Phrase guide
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noun
A person who speaks the Black Country dialect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, derogatory, informal, sometimes
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noun
The dialect spoken in the Black Country.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncountable
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noun
Heroin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, uncountable
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History
From the local use of "yow am" (or "yow'm") instead of "you are".
Unknown. Perhaps from yam or yum yum.
