Sandbox for Yorkshire colloquialisms, others are welcome to edit / view / make suggestions. What I need more than anything is internet based sources, please don't add dialect words unless they are sourced as I am trying to create a proper referenced work rather than 'original research'.

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Words found in the Merriam-Webster [1] are disqualified as being dialect. The Merriam-Webster is the standard US English dictionary. I'd use the Oxford English for preference but they want money.

From source 1 - South Yorkshire

• ey oop = hello
• fizog = face
• gipping = vomiting
• jiggered = exhausted
• lughole = ear
• manky = rough
• our lass = wife

(A to M from source 2 - North Yorkshire)

• allus - always
• 'appen - maybe, possibly e.g. "I'll 'appen that's it" for "that's possibly true"
• aye - yes
• backend - autumn
• badly - not in a good state of health, i.e.'How's Martha?', 'She's badly.'
• baggin - packed lunch
• bagsey - childhood term, i.e. 'bagsey my turn!'
• bairn - child bait/ bait box snack/ packed lunch
• bazzerking - relaxing/ telling off (?)
• beck - brook
• beefin(g), blubberin(g) - crying
• be reight - it'll be alright
• black bright - very dirty
• bonny - pretty
• brant - steep e.g. "'tis a brant hill"
• bray/braying - beating e.g. "you'll get a good braying" or "I'll bray you"
• breadcake - bread roll or bap
• butty - sandwich
• cack-handed - left-handed, clumsy
• chat - fir cone
• chelpin - talking
• childer - children
• chip 'ole - fish and chip shop
• chuddy - chewing gum
• chuffed - pleased, excited
• clarty - dirty, muddy, sticky
• clemmy - stone (of a size you might throw)
• clout - cloth
• cludger - toilet (in Knaresborough)
• coal 'ole, coyle oyle - coal cellar
• croggy - riding on the cross-bar of a bicycle
• daft as a brush - stupid
• delve - dig
• dowly - dull, gloomy, misty day
• drinkings - mid-morning snack farm workers took to work
• dursn't - daren't
• eeh by gum - oh my God
• faffing - messing about
• fettle - to tidy/mend
• flayed, flaysome - scared, scary
• flitin' - moving house
• flower - term of endearment
• flummoxed - confused
• friggin' - a curse
• frozzed -referring to face or fingers being very cold
• garth - yard
• gill - stream
• ginnell - alleyway
• giz, gizza, gizzyer - give, give us, give your
• goffs - smells horrible
• goodies - sweets
• goosegog - gooseberry
• gripe - garden rake
• in a bit - bye
• jiggered - very tired
• khali - sherbert
• kegs - trousers
• lake, laikin(g), larking - play (i.e. "Is your Lesley coming out to lake?"), playing
• lass - girl/young woman/wife
• leg throw
• v. (to have a) lem on - to be angry, moody (like having a 'monk on')
• lowence - snack whilst working, especially for farmers
• lug, lug'ole - ear
• maffin' - hot and clammy weather
• (I'm) mafted - (I'm) hot
• mardy - moody, sulky, stroppy
• middin' - muck heap
• middlin(g) - ok, average
• mithered, mitherin(g) - irritated with something, as in "stop mitherin' me" is "stop bothering/irritating me".
• v. (to have a) monk on - to be grumpy, to have a sulky face
• missen - myself e.g. "I'll do it missen"
• narky - moody, sulky, stroppy, (mardy)
• n'arn - now then
• neb - nose
• nesh - cold. Often exclaimation that an individual is 'soft' for feeling the cold or term of mild abuse e.g. "nesh southerners!"
• nithered - very cold
• nowt/ nout - nothing
• now then - hello
• oh aye?! - oh really?!
• 'ow do - how are you, hello
• owt - anything
• paggered - knackered e.g. "I'm completely paggered" or "I've just paggered my dad's car"
• playin(g) pop - to tell of/ get angry with
• plother - mud
• pot washin' - washing up
• put wood in'th oyle - shut the door
• radged - angry
• reet - right

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I have my doubts whether these are dialect words and not Standard English / UK slang

• best y' do - see that you do
• bog - toilet
• bonce - head
• chippy - fish and chip shop
• chuckin(g) your guts up - being sick
• fair t' middlin - fair, in the middle
• flippin 'eck (flipping heck) - exclamation of shock and surprise
• gander - look at
• gi' over - give over, stop it
• gormless* - stupid
• manky not nice, unpleasant
• ratty - grumpy/gross

Others

• berg - mountain (is this used outside placenames?)
• carr - marsh (ditto)
• dale - valley
• fell - moor
• foss/ force - waterfall

• bad 'un - no good
• bap - bread bun (Standard English not dialect)
• black as't face o' spades - very dirty (Standard English not dialect)
• bracken - ferns (found in M-W dictionary)
• coit/cooat coat (Standard English with slightly different pronunciation)
• clout - a slap (Standard English not dialect)
• down't (road) - down the (road) (Standard English with slightly different pronunciation)
• 'ead - head
• famished - hungry, starving
• fast - stuck
• flaggin(g) - tired, worn out
• fowl - bird
• gaffer - the boss
• gear - items, things
• good 'un - good one
• guff - fart
• gunna, gonna - going to
• hell fire! - goodness me!
• in't - in the
• jammy - very lucky
• kiddin(g) - telling a fib, joking
• lavvy - toilet
• mester - mister
• minging - horrible, unpleasant
• not back'ard at comin' for'ard - (not backward at coming forward) pushy person
• nouse - sense
• pack it in - stop it
• parkin - ginger cake made with oats
• pikelet - crumpet
• pop - fizzy drink
• pudgy - fat or chubby person
• (it) reeks - (it) smells horrible
• Rum'n - cheeky/bit of a character e.g. "He's a rum'n"

1,2,3 seem fine to me whereas 4,5,6 are rather too historical to include all the words but I will include words that I feel to be in current usage or that are already in the article

1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/3724110.stm
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/glossary.shtml
3. http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/teesspeak/page4.phtml
4. http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/
5. http://www.yorkshire-dialect.org/dictionary.htm
6. http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm