favorite Northern (UK) Expression

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 04:54 PM

'Guest Boab' - thanks for the info. about the use of 'dod' in Ayrshire - let's hope nobody gets their heads/heids bashed in!

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: Folkiedave
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 04:57 PM

A Wigwam for ducks to peak on (is similar to whim wham for ducks etc.)

Black as Bill's mothers.....( A storm is approaching

Dave

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 02:52 AM

"Ah'd gi'e her a kiss for tuppence an' daur her tae offer a shillin'..."

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: GUEST,HughM
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 05:01 PM

I'll go to the foot of our stairs! (used to express extreme surprise, e.g. when someone one hasn't seen for twenty years turns up on the doorstep).
Thoil: (approximately) to justify, e.g. "They sound alright, but Ah couldn't thoil to spend £10 on a ticket." I might be able to afford the £10, but I could think of better uses for it. (I'm not sure whether this word is used outside Halifax and Bradford.)
Keep band in't nick: not an exhortation to imprison musicians but to keep things running, literally "keep the belt on the pulley".
A packed lunch can be snap, jock or bait, progressing northward.
Someone mentioned the word "wick", meaning lively, or alive when it shouldn't be, such as when a sack of rice is "wick" with cockroaches.
I'm always mildly amused when Radio Scotland mentions the Wick Accordian & Fiddle Club. I imagine them always playing reels at breakneck speed. In the Bradford area there is the exact opposite: the Idle Working Men's Club!

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: GUEST,BOAB
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 06:29 PM

Here,s a handy wee retort for Teribus, Doug R., and the dreaded M.G.-
--"Awa an' scart yer whurrie wi' a whin bush!"

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: Mo the caller
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 07:53 AM

"Ad rather keep him for a week than a fortneet", I thought that was an expression of surprise at someone's appetite.
What's that? - a wigwam for meddlers. (from my husbands grandmother who,though she lived in Hull had started off in Lancashire.)
His other grandma, from Beverley used "fezzening in" when people go at the food enthusiastically. She also used to connifogle her money away (according to Jim this word could be used for anything you want to hide, and doesn't imply dishonesty)

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: muppett
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:02 AM

Eh Jane it's definatly Fullers I'm on

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: GUEST,HughM
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:15 AM

If, as DB says, thee thous (only) them as thous thee, didn't them as thous thee have to break the rule by thouing thee before tha'd thoud them?
I'd never thought of it like this before, but maybe the old man meant that "thee" is a bit like "Du" in German, only used when addressing young people, animals, and people the speaker has known since childhood or for about forty years. That would explain why I have only heard it from older people. Previously I thought that was because it had become unfashionable. (Actually I think the Germans are somewhat more relaxed about using "Du" nowadays, at least in the North.)

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 10:15 AM

Is that Fullers London Pride muppett.

eric

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 12:03 PM

Fullers earth - remedy for stomach upset I think a bit like kaolin.

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: Les from Hull
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 12:05 PM

They've nowt to be proud of in London!

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: GUEST,GUEST,GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 05:27 PM

A woman goes into a hairdressers in Ashington.

"Can I have a perm" she says to the Hairdresser.

The Hairdresser replies "As I wander lonely as a cloud..."

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: Les from Hull
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 10:48 AM

Mrs Duck - fuller's earth is very good for nappy rash (which has almost cleared up now, thank you). A woman of your fecundity should know this.

Actually, fuller's earth was used by fullers for fulling, a process of the textile trades, so well known in the North of England.

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 04:13 AM

tha' face ud stand clogging....

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 05:21 AM

yer as much use as a choclate tea pot.

go an knit fog.

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: gnomad
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:22 AM

Yer that tight yer'd nip a currant in 'arf.

Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
From: Gurney
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 04:28 AM

Thread creep alert!
Fullers Earth will also dry up the oil on your clutch (in your car!) and get you home in an emergency, but you'd better be an experienced driver, with mechanical experience. Your Bendix gear will probably block up and the clutch will be instant, either in or out, no slip at all. Getting it in there is not for a tyro, either.
The get-you-home tricks that my dad knew were legion. But then, he was an Army driver.