Kett. 🤷‍♂️. Means Sweets

"officer I'm innocent and it's a big misunderstanding, what happen is I was in the pub and a bloke asked me if I wanted some ket, I assume he meant sweets and when he handed me a small bag of powder I assumed it was sherbet, I consumed it because I was a bit peckish after a few beers, that's why you found me sat on top of a public bin with a vacant look on my face at 2am in the morning"
 
Geordie mother in law says ket for sweets, as someone who spent a bit of time in certain dance nightclubs it always makes me chuckle.
 
Growing up Trimdon/Sedgefeild we called sweets ket too never heard the gid for big thought we did used to to say git big for any thing that was massive.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
"officer I'm innocent and it's a big misunderstanding, what happen is I was in the pub and a bloke asked me if I wanted some ket, I assume he meant sweets and when he handed me a small bag of powder I assumed it was sherbet, I consumed it because I was a bit peckish after a few beers, that's why you found me sat on top of a public bin with a vacant look on my face at 2am in the morning"
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:D
 
Used to work with a lad from Spennymoor and the first time I heard him say 'I wouldn't mind a bit of Ket tonight' I thought he must have a drug problem.
 
I remember hearing it at secondary school in Billingham and having the meaning explained to me as so few people used it.

I've also met a few Geordies who use it south of the Tyne, same for geet.

If these words have indeed spread from Sunderland then maybe it's a matter of time until we start using the f-word as a verbal finger space, which so many of the Mackems I've met seem to do.
 
Johngannonsunderpants said:
My mam Guisborough born and bred, always used kett for sweats and I've heard others use it locally.
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There's a lot of Geordie's settled in Guisborough that worked in ICI, etc.

We used kett for sweets as kids and we came from South Bank and Grangetown. Scullery is a common term used for a washing area and usually housed the poss tub and mangle.
 
Centralscrutinizer said:
Just say neigh 🐴
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I was at the dentist discussing getting an implant and the dentist, who is Egyptian, explained that I would need a bone graft either out of human bone, synthetic or animal bone. I asked animal bone, and the dentist explained that it would be horse bone. Will I get the trots I replied, the assistant burst out laughing and the dentist with a straight face starts telling me there will be no side effects.
 
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