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| Black
Country word | Meaning |
| | | | C | |
| Caerke'ole | Mouth |
| Carma | Caldmore
(in Walsall) | | Caw | Can't |
| Caggy'anded | Left
handed | | Cagmag | "Derogatory
term for various things" (contributor; Kelvin Pearce) |
| Chate | A
cheat, to cheat | | Cherf | Scold |
| Chobble | To
chew food | | Chow-row |
Music / noise | | Chuckin | Throwing |
| Chuffed | Happy
| | Clack | The
dangly bit at the back of the throat | | Clattering
the crocks | Washing
dishes | | Clammed | Cold
or Hungry/starving | | Clarnit | Daft
person | | Clobber | Clothes,
and to hit | | Clock | Face;
as in, "it bost 'is clock", It hit him in the face |
| Cock
(or Cocker) | An
affectionate term; 'Ow am ya, cock?' | | Collywobbles | Feeling
unwell "Bin yow got the collywobbles?" | | Conk | Nose |
| Coot
| Coat |
| Cor | Cannot |
| Crerta | Whisky |
| Cuffy | Scruff |
| Cut | Canal |
| | | | | |
| D | |
| Dae | Didn't |
| Dae'alf | Did |
| Donkey
ears | Long
time | | Donny |
Hand | | Doolally | Insane |
| Doobin | Wheelbarrow |
| Darlo |
Darlaston | | Dout
the light | Turn
off the light | |
Dowen | Down |
|
Duwer | Door |
| | | | E | |
| 'E | He |
| 'Ears | Years |
| 'Er | Her
/ she | | Es | also |
| | | | F | |
| Faggits
un Pays | Faggots
and Peas | | Fairce | Face |
| Famished | Hungry |
| Ferk | A
Cigarette | | Ferriting | Try
to find something | | Fertha | Father,
dad | | Fenague | Verb.
To give up on something. "Eat up your dinner, you're not fenaguing are you?"
or "I thought your son was going to climb the hill. No he fenagued."
(Submitted by Paul Turton) | | Fickle | Food |
| Filch | Steal |
| Firkle | To
mess about with | | Fit
as a butchers dog | Extremely
fit | | Fittle | Food |
| Fizzog | Face |
| Franzy | Grumpy |
| Flerta | Catapult |
| Foad | Back
Yard | | Fortnit | Two
week period | | Fower
| Four |
| Fust | First |
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