steelie to tungie

steelie:-NY
a steel alley/marble. Reported from Redcar (see also ‘bongy’)

stinker:-NY
a starling

stoggy:-NY
a wood pigeon (remembered from Grangetown.c.1940)

T

tan:- M'bro
A ride on a bike pedalled by someone else. Reported from M’bro “Gizza tan” = “Please may I ride on your bicycle with you?” Most likely from 'tandem'.See also croggy.

tapped :- NthC?
mentally deranged. doo-lally-tap = crazy

tarzy:- TS only?
A rope hung from a tree for swinging on. Especially good if it was over a beck…From Tarzan swinging on jungle vines.

tee-mac: TS only ?
Catching game I remember from Mbro. Although the name might be pecular to my particular housing estate. One team catches the other by touching them on the head and shouting ‘teemac’ and keeps the ‘prisoners’ in a guarded place. If a still free person could run into the ‘pen’ without being touched he/she, shouted teemac and set them all free again. You won if you captured all the other side then swapped over roles. In Kellet it is called ‘Relievo’ which, I must admit, makes more sense than ‘tee-mac’. I have no idea why we said that.! (team (att)ack? In other parts of Mbro it is remembered as 'tee-ac'

teem:-NE
to pour out. e.g ‘Teem that down the sink

teeming down:-NE
raining heavily

tew:-NE & NY
Irritation, annoyance, bother. I can’t do with the tew. I can’t be tewed. I can’t be bothered The kids are gettin’ tewy i.e bothersome or tewing on On questionnaires many corrected this to chew but it’s not connected with jaw-action. It is from OE tawian=to be harassed). Recently got good example of old dialect combining with modern jargon from a daughter who said
"Anything to reduce the tew factor".

theggy:- Hpool
third. The South Teesside word is thuggy

ther NE? TS only?
They. The bane of the Teesside primary teacher. Not only do we have to contend with the spelling confusion between 'there' and 'their' , we have those two confounded with ‘they’ also because of the local pronunciation.

tied to NE
bound to happen, only to be expected.
'He's tied to be upset after news like that'

tig(s):- NE & NY
chasing game caught when touched by chaser i.e. ‘tigged’

tip-tap:-TS
small stick sharpened one end so when you hit down on it with another stick ,it shot up into the air. You then had to hit it again before it landed.

tussy/tussy-peg:-NY
tooth in ‘baby talk’. The Geordie word
is 'tootle-peg'.

tret:-NE&NY
treated

Tranny:-TS
Transporter Bridge. One of the two awesome, almost unique, bridges across the Tees. Introduced to the wider world first in the film Billy Elliott and subsequently in the 2002 TV series 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' .

tungie:-TS?
turnip..reported from M’bro & H’pool. 'tungie snackin’ cutting tops off turnips. See also snagger