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Monday 30 December, 2024
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12 words and phrases that have a totally different meaning in the Midlands
AH THE MIDLANDS.
Home to Joe Dolan, Electric Picnic and a load of peat.
It’s also home to some distinctive words and phrases which might leave non-Midlands folk scratching their heads…
Snobby weather (‘wedder’) today
What it usually means: The weather isn’t great today/the weather isn’t being kind too us today
What it means in the Midlands: I know you saw me waving at you on the street, are you ignoring me?
Hearse
What it usually means: A vehicle for transporting a coffin
What it means in the Midlands: A horse
Did you get anything off her?
What it usually means: Did you get anything off her?
What it means in the Midlands: Did you get anything sexual (the wear etc) off her?
Beure/Beour
What is usually means: A misspelling of the French word for butter
What it means in the Midlands: An attractive girl; someone’s attractive girlfriend
Codology
What it usually means: A layman’s term for the study of a species of fish
What it means in the Midlands: Nonsense talk, interchangeable with ‘bolloxology’
Gowl
What it usually means: A Middle English terms for a loud cry or yell
What it means in the Midlands: A vagina
Juice Money
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What it usually means: Money for juice
What it means in the Midlands: Money for petrol
Feek
What it usually means: To walk about in perplexity
What it means in the Midlands: A ride of a person. Can also mean sexual intercourse
Desperate
What it usually means: A feeling of hopelessness or great need
What it means in the Midlands: Awful, e.g. “she’s in desperate humour; that’s desperate traffic”
Mull
What it usually means: To think deeply about something; to prepare a festive drink; a rounded hill
What it means in the Midlands: A woman
Do be
What it usually means: A popular music phrasing, often used in the Doo Wop style
What it means in the Midlands: I am, e.g. “I do be awful sad when Love/Hate is over
Moby
What it usually means: Bald musician and producer, noted vegan
What it means in the Midlands: To get sick, usually after a feed of pints
Thanks to Richard Toner, Mary Kate Murphy, Deirdre Ball, Sinéad Whelan, Emma Toner and Louise Keegan for their Midlands expertise
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