We have put together a list of phrases and sayings you'd be likely to hear across Greater Manchester.
The list has been put together after a huge response with more than 700 of you sending in your favourites.
Check the list below, which has been broken down by area.
Bolton
1. Saying/ word: Barm
Meaning: Bread roll
2. Saying/ word: Put wood in th'ole
Meaning: Shut the door
3. Saying/ word: Corporation pop
Meaning: Water
4. Saying/ word: It's cracking flags
Meaning: it is so hot outside that stone pavings are breaking
5. Saying/ word: Use yer loaf
Meaning: Think for yourself
6. Saying/ word: I've not got out fort do
Meaning: I don't have anything to do
7. Saying/ word: A'v cum b'out any money
Meaning: I'm afraid I haven't got any cash on me today
8. Saying/ word: Stop skriking
Meaning: Stop crying
9. Saying/ word: Good ere innit
Meaning: It's nice here
10. Saying/ word: dost tha want summat teyt
Meaning: would you like something to eat
Bury
1. Saying/ word: Ratchet
Meaning: Cool
2. Saying/ word: Mitherin'
Meaning: Annoying/pestering
3. Saying/ word: Wot you sayin'?
Meaning: Hello, do you have anything interesting to say?
4. Saying/ word: Proper reet good
Meaning: That is very good
5. Saying/ word: Give us a nicker
Meaning: Please may I have a pound
6. Saying/ word: Powfagged
Meaning: I am tired
7. Saying/ word: A doll and a drum and a kick up a bum
Meaning: That is what you get for being cheeky
8. Saying/ word: What ya on wi lad
Meaning: What have you been up to?
9. Saying/ word: How's yer sen?
Meaning: How are you?
10. Saying/ word: Stop pace egging about
Meaning: Stop messing around
Manchester
1. Saying/ word: Kecks
Meaning: Trousers
2. Saying/ word: I'm spitting feathers here
Meaning: I am thirsty
3. Saying/ word: Nice one
Meaning: Thank you
4. Saying/ word: Beltin'
Meaning: Great
4. Saying/ word: Top
Meaning: Great
5. Saying/ word: He's not as green as he's cabbage looking
Meaning: He's not as stupid as he looks
6. Saying/ word: Scran
Meaning: Food
7. Saying/ word: Chufties
Meaning: Happy or pleased
8. Saying/ word: Sorted
Meaning: It's alright
9. Saying/ word: Our kid
Meaning: My brother/sister
10. Saying/ word: Manchester caviar
Meaning: Mushy peas
11. Saying/ word: Wind ya neck in
Meaning: Calm down/keep your nose out of my business
12. Saying/ word: Shut ya gob
Meaning: Be quiet
13. Saying/ word: Put big light on
Meaning: Turn on the main light
14. Saying/ word: Ta rah
Meaning: Goodbye
15. Saying/ word: Mither
Meaning: Pester
16. Saying/ word: Mint
Meaning: Good
17. Saying/ word: Ginnel
Meaning: An alleyway
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15. Saying/ word: Your hair is full of lugs
Meaning: Your hair is all knotty and you can't get a brush through it
16. Saying/ word: Chuffed
Meaning: Pleased
17. Saying/ word: Chattin macca
Meaning: Talking rubbish
18. Saying/ word: Alright cocka
Meaning: Hello
19. Saying/ word: Willie heckers like
Meaning: No he won't
20. Saying/ word: Ow'do
Meaning: How are you?
21. Saying/ word: 'angin
Meaning: Horrible
22. Saying/ word: Bag on a as in 'he has got a bag on'
Meaning: In a mood
23. Saying/ word: Nice one
Meaning: That is good
24. Saying/ word: Don't be nesh
Meaning: Do not be soft
25. Saying/ word: Chuck it now
Meaning: Stop it/ stop messing about
26. Saying/ word: Mingin
Meaning: Not nice
27. Saying/ word: That's bobbins
Meaning: That is useless
Oldham
1. Saying/ word: Daubed
Meaning: To be ripped off/had over
2. Saying/ word: Slippy curry
Meaning: A slide made on ice
3. Saying/ word: Going out in your stocking feet
Meaning: Not wearing shoes
4. Saying/ word: Stop scrikin'
Meaning: Stop crying/going on about something
5. Saying/ word: I'll give you a winger
Meaning: I will hit you
6. Saying/ word: I were a gate and he were a gate
Meaning: I said and he said
7. Saying/ word: Muffin
Meaning: Bread roll
8. Saying/ word: I could eat a horse between two bread vans
Meaning: I am very hungry
9. Saying/ word: Favver
Meaning: Look like/resemble
10. Saying/ word: Clobber
Meaning: Clothes
11. Saying/ word: Ah cud eat three spuds more than a pig then go back fert pig
Meaning: I am hungry
Rochdale
1. Saying/ word: Cruckle
Meaning: When you go over your ankle
2. Saying/ word: Do I heckers like
Meaning: No, I definitely don't
3. Saying/ word: Nippin' shop
Meaning: Going to the shop
4. Saying/ word: Up the wooden hill
Meaning: Up the stairs
5. Saying/ word: Pept
Meaning: Something or someone that's not good
6. Saying/ word: I'll av a meat an tata cake
Meaning: I'll have a meat and potato pie
7. Saying/ word: A shilling mix
Meaning: A shillings worth of chips and peas in a bowl
8. Saying/ word: Al'reet?
Meaning: Are you ok?
9. Saying/ word: Pecking head - as in 'he keeps pecking head'
Meaning: Someone is irritating me
10. Saying/ word: What a load of twod
Meaning: What a load of rubbish
11. Saying/ word: Sweating cobs as in 'I'm sweating cobs 'ere'
Meaning: I am sweating a lot
12. Saying/ word: Put peg inth hole
Meaning: Close the door
13. Saying/ word: How atti cock?
Meaning: How are you?
14. Saying/ word: Creating
Meaning: Causing trouble
Salford
1. Saying/ word: Plantpot
Meaning: Fool
2. Saying/ word: Brassic
Meaning: Broke
3. Saying/ word: Scran
Meaning: Food
4. Saying/ word: Oh aye yeah
Meaning: Oh yes (realisation)
5. Saying/ word: Barmcake
Meaning: Bread roll
6. Saying/ word: Like piffy on a rock bun
Meaning: Used for someone hanging around with no purpose
7. Saying/ word: Sound as a pound
Meaning: Great, doing good
8. Saying/ word: I'm starvin' Marvin.
Meaning: Hungry
9. Saying/ word: Jibbing
Meaning: Not to pay on the bus or train
10. Saying/ word: Yer great barmpot
Meaning: You are being rather silly
11. Saying/ word: Sayin lad
Meaning: Hello, are you OK? What have you been up to?
12. Saying/ word: ee, I'll go t'foot of our stairs
Meaning: Expression of surprise
13. Saying/ word: All there with her lemon drops
Meaning: A woman who thinks she's someone important
14. Saying/ word: Dock off
Meaning: Very large
15. Saying/ word: Yer doin me shed in
Meaning: You are driving me mad
16. Saying/ word: He's not behind the door is he?
Meaning: He's not daft is he?
17. Saying/ word: Dead
Meaning: A word used to replace 'very '
18. Saying/ word: Nah mate
Meaning: No
Stockport
1. Saying/ word: Eee are'
Meaning: Here you are/excuse me (A way of getting someone's attention)
2. Saying/ word: Snide
Meaning: Fake
3. Saying/ word: Wiggy
Meaning: Haircut
4. Saying/ word: Waggin - as in 'waggin from school'
Meaning: Playing truant
5. Saying/ word: Quaggy
Meaning: Wet or soaked
6. Saying/ word: Sound
Meaning: Something is OK
7. Saying/ word: Bare
Meaning: Lots of
8. Saying/ word: That's west
Meaning: Like that's bad/ horrible
9. Saying/ word: What's gwarnin?
Meaning: What is up?
10. Saying/ word: Mard
Meaning: Cry baby
11. Saying/ word: Lets get the boat on the road
Meaning: Let us get on our way
12. Saying/ word: Mashed
Meaning: Cannot concentrate on a task/ figure things out
Tameside
1. Saying/ word: Growler butty
Meaning: Holland's meat pie in a bread roll
2. Saying/ word: Put ya face straight
Meaning: Stop sulking
3. Saying/ word: Get on one, Man.
Meaning: Stop annoying me and go away
4. Saying/ word: Two's on that mate.
Meaning: Can I share that with you?
5. Saying/ word: It was like Muldoon's Picnic
Meaning: All over the place / lack of structure and organisation
6. Saying/ word: Off t' scratcher
Meaning: going to bed
7. Saying/ word: Ekey thump
Meaning: Strange
8. Saying/ word: Thrapper
Meaning: Ashtray
9. Saying/ word: Do one
Meaning: Run away
10. Saying/ word: Get in my son!
Meaning: Yes I did it/ they did it
11. Saying/ word: Well I'll go to our house
Meaning: I am shocked or surprised by something
12. Saying/ word: Let's 'av a butchers
Meaning: Can I have a look
13. Saying/ word: Nowt but a cockstride
Meaning: It is close by
14. Saying/ word: Me owd mucker
Meaning: When greeting an old friend
15. Saying/ word: Off ya pop
Meaning: Go away
16. Saying/ word: Knock on
Meaning: Calling on your friend
Trafford
1. Saying/ word: Get me sup on
Meaning: Going to have a drink of beer
2. Saying/ word: Do one will ya!
Meaning: Go away!
3. Saying/ word: Jack ups
Meaning: Pants that are too short at the bottom
4. Saying/ word: Top Scran
Meaning: Good food
5. Saying/ word: Tide you over
Meaning: Keep you going until your next meal
Wigan
1. Saying/ word: Tha's gerrin on mi wazz!
Meaning: You're doin' my head in
2. Saying/ word: Am clempt
Meaning: Am very hungry
3. Saying/ word: As fow/feaw as a clog back
Meaning: Not very good looking!
4. Saying/ word: Babbies head chips n peyys
Meaning: A steak pudding, chips and peas
5. Saying/ word: Belting that
Meaning: It is brilliant
6. Saying/ word: Chorve
Meaning: Torment or pester
7. Saying/ word: Give your 'ed a wobble
Meaning: Pull yourself together
8. Saying/ word: Have a 'monk on'
Meaning: Sulking, bad mood
9. Saying/ word: I'm going whom
Meaning: I'm going home
10. Saying/ word: Jackbit
Meaning: Food
11. Saying/ word: Jobs a gud un
Meaning: Work finished satisfactorily
12. Saying/ word: You've got more jam than Hartley's you!
Meaning: You are lucky
13. Saying/ word: Oh ya gettin on mi waz
Meaning: You are getting on my nerves
14. Saying/ word: Peas are getting above sticks
Meaning: Things are getting out of hand
15. Saying/ word: Si thee int fog!
Meaning: See you around
16. Saying/ word: Top fettle
Meaning: Feeling good
17. Saying/ word: Barm Joes
Meaning: Barn cakes or bread rolls
