Local Dialect

Let us know which words you use, with their definitions as well.

Charlotte
It's a batch!I can't be bothered to do all of them so here's a few:pleased=chuffed, tired=knackered, throw=chuck, truant=bunk, sleep=kip, left-handed=caggy-handed, main room of a house=front room, running water=brook, soft seat=setee, narrow walkway=alley, toilet=loo, rain heavily=chuck it down, mother=mum, baby=babby, someone you've forgotten=thingymabob, soft shoes=pumps

Jaswinder clean my winder
I call it a batch and people laugh at me

Ray
Cov says batch others say bread-roll. Cov says scollop others say potatoe pancake. Cov says "bed-duth" others say Bedworth. People from Coventry forget the ending of their words so Water is "Wart-a". True locals say Bus "Bos" whereas down south they say "Bas". We pull people when other people "cop off" also "innit" and "like" get "like way overused..." Who've thought Shakesphere dwelled in these parts!

Kirsty McKeown
I use the word BATCH!!! Becuase that is what it is ... not a bap, or a roll, or a cob ... a BATCH!!!I was going to comment on the others, the main ones I use are : Lacking Money - SkintDrunk - SloshedYoung person in cheap trendy clothes - TrendieWord for someone's name you have forgotte - WhatsherfaceSoft shoes worn for PE - Pumps!

Colin Richardson
Coventry..Batch is defiantly still used quite alot within my family and street.

Anne - orig. from nr Leicester
I'd never heard the word 'batch' until I was about 30. We always had 'cobs'. Until I moved to London and was given fish n chips when I asked for a chip cob (he thought I'd asked for cod)

Emily W.
I know this doesn't really apply here, seeing as I from the US, but it seemed interesting to see different words for things.left handed = leftie, lacking money= broke, drunk = wasted, pregnant = preggo, to rain lightly = drizzle/sprinkling, running water = creek, to rain heavily = pour, child's soft shoes worn for PE = tennis shoes/sneakers.

Jyoti
Born and brought up in Cov, left at 18, eventually ended up in Edinburgh. My husband's a Sheffielder, my children are Scots, my colleagues are posh, so I have to translate sometimes... It's a batch! A crusty one is a crusty batch! Unwell is poorly; hot is boiling; cold is freezing; to throw is to chuck; to play truant is to wag it (as in, waggin' it; lacking money is skint; raining lightly is spitting or (in polite company) mizzling; long seat used to be settee, but now I say sofa; alley between houses is entry; main room in the house is the sitting room; something you've forgotten is a thingummyjig; moody is mardy; oh yes is oh ar; as well is 'n all; the off-licence is the outdoor; PE shoes are pumps. I remember simmer used for quieten - male teachers always used to say "Simmer down". Does anyone else remember using "scrat" for scrounge, as in "So-and-so's always scrattin' sweets off us"? Oh, and those long ice drinks in plastic are Tip Tops, and the pyramid shaped ones are Jubilees (pronounced Jubblies). My accent's totally disappeared, but the old words are still there.

Leah from cov
I call...A roll = a batchunwell = under the weathertired = shattered throw = chuckto play truant = waggin itto sleep = drop offlacking money = skintrain lightly = spittingmain room = living roomrunning water smaller than a river = streamlong seat = settee/coachtoilet= bograin heavily = chuckin itmother = mumbaby = babysomeone who you have forgotten = what ya call it?Grandfather = grandadgrandmother = nana/ grandmape shoes = pumpsdrunk = hammeredpregnant = (same)ITS A BATCH, BATCH, BATCH!!!!!

pat D
unwell=sicktired=knackeredto throw=chucktruant=wagsleep=kiphit hard=whackleft handed=caggy handeddrunk=lashedinsane=loopyrain lightly=drizzlemain room=living roomseteenarrow walkway=entryrain heavily=lash downclothes=geartrousers=kegschilds shoes = pumpsBatch (bread cake in Hull)

Sarah 20
Coventry: unwell-poorlyhot-boilin'cold-chillyannoyed- hacked offpleased- chuffedtired - knackeredthrow - chucktruent - wagsleep - forty winksplay - doss(also the game tag is called tig)hit hard: give it some wellyleft handed: (i dont say this but everyone says it about me) kack handedunattractive - minginglacking money - skintdrunk - steamingpregnant - pregnantattractive - prettyinsane - lost itmoody - mardy/ havin a paddyrich - mintedrain lightly - spittingmain room of a house - livin roomnarrow walkwaty by buildings - entrytoilet - loorain heavy - tipping/chucking/hammering it downmother - mumbaby - babbiword for something u've forgotten - whatsher/hisface whatsitcalledthingydoodadwhatchamacallitthingydoodadchilds p.e shoes - pumps

Jill
unwell = poorly truant = hooky. drunk = squadly fardly (from Doreen)Someone you have forgotten = whatshisname. unattractive = plain jane. Walkway/alley = gunnel

Gavin Davis
My Mom is from Sutton Coldfield and my Dad is from Sheldon Birmingham. I moved to Dordon and Polesworth, Warwickshire when I was nine months old and moved away to Birmingham when I was nearly 15. Unwell is to be poorly. Well pleased is chuffed. To throw is to chuck. To play truant is to bunk off, skiving/skive off. Left handed or awkward handed is caggy handed. Lacking money is skint. Pregnant is up the duff. Moody is mardy. To rain lightly is to spit and to rain heavily is to chuck it down. The main room is the living room. Brook, or stream if it is fast running water. A very narrow walkway between two conjoined houses is an entry or passage. A narrow walkeyway between houses is an alley and a wider straight walkway between houses is a gulley. Toilet is loo or bog. Mother is Mom. Name that you have forgot is thingy thingamybob or oojumacallit. Grandad or Grandpa. Nan or Grandma. Friend is mate. To greet a friend you might refer to them as youth, pronounced like hoof. Trousers are kecks and PE shoes are pumps. To greet someone you would say A do (A as in apple, do as is in do).Roll is a cob unless it's a finger roll. Off licence is an outdoor. A crumpet is a pikelet and scone is pronounced as in own. Sandwich is a sarnie but my Nan used to call it a piece. Marbles are called marlies and big marbles are gobbies. Your mouth is your gob. Make is mek and to laugh is to laff. Yourself is your sen. Go is goo. Older women used to call you duck or ducky. Canal is the cut. A small group of trees in the middle of a field is a spinny. The word "like" is pronounced more like "lark" rather than the brummie "Loik".

snebbins
It's not alley or entry. in Bedworth we called it a jitty.

nicole
Unwell- ill, not wellunattractive-angin horrid lacking money-skintpregnant-preggers attractive-sexy insane-sickoInside & OutsideTo rain lightly-spitting main room of a house-living room/front roomnarrow walkway-ginnelto rain heavily-chucking it down/pissing it downMother-mum female partner-girl friend word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten-thingygrandfather-grandee friend-friend/matemale partner-boy friend grandmother-grandmatroursers-pants

Craig White - down Under
Bit "close" - Trying to explain to the Aussies that its very humid.Here squash is a lemon pop??

tharini
drizzle, ugly, stupid, mummy, fashionable, pretty, downpour, man, trainers, girlfriend, lounge,

Caroline
A cob is crusty, a batch is softish and a bap is soft.

Caroline from Hinckley (pronounced inkley)
unwell=sick, annoyed/upset='got a cob on', pleased=chuffed, tired=knackered, throw=lob, play truant=play hookey, hit hard=lamp, left handed = cackey handed, lacking money=skint, drunk = bladdered, insane=tapped, rain lightly=spitting, main room=living room, running water=brook, main seat=sofa, narrow walkway=jitty, toilet = loo or bog, rain heavy=teeming down, mother=mum, cheap trendy= chav or wanna be, forgotten name = thingy, grandfather = grandad, friend = mate, grandmother = nannie, PE shoes=pumps

rob rankin
Born/Bred in foleshill its a batch fancy going into pickens on the foleshill rd and asking for a faggott and pea roll or cob [how sad]years ago anybody remember pickens you could even get a bowl of faggott/peas it/s also entry also a bottle of pop.I now live in Skegness trying to understand some of the Lincolnshire lingo of my wife who a farmers daughter.p.s its an outdoor at pub and down the town.Also yorkies call them bread cakes they can keep them.

A. Williams
Mum, Thingy, Grandpa, GrandmaTruant - bobbing it

Sophie Leicetser
it is a cob :)

Nick from Coventry
Tired - knackeredDo nothing, mess about – doss / dossing aboutBatch - RollEntry - AlleyChuck – Throw / lobHeavily Raining – Chucking it down / tipping it downTraunt – Skive / Wagging it / Wagged it /pissing is downPlease – ChuffedHit Hard – whack/smack/lamp/thrapeUnattractive – minging / rank /munterAttractive – fit / stunningDrunk – Steaming /monged out/ bladdered/wastedRich – Minted / rolling in itGood – mintGoodbye – Ta-raPumps – pe shoesSleep – kip / crash outToilet – bogHot – bakingFlavoured Ice – Tip TopsLeft handed – kack handed / kag-handedPlay with – knock about withNo money – skintNo way – as ifRotten – mankyfemale partner - the missusforward roll – gambowlchewing gum – chuddybus – buzzinsane – mental / crazy/ off your head / nutter / hes lost the plotmoody – strop / mardysomething forgotten = thingymajig / wozisname / thingybobScollap – Potato batteredShopping - down the townGame kock and run - rattatat gingerGame Acky 1..2..3 - Rally 1..2..3Can of coke – can of popGoing out drinking – going up townKissed – got off withBeaten up - giving a thrapingMade up something / lied – Blagged / ‘blagged my way through that exam’ ‘blagged that I was 18’

David from Sheffield
How you feel:Unwell=ill, hot=cob on, cold=nesh, annoyed=peeved, pleased=chuffed to bits, tired=knackardWhat you do:To throw=chuck/lob, to play truant=wagging it, to sleep=kip, to play=play, to hit hard=smach/whack.Getting PersonalLeft handed=lefty, unattractive=minging, lacking money=skint, drunk=blottoed, pregnant=up the duff/pg, attractive=cute, insane, moody=got the face on, rich=mintedInside & OutsideTo rain lightly=spitting, main room of a house=living room, running water (smaller than a river)=stream, long soft seat in a main room=sette/couch, narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings=gennal, toilet=bog, to rain heavily=lash it down.What you call themMother=mom, baby=babby (a as in 'pack' not 'ay'), female partner=gert, young person in cheap trendy clothes=chav, kit of tools=tools, word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten=WhatsHisName/WhatsHisFace, grandfather=grandad/gramps, friend=mate, male partner, grandmother=nan/nanan.ClothesClothes=clothes, troursers=trousers, child's soft shoes worn for PE=pupms/plimpsoles

Andy Brown - Cov born and lived 33yrs (now N'ton)
Batch - definitely for a 'bread roll' e.g. faggot and pea batch. Entry - alleyway, but only in residential area. Up or down town - going to city centre. Pumps - PE shoes. Sarnie - sandwich. Front room - lounge. Wag-it - play truant. Scone - pronounced 'con'. Crumpets! Brook - stream. Pop - fizzy pop. Squash - cordial. Chuddy - chewing gum. Outdoor - off-sales at the pub (used to have a built-in offy at some pubs). Scrap - fight.

A Lowe
Born and bred in Coventry, although lived abroad for more than twenty years, still get back to Cov two or three times a year, love the place and the people, despite what most outsiders say, and I’ve got calendar pictures of Coventry scenes on the hall wall at home, including one of a Mr D. Di van, which takes me back to a relatively poor, but happy childhood.Back to the question in hand; It’s a Batch of course, which is a round bread. A Roll is longer, for example, a roll of bread you have with a hot-dog.The word Entry was used when I was young to describe a passage between houses, not Alley.Other words that I remember, and still use sometimes when I’m home include:Mardy (Miserable or moody)Yampy (Crazy)Ta-ra (Goodbye), from the phrase Ta-ta I presumeWagging it (Playing truant).And in agreement with a message posted previously , I also still write “Coventry, Warwickshire” on any envelopes I send home (I wasn’t born in the “West Midlands” and do not recognise it), and the post I send always arrives safely, I would encourage everyone to do this, just to upset the bureaucrats and “town meddlers”.

John (born in Coventry; brought up in Bedworth)
My Nan (Evelyn), lifelong Beworth resident, used to call the front doorstep "the corsey", which I think is a corruption of "Causeway".

Richard from Coventry
Batch! cob is a type of horse.

Graham, Leicestershire
It`s not a batch or a roll. It`s a cob!!

Ben Hinks
batch or roll but NEVER cob!

anon
its a cob!

Bill from Coventry now west London
Amazing to share a common experience, particularly the U in bus cup etc (to my ears southeners pronounce these words with an "A" as in bas and cap). I'm constantly correcting my - (pronouced "me") kids. It's the intrusive "R" that the southerners put into such words as glass and grass that really annoys. They pronounce it as grarss and glarss.

Cov Man
Yes it was always Batch for me, I now live down south and correct myself everytime I say it to 'Roll' because it's easier than explaining what I mean everytime.I still prefer the word Batch, it tastes better when though of as a Batch too :)As for those north of Coventry (Nuneaton/Leicster etc) you will have differences because you are in fact 'northern' to us Cov Scum ;)I lived in Nuneaton for half of my childhood and other kids would comment on my Cov accent so even within close county's there is variation.Now try saying 'BUS' or 'MUG' anywhere but coventry and see if someone doesn't comment on your 'weird' pronunciation of the 'u' sound. It's more like our 'A' in other parts of the country, i'm midly annoyed as I feel I've lived a lie all my life.Bus to me was bUss, but to southernors it's more like 'Baass' and i'm not talking cockney just anything that isn't Coventry (even Nuneaton people picked up on how I said Bus or Bun).

HEATHER
IT IS BATCH NOT ROLL NOT BALM THAT SOUNDS LIKE LIP BALM HA

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It's an Alleyway when writing about the way to something, but an entry when you discribe there is an entry you can drive your car to the back entry to your new house.

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dident wouldent havent a batch of bread is a number of loaves still together a roll is when the bread could roll .

lily
my dad lives in coventry, and when i go up there i say can i have a chip batch, but when im at home in west sussex i say roll!

annette cairns now in lincolnshire
Brought up in Atherstone and it is always a batch and will never be anything other than that. Also head = bonce , canal =cut, cinema = pictures. Also I say breakfast, dinner and tea not lunch we had dinner ladies not lunch ladies. ice things = tip tops, between 2 houses=entry and an off licence was the outdoor, do you think thats from when the off licence was from a different door at the pub? crumpets = pikelets. bus = buzz. Its great to speak local words and not all sound the same!!

lisa coventry
batch is bread too us toon people

John
Snap - a packed lunch that you take to work.Wag it - play truant

Louise from Nuneaton
Moved to London at 18 and quickly dropped the word batch through embarrassment, it's now a bread roll-sorry! Still use poorly and mardy, didn't have a clue they were regional till i moved to Ireland (incidently where the word bold means naughty!-strange)

Viv - b Rugby, but Scots mother and Somerset fathe
Only a couple of words:jetty = narrow walkwaypumps = children's soft PE shoesYou don't have 'mardy' on this list, but I have heard it in other places too. There's no doubt any local accent is on its last legs. It's such a shame!

Larry (USA)
Born and raised in Coventry-Warwickshire.Its a Batch.Unwell= SickHot= sizzlingCold=freezingAnnoyed=IrkedPleased=HappyTired=pooped outMoody=edgyLeft handed= southpaw or caggy handed.Unattractive=homelyLacking Money=brokeDrunk=jelly leggedPregnant=pregnantAttractive=pleasantInsane=MadRain slightly=drizzleMain room=living roomRunning water=brookLong seat= setteeNarrow walkway=alleyToilet=bathroomRain heavily=pour downMother=Mum (RIP)female partner=wifeBaby=babyKit of tools=toolboxGrandfather=GrandadGrandmother=GrandmaTrousers=PantsChilds soft shoes=sneakers Used to be plimsoles or pumps)

Lisa B from Coventry
I have lived in Coventry all of my life and we regularly have this debate at work about the Batch. Wher I work people come from all over. Definitely Batch, Moody is 'Got a Monk on' or 'cob on', entry between houses!, wagging it for truancy!

Chris, Nuneaton
Its not a batch or a roll, its a cob....Alley or entry? I'd call it a jitty. I was brought up in Burbage, but my Dad is true Coventry.

Anne-Marie
How you feel: Unwell = bit sick hot = boiling, cold = frozen, annoyed = miffed, pleased = right chuffed, tired = knackered. What you do: To throw = chuck, to play truant = wag it, to sleep =kip, to play = muck about, to hit hard = smack. Getting Personal Left handed = same, unattractive = rooted, lacking money =skint, drunk = pickled, pregnant = up the duff, attractive = pretty, insane = nutty, moody = mardy, rich = minted. Inside & Outside To rain lightly = drizzling, main room of a house =front room, running water (smaller than a river)= stream, long soft seat in a main room = sofa, setee, narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings = entry, toilet = bog, to rain heavily = pissing down. What you call them Mother = mum, baby =sprog, female partner = missus, young person in cheap trendy clothes =Chav, kit of tools = toolbox, word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten = fingybob or thingummybob, or oojit, grandfather = grandad, friend = mate, male partner = OH, grandmother = nana. Clothes Clothes = kit, trousers = same, child's soft shoes worn for PE = pumps or dabs.

Kerry, Nuneaton
Its a batch. ~unwel - Poorly, hot - baking, cold - nippy, annoyed - narked, pleased - happy, tired - knackered. Throw - chuck, truant - bunk off, sleep - kip, play - play, hit hard - thump. left handed - caggy handed, insane - round the hat rack

Teresa
Its a batch Born Louth Bred Nuneaton the gully to collect rain from feilds = dyke gap between terraced houses = entry gap between building allowing for example access to canal or between holiday shallies = jitty play truant = wag left handed = leftie pregnant = bun in the oven / ready to drop rich = loaded rain lightly = spitting about a bit rain heavey = cats and dogs baby = babby young person in cheap trendy clothes = chav forgotten name = thingiy / watsit tool kit = tool box pants = knickers / kekgs childs soft shoes = plimpsols

kellie
its a batch not a roll!!!!!!

clare and kerrie
roll = BATCH main room in a house = living room long soft seat in a main room = sofa young person in cheap trendy clothes = indie friend = mate rain lightly = spitting lack of money = skint pregnant = up the duff tired = knackered drunk = bladdered long narrow walkway = alley / jitty insane = nutter hit hard = whack truant = waggin' it grandfather = grandad name youve forgotten = whatshisface sticks of flavoured ice = tip tops unwell = poorly

Justin from Grendon (between nuneaton and tamworth
It is a BATCH! a bread roll is LONG, a batch is round!

Sam - Cheylesmore
I've lived in Coventry all my life, that picture is definately a Batch! Nice! Mmmm But after reading all of the posted comments, i must say, i have hardly heard any of the supposed 'Coventarian Slang'!!! Don't believe all you read!!!

Donna Coventy
Its a Batch! And sticks of flavoured ice are Tip Tops!! Unwell - Sick, hot - boiling, cold - freezing, pleased-chuffed tired - knackered, throw-chuck, truant-wag school, play-mess around with, hit hard-whack, left handed - caggy, unattractive - minging, no money - skint, drunk - hammered/mashed, attractive - hot, insane-mad, rich-loaded, rain lightly-drizzle, main room-living room/front room, running water-stream, soft seat-couch/sofa, toilet-loo,heavy rain-tipping it down, mother-mum, young person - chav, word for forgotten name - whats its face, PE shoes-pumps! Also I haven't read every message but di anyone notice that Under the clothes list 'trousers' has been written incorrectly?

Jim Morrison, Coventry
If you are from Coventry and you don't call it batch, now is the time to hold your head and weep with shame. What else? Croggy = 'lift on back of bike' Piece = Sandwich (usually use Sarnie now though). By the way, its BATCH!

Siobhan
It's not a batch, IT'S A ROLL!!!!!!!

Siobhan
21, from Rugby (near Coventry) Unwell = poorly, Tired = knackered, Hot, cold = roasting, Freezing Throw = chuck, play truant = nick off, Left handed = Leftie, Gammy handed, Lacking money = skint, attractive = fit, insane = mad, rich = minted, rain lightly = spit, Running water = brook, narrow walkway = alley, toilet = loo, rain heavily = chuck it down, Mother = mum, baby = baby, female partner = missus, young person in cheap trendy clothes = chav, word for something you've forgotten = thingemy bob or watchamacallit, Grandfather = grandpa, friend = mate, male partner = fella (ie. my fella, her fella etc), Grandmother = nan. Childs soft shoes worn for PE, pumps or plimsolls

James
Its A BATCH! I live in bedworth, aka bed'uth and its always been a batch, not cob or roll! And them Long Frozen ice things are TipTops, Not Ice-poles, Main room in a house is either front room, living room, or lounge, tired is nack'rd, them p.e shoes kids wore in school are called pumps, No money is skint, Brasint or larry flint. Ive also noticed southerners pronounce U's as A's, get them to say CUP, its sounds like "ca'p" as in the thing you would put on your head..hillarious.

G Nuneaton 40 years+
It's still a batch, running water - a brooke, an alleyway is a jitty, the pavement is called the Path, the access to the back of your house or between you and your neighbours is the Entry. Does anyone remember the triangular shaped ice lollies called Jubilees? - can't remember how it was spelt - and finally what about the saying that gets everyone; "The snow is laying". Oh.... and a saying that referred to a lack of filling in a pie, "It must have been shot in from the top of Tuttle Hill"

andy
and its a muffin

Heather 20 (Cov born and bred)
Batch=batch BATCH BATCH BATCH/ unwell=ill/ hot=boilin'roastin/ cold=freezin' or frozzen(mainly yorks)/ pleased=chuffed or made up/ tired=knackered/ left handed=gammy,caggy or cac handed/ unattractive=munter, booted or minger/ lacking money= skint or borrasic(brassic)/ drunk=wrecked,mashed/pregnant=UP THE DUFF not preggers at all!!!/ attractive=fit,well nice,etc/insane=wierd,doolally,mental,loony etc./moody=moody,grumpy git!/rich=minted(orig.Yorks),well off/rollin' in it/to throw=lob/to play truant=wag it/to sleep=nod off,kip/to play ie the console=goin on the playstation,goin out/to hit hard=thump,smack,whack,wallop,lamp/ to rain lightly=spit/mainroom=living room/small river=brook/ long seat=sofa,settee/ENTRY NOT ALLEY,JITTY OR SNICKET!!!/toilet=khazi,bog,loo/ to rain heavy=lash,chuck it/mother=MUM in the midlands/Baby=baby,babe not bairn in the midlands/female partner=missis,missus,'er indoors (from tv, minder),wench,bird/youngster in cheap clothes=CHAV CHAV CHAV not charv chavver or charva/kit of tools=toolbox/ someone youve forgotten=oojit,thingybob,oojyflip,whatsit,whats is/er name, etc.../grandfather=grandad/friend=mate/male partner=boyfriend,other half,fella,bloke/grandmother=nan,grandma/clothes=clothes/trousers=trousers,trouses/childs shoes for pe=PUMPS P.S. don't ask for a sandwich in yorks, you get a batch!!!!!!!!!!!

75 yr old cov kid
that ,dolly , word , the only dolly i ever heard , other than a kids toy, was a dolly ie a washing dolly, like a wooden thing used in the dolly tub for washing!! then the mangle!!! had mondays off school to turn the handle for me mam !! she was only little good old days

Becky Bed-uth! (Bedworth)
It's a Batch!! There's no other way to explain it!! xx

Lee from Nuneaton
roll (any kind) = batch, unless it's crusty then it's a crusty batch. tired = knackered. toilet = bog, toilet paper =bog roll. yes = arr (ah). no = narr (nah). self = sen. truant = bunking off. mother = mam. my = me. child's shoes for PE= plimsolls. small covered alley leading to a house gate between 2 houses = entry. narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings = jitty. vertical freestanding indoor rack for drying clothes = maiden (alt. clothes maiden). pregnant = 'up the duff'.

harold stokes
can anyone remember taking a piece to school for play time? us poor kids cut ours straight across the middle,the posh kids had theirs cut diagnaly, b---y toffy nosed kids

Dan Cox Cov
A Batch is a Batch end of story, roll is somthing dogs do in sheep poo, cob is an 'orse. unwell = sick, tired = knackered, throw = chuck, play truant = wag it, sleep = kip, hit 'ard = smack it, Left handed= cac 'anded, unatractive = munter- biffer- 5 bar moose- trogladite, Lacking money= skint- broke- brass'ic, drunk = sloshed- steaming- as a skunk- 'ammered. Pregnant = up the duff- preggers Attractive = fit- beautiful insane = mad- nutter moody = arsey- mardy- got one on him- in a strop rich = loaded- minted rain lightly= spitting main room in a house = lounge running water = brook long seat sofa- setee narow walkway = ally- gully- entry- Mother = mum baby = baby female parner = missus- my bird Young person etc etc= CHAV- scally- Kev- NOVA possy- townie kit of tools = tool kit word for forgotten stuff = thingy gdandfarther = grandad friend = mate- bud male partner (never had one so don't know) grandmother = Grandma Clothes = togs troursers = troursers childs soft shoes = pumps

H, Coventry
It's a batch!!

Linzie, Coventry
A batch is a batch!! Always has been!! Unwell = Ill, hot = boiling, cold = freezing, annoyed = mad, pleased = chuffed, tired = knackered. Mother = mum, baby = bab, female partner = missus, gradfather = granddad, friend = mate/bird/hun, male partner = fella, grandmother = grandma

Luce
unwell=ill, hot=boiling, cold=freezing, annoyed=peeved, pleased=chuffed, tired=shattered, to throw=lob, to play truant=skive, unattractive=rank, attractive=nice, insane=mental, rich=loaded, to rain lightly=drizzle, main room of a house=lounge, running water (smaller than a river)=stream, long soft seat in a main room=sofa, narrow walkway=alley, toilet=loo, to rain heavily=chuck it down, mother=mum, young person in cheap trendy clothes=cool, word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten=thingy, grandfather=grandad, friend=mate, grandmother=grandma.

Pam
These are words my husband's family (Stoke, Coventry) use: Unwell = Middlin' Tired = Bushed Throw = chuck Truant = on the wag (skive is for work) Sleep = kip, or forty winks (nap) Left handed = caggy handed Unattractive = dakey (female only) Lacking money = skint / boracic Pregnant = up the duff insane = away with the fairies Rain lightly = mizzle main room in house = lounge small river = brook long soft seat = settee narrow walkway = jitty toilet = loo rain heavily = raining stair rods Trousers = kecks PE Shoes = pumps / trainers

ashley payne
its a COB!!! AND IM FROM LEICESTER AND THAT THAT !!

Paul Moore
We called the offlicence the "outdoor". Its a batch not a cob or roll. Entry not Alley. Wagging it for truancy.No-one in Nuneaton knew what pumps is?? Hi to Heather Donovan, who i probably wagged it from Ernesford with!

louise
B A T C H Unwell=poorly, hot=boiling, cold=froz annoyed=stroppy/got a strop on pleased=chuffed tired=knackered play truant=skive, hit hard=whack, left handed= caggy handed, unattractive=minging, lacking money=broke drunk=wasted/bladdered, pregnant=up the duff, attractive=fit insane=loon moody=mardy/having a mard, rich=minted, main room of a house=living room, seat=sofa narrow walkway=jitty, toilet=loo, pe shoes= pumps

Carol
unwell=poorly,PE shoes=pumps, narrow walkway=jitty, rain slightly=spitting, a batch is a batch.

Laura, Rugby
ITS A BATCH! Unwell = Poorly Sick - Cold = Frozen - Annoyed = Cross - Pleased = Chuffed - tired = knackered - To throw = Lob - Truant = Skive - sleep = kip - hit hard = smack - left handed = Cack handed - unattractive = minging - insane = not right or dulally - moody = misery - Rich = loaded - Rain Lightly = spit - Main room in house = Living Room - Running Water = Brook - soft seat = settee or sofa - narrow walkway = ENTRY - toilet = loo - rain heavily = throwing down - mother = Mum - baby = baby or little un - female partner = the missis - young person trendy = Chav - forgotten work = thingymejig or whatjamacallit - Grandfather = gramps gransha or grandad - friend = pal or mate - male partner = boyfriend or my fella - Grandmother = grandma

VIvien Edwards
Butty - sandwich Jam butty etc. but my gran used to say butty-jam. Ginnel- passageway Nick off- play truant. Them - those. Gi me them things.

Caroline A
Lived in cov all my life. A batch is a batch not a roll or cob. the ice cream man was the de di man. the river was the brook, crumpets are crumpets not pikelets. it was the entry not the alley. the path leading to shcool was the black pad. it was me mum not me mam.it was going down town and up the city (footie)ice pops are tip tops. going out with was going with. sofa is settee. raining heavy is chucking it down. rich was loaded. you know was thingey bob or wots his name. raining slightly=spitting, and pumps or pumps not plimpsoles. BATCH!!!

ali
its always gonna be a batch in nuneaton

nick
forienger - any stranger

nick
rynnel - narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings

Alf
Unwell = Poorly, sickly, crook; Hot = Boiling, sweltered; Cold = Freezin'; Annoyed = Mad, cross; Pleased = stoked, well happy; Tired = sleepy, shattered; Throw = Toss, lob, chuck; Truant = Skive, hookey; Sleep = sleep, kip; Play = play, muck about; Hit hard = Thump, whack; Left handed = Kack handed, corrie gookit; Unattractive = Minger, manky; Lacking money = skint, brassicks; Drunk = Pissed, bladdered, wasted; Pregnant = Up the duff/stick, preggers, bun in the oven; Attractive = Tidy, hot; Insane = Cuckoo, cracked; Moody = sullen, moody; Rich = Loaded, minted; Rain lightly = Spitting; Main room = Livingroom; Running water = Stream, burn; Soft seat = Couch, settee, sofa; Walkway = Vennel, close, entry; Toilet = Loo; Rain heavily = Pouring, bucketing; Mother = Mum; Baby = Sprog, ankle biter; Female partner = the wife, mrs; Cheap, trendy = Chav, midden; Tools = toolkit; Something forgotten = Whatsit, thingummyjig; Grandfather = Grandad; Friend = Mate, pal; Male partner = Hubby, him; Grqandmother = Nanna, gran, granny; Clothes = Clothes, kit, gear; Trousers = Kecks; PE shoes = rubbers, plimsolls. Very few of these are different to what has been listed already but although I was born in Blackpool, I have lived in Scotland for 45 years (since I was 2) and parents are Scottish. I don't think language - especially slang is that different wherever you are from. Although there are a few expressions that are distinctive to a particular area - like batch (which I'd call a roll or a butty) but the Aberdonians would call a buttery!

J King
I'm 23 and lived in Coventry all of my life. Unwell = ill, hot = boling, cold= freezing, annoyed = raging, pleased = chuffed, tired = knackered, to play truant = wag, to sleep = kip, to hit hard = whack. Unattractive = minging, lacking money = skint, drunk = hammered or lefthanded or steaming, pregnant = up the duff, attractive = fit, insane = nutter, moody = mardyarse, rich = minted, To rain lightly = spitting, main room of a house = frontroom,long soft seat in a main room = settee, narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings = entry, toilet = toilet, to rain heavily = peeing down, chucking it down. Mother = mum, baby = nipper, female partner = misses, young person in cheap trendy clothes = chav, word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten = thingy, grandfather = grandad, friend = mate, grandmother = nana. Clothes = threads, child's soft shoes worn for PE = pumps

Heather, Coventry
I agree with Kathy H - I'm Coventry born and bred and have never used the word batch, it's always been a roll!

David
Moved from Coventry to USA in 1979. Here are a few transitions. Batch was Batch now Bun or Roll. PE shoes was Pumps or Plimsolls (a bit antiquated) now sneakers. Unwell was Ill or Poorly now Sick. Annoyed was Cross now Angry. Pleased was Chuffed now Happy. To Hit Hard was Slog now Belt(it). Rain Lightly was Drizzle now Sprinkle. A long time was Yonks now Ages or Forever. Long soft seat was Settee now Sofa or Couch.

Jim
Coventry born & bred - it's always been a batch for me! Now in South Wales where my daughter takes her 'daps' to school for PE intead of pumps. No idea what that's all about.

zoe
Born and bread in cov now livin in nueaton. Mother= mum, baby= bab, Female partner= girlfriend, Young person incheap trendy clothes= chav or townie, word for somethin forgotten= thingymajig, thingymabob or wotsisname, Grandfather= grandad, Grandmother= nan on mums side and grandma on dads side, friend= mate, male partner= boyf, Shoes worn for pe are pumps, its definately a batch and crumpets are crumpets. Left-handed= caggy handed, unattractive= minging ugly or dog, lacking money= skint or brassic, drunk= pissed wasted of his face leathered, pregnant= preggars or up the duff, attractive= fit or well nice, insane= mental crazy off his head, moody= mardy, mard-arse or arsy, rich= loaded or minted, rain lightly= spitting, rain heavily= chucking it down, main room of house= living room, a soft seat= sofa or settee, narrow walkway= entry or alley sometimes called a jitty in bed'uth!!!! toilet= loo or bog, to throw= chuck or lob, to play truant= to wag it, to hit hard= whack or decked or smack, unwell= poorly or ill, hot= boiling, cold= freezing or frozzen, annoyed= pissed off, pleased= chuffed and tired= knackered.

brian stansfield
gosford green area as a child at the back of the house was the jetty covered in coal slack. The binmen used it as access.(locally called the entry) we used to run errens up it as it was the quickest way to the shops.(an errand)shoes worn for pe were pumps your dad took snap to work.(lunch)

Jimmy C
A lift on the back of a bike = Croggy (same in Nottingham) as in 'gis a croggy dahn thu bottum shops' (Cheylesmore, c.1977)

Shell
Its a batch , its always been a batch for bread rolls !!!! Unwell= ill , Hot = Boiling , Cold = freezing , Annoyed = cross/peeved off ,Pleased = happy /over the moon , Tired = Knackered. To throw = chuck/lob ,To play truant=wag ,To sleep=kip , Unattractive=minging , Lacking money = skint /brasso, Drunk = wasted Attractive = Cute ,Insane = bonkers /crazy , Moody = mardy ,Rich , loaded /minted To rain lightly = spit , Main room of a house =lounge/living room , Narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings=ENTRY !!Young person in cheap trendy clothes=chav,childs soft shoes worn for PE =pumps

alexandra
Unwell-sick,hot boilin, cold freezin, annoyed peed off, pleased chuffed, tired knackered To throw chuck, to play truant bunk off, to sleep kip, to hit hard whack/deck. Left handed lefty, unattractive munter, lacking money skint, drunk wasted, pregnant knocked up, attractive prettyful, insane psycho, moody mardy, rich minted To rain lightly airs a bit damp, main room of a house lounge, running water (smaller than a river)stream, long soft seat in a main room setee, narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings alley, toilet loo/bog, to rain heavily chuckin it down. Mother mum, baby bubs, female partner girlfriend, young person in cheap trendy clothes chav, kit of tools box, word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten thingy, grandfather granda, friend mate, male partner boyfriend, grandmother nan Clothes kit, troursers, child's soft shoes worn for PE pumps lived in bedworth since i was 2

kay
born an bred nuneaton.spent alot of time in hinckley..its a cob (batch) chewing gum was chudy.

Ian Haris
p.e. shoes--pumps narrow walkway between----entry or jitty running water smaller than river---brook grandmother--nan great grandmother--gran AND IT IS A BATCH!!!

Mick Scannell
Leicester born & bred but spent 7 years in Cov at the then-Poly then worked near the Walsgrave(?) Hospital. What I call a 'cob' will always be a 'batch' in Cov - is Mr Porky's Batch Bar still in the city centre next door to the Parson's Nose? Coventry is of course 'Cov', and Bedworth is always 'Bed-uth'! A bloke I once worked with in Cov said his that he'd much rather be "on the broom at the Jag"! Was 'simmer' ever a Cov-only word? As in 'to be quiet'?

Daniel (proud Coventrian)
I'm in London at the mo and some of the things they come out with!Bus is Bass and Book is Buck!It's all wrong!Bread roll is definately batch and alley is definately entry.Can't wait to get back home to cov and have my ham and mustard batch.

Charlie
It's a batch! Unwell or rotten=manky PE Shoes=pumps Forgotten=thingummy Lunch=Dinner, Dinner=Tea LAcking Money=skint

Amy
It's batch!!! I use chunty/got a chunt on = meaning moody

ANDREW PITTAWAY
me and my partner phil keep teasing each other he comes from Dudley and im in Coventy i call it a batch he say roll

charlotte
a batch is definitly a batch....although when you go anywhere outside of coventry and ask for a chip batch they never know what the heck you're on about!!

Heidi Miller
its definately a batch and HAROLD STOKES IAN COVENTRY YOU FETCNED TEARS TO MY EYES MENTIONING OLD D.DI MASCIO, BEFORE THE WAR HE HAD A 3 WHEELER BIKE !! i am 30 and have always known the icecream man as the de di man so have my 4 children lol

Heidi Miller
30yrs old cov born with a welsh mother list of words unwell:poorly hot:boiling cold:freezing annoyed:peed off pleased:chuffed tired:knackered throw:chuck it to truant:wag it sleep:crash out to playout:going to call for hit:whack left-handed keggy-handed unattractive:well ugly lacking money:skint drunk:pissed pregnant:up the duff attractive:well pretty insane:mental moody:stroppy rich:loaded rain slightly:spitting mainroom of house frontroom livingroom lounge running water smaller than a river:river long soft seat :sofa narrow walkway:entry toilet:loo heavy rain :bucketing down mother:mum baby:babby female partner:girlfriend young person:street rat/teenager/kid kit of tools:toolbag/box forgotten person:thingy me jig grandfather:grandad friend:mate male partner:boyfriend grandmather:nan clothes:clothes trousers:trousers child p.e shoes:pumps

Bernie from 'COV' not coventry
It's a batch, cob is on your own, baps on a lady's chest. We go down to london not up. If it rains heavy its chucks or hammers it down. Slight rain is spitting, drizzel if your from the 'posh end'. We go up the city for the footy, down the town to go out. Mate is any friend. Best mate you can only ever have one of, but mate is also a stranger who has helped or you want help from. Cheers - thankyou. Entry allies are for ten pin bowling.

Hazel - Coventry
unwell=poorly, left handed =caggy handed main room = front room walway =alley, entry rain heavily =pour, mother=mum baby=bab forgotten item =wotsit grandfather=grandad GRandmother=nanny friend=mate male=bab, sweetheart,love pe shoes = pumps bread roll = batch currant bun=teacake

louise
sick = unwell brass monkeys = cold vexed = annoyed shattered = tired chuck = throw wag it = play truant kip = sleep bash = to hit hard munter/ boafod = unattractive broke/ brassoed = lacking money monged = drunk spitting = to rain lightly living room = main room of house brook = running water settee = long soft seat in main room entry = narrow walkway alongside buildings bog/ lav = toilet babby = baby chav = young person in cheap trendy clothes thingie = something/someone whos name forgotten mate = friend boyfriend = male partner togs = clothes pumps = childs soft shoes worn for PE

Marc Skelton
It's a batch!! I'm living up in Leeds and they just don't seem to get it. Only other place i've found they use it is Birkenhead.

simon - coventry
you drive me 'nuts' - mad drunk - splashed well off - minted toilet - kazy bread roll - batch some time ago - yonks ago marbles - marlies very young child - ankle biter

Jo - Leamington Spa
A roll Unwell = ill Hot - I'm boiling Cold - I'm freezing Throw - Stop Chucking that Room in house - living room Long seat - sofa Walkway - Alley Toilet - Loo Heavy rain - tipping down Friend - mate Childs shoes - pumps

Daniel - Nuneaton
Its a batch, hinckley its a cob, its weird. Unwell - poorly, hot - boiling, cold - freezing, annoyed - P***ed off, pleased - very happy, tired - knackered. To throw - chuck, to play truant - skiving, to sleep - snoozing, to play - do, to hit hard - whack. unattractive - ugly, lacking money - skint, drunk - p***ed, pregnant - preggers, attractive - nicceeee, insane - crazy, moody - got the hump, rich - loaded. To rain lightly - drizzle, main room of a house - front room, running water (smaller than a river) - stream, long soft seat in a main room - settee, narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings - pavement, toilet - loo/throne, to rain heavily - chucking it down. Mother - mum, baby - babbie, female partner - old lady, young person in cheap trendy clothes - chav, kit of tools - tool box, word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten - thingy/you know who, grandfather - grandad, friend - mate, male partner - boyfriend, grandmother - grandma. child's soft shoes worn for PE - pumps

Rob Williams
48 years old and born and bred in Coventry. It is definitely a batch and an entry, and when my mother wanted someone to clear the table she always said 'will you SIDE the table'. I think it is a Manchester expression. When my father was doing his national service the chef in Singapore couldn't pronounce sandwich so he called a chip butty 'a chip BANJO'

Sheryl
I'm at Cov uni and everyone from outside Coventry has no idea what a batch is, but I've managed to persuade my teo flatmates (from Chesterfield) that when in Cov they must say it as we do :-)

Lisa - Nuneaton
BATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kim - Bristol
Some of the expressions/sayings are ones I have also used for years, so I don't they are just local to you. The Bristolian language is very interesting and unusual.

Lesley Cox
I am a coventry kid who eats batches, walks down the entry and wagged it from school!

lizzie
my boyf is from cov and he calls a roll a batch

Sarah
31 in Rugby: Unwell - sick/ill, hot - boiling, cold - freezing, annoyed - mad/pi**ed off, pleased - chuffed, tired - knackered, throw - chuck, truant - skive, sleep - kip, hit hard - thump, left-handed -kackyhanded (normal to me), lacking money - skint, drunk - pi**ed/pie eyed, pregnant - up the duff/bun in t' oven, insane - mad/loopy, rich - loaded, raining lightly - spitting, main room of a house - living room (like tony we had front rooms for guests), running water - brook, long soft seat - settee, narrow walkway - alley/entry, toilet - loo, rain heavily - hammering down, mother - mum, baby - bab, female partner - the missus, young person... - townie/trendy, forgotten thing - thingamyjig, friend - mate, Grandmother/father - gran/grandad,PE shoes - pumps/plimsoles

HAROLD STOKES
IAN COVENTRY YOU FETCNED TEARS TO MY EYES MENTIONING OLD D.DI MASCIO, BEFORE THE WAR HE HAD A 3 WHEELER BIKE !!

Debbie
lived in Blackburn, Lancashire as a child moved to Nuneaton when I was 12 Unwell=poorly; Hot=boiling; Cold=freezing; annoyed=angry; Pleased=well chuffed; Tired=shattered; Throw=chuck; Truant=bunk off; Sleep=little snooze; Left-handed=cack-handed; lacking money=brassick; drunk=plastered; pregnant=in pig; Insane=loopy; Moody=mardy; Rich=loaded; rain lightly=spitting; Rain heavily=chucking it down; Main room=living room; water=brook; walkway between houses=entry; toilet=loo; mother=mum; baby=sprog; partner=other half; word for forgotten named person=whats a face; friend=mate; PE shoes=plimsoles

Richard Gudgeon
i was suprised when a couple of southerners did not know what a gambowl was (forward roll)

Sally
Born in Birmingham and moved to Nuneaton when i was 7 - unwell=poorly ; hot = boiling ; cold = frezing ;annoyed = angry; pleased = chuffed;tired = shattered throw = chuck ; truant = skive ; sleep = Sleep ;left-handed = Cagy handed ;lacking money = skint; drunk = Pissed; pregnant = up the duff; insane = mental; moody = mardy; rich=loaded/rolling in it; rain lightly = spitting; rain heavily = Throwing it down; main room = Living room; water = pond; walkway (between terraced houses = jitty toilet = loo; mother = mum; baby = sprog; partner = Girlfriend/boyfriend; word for forgotten named person = thingy; grandfather = Gramps; friend = mate; grandmother = nan/nanny;PE shoes = pumps

Claire
Unwell = ill, hot = roasting/boiling/hot, cold = cold/freezing, annoyed = pissed of/not happy, pleased = chuffed, tired = sleepy To throw = lob/chuck, to play truant = wag it/wagging it, to sleep = sleep, to play = play, to hit hard = whack Left handed = caggy handed/cack handed, unattractive = ugly/minging, lacking money = skint, drunk = steaming, attractive = fit, moody = mardy/arsey, rich = minted To rain lightly = spitting, main room of a house = living room, long soft seat in a main room = sofa, narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings = alley, toilet = loo/bog, to rain heavily = pissing is down/hammering it down Mother = mum, baby = baby, female partner = mrs, young person in cheap trendy clothes = townie/chav,

Louise (Studley, S. Warks)
Always lived & educated (up to age 18 at any rate) in S. Warks - parentage is Black Country (Oldbury) & Redditch (N.E. Worcs), so may be a bit of a mixed bag!! Unwell = poorly hot = boiling cold = freezing annoyed = rattled pleased = chuffed tired = knackered To throw = chuck to play truant = skive off to hit hard = wallop unattractive = moose, munter, rough lacking money = skint drunk = hammered pregnant = up the duff attractive = fit, gorgeous insane = mental moody = stroppy rich = loaded To rain lightly = spitting, drizzling main room of a house = living room running water (smaller than a river) = stream long soft seat in a main room = settee narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings = entry (if between houses), gulley toilet = loo to rain heavily = chuck it down Mother = mom young person in cheap trendy clothes = sad kit of tools = tool-box word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten = whatsit grandfather = grandpap, grampamp friend = mate grandmother = grandma Clothes = clobber trousers = kecks child's soft shoes worn for PE = pumps

JB
I come from Chesterton in Warwickshire and as well as using thingemyjig for summat we didn't know we also used doobry (pronounced doo-bree) i dunno why it was just the way it was. Chewing gum was 'Chuddy' And as for the great bread roll debate it was either bap or a batch, they both made sense.

Baz
Something from New Zealand, Batch=Roll, a Bach (sounds the same) is a holiday house usually by the sea, unwell=crook, pleased=stoked, play truant=bunk off, unattractive=skanky, lacking money=broke, drunk-wasted, entry=alleyway. To hit hard=ALLBLACKS

Geoff
From Coleshill - off licence was an out-door, grandad-grampy, grandmother-nan and now that I live in Coventry I have learned to say batch. Also buzz for a bus, trainers were pumps.

Ian Elliott
I'm 'Cov' born and bred. I got loads of stick at Uni for saying batch. Someone told me this year that it's called a batch because it was used to describe those 'batches' of batches that come in 6's and are all stuck together. There's an entry beside my house too, which proves it's an entry not an alley.

Samz
have lived in Coventry all my life - 15 years. Unwell - ill, hot - roasting/boiling, cold - freezing, pleased - chuffed, tired - knackered To throw - chuck/lob, to play truant - wag it, to sleep - kip, to hit hard - whack. unattractive - minging, lacking money - skint, drunk - steaming, pregnant - preggers/pregnated, attractive - fit, insane - crazy/off ya head, moody - strop, rich - minted To rain lightly - drizzle, main room of a house - front room, running water (smaller than a river) - stream, long soft seat in a main room - settee, narrow walkway beside/alongside buildings - entry, toilet - loo, to rain heavily - chuck it down. Mother - mum/mumsie, baby - little 'un, female partner - missus, young person in cheap trendy clothes - townie, word for something/someone whose name you've forgotten - thingymabob, grandfather - grandad, friend - mate, male partner - ma man, grandmother - nan/nanna. trousers - bottoms/jeans, child's soft shoes worn for PE - pumps and its BATCH not ROLL. although in ryton on dunsmore they say roll and look at me gone out when i say batch. also many people i know will say 'the cinema' yet i'll say 'the pictures'

jason e
nuneaton born an bred so its a batch. an alley is a jitty

Nik Sibley
roll=batch (or a buttie with sausage, chips etc), throw=chuck, truant=wag it, sleep=kip, hit hard=whack, good=sound, lack money=skint, running water=stream, long seat=settee, walkway=jitty, toilet=loo, rain heavily=chuck it down, baby=babbie, mood=mardy or strop, female partner=missus, something forgetton=thingymajig, friend=mate, grandmother & grandfather=nan & grandad, town centre=down the town, off licence=offie. Crumpets, not pikelets. Pumps, not plimpsols. Always tip-tops, not ice pops etc. Words from Bed'uth!

bob
attractive - fit

Kate Packwood
I have been living in London for the past few years but originally grew up in Coventry. I am trying hard to resist adopting the epidemic that is ‘Estuary English/Mockney’ that I find grates on the ear. I blame Eastenders for its growth throughout the country. Anyway here are a few words I remember using when I was a teenager in Coventry. Left handed/cack-handed; unattractive/yak or a mong; drunk/wasted or off ya face; in a mood/in a strop or mardy pants; young person in cheap trendy clothes/doughnut or townie or member of the shirt brigade; something forgotten/thingymejig; raining lightly/spitting; small running water/brook; to rain heavily/lash it down; play truant/wag it; someone lacking money/dosser or Low –roader; to throw/lob it!

harold stokes
jen from nuneaton ----can i put you right on one point ? its me mam not mum

Jan
to Robert Cathcart - I know where you're from. Do you also get oos in your belly button and eat your jeely piece?

Harold Stokes
we gorra luvly accent! goo down town on the buzz an listen to it, if you don,t like it, you must be yampy ie crazy/thick/ a b nutter

Anne-Marie
Ive just moved to coventry from glasgow and had never heard of a batch the first time i asked for a roll and chips i was giving a cod roe its the same with scallops we call them fritters,pop we call it ginger,potatoe cakes

Jo
what is everyone going on about? a narrow walkway alongside a building is a gulley!

Mark Glover
I grew up in Liverpool and came to Coventry in 1982. They use 'entry' in Liverpool (and 'jigger' to mean the same thing). One thing I found interesting is how the kids' playground chasing game 'tag' is corrupted up and down the country. In Liverpool it was 'Tick', in Coventry 'Tig' and in London 'Tag'. Oh, and snow 'sticks' instead of 'settling'.

Darren
Batch of course - local term. Just like 'mickey mouse' for half lager&half bitter.

alan hopkins
Born in Wales they are cobs, trainers are daps,mothers are mam, spring onions are gibons, grandmas are mamgus

Dave Craddock
When i was 16 i worked for Savages Bakery in Argyle Street.I am now 60+. When loading up with my driver ( i was van boy)) ,they were always called batches. Rolls was a posh car!.

Michelle
I am from Coventry but havce recently moved to Australia, over here a female is a chick and a male is a dude.. but to me a female will always be a gal and a male is a lad! They say roll i say batch! i say trouses they say pants! i say nan they say nana, i say greandad they say papa. i say entry they say ally. I will neva loose my good old cov sayings!

Fruity Mcfruitcake
It is a BATCH, not a ROLL. If you go into a shop and ask for a sausage ROLL then you get sausage in pastry not sausage in a batch. Same with COB, if you have corn on the COB and ask for a sausage COB then you are in fact asking for sausage on the bit that normally comes with corn attached to it. Dont even get me started on BALM CAKE

Chris
I am a southener living up here in Coventry, I.e. the north. Sometimes I humour the locals my calling it a Batch. Just like Michael Palin ate sheeps eyes with the locals in Mongolia. It's a roll though to real people, and always will be. ;-)

Matt Grice
Here's a few from my age group (30ish). I was born and bred in Walsgrave, though my parents are from Birmingham. To play truant: Wag it Left-handed: kag-handed Unattractive: a munter Rich: Minted Female partner: The Missus Baby: Anklebiter Young person in cheap trendy clothes: a Townie Lacking money: Brassic Moody or annoyed:"he's got his a&$e in his hand" Forgotten name/thing: An oojie Mother: The Old Dear Father: The Old Fella Grandmother: Nan Kit of tools: Me gear PE Shoes: Pumps Throw: Wang

harold stokes
i left coventry in 48 to join the navy,it was a batch then, is now and always wll be! and you go up an entry of cause

Olg
left cov at the age of 12 4 the states on yhe outside im all american but i still say entry and its gotta be batch makes it taste better somehow !!!!!!

Leigh
Batch all the way, its a chip BATCH, never have I asked for a chip roll? that sounds like a P.E. move

Kal
Its a BAP.

Matt Evs
'Chav' classist word meaning lower working class, 'rough', or 'common' often applied to kids or 'youts' who have adopted cheap sports wear and jewelry as a uniform. We have had a prootype chave in Swansea for decades called 'meeshes' or 'townies', us and the Liverpudlian 'scally' are ahded of our time.

Matt Evs
When I miss school its called 'going on the mung'.

Ray Fletcher
My family have lived in Coventry for many generations. When I was young I can remember a sandwitch being called a piece (peese, peace?). I would guess it came from a piece of bread. It is not an expression that I have heard for many a year. Does anyone else still use this word or can anyone remember it being used?

Chris
It's BATCH. End of story. 'Nuff said. Since I moved to Lincolnshire, if I ask for a batch I always get looked at as if I'm from another planet! Doesn't stop me though! The day I ask for a breadcake will be the day I move back to Cov!

Warner
Calling Batches rolls or cobs? how dare you! in Cov we speak the queens so it should always be batches, and tip tops is the only name you should use for mr freezes. I thank you

Iain from Sheffield
I've been in Cov/Nuneaton for 30 yrs now and I'm still mystified. How can a single bread roll be a batch? What's a 'scraze' a scratch or a graze? Why do people work at THE Jag, THE Dunlop or THE GEC (but never at THE Courtaulds). To me an Entry's still a Jennel, or a Ginnel. A long seat is a 'settee', scone's always like 'own' and crumpets are most definitely 'pikelets'!

Dee from Coventry
Oh we have batches here. My ex husband went to Southend on business and asked for a batch and they gave him a box of matches! One thing I reckon most Coventrians agree on is that we are in WARWICKSHIRE. Very few of us recognise the West Midlands and rightly so. I was born in Coventry, Warwickshire and I resent politicians renaming my place of birth! Please use Warwickshire on all mail. I do and it is never a problem. We have the CV post code as do all the towns and villages of Warwickshire. It's scones (as it 'owns')living room, tipping it down or chucking it down, 'up the City' for footy and 'down the town' for shopping. Coal house where coal is kept, beer at home means Davenports (no one outside the Midlands seems to recognise that)we have a Council House, not a town hall and we have a take-away rather than a take-out.

Robin
It's not a batch or roll, it's a COB...............

Jayne Barker
Roll or Batch is called a "breadcake" in Yorkshire.

Jen from Nuneaton
Hello i am 18 year olg female from nuneaton,can i just clear it up that bread roll is a batch.Apparently it comes from 'a batch of rolls'. unwell:poorly/ill Hot:bloiling Cold: freezing annoyed: wound up pleased: happy tired: shattered/knackered throw: chuck play truant: scive/bunk hit hard: smack or whack left handed: cack handed unnatractive: ugly/minging lacking money: skint/broke drunk: wasted/trollied/pissed/mullered/on the steam boat/steaming pregnant:preggers/up the duff attractive: pretty/hot/good looking/fitty insane:nutters/crackers/mad/gone in the head moody:mardy/strop rich:minted rain lightly:drizzle main room of house:front room running water:stream long soft seat in main room:sofa narrow walkway:alley way toilet: loo, bog rain heavily mother:mum femaile partner:the mrs person in cheap trendy clothes:chav/towny kit of tools:tool kit forgotten name:thingamajig grandfather:grandad friend:mate male partner:my bloke grandmother:gran/nan shoes worn for PE:pumps!

emza
hes crazy,hes aka/he lost the plot/hes off his heed,truant=wag/skip/skive hes proper wkd=hes geet cush, nd thats it

gemz
truant=wag,unattractive=mong/dog,pregnant=up the duff,attractive=sexy/lush,mother=ma,father=da,freind=mate,drunk=off his heed/p*ssed,insane=lost the plot,sleep=kip,throw=hoy,toilet=bog/loo,

Julia (originally from Coventry)
My husband and daughter are both cuddywifters - that is they are both left handed. I have no idea where the word came from, it's the word I have always used to term left-handed people! Mind you, I do get some strange looks!

Krishna
I'm from Cheshire and now living in Coventry. I'd never heard of the word batch until I met my husband, a batch to me is a bap/muffin depending on size, children's PE shoes are pumps/plimsols & an entry is an alley way.

Kathy H
what is everyone talking about, i'm from coventry and i have never heard of the word batch in my life!

Guy incognito
how can 'batch' make more sense than 'breadroll'? its 'bread' 'roll'ed into a ball! Try going to stoke... that makes your head spin.....

silas, nuneaton
play truant - SKIVE, drunk - WASTED, attractive - FIT, moody - MARDY, main room - LOUNGE, long seat - SOFA, narrow walkway - JITTY (never heard it get called an entry!) toilet - LOO, and it's definately a BATCH!!!!

Kerry
I'm a Coventry girl that moved to the Higlands of Scotland 6 years ago, but I still use the words 'Batch' and 'Entry'. The locals look at me gone out, and 9 times out of 10 I have to explain it to them, but for me, thats what they will always be called.

Martyn, Coventry
Cov Born and Bred. always batch never roll, Entry not alleyway, wagging it not playing truant, cold is frozzen, hot is boiling, left handed is kaggy handed,down the town not into town, up the city means going to the football, drunk is leathered, langured or the obvious one, a living room is the front room, we wore pumps for PE, we were chuffed when we were pleased and had a pog on or a mardy when we weren't. Crumpets are always crumpets never piklets (seem to be a minority on that one) I'm sure there's more but they elude me at this time

Simon
I regularly have arguments with mates at uni about what a bread roll is. I've always called it a batch being from Cov. Northerners seem to call it a balm cake. Another one is a Tip-Top - we at school always called the long frozen tubes of ice tip-tops, but others seem to call them ice-pops or ice-poles. Tip-tops to them are the cup drink things.

MN
Am 30 and all of my mates say batch, chip batch and batch bar! I never knew 'entry' was only a Cov saying. Have asked everyone where I work in Northants and they've never heard of it. Bizarre!

cov_gal
Some say that batch doesn't sound like bread.... But how does the word COB sound like bread?.. Everytime i hear that i think of corn on the cob.

LFC4EVA
Unwell=not well, to play truant=wag, unattractive=dog, , lacking money=skint/poor, attractive=fit, insane= lost it/lost the plot, main room of a house=living room, long soft seat in a main room=setee, narrow walkway beside=alley, young person in cheap trendy clothes=chav, someone whose name you've forgotten="oi mate!", grandmother=nan, child's soft shoes worn for PE=pumps

Naomi
The phrase can i have 'a sausage in a bread roll/bap' isn't as good as 'sausage batch please!'

Nicola
Drunk;Steaming although in Liverpool, steaming means feeling horny! Definately batch for a bread roll! The phrase....'sweating cobs'I get abused for saying batch and get told i'm wrong because the phrase isn't 'sweating batches'. It's a stupid phrase anyway! Ugly/Unatractive; Minging. Entry; in Sutton Coldfield it's 'down the gully'. Pumps for P.E! Crumpets not pikelets. Playing truant is wagging it. Rich; Minted! Grandma; not nan or nanny. Mum is how it's spelt; not 'Mom'.

streetrace ste
Have to totally agree with Mr D. whitehouse! Where the french connection do they get these words from for normal everyday objects? Anyway, here's my definitions of your words, well known round our area: unattractive - Munter or slab cracker, lacking money - Harper, drunk -'ommered, pregnant - up the duff, attractive - daaaaaam, young person in cheap trendy clothes - tool, friend - dued, to play - player.

Val Smith
My husband was born and bred in Coventry and lived there until August last year, he now lives in Wiltshire with me. Much to my annoyance he insists on calling a bread roll a 'batch'! He also uses the word 'them' where I would use the word 'those'. I haven't noticed any other strange words as yet, although he says what I would call an 'alleyway' he would call an 'entry'!

Clare
In Essex they say 'ice pole'....meaning tip-top!

Clare
I'm from Coventry but moved to Birmingham 3 years ago. I am used to using the word 'batch', but when i ask for one i get a dumb look! I have to think before i say it and change to using the words 'cob' or 'bread roll'. I find it weird to say and find myself using my hands to describe it.The phrase 'all the time'......over here they say 'all the while'. A few have said people from Coventry have a 'farmer accent', you know the one!I don't think so somehow!

Paul
TO THROW-chuck or lob. TO PLAY TRUANT-waggin' it. TIRED-knackered. UNATTRACTIVE-mingin'or Orrible LACKING MONEY-skint DRUNK-wasted ATTRACTIVE-stunning or fit INSANE-nutter MOODY-mardy RICH-loaded or minted RAIN LIGHTLY-spitting MAIN ROOM-lounge or living room RUNNING WATER-stream LONG SOFT SEAT-couch NARROW WALKWAY-entry TOILET-loo or bog TO RAIN HEAVILY-hammering down MOTHER-mum mam and mom FEMALE PARTNER-girlfriend SOMETHING FORGOTTEN-thingybob or wozisname GRANFATHER-grandad GRANDMOTHER -nan FRIEND-mate pal or buddy TROUSERS-slacks SOFT SHOES-pumps Also we call our 'under the stairs' the bogey hole, me and me brother are refered to as 'our kid' and me and me mates dont pronounce the H in BALL HILL??!!

David Whitehouse
Ive had thi argument with my girlfriend and her mates constantly (who are from cov) i told her to ask for a chip batch in staffordshire and see what response she got and they looked at here blank! Also in coventry they call 'kock and run'.. 'rattatat ginger' that doesnt even explain the game? and they play 'Rally 1..2..3' instead of 'Acky 1..2..3' Ive said numerous times its like theres a big wall around coventry and their in their own little 'strange' world!

Dave
BATCH without a doubt

Emma
Truant - Rata tat ginger Definatly the word batch

Bird
It's a barmcake!!!!!

Steve Gilbert
As a kid, my Gran would ak me to go to the "outdoor" to get her a bottle of stout, meaning the off-licence

Andrew Read
Batch

Seema
Here are some of the words I use....I didn't think I was saying anything wrong until I moved to London! Unwell = Ill Hot = Boiling Cold = Freezing Pleased = Happy Tired - Knackered Throw = Chuck Truant = Wag Hit Hard = Whack Pregnant = Up the Duff Attractive = Fit Rain lightly = Spitting Main room of house = Lounge Running water = Stream Long soft seat = Sofa/Settee Narrow walkway = Alleyway Toilet = Loo Rain heavily = Hammering it down Child's soft shoes worn for PE = Pumps

Carol Morton
Poorly...Ill Wagging...Playing Truant Batch...Roll Down Town....city centre Up north... Bed...Sleep Well Chuffed,Wicked....Pleased Smack...hit hard Lowlife...no money,non working Nuts...insane Posh totty...pretty Steaming....drunk up for it....willing to do Front room......main room in house Settee...Long seat jetty,entry...passage way between houses loo...toilet Throwing it down....raining hard whodoucallit....can,t remember Grandad Nan Mate....friend Pumps....shoes for gym round the shops Hoover....vacuum the room And thats just a few,Cazz from coventry

KP
I say Batch which baffled my uni friends from up North... We used to say "up the shops" and "Down the Town" also which doesn't make sense! Mother is Mum, thingymajig is something you don't know the name of, Nanny is Grandma. We have a settee in the sitting room, narrow walkway is an entry, broke is haveing no money and being loaded is having lots! Pregnant is preggers.unwell is poorly I'm from Earlsdon, Coventry.

stacey
I agree with dave chuddy for chewing and its a batch and entry and bait means ovbious!!!

L - COV - PROUDLY, BORN & BRED
Typical Coventry Saying "Can or Glass of Pop"! Not Can or Glass of coke / orange etc. we say Pop! And will always be a batch you just have to remember where you are in the world you get some very odd looks!

N
tired=knackered, pleased=chuffed, cold=freezing, hot=boiling, truant=wagging it. left-handed=cack-handed, pregnant=up the spout. The main room is a living room where you'd usually find a settee. Running water is a brook which overflows when its tipping it down. You where pumps for PE and its definitely a batch (though I prefer pikelets).

Emma
Cupboard - Closet, toilet - the can, when im in trouble... im screwed, path - sidewalk and yes i am american!

Diane - Coventry with a bit of Yorkshire thrown in
Batches are for ham and cheese, faggots or pork etc, but Butties are bread slices with usually bacon or chips in them. We like to eat a chukkie egg from time to time, and when I was young and the family were hard up it was "Bread and spit". (Not literally)Entry and Jetty are the back alleys behind the houses, though sometimes entry refers to the closed over passageway too. I used to go "up the town" but down the road. Now from rural Warwickshire I drive "into town" When taking a small child by the hand, it's "Give us your Donny". When out of sorts I'm Mardy,when tired I'm Knackered, when happy I'm chuffed and when sad I'm down in the dumps.

Sam from Leicester
Alley is a jetty and batch depends on what shape it is, batch if its square and roll if its long eg sausgage roll shape or hot dog.

Dave
Chuddy for Chewing Gum, and theres loads more of course and yes it is a batch!!!

Mark Robinson, South Warks.
A word which our family have used for three generations is "PUTHERY" (the PU is pronounced the same as in "put" and TH is pronounced as "the"), which describes that hot and humid condition typical just before a thunder storm. I don't know it's derivation.

kathy * BIRMINGHAM
its not batch or roll thts a cob, rols are narrow

Robert Cathcart
when I've no money I'm rooked

Robert Cathcart
stay off school is skidge anyone guessed where I'm from yet?

Robert Cathcart
armpit is oxter and splinter is a skelf

Mary F (grew up in Coventry)
Playing truant = wagging it, have never heard this anywhere else. Skiving off just meant leaving somewhere to avoid doing what you were supposed to be doing. "Up the City" (= going to watch the football) but "down the town" (= going to the city centre for shopping), always amused me as Coventry is fairly flat and neither is actually up or down!

janet ames
alley ways behind houses=jittys. The cold slab in an old fashioned pantry+the thrawl. Anything poorly built ie.card house = shimble. a child's hand= a donny(hang-over from WW1 when soldiers misunderstood the meaning of donner, to give, to mean the hand that was extended. now virtualy extinct. All these from Nuneaton

Linda Balz,(nee Spittle)[email protected]
I'd agree with most about the batch and pikelets-but I'm a little uncertain about the minging-I thought this meant stop moaning or winging (pronounced winjing)

Stu (Solihull)
Pikelets not Crumpets

sarah
batch= roll, butty= sandwich entry= alley,cold=freezing hot=boiling chuffed=pleased chuck=throw wagging it=playing traunt wack= hit hard cacky handed= left handed mingin= unattractive broke= no money mardy=moody loaded=rich spitting= rain lightly living room brook=running water, loo, bog, tipping it down=rain heavily, mate=friend, towny/chav, nan=grandmother, yous= you for more than one person pumps= pe shoes

Katy Wilson = Atherstone near Nuneaton
Unwell=poorly, pleased=chuffed, tired=knackered, to throw=to lob, unattractive=minging, drunk=wasted, attractive=fit, moody id definitely a mardy! rain lightly=drizzling, main room in house=living room, raining heavily then it's chucking it down! young person in cheap trendy clothes is nothing but a towny! if you've forgotton a name then it's thingybob! and we used to have to wear pumps for PE! Unfortunately.lol!

Angela, Rugby
In a bad mood (got a cob on, got a monk on, mardy. Scone (scon). Left handed (cack handed). Town centre (up town). Living room (front room). Crowded place (it was chocka). Plimsolls (pumps). Sofa (settee). Travelling North (gooin' up North). Travelling South (gooin' down South). Canal (cut).

Justin Webb (Coundon)
There's nothing more that I like that a donner 'n' chip batch in the evening, particularly from the Marina. You'd be hard-pushed to find a better batch anywhere else in the city!

Rachel B
I live in Coventry but moved up from down south. The batch thing confused me cos we call them rolls down south. However, I have noticed that people in Coventry are not consistent.......some say batch, some say cob and some say bap.

emma blount coventry
BATCH ENTRY LOLLIPOP - NOT ICE POP (LEICESTER) "U KNOW WHAT I MEAN..." TRUE COVENTRY SAYING! "DOWN TOWN.." TROUSERS "GONE OUT..." SOFT SHOES WORN FO P.E = PUMPS!! ALL IN ALL...U WILL FIND ...NO..BRUMMIES!!!

Joe s
its a batch, entrys not alleys, crumpets all the way, wagging school, skint for no money,

Neil Wright
It's Neither!!It's a Cob!!

Mike Kennedy
Firstly, it's 'batch',we went 'down the entry', we wore 'pumps' for PE and we ate 'pikelets' not crumpets. Marbles were 'alleys' and we caught 'buzzes' to the 'Medda'. The canal is the 'cut', most tarmac short cuts are 'black pads'. We went 'down the town'for shops and 'up the city' for football and lots of women went to 'coats and hats' [C&A] for their clothes.

kayleigh
bap-batch jeans-trousers

Warwickshire
To say we are unwell we would say poorly, ill, dont feel very well. hot;boiling, cold;freezing pleased; well happy tired; knackered to throw; chuck to play truant; skive, bunk to sleep; sleep to play; play to hit hard; smack unnatractive; minging,ugly, rotter lacking money; broke, skint drunk;wasted, mullered, trollied,para, pregnant; prega's, up the duff, knocked up attractive; fit, fitty, hot insane; mad, crazy moody; mardy, in a mard rich; minted, loaded rain lightly; spitting, drizzle main room, lounge, front room, living room running water; stream long seat; sofa narrow walkway; alleyway toilet;bog, loo, toilet heavy rain;tipping it down mother;mom,mum baby; baby female partner; missus, lady young person in cheap trendy clothes; chav, towny kit of tools; tool kit word for something forgot; thingamajig, grandfather; grandad, granpa friend; mate,friend, male partner; boyf, boyfriend, bloke, fella grandmother;nan,gran,grandma,nanny clothes; clothes trousers; trousers childs soft shoes for PE;pumps, daps

Pete Burgess
Brought up in Swan Lane - now living in London. Thrape = thrash ('Don't thrape that motor bike our kid') Gone out = uncomprehendingly ('She looked at me gone out') Give your neck = capitulate before events, or throw in the towel (presumably something to do with heads being chopped off) An definitely batch and entry (plus also jitty)

Philip, grew up in Coundon
Batch, definitely. unwell=poorly, hot=boiling, cold=freezing, annoyed=teed off, pleased=made up, tired=knackered, to throw=lob, to play truant=wag, to sleep=ziz, to hit hard=thwack, left-handed=kaggy, unattractive=jug, lacking money=skint, drunk=leathered, pregnant=up the spout, attractive=fit, insane=loopy, moody=mardy, rich=rolling, light rain=drizzle, heavyrain=chucking it down, main room=lounge, long seat=settee, narrow walkway=entry or jetty, toilet=bog,Mum, nipper,old gal,Kevin and Sharon,toolkit, ooojit, ooojiflip, Gag, mate, old man,Nan, clothes=togs, trousers=??, shoes=pumps

Clive Barnard (Nuneaton)
I also used entry and batch. The first time I realised that batch was not a bread roll to others was in Canterbury. I asked for a batch in the local shop and they said 'of what'.

Graham Jeffery
Born and brought up in N. Warwickshire,but now living in S. Glos. - below some of the more unusual words that I remember from my childhood in Atherstone pronounced with a hard 'th' and the final syllable as 'stun'), plus usage of some others you ask for. Nesh:- the opposite of hardy,in terms of weather conditions. Sneeped:- to make, or be made to feel small - to slight or be slighted. Jizzup:- the juice or gravy from a pie. Swoerd:- rind (of cheese, etc.) Donnies:- (child's) hands. Caggy or cag-handed:- left-handed (I am). Batch:- roll (Mann's batch shop on Long Street!) Blartin(g):- crying. Thrape:- hit hard, both person and object. Pikelet:- round thing with holes in top that was toasted and buttered. Suff:- drain, gully, ditch (Cov. rather than N. Warwicks.) Mardy:- moody, miserable. PS A few months ago, I bought an old edition of 'A Warwickshire Word Book' - it is absolutely fascinating!

D Craddock Upper Stoke.
Ever since i can remenber, i am 61,it has always been a batch not a roll.Truancy was playing the wag.Left hander,kaggi handed,trainers,pumps or daps,ally jetty or jitty,heavy rain, hammering down,muffin is a pikelet.Off licence is an outdoor,ie outdoors from the pub,freezing was frozzed,crazy,out of there tree,beaten up was giving a thraping,having a day of,skiving,oh i could go on!.

Damien in Chapelfields
31 originally born in Grantham Lincs but family moved to Coundon when I was 3 so been here 28 years now! Definately a batch, unwell (sick), hot (boiling), cold (freezing), annoyed (racked off or something off) pleased (chuffed), tired (knackered), throw (lob, chuck), truant (wag), sleep (kip), hit hard (smack, whack), left handed (same), unattractive (minger, boiler), lacking money (skint, brassic) drunk (oh so many, bladdered, hammered, leathered, etc) pregnant (up the duff), attractive (fit), insane (loopy, nuts), moody (arsey), rich (minted), others in order, drizzle, living room, stream or brook, couch, sofa or settee, alley or alley way, bog and chucking it down, mum, nipper, misses, towny or boy racer, toolkit, doofer, thingymajig or whatshisface, grandad, mate, bloke, grandma (on mums side, nan on dads side), clothes, trousers and pumps

Carole Bourne
Unwell,proper poorly Tired,Knackered Hot,Boiling Throw up,upchuck Skip school,playing hooky Hit hard,Thump Lacking money,Skint Ugly,a face like the back of a bus Insane,bonkers Narrow walkway,ally or entry way Toilet,WC or Loo Rain heavy,rainubg cats and dogs Running water ,Brook Long soft seat,sofa Main room, living room or parlor. Mother,Mum Baby,Babby Word for something I have forgotten,thingy ma jig or what cha ma callit. Friend,mate Male partner,Better Half Grandmother,Nan Clothes,togs Soft shoes for PE,Plimsols or pumps or sneakers

brian redfern
I use the bach , my wife says a batch is a filled roll, I think came datch from a batch of rolls or cobs " they baked a batch of rolls " a batch of small loaves

Dave, Cov (Radford)
tired-knackered, throw-chuck, truant-wag it, sleep-kip, hit hard-slog, left handed-kaggy, pregnant-up the stick, narrow or wide walkway-entry, toilet-bog, PE shoes-pumps and you could definately eat a batch up an entry if you were wagging it

AM
I'm from Warwick. For me a roll is a roll, truancy is skiving off, cigarettes are tabs and a childs PE shoes are pumps. I remember dannies for hands too. A shortened version of danny pats or pads I think it was!

Tony
It’s a Batch not a Roll and it’s a Picklet not a Muffin Hot = swelterin Pleased = chuffed Tired = bushed Throw = sling Truant = skiveing Sleeping = to have a nap Hit hard = wolup Skint = flat broke Drunk = pi eyed or blotto Pregnant = pregie Attractive = cracker Insane = nutter Moody = got one on ya Light rain = it’s spitting Heavy rain = it’s pouring cats and dogs Something forgotten = thinga me bob or whats yama callit Somebody forgotten = who duema flick You played down the Brook Canal = cut Played in the Entry kick or knock about and Marlies digging the chocka with heel of your foot in the Entry Also playing Faggis Knock downs, Near is, and Spans with cigarette cards PE shoes = pumps Clothes = Rags for playing and Sunday best

Stan Bishop (Nuneaton)
Gis a squint.(Look) Stay on the corsey.(Pavement) Stop blartin.(Crying) Deyear.(Listen or pay attention) Lookup.(Mind where your going)

Beth Evans
People when i moved to cornwall never knew what i ment when i said batch, they always called in bread roll or bap im glad now i can show them its not just me.

katie
at covenry skewls 2day we say: waggin' it (to truant)minger (ugly)mingin (discusting) batch (roll) nep (fags) cosh (an approval) rolly (rol on deodrent) spritz (perfume) jakky (someone who wears too much make-up)chav-bop (townie rave)x

Barnard Clam
Born and educated in Coventry, lived for 25 years 3 miles south of Coventry in Kenilworth. It's a batch in Coventry and a roll in Kenilworth. A canal is a cut. I've never heard anyone call an alley an entry - I'd call it a lane. I've also heard 'outdoor' used for off-licence, but more often it's just an offie.

lin
its a batch. wagging school,living room or front room,entry,me bab,yampy,pumps, chuck,mardy,kip

Ian
Any Coventry kid in their 30's or older will know what a D-Di is. Many local people still use the term for ice cream. We all remember the red & white vans belonging to D.Di Mascio, known as D-Di, who were a daily sight on the streets.

PAUL DAVIS
Nuneaton born and bred now living in Telford. nobody knows what a batch is, nobody uses entry(alley), wampym(ad),kip(sleep), thrape(hit hard), except me!!

CH
From Warwickshire - it's a roll. I do remember 'mardy' but used 'dannies' rather than 'donnies' for hands. Putting out a candle was 'douting' (although not sure re the spelling)

roy
chuck is throw,we didnt skive(play truant) kip is sleep,thrape is to hit a ball hard cack or keggy handed, skint or broke is no money, drizzle/mizzle, frontroom, brook, alley/passage, lav, belting down (without being rude) mam, bab,the missus ,wotsiname/thingamibob/whoseit?,pap,mate,granny, pumps (teacher called em plimsolls) batch of course piece (slice of bread) dannies for hands the cut -canal buggar lumps- friendly reference to someone or a pet as in "Come here B'lumps"

GW
Growing up in Coventry, we used: Entry for alleyway; mardy for moody; miffed for annoyed; chuck for throw; wagging it for playing truant;broke for lacking money; spitting for light rain and chucking it down for heavy rain; pumps for PE shoes:thingamajig for a word you have forgotten. It's definately a batch! Other words include Donnies for hands particularly childrens hands & "mashing" a cup of tea

VP
Blagged - pull (on a night out) it really is a cov thing went to Uni as all my mates throughout uk no one knew what it meant. And of course its a batch what else!!!

Daz
BAtch = Roll, Scone not scon (said as spelt), tooth not tuth (said as spelt).

craig
to throw - lob to play truant - wag unattractive - minger lack money - skint pregnant - up the duff insane - off his/her head, yampy rich - minted unwell - rough hot - roasting pleased - chuffed to hit hard - wack drunk - wasted rain lightly - drizzle main room of house - living room running water - stream long soft seat - sofa narrow walkway - entry toilet - loo rain heavily - tip it down mother - mum baby - bab female partner - oi ;-) clothes - gear child’s PE shoes - pumps young person in cheap trendy clothes - chav/townie

Richard
Bread, all things to all men, but to men in Coventry it's a Batch, but only when it has a filling. ie Cheese Batch

Heather Donovan
Drunk is legless, unattractive is dog Insane is nutter/mental Toilet roll is bog roll Pleased is well chuffed Hot is boilin Main room of a house is living room AND YES IT IS BATCH!

AJ
To throw is lob, truant is wag, no money is skint, drunk is caned, unattractive is biffa, insane is yampy and the young person has to be chav. And yes, it is a batch.