Question about a word in northern England dialect.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Wow. Talk about overthinking it.

I think Easterncedar is most likely right - "it's a cup, like" with "cup" pronounced in the Northern way (vowel sound same as "good" ). EarlG may be right that it's "lad".

All your stuff about "lip", "laib" etc. is fantasy. It's unneeded ("like" and "lad" would both fit, and the point is he's making a tiny joke about the difference between the guy's southern accent and his own Northern one and how they each pronounce "cup"; the word after that is a throwaway). Gaelic would be a complete red herring; he's from Middlesbrough, which could be said to be a transition from a Yorkshire to a Geordie accent, but has never been a Gaelic speaking area (English since about 500 AD, with Norse influence; before that, the Common Brittonic language, to which Welsh is now the closest, but that was completely lost in all of eastern and central England).