Liverpool is full of sayings that only natives will understand.
As new BBC drama The Responder continues, many viewers from elsewhere may struggle to understand certain phrases.
We've practically - sort of - got our own language, so we have compiled a quick dictionary to give people from outside the city a helping hand.
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Here are some well-used words and phrases only Scousers will know.
Wool
Meaning: A person from a town outside or on the outskirts of Liverpool.
Usage: "That's proper wool behaviour, like."
Go 'ed
(See also: is right, nice one, boss, well in, sound, made up).
Meaning: Generic proclamation of positivity
Usage: "Go 'ed, lad, get us an ale in, nice one."
Gutted
Meaning: Generic proclamation of negativity
Usage: "Lost a tenner, proper gutted."
Blag
(See also: jarg or plazzy)
Meaning: Fake. Meant to look real or genuine but not real or genuine
Usage: "Got these jarg sunglasses in the pub"
Kidder
(See also: lad, lid, fella, our kid, mate)
Meaning: A man.
Usage: "Alright kidder, you going the match?"
Chocka
Meaning: Busy, sustaining much activity
Usage: "Went the shop before and it was proper chocka"
Swerve
Meaning: Avoid - to stay away from or prevent the occurrence of
Usage: "Swerve going in there it's chocka".
Like
Meaning: Generic term to add on to pretty much any given word.
Usage: "I was chatting to me mate, like, and then me phone rang, like."
Ciggie
(See also: bifter)
Meaning: cigarette
Usage: "Hey mate, have you got a spare ciggie?"
Offie
Meaning: Off-licence - a shop that sells alcoholic beverages and cigarettes for consumption off the premises.
Usage: "Just going down the offie for some ale"
Skint
Meaning: Poverty-stricken, without money
Usage: "Staying in mate, I'm proper skint."
Muppet
(See also: divvy, beaut, meff, soft lad)
Meaning: generic insult
Usage: "He's a proper divvy, him".
Trabs
(See also: trainees, webs)
Meaning: Training shoes
Usage: "His new trabs are boss to be fair."
Scran
Meaning: Food
Usage: "My ma does the best scran."
Bins
(See also: gigs, sunnies)
Meaning: Glasses or sunglasses
Usage: "He looks dead different now with his new bins."
Abar
Meaning: About - almost nearly; used to indicate that a number, amount, time, etc - is not exact or certain
Usage: "I've only got abar three left".
Baltic
(See also: freezin')
Meaning: Cold. Very cold.
Usage: "It's baltic in here, I'm absolutely freezin'".
Clobber
Meaning: Clothes
Usage: "I need some new clobber for the winter, me".
The Ozzy
Meaning: Hospital - An institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured.
Usage: "I'm gonna have to go the ozzy, think I've broken me finger".
Sack off
(See also: jibbed)
Meaning: To conclude prematurely
Usage: "We sacked that film off after 20 minutes, it was rubbish".
After the first episode of The Responder aired on Monday, The ECHO asked readers to tell us a saying that only people from Liverpool would understand, and these are some of the many replies we received.
Anna Maria Moss said: "My mam used to say jangling for gossiping, sagging it for being off school and it's the gear for it being good."
Sue Boardman-McInally said: "That ones got more faces than the dockers clock."
Tracie Smith said: "I gotta go the Ozzy," adding: "I live in London and no one understands what that means, my old boss thought it was a nightclub."
Judith Court said: "Sound as a pound."
Tracey Maguire offered: "Neither use nor ornament" and "There's more life in an urgent note."
Mark Cunliffe said: "It's boss that lad."
Linda Macardle said: "Mouth like Mersey tunnel."
Kay Nolan said: "Everyone is known as our kid and the baby could be 38 years old."
Mark Parker said: "When I was younger and hurt myself always got told 'it'll be a pigs foot in the morning'."
Sharon Yun said: "Going to the offy."
Denise Lloyd suggested: "Meet me under Dicky Lewis," (along with other variations like "Meet me under the man at Lewis's.")
Debbie Mottram said: "Going to Greatie market."
Joe Reney said: "Upper Parly."
Barrett Anita said: "He's got a head like Birkenhead."
The Responder continues on Mondays and Tuesdays at 9pm on BBC One.
The full series is available on BBC iPlayer
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