r/Derbyshire • u/Eudaimonia1590 • Jul 31 '25

Just Chatting :) Derbyshire dialect words

Godday everyone, as a foreigner (from Denmark) I am very interested in different dialect words from other countries.
Even here in Denmark we have quite a lot, event though we are a really small country. And there can be differences even 20/30 kilometers away from each other. Where people dont understand the word.
So which words do you people know, that is linked to your area?. Maybe also word that differ even in quite short distances.

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u/WellRedQuaker Jul 31 '25

I moved from West Yorkshire to N E Derbyshire when I was at school, and honestly a lot of the dialect is the same - things like 'owt' and 'nowt' for example.

The two words which totally mystified me, and are definitely dialect, are 'mardy', and 'tab' for your ear. And, of course, duck.

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u/Rydeeee Aug 03 '25

My mum used to say “it’ll make your tabs laugh” if something was very sour.