Kett. 🤷‍♂️. Means Sweets

Ex Footy Legs

Ex Footy Legs

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My missus is from County Durham and she has always said ‘I fancy some kett’ (meaning jelly sweets etc) and I thought it was a made up word but it is referenced in the Collins dictionary and I have never heard that word growing up!

Apparently it’s a word from the Sunderland and Newcastle/Durham area

I would’ve thought I would’ve heard something about the word as a kid and wondered if anybody from Boro had heard of it ?
 
Ex Footy Legs said:
My missus is from County Durham and she has always said ‘I fancy some kett’ (meaning jelly sweets etc) and I thought it was a made up word but it is referenced in the Collins dictionary and I have never heard that word growing up!

Apparently it’s a word from the Sunderland and Newcastle/Durham area

I would’ve thought I would’ve heard something about the word as a kid and wondered if anybody from Boro had heard of it ?
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I think if she went round telling people she fancied some kett around the Boro she would end up being sold some horse tranquilliser to snort lol.
 
Never heard of it n the singular form. It was always , do you want some kets like , have you got any kets like or are we off to the corner shop for some kets like ?
 
I hadn’t heard of it until a lad from Billingham started working for me. He said it was specifically referring to small penny sweets.

I saw the sign in Asda about ten years ago and was surprised someone so corporate would adopt something that parochial
 
Kids from Sedgefield used to go to the Catholic primary school I attended, they used the kett for sweets, its south Durham pit yak. like the word Gid for large. "it was great gid one". My mother in law is Sunderland Seaburn, she used the word "Scullery" for kitchen and "window sails" for window sills - my wife is Middlesbrough born like myself born the same ward Parkside Maternity - 2 months apart, but she still uses "window sails"
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
Kids from Sedgefield used to go to the Catholic primary school I attended, they used the kett for sweets, its south Durham pit yak. like the word Gid for large. "it was great gid one". My mother in law is Sunderland Seaburn, she used the word "Scullery" for kitchen and "window sails" for window sills - my wife is Middlesbrough born like myself born the same ward Parkside Maternity - 2 months apart, but she still uses "window sails"
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Grew up in East Durham and 'ket' was sweets and 'gid' (git) was more 'very' ie "....look at the belly on that Geordie it's git big"

Scullery definitely more mackem, never heard it that much.
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
Kids from Sedgefield used to go to the Catholic primary school I attended, they used the kett for sweets, its south Durham pit yak. like the word Gid for large. "it was great gid one". My mother in law is Sunderland Seaburn, she used the word "Scullery" for kitchen and "window sails" for window sills - my wife is Middlesbrough born like myself born the same ward Parkside Maternity - 2 months apart, but she still uses "window sails"
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Just checked and my wife’s gran called the kitchen scullery.
Priceless.
Missus said scullery was mainly ‘the pantry’ or cold storage area where her gran used to send her for foodstuffs 😀🤷‍♂️
 
Traditionally the scullery, in a large house, was the pot wash and laundry area. Not so much cooking, more cleaning.

Across the word Geet, frequently in North Shields with the meaning as gid/git mentioned above (big)
 
h_m_boro said:
Grew up in East Durham and 'ket' was sweets and 'gid' (git) was more 'very' ie "....look at the belly on that Geordie it's git big"

Scullery definitely more mackem, never heard it that much.
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That’s funny because round here I would say…look at the belly on that Geordie the big git.
 
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