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Topic: Another local expression - do you have a variant? (Read 6908 times)
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Sherwood
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Mention of ginnel reminds me gunnel (both presumably derived from general as in general access). Jitty is fairly common and the Nottingham equivalent is twitchel.
Other odds and ends I've heard from my days in Nottingham include:
A word in your shell-like (your ear)
Mardy (easily upset or sulking)
A blind man would like to see it (the job or quality of finish will do)
A gnat's (a very small measurement; in full, a gnat's boll***)
Sarnie (sandwich) for your snap (lunch) in your snap box
Cob (southerners say roll, others have balm or bap)
Shiny ar** (suit-wearing manager)
Ankle biter (baby, crawling infant)
Playing hookey, capping off (truant)
Jagging off (leaving work early when job done)
Were you born in a barn? (shut the door)
A croggy (a ride on the crossbar of a bicycle)
Mash tea then let it brew or get a brew on (suspect many variants on this)
What goes round comes round
Nesh (feel the cold more than an average person)
Rag up (clean your tools and prepare to finish the day's work)
Give it a coat of looking at (inspect a faulty item)
Bread and lard island (West Bridgford, an area south of the Trent, thought to be "posh")
Sherwood
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stoney
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Mum, bless her!
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My daughter spent three years in Sheffield at university - she has now accquired the term "cob" meaning to "add casually", as in making a stew "....cob in a few carrots...."
Not sure if this is a Sheffield term or something she picked up from one of her house mates who hailed from the Wirral!
Stoney
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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England
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AMBLY
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Falkland Islands "Desire The Right"
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If a child (especially a small one or a baby) was upset and crying/grizzling/sulking and there wasn't much of a reason to, My Granny (maybe Grandad too) would always say:
"What a pity to poocha about!?"
Always said in an exaggerated, jollying way - never cross - designed to take the mind off whatever was the matter.
Falkland Islanders also would say, "Poocha Man!" to express amazement, disbelief, or strong expression etc - as , in "Poocha man, that was a rough night!"
I started my own, too I think (unless I've picked it up someplace I can't recall) whenever daughter (5) asks "What are you doing?" when she cas see what I'm doing - I say "Swinging on the light singing hallelughiah". Heard her say it to her father on the phone the other day, straight face, and totally matter of fact.
Cheers
AMBLY
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cad
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Poethlyn, Grand National winner 1918 and 1919
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I'd like to throw in a few of my Mum's expressions here, she attributed them to members of her family so we're talking North Wales here...
When Nelson gets his eye back ( in other words, never)
I've seen more meat on Lester Piggot's whip
I've seen more meat on a butcher's pencil
They'd spoil another couple
If your Aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle ( I also heard an American version of this one, if your Aunt had wheels she'd be a trolley bus)
He couldn't stop a pig in a poke
Face like a smacked arse
She considered many thinks to be "better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick" but in more ribald company the stick would be coated in something more offensive that rhymed with gritty!
If we kid's were in a "can I have" mood we were told to stop mythering.
Poking around nooks and crannies for treasure was mooching
If you couldn't go out without a coat on, you were nesh.
Also being from Shropshire, the phrase "all around the Wrekin" is one I'm familiar with although I was gobsmacked the first time I heard a Brummie use it, as I had often had to explain to them where Shropshire was and whenever I address a Brummie with "Ow bist kid?" they think I'm speaking German!!
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Wiltshire: Cainey, Summers, Payne
Somerset:Wallis,
London: Binden, Sullivan, Tickner, Tilt
Ireland: Tracey, Sullivan, Dalton
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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Love those, Cad!
I just thought of one my mum used to say, after a particularly tiring day out......
" Home, James, and don't spare the horses!"
and another one, which is related to an old comic song, and both my parents used to say, a propos of nothing:
"You can tell a man what boozes by the company he chooses"
And the pig got up, and slowly walked away.
And I suppose nobody here knows the tale which starts
"There's a firm in the Strand called Twinings, Tea Merchants and Bankers. Old Mr Twining had three sons........."
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Pay, Kent. Barham, Kent. Cork(e), Kent. Cooley, Kent. Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich. Cotterill, Derbys. Van Steenhoven, Belgium/East London. Burton, East London. Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
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Paul
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Having to do something you'd rather not do. 'I'd rather have me a**e rubbed with a brick'
Paul
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chirp
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio
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Up here in Eastern Scotland your packed lunch or sandwich is a "piece" and you carry it in your "piece poke". I'm told this comes from the time when it was common to take a portion of cold solidified porridge for your midday meal. Also an expression which I heard when I moved up here, and I hadn't come across for many years since my childhood in Manchester, was going for your "messages" meaning going shopping. A cold biting wind is a "snell wind". If someone is looking miserable, ie with a long face, it can be said that "his face is trippin' him". To cry or weep is "to greet".
Chirp
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AVERY, Berks., BLUNDELL, North Meols,
BOND, Wilts., CHORLTON, Salford
DOWNHAM, Westmorland, FOGGIN, Yorks.,
GRANT, Durham, HUMM, Bethnal Green
MALONEY, Limerick, MARCHANT, Worcs.,
McPHERSON, Kent, MELLISH, Finsbury
PERRETT, Wilts., RAGG, Yorks.,
RAINSFORD, Staffs RENSHAW, Salford
ROSS, Leicester, TIGHE/TYE, All
WELLER, Berks, WILKINSON, Westmorland
Early 19th C Hairdressing & Perfumery
Spittalfields Silkweavers
Glass making, Durham
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Subaru
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Whitehaven harbour
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'She's got a face like bad fat' - somebody who is in a mood!!
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'She's got a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp' - not the prettiest of faces!!
Rosemary
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danielsjturner
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"Born in a paddock with the sliprails down" (= Close the door!)
Where i'm from, the south east, we usually ask "were you born in a barn?" if someone leaves the door open!
My dad, a Londoner, always says' It's better than a kick in the teeth!"
We use the already mentioned sayings for being hungry but we still say quite a rude version for being thirsty! It's very rude I warn you but we say "oh i've got a mouth like a nun's....."
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Seabrook and Doggett Abbots langley, Herts
Robinson, Oxford
Fryer and Bates, Penn, Bucks
French, Oldbury, Worcestershire
Turner and Cunningham Galashiels, Scotland
Barrs, Leicstershire/London
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lesleyhannah
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My Nan (from Hull) when asked what was for tea always replied 'S*** with sugar on'.
Another expression that used to puzzle me as a kid, was, when she didn't believe what we were saying was 'that's all my eye and Peggy Martin'.
And if I'd been naughty I'd be threatened with 'Icky the Firebobby' - whoever he was!
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mother25
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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When someone knocked at the door and a person indoors would say 'Who's that' before opening the door. The reply would be Icky the Firebobby!!
We also heard All my eye and Betty Martin, meaning something wasn't quite true.
She's all fur coat and no knickers  meant someone was putting on a front...trying to be something they weren't.
No better than she ought to be meant a girl who had low morals
Twopence short of a shilling...not quite sane 
He's got all his chairs at home meant he knew what was what
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