# What is a Geordie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 18, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112 "2010-07-18T11:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/41 "2010-07-22T19:18:15Z")
> [@sinical\_brit](#): > > Good post BunnyTVS - and hi from Prudhoe ! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_bRR6DVWEUM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bRR6DVWEUM) Pruddah! Southerner, Southern Nancy, Southern Pansy, Southern Softie, Southern Fairy, Shandy Drinker, Swiller, Soft-as-shit shandy drinking southern poof. Howzit gan man. ---
**Author:** ![sinical\_brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@sinical\_brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinical_brit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/42 "2010-07-22T19:30:01Z")
Well, i can see Prudhoe from here, however, i am on the correct side of the Tyne … ! ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Skinley\_Von\_Clipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Baron\_Skinley\_Von\_Clipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Skinley_Von_Clipper)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/43 "2010-07-22T20:33:01Z")
I went to stay with some relatives in Washington (outskirts of Sunderland), when I was about 12. Nothing could have prepared me for that, My Aunt said “ye nat stobbin, leek?” because I didn’t take my coat off as soon as I entered her house. ---
**Author:** ![UncleFred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@UncleFred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleFred)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/44 "2010-07-22T21:39:45Z")
While we’re at it, what’s a “Pikey” or perhaps its “Parkie” as in the movie ‘Snatch.’? ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/45 "2010-07-22T21:41:14Z")
Pikie. It’s slang for gypsy. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/46 "2010-07-22T22:21:26Z")
Since we’re on the subject, what about Glasgow nicknames? I’ve read “keelie” in George MacDonald Fraser, but Irvine Welsh (or at least, his characters in _Trainspotting_) call them “weegies”. Which is current? My WAG is that “keelie” is somewhat old-fashioned (like “cracker” for a Southerner), while “weegie” is more current (like “redneck”). And are highlanders still called “teuchters”? ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/47 "2010-07-22T22:24:46Z")
Weegie is current. Highlanders are still called teuchtars occassionally (e.g. in [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxnr0y0ZxAc) song). ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/48 "2010-07-22T22:37:51Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > And are highlanders still called “teuchters”? Once you get past the central belt of Scotland, anyone who lives one foot further north than you is a teuchter. Orkney types use “down south” to refer such southern softies as the inhabitants of Thurso. Fuck knows what Shetlanders do.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/49 "2010-07-23T01:22:48Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Once you get past the central belt of Scotland, anyone who lives one foot further north than you is a teuchter. Orkney types use “down south” to refer such southern softies as the inhabitants of Thurso. Fuck knows what Shetlanders do.😛 So by extension, Santa Claus thinks of all of you as “soft Southern nancy boys”, eh? Funny that in the UK, the southerners are the softies; here in the Bible Belt, anyone living north of Richmond, Virginia is probably a “pencil-necked Yankee pussy.” ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/50 "2010-07-23T09:19:27Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > So by extension, Santa Claus thinks of all of you as “soft Southern nancy boys”, eh? > > Funny that in the UK, the southerners are the softies; here in the Bible Belt, anyone living north of Richmond, Virginia is probably a “pencil-necked Yankee pussy.” It’s because that’s where all the rich, politically influential people live (i.e. near London). And the weather’s better. Southern England is for stockbrokers, northern England is for factory workers (or rather, these days, call centre workers). ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/51 "2010-07-23T12:14:43Z")
I once asked a Glaswegian friend (after first having mentioned Londoners, Scousers, Brummies, Mancunians, Geordies etc) what people from Edinburgh are called. His answer was “We usually refer to them as Wankers”. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/52 "2010-07-23T18:26:16Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Well shows what I know. Never ask a soft southern puff about the North. I take exception to that. We’re soft southern NANCIES. For fucks sake get it right. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/53 "2010-07-23T18:30:32Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > I think somebody’s having a laugh with this list: > > 😛 > > Never heard of “purrer” either for my hometown (though pie-eater is correct). Thank god we satisfy your women sexually. (Particulary those in Wigan) Perhaps when your people get jobs you might turn the tables, too bad about Edinburgh. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/54 "2010-07-23T18:31:13Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > So by extension, Santa Claus thinks of all of you as “soft Southern nancy boys”, eh? > > Funny that in the UK, the southerners are the softies; here in the Bible Belt, anyone living north of Richmond, Virginia is probably a “pencil-necked Yankee pussy.” It’s more of a rural-urban thing than a north-south thing, in my experience. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/55 "2010-07-24T06:37:31Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > There was also Mark Knopfler and James Talyor’s song about Mason and Dixon, _Sailing to Philadelphia_.\* “The Geordie and the Baker’s Boy…something, something Iroquois.” Okay, THIS is now my go-to lyric when I’m singing around the house at full volume: “Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman, Something, something Iroquois.” “Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, Something, something Iroquois.” \*Probably my favorite historical song, it’s the tale of Mason and Dixon coming to… well, _Sailing to Philadelphia_, to survey Their Line. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/56 "2010-07-24T06:57:25Z")
[Sailing To Philadelphia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrLdKYRBOEE). [Lyrics](http://www.lyrics007.com/James%20Taylor%20Lyrics/Sailing%20To%20Philadelphia%20Lyrics.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/57 "2010-07-24T11:31:07Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > > > Once you get past the central belt of Scotland, anyone who lives one foot further north than you is a teuchter. Orkney types use “down south” to refer such southern softies as the inhabitants of Thurso. Fuck knows what Shetlanders do.😛 > > So by extension, Santa Claus thinks of all of you as “soft Southern nancy boys”, eh? > > Funny that in the UK, the southerners are the softies; here in the Bible Belt, anyone living north of Richmond, Virginia is probably a “pencil-necked Yankee pussy.” To be honest Northeners talk tough (so long as theres no Southerners physically present of course, in which case they tend to be eerily silent) but they let themselves down by not being able to drink, fight or fuck. Its always a pleasure for a southerner to go up north because the women can’t get enough of you, sex with their own blokes is usually a couple of minutes of clumsily fumbling around followed by the “man” rolling over and going to sleep. Its probably because Northern men often live at home with their mums until their late twenties and only actually leave home when they lose their cherries. Some women find it rather sweet that the Northern “man” almost always marries the female that he actually has lost his virginity to. And is very often the only woman that he has sex with in his life. Its also not a problem if the woman you’re chatting up has her S.O. with her as when you walk over he disappears off home or hides in the toilet. It may be grim actually living up north; but its a great place to visit. ---
**Author:** ![sinical\_brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@sinical\_brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinical_brit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/58 "2010-07-24T14:45:59Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > …couple of minutes of clumsily fumbling around followed by the “man” rolling over and going to sleep. Your mum didnt have any complaints. But then perhaps she was enjoying the fact i hadnt ‘driven’ to her house at avg 6 mph in my BMW, all shaved legs, pink shirt and smelling of cappuccino… ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/59 "2010-07-24T15:02:51Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Thank god we satisfy your women sexually. (Particulary those in Wigan) > Perhaps when your people get jobs you might turn the tables, too bad about Edinburgh. ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT? Seriously, I have no idea what you were trying to say. Repeat in our native tongue, please. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112/60 "2010-07-24T15:19:53Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > To be honest Northeners talk tough (so long as theres no Southerners physically present of course, in which case they tend to be eerily silent) but they let themselves down by not being able to drink, fight or fuck. Lol, no. What colour is the boathouse at Hereford, btw? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-geordie/547112.md?page=4)