pitmatic

English

Alternative forms
  • Pitmatic (both adjective and noun)
  • pitmatical (both adjective and noun)

Noun

pitmatic (uncountable)

  1. The language spoken by inhabitants of the mining villages in Northumberland or Durham.

Adjective

pitmatic (comparative more pitmatic, superlative most pitmatic)

  1. (Northumbria) Of or relating to this language.
    Ye taalk ower pitmatic for a lad from Gatesheed.

References
  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • pitmatic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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