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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
IanC	Folklore: translations from 'the Yorkshire' (8)	RE: Folklore: translations from 'the Yorkshire'	17 Feb 14
Cracknel = hard toffee magnolia is an off-white shade very commonly used as chepa paint for walls throughout the UK. Not particularly Yorkshire Garth (Home Close in Southern England) is a small enclosure close to the farmhouse where baby or sick animals (sometimes pigs) are kept mashing = brewing / stewing. In the rest of England it is used for the 1st process in making beer The Northern Union is another term for Rugby League and, by association, where this is played (as opposed to Rugby Union) Quaggy = boggy (from normal English "Quagmire" = bog slummocky = messy or untidy huffed is just the [verb/past tense] of huff in use throughout UK ("she went off in a huffed"). :-)

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