List Of British Regional Nicknames

[♥ Lily ♥]

Most UK people automatically know who Scousers, Brummies, Geordies, Cockneys, Mancs, Magpies, Jocks, Southern Fairies, etc, are.

Aberdeen
A Don, (originally a football term it is now used to describe anyone from Aberdeen and surrounding area)

Arbroath
Red Lichtie or Lichtie, Codheid

Barnsley
Tykes, Colliers (a former mining community), Dingles (by people from Sheffield)

Bacup
Bacupian (This name has developed as there is a popular joke in the area that people from Bacup are their own separate species)

Barrow in Furness
Shipbuilder, Jack Beale

Belfast
McCooeys

Beverley
Bevsters

Birmingham
Brummie

Black Country
Yam Yam, Ninehead

Blackburn
The chosen ones

Blackpool
Sand grown 'un, Donkey lasher, seasiders,

Bolton
Trotter

Bramley (West Yorkshire)
Villager

Brighton
Jug (archaic)

Bristol
Ciderhead

Burnley
Dingles, a reference to Burnley's proximity to Yorkshire, Lancashire/Lancs and the other family from the TV soap opera Emmerdale (normally used by people from Blackburn, Preston and other parts of Lancashire)

Bury
Shakers

Caernarfon
Cofi

Caithness
Gallach

Carlisle
Gimps

Ceredigion
Cardi

Chatham
Chavs

Chesterfield
Spireite

Colchester
Colchie, Roman, Camuloonie, Steamie, Castler. Cross'n'Crowner (after Colchester's coat of arms).

Corby
Plastic Jocks

Cornwall
Kernowick, Merry-Jack, Mera-Jack, Uncle Jack or Cousin Jack (when abroad).

Coventry
Godivas

Cranfield
Fr.Damien, Gummy bear, Mountain Fakoor (Dummy version)

Crawley
Insect

Darlington
Quaker

Derby
Sheep shagger, Ram

Devon
Janner

Doncaster
Flatlander (especially by people from Sheffield), Knights, Doleite

Dumfries
Doonhamer

Duns
Dinger

Durham
Posh Geordie, Cuddy, Pitt Yakker (due to Durham's mining heritage)

Eastbourne
Winnicks or Willicks (dialect name of a guillemot or wild person)

Edinburgh
Edinbourgeois Edinbugger

England
Sassenach (offensive, used by Scottish and Irish; Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic word "sasunnach", meaning "Saxon"), Red Coat, Inglish, Nigel, Guffie (in Northeast Scotland), Sais, Englandshire (in Scotland), The Shire (in Scotland).

Essex
Essex Calf (archaic), Eastie, Esser, wideboys, Saxon, sexy, Scimitars (from the County Arms)

Forest of Dean
Foresters

Fraserburgh
Brocher

Frodsham
Cheshire, Jowwy/Jowie Head (from old Cheshire/Runcorn meaning Turnip, reference to the rural position of the town).

Glasgow
Keelie, Weegie

Goole
Goolie

Grimsby
Cod Head (after the fishing port in Grimsby), Grimmy

Gillingham
Medwayers

Gosport
Turk-towners

Great Yarmouth
Yarcos

Halifax
Hampshire
Hampshire Hog, Bacon Face (reference to Hampshire as a pig-raising county in former times)

Hartlepool
Monkey Hanger, Poolie

Hawick
Teri

Haydock
Yicker

Highlands and Islands (of Scotland)
Teuchter, used by other Scots and sometimes applied by Greater Glasgow natives to anyone speaking in a dialect other than Glaswegian

Hinckley
Tin Hatter

Hull
Cod Head, Hully Gully

Kent
Yellow Tails (French nickname for people from Kent)

Ipswich
Tractor Boys

Isle of Wight
Caulkhead (named after the caulking of boats) Historically Corkhead - Caulkhead is an urban myth perpetrated after the Isle of Wight County Press received no replies to its inquiry on the origins of Corkhead in the 1970s

Heywood Greater Manchester
Monkey town

Lancashire
Yonner (specifically south-eastern Lancashire)

Leeds
Loiner

Leicester
Rat-eye (from the Roman name for the city: Ratae), Chisits (from the pronunciation of "how much is it," which sounds like "I'm a chisit"); Foxes, Bin Dippers (named after Foxes)

Leicestershire
Beanbelly (from the eating of broad beans)

Leigh
Lobbygobbler, Leyther

Lincolnshire
Yellow belly (after a species of frog common in the Lincolnshire and East Anglian Fens)

Linlithgow
Black Bitch, from the burgh coat of arms

Littlehampton
LA, from the local accent being unable to pronounce the h in hampton

Liverpool
Scouse or Scouser, Mickey Mouse
Plastic Scouser: a person who purports to be from Liverpool, but is not.
Woolyback, or Wool: anyone not from Liverpool, but in particular refers to people living in the surrounding towns such as Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Warrington, Widnes, Wigan and St Helens.

Llanelli
Turk

London
Del Boy, Shandy, Cockney (East End of London):

Lossiemouth
Codheid

Luton
Hatter

Manchester
Manc

Mansfield
Scabs (offensive, linked to the divisions during the UK miners' strike (1984-1985)), The Stags.

Malmesbury
Jackdaw

Middlesbrough
Smoggie, an abbreviation of Smog Monster

Milton Keynes
Cattle, Plastic Cow-Jockey, Thief (reference to the transfer of Wimbledon football club to Milton Keynes).

Montrose
Gable-endies

Nantwich
Dabber

Neath
Abbey-Jack, blacks, black-jacks.

Newcastle upon Tyne
Geordie, Magpie, Mag

Northern England
Northern Monkey

North Shields
Fish knabber

North Wales
Gog

Norwich
Canaries, Country Bumpkin, Norfolk Dumpling,

Nottingham
Bogger, Scab (insult; see Mansfield)

Nuneaton
Codder, Treacletowner

Oldham
Yonner (from Oldham pronunciation of 'yonder' as in 'up yonner') Roughyed

Paisley
Buddie,

Peterhead
Bluemogganer, Blue-Tooner

Plymouth
Janner. Originally a person who spoke with a Devon accent, now simply any West Countryman. In naval slang, this is specifically a person from Plymouth.

Portsmouth
Pompey, Pomponian, Skate, Pompeyite

Redcar
Codhead

Rotherham
Chuckle, Rotherbird

Royston, Hertfordshire
Crows

Rye
Mudlarks

Scotland
Scottie, Jocks, Mac, Sweaties (offensive; from rhyming slang "Sweaty Sock" for Jock).

Scunthorpe
Selkirk
Souter

Shavington
Tramp

Sheffield
Dee daa, Steelmekker.

South Shields
Sand dancer

Southampton
Mush, Scummer

Southern England
Southern Fairy, Shandy Drinkers,

Southport
Sandgrounder

Stockport
Stopfordian (from an old alternative name for Stockport)

Stoke-on-Trent
Potter, Clay Head, Stokie, Jug Head

Strood
Long tails, Stroodle

Stroud
Stroudies

Sunderland
Mackem

Sutherland
Cattach

Swanland
Posh Head, Swan Shagger

Swansea
Jack, Swansea Jack

Swindon
Moonraker

Tamworth
Tammy's, Sandyback, after the Tamworth Pig, Three Wheeler after the Reliant Robin.

Tarbert, Loch Fyne
Dooker (named after guillemot and razorbill, sea-birds once a popular food among Tarbert natives)

Teesside
Smoggie, 'Borough Boys (after Middlesbrough)

Telford
Telf, Chav

Wales
Taff [Mid/West Welsh] (sometimes considered offensive), Taffy, sheep shagger.

Wallingford
Wally

Walsall
Saddler

Warrington
Wire, Wirepuller (after the local wire industry)

Welshpool
Souped

Westhoughton
Keawyeds (Cowheads, after local legend)

West Riding of Yorkshire
Wessie (in other parts of Yorkshire)

Weymouth and Portland
Kimberlin (Portland name for a person from Weymouth)

Whitehaven
Marra, Jam Eater

Widnes
Chemic, Widiot, Woolyback, or Wool: anyone not from Liverpool, but in particular refers to people living in the surrounding towns such as Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Warrington, Widnes, Wigan and St Helens.

Wigan
Wiganer, Pie-eater, Pie-nosher, Purrer,

Wiltshire
Moonraker

Winsford
Plastic Scouser

Wolverhampton
Yam yams (from local dialect where people say "Yam" meaning "Yow am" meaning "You are")

Worthing
Pork-bolters

Workington
Jam Eater

Wrexham
Goat

York
Yorkie

Yorkshire
Tyke

[♥ Lily ♥]

I'm a bit gobsmacked as to why people from Swanhead are referred to as a 'swan shagger'. (The mind boggles, eh?!)

Also, I'm still gobsmacked as to why people often call the Welsh with the derogatory term of 'sheep-shaggers.' I think it's a load of codswallop as I don't think the Welsh shag sheep.

In a court case in Great Britain, the use of the term 'sheep shagger' directed at a Welsh person was ruled to be a "racially aggravating" factor in a disorderly conduct offence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_shagger