Cod Almighty | Article
by Mark Stilton
7 April 2004
A Grimmo dictionary is all well and good in helping people to understand what you're saying, but what about those rare occasions when you really need to go abroad? The people in Hull don't even speak English so won't understand a word you say and that's where we come in. Just print out this handy Hull-English dictionary and you'll have no trouble understanding the locals.
Clairs
Articles or garments you dress in each day
Curl
Combustible material used on real fires
Curled
Opposite of hot
Fertberl (ferteh)
Association Football. As played in towns and cities outside of Hull
Ferter
A picture recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
Herbits
Hairy-footed mythical creatures popularised in the works of JRR Tolkien
Hurl
Found in the middle of a perler
Jerkin
Having a laugh
Kermet
A good shop to steal merbil ferns and pertabble tellehs from
Kirkacurler
Popular fizzy pop drink
Lerds
A large quantity
Merbil fern
Portable telecommunications device
Ner
Used to express refusal
Nerth Perl
Most northerly point on Earth
Perch deg
Something to have on terst
Perler
Small white mint with a hurl
The Perp
Head of the Catholic Church
Pertabble Telleh
Device used to keep abreast of happenings on ITV whilst on the move. Can be 'bought' from Kermet
Purl
To hang flags or telephone lines from; someone from Poland
Rerlin Sterns
Popular tax-dodging rock act fronted by Mick Jagger
Rerm
Where the Perp lives
Smerl
Opposite of big
Smerkin
Consumption of tobacco based products
Surfer
Posh name for a settee
Terst
Bread that has been heated and browned