BLACK COUNTRY DIALECT B - C (A selection of reference Words, Terms & Spellings)
B
Bowk A very large recepticle like a skip
Breffus Breakfast
Brummagem Birmingham
Bunny-fire bonfire
Buz Bus
C
Cake-hole Mouth "Shut yer cake-hole"
Caggy or
caghanded left-handed
Cag-mag Bad or rotting meat
Camplin/Cankin talking or gossiping
Cant(in) gossip(ing)
Catlick hasty wash
Caw or cor cannot, eg "I cor goo the'er terday"
Chawl Pork
Chops mouth or cheeks
Chimdy or chimly
or chimbly chimney
Chuffed Pleased
Chuck Throw
Chuky or chooky chicken, fowl (children's word) also Chooky Egg
Chunter grumble under one's breath
Clack uvula, eg "Just stop yer clack"
Clarnet idiot, fool. "Yo' daft clarnet!"
Clane Clean
Clemmed or
clammed starved or hungry
Clobber clothes or possibly to hit someone
Clomber climb
Cocka/Cocker mate, friend
Cockaver a smack
Codge a poor job, eg "He's made a right codge of it"
Cog-nogger
or Cog-nocker Thick Sandwich (variation on Noggin)
Coddin joking, kidding, eg "Goo on, yum coddin me"
Coost could you ?, also negative "thee coosnt"
Coot coat
Cootin Courting
Cor or cort can't
cork-aiver or
cog-winder a good punch
Cost can you?, also negative "I cosn't" - I cannot
Cotter have no cotter with 'im (have nothing to do with him)
Crack fun, entertainment
Craw crop of a bird, as in "that sticks in my craw" - I cannot believe it
Croddle huddle together