Dave C,
I think we may have to have a crash course in 'Brummie' to stand any chance of communicating with our fellow piscators, best start revising.
A bit black over Bill's mothers Likely to rain soon (now widespread). Commonly attributed to Black Country dialect: "Bill's mothers" features in a variety of forms - such as the reference to any obscure location being "the back of Bill's mothers"
Babby Variation of "baby" Bawlin, Bawl To cry, as in "She started to bawl'"
Cob A bread roll (comes from the fact bread rolls look like street cobbles)
Donnies Hands, "Go and wash your donnies" Go and play up your own end Said to children from a different street making a nuisance. It has been used as the title of the autobiographical book and musical play about the Birmingham childhood of radio presenter and entertainer Malcolm Stent
Gunter To fix, work on or repair, mainly used a verb (example usage "I'm gonna gunter the car" equates to "I'm going to repair the car"), other forms include 'guntered' (example usage "the car's guntered" equates to "the car is fixed", alternate usage "I guntered the tele, but it still doesn't work" equates to "I worked on the television, but it is still broken")
Keep away from the 'oss road / Mind the 'orse road / Kip aert th'oss road An admonition to travel safely, originally a warning to children in the days of horse-drawn traffic. "Th'oss road" may also have referred to the towpath alongside the canals found throughout the region, which presented the additional hazard to the unwary of falling into the canal. These expressions too, are commonly attributed to Black Country dialect rather than that from Birmingham
Our Wench Affectionate term, meaning 'sister' or sometimes used by a husband referring to his wife
Pop Another word for a glass of fizzy drinks, do you want a glass of pop
Rock A children's hard sweet (as in "give us a rock") (In the Black Country it would be "gie us a suck" Suck being a hard sweet)
Snap Food, a meal, allegedly derived from the act of eating itself (example usage "I'm off to get my snap" equates to "I'm leaving to get my dinner"). May also refer to the tin containing lunch, a "snap tin", as taken down the pit by miners
Scrage A scratched cut, where skin is sliced off. For example 'I fell over an badly scraged my knee'
Suff Another word for drain, as in "put it down the suff"
Throw a paddy To become sulky or have a tantrum (paddy being a stereotyped 'stroppy' Irishman; presumably relating to the Irish resistance to British rule)
Trap To leave suddenly, or flee
Up the cut Up the canal (not unique to Birmingham)
Yampy (often "dead yampy") Mad, daft, barmy (also used is the word "Saft", as in "Yow big saft babbie"). Many Black Country folk[specify] believe "yampy" is a Black Country word, originating from the Dudley/Tipton area, which has been appropriated and claimed as their own by both Birmingham and Coventry dialects
I'm sure there's plenty of others, but we've got 6 months.
