I grew up with this word in Liverpool but when I moved to Manchester nobody had heard it; in London, you might as well have been talking Urdu if you did
My mother had a saying when one of us sat around without doing nything; "If you sir around much longer you'll get segs on your arse"

Another word she used was "nesh" - basically referring to someone who complained complained say, about bad weather or hard work.
Thet was occasionally used in Manchester but I never saw it in print until I read Mrs Gaskell's 'Sylvia's Lovers" - she used it as my mother had
Elizabth Gaskell was born in London, but married and lived in Knutsford, Cheshire - she obviously listened to how the people spoke, which was why she wrote such good books

My mam had lots of sayings - we were not too well off and when one of us asked, "What's for dinner" we were invariably told, "Cow's sock and hairy bacon"
I still miss my mam and her lovely way of putting things - mind you, when she first heard me sing she told me, "If you were singing for shit, you'd never get the smell of it"
She changed her mind when I took her to the Spinners Club and sang from the floor though:-)
Jim Caarroll