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Topic: Another local expression - do you have a variant? (Read 6927 times)
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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You tease, you, Bumble 
Don't know what a moggie is except a cat.................
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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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Lydart
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Great Granny Williams, the Dorset button maker
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Thanks sem73 for "tad", well that's certainly how I understand it - a little bit, therefore a tadpole. Sorry geniecolgan - wrong. That's a bit too easy! Everyone thinks it's a cat, except ..... BumbleB 
I've got a different one from Suffolk for 'a tad' ...
"She's so mean she'd lick a tanner out of a tad"
meaning "she so mean she would lick a sixpence out of a cow-pat"
Well, you DID ask !
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BettyofKent
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Ray & Frank
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A variant of that: someone so mean they would "skin a turd for a tanner"
Now that's really lowered the tone! 
How about "black over Bill's mother's" meaning bad weather coming. I think the name of the man varies round the country.
Betty
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Cell
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Hi,
The word Moggie/moggy apparently was first used to describe old cows according to the below article( don't know how true it is) and may come from the name Margaret.
I use moggie to describe mongrel cats and of course the Morris Minor. It mentions in the article that it is used for mouse too
Just a wee tad here is the article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moggy
Kind Regards 
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Dancing Master
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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When asking "what is for dinner the Lancashire answer was "Pigs bum and cabbage". or an alternative the rude word for muck with sugar on.
Moggie depends on where you live, In South of Lancashire its a mouse, in North of Lancashire its a cat.
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pete edwards
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Im Starved,
any idea what that means here in Shropshire?
Pete
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Edwards, mainly Cound, Frodesely, Acton Burnell. Pitchford. and surrounding villages, Shropshire, / Rowe, Cound, / Littlehales, Berrington, Shropshire / Radford, Dublin, / Maguire, Acton Burnell, / Rudge, Frodesely, /
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pete edwards
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Hi Vic
What about " Mizzle "
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Edwards, mainly Cound, Frodesely, Acton Burnell. Pitchford. and surrounding villages, Shropshire, / Rowe, Cound, / Littlehales, Berrington, Shropshire / Radford, Dublin, / Maguire, Acton Burnell, / Rudge, Frodesely, /
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JustKia
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Colder than a witches t*t
Rough as a bears a**e Warwickshire and my mum would refer to pop/soda that was no longer fizzy as "that's flatter than a witches t*t".
rough as a badger's a**e, is the version I've heard.
Sweet Fanny Adams - meaning 'nothing' as in "there's nothing for dinner"
Other's include
Face like a bag of spanners
Up n' down (the stairs/street/ladder) like a bride's nightie
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MARLOW/JECOCK - Northamptonshire/Warwickshire : WIMBUSH/JUSTICE - Oxfordshire/Warwickshire : SCALES/BRIDGES/ENGLISH/JARMAN - Suffolk : GARRETT/GIBBS - Warwickshire : DEVOS - Scotland (Aberdeen)/France(Dunkerque) : MURRAY - Ireland(Down)/Scotland(Lochs) : TIGHE/TREACY - Cork Stanley Charles SCALES b.1899 - Where are you? *** Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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