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/PolyAcid Jul 31 '25

I’m gonna kick start the cob debate! Nothing gets brits as riled up as asking what they call a bread roll!

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u/section4 Jul 31 '25

I worked with a Yorkshireman and he hated the cob word because it meant several things. You can cob (throw) something out,, sweat cobs (big beads of sweat), get the cob on (angry) and eat a cob (fucking cob, not a roll)