The Newark Dictionary

Newark-on-Trent is a small market town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is famous for the market, castle, involvement in the English Civil War and its Romany heritage. The slang spoken by the locals is based on this Romany heritage and this dictionary is a guide to the language. The Newark word is on the left and the English translation(s) on the right.

a

b

bocky - cigarette

bory - lie

buer - woman, girl

butty - employment

c

candy - smell

caningra - hare

care - home

chinga - verbal abuse

chavvie - man

chavvie dagger - penis

chippy minton - cold

chivvy - cutting implement

chocker - foot wear, kick

chore - steal

core - fight

corey - penis

cushty - good

d

danyer - tooth

dawdy - good, great

del - hit

didling - how are you keeping

dik - look at

dimler - idiot

divvy - not all there

doilam - fool

doris - mother

drop - defeat

e

errers - legs

f

fam - hand

fez - hair

flag - five pounds

g

gearer - man, boy

gera - man, boy

goose - not very good

grid - pushbike

grundies - underpants

h

i

j

jaul - come

jeer - behind, break wind

jen - true

jigger - door

juckler - dog

k

kadge - lend

kadie - hat

kecks - underpants

kek - nothing, shut up

kiingram - bloke

kitch - house

l

ladged - embarrassed

latch - cop off with

luvva - money

m

mace - steal

mandy - me

mang - scrounge

masgie - cat

meggs - teeth

meygram - fool

mingrer - policeman

mockerty - dirty

moi - mouth

monish - girlfriend

muller - hurt

mush - man, mate

muskrer - policeman

mutter - excrement

n

nanar - nothing

nash - leave

nesh - cold

nugget - one pound

o

p

pagger - die/beat up

pasties - feet

pankrak - dole

peeve - drink

peever - pub

pester - money

platt - leave, walk

prostie - push bike

putsie - hand

q

r

rackler - girl

rackley - girl

radged - insane

ram - food, eat

rocker, talk, tell

s

scran - food

screeve - car

shurer - cranium

shushie - rabbit

scarat - nothing

skit on - let's go then

slanger - breast

slaver - give cheek to

sort - woman, girl

squares - fornication

sweed - cranium

swoop - let's go

t

tagsis - trousers

tap - go out with

tash - good looking

teggs - teeth

titner - child

tod - on my own

toff - nose

trashed - scared

turfer - homosexual

tuvler - cigarette

u

v

w

warm - promiscuous

x

y

yock - eye

z