Funny Norfolk Map Phrases

A forx musta gorta in - A fox must have got in (creating carnage in a poultry coop) 

 

Blast me yoo do look qware - Good grief, you don’t look well

 

Bootiful - 'Beautiful' - the advertising catchphrase of Norfolk turkey magnate Bernard Matthews 

 

Buggerlugs - an affectionate term for a child who is not listening to an adult

 

Come on yoo yellas - come on you yellows, chanted by Norwich City supporters 

 

Cor to hell the medders a wet - Good grief, the meadows are waterlogged

 

Cor blast he hum, he’s let orf - Good God he stinks, he’s passed wind

 

Do yoo live in a baarn - Do you live in a barn? Said in exasperation when someone fails to shut a door

 

Eat narthun but stoo for foive days - Eat nothing but stew for five days. Stew is is traditionally accompanied by dumplings in Norfolk.

 

Frorst’s so hard we coont lift the beet - The frost was so severe that the sugar beet could not be harvested 

 

Give it a li’l bit a choke - Give it a little bit of choke, advice on starting a troublesome engine

 

He’s gorta be gettin five tuns an acre - I reckon the yield on that crop is at least five tonnes per acre

 

He treat her suffin rot’un - Sometimes said of a man who is cruel to a woman (often his spouse)

 

He come at me raw, but I hint dun narthex - The man who approached me was very angry but I hadn’t done anything to deserve it

 

He come orf his mo’erboik - He had a motorbike accident

 

He was playing up, so I give em both barrels - He was disrespectful so I forcefully told him off (from a double-barrelled shotgun)

 

He’s gettin on moi wick - He is getting on my wick, literally dampening my candle, said when someone is irritating 

 

He’s gorn jorgin - He has gone for a leisurely run, moved on

 

He’s sorft in the head - He makes silly decisions

 

He speak proper plummy - He speaks like a member of the landed gentry

 

Hello, oi gort a tickle - Hello, I’m being tickled, meaning someone is trying to contact me

 

Hold you hard - Stay the course, don't be swayed

 

If the wind changes yerl stay like that - You are pulling a face, showing displeasure

 

Keep yoo a throshin bor - Keep threshing [the wheat] boy/mate - Carry on! 

 

Let it bleed a little - advice on treating a cut, in the belief that the blood flow itself will help remove dirt from a wound 

 

Loive moosic on Froidee noit - Live music on Friday evening

 

Now look yoo hare bor - Now look hear boy/mate, meaning I think you should reconsider

 

Narthun a good talking too won’t sort out - Nothing a few frank words won’t improve

 

Oi can droive a tracta - I know how to drive a tractor

 

Oi gort it with the second shot - I hit a target with the second of a shotgun’s two barrels - normally having missed with the first, easier, shot

 

Oi gotta goo, the woif’s hollerin - I have to depart, I can hear my wife is calling me

 

Oi picked it up at orction - I bought for a good price at an auction

 

Oi shood ‘em orf the propty - I showed them off the property (escorted unwelcome guests from my land) 

 

Oi went up the city yesti - I visited Norwich yesterday

 

Oi winged dut, but the dorg picked it up - I shot and injured a game bird but the gun dog retrieved it

 

Oil run the topper overit - I’ll run the topper (tractor-towed mower) over a pasture

 

Oil run you down the markut - I’ll give you a lift to the market

 

Oi thwacked him - I hit him

 

On the ball city - Norwich City FC’s famous old anthem

 

Red diesels gorn up, so’s fool oil - The price of red (agricultural diesel) has gone up, and heating oil has increased too 

 

She’s corfin suffin terrible  - She has a very bad cough

 

She’s putting on her parts - She is behaving in an unreasonable manner

 

She smook loike a chimney - She smokes a lot of cigarettes

 

She wuz a lovely little bitch -  A fondly remembered female dog

 

She’s an ol lummuck - She is clumsy

 

Slow you down - Don’t go so fast

 

Stooput Boi - Stupid boy, often said of errant teenagers and sons

 

Stop gorpun - Stop gorping, or staring, so obviously 

 

Thas a load of old squit - That is completely untrue

 

Thas a rummun - A rare, unusual or mysterious occurrence/something that is hard to explain

 

Thas bin so dry, that never got gorn - The weather has been so dry the crop never flourished

 

Thas come good me old booty - Things have turned out well in the end my old friend

 

Thas got a touch a foot rot - That has a mild case of foot rot (a bacterial infection of the hoof that affects sheep on wet ground)

 

Thas noice to git away but that also noice to git hum - It is nice to have a holiday but it is also a relief to return home

 

Thas roit that is - That is definitely correct

 

That doo, dunt it  - It does, doesn’t it - an affirmation

 

That dunt rarely matter - That doesn’t really make much difference

 

That shed’s on the huh - That structure is leaning,  is not sound or perpendicular

 

The dorgs are making one helluva rackut - The dogs are barking loudly 

 

The highdrollocks are shot - The hydraulics are badly broken (a serious problem with tractors/agricultural machinery)

 

They had a roit ol Barney - They had a serious row

 

They look in good order - That livestock looks to be healthy/thriving 

 

There’s a hooge coo of lorries - a large tailback of HGVs 

 

There’s suffin up there, go get the guns - There is something odd going on, go and fetch the shotguns

 

There’s suffin up with moi compooter - This software is complicated

 

Titty-totty - very small, extremely tiny, often said of animals and even people - ‘thas a titty-totty li’ul thing’

 

We gotta keep gorn - We must persevere

 

We wuz in church, and he wuz in the poo behoind - We were in church and he was sitting in the pew behind us

 

We’ve had hell ‘n’ all rain - It’s rained a lot

 

Wot are you a doing on - What are you doing (normally in frustration that a task is being done badly)

 

What are you loike - What are you like, said in light hearted disbelief at amusing or daring behaviour

 

Wot yoo needs a ro’ava’a - I recommend a rotavator to till this patch

 

Yerl never guess what I paid forut - I purchased this at a very good price