This page gathers the 26 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “North” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry.
- achar noun A spicy and salty pickle in Indian cuisine.
- Angrez noun An English person.
- babu noun A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man.
- belna noun A press or mill, particularly one used for grinding sugar cane.
- beta noun a term of endearment, used towards someone of equal or lower standing such as a friend or child, similar to brother or son
- bhaiya noun friend, dude, man
- bhapa noun a general pejorative term for Khatri Sikhs
- bogan noun An indigenous person.
- butter-ham noun a person who is overly ostentatious in their dress or actions.
- chipper noun A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
- dai noun A wet nurse; a midwife.
- dipper noun an Indian-born immigrant residing in Western countries, often born in the 1990s or later
- dreich adj Extending for a long distance or time, especially when tedious or wearisome; long-drawn-out, protracted; also, of speech or writing…
- flat tire noun Alternative spelling of flat tyre.
- foggara noun An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.
- gan verb To go.
- golding noun The corn marigold (Glebionis segetum).
- gora noun A white person; a European.
- na adv Isn't it?
- plash noun A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
- roar verb To cry.
- scunner noun A young chav.
- spetchel noun A levee or dike made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them.
- to particle A filler word common amongst urban Indians.
- wallah noun A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.
- yakka noun a Sikh living in the Sikh diaspora, especially one from the West