13 Slang words and phrases you’d only know if you live in Wales.

[@gaygranola]

I’m born in Bristol but my entire family is painfully welsh. Wasn’t until my adult years that I found out these were welshisms I learned from my family growing up, and I probably sound like a nutcase to other people sometimes 😂

[@CB-bq7yl]

Thank you for doing these videos. Unfortunately I was born in England but my grandfather and grandmother are welsh. I wish I was born in wales. I love your videos. They mean so much to me. Thank you ❤

[@mica1k]

love your channel! I'm Filipino and live in Texas, and I've been learning Welsh for 2 years! Just found it interesting and I picked it up pretty fast!

[@evildeed90s]

moved from wales 20 years ago from a little county called Pembrokeshire and have lost me accent slightly i live in london now. i went back down just before covid my partner said before i dont sound welsh thats until i went back as soon as i started talking to another welsh person my accent instantly came back i didnt even know i was doing it i do miss wales and will move back one day ive always told my partner as well if she ever gets pregnant we are going back to wales i want my child to be born in wales and to be welsh.

[@romapotter6803]

Tamping! My mam used to say tamping as angry or if it's pouring with rain it's tamping. And she'd say"Ianto full pelt" for something going very quickly. To crouch down was to twttu down. Not sure of the spelling as I only heard her say it,not seen it written. Anything foul brought on a "dirty mochin!". She always called my dad mun. Love these videos Jason.

[@iaincphotography6051]

Mochyn, Pig lol.

[@joalexsg9741]

This is so interesting, diolch yn fawr, Jason. I'm sharing the video on my EFL blog as it's also most useful for learners of English as a Foreign Language!

[@LearnWelshPodcast]

Glad you found it interesting. Hope the people who watch the video through your EFL blog understand my accent. 😀

[@serenjns]

I’m in Hull now so I tend to say nithered instead of nobbling these days. Hanging in these parts refers to being hungover. The H and G are also dropped.

[@harley-y5b]

awesome

[@RevDiscarnateEntity]

Good description…❤ Now in a minute is ‘soon’ Over by there is ‘there’ Tamping is ‘fuming’ Nobbling is ‘very cold’ Chopsy is ‘annoying talk’ Thanks drive is ‘grateful for your driving me’ Butt is ‘mate’ Cwtch is ‘a cuddly snuggle’ Hanging is ‘after a proper night out drinking with your butties’😂 Tidy is ‘good’

[@shortyhalfpint8890]

"scribbles on a notepad" thanks alot for this :D. i'm writing all these all down for my dnd char.

[@tattedcat4234]

I love this channel. My grandparents came from Wales in the 20s (1920s). My grandmother's family was from Rhosllanerchrugog and Ponciau. Some of the phrases you use are still used in my family, like "over by there." Unfortunately no one in the family speaks Welsh any more.

[@eymareneedeeradclyffe-delm7664]

We say tidy dads in caerphilly lol

[@aetherwolves]

Oh i didn't realise these were specifically welsh i just grew up w em. I don't know but welsh but i am hoping to pick it back up. Wasn't spoken much back home so i got a lot to catch up on 😅

[@nathancosgrove9849]

Brilliant hearing our slang like, no one talks like us, love it mun 🤣

[@esmerat]

Livid.

[@lordcustard-smythe-smith9153]

Over by there, chopsy and butt we'd use in Gloucestershire, but we're on the boarder of Wales so maybe they came from there first !

[@BreninCoel]

Are cwpi down"...or " twti down" still used in the valleys for crouching down or sitting on your heels?

[@sallyjones6688]

Dons- here in Australia we say macca’s 😂

[@BreninCoel]

Tamping down refers to rain falling heavily.

[@iaincphotography6051]

Butt is used in the North East of England too. Not so Hanging, years back in Darlington something or someone could be Molly Boggin.

[@innervoicejargon]

I accidentally said tidy at dinner with my Welsh mate. He repeated it in his accent. I am learning slowly. 😅

[@PedrSion]

I come from Connah’s Quay. Something brand new was brand sbon from newydd sbon. Butt or butty is not used in the north. A butty is a sandwich. Sws is used a lot for a kiss.

[@mikebrooks9201]

I was told that butt or butty comes from mining areas predominantly. Miners used to use buttresses which held pit ceilings safe while they worked. Therefore a best friend underground which turned into a term of endearment probably first between colliery workers and then wider friend groups. Not sure how true that is. Hwyl butt!

[@romapotter6803]

Yes- my mam was from South Wales and her brothers were miners and referred to their pit oppo as their butty.

[@crackpot148]

Butty entered Wales with English West Country migrants who came to work in the coalmines. They called the large shovel or box shaped leather receptacle with chains to drag it to the dram loaders when it had been filled by the coal hewer a butty. Each hewer was assigned a young "butty boy" to drag the the loaded butty and thus that working companion also became known as the hewer's butty.

[@Iamtheliquor]

We also order curry half and half in Liverpool. Then again we’re the capital of North Wales😂

[@jessicajackson8064]

May I ask if the Welsh use "mun" ? And, if they do, what does it mean?

[@jasonjames6870]

Phrasing questions backwards by throwing"is it" at the end of statements is very south Wales

[@AndrewGruffudd]

Apparently the preponderance of Japanese people in North West London has to do with their greeting of taxi operatives with 'harro driver'.

[@zedmanwalking1444]

It looks like your in Laugharne

[@xeviphract5894]

Half-and-half is the food of the gods!

[@thepeanutgallery1699]

If "Hanging" doesn't mean drunk, could you give us some Welsh slang for someone who's drunk?

[@LearnWelshPodcast]

I’m going to record a video this weekend with all the slang words we use for being drunk and drinking alcohol in Wales. There are quite a lot of them, which is not surprising seeing Welsh people (and British people in general) love a drink or two. 🍺🍺🍺😀

[@PsychedelicKitten]

Not sure if it’s welsh exclusively but I’ve heard a lot of people here (I live in Wales) say “pissed” or “going on the piss” for going out drinking

[@JAG-xf2hm]

blotto

[@mikepurdy1738]

"Over by yer"

[@finleyplympton]

I call McDonalds "Dons" too!

[@Jenwales1]

There's two Mcdonalds in Bridgend 🤣 has been for years.

[@LearnWelshPodcast]

The ones I know are the one on Cowbridge rd and at the pines. Are there any others?

[@Jenwales1]

@@LearnWelshPodcast no but unless I misheard you said there were none

[@BreninCoel]

What you don't hear any more is the superfluous use of "do". Particularly in the Eastern South Wales valleys, you would never say something like, "I like that". Instead you'd say, "I do like that", but the pronunciation of that phrase would be more like, "I duh like tha'.." or even, "I duh like 'ah'...". "That" was often pronounced tha' but sometimes just 'ah', ..."then" was always pronounced 'en ... and the phrase "I'm not" was rendered... I ent, or, if followed by a verb, simply...I en, as in ...I en 'avin' i'...! (I'm not having it). When I was in the navy I sometimes brought a mate or two home with me on weekend leave. Of course we would visit my local and it was loud and most of the conversation was unintelligible to them. On the first occasion, I was speaking to some of my local Welsh friends and my two shipmates were looking confused. They leaned towards me and one of them said, "You've never told us you could speak Welsh" Laughter all around, I, like my Welsh mates, was speaking upper Rhymni Valley English.

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

Being half scot hanging there is an old term meaning Rank or smelly. From when they hung game to mature it ... something overdone!

[@rugby846]

We call my uncle Poody😂

[@sedoniadragotta8323]

You forgot bute

[@jazzygeoffgaming]

WalesOnline need fact-checking! I'm a Llandeilo boy born and bred and never heard anyone say Dons. What did your family from Llandeilo have to say about this? 😂

[@davidwilliams6525]

O Awstralia dw i.. Dw i'n caru eich sianel. Dw i'n gobeith dych chi'n gallu cadw'r sianel yn mynd am byth. Mae'n ddefnyddiol iawn i dysgwr Cymraeg!! Diolch yn fawr iawn.

[@sedoniadragotta8323]

Well butt i say ta drive