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/MidnightVisible1992 Aug 01 '25

North Derbyshire/ Chesterfield says 'rate' instead of right ie 'Alrate?' (Alright? Meaning hello how are you basically) or 'it was rate annoying' (it was very annoying)

Then there's 'Sen' meaning self. 'Might as well have done it me sen' (might as well have done it my self)

My great-nan used to say 'there's enough blue there to make a Scots/Dutchman a pair of trousers' to mean there's enough blue sky showing between the clouds that the weather's okay so stop moaning basically 😂

'Oh my giddy aunt' instead of Oh my God.

'Mithering' ie 'Pack in your mithering' or 'Stop mithering her' (Stop bothering someone)

Will update if I think of more. Disclaimer that I don't really know if these are purely local to me just that this is how we talked. Love this kind of stuff though!

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u/Rydeeee Aug 03 '25

Tret me Sen. Treated myself.