Slur: The Riverhill Trilogy: Book 1 (26 page)
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Authors: Heather Burnside
All of the characters in this novel are fictitious. They are
products of the author’s imagination and are not intended to bear any
resemblance whatsoever to real people. Likewise, the character’s names have
been invented by the author and any similarity to the names of real people is
purely coincidental.
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A lot of local dialect has been used throughout the book.
Although some of these words are used throughout the UK and in other English
speaking parts of the world, some of them only usually apply in Manchester and
the North of England. The glossary below gives the definitions that apply to
the context in which they have been used in the book.
Arsed | Bothered |
Bird | An attractive |
Bloke | Man |
Bonk | Sexual |
Boozer | Someone who |
Bugger | Unpleasant |
Buggered | Ruined/broken |
Bugger about | Mess |
Bugger off | Go away/get |
A card | An amusing, |
Chinwag | Chat/talk |
Codswallop | Nonsense |
To cop/cop | To meet |
Cop/copper | Policeman |
Cronies | Friends |
Dead | Very |
Dick | Contemptible |
Do | Party/event |
Dodgy | Suspicious, |
Dolling | Dressing |
Fancy | Feel |
Gabbing | Chatting |
Get/git | An unpleasant |
Gone to town | Made a big |
Grotty | Unpleasant/poor |
Having | Having a joke |
Jacked in | Given |
Lose your | Become crazy |
Mither | Fuss/bother/hassle |
Mithered | Bothered |
Mug/muggins | Someone who |
NFA | Of no fixed |
Nowt | Nothing |
Offy | Off Licence |
Paralytic | Very drunk |
Pissed | Drunk |
Plastered | Drunk |
Prat | Fool/Idiot |
Puddled | Eccentric/insane |
Scrubber | A coarse |
Shorts | Measures or |
Slag | A woman who |
Snog | Kiss and |
Sod | Similar to |
Sod off! | Go away |
Sod you! | An expression |
Suss | Realise/grasp |
Talent | Attractive |
Tart | Promiscuous |
Tarting | Similar to |
Tits | Breasts |
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