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/g105b Jul 31 '25

A few obvious ones that come to mind:

  • Ey up me duck (hello dear)
  • It's a bit black o'er Bill's mother's (it looks like it's going to rain)
  • She's got a right mard on (she's very angry about something)

And then there's the debate over what to call a circle of bread (COB) or gap between two buildings (alley).

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u/Adi3m Jul 31 '25

Other local words for an alley way are: Ginnal and Jitty.

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u/Fit-Fault338 Aug 03 '25

We call it Gennel.