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Manchester Slang

This document lists various Mancunian slang terms and their standard English translations. It provides over 50 entries explaining common Manchester dialect words and phrases alongside their standard English equivalents. The list covers a wide range of topics from body parts and food to greetings, emotions, and more.

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Manchester Slang

This document lists various Mancunian slang terms and their standard English translations. It provides over 50 entries explaining common Manchester dialect words and phrases alongside their standard English equivalents. The list covers a wide range of topics from body parts and food to greetings, emotions, and more.

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Manchester’s dialectes

Gaff house

Chuddy chwing gum

Hench scran big food

Ee are yo make attention

Mither bother

Do one go away

Sorted let’s go ´okay

Angin disgusting

Our kid to call some close to ya

Gaggin thirsty

Dead very

Mint excellent

Strickin crying

Brew cup of tea

Strop tantrum ‫نوبة غضب‬

Snide tight

Sound decent

Buzzin exited extremely happy

Owt anything

Nice one top very good

Nah no

Daft ‘apeth stupid ass

Snid ingenious

Sound all right

Swear down tell the truth

Nowt nothing

Ave it like goooool or go n get somethin


Bobbins not good or wired
Pecking me ead u annoying me
Chuck throw
Dope a fool
Fib a lie
Kecks trousers
Leg run
Mad for it exited
Pure a large amount
Quid money
Rozzer police
Snide horrible nasty
Well really very
Mingin nasty
Pal friend
the dibble – refers to the police
ginnel – an alleyway, especially when passing beneath a building
madferit (Mad for it) – full of enthusiasm, a phrase that embodied the
Madchester era
muppet – ignorant, foolish
safe – to be on good terms, also used to mean 'okay' and as a greeting
sayin(g) – contraction of 'what are you saying?', now used as a greeting, via sense
of 'what are you up to?
' scrote – refers to someone worthless or unpleasant; a low-life (Short for
scrotum).
sound – okay, trustworthy
Dead sick amazing
Rank disgusting
Sound as a pound they’re legit cool
Proper top very good
Cock friend
Tea dinner
Dinner lunch

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1. Teeth - hard enamelled structures usually attached in a row to each jaw.
Manc saying: Newtons (Mancunian rhyming slang: Newton Heath = teeth)
Example: "Look at the state of his Newtons."
2. Chewing gum - a sweetened and flavored preparation for chewing
Manc saying: Chuddy or chud
Example: "Do you want a chuddy?"
3. Bother - trouble or aggravation
Manc saying: Mither
Example: "I can't be mithered with all this", or "I'm in a bit of mither."
4. Thirsty - in need of a drink
Manc saying: Gaggin'
Example: "I'm gaggin' for a drink."
5. Socks - a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle.
Manc saying: Salfords (Mancunian rhyming slang: Salford Docks = Socks)
Example: "Pull your Salfords up."
6. Very - extremely
Manc saying: Dead
Example: "That exam was dead 'ard."
7. Alley - a passage through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the
street to backyards or garages.
Manc saying: Ginnel
Example: "He got away by running up that ginnel."
8. Trousers - outer garment covering each leg from the waist to the ankles.
Manc saying: Keks
Example: "Look at his jazzy keks"
9. Excellent - very good
Manc saying: Nice one/Top one
10. To fix - repair or mend
Manc saying: Fettled
11. Great - excellent, very good.
Manc saying: Mint
Example: "That's well mint that.
Example: "I am taking my car in to get fettled.

12. No
Manc saying: Nah
13. Crying - to weep; shed tears
Manc saying: Scrikin'
Example: "What's up with the baby, he won't stop scrikin"
(Sent in by Vickie Bennett via Twitter)
14. Tantrum - outburst of temper
Manc saying: Strop
Example: "He threw a strop."
15. Fool - silly or stupid person
Manc saying: Daft 'apeth
Example: "Stop being such a daft 'apeth."
(Sent in by Graham Robinson via Facebook.)
16. Tight - ungenerous
Manc saying: Snide
Example: "I can't believe you're not sharin'. That's well snide."
17. Disgusting - not very nice
Manc saying: 'Angin'
Example: "I think this food has gone off, it's 'angin'."
(Sent in by Samantha Aarons via Facebook.)
18. Best friends - your closest friends
Manc saying: Bessies
Example: "Meeting me bessies for a pint later."
19. Police - civil force responsible for maintaining law and order
Manc saying: Dibble
Example: "The dibble arrested him yesterday."
20. Generic term of endearment - mate or dear
Manc saying: Cock
Example: "Y'all right cock?"
21. Generic term of praise - good or decent
Manc saying: Sound
Example: "He's a sound bloke."
22. Unpleasant - disagreeable, revolting
Manc saying: Mingin'
Example: "That's mingin' that is."
23. Ecstatic - extremely happy
Manc saying: Buzzin'
Example: "I am buzzin' for this."
24. Scrounge - ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled).
Manc saying: Cadge
Example "I need to cadge a lift off someone"

" I'm feeling rather hungry "


Manc saying: "Mi stomach thinks mi throat's cut"
25. Have the refuse collectors been yet, mother?
Manc saying: "Ast bin men bin mam?"
26. " Fish, chips and peas with the water they were cooked in. "
Manc saying: "Fish, chips and peas with pea wet "
27. " You have a rather poor haircut "
Manch saying: "What did they cut your hair with, a knife and fork?"
28. General greeting
Manc saying: "Now then..."
29. Start to explain something
Manc saying: "What it is, right... "
Example: 'What it is right, me boiler's gone and me 'ouse is dead cold'.
30. Generic expression of disbelief
Manc saying: "Nah man "
Example: "Nah... Nah man no way!"
31. I am telling the truth
Manc saying: "Swear down... "
Example: "I swear down, I never touched it."
32. Close friend or sibling
Manc saying: "Our Kid"
Example: "Y'all right our kid?"
34. Excuse me?
Manc saying: "Ee are.."
Example: "Ee are, what you doing?
35. Generic greeting to a cyclist
Manc saying: "Get off and milk it."
36. You cannot get something for nothing.
Manc saying: "You don't get owt for nowt."
(Sent in by Chrissy Foster via Facebook.)
37. You need to have a rethink.
Manc saying: "Give your 'ead a wobble."
(Sent in by Jodie Braisdell via Facebook.)
38. He is annoyed.
Manc saying: "Well someone's seen their a**e 'aven't they?"
(Sent in by Vicky Hinksman via Twitter.)
39. You are annoying me.
Manc saying: "You're peckin' me 'ead."
(Sent in by Vickie Brookes via Facebook.)
40. "Stop talking a load of rubbish."
Manc saying: "Stop ya chattin'."
41. "I am eager for a night out drinking."
Manc saying: "Mad fer it."
42. Celebration - usually after a success - often sporting - such as scoring a goal.
Manc saying: "'Ave it!"
43. Shut the door.
Manc saying: "Put wood int' 'ole."
44. My house.
Manc saying: My gaff
45. Sat waiting for someone else.
Manc saying: "Sat here like piffy on a rock."
(Sent in by Chris Sharpe via Facebook.)
46. He has bandy-legs.
Manc saying: "He couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel."
(Sent in by Sarah Murphy, via Facebook.)
47. Your hair is very knotted.
Manc saying: "Your hair is full o' lugs."
(Sent in by Olga Lawson via Facebook.)
48. That's not very good.
Manc saying: "That is bobbins."
(Sent in by Olga Lawson via Facebook.)
49. That's a bad state of affairs
Manc saying: "That is well bad"

To leave your current location


Manc saying: "Gotta chip it's hair washing time."
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