worryem's definitions

Bait

Bait is the food taken to work by miners down the pit.
Common usage in NE England

A "bait tin" is what he carried it in.

Sometimes called "Snap" further south.

"I'm starvin ... I haven't had me bait coz I left me bait tin at yem (home)"

by worryem September 11, 2014

Hoy

To throw

Common usage in NE England

"Hoy it over here please"

"Divn't hoy it so hard man."

by worryem September 11, 2014

plodge

"To paddle or wade in water."

"Ah went to the beach for a plodge in the sea up to me knees but didn't bother coz the watter was too cad (cold) for plodging."

Common usage in NE England dialect.

by worryem September 11, 2014