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Thread #170180   Message #4115148
Posted By: Mr Red
02-Aug-21 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: regional uk slang
Subject: RE: BS: regional uk slang
Black Country

tranklements - ephemera like jewellery or trinkets that you keep for no useful purpose. "Stuff" that weighs you down, emotionally.
suff - sewer
bostin - excellent, very very good
bobby dazzler - smartly dressed person
puck - past tense of pick
tump - slag heap
glede - cinder, partly burnt coal
bull - factory noise announcing the start of the shift, or return from lunch. The word is somewhat onomatopoeic. Heard from a long way away.
gob fire - underground coal fire.