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30 Nov 05 - 08:20 AM (#1617115) Subject: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Seth How about 'By Eck' said when you're suprised |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:31 AM (#1617126) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Stu Yaffing - a dog barking. "Bloody hell Nora - stop that dog's constant yaffing. It's mithering me arse off!" Confined to Macclesfield as far as I am aware. |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:34 AM (#1617128) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: muppitz "Ay up me duck" "When ah wr a lad" Also the word "Mardy" which, as far as I am aware is confined to the more Midlands side of the north. muppitz x |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:36 AM (#1617129) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: InOBU From a mudcatter from Hull, "Puggled" I will let her tell ye all what it means, I've added it to my favorite word, muckled, "Och, I'm puggled but no' muckled with thee..." lor |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:45 AM (#1617134) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: IanC "I'm sayin' nowt" ... a Yorkshire expression, confined in its use to after the speaker has already said more than is required and usually stirred up an argument thereby. ;-) |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:47 AM (#1617135) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Snuffy "Now then" is a suitable thing to say in almost all circumstances |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:48 AM (#1617136) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST Gissa job. |
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30 Nov 05 - 09:32 AM (#1617179) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Splott Man Sorry, we had "puggled" in Surrey, too. I'll go to the back of our stairs - is that real or made up? |
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30 Nov 05 - 09:35 AM (#1617181) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Paul Burke It's neither micklin' nor mucklin' (from Billy Liar IIRC). Sithee lad, it's th' best expression in t' Northern Union. Wheer's my cap, there' trouble at t' mill. Not to mention Bringle Eaf, where they 'ave canguls in bockuls on t' mankulpiece. |
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30 Nov 05 - 09:43 AM (#1617188) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,DB I remember hearing of a crass young lad (probably a Southerner) who used the 'thou' form of address toward an elderly Yorkshireman. The lad had only just met the Yorkshireman and was not related to him. The crass young lad was sternly rebuked thus: "Thee thous them as thous thee, lad - think on!" Quite right too! |
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30 Nov 05 - 09:51 AM (#1617196) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: mooman T'in't in tin! (The money is no longer in the receptacle provided for its safe storage) Peace moo |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:07 AM (#1617207) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: HipflaskAndy Recently a Leeds lad, at work here, asked the teccies for a large flat piece of wood.... 'Wi' a nail brayed in, but not so far as it'd scorf the bench' Gradely! HFA |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:12 AM (#1617209) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Pied Piper I like "Pissed as a hand-cart"and "Face like a Bulldog chewin a bag o'Wasps" PP |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:12 AM (#1617210) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Bainbo "Yigh" is a more emphatic version of "aye". I've bin ashoo-ered, though Ah've never heerd it dun, that that tha can have a full discussion along t'lines of: "Aye?" "Aye." "Nay!" "Yigh!" |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:14 AM (#1617213) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Emma B at this time of year? the only appropiate word is "nesh" Brrrrrrr |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:14 AM (#1617214) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,raggytash 'as bin man bin mam, dost mean dostman there's nowt wrong wi' owt what's gradly o'er sump so long as there's tripe in picklin' Ah Lancashire, God's county ! |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:19 AM (#1617219) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Pied Piper "tslookin a bit dark o'r our Edna's" |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:28 AM (#1617226) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: BusyBee Paul Sorry Muppitz - mardy is used dahn souf too!. (generally as in mardy @rse!). My favourite northern expression? "Get sum beer in!". (not the weak, gassy stuff they try to fob you off with south of Lincolnshire). Cockney expat. |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:33 AM (#1617228) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Rasener Its black over Bills mothers You mardy old git ello our kid Got a stonking headache I'm goooin down the cut (canal) |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:44 AM (#1617232) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GEST When our next door neighbours come to their summer home here in Canada from their home in Norwich, England, we suddenly find our own Canadian "eh"s interspersed with their many "lovely"s. Isn't that just lovely, eh? :-) |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:44 AM (#1617233) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: mooman Local variation of PP's one: "Face like a bulldog lickin' piss off a nettle" Doncaster (and nearby) expressions: "Bet yer not as green as yer cabbage-lookin'" "Face like a bag o' spanners" "Yer look like ye'v etten' yer beddin" Peace moo |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:51 AM (#1617241) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: IanC Again, quite a few of these are common down South ... eg Green and Cabbage looking Stonking ;-) |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:51 AM (#1617242) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave Hanson Put wood i'thoile, [ close the door. ] Old Yorkshire saying........Hear all, see all , say nowt Eat all, sup all, pay nowt An' if ever tha does owt fer nowt Do it fer thisen. eric |
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30 Nov 05 - 11:12 AM (#1617264) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: VIN Flamin Nora! Will he eckerslike! Am fair clemmed! |
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30 Nov 05 - 11:37 AM (#1617282) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: mooman Chuffin' 'eck! |
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30 Nov 05 - 11:58 AM (#1617294) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,riggy Tappy-lappy doon the lanin' |
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30 Nov 05 - 12:01 PM (#1617296) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST 'OW MUCH????? (When Northerners are buying a pint in the South) |
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30 Nov 05 - 12:04 PM (#1617299) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: mandotim 'appen. (As in 'perhaps') Dinner (Known as 'lunch' in the south) Brew (a hill, in Saddleworth) Swealing (a word I've only heard in Saddleworth, it means burning heather to clear the ground. Lovely word.) As in 'Appen I'll go up brew after us dinner, do a bit o' swealin'.' Tim from Bit on the Side |
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30 Nov 05 - 12:27 PM (#1617323) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: s&r Nesh in Nottingham was of a person who complained of the cold; it seems to mean cold weather further north. Stu |
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30 Nov 05 - 12:30 PM (#1617326) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Strollin' Johnny "Face like a smacked arse" (self-explanatory!) "Nah then thee, ahs tha gooin'?" (Doncastrian (Or more precisely, Sprotborian) for "Hello, how are you?") "Mash" ('make' or 'brew' as in "I'll mash the tea") "Otchin" (North Lincs word for "Hedgehog" - shortened version of the full "Prickly Otchin") |
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30 Nov 05 - 12:45 PM (#1617342) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Liz the Squeak Otchins made it to Dorset too.... but it did come with a proper Romany family so they may have transported it. Puggled is also used in Dorset... as in "'ee'm puggled ee be you." I like 'Well I'll go to Fleetwood on a tram' as read in 'Destination Lapland' by Mark Wallington (he of the flatulent dog Boogie fame). LTS |
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30 Nov 05 - 03:03 PM (#1617432) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: ard mhacha During my time in Sunderland it was a long shrieked ,EEEEEeeeeeeeeee. |
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30 Nov 05 - 03:11 PM (#1617443) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: John J Ey-up an' ecce thump! JJ |
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30 Nov 05 - 03:41 PM (#1617460) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: greg stephens Burr far storm nar Burr nar storm far Tha's witshed,lad (of someone standing with their feet over the line playing darts). (The "shed" is pronounced as a syllable with a neutral vowel). |
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30 Nov 05 - 04:08 PM (#1617487) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Georgiansilver Uzabmgorruzimbux = we don't have our hymn books with us. Tintintinmam = it is not in the tin mother. Eenevverzedout = he kept his mouth shut. worthyelzmesnapgan = where is my packed lunch Best wishes, Mike. |
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30 Nov 05 - 04:30 PM (#1617497) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: TheBigPinkLad (You ain't in the North until you pass Darlington) Looksthe the clip a thoo, lad (What on earth are you wearing) Cu'bye (behave) Give owa man, motha, man. (stop it, Mum) Give owa howkin aboot (please keep still) Shaz geet lush (My but she's pretty) daft as a bottle o' fish |
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30 Nov 05 - 05:06 PM (#1617513) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Les from Hull I wonder if these are just 'ull words or do others 'ave 'em? Tansad = pushchair Bool = to push something that has wheels Packing up = packed lunch Chudding = stealing apples (only East Hull as far as I can tell) Other words heard in 'ull are down to our excructiating pronunciation, such as the Head of the Roman Catholic Church being known as 'The Perp'. 'Course I can have a lot off about the way we terk, but anybody else'll get brayed! An' there's lerds of 'ull folk on Mudcat! |
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30 Nov 05 - 05:14 PM (#1617521) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: TheBigPinkLad Very simlilar to Geordie, Les. The perp axed iz te hurld his curt wheil ee smurked a tyeb in his rurls-royce. |
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30 Nov 05 - 05:35 PM (#1617527) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST I've always had a soft spot for "hadaway and shite" - incidentally, the only Geordie phrase for which there seems to be a better direct equivalent in Spanish (vete a la mierda) than there is in standard English. |
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30 Nov 05 - 05:39 PM (#1617530) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: TheBigPinkLad Geordie: "Spanish" = licorice ;o) |
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30 Nov 05 - 05:47 PM (#1617537) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST Les, you have just reminded me of when I lived in hull for a couple of years, and a young girl was telling me about finding a "turd" in her garden. Took me several minutes to realise she was talking about a "toad"!! |
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30 Nov 05 - 06:36 PM (#1617577) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Folkiedave Bill Mills (RIP) sang at the Carols of Dungworth for many years. He was the only man I ever met who could get four syllables out of the word "ear". As in Swaledale ........" and lend a charm to your e-a-r-r" And then from Sheffield again - boo-it - a thing you put your feet in to go to work. And finally smittling.......the smittling chair is one in which if a woman sits, she gets pregnant - [smittle=catching, infectious]. Well, it worked for a friend of mine!! Dave |
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30 Nov 05 - 06:39 PM (#1617583) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: TheBigPinkLad Dave ... do you remember the monsterous road works that went on in Sheffield centre during the mid-70s near the station? Local lad called it "th'oil int royad" |
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30 Nov 05 - 06:59 PM (#1617599) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Tootler I once suggested we should "go dahn t'chip 'oil for us tea" My daughter very primly replied "Oh Dad; You could have said chip hole!" |
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01 Dec 05 - 04:12 AM (#1617880) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,noddy monies not round fur goin round, its flat fur stacking. |
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01 Dec 05 - 04:41 AM (#1617904) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Boab "Zurombyin?" --Is anyone home? "Hoozitgaun auld yin"<---How are you, my friend? "Snoscollswizz"!---the ambient temperature is somewhat higher than it has been of late.. "The baw's oan the slates!"--we have come to an in impasse "Gaun like snaw aff a dyke"---disappearing very fast. "Keep the hied an' buy a bunnet"!--Calm down, stay cool "Bawls like a bull"!---the literal meaning--not the phonetic----- Except for the last, oft-heard speech in the realm o' the "Jocks". |
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01 Dec 05 - 05:30 AM (#1617924) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST Just makes me think of an old saying I heard west of the Peninnes. "You can always tell a Yorkshire man, but not a lot" And a statistic - "the further south you go, the denser the population" Cheers |
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01 Dec 05 - 05:50 AM (#1617930) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Big Al Whittle I say you chaps, this northern banter is rather wizard! Fondle me testicles young feller if I won't have shot meself! I bet tha's 'eared wos. |
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01 Dec 05 - 06:06 AM (#1617937) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Strollin' Johnny GUEST - I thought the saying was "You can always tell a teacher, but you can't tell 'em much". BPL - re 'tou're not in t'north until you're past Darlin'ton" - just remember, all things are relative! LOL! |
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01 Dec 05 - 06:21 AM (#1617946) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: JulieF BIgPinkLad I always thought that 'th'oil int royad' was the big underpass in the middle of Sheffield - junction High street, Angel st and Arundel gate but I could be wrong as I didn't arrive in Sheffield until the mid 80s. J |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:15 AM (#1618026) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Geoff the Duck I have always considered "piss off you southern bastard" to quite a useful one. Quack! GtD |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:17 AM (#1618029) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Geoff the Duck possibly with "namby pamby" inserted somewhere within the phrase. Whilst watching out for the punctuation police, of course. Quack! GtD. |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:19 AM (#1618031) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Sooz Watch thissen SJ :-) |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:42 AM (#1618054) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave Hanson Geoff, the correct version is " piss off you SOFT southern bastard " eric |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:54 AM (#1618069) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Fred Yorkshire born an' Yorkshire bred, Strong in t'arm Thick in t'head |
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02 Dec 05 - 01:53 AM (#1618252) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Rumncoke No no it's Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred Strong in't back and wick in't head. Wick - alive, alert or lively - like quick. Anne |
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02 Dec 05 - 04:03 AM (#1618270) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,noddy oh, away an play wi yersel. |
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02 Dec 05 - 04:48 AM (#1618290) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Muppett Is tha lakin togger t'saft (are you playing football this afternoon) Chumping or progin (what we used to do just before bonfire night i.e. collecting wood for the bonfire) Side that will thee (Put that away, will you) Here's a poser for you all, what's differance between a snicket & a ginnel? |
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02 Dec 05 - 04:55 AM (#1618294) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Big Al Whittle Oh come on, no one understands that Muppet! north or south one used to be called a marathon...but nowadays you can get a big one? |
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02 Dec 05 - 05:11 AM (#1618302) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST "There's a duck in t' hedge" = something is amiss |
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02 Dec 05 - 06:13 AM (#1618330) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Geoff the Duck We had the snicket discussion some time ago -Ginnels. A Ginnel has buildings on either side, a snicket doesn't need buildings - often between hedges. Quack! GtD. |
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02 Dec 05 - 06:39 AM (#1618343) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Muppett Am I Sackless or what,Soz Geoff, but me ead's full a cack. |
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02 Dec 05 - 06:43 AM (#1618345) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: ard mhacha Aw yah gan ower, to Roker Park to see the game. |
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02 Dec 05 - 06:49 AM (#1618347) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST Mr. Fromull (Les) we used to go Srumping for apples. A good website for Yorkshire dialect is www.yorksj.ac.uk/words/A.htm |
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02 Dec 05 - 07:43 AM (#1618389) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Michael In North East Derbyshire (Bozer to be precise) packed lunch is 'snap' (tho' when I lived in Preston it were' 'baggin'.) Time has a language of it's own, which I assume dates from days when precision was not important; so it would be 'nigh on afepast fower', 'just tonned three' 'abart quart to' 'five and twenty past'. Mike |
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02 Dec 05 - 08:00 AM (#1618402) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Geoff the Duck And in Barnsley, when they want a pie, the time is "summat to eight" Quack! GtD. |
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02 Dec 05 - 08:09 AM (#1618406) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Pied Piper I believe the correct expression is "Y mard arse southern Jessi" PP |
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02 Dec 05 - 08:29 AM (#1618415) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Les from Hull Mr M Uppett - collecting bonfire wood in 'ull is 'fragging'. And all our snickets and gunnels are 'tenfoots'. |
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02 Dec 05 - 08:54 AM (#1618437) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave the Gnome I liked the Bringle eaf stuff:-) Knew a girl from just across the way from there (Strawberry Road) and we used to ask her how to bake a cake. Get some flowoh, some sugoh, some bu'oh... My personal favourite was from my Grandad - "Ah'll gan thee a punce on't'yed" Some others not heard by me but reported in a local history book. "Look at aw them daft buggers - They're all gooin to geron that tram an only half on 'em ull fit" "Ah'lll sound the bloody whistle at half past twelve wharever time it is" Cheers Dave t'gnome |
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02 Dec 05 - 03:13 PM (#1618785) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: robomatic sassenach |
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03 Dec 05 - 02:31 AM (#1619099) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Boab "Whar's thoo gannin' Lad"? "Gannin tae the pitchers, Marra!" "Gannin' rae the bliddy pitchers? --Whey, Man,it's a ca'd neet-- howay in the hoose an' heat thee bliddy Knackers at wor yag!" "How' Boab, dis thou like corran' kyek?" "Divs Ah like corran' kyek? Whey Lad, Ah think am diz!" |
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03 Dec 05 - 05:19 AM (#1619137) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: ard mhacha So much for Ulster-Scots getting a grant for a "language", why not Geordie?. |
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03 Dec 05 - 05:50 AM (#1619141) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Doug Chadwick BPL - re 'tou're not in t'north until you're past Darlin'ton" - just remember, all things are relative! LOL! Geordies think that they come from the North-East but Newcastle-upon Tyne is further west than Southampton - just remember, all things are relative!. The East starts at Cleethorpes (and Greenwhich too, of course) DC |
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03 Dec 05 - 08:40 AM (#1619218) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave Hanson A ' geordie ' is only a Scotsman with his brains kicked out, so shut thi gob. eric |
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03 Dec 05 - 12:50 PM (#1619342) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: danensis A "ten foot" is an alley, snickets were only three or four foot and were a short-cut from one street to another, ginnels went through a house or between shops to get to the back yard. In York of course they have snickleways. I always thought the south started at Bawtry? The north of course, starts at Watford. |
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04 Dec 05 - 04:19 AM (#1619658) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave the Gnome I'm all for re-introducing the Watford Gap... :D |
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04 Dec 05 - 09:03 AM (#1619752) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Big Al Whittle dog rough...rough as a badger's arse! |
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04 Dec 05 - 09:04 AM (#1619754) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Georgiansilver How do you know Al? LOL |
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04 Dec 05 - 04:47 PM (#1619932) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: John Routledge A "Geordie" is a Scotsman with his brains bashed back in again. |
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04 Dec 05 - 09:11 PM (#1620090) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Guy Wolff My favorite expression is: translated into American slang " Come visit and well play some music . You can stay anytime and as long as you like !!! " MUSIC TO THE EARS !!! <><><><> |
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05 Dec 05 - 04:42 AM (#1620236) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Big Al Whittle doesn't sound like any notherners I know........ they're the gang who came up with the expression Ad rather keep him for a week than a fortneet (that might have been me grandad!) |
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05 Dec 05 - 04:44 AM (#1620238) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Hull Exile Eeeh, yer don't sweat much for a fat lass! [Disco chat-up line originating in Barnsley] Yer cart educate pork! [term of exasparation in failing to make someone understand originating from my Dad. |
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05 Dec 05 - 05:18 AM (#1620251) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Paul Burke Strawberry Road! My brother and his mates had a house there from about 1970 to 1978-ish. Just opposite the pub. Trying to remember the name of the Boddie's pub a street or two away, there was the weirdest grafitti in the bog: "dead mans has canabis", "comunity transport", stuff like that. And the day they came round with a football card, raising money for a trip to the races- when they gave it to me to mark my teams, I noticed that it was boldly headed "Thirks Tripe". Aye, them was the days, a pint of Boddie's mild for 21p. |
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05 Dec 05 - 05:40 AM (#1620259) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Stu Reet greatly! |
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05 Dec 05 - 09:11 AM (#1620351) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave the Gnome Was it the Railway on Broughton Road, Paul? I think that was a Bodds pub. DtG |
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05 Dec 05 - 09:30 AM (#1620369) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Folkiedave See if you understand Yorkshire Humour - a test. Two blokes meeting together every night for twenty odd years. First one called at the second one's house every night at 9.00 pm "Is Harry ready?" he'd say and the wife would reply "Aye he's on his way". One night he came along at 9.00 pm and the wife instead of her usual reply said "I am sorry to tell you but he died last night". "Ehh I am sorry" says the first bloke, "Did he say owt about a tin of paint?" |
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05 Dec 05 - 11:00 AM (#1620436) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: muppett Eric the Red Weir as't tha bin sin ar last saw thee ? |
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06 Dec 05 - 01:38 AM (#1620933) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave Hanson 'ay oop muppet, not bin out much lately, might get darn t' Stubbing on wensdy neet, or t' Navigation at Sowerby Brig on Friday neet. Me 'n Clive etc are playing at the Melborne on Christmas Eve and there is a session at 'Blue Pig at Midgehole [ Hardcastle Crags ] on New Years Eve. Ahl sithee, eric |
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06 Dec 05 - 03:18 PM (#1621401) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Les from Hull Come to think of it, though, my absolute favourite Northern UK expression came from me Nan. When I was very small, if I saw Nanna baking I would be there (there was always a good chance of licking the bowl). "What are you making, Nanna?" "Whim-whams for ducks to chase at!" I never heard that anywhere else. |
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07 Dec 05 - 01:46 AM (#1621705) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Gurney ... And had me standing theer like a wazzock on the cussey! Cussy is pavement... causeway, but is a wazzock an adze? They stand on their heads, and look sort of stupefied because of the shape of the haft. |
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07 Dec 05 - 04:16 AM (#1621747) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,noddy A Yorkshireman is just a Scot without the generosity! |
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07 Dec 05 - 04:30 AM (#1621756) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Hull Exile Les fom Hull's posting re' his Nan's 'duck' expression reminded me of a similar response when my Dad was asked what he was doing 'I'm making a wigwam for a ducks bridle' Also when asked where he was going 'I'm off ter Nafferton Slacks, where they teck blind ducks ter s**t!' I've no idea at all where they come from. |
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07 Dec 05 - 01:32 PM (#1622063) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Michael My Grannie Annie said; 'A whim wham for a goose's bridle' when she meant 'a thingie'. When asked where any thing was she replied; 'Up in Annie's room at back ut clock'. Mike |
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07 Dec 05 - 07:58 PM (#1622311) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Snuffy It was usually "in a bottle on the roof" for us. And we were usually scruffy enough to look like "boggart come down t'fess'ole" |
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07 Dec 05 - 09:32 PM (#1622377) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Boab "Whit's for ma birthday, Faither?" "A wee roon whustle wi a naethin oan the end...." "As quate as Aiberdeen oan a flag day--" "As fu' as a bliddy monkey--sprauchle't oan his back like a coupit yowe in the glaur". "Black as the earl o'Hell's waistcoat" " A face like a skelpit erse.." |
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08 Dec 05 - 04:07 AM (#1622533) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Paul Burke "What's for dinner, Mam?" "A jump at t'pantry door and a bite at t'latch." |
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08 Dec 05 - 07:46 AM (#1622608) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,DB I grew up in Peterborough (which is not in the North or the South but the East - so there!) we said "whim wham for a duck's arse". We also had this word for sweets (what Mancunians call 'toffees' and Southern jessies call 'boiled sugar comestibles' - probably) and that was 'dods' - as in "gis a dod, mate or I'll bash yer 'ed in!". Has anyone heard that one before? I believe that in some regional dialects the word 'dod' means 'snail' - which sort of makes sense, in a revolting sort of a way. |
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08 Dec 05 - 05:07 PM (#1623127) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Mrs.Duck That Muppet, he doesn't know if he's on this Earth or Fullers . :0) |
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08 Dec 05 - 05:34 PM (#1623150) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Boab Guest DB---ask for a "dod" in Ayrshire, an' ye'll maybe get get yer head bashed in! Theword has two meanings there, depending on context; "A dod oan the lug" describes a blow to the ear-hole, while a "dod o' cake" means a slice . [I think the spelling here however, is likely "daud".] |
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09 Dec 05 - 11:08 AM (#1623577) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Leadfingers Ey Ooop !! 100th post !!! |
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09 Dec 05 - 04:54 PM (#1623871) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,DB 'Guest Boab' - thanks for the info. about the use of 'dod' in Ayrshire - let's hope nobody gets their heads/heids bashed in! |
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09 Dec 05 - 04:57 PM (#1623878) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Folkiedave 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 |
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10 Dec 05 - 02:52 AM (#1624194) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Boab "Ah'd gi'e her a kiss for tuppence an' daur her tae offer a shillin'..." |
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13 Dec 05 - 05:01 PM (#1626663) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,HughM 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! |
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13 Dec 05 - 06:29 PM (#1626748) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,BOAB Here,s a handy wee retort for Teribus, Doug R., and the dreaded M.G.- --"Awa an' scart yer whurrie wi' a whin bush!" |
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14 Dec 05 - 07:53 AM (#1627067) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Mo the caller "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) |
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14 Dec 05 - 08:02 AM (#1627072) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: muppett Eh Jane it's definatly Fullers I'm on |
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14 Dec 05 - 08:15 AM (#1627082) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,HughM 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.) |
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14 Dec 05 - 10:15 AM (#1627160) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave Hanson Is that Fullers London Pride muppett. eric |
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14 Dec 05 - 12:03 PM (#1627237) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Mrs.Duck Fullers earth - remedy for stomach upset I think a bit like kaolin. |
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14 Dec 05 - 12:05 PM (#1627238) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Les from Hull They've nowt to be proud of in London! |
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14 Dec 05 - 05:27 PM (#1627453) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,GUEST,GUEST 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..." |
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15 Dec 05 - 10:48 AM (#1627834) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Les from Hull 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. |
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16 Dec 05 - 04:13 AM (#1628566) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Big Al Whittle tha' face ud stand clogging.... |
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16 Dec 05 - 05:21 AM (#1628596) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,noddy yer as much use as a choclate tea pot. go an knit fog. |
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16 Dec 05 - 06:22 AM (#1628614) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: gnomad Yer that tight yer'd nip a currant in 'arf. |
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17 Dec 05 - 04:28 AM (#1629314) Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Gurney 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. |