Como cualquier país, Inglaterra tiene muchos acentos y palabras típica de cada zona. Si tienes curiosidad por saber algunas de los mancunianos (personas residentes en manchester), o si tienes pensado viajar allí, creo que este post te va a servir. Si conoces alguna más, no dudes en comentar o mandarnos un mail para actualizar.
A
Absolute scenes: Unbelievable/funny event
Usage: ‘Dave just ate 17 sausage rolls. Absolute scenes.’
‘Ave it: Exclamation about something exciting
Usage: ‘Ave it!!!’ usually when kicking/throwing something really hard, or ‘Let’s ‘ave it!’
‘Angin’: Hungover/rough/disgusting
Usage: ‘Can’t even get out of my pit. I feel ‘angin’
B
Barm cake: Bun/bap
Usage: ‘Do you want a chip barm?’
Bobbins: Nonsense, rubbish
Usage: ‘You’re talking bobbins’
Brew: Cup of tea
Usage: ‘Make us a brew’
Butty: Sandwich
Usage: ‘I’ll have a corned beef butty, ta’
Buzzin’: Excited/extremely happy
Usage: ‘I’m buzzin’ about Saturday night’
C
Cadge : Freeloading/begging/scrounge. To get something without paying for it
Usage: ‘Can I cadge a fag?’
Chuddy: Chewing gum
Usage: ‘Gis us a stick of that chuddy’
Chufty badge : Invisible badge of honour for doing something insignificant
Usage: ‘What do yer want, a chufty badge or summat?’
Chuffed: Happy
Usage: ‘I’m dead chuffed, me’
Cob on: Annoyed/ angry/sulking. Also strop on.
Usage: ‘What’s up with our Donna? She’s got a right cob on’
Cock: Term of endearment
Usage: ‘Ya’ll right cock?’
D
Daft apeth: Fool/ silly person
Usage: ‘Stop being such a daft apeth.’
Dead: Extremely/very
Usage: ‘Them trainers are dead good’
Dibble: Police, law enforcement
Usage: ‘The dibble got him yesterday.’
Dinner: Midday meal
Usage: ‘I’m going mam’s for my Sunday dinner’
Do one: Go away. Also, off you pop
Usage: ‘Oh just do one will ya’
Duds: Underpants
Usage: ‘You seen me duds, mam?’
F
Fettled: Fixed/ repaired/mended
Usage: “I’m taking my car to get fettled”
Fit: Tasty/Attractive
Usage: ‘That pie was well fit’
G
Gaggin’: Thirsty
Usage: ‘I’m gaggin’ for a pint’
Give your ‘ead a wobble: To have a rethink
Usage: “Fish, chips, peas with pea wet? Give your ‘ead a wobble!”
Give over: Stop it/expression of disbelief
Usage: ‘Our Janet’s won lottery’ ‘Give over, she never has’
Ginnel: Back alley
Usage: ‘Look at Liam’s legs, he couldn’t stop a pig in a ginnel.’
I
Is it ecker’s like: To strongly disagree with something
Usage: Mum: ‘It’s going to be sunny tomorrow’. You: ‘Is it ecker’s like’
K
Keks: Trousers
Usage: ‘Those are some snazzy keks’
L
Lash (on the): To go out and get drunk. Also, on the razz.
Usage: ‘We off out on the lash tonight?’
Lamp: To hit someone
Usage: ‘He was doing my ‘ead in so I lamped him’
M
Mad fer it: Very excited about something
Usage: ‘Mad fer it!!!’ shouted before anything deemed exciting
Mardy: Moody/ surly/moaning
Usage: ‘He’s being a right mardy get’
Me: Used at the end of any sentence about yourself
Usage: ‘I love Corrie, me’ ‘I can’t be bothered, me’
Mingin’: Horrible/revolting/unpleasant
Usage: ‘Those toilets are mingin”
Mint: Great, fantastic
Usage: ‘That new song is mint’
Mither: Bother/ trouble/aggravation
Usage: ‘I can’t be mithered with all this’
Mooch: To wander around aimlessly
Usage: ‘We’re going for a mooch round town’
N
Newtons: Teeth (Mancunian rhyming slang: Newton Heath = teeth)
Usage: ‘State of them Newtons on her’
Nowt: Nothing
Usage: ‘I ain’t done nowt wrong’
O
Our kid: Term of affection for family member/close friend
Usage: ‘Ya’ll right our kid?’
Owt: Anything
Usage: ‘You don’t get owt for nowt’
P
Peg it: To run/Flee
Usage: ‘Quick, peg it, the dibble’s coming’
Proper: Really
Usage: ‘It’s proper spitting now’
R
Rank: Disgusting
Usage: ‘That pie was well rank’
S
Salfords: Socks (Mancunian rhyming slang: Salford Docks = socks)
Usage: ‘Pull your Salfords up’
Scrikin’: Crying
Usage: ‘What’s up with our kid? He won’t stop scrikin’
Shut yer cake ‘ole: Be quiet
Usage: ‘The missus is doin’ my head in. I wish she’d shut her cake ‘ole.’
Scoops: Alcoholic drinks
Usage: ‘You coming out for a couple of scoops?’
Scran: Food
Usage: ‘Are we getting some scran? Mi stomach think mi throat’s been cut’
Scrotes : Unsavory collection of youths usually up to no good. Also scallies
Usage: ‘Some little scrotes set fire to the bins again’
Snide: Tight/ungenerous
Usage: ‘Give us a fag, don’t be snide’
Sorted: Good, excellent
Usage: ‘Our kid’s getting a round in. Sorted!’
Sound: Good/decent
Usage: ‘He’s dead sound that bloke’
Soz: Sorry
Usage: ‘I dropped your kebab, soz’
Swear down: To tell the truth
Usage: ‘I swear down, I never touched it.’
T
Tea: Evening meal
Usage: ‘What’s for tea, mam?’
Top one: Excellent. Also nice one
Usage: ‘Top one our kid’
Town: Manchester
‘We going up town tonight?
U
Us: Me
Usage: ‘Make us a butty’
W
Well: Very
Usage: ‘That bird is well fit’
What it is, right: Used at the beginning of any sort of explanation. Also, the thing is, right.
Usage: ‘What is it, right, me boiler’s gone and the ‘ouse is freezing’
Y
Yer wot?: Pardon?
Usage: ‘I’m not going town tonight’ ‘Yer wot?’
