From Christine Bate’s document titled Yorkshire Saying.doc

Yorkshire Sayings

Yorkshire

Sithee serra

Nesh

Mardy

Clean and paid for, washed and cared for, if you don’t like it, what do you stare for?

Go run up a shutter

Go and boil your head

Flitting

Barmy

Also:

barm

treacle

causey

causey edge

(get a) coppit – get into trouble

peggy…… as in dolly, a device like a four-legged stool with a long handle in the middle, used for cleaning clothes in the wash tub.

Also, peg came into the name of a game played by miners and boys that involved balancing a peg on a stick, stepping on one end of the stick to make the peg fly up and then hitting the peg as far as possible. Will think more about it.

Yorkshire people washed the pots and used dish and floor rags. Mother washed the dishes and used dish cloths and floor cloths

Well, yer can’t help it, can yer?

He were never any good.

Put ‘wood in ‘hoil (hole).

Tha makes a better door than a winder.

If you’ve got nothing better to do than that …..

What can’t be cured must be endured

It never rains but what it pours