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GLOSSARY of Staffordshire Dialect
Amperlash: A bit of cheekiness (N. Staffs)

Bank, Bonk: A hill or slope (N. Staffs)
Bellock: To cry loudly (S. Staffs)
Belter - something very big (N. Staffs)
Blart: To cry.
Bleb: A pimple on the face (Stoke)
Boffhemble: To confuse (S. Staffs)
Bosting: Fine, very good (S. Staffs)
Bowdle (as in "no bowdle") - cash
Bok - to stare (N. Staffs)
Bont - rope
Bricky - left handed (Biddulph)
Bull-nogger: Small fish with a large head
Bungey - cowman (N. Staffs)

Cack: Dung (N. Staffs)
Cag-mag: Inferior meat (N. Staffs)
Cale - to get ahead; beat (Stoke)
Cant: To tell tales on others (N. Staffs)
Casey: a football.
Chopsing: Chattering away (N. Staffs)
Clinking: Fine (S. Staffs)
Cob: A Sweat.
Croodle: To huddle together

Drumble - a hole (Moorlands)
Dwine - to be listless; off your food (N. Staffs)
Dulalley - mad; soft in the head.

Fang - seize; catch hold of (N. Staffs)
Fardle - to waste time (Stoke)
Feasen - hurry (N. Staffs)
Flit: To move house without paying outstanding rent

Gammitting - playing the fool (S. Staffs)
Gansey - cardigan
Gauzy - undervest (S. Staffs)

Hask(y) - very dry - normally used of weather
Hodge - stomach (N. Staffs)

Ikey - haughty, over-proud (N. Staffs)

Jally-wow: A witch (N. Staffs)
Jibber - one who gives in
Jig (mining term) - steep incline (Cannock Chase)
Jiggered: Exhausted (N. Staffs)
Jinny - a nightdress (Newcastle)
Jinny spinner - daddy longlegs

Kabe - to steal a look over someone's shoulder
Kecks: Trousers (N. Staffs)
Keemers - spectacles (Biddulph)
Keffel - a lumbering, awkward man (S. Staffs)
Kim-kam - to gossip
Knivetous - miserly (S. Staffs)
Knivy: Miserly (S. Staffs)
Knobstick: A man who does another out of his job (Stoke)

Lamp - to hit someone hard (S. Staffs)
Leck - to sprinkle the floor with water before sweeping (N. Staffs)
Ligger - a liar
Lobby - a type of stew
Lommock: A lump (N. Staffs)
Lozzuck: to be idle (N. Staffs)
Lumpy-tums: Porridge (N. Staffs)

Mard(y): spoiled, always complaining
Mashing - courting
Mazy - giddy
Meegrum: Facial contortion (S. Staffs)
Middling - not too healthy (N. Staffs)
Modge - to make a mess of one's work
Monstink: A snob (N. Staffs)
Moudiwarp: A Mole (Moorlands)
Mucker: a fellow worker (S. Staffs)
Mullygrub: to hit (Stoke)
Myther or Mither: To worry

Narky - bad tempered (N. Staffs)
Nazzy - cross; vexed; ill-tempered (N. Staffs)
Nesh - soft; delicate; susceptible to cold
Noggin - awkward

Ooze - dust; fluff (Biddulph)
Orts - food leftovers (Moorlands)

Pail - to beat (S. Staffs)
Pather - to pad along like a dog
Peffled: Speckled (S. Staffs)
Pobs - bread and milk (N. Staffs)
Powk: A stye in the eye (S. Staffs)
Puddled: stupid (N. Staffs)
Purvit - to search; to ferret.
Puthery - close; sultry

Queagle, queedle - a see-saw (N. Staffs)
Quiggle - to rock, as on the legs of a chair

Raker - lump of coal (S. Staffs)
Rattle-chops: A very talkative person.
Rimson - to clean out (Biddulph)
Rinkers: Black and white marbles (N. Staffs)

Sawnded: Late for work (N. Staffs)
Sank - to walk. S Staffs
Scan - to squint (N. Staffs)
Shardruck: A tip for broken pottery (N. Staffs)
Shotties - marbles (Stoke)
Snap: food taken to work (S. Staffs)
Sneap: To snub.
Snotty: Bad-tempered (N. Staffs)
Spug - sparrow (Moorlands)
Stale - broom handle
Stave - rung of a ladder

You'll find loads more Staffordshire dialect words by consulting the sources below (to whom we give our thanks and acknowledgments):

~Steve Birks (Potteries.org)
~"Staffordshire Dialect Words, A Historical Survey" by D Wilson (Moorland Publishing)
~ and YOU! You've been supplying us with loads of extra words on the messageboard