Black Country Slang & Black Country Dialect.
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Tocky-bonk
-Pit bank / Spoil heap / Slag heap
'Tacky-bonk' or 'Tocky-bonk' are Black Country dialect terms for a pit bank, the spoil heap of waste material from a coal mine (a 'bonk').
Fakes
-Cigarettes
Black Country slang for cigarettes.
Ivver-ovver
-Hesitate
A Black Country Slang term used in place of Hesitate.
Wick
-Week / Alive / Lively / Quick (as in 'the quick and the dead')
Black Country pronunciation of 'week', or meaning alive/lively.
Lughole
-Earhole / Ear
Black Country term for ear or earhole.
Puk
-To be sick / Vomit
Black Country slang for vomiting.
Swelth
-Swelling
Black Country term for a swelling.
Clarnet
-Idiot or fool
Black Country insult meaning idiot or fool.
Lather
-Ladder
Black Country pronunciation of 'ladder'.
Tack up
-To stop raining / Weather improving
Black Country phrase for when rain stops or weather improves.