UNGAIN—Roundabout. That’s a ungain way o’ gaan aboot thi wark min.
UNKID—Weird; strange; cross; queer. He telt us a unkid tial aboot his broughtins up.
UPBANK, DOONBANK, IN-BANK—Ah’ll put these ota-pgidder becos they’re o o’ yah mak’. Upbank’s gaan uphill, doonbank and inbank’s gaan doon. Upbank wark’s tryen ta git on i’ t’ world; doonbank’s a way a lot on us gah withoot mich tryen. An auld sayen is “Thoo’s like a coo tail; thoo grows doonbank.”
UPSHAW—Over. It’s aboot upshaw wi’ him.
UPSHOT—Final. T’ upshot was ’at they mud feit an’ feit tell o was black and blue they dud.
UPSTIRRING—Up and busy. We mun be upstirrin afooar t’ sparrows i’ t’ moornin’.
UPTACK—Reward for finding. They gat a croon fer t’ uptack o’ that hoond.
UPHOD—Maintenance. He’s a chap at’s at a ter’ble gurt uphod sen he was seea badly.
URCHIN, URCHANT—Hedgehog. They sook eggs, an’ kye, an’ lads throw them i’ t’ pond ta oppen them oot.
URL’D—A knotty tree, or piece of wood; a youth of poor physical development. He’s a laal url’d stunt; he’s set on an’ ’ll niver grow neea bigger.