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| Black
Country word | Meaning |
| | | | A | | | Aer
Kid | Friend,
family member | | Acummin | Coming | | Ah
bist | How
are you? | | 'air
| her | | 'airn
| hers | | Ay | Haven't,
isn', aren't | | Ar
| Yes | | All
round the Wrekin | A
tortuous route | | Aloone | Alone | | Any
road up | Anyway | | Alf
baerked | Stupid | | Apen
| Apron | | Appen | Happen | | Argy-bargy | Fight | | At
wum | At
home | | Aer
Bin Ya | Are
you alright | | Ah
bay | (Ah
bay gooin' = I am not going) | | Ah
bin | (Ah
bin gooin' = I am going) | | Ah
cor | I
can't | | Ark
| Look
or listen. Ark at 'im = Listen to him / Look at him | | Auf | half | | Ay
Alf | Really
is | | Awlroight | Literally
'alright', used as a greeting instead of 'hello' | | Ave
we paces | To
go and have our sandwiches | | | | | B | | | Babby | Baby | | Back'ud | Backward | | Back'ander | Slap
with the back of the hand | | Baggies | West
Bromwich Albion | | Bargie | Canal
boatman | | Barny | Disagreement | | Baerk | Idiot | | Barfe | Vomit | Bibble
| Small
stone, sized between a boulder and a pebble | | Big'ead | Arrogant
person | | Bin
as ow | Because | | Blabberin' | Talking
silly | | Blathered | Drunk | | Blart | Cry | | Bloke | Man | | Boff | Flatulence | | Bobby
dazzler | Pretty
woman | |
Bonk | Hill | | Bostin | Very
good | | Bost-
up | Fight | | Bay | Not | | Bist
Yow | Are
You | | Bladder | Balloon | | Bloke | Man | | Bosted | Broken | | Bob-owler
| Large
thick bodied moth | | Bonksiz |
Banks's Brewery | | Bost
| Broken | | Bell
oil | effort
( 'as in ge it sum bell oil' | | Buz | Bus | | Braydley |
Bradley (in Wolverhampton) | | Battree | Power
source for a torch | | Brummidge/Brumajum |
Birmingham | | Brummigum
Ommer | A
person with a Birmingham telephone number |
2006
update:
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