Strange Terms

"Stunned"
As in: "you're stunned, 'by!"
Equivalent to "blur sotong"

"In't dat foolish!"
In English, this equates to "Isn't that foolish!"

"Oh me nerves, dey got me drove!"
This usually makes me feel my own nerves become driven...

"Arse foremost"
Backwards

"Now luh, da arse is gone right out of er"
Not a medical term, refers to the lagging economy.

"A pain going up through me."
Does not carry any significance regarding origin of pain - is simply a term used to convey the fact that the speaker is in pain.

"The gentleman's passage."
I still haven't figured out exactly which passage this is, but it's a 50-50 guess.

"A nish pain."
Nish: moderate - neither severe nor trivial, tender.

"It's a hard pain, a hard pain, 'by!"
I presume this means "severe" but I could be wrong.

"Hexcellent!"
A version of "excellent" used by witch doctors. Alternatively, an effusive exclamation.

"Wrestling wi' me 'usband."
A patient with a dislocated kneecap related this as being the mechanism by which she had sustained the injury. Somewhat incredulous, I asked her if she did this often. She turned a deep crimson and nodded, at which point the light dawned on me as to what she meant.

"Me water."
As in: "makes me water", "me water is dark", "hurts to make me water"
Refers to micturition.

"Passage"
As in: "back passage", "front passage".
See "gentleman's passage".

"Pains in the backs of my lungs."
I still haven't figured this one out, I simply ask the patient to point.

"Hammeroids"
Hemorrhoids presumably producing great amounts of pain. Sometimes called "hamroids" which may refer to pumped up hemorrhoids?

That's it for tonight, but there are plenty more I've heard... there is never a dull day here interacting with the good salt-of-the-earth types that I've met here!