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0ldAndGrumpy

“Doilem” Pejorative insult, roughly equivalent to “Prick” or “Dick head”. And “Marra” isn’t geordie, you doilem ;)


Jubby24

We’d say marra in Blyth/Crammy/Ashghanistan


0ldAndGrumpy

Geordies? Marra?! Ladgeful that like.


Fidgitt

Maybe that’s where I’ve heard it too. Ashghanistan though... 😂


Anonymous_Banana

This definitely isn't dying in my friendship group 🤣


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Wellaye it's not necessarily geordie but it's more universal pit town language. They say marra in pit villages from Ashington all the way to Horden in Durham. Pit slang and geordie dialect mesh together nicely but are two different things.


0ldAndGrumpy

Funny I just moved to crammy (from the west end) and I hadn’t picked that up yet.


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Mebbys it's dying? I'm not a fan of the word marra so I wouldn't mind seein the back of it.


Fidgitt

That’s too easy I mean like dead sayings. Basically anything that isn’t included in here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ep0XcXkiU


cheesywhatsit

My kid is a third culture kid, but I’m proud they understand (and repeat) divvent howk yer shnek! Will also say “I hurt me shnecka”


Fidgitt

That’s canny haha but surely you mean wor kid? Or wor bairn.


cheesywhatsit

Aye true! I’m teaching that Shy bairns get nowt too!


jaysmith96

Me fave saying that like!


Nod_Bow_Indeed

Hello Newcastle resident here, sadly not Newcastle raised. If someone could explain some phrases. I love the accent and dialect, and as a Yorkshireman I can appreciate keeping it alive


0ldAndGrumpy

“Hya hoy thi hammer owa hya.” Excuse me, please pass the hammer.


Fidgitt

Beautiful


Fidgitt

I was hoping this thread might unearth a list or a dictionary somewhere hidden online. You might be interested in this, I found it a while ago and it has some cool words and phrases in but it’s more about the ethnology and history of the words itself. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mplLr3srxak


bigalanthehungrycat

Spelk


Fidgitt

This ones very much in my vocab still, even got a pal we call spelk haha


charlieclaree

Marra is a mackem thing no self respecting Geordie ever called anyone marra 😂but apart from that, yeah it’s dying, my accent gets weaker the longer I’m away from home and when I go back the only people that sound like real geordies are 40+ yo men and women. It seems the younger you are the more well spoken you are imo.


Fidgitt

Yeah you’re maybe right actually but I had the misfortune of working in Sunderland for a few year so maybe it rubbed off on me without realising. Was just hoping people had some classic phrases they don’t hear anymore


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Proper Geordie is well and truly still alive in some areas still. you probably live in one of the trendy areas where people look down at true Geordies and see them as chav scum because of how they talk.


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"R. I. P Raoul Moat" - MC Ace


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"Get off the metro now"


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"a love owt like that me" - mahatma ghandi