, or more nationwide?

Just spat my fucking tea out

 

[Bumberclart]

A batch is a batch I have no idea what this bread roll term is

Its a tea cake up here in Yorkshire

 

[Nick]

Doesnt a tea cake have fruit in?

 

[Monners]

Off to Dublin next week Might go to the strand and have some rashers with scallions

 

[Monners]

Oh yeah, when I lived in Middlemarch Rd we use to play in the entry

 

[CovInEssex]

What about snap? My old man always used to call his packed lunch it

 

[bezzer]

We used to go 'up town' when I was a kid. Might have been a Wyken thing though :happy:

 

[tommydazzle]

Blahtin

What does it mean?

 

[tommydazzle]

Its a tea cake up here in Yorkshire

Are you sure? Would you really ask for a ham tea cake?

 

[hill83]

Whilst we are at it, we've all used slang and slang changes year by year. So why do people moan about the 'youth' and the slang being used now.
You bunch of saps.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

Its a tea cake up here in Yorkshire

In Lancashire it's a barmcake or barm for short.
Over in Nottingham/Derby, I believe it's called a cob.

 

[Nick]

Whilst we are at it, we've all used slang and slang changes year by year. So why do people moan about the 'youth' and the slang being used now.
You bunch of saps.

That post is on point.

 

[hill83]

That post is on point.

Stay woke.

 

[Nick]

Much rather be "to the max"