LESSON 1; WORDS.

not sure how i ended up here, but i did. wish i hadn't now! gits. wonder if they've ever been here?
si thi, al admit mowst a reet, but thus sum wots reet funny! a tel thi!

A bad-un (A bad person)
A brew (A cup of tea)
A bugger (A bad person - but was previously used for a person that practised sodomy)
Afters (Drinking in a pub after the legal closing time)
A-fuddle (A confused mess)
A-jar (A pint of beer, and not to be confused with, "A jar of jam")
All-us (Always)
Aye (Yes; it is pronounced the same as the letter "I" in the alphabet)
Ay-up! (A surprised, but warm, greeting. The "Ay" is pronounced like the first letter of the alphabet. Can mean many other things according to subtle intonations, ie: Bloody hell)
Bab (Faeces, or the act of excretion - also known as "Baba"; a word used by children. Can also be used to describe something that is useless or bad)
Back-passage (Anus/colon)
Back-end (Autumn. Also the back of a car, or an anus/colon.)
Badly (Someone who is not well)
Barn-te'r (Bound/sure to do something)
Bairn (Child - although this is disputed as to whether it has true Yorkshire origins)
Beef (Cry)
Beefing (Crying)
Be-fuddled (Confused)
Benny (A tantrum i.e. to throw a benny/throw a tantrum)
Bevvy (Beer)
Bint (young woman)
Blatherin' (Talking a lot, but saying nothing)
Blumin' eck (A exclamation of suprise, usually in a negative context.)
Boo (verb to cry)
Brass (Money)
Brat (Apron)
Bray (Beat up)
Breadcake (A flat bread-roll, or bun)
Broddle (Verb: to poke around, to pick out or to make holes)
Buggered (Tired)
By 'eck! (An exclamation of astonishment; equivalent to, "I'm shocked")
Cack (Terrible - and also a word for faeces)
Cack-handed (Useless with tools, or left-handed)
Champion (Really good - as in, "It were reet champion")
Choisty (Big, massive, huge etc. see 'Chusty')
Chuckie (chicken; eggs are often referred to as 'chuckie eggs')
Chuddy (Chewing gum)
Chuffed (Very proud and happy)
Chuffin' eck! (Surprised, or shocked)
Chuffin' ell! (politer way of saying F***ing Hell)
Chunter/chuntering (Complaining quietly to oneself)
Chusty (Big, massive, huge etc. i.e. "Look a t'chusty get twonk!" - Look at the huge great idiot!)
Clod-opper (A person who is slow in learning)
Cloth ears (Someone who does not listen or someone who hasn't heard something that has been said)
Coil-oil (Coal-hole - the cellar where coal is stored)
Co-ed/Code/cowd (Cold - "By 'eck its cowd art theear" - It's cold out there)
Deck (verb to knock somebody to the ground)
Doss (Either an idiot - especially 'thick doss' or also means 'skive')
Doylum (Idiot. Pronounced D-oi-lum)
Dozy Twonk (A silly, sleepy idiot - see also 'Twonk')
Duddy (A baby's dummy)
Fellow (A term of address for a male - similar to 'mate')
Ferkin (An amount of beer. Often used in the phrase, "A fish and a ferkin", meaning a fish and chip supper and a pint of beer)
Flags (Short for flagstones - Concrete paving slabs)
Flophouse (A cheap place where the drunk, or homeless, would sleep)
Folk (People - "Look at all them folk over there")
Gaffer (The boss)
Gawp (to stare at someone with an open mouth)
Ginnel or gennel (alleyway between houses often covered)
Gang (Verb: to go)
Ginner (Prounced with a 'j' sound, somebody with red hair)
Gip (Unwell, or to retch; the letter "G" is pronounced like "Jump" though not always)
Gloit (Nerd or idiot)
Gob (Mouth - as in, "shut thee/tha gob" - stop talking)
Gobby (Someone who voices their opinion a lot)
Goodies (Sweets - usually hard-boiled sweets)
Gradely (as in, "It were reet gradely", meaning it was really good)
Growler (Pork pie)
Gruds or Grots (Underpants)
Half-cocked (Not fully ready before one does something)
Hooly (A hooligan)
Hosen (Stockings)
How do? (How are you?)
How ist? (How are you? literally How is tha?)
Keks or Kegs(Trousers)
Krog or 'Kroggie (A ride on the back of somebody's bicycle)
Lug/lughole (Ear - earhole)
Lake/laik (Verb: to play, and also to take time off work for no good reason: "Is he laiking agin?")
Lass (young woman or girl)
Learn (=to teach)
Lop (Flea)
Love/Luv (Used at the end of sentence, as in, "Thanks, love" and said to men and women alike as a friendly term)
Mack-off (Big, massive etc. Sometimes pronounced "Whack-off")
Maungy (Sullen, moody. Pronounced "Morn-jee". Possibly deriving from 'mangy' meaning to suffer from the mange)
Mardy (Moody)
Me (my) (Example: "These are me (my) keys.")
Middin (A mess in a room)
Muggins (A person who will accept anything)
Mytherin' (Worrying about something without reason/to bother someone)
Nay (no)
Neev (Fist)
Nesh (soft or effeminate)
Nipper (A young boy)
Noggin (Head)
Nowt (Nothing)
Now then' (Informal greeting)
Our lass (Sister, girlfriend or wife)
Our kid (Brother)
Owt (Anything)
Oxter (Armpit)
Piddlin' (Something trivial)
Pillock (An idiot, or someone who knows what he is doing is harmful)
Pit (A mine - often referred to as, "Darn (down) t'pit")
Poorly (Ill - unwell)
Radge (A tantrum)
Radgey (Bad tempered)
Real (Good or outstanding)
Right/reyt/reet (Very/really - as in, "It's right/reyt/reet good")
Scallywag or scally (A young person who resents and disobeys authority)
Scrawny (Very thin)
Scree-tin (Crying in a loud way)
Sen (Self)
Shite (A more emphatic version of 'shit')
Sith-ee (Listen / Goodbye)
Skit (A mocking response to anothers misfortune commonly restricted to children. Can be used on its own or in the form "skit on you" and is often accompanied by pointing at the object of derision)
Smart (very good; cool often 'well smart')
Snap (Packed Lunch / other snack)
Snicket (Uncovered footpath or alleyway between houses)
Snotty (A person who thinks they are better than the rest)
Snotty-nosed (A person with their "nose up in the air" who is arrogant)
Sod-all (Nothing)
Spanner (Idiot)
Spawny/Sporny (Lucky)
Spice (Sweets - usually "hard-boiled" sweets, liquorice or sherbert)
Splig (Spider)
Spogs (Sweets)
Starved (as in, "He was really "starved" = cold")
Summat' (Something)
Sup (verb to drink)
Tallyman (A debt collecter)
t' (the, accompanied by an apostrophe, e.g. "Has tha seen-t'new Pope? Eye's of a killer, 'e 'as")
Taws/tors (Marbles)
Tets (Short for Tetley's beer. eg, "A pint of Tets, please love")
Them (these/those) [example: "I like them trousers."]
Tha/Thou/thee (You)
Tha-sen/thisen/yoursen (Yourself)
Ticked-off (Angry, or disturbed about something/someone)
T'old lass (An old woman)
T'old lad (An old man)
T'old kid (An old man)
Tripe (Something/an idea that is not good)
Tup (A male sheep, ram / verb referring to two sheep fornicating)
Twonk (Idiot)
Us (Ours, or me - We should put us (=our) names on us (=our) property")
Vit-ner-ee (Vet - Veterinarian)
Were (was) [example: "I were (=was) wearing't red coat, but he were (=was) wearing't green one".]
Win (=to beat; to win somebody at tennis means to beat them)
Wooden overcoat (A coffin)
Yonks (Ages/a long time ago)
Young-un (A son, as in, "Look for' young-un")
Yow (Ewe; an adult female sheep)

coming soon, yorkshire sayings courtesy of the same people.