Do you know what a cob is?

[RainbowsAndButterflies]

And it's not a horse :P

I was chatting away and my mate said whats a cob...


So do you know what a cob is?

And while were at it do you know what mardy and jitty mean :P

[Amberjade!]

bread.

it is in Derbyshire anyway,
which i find odd, as im from Yorkshire, and i say bread, which is what it is O.o

[Amberjade!]

oh, and mardy, is like whiney, again thats from where i live anyhows.

[RainbowsAndButterflies]

lol yeah amber :) I love having people fooled over this for a while

especially one I said to my birmingham friends you go through the jitty and round the bend to get to my house... they thought i was talking foreign :P

[Gone.]

I thought of corn on the cob.

[GlitterTrashDoll]

Cob = a bread roll? I'm from Leicester, but no-one in the north knows what it means. ;/

Mardy = Being in a mood with someone / being whiney.

Jitty = An alleyway.

[Heidi Tiger]

Cob can mean lots of different things! For instance I've been involved in doing this lately:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/nottingh...00/8844164.stm
And that is known as cob building.

[whirlpools]

I recognise the word "mardy" as being from an area around Lincolnshire. We don't really say those words in Yorkshire so they must just be from a bit lower down the country.

But this thread has vaguely made me think of those "cottage loaves"... those loaves of bread that look like little overweight ladies? Does anyone know them?

[14MillionMiles]

Is it a sandwich? I'm a Londoner, so I have NO idea!

[GlitterTrashDoll]

My stepmum calls Cob's breadcakes, and calls Jitty's Gennels.

[14MillionMiles]

I only know the word "Mardy" from the Arctic Monkeys' song, and then my flatmate last year was from Nottingham.

God I'm rubbish!

[RainbowsAndButterflies]

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Bread roll

[whirlpools]

My mum calls "jitties" "snickets"!
And cobs are "bread buns" from my original place in Newcastle, but they seem to call them "bread cakes" here too.

[Stellata]

It be a bread roll.

We had this discussion at uni. [Along with the mushy peas, and chips-with-gravy debate!]

[whirlpools]

What's the mushy peas, and chips-with-gravy debate?

[Stellata]

Northerners v. Southerners.

Who'd want to eat gravy with chips?
Ewww mushy peas.
That kinda thing.

[GlitterTrashDoll]

^ we too had the discussions! Chips and Gravy is the tasiest thing ever!

I frequently have the debate with my stepmum on how to say "Auntie". She says "Ante" and I say "arntie" (if that makes sense?)

[LozzyGirl]

Lol.
A bread cob. Its a circle of bread with a slit in the middle.
Mardy is basically moody.
And a Jitty is an allyway.
:)

[lamestate]

A cob is a bun (this is because I'm secretly northern).

Down our way (Brum) they're also called batches.

[Isoverity]

I knew mardy from a northern girl on my F'book. She also taught me what a "bint" is - as in "mardy bint". Good pub name perhaps.