Someone from Tyneside.
Used in a Sentence
geordie
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for geordie.
Editorial note
Ironically, it's Barclay who actually related to them in reasonable fashion, and it's Geordie who got confused about reality.
Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
Someone from Tyneside.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of geordie gathered in one view.
A diminutive of the male given name George.
A diminutive of the female given names Georgia, Georgiana, Georgette, or Georgina.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for geordie.
noun
Someone from Tyneside.
noun
A diminutive of the male given name George.
noun
A diminutive of the female given names Georgia, Georgiana, Georgette, or Georgina.
adjective
Related to or characteristic of Geordies, Tyneside or Newcastle upon Tyne.
Example sentences
Ironically, it's Barclay who actually related to them in reasonable fashion, and it's Geordie who got confused about reality.
There's a show called Geordie Shore, which is the MTV UK's take on Jersey Shore.
Whether they speak in RP, Cockney, Geordie or Scouse has no bearing on this.
I'd be especially interested in some of the ones you mentioned: Geordie and Brummie.
I was sure the guy with the Geordie accent was a Newfie.
I miss my uncle, I miss his singing the 12 days of Christmas around the piano, his slight Geordie brogue, his passion for electronics.
It's also a sexier dialect (few sane people would fall in love with a Geordie accent, Brummie or even Cockney, if they weren't already brought up in that area.
It's even a bit iffy to count English as one language -- put 3 people speaking Indian English, Ebonics, and Geordie in a room together and see how well they communicate!
As an Australian living in UK, I hear an enormous difference between these accents - even just in the British ones, the Yorkshireman and the Geordie stick out like a sore thumb to me - the narcissism of small differences perhaps.
From my perspective, being a Yorkshireman, I find it easy to parse and understand the accents (and dialects, even though people say english doesn't have any dialects, which it clearly does) from all over the north of Britain that people below the danish line struggle with, such as thick Yorkshire accents, Geordie and Scottish.
Quote examples
Last year a man named Geordie Tait posted an article called "To My Someday Daughter"[1].
Geordie's (Dwave's CTO) rebuttal: [1] "The majority of that post is simply factually incorrect.
Geordie's reply to Scott's blog: "The majority of that post is simply factually incorrect.
Important comment from Geordie on the dwave blog: "It’s absolutely possible that adding active error correction might help at some point, maybe even in the next generation.
Proper noun examples
Geordie English is closer to Edinburgh 'Scots' than to RP English or US English or Indian English.
It doesn't seem like it will be too long before people using these types of glasses will have better vision (thinking Geordie!).
How come nobody else ever has Geordie-style visors as an option?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use geordie in a sentence?
Ironically, it's Barclay who actually related to them in reasonable fashion, and it's Geordie who got confused about reality.
What does geordie mean?
Someone from Tyneside.
What part of speech is geordie?
geordie is commonly used as noun, adjective.