Do you understand, do you feel the same ?

[venta]

Honestly, you wait for ages then two come along at once.

Following the croggy incident last week, at the weekend I was hanging about in Wales with my dance team.

Venta: Blimey, I'm absolutely nithered.
Ang: You're what?

Now, Ang is usually quite reliable. She knew what a croggy was and everything (I checked). Fortunately, my team's Sheffield contingent came to the rescue and assured me that they not only knew what I meant, but were nithered too.

So... current working hypothesis is that it might be a Yorkshire word. Any offers?

Comments

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Didn't make it to Barnsley that I've heard.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think nithered is a Yorkshire thing.

[lnr]

Nithered: bloody freezing cold. Also "It's nithering out there", etc. So Yorkshire is a reasonable hypothesis, speaking from a mostly Leeds perspective.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yorkshire-but-not-Barnsley, it seems!

Use your loaf!

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

We're southerners! We don't understandy your Viking lingo!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Only have the similarly written mithered where I'm from on t'other side of the pennines. Which means summat different.

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

I use nithering but am not familiar with nithered. I'm from the South Coast but probably picked it up from purplepiano (Wakefield area).

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

From the shape of the word, it sounds like something to do with cold. It also sounds highly Scandinavian, and maybe related to the dragon Níðhogg.

[marjory.livejournal.com]

YES! YES! I KNEW THIS ONE!

(then again, it's a way of complaining about the weather, so I would!)

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

Not Geordie as far as I know. I'd have guessed you meant you were tired rather than cold.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting. I've no idea of its origins.

Scandinavian stuff tends to arrive via Geordie, though, and mrlloyd didn't recognise it...

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've never heard it either.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, looks like I might be barking up the wrong tree there. (See how you have me wasting time when I should be working!)

[lnr]

See that's one I know, but it's not one I grew up with. Wonder if it's more Derbyshire?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Am so not! It was bloody cold, I tell you!

(And still with the etymology hat on - I only ever use nesh as an adjective, never a noun. I got the general gist, though :)

Re: Use your loaf!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, you might be a femmer southerner, but there's plenty of us northern types around on this LJ ;)

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Do., for someone who grew up near Stanley until age 7 and Middlesbrough afterwards.