alley to bleb

A
alley:- NY
a marble

allus (pronounced ollus):- NY
always

B



babba:-NE? TS only?
a baby when addressing a baby

backend:-NY
autumn
backendish:-NY
the weather turning colder at the end of summer. An autumn feel about things.

bag'ead TS
I think originally this meant a glue sniffer but now means any drug abuser. 'On the bag' drugged up

bairn:-NE&NY
a child: Often thought to be Scandinavian in origin because of ,for example, 'barn' in Mod Swedish. In fact it existed in Old English(i.e.Anglo-Saxon) as 'bearn'.However it is perhaps significant that, in England, it only survives in those areas subjected to Scandinavian settlement. The Scandinavian 'barn' (still pronounced like this in West & South Yorkshire),reinforcing its survival.

bait:- NE
packed lunch for work

Barney:-NE
Barnard Castle in SW Co.Durham

bat:- NE& NY
to strike a quick, single blow..My mother said of one great-grandson provoking his brother. . ‘He often gets a sly bat in'

beb:-TS
a small gift , share or loan of money. This is obviously from the NY word ‘beb’ meaning a ‘sip of a drink’. It is an example of how a NY dialect word has taken on a slightly different meaning in Teesside. You can see how a small share of money can be likened to a sip of a drink

beck:-
a stream: Definitely a NY & Cumbrian word of Scandinavian origin but I was surprised to find it extends well north into Co Durham at least as far north as Seaham. Compare Mod. Norwegian 'bekk'

bewer:-NE & Cumbria
a girl,a lass. Not always complimentary? Perhaps equivalent to 'a piece of totty'. No obvious origin. Seems to have been noticed first in Sunderland circa 1950s. Now throughout North East & Cumbria.

blaked:- H’pool:
drunk: Griffiths has 'blaked' listed as ‘yellow’. The placename ,Blakestone near Stockton, is derived from the Norse name ‘Bleikr’ meaning ‘pale one’. In Mod Swedish ‘blek’ means pale and can mean pale in the sense of ‘green around the gills’which is often a consequence of a few too many..( Makes me think of Procul Haram’s ‘Whiter Shade of Pale!). It is distantly related to the Old English root word for ‘bleached’. To the best of my knowledge, not really well known in the rest of the lower Tees area but is listed in Norman Stockton's East Riding (i.e East Yorkshire)Dictionary. Perhaps, in this sense, introduced by more recent Scandinavian sailors rather than 'Vikings'

blackclock:-NY
a beetle: In Mbro this is pronounced black-lock not black-clock. More often in Mbro meant specifically a cockroach. It is an NY word . They know it in Co Durham also but I’m not sure how far north it extends

bleb:- NE&NY
originally a blister In Mbro we used it for a extrusion in a bike tyre from the innertube for example