nab to parmo

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nab:- NY
Sharp fall at a hill range edge. e.g Eston Nab . It slopes gently up from the southern Guisborough side but then there is a sharp drop down to Teesside on its north side. Similarly Highcliffe Nab above Guisborough.

naw:- TS
‘no’ when answering a question. But not in the context of ‘There is no bread’ 'No' with an 'oh' sound would also be used for emphasis or with vehemence

natter:-NY
to annoy, irritate. My mother :’I wouldn’t mind pubs but the smoke really natters me’

neb:-NE & NY
nose: nebby = nosey: nebbin’= being nosey Compare Mod Norwegian nebb=beak

netty :-NE
outside lavatory- really the old ‘ash pan’ type

nick off:- TS only?
play truant

nick off!:- TS only?
No! ( very forcefully) No way!!

nither:-NE & NY
particularly cold. 'It’s the nither'. 'It’s nithery' or 'It’s nithering'.

nowt:- NthC
nothing

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oggy raiding:-TS
Stealing apples , ‘scrumping’

only:-
Often used to mean 'extremely so' especially in the case of a negative quality . ‘He’s only funny’ Means 'He’s awkward, touchy, difficult to deal with'.

our mam, our dad:-TS
Even only children say this in Teesside. Our lass =my wife our lad=my husband our kid= my brother or my sister. However in Hpool it is 'me mam' 'me dad'.Other family members will be 'our Robert' our Jane, however throughout the wider Tees-side area.( Incidentally ‘mam’ is the word for mother throughout the North Country and Wales i.e about 20 million people, so why can we only get Mother’s Day and birthday cards with ‘mum’ on?)

oway:- NE
come on. In Teesside is more often 'owee'.
'Ow-way' said for emphasis or to express irritation. UpperNE is 'Haway!'

owld:- TS
old

owt:- NthC
anything

oxo:- NE
noughts and crosses

oxter:-NthC/Irish
armpit. Only used by older people. Not really common now

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paste-eggs:- NE&NY
Hard boiled eggs decorated at Easter. We used to break them open on Easter Monday usually by rolling them down a slope. 'Paste' is a local corruption of ‘pace’ (The other tradition we had on Easter Sunday was that you had to wear new clothes. If you didn’t , it was said the birds would crap on you!)

palatic:- NE
very, very drunk i.e paralytic. Common NE term

panacalty :-NY
In my family ,cornbeef hash fried up in a frying pan.

pancrack:-TS
Unemployment benefit. On the pancrack.=on the dole. Heard several theories about this 1.The chitty you got in the 1930s was only enough to fill a pan. 2. 'pancrack' was an acronym for the abbreviation on the ‘chitty’.It’s a Cornish word brought in by miners to the Cleveland Iron Mines. I don’t, as yet, know which, if any, is correct

parmo:- TS
A newishly coined Teesside word for a peculiarity of the Teesside take-away cuisine namely a piece of ham deep fried in breadcrumbs and dipped in parmesan cheese. You can also get chicken parmo pork parmo etc.