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Lancashire Dialect

 

If you visit Lancashire, UK to sample some muffins, you might hear some other strange words. I've listed a few here, as they're often hard to find in dictionaries. Please email me if you know any more.

Lancashire word Meaning
keks (or kecks) trousers (or "pants" to Americans)
chuddy chewing gum
spoggy chewing gum
scram food
mither (verb) / mithered bother (verb) / bothered
ginnel a covered or uncovered passage between buildings
cowd cold
hutch (verb) move along (e.g. if you're trying to sit down on a crowded bench, you might say "hutch up a bit")
lodge a small but deep pool of water situated next to former cotton mills. I'm not sure of their original purpose, but those few that remain are used for fishing.
chunner talk incessantly

 


 
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