- Northerners probably are better than Southerners.
Southerners are great people
but it's hard to beat the Northerner, really, so yeah.
(upbeat jazz music)
Hi, I'm Louis Tomlinson
and today I'm gonna be getting quizzed
on Yorkshire slang.
So I'm originally from North of England,
Yorkshire, Doncaster.
Very proud to be from Doncaster
so I reckon I'll do all right on this quiz.
I'm familiar with the best part of Donny slang I think.
I think I know most of it
but yeah I'm looking forward to this quiz to find out.
So first one says,
"don't get a mardy on with me".
Now, feels a bit of a reach.
I don't think I've ever heard
"don't get a mardy on with me".
He's grumpy, he seems mardy.
He's annoying to me, he's mardy.
You know what I mean?
I wouldn't say he's been getting a mardy on with me
but anyway, each to their own.
Don't be getting grumpy,
basically that means.
Yeah, okay, that's one out of one.
"I'm not trying to get owt for nowt,
don't get monk on"
which feels like of two of these,
I've heard both of these.
People also say, "what you been up to, owt or nowt?"
So I know that.
That means anything or nothing, owt or nowt.
Don't get monk on,
kinda similar about being mardy, really.
Don't get grumpy.
Yeah, these are easy, these.
"You make a better door than a window, r' kid".
Now, I ain't actually heard that one before,
"r' kid"'s obviously self explanatory
but I ain't actually heard
a better door than a window before,
I don't know that one,
let's find out now.
- [Producer] Please get out the way.
I can't see the television.
- Yeah, okay, okay,
that makes sense, that makes sense.
Not heard it before but fair do's.
Feels like some of these might be like
Donny quotes from like, the twenties
or some'at like that, you know what I mean,
this is some mad language, this.
"Put wood in't 'ole, will ya, pal?
It's a bit nesh in 'ere".
Literally no (beep) idea on that one.
Yeah, that is beyond my Doncaster comprehension, I think.
- [Producer] Will you please shut that door?
- Okay, yeah, didn't know that.
- [Producer] It's a bit nesh in here
means it's cold in here.
- I ain't ever heard these.
I don't know who you've been chatting to from Donny.
Yeah, I've heard this one before.
"You need to clean your lug oils out".
Now I've heard ears as lugs before.
So I'm assuming that means
you've gotta clean your ears out.
Oh I don't know any of the reasons behind this,
d'you know what I mean?
Just know that that's, just is, you know what I mean?
Just is.
"A pint's proper dear",
so you'd some'at's dear if it's expensive.
London pints are proper expensive
although I've started going to non-league football recently
and you get beers for three quid
so I'm buzzing about that.
"That's the arse end of nowhere, that is",
and that means that's just in the middle of nowhere.
Absolute in the sticks, middle of nowhere.
Some of these Doncaster slang words
are what like, as young lads, we used to get told off
from family 'cause it sounds a bit common apparently.
So this one here, it says,
"I'll do it me'sen",
which means I'll do it myself.
"Me'sen" just means me. Myself.
'Cause I spent a bit of time in America
sometimes people don't understand
but I think as soon as you start
changing your language for the people,
that's when I'm gonna start sounding
like an American, you know what I mean,
so I've gotta just stay true.
"I went to check in on our lass
but she was sock on".
And that means I went to check in on my Missus,
my girlfriend, my wife, whatever, and she were asleep.
She was sock on means she were asleep.
Again, I couldn't possibly speculate
on the reason for that
but Mr Yorkshire's out there somewhere,
maybe you can interview him next. (laughing)
This one says, "I'm well chuffed wi' tha'."
Tha', T-H-A,
and that just means, yeah I'm really happy with that,
I'm really happy with that.
- [Producer] What makes Yorkshire slang
different to like, other northern slang?
- We drop a lot of words and a lot of letters.
My mum always used to say, our accent to be fair,
if it's thick, sometimes it does sound a bit common.
Some people speculate that sounds a bit thick,
you know what I mean?
I think definitely us Donny lot,
if we do chat, like that,
yeah it does sound a little bit down,
you know what I mean?
I feel like I did pretty good, yeah, yeah.
I think I need to delve into exactly why
we say these things, but yeah,
I think I did all right.
Okay, cool, you've been watching me
get educated on Yorkshire slang.
Hope you enjoyed it.
- That's a Tarzan and Jane. (plane flying overhead)
- That's a Tarzan and Jane. (laughing)
- Get it?
- Yeah.
(upbeat pop music)
- Hello, I'm Jake Wood, I play Max Branning.
This is my less good looking brother, Scott Maslen.
- Thank you, everybody.
I play Jack.
- How well do I know cockney rhyming slang?
Well, until Danny Dyer joined the cast,
I thought I knew it really well,
but 'cause he seems to have invented some stuff
I've never ever heard of.
- I don't have any knowledge of cockney rhyming slang,
I'm relying on him to answer everything.
- Well, you've been married for a while.
- Apples and pears.
- I'd like to think I've got a, well, that's the one one.
- Being in Eastenders, we should probably know
more cockney rhyming slang than what we do,
but - - Definitely.
- We'll give it a solid go. - Yeah.
- We'll give it a solid go.
- Can I? - Course we can.
We're in Eastenders. - Don't muck about.
We ain't got all day. - I've been in it
for 12 years.
Shh, they're filming.
- Shh, they're filming, be quiet.
- Can't help it. - Behave yourself.
- I'd like to think I've got
a good bit of knowledge about it.
I'll be highly embarrassed if I didn't.
So shall we have a go?
- We better win.
- Let's do this. - Let's do this.
That was sick. (laughing)
Hmm. - Apples and pears.
- Apples and pears.
- It's stairs, init?
- Yeah, stairs.
- Stairs. - That's easy, that one.
Well done. - Yeah.
- That was a good one.
They're warming us up. - They're warming us up.
(laughing)
- Come on, next one.
- Box of toys. - Box of toys.
- Box of toys. - Erm.
Box of toys.
- Boys?
- Box of toys?
No, must be one of Danny Dyer's,
never heard of it.
- Box of toys?
- Box of toys? - Box of toys!
- Box of toys? - Coys?
No, that's car, by the way.
- I dunno what else rhymes with toy.
- Box of toys, box of toys.
Noise?
Oh!
- Never heard that one. (laughing)
- Maybe it's a modern one.
(laughing)
- That's bollocks, that doesn't make sense.
- Bees and honey.
Money.
- Bees and honey, money.
- Money.
- Bees and honey? Money!
- There you go. - I knew it,
you didn't have to whisper - You didn't know it.
- Me it, I did know it. - Yeah right, she didn't.
- Dustbin lid. - Dustbin lid.
- Dustbin lid.
God, I'm not good at this.
- Dustbin lid! Kid! (laughing)
- Yeah!
You ain't gotta shout it.
- It's like snap, snap!
- Erm. - Dustbin lid.
- Dustbin lid.
- Sid?
- Oh that classic, sid.
- You know. (laughing)
- Dustbin lid.
Ian's got fo- two kids.
- I just keep thinking sid.
- Dustbin lid.
- Yeah. - Kid.
- Kid.
- Yeah.
- We'll go with sid. - Nah, I dunno.
- On this one. Sid.
(laughing)
- Fisherman's daughter? (laughing)
I dunno, but I know who his friend is.
- I dunno what that is.
- Fisherman's daughter.
Porter!
- No. - That's a naughty one.
- That's a naughty one. - What's that one?
- [Producer] Water.
- Oh, water. Water.
Fisherman.
Did Danny Dyer
get all of these? - It sounds so wrong.
- You ain't gotta drop a fisherman's have ya?
Doesn't make sense.
Go on.
- Barnet, mm, Barnet fair,
hm, that'd be hair.
- Is it hair? - Hair.
- Well, it's your hair.
- No barnet, I ain't got no barnet.
- He's got loads of barnet.
- No barnet.
- You wanna see him under here.
It's like a monster. (laughing)
- Yeah, I got a lot of barnet there.
- Yeah, it's incredible
how much hair, he's covered in it.
- Boat race. Hmm. Hmm.
- Look at the state of your boat.
- Right, brilliant.
- Boat race.
Face!
Shh!
- Look at the state of your boat
and look at the state of your barnet. (laughing)
- Shut up. (laughing)
- Bubble.
- Bath.
Is laugh.
- Bubble bath is a laugh. (both laughing)
- You're having a bubble, ain't ya?
Butchers is having a look.
- How do you know this?
- See, I know these ones,
it's the rhyming one I can't do.
- Right.
- Butchers. - Butcher's hook.
- Look.
- There you go.
- Butcher's hook. Look.
- Butchers.
Have a butchers. - Giz a butchers.
- Have a look.
Oh. - Oh.
- Me old China. - Me old China.
- Mate. Y'all right
me old China? - China, mate. (laughing)
- He's my mate.
- It's mate, china plate, mate, that's it.
- Plate. Mate.
- Custard and jelly?
Oh you are really making these up.
I'm guessing belly?
- Custard and jelly.
Watch us on the telly, init?
- Is it? Oh I thought it was belly.
(both laughing)
- Custard. - Eastenders is on
the custard and jelly.
- Telly.
- Yeah! There you go.
- Custard and jelly. - Custard and jelly.
- Telly!
Custard and jelly. - Aw, that was good.
You got that one. - Telly.
- Give and take.
Nope, haven't got that one either.
- Fake. - Fake.
Fake. - Give or take fake.
- [Producer] Cake.
- Cake. Really? - Bake.
- Aw, I love cake.
- Satin and silk?
- Little drop of milk.
- Satin and silk.
Milk.
- Satin and silk. - Satin and silk.
Milk! Satin and silk, milk.
- Milk?
Yeah, I didn't know that one.
- Tumble down the sink? - Tumble down the sink?
- Tumble down the sink? - Ink!
- Wink?
Bink, sink, dink, think.
- Think.
Blink.
- Wink.
- Kink.
- Dink.
- Dinkle.
- This is hard, you know. - This is tough.
(laughing)
Am I the only one
who doesn't know this?
- Wink? Hink?
No, there's nothing.
- [Producer] Shall I tell you?
- Yeah. - Yeah, go on.
Love to know.
- [Producer] It's drink.
- Bull (beep), this is bull (beep).
Dunno where you're getting this slang from.
- Dicky bird. - Dicky bird.
I'm actually embarrassed.
I'm really bad at this.
- Dicky bird.
- A dicky bird told me.
- Dicky bird, little dicky bird.
- Dicky bird.
Hang on. - I heard.
Dicky bird.
- Is it? I heard. Dicky bird.
- [Producer] Word.
- Word. - Word, yeah.
Same thing.
- Fireman's ho- nose!
Yes!
(both laughing)
- Fireman's hose?
Pose?
Toes?
- Fireman's hose! - Simon's hose!
(both laughing)
I thought she said Simon's hose,
I was like, that's a bit rude that one.
- Nose? Nose!
- It's not though is it? - We're good,
we're quite good though.
- It's not your hooter.
- Dog and bone.
- Hello, everybody.
- Hello. Sorry.
- I can't speak on the phone right now.
- Sorry.
- Ones and twos.
Poo! - Ones and twos.
- No.
- Er, did you say poo? (both laughing)
- Well that's a toilet.
Ones and twos.
Number ones and number,
it's not number ones and number twos?
Oh okay, got that wrong.
- Look at those ones and twos, look.
- Shoes. - And you can tell
which brother's got the style.
- Peckham Rye?
I don't even know where that is in London.
- Peckham Rye. - It's your eye.
It might be a mince pie.
- Peckham Rye.
- Fly?
- Die? - Lie?
- Lie?
- Tie?
Ha!
- Tie? Well done, tie.
Okay. - I'm sick at this.
Keep 'em coming. (laughing)
- Peckham Rye. - Peckham Rye.
Tie!
Well you do the old er...
- No wonder this language is dying out.
Pork, lie.
- Porky's a lie.
- Porky pie.
- Porky lie.
Don't tell a lie.
- Don't tell a porky. - Porky pie.
- Rosie lee, tea.
Tea, cup of tea.
- How did you get this?
- Rosie, rosie lee, cup of tea.
- Rose tea. - It's it a nice cup of tea.
Nice rosie lee, nice cup of tea.
- Cup of tea.
- Sausage and mash?
Trash?
- Cash? - Cash.
- Yeah! (both laughing)
- Ah, cash. - Sausage and mash.
- Bit of sausage.
Sausage and mash, cash.
- Loads of cash.
- Loads of cash. Sausage and mash.
- Sausage and mash. - Loads of cash.
- We like sausage and mash, don't we?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- D'you know, if we talked like this
people'll think we're idiots.
- I did better than what I thought.
- I, no, I didn't get many.
- If this was a competition...
- Yeah, you won. Yeah.
- I won. - I'll give you that.
- Er. - I think we did quite well.
- Yeah but it's upset me
quite a few of 'em - I hoped.
- Because I'm an Eastender
and some of it's lies. Porkies.
- Porky pies.
- Why would I make my sentence longer
when I can make it shorter by using the actual word?
- [Producer] Is there any that you're going to incorporate
into your daily language?
- No. - No, because we don't speak
like that, I've come from a very different upbringing.
- Yeah, same. Same.
- And I work at this, you know,
every day I work at this, I'm learning
and I'm very grateful for this exercise, thank you.
- Thank you so much. - Thanks.
- Shall we go?
- I think I'm ready for a wine.
- Okay, take care, bye bye.
- [Producer] Thank you so much, bye.
(both laughing)
- He's a bit glad, he's a canny lad,
he's a sight for sore eyes. - Ooh.
(Laughing)
- Yes we've got Kevin Keegan
playing for the magpies.
(upbeat rock music)
- Hello, we're Ant and Dec.
- And today we're being quizzed on Geordie slang
for Buzzfeed UK.
- This is going to be easy, isn't it?
- Wye Aye.
- We're the best, Geordies are the best.
- Geordies are very proud of being from Newcastle.
Very proud of our town.
- Our history, - Yeah.
- Our heritage. - Yeah.
We're just the best.
We're both from the West End of Newcastle,
which is working class area. - Yeah.
- So lot of slang when we were growing up.
- Lot of slang growing up.
- I think we'll be pretty good at this.
- Yeah.
All right then.
- You dip in first. - See, I've started already.
- Ha'way then. - We're in, we're in.
- Right.
Ah, spelk.
- Spelk. - Now, this
is a very Geordie thing.
Spelk is a splinter.
- That's, yeah.
- It's a splinter in your finger.
- It's when you used to be climbing fences
or climbing trees and you go ow!
- Mam, I've got a spelk in me finger.
- I've got a spelk, I need a pin, I've got a spelk.
- That's what that is.
- Little splint of wood in your finger.
- I knew that was a Geordie word
only because I used it when we moved down South
and nobody had a clue what I was talking about.
- Yeah.
For all I knew growing up,
a spelk was a spelk,
not a splinter. - What's a spelk was a spelk.
- Go splek, spelk.
Right next one.
One of my personal favorites.
You radgie.
- Yes! (laughing)
We use this a lot.
- We still use this.
- We still use this a lot.
You daft radgie!
It's like, you're kind of like an idiot.
You are like -
- A bit mad.
- A bit mad, like I'm going radge, mate.
It's I'm going mad.
You're bit of a kind of hooligan, in a sense.
On the wrong side of the tracks.
- Oh.
- But yeah, we call each other radgie quite a lot.
- All right, radgie?
We still use it daily.
- Aw, bonnie.
- Bonnie, aw.
- Bonnie lass. Good looking. - Is that,
is that a Geordie thing?
Is that?
- We say bonnie, the Scots use bonnie as well,
so we would say she's a bonnie lass.
Which means she's a good looking lass.
- Yeah. - Or bonnie lad,
good looking lad.
But bonnie lad, we say,
hey, bonnie lad. - All right, bonnie lad?
Yeah.
- Bonnie. Good.
- She's a big lass, she's a bonnie lass
and she likes her beer. (laughing)
They call her Cushie Butterfield
and I wish she was here.
- [Producer] Wait, what's that?
- D'you not know that?
- [Producer] No.
- It's one of those traditional Geordie songs.
Ha'way the lads.
Sneck. - Sneck.
- Now.
I think I know this. - I think I know
what this is.
- If you leave the door
on the sneck. - Leave the door on the sneck.
Yes! (laughing)
What do other people call it then?
Latch! - On the latch?
- Well we say sneck.
Yeah, leave the door on the sneck
so I can get mesel' in.
- Yeah, never thought,
I haven't used that for a long time.
I've just left the door on the sneck.
Where does that come from?
- I've got no idea.
- It's ridiculous, when you think about it, init?
- Some of our language is influenced
by the Nordic language.
- 'Cause of the Vikings. - 'Cause of the Vikings.
The ages over the years.
So I reckon this is like street name.
- So you think the Vikings just constantly
left the door on the sneck as well? (laughing)
- Right. It's a good one.
Gadgie.
Gadgie means bloke.
Gadgie means a fella, a bloke,
a gentleman. (laughing)
A male.
The male of the species is a gadgie.
- Often -
- You put with it. - Prefixed -
- You have to put with it -
- Radgie.
- Radgie gadgie.
- Means a mad person.
- A mad gentleman. (laughing)
Radgie gadgie. - A radgie gadgie.
He's a right radgie gadgie.
Oh, this is good.
- Nebby!
- Nebby.
- Another good one.
Now, everybody else in the country
might know this as being nosy.
If you're looking into other people's business,
we would say you're being nebby.
So that means nosy.
- Keep your neb out.
- Yes. Stop nebbing.
I'd use nebby, I'd use hoy,
I'd use radgie. (laughing)
- We use deaks.
We don't use sneck.
- No, but I'm gonna bring it back. (laughing)
- Let's bring back sneck.
- Hashtag bring back sneck. (laughing)
Oh! (laughing)
- Twoc! (laughing) - Twoc!
Now, twoc is probably a very nineties phrase.
Because there was a lot of car theft
around that time.
And it means
take it without - Take without
owner's consent. - Owner's consent.
So you twoc something,
it could be either a car or taken a piece of jewelry.
Or something, it's illegal activity.
- Yeah, essentially.
I'm gonna bring that back as well.
- Twoc. - 'Cause,
did you do that at school?
- You're gonna start stealing cars?
- No, no, no, no, no. - You don't need to,
you're paid very well. (laughing)
- No, but did you that at school
when somebody had something
and you just used to snatch it out of their hand
and go, "twocced". (laughing)
- Yes!
- It was so annoying
when someone did it to you. - Twocced!
- When you had a pen or just a book
or a Mars bar, and someone'd go, "twocced".
I'm gonna start doing that again.
- Ahh.
- Twocced. (both laughing)
- Hadaway. - Hadaway.
- So that would mean go away.
- It's get away. - Get away.
- Get away. - Hadaway,
get outta here. - Hadaway.
- Shut up, get out of here,
I'm not having it.
Hadaway. - Not the nineties singer.
- Hadaway. - Hadaway.
- No.
- Who had such chart hits as...
Well, you know the ones.
- Yeah.
The one that you've cut to.
Not him.
- Not Hadaway.
Hadaway.
But if you wanted to tell Hadaway to go away,
you'd say,
hadaway Hadaway. - Hadaway Hadaway.
- Not that I've got anything against Hadaway.
- I think we were belting. (laughing)
Which means we done really well.
- Oh, there's a good one, kets.
Which are sweets. - Sweets.
- Kets is good.
Napper. Head, on me napper.
- Yeah.
- Watch me napper.
- Canny.
Very hard to describe this.
So you'll say, canny good, which means
pretty good, or you say how you doing?
Aw, I'm canny.
Means I'm all right.
I'm canny.
- And how's that pasty from Gregg's?
- Aye, it's canny. Aye, it's canny.
Canny. It's good, it's good. - Canny nice.
Yeah, canny.
Can't do the Geordie slang without doing
ha'way. - Ha'way.
- What does ha'way mean?
- It's hard. - Again, hard one.
- This is hard to describe.
- Can say ha'way to mean come on.
- Yeah, it does mean...
- You can say ha'way to mean
come off it. - No, come on, man.
Yeah, so it's either come on
or come off. (laughing)
So you would say, "ha'way the lads"
which means come on the lads. - Come on the lads.
- Or you'd say to someone,
aw, ha'way, man,
which means come away, man.
Get off of it, man. (laughing)
Isn't it? - Anyway.
Shall we go?
- Yes.
- Ha'way. - Ha'way.
- Let's go.
- [Ant] Ooh, ow, my knee.
(upbeat pop music)