Country Dictionary

figure or eight descender (aluminium device of that shape used in mountaineering and caving)

I've droped me fig8

cheeky or insulting scouse boy/urchin usaully, with shaved head and loud screeching voice

me new car was immediately surrounded by snarly heads demanding money

cross between a prat and a pillock

don't just sit there you great steaming praddock

female partner, girl-friend or wife

can't make it lads, gotta go shoppin' with me doris

fat person, usually middle aged

I sat on the bus, next to some enormous spread-bottom

Drug Squad i.e. police

I hear Brief-case Steve got fingered by the DS

prisoner as in "old lag"

Big Len was an old lag out a' the Srubs