On The Huh

As I am currently residing in Norfolk and so you don't think I am a word snob, I have decided to share with you some very Norfolk slang:

AFRONT- in front
AHIND - behind
ATWIN - between
BISHY BARNEY BEE-Lady Bird
BOR - neighbour or boy
BRED AND BORN - Norfolk purists insist this is the proper order not"born and bred"
COR BLARST ME! - favourite Norfolk expletive along "Well,I'll be blowed!" lines
DEW YEW KEEP A TROSHIN! - carry on with the threshing - but is another way of saying "goodbye" or "look after yourself"
DUDDER - to shiver "all of a dudder"
GUZUNDER - CHAMBER POT(guzunder the bed!)
HOLD YEW HARD! - Hang on a moment
JIP - aggravation,annoyance in the sense of pain
JOLLIFICEARTIONS - fun, joviality
LEND US A LUG - asking someone else to listen into a conversation for you(this is one of my father's expressions!)
LOKE - lane or alley,usually enclosed
LOLLOP - to progress slowly
LUMMOX - clumsy or ungainly person("git yew out o'the way yew gret lummox!")
MARDLE - 1.to gossip,chat at leisure;2 a village pond
MAWTHER - girl or young woman
OLD YEAR'S NYTE -New Year's Eve
ON THE HUH - awry,slanted or not level
RUM - curious,strange,funny
SQUIT - talking nonsense
TITTY-TOTTY - Very small
WARMINT - varmint or vermin,troublesome person "come here you young warmint I'll sort yew out!"

NOTE:many words beginning with V take a W start in Norfolk - warmint,wittles and willage among them.There are also examples of the letter being changed in the middle of the word i.e. aggravating becomes aggraweartin.

ZACKLEY - exactly ("thass zackly ryte!")

To a "transplant visiting his roots in Norfolk it must be a nightmare trying to ask a "local" the direction to some of the villages. Here are a few of the problems:

Costessey = COSSEY
Happisburgh = HAYSBRUH
Wymondham = WINDAM
Postwick = POSSICK
Potter Heigham = POTTER HAM
Raveningham = RANNINGHAM
Mattishall = MATSELL

NARSERY RHOIMES

Little owd gal Muffet
Sat roight down on an owd tuffet
Eatin' har cards an' whey,
When there come a master grut owd spoider
And sat roight down aside o'har
And wholly scart the li'l ol' mawther away